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10.26.2009 9:00 am

Video games are hurting auto sales, newspaper reports

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Video games have been heaped with a wicked reputation — they’re the source of all our ills, according to “experts.”

Now, gaming is at fault for something else: a drop in automobile sales.

So says Kotaku, the game blog that cites a…

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01.14.2009 8:32 am

Nintendo DSi: Christmas in April?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rumors throughout the game-tech community are putting Nintendo’s new DSi handheld console in U.S. hands by April.

DSi, the upgrade to Nintendo’s three-year old “dual screen lite” device, features slightly larger viewing screens, a slimmer profile than DS Lite, a built-in camera,…

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01.06.2009 7:52 am

Japan’s gaming market down; U.S. will follow

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Japan, which is more game crazy than the United States, suffered its first downturn in the video game market last year, with sales shrinking 15 percent from a year earlier, according to the Agence France-Presse news service.

The market was down about…

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10.24.2008 8:30 am

Woman jailed after ‘killing’ virtual husband

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Is it really possible for you to be killed online? And if so, is it a crime?

Authorities are exploring that possibility in Japan, where a 43-year-old woman was jailed after hacking into the massively multi-player online role-playing game “MapleStory” and eliminating…

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02.05.2008 12:14 am

‘Super Smash Bros Brawl’ is boffo in Japan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If sales in Japan are any indication, then “Super Smash Bros Brawl” will be a smash here, too.

The Japanese video game magazine Famitsu reports that the third installment in the Super Smash Bros fighting-game series, developed for Nintendo’s Wii, sold more than…

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