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You’d think the father of video games would be rich and famous, but Ralph Baer doesn’t necessarily qualify as either. Instead, the 86-year-old U.S. inventor considers himself financially comfortable and somewhat well known, but it’s also obvious he’s a bit…

“E for All” sure didn’t illuminate much, but AP’s weekly Video Game Video spotlights the holiday season’s hottest upcoming games, from “Mirror’s Edge” to “LittleBigPlanet.”

Sony said Thursday it will launch a beefed-up version of its PlayStation 3 in Japan this month at the same price as the current version but with double the storage capacity. The company will start selling the PS3 with an 80-gigabyte hard disk drive in…

Nintendo unveiled new games slated for the upcoming holiday shopping season. As AP Correspondent Haven Daley reports, Nintendo is also announcing increased supplies of the Wii video game console and Nintendo DS portable game system.

Eric Nofsinger is betting that Nintendo’s hot family-friendly Wii video game consoles can win the hearts of “hardcore gamers” that lust for battle in action-packed virtual worlds.

Nokia will start offering unlimited music through mobile phones in Britain on October 16, the Finnish company said Thursday, as it seeks to muscle in on a market dominated by Apple’s iPod. The new service, named “comes with music”, allows people ownin…

A major US insurance company on Thursday set out to prove that playing computer games can sharpen the minds of older drivers so much that they deserve discounts on their auto policies. Allstate Insurance launched “a groundbreaking brain fitness softwa…

Apple has warned that a hike in digital music royalties being considered by US judges could be a death knell for its globally popular iTunes online shop. The Copyright Royalty Board was to rule Thursday whether music publishers are legally entitled to…

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Watching TV over the web has become a common phenomenon in recent years. I actually think that I probably watch just as much TV on my computer as I do my TV. And for anyone that watches as much online TV as I do, you know how difficult it is to find what you want. [...]

Internet retail titan Amazon has ramped up its attack on Apple’s iTunes by having links to its MP3 online music and movie store built into a “Google phone” due out next month. Contrary to the way things are done at iTunes, digital music sold at Amazon…

The following games are scheduled for release this week, according to GameSpot.com. The games include Wario land,Shake It, Civilization IV:Colonization, De Blob, Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway, Mount & Blade, Lego Batman, Time Hollow, Kings Bounty:The Legend, Dragon Ball Z:Trilogy, Warriors Orochi 2, Dinosaur King, Dark Horizon, Disgaea, and Megaman 9 for the xbox,wii,and ps3 consoles.