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Video game store owner Alex Solomon and sons Josh (L) and Stephen (R) from Saint Joseph, Missouri play a guitar video game at the E for All video game expo in Los Angeles, California in this October 19, 2007 file photo. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)

Rock titles drive revolution in games

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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Record first-half sales of video and computer games got a big boost from Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto IV" and Activision's "Guitar Hero III."

  • An employee at an LG Electronics home appliances store walks past LCD televisions, in Seoul July 21, 2008. (Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)
    Time to drop cable television? Not so fast Thu Jul 24, 2:21 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Couch potatoes love television, but some simply have no interest in watching sports or kids shows. So why should they pay for it?

  • A woman walks past the waiting area of the XM Satellite Radio building after the U.S. Justice Department approved that Sirius Satellite Radio's $4.59 billion purchase of rival XM Satellite Radio would be given antitrust clearance in Washington, March 25, 2008. XM Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Satellite Radio said they could pay up to $19 million to settle past compliance issues with federal regulators, a move that helps clear the way for U.S. Federal Communications Commission approval of their merger. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
    FCC commissioners weigh XM-Sirius approval order 1 hour, 48 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Members of the Federal Communications Commission were given a new draft proposal on Friday that would give conditional approval of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc's purchase of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc , an agency source said.

  • Sony and DC Comics unveil for the first time a new video game that allows gamers to choose any DC comic book character to game online against others on a PS3 or PC at the 39th annual Comic Con Convention in San Diego July 24, 2008. There has been no release date set for the game . (Mike Blake/Reuters)
    Batman fans get chance to fight with their hero Thu Jul 24, 7:06 AM ET

    SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Batman fans inspired by his latest box office hit can bam and kapow alongside the Caped Crusader and other superheroes with the launch of the world's first licensed massively multiplayer online comic book game.

  • A screenshot of Redlasso.com, taken on July 25, 2008. (www.redlasso.com/Reuters)
    Redlasso halts blogger service amid lawsuit Fri Jul 25, 1:12 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - News video-sharing site Redlasso said on Friday it will suspend its video search and clipping service for bloggers as it defends against a copyright infringement lawsuit filed this week by NBC and Fox News Channel.

  • A sample Facebook profile is seen in an undated handout image. (Facebook/Handout/Reuters)
    Microsoft to expand Facebook ad pact: source Thu Jul 24, 1:29 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will announce plans to expand its relationship with online social network Facebook to provide web search and search advertising, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

  • The art installation 'DIY GORI: seed_1216944000' by South Korean artist Jee Hyun Oh, being displayed at the 'International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008' in Singapore, is seen in this undated handout. (International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008/Handout/Reuters)
    It's art, for the Facebook generation Fri Jul 25, 9:08 AM ET

    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - If like many people in our technology-ruled world you can't live without Google, video games, digital media and social networking sites like Facebook, this is your kind of art exhibit.

  • The logo of Google Inc. is seen outside their headquarters building in Mountain View, California, August 18, 2004. (Clay McLachlan/Reuters)
    Italy prepares to charge Google execs: sources 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

    MILAN (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges against four current or former Google Inc executives over a 2006 video on the Internet provider's Italian-language site, court sources said on Friday.

  • People walk past Yahoo! offices in Santa Monica, California, May 19, 2008. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
    Microsoft says chances of Yahoo takeover negligible Thu Jul 24, 6:55 PM ET

    REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell on Thursday described Yahoo Inc. as "a declining asset" and all but ruled out a complete takeover of the Internet company.

  • Rahul Gandhi, member of parliament and son of India's ruling Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi, gestures during a news conference in his Amethi constituency in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh July 16, 2008. (Pawan Kumar/Reuters)
    India's young politicians win praise on YouTube Fri Jul 25, 7:32 AM ET

    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of users on YouTube, the popular video-sharing website, are toasting two young Indian politicians, one of them seen as a potential prime minister, after they spoke eloquently in a parliamentary debate last week.

  • Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., hugs Cindy Dietz, mother of Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny Philip Dietz Jr., as her husband Danny Philip Dietz Sr., stands right, after McCain addressed the American GI Forum Convention in Denver, Friday, July 25, 2008. Philip Dietz Jr. was killed in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    Once media-shy Taliban go hi-tech in propaganda war Thu Jul 24, 2:53 PM ET

    KABUL (Reuters) - The once media-shy Taliban have gone hi-tech with DVDs, mobile phone messages, ring-tones, emails and a website to publicize their exploits and lambast their Afghan and Western enemies, a think-tank said on Thursday.

  • Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer speaks during the launch ceremony of Microsoft's new research and development centre in Herzliya near Tel Aviv May 21, 2008. Ballmer on Thursday defended the company's need to make steep investments in its Internet business in order to compete with Google Inc and said such moves could boost its value in time. (Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters)
    Microsoft CEO backs Web spending, "done" with Yahoo Thu Jul 24, 8:41 PM ET

    REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the company was "done," for now, with pursuing Yahoo Inc.

  • Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, delivers a keynote address at the company's annual conference in San Francisco, California July 23, 2008. (Kimberly White/Reuters)
    Private social network Facebook to go Web wide Thu Jul 24, 1:23 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends spoke on Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web, even while apologizing for past excesses.

  • People use computers inside an Internet cafe in Xining, northwestern China's Qinghai province, November 10, 2006. Britain's music and film industries launched a fight back against online piracy on Thursday, persuading the six biggest Internet providers to send warning letters to those suspected of illegal file-sharing. (Simon Zo/Files/Reuters)
    Britain agrees plan to tackle online music piracy Thu Jul 24, 7:43 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's music and film industries launched a fight back against online piracy on Thursday, persuading the six biggest Internet providers to send warning letters to those suspected of illegal file-sharing.

  • Kevin Johnson poses in an undated handout photo. (Microsoft/Handout/Reuters)
    Juniper names Microsoft exec Johnson as CEO Thu Jul 24, 11:11 AM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. communications equipment maker Juniper Networks Inc named senior Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as its new chief executive, saying he will start work in September.

  • A man takes a photograph before the start of the flag raising ceremony at dawn in Beijing's Tiananmen Square June 4, 2008. (David Gray/Reuters)
    Digital revolution could be Olympics' salvation Thu Jul 24, 3:08 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - For the Olympic movement, the digital revolution is armed with a double-edged sword -- it has lured the younger generation away from sport but could open up the Olympic experience to a far wider audience.