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'BioShock Infinite' delayed, will miss 2012 holiday season

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. pushes release of eagerly awaited shooter to February 2013

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EA lost 400,000 subscribers of Star Wars: The Old Republic in the fourth quarter

Gamers flee EA’s Star Wars MMO

EA has poured more money and firepower into ‘’ than it has any game in its 30-year history

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Zynga CEO Mark Pincus
Gaming

Zynga’s 'Willy Wonka' gambles he can level-up social games

Mark Pincus applies a gamer’s mentality to OMGPOP-like purchases and a corporate culture that aims to make every employee into a CEO

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China has more gamers than any other country in the world, but a decade-old ban on gaming consoles has meant that the most popular machines, like Microsoft’s Xbox, have never been launched officially in China. They are readily available for sale on the grey market but must first be smuggled in. The CT510, made by Lenovo subsidiary Eedoo, went on sale in China this week for Rmb3799 ($604).

Lenovo’s Kinect-clone evades Chinese ban on video-game consoles

Eedoo’s CT510 the first legal home entertainment console in a decade; still more expensive than smuggled grey-market Xbox and PS3 devices

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In this video game image, released by Microsoft/343 Industries, details of the Master Chief's retooled 'Halo 4' armor is shown.

With ‘Halo 4,’ Master Chief returns November 2012

Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that Halo 4, the seventh game in the popular sci-fi franchise , is scheduled for worldwide release Nov. 6 on Xbox 360

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Bubble Witch Saga, King.com's top Facebook game, now has more daily players than Zynga's hit game Farmville. King.com's sixth Facebook saga game, Candy Crush Saga, has already acquired nearly half a million daily users since its launch last week, according to Facebook metrics firm AppData.

‘Bubble Witch saga’ game blows up on Facebook

European gamemaker King.com attracts 10 million daily players, behind only Zynga and Wooga

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Angry Birds maker Rovio also plans to open branded retail stores in China soon.

Angry Birds maker partners with major U.S. retail chain

Finnish company Rovio sees itself as an entertainment brand, says deal will be bigger than an existing partnership with Barnes & Noble

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“It is quite easy to imagine a world where an iPad is more powerful than a home console, where it wirelessly talks to your TV and wirelessly talks to your controller and becomes your new console,” Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, the studio behind Gears of War for consoles and Infinity Blade for the iPad.
Trends

New iPad poses threat to Xbox, PlayStation game consoles

Juiced-up iPad has developers looking at releasing most-expensive ‘triple-A’ games onto Apple tablet

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Sony PlayStation Vita
In-car gaming

PlayStation Vita comes up short for the car ride

The PlayStation Vita is one of those gadgets that kids could get lost in, but is it as car-friendly as it really could be?

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