Gaikai delivered on its promise on Wednesday, launching the beta of a service that will allow several popular PC games to be tried out via Facebook. Users who visit the Gaikai page on Facebook will be able to try out the games, from within the browser, offering a demo of the game. If the demos hove to Gaikais existing practice, gamers will be able to play each game for 30 minutes, before being asked to buy and download a digital [...]

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Video gaming giant Activision Blizzard has finished a record year, posting the highest revenues and profits in its history for a calendar year. It completed 2011 with $4.75 billion in revenues and $3.4 billion in profits, an increase of 7% and 18%, respectively, from the prior year. If this was not enough, the company’s gross margins grew by a massive 7 percentage points to reach 71% in 2011, as compared to 64% in 2010. With the additions of highly promising [...]

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A Carson City District judge today rejected an initiative petition proposing to create a new and higher rate of taxation for Nevadas largest casinos, finding that the 200 word description of effect of the measure was misleading. In rejecting the petition, Judge James Todd Russell said he did not believe he had the authority to rewrite the description himself. Las Vegas businessman Monte Miller, who attended the hearing on his proposed gaming tax hike, said he will file a new [...]

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Cybercriminals are constantly scanning the Web for exploitable and misconfigured web applications, and blogging platforms such as WordPress for instance. Not surprisingly, hundreds of  thousands of legitimate web sites remain susceptible to remote exploitation, which on the majority of occasions are serving malicious content to unsuspecting end and corporate users. According to researchers from Avast, the high trafficked Assassinscreedfrance.fr web site, has been serving ZeuS crimeware variants to its visitors for over 8 weeks. Moreover, the researchers point out that [...]

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LAS VEGAS, Apr 12, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) – Galaxy Gaming, Inc. /quotes/zigman/566842 GLXZ -13.81% announced today that it has scheduled an investor conference call to discuss its financial results for the year ending December 31, 2011. The details of the call, which is scheduled to include a web presentation, is as follows: Conference Call When: Wednesday, April 18th at 1:30pm Pacific Time (4:30 Eastern Time) US/Canada: (800) 967-7188 International: (719) 325-2286 Passcode: 4918269 www.galaxygaming.com/investor-relations The Company is expected to [...]

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BALD KNOB, Ark. The routine for Joyce Landers is the same every Tuesday: The 71-year-old packs up snacks and her lucky markers, heads to an old fire station that now houses a senior center and gets ready to try her chances at bingo. The Arkansas woman sat at her favorite table as usual this week, but it wasnt the same. She knew her chances to win and spend time with her bingo-night friends at the Bald Knob Senior Center were [...]

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Confiscated gaming terminals from Buckeye Internet Center are loaded onto a flatbed March 23 during a raid by Chillicothe Police. / Gazette file photo

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Los Angeles-based mobile games developer Mention Mobile, a developer of social gaming applications, reported today that it has scored a second round of funding from Mark Cuban. Size of the new investment in the company was not announced. Mention Mobile said the new investment will go to develop new titles from the company. Mention Mobiles current title include Trivia Friends, Doodley, Zombie Bash: Christmas Attack, and Get 2 The Nest. The firms titles currently run on the iPhone, and the [...]

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PHILADELPHIA, Apr 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Virtual Piggy, Inc. /quotes/zigman/6562890 VPIG +7.14% , an innovator in safe online youth purchasing, announced today that CEO and Founder Dr. Jo Webber will join Xsolla, PayPal, Google and others in a panel discussion about micropayments in the gaming industry at the 2012 LA Games Conference. The panel, titled “Delivering the Virtual Goods: How Is the Micropayments Business Evolving for Games” will focus on in-game monetization and the ever-changing business of virtual goods [...]

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  Between the full-scale medieval battle, countless sorcerers and superheroes, and inevitable zombie uprising, campus may not be the safest place this weekend. Entitled “Mis-Judgement Day,” UB’s 23rd annual UBCON begins this Friday, bringing its witchcraft, warlords, and role-players together in every Buffalo gamers’ Mecca over the weekend. Boasting community-engaging events like Zombie Action Role Play, StarCraft II tournaments, and a panel consisting of ’90s anime icons Eric Vale and Monica Rial – voice-actingDragon Ball Z’s Trunks and Bulma respectively [...]

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