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Top technology companies form gaming alliance more similar news »
Some of the top technology companies, including Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and Advanced Micro Devices joined forces Tuesday to form the PC Gaming Alliance, which will try to promote the PC as a gaming platform. The alliance will bring hardware makers, software companies, and game publishers under one roof to "accelerate innovation, improve the gaming experience for consumers and serve as a collective source of market information and expertise on PC gaming," the alliance said in a statement. The companies will work together on challenges facing the PC gaming industry, including piracy and the establishment of hardware requirements for PC games, the alliance said. PCGA also hopes to accelerate growth of the PC gaming industry and standardize the development of gaming PCs and software by developing and promoting guidelines. The alliance comes at a time when PC video game sales are falling. PC games sales in the United States were $910.7 million in 2007, down from $970 million in 2006, according to research from NPD Techworld. PC game sales in 2007 dwarfed in comparison to the sale of software for video game consoles like Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's Wii, which were $6.6 billion. Unit shipments of PC game software totaled 36.4 million in 2007, compared to video game software unit shipments of 153.9 million, according to NPD. The U.S. gaming industry already has the Entertainment Software Association, which represents vendors that publish games for both computers and consoles. About 90 percent of the $7.4 billion revenue of PC and console gaming software in 2006 belonged to ESA members, giving the association a dominant presence. Other PCGA members include Acer, Epic, Nvidia, and Razer USA. The announcement comes during the Game Developers Conference, which is being held in San Francisco. During the show PCGA member Intel launched a new gaming platform formerly code-named "Skulltrail." The Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform includes two quad-core microprocessors, totaling eight processing engines, and supports graphics cards from ATI or Nvidia.
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Obama Wins Hawaii in Landslide more similar news »
Sen. Barack Obama "won a landslide victory in the state of his birth last night as an unprecedented turnout at the Hawaii Democratic caucus overwhelmed precinct volunteers and party officials," the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports.
Obama beat Sen. Hillary Clinton, 76% to 24%, for his tenth straight victory.
"The tally totaled more than 37,000 votes, showing that turnout far surpassed even the highest estimates of Democratic Party officials." The last caucus in 2004 had nearly 4,000 voters which was considered a strong turnout.
Wed Feb 20, 2008 more from this source»»
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Obama Claims Even More January Money more similar news »
The Obama campaign told NBC News "that their January money total was actually $4 million more than they had previously claimed -- due to more money coming in at the end of the month than they'd anticipated. A spokesman says the actual total was $36 million -- not $32 million -- which in itself was a one-month record."
The New York Times notes that Obama is raising most of his money from small donors.
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McCain Will Be Tough for Democrats in Mountain States more similar news »
"For Democrats, 2008 was supposed to be the year of the Mountain West, when three years of relentless Republican attacks on undocumented immigrants would fuel a backlash among Hispanics that would change the playing field in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico," reports the Washington Post. "But the emergence of Sen John McCain (Ariz.) as the likely standard-bearer for the GOP may have scrambled the equation."
"Democratic community organizers in the West say his past battles with other Republicans over a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants left an imprint on the Latino community that will not quickly fade."
Wed Feb 20, 2008 more from this source»»
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Jedi to open Surrey academy more similar news »
Home Counties feel the Force
Wannabe Jedi Knights are advised to brush up on their lightsaber techniques, dust off their copy of the Jedi Handbook, and get down to Surrey, where two Star Wars aficionados have announced their intention to open a training centre dedicated to promoting the popular alternative religion.…
Wed Feb 20, 2008 more from this source»»
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