Age has slowed Sonic, the beloved blue hero from an earlier generation of video games, but Sega may have finally rehabilitated the venerable hedgehog.
Once considered a cult pastime, video games have grown immensely in the last 30 years to become a mainstream fixture alongside movies and music.
LulzSec, the gleeful and secretive band of hackers who appear to be responsible for a string of high-profile and sometimes embarrassing Internet attacks, said it was disbanding.
From scanning news headlines over the last couple of months, you might think the walls around Internet strongholds are made of rotting wood.
The computer hacking collective LulzSec denied that a teenager arrested this week was a key player in the group, and claimed Wednesday it brought down the Brazilian government's website.
CNN's Errol Barnett talks with Nicholas Thompson about the LulzSec-Anonnymous online plot called "AntiSecurity."
Hackers nab personal data, but not credit card information, of over 1 million online Sega game users.
Hackers have stolen personal information from over 1.2 million customers of the Japanese gaming company SEGA, according to a company statement.
Microsoft has just announced the 17 games that will be available on launch day with Kinect for Xbox 360, the tech giant's highly anticipated controller-free gaming system.
The reviews are in for "Iron Man," and they aren't great. One critic calls it "unmoving." Another says it's "crappy." Then there is the one who argues that the superhero saga offers only "aneurysm-inducing frustration."
Fantasy adventure meets large-scale warfare in Sega's "Viking: Battle For Asgard," a gory Norse mythology tale crafted by The Creative Assembly of Total War fame.
Ever wanted to see who would win in a fight between Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic? Now you can in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a cartoon fighting game for the Nintendo Wii.
Dear Annie: I am the head of what I thought was a pretty strong, cohesive team. But I just heard from one of the people who reports to me that another subordinate went to my boss and said she could do my job better than I can. I'm not sure if there's some kind of ax to grind between these two subordinates, but this troubles me, since the person who allegedly badmouthed me is my top performer. (I jumped through flaming hoops to get her an extra 2% bonus last year.)
What better way to unwind after a tough day at the office than by playing tennis against the likes of Roger Federer, Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova and Andy Roddick?
As U.S. video gamers prepare to stampede into electronics retailers across the country, here's all you need to know about Sony's PlayStation 3.
SAN JOSE (CNNMoney.com) - Nintendo's next generation video game system is going to rely pretty heavily on the past.
Two new video games let you play as a monkey on a mission. "Donkey Kong Jungle Beat" works with Nintendo's bongo controllers so gamers can drum away to maneuver a brawny ape, while Sega's "Super Monkey Ball Deluxe" brings a popular GameCube puzzler onto the Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation 2 consoles.
CNNMoney: EA teams up with ESPNupdated: Mon Jan 17 2005 11:06:00
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Television's leading sports network and the leading maker of sports video games have signed a long-term deal that could signal the end of an era.
If you want to find the perfect holiday gift for the video gamer in your life, beware: Gamers can be surprisingly hard to shop for.
Whether it's in bumper-to-bumper traffic or during flight delays at airports, parents traveling with youngsters will have their hands full.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Holographic projectors. Spinal input ports. Head mounted 3D displays. If the predictions of certain developers come true, the video game machines of 2025 are going to be remarkably different than what we use today. But what about the games themselves?
CNNMoney: Gaming: 2025updated: Thu Sep 16 2004 12:59:00
One of the best games around these days can't be found on store shelves and has absolutely no learning curve.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The players are lining up on this year's virtual gridiron, but there are a lot fewer teams this time around. Last year, five video game publishers had football games. The 2004 season will only host two: Sega and Electronic Arts. But the battle could be the fiercest we've ever seen.
Many "Sonic the Hedgehog" fans were disappointed Sega's spiky blue-haired mascot made the transition from 2-D to 3-D a few years ago and slowed the pace of the action-adventure.
CNNMoney: GameCube jittersupdated: Tue Feb 10 2004 09:48:00
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Nintendo faithful are nervous these days.
There was a time, not long ago, when the games business was fun. Sony, Nintendo, and Sega hooked millions of kids in the U.S. and Japan on games like Tomb Raider (and its heroine, Lara Croft). Then...
If you still doubt the existence of the black hole of convergence, consider the new Sega Dreamcast, the gamemaker's last best hope in the arena of lightning reflexes and twitching thumbs.
Last month David Hoem, a 21-year-old student in San Jose, Calif., cashed out of a most unorthodox Internet investment. He sold a magician, a warrior, a thief, two houses, 120,000 pieces of gold, an...
Every so often some wise pundit says the only way the Tokyo market can go is up. It usually doesn't take too long for the obstinate Nikkei to prove him dead wrong. So it's spring 1997, the U.S. bul...
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So I find myself astride a hog-size mechanical cock-roach inside the Los Angeles Convention Center, surrounded by the din of a thousand videogames, reflecting on the growing pains of the $8 billion...
The $5 billion videogame industry is holding its breath as its key selling season draws near. Industry leaders Nintendo and Sega Enterprises reel in around half their revenues in the last three mon...
Fortune: TWO COMPAQS?updated: Mon Oct 03 1994 00:01:00
This year, for the first time, U.S. consumers will buy about as many PCs as businesses do. The booming home market is roiling the computer industry. Compaq Computer, which became the market leader ...
More evidence that bigger isn't always better: While Walt Disney's huge new theme parks have run into major snags -- Euro Disneyland is hemorrhaging, and Virginians are up in arms over Disney's Ame...
Cutting a wide, free-spending path through the churning world market is a consumer culture more powerful than being American or French, African American or Asian. It's the scary, experimental passa...
While the average stock has risen a snappy 63% since 1990, more than 100 superstars have rocketed up at least 400%. Today's question is whether any of these stocks on stilts are still worth buying....
No doubt you're waiting until the supercharged 32/64-bit systems like Atari's Jaguar or the Panasonic 3DO release enough games to justify the $700 price tags. Meantime, if you're hooked up to any o...
A CLUSTER of 10-year-old boys loiter beside a ghetto street, waiting. The one in the middle holds a blue gun. When an old white gas-guzzler, most likely a Cadillac, meanders down the street, the bo...
1972 Atari founder Nathan Bushnell puts Pong, the first video arcade game, outside a tavern in Sunnyvale, California. Lines form around the block. The videogame era is born.
Fortune: RATING THE HOT BOXESupdated: Mon Dec 27 1993 00:01:00
To find out which of the five game players now on the market have the right stuff, FORTUNE consulted an expert who's at the heart of the industry's core market: Jacob Hajdu, 10, of New York City. L...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Oct 18 1993 00:01:00
PREFERRED PLAYER? Multimedia mavens have waited for months to see if the 3DO Co.'s first Interactive Multiplayer could deliver on its promise of significantly better graphics and animation than vid...
Last year, when MONEY asked me to review the latest video games, I raved about Sega Genesis' Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic turned out to be the video-game hit of the year. So here's the deal. I've just...
YOU DON'T have to be a kid to know that when it comes to videogames, the fastest trigger always wins. Just ask Sega, a once struggling company that beat giant Nintendo to market with a new generati...
THE SOCIETY/COVER STORY 42 GAY IN CORPORATE AMERICA In the company closet is a big, talented, and scared group of men and women. They want out -- and are making the workplace the next frontier for ...
If flakes of silicon are swirling about your head like snow during the final frenzy of holiday shopping, welcome to the blundering herd. Digital dilemmas! Electronic enigmas! Big-ticket blues! The ...
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