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For my money, TV just doesn’t get any better than Will It Float?.

AP - For many PC gamers, getting a group of friends together to engage in online battles in such multiplayer games as “Unreal Tournament 2004″ or “Battlefield 1942″ has always been a major problem. The issue was simple but annoying: Short of putting all your pals on a conference call, there was no easy way to muster them.

Investor’s Business Daily - The battle to dominate the next generation of video game consoles has officially begun.

MacCentral - Microsoft Corp. on Thursday took the wraps off its next-generation Xbox video game console during a special event broadcast on MTV. What’s it mean for Mac gamers? Consoles are setting the pace for video and computer game development, and the Xbox 360 is the first in a new series of next-generation video game systems we’ll be hearing more about in the next week. The MTV broadcast was long on hype but short on actual information about the new system, so here are some details.

Reuters - When the video game industry gathers in
Los Angeles next week for its annual trade show, everyone from
the most important game developers to technophiles will have
just one thing on their minds: new toys.

NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) last night took the wraps off of its latest game console in a prime time broadcast on MTV, building the hype for a product that promises to take entertainment to a higher level while providing the software giant with a link between the desktop and the living room.

Reuters - The video game arm of Walt Disney Co.
has acquired the rights to the troubled video game
franchise “Turok” and will develop the game at its new
Vancouver studio, the company said on Friday.

washingtonpost.com - It’s time to give Microsoft credit for doing the right thing, and I am not talking about the Xbox 360.

AP - Microsoft Corp. says its next version of Xbox will thrill hard-core gamers with mind-blowing graphics and lure in newcomers with free online games, slideshows, music and video chats with friends.

TechWeb - Microsoft shifted up from the X86 to a custom triple-core, dual-threaded PowerPC for its Xbox 360 which the company claims delivers 1-teraflop performance.

USATODAY.com - Microsoft fired the opening salvo in the war of the next-generation videogames Thursday by unveiling the successor to the Xbox on an MTV special. Sleek and off-white, the new Xbox 360 system looks like an iPod on steroids. Scheduled to arrive before the holiday season (no price set), the Xbox 360 will usher players into what Microsoft calls the “third stage” in the evolution of games - one of high-definition images and larger environments to be explored through greatly expanded multiplayer and online games.