Microsoft reveals Xbox One, the ‘new generation’ console
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On this dreary Tuesday at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., executives are on stage to share news and a glimpse of the new Xbox One console.
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Goodbye productivity… Google image search leads to impromptu game of ‘Atari Breakout’
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Always looking for new opportunities to turn its mammoth search engine and associated features into interactive and exceedingly distracting Easter eggs, Google has put on another show in honor of the 37th birthday of Atari’s classic video game “Breakout.”
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Young patients fight cancer, one video game at a time
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Jose Guevara was 16 when his doctor first told him that he had leukemia.
“They gave me a breakdown,” Guevara told NBC News. “‘You have leukemia, you’re staying in the hospital,’ and they brought a wheelchair.”
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Microsoft to unveil ‘new generation’ Xbox on May 21
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Turns out, that “special event” that Microsoft has been rumored to have in store next month is real. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant sent out invitations this morning asking reporters to “join us as we reveal a new generation of Xbox.”
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Gamers can order Pizza Hut straight from the Xbox — with hand gestures!
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Long slave to the physical demands of picking up a phone, computer, smartphone, or tablet to place an order for food delivery, gamers can now create their own custom Pizza Hut pizzas — and order them — from their Xbox 360 console thanks to a unique partnership between Microsoft and the international chain.
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Girl Scouts chapter to add video game patch
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As recent campaigns across social media have shown, the game industry has slowly begun to own up to its troublesome legacy of sexism — expanding roles for women in the business while updating representations of them in the games.
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Live: Sony reveals PlayStation 4, first shot in the next console war
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Sony has just revealed its new game machine — the PlayStation 4 — as well as a new controller with a touch pad, a “share” button and light bar.
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It seems the Angry Birds are no longer content with dominating smartphone and tablet screens the world over. The furious fowl have plans to take over bigger screens. Much bigger screens.
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Thanks to J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter, there are legions of children (and adults) around the world who fervently wish they weren’t the Muggles that they are.
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Every year, video game enthusiasts of all sorts converge in Seattle to attend the Penny Arcade Expo. Among the crowd are a special type in costume. These cosplayers, a portmanteau of costume and play, walk the convention floor as onlookers gawk and photograph their elaborate attire. But there are times, collected here in PhotoBlog, when cosplayers pause from strutting the exhibition hall and return to every-day life.
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