Jez San, the man behind the Argonaut games group which went into administration a week ago, has bought back most…
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Games win for Blu-ray DVD format
The next-generation DVD format Blu-ray is winning more supporters than its rival, according to its backers. Blu-ray, backed by 100…
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Online games play with politics
After bubbling under for some time, online games broke through onto the political arena in 2004. The US presidential election…
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France starts digital terrestrial
France has become the last big European country to launch a digital terrestrial TV (DTT) service. Initially, more than a…
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Gangsters dominate gaming chart
Video games on consoles and computers proved more popular than ever in 2004. Gamers spent more than £1.34bn in 2004,…
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PlayStation 3 processor unveiled
The Cell processor, which will drive Sony’s PlayStation 3, will run 10-times faster than current PC chips, its designers have…
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What price for ‘trusted PC security’?
You can now buy “trusted computers”, but can we really trust the PC vendors, asks technology analyst Bill Thompson. If…
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Xbox 2 may be unveiled in summer
Details of the next generation of Microsoft’s Xbox games console – codenamed Xenon – will most likely be unveiled in…
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Digital guru floats sub-$100 PC
Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT’s Media Labs, says he is developing a laptop PC that will go on…
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Camera phones are ‘must-haves’
Four times more mobiles with cameras in them will be sold in Europe by the end of 2004 than last…
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