“Our industry has a remarkable upward trajectory. Computer and video games are a form of entertainment enjoyed by a diverse‚ worldwide consumer base that demonstrates immense energy and enthusiasm for games. With an exciting new generation of hardware‚ outstanding software‚ and unmatched creativity‚ technology‚ and content‚ our industry will continue to thrive in the years ahead.” — Michael D. Gallagher‚ president and CEO‚ Entertainment Software Association. In last few decades‚ the popularity of
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Dragonz Dragonz Dragonz is an upcoming video slot from Microgaming. Unlike many of the Far Eastern slots which contain Chinese culture themes and dragons aplenty‚ this new video slot has chosen to focus more on the cuddly and kind nature of their dragons. What you end up with is in effect no too much different from that old Playstation classic - Spyro the Dragon. With the upcoming Pete’s Dragon movie scheduled for release before too long‚ the timing of this new Microgaming developed video slot is
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Starcraft is a hugely popular game that is one of the games which has‚ throughout history‚ most effected the video game industry. Despite this‚ there are a good number of things that people don’t know about the game‚ and here are some of them. Stay tuned for part 2‚ coming soon! Number Fifteen: It’s a National Sport Well‚ it in least one country. Starcraft is one of the only games in the world that has become a self-proclaimed national sport of sorts. South Korea holds tournaments yearly‚ and it’s
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Win an Xbox One today! Xbox one‚ also called next generation console‚ is the newest release from the Xbox franchise and has been in the market for almost three years now. Is still labeled as a next generation console because there are many customers that keep preferring Xbox 360‚ or at least that was the case until the Xbox franchise gave an announcement stating that Xbox 360 will not be longer have any new videogames and therefore it will become discontinued and obsolete. Nevertheless‚ people
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I grew up with a Game Boy Color in my hands. No matter where I went‚ I always had the “Grape Purple” device loaded with any Pokemon game. My favorite was a copy of the Crystal version I bought with my allowance from a friend’s garage sale. He had failed to mention that the game didn’t save‚ but I fell in love with the whole experience of choosing a new starter that I just played it over and over again unbothered. It was the first time I had felt like I’d been transported to another world‚ and encountered
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For almost a century‚ video games have shaped not just our country‚ but the whole world. An entire industry was developed and it continues to thrive‚ even in our rough economic times. Some people fall into the clutches of games’ $60 (or more) price tags‚ while others wait for titles to drop into the bargain bin. But no matter how you purchase them‚ video games have become much more than just ways to pass the time. They make us laugh. They make us cry. They make us want to scream in anger and punch
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1. Was Nintendo just lucky‚ or does the Wii’s success have strategic merit? Nintendo’s strategy was very clear and clever. It thought that it could not survive in the competition with Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s Play Station 3. So‚ Nintendo do not try to compete to the competitor rather than it tried to rebuild the gaming system. Without concerning the more advanced technology‚ it tried to do more using less investment. The gamers are of two types; teenagers and hardcore gamers. Company earns a
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the world. How Nintendo and Atari started as two of the giants in the gaming world and then how Nintendo almost died out when Sega came out with their console. I will also explain how the video game mindset changed overtime and evolved into something worldwide. Hanafuda (President) was the name of the very first 52 deck set of playing cards sold by Fusajiro Yamauchi and his Nintendo Koppai. Fusajiro had a bigger plan and dream. This lead to the first Beam Gun made by Nintendo in 1969 (See PIC
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became the big dollar industry it is today. The history really begins in 1889 when the Marufuku Company was established to manufacture and distribute Japanese playing cards. This may not seem relevant until 1951 when they change their name to Nintendo Playing Cards. Three years later‚ David Rosen‚ a US Korean War veteran‚ sees the popularity of coin-operated games on military bases and starts Service Games. SEGA is put on all the games using the first two letters of Service and Games. In
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Wii Console 1. The demand for Wii console will be relative elastic. As from the passage‚ it mention that “Nintendo announced its first price drops for the console. In Japan‚ the price dropped from ¥25‚000 to ¥20‚000 and they sold more than three million Wii consoles also ending 9 months of declining sales”. This shows that that demand for Wii console is elastic as people responded to the price drop and thus they demanded more which also help Wii console to earn back their losses. Also another
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