The Tropicana Resort and Casino has a new owner. Pinnacle Entertainment has agreed to buy Aztar Corporation, which owns the property now. The Tropicana is slated for a major renovation that was supposed to start this year. The question for…
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A U.S. House committee approved a bill aimed at stamping out the $12 billion Internet gambling industry by stopping businesses from accepting credit cards and other forms of payment. The bill, cleared by voice vote in the House Financial Services…
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NewsFactor - While Sony has been tight-lipped about certain components of its next-generation PlayStation 3 gaming system, new information emerged last week at the Game Developers Conference.
Investor’s Business Daily - Though chipmakers still rely heavily on the traditional computer field, consumer gadgets — MP3 players, video game machines and the like — have become their fastest-growing source of sales.
Reuters - Walt Disney Co.'s Buena
Vista Games Inc. said on Friday it plans to release a PC video
game based on the popular television show "Desperate
Housewives" this fall.
Reuters - Video game players are
tiring of sequels and the industry needs to move to new games
to broaden the market, Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s President Satoru
Iwata said on Thursday.
NewsFactor - Virtual Reality had a genuine buzz going for it about 10 years ago, when movies like The Lawnmower Man and Virtuosity were getting the green light, and Nintendo’s Virtual Boy game system attempted to bring the so-called artificial world into everyday living. The possibility of complete immersion in a computer-generated environment seemed, for a time, to fire up the public’s imagination.
The Nevada Gaming Commission approved rules yesterday that will permit casinos to offer wireless handheld gambling devices to people who want to gamble away from the casino floor. The 5-0 vote means that the devices will now be tested in various c
Owners of the Greektown Casino have announced a revised expansion proposal that includes a $200 million, 33- to 35-story structure housing a 400-room hotel and 3,100 parking spots, to be built where a municipal garage now stands. The building woul
AP - Nintendo Co. announced a partnership with former rivals Thursday intended to boost the library of downloadable classic video games for the company’s upcoming Revolution console.
Reuters - Graphics chip maker
Nvidia Corp. said on Thursday it has a new design
contract with Sony Corp. (6758.T) that will pay more than it
earned for creating the graphics processor for the upcoming
PlayStation 3 video game console.
Reuters - The U.S. mobile game
industry revenue has gone from virtually zero in 1999 to an
estimated $497 million last year, but obstacles are weighing on
the business, which has not lived up to early expectations.
AP - Walk into any store that sells or rents video games, and chances are you'll find only a few shelves, if any, for personal computer games amid the aisles dominated by console software.
AP - Chinese authorities have shut down dozens of Web sites that carried pornographic material or offered pirated movies or online games, the government announced Thursday.
NewsFactor - It used to be that a prison inmate could expect reports of good behavior to lead to a reduction of a prison sentence. Today, however, a visit to any prison in Oregon will find prisoners vying instead for video-game consoles.
The Motley Fool - Sony (NYSE: SNE - News) may have delayed the debut of its PlayStation 3 juggernaut, but that doesn’t mean the electronics giant has no aces up its sleeve.
Reuters - Sony Computer Entertainment's (6758.T)
adventure video game "Shadow of the Colossus" took home best
game honors at the Game Developers Choice Awards announced late
on Wednesday in San Jose, California.