Video game site lets players win (or lose) money based on their gaming skills

May 4th, 2009 There are millions of video games around the world which we play for fun and on our own interest. But there are some who make a living out of these games.

June 23rd, 2009 New mafia game hits up Twitter players for moneySAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc.'s founders still haven't decided how to cash in on their popular Internet messaging service — to the delight of a rapidly growing audience. But the deliberate approach may not prevent a gold rush among opportunistic outsiders.

July 17th, 2009 June video game sales drop sharplyNEW YORK — Squeezed by the economic downturn, U.S. retail sales of video games dropped sharply in June, the largest year-over-year decline the industry has seen in nearly nine years.

May 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bigpoint.com, the world's largest portal for browser games, today announces a partnership with PlaySpanT, the leader in monetization solutions for online games, social networks, and virtual worlds, to bring PlaySpan's PayByCash(r) and Ultimate Game Card(r) payment options to Bigpoint's more than 63 million users globally and 200,000 new registrations daily. Bigpoint.com is the world's largest portal for browser games and is one of the top three gaming portals in the world.

September 23rd, 2009 Engadget blog: Wii nears price cut by $50 to $200NEW YORK — A $50 price cut may be imminent for Nintendo's popular Wii gaming console. Tech blog Engadget said in a posting late Tuesday that the Wii, which has cost about $250 since its 2006 launch, will see its price drop to $200 beginning Sunday.

May 24th, 2009 LONDON - The ultimate computer game that banishes handheld controls and allows players' gestures to dictate the action on screen is to be launched by Microsoft. The Microsoft Xbox 360 uses 3-D camera technology, and is aimed at challenging the dominance of the Nintendo Wii, reports The Times.

September 5th, 2009 LONDON - Facebook's free online game Farmville, which allows users to run their own virtual farm, is set to become the most popular application on the social networking site. Farmville, which allows Facebook members to plant, grow, and harvest virtual crops, trees, raise livestock, invest in farm equipment and sell their produce for profit, has become very popular ever since it was launched on June 19.

July 21st, 2009 Poker players hope for hot hand in lobbying weekWASHINGTON — The Poker Players Alliance hopes a hot hand in the nation's capital this week will help its efforts to legalize online poker. As part of its "National Poker Week," the group has set up nearly 100 meetings with members of Congress and their aides, and plans to present a petition to President Barack Obama on Wednesday that had more than 350,000 signatures at last count.

August 14th, 2009 July video game sales show sharp declineNEW YORK — Hurt by the recession and few hit game launches, U.S. retail sales of video games dropped sharply in July, showing an even bigger decline than what many analysts were expecting.

July 30th, 2009 Game makers pause, reload: Are price cuts next?Kathleen Byrnes and Justin Choi, a married couple attending medical school at Tulane University, say $40 is just too much to fork over for a Nintendo Wii game they might not enjoy. They haven't bought one since last fall, when they picked up "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed." Since then? "Nothing really interesting came out," said Byrnes, 23.

September 23rd, 2009 Nintendo cutting Wii price by $50 to $200NEW YORK — Nintendo on Sunday will cut the price of its popular Wii console by $50, in a bid to broaden its appeal among potential new customers as it prepares to release the Wii Fit-Plus and New Super Mario Bros. games. The Wii, whose game control senses motions without having relying solely on buttons and levers, is the top selling console worldwide.

March 22nd, 2006 Sony's president confirmed a November release for the PlayStation 3 and said the company is also committed to a simultaneous worldwide launch of the PS3 in Japan, the rest of Asia, North America, Europe and Australia. SCE President Phil Harrison told an audience at the Game Developers Conference here that Sony will produce about a million PS3s per month and capacity will ramp up quickly.

July 18th, 2009 New Pirate Bay to be based on give-and-take modelsSTOCKHOLM — One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday. "The more you give, the more you get," said Hans Pandeya, chief executive of Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X, which announced last month it was buying the site and would start paying both content providers and copyright holders.

August 25th, 2009 YouTube's new sales pitch: join our ad programSAN FRANCISCO — YouTube hopes to convert more amateur videographers into capitalists as it strives to show more advertising on its Web site and reverse years of uninterrupted losses. The Internet's top video channel will try to widen participation in a 20-month-old advertising program by actively recruiting the makers of widely watched clips.

July 30th, 2009 Nintendo profit tumbles as game hits dwindleTOKYO — Boredom, not the recession, may be Nintendo's biggest villain. Sales of the once unstoppable Wii console have tumbled for the first time since its launch three years ago, sending the gaming giant's quarterly profit down 61 percent.