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...jewel of the gaming world. Nintendo has sold more than 24 million units of the $250 console, widely expected to be an also-ran to Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation when the three machines were introduced a few years ago. The magic is in its handheld motion sensors, which let players duplicate the action of throwing a ball or swinging a club or racquet. Wii bumped up Nintendo's sales 73%, to $16 billion, last year. It is outselling rivals 3 to 1, and Fit is driving Wii: more than 2 million Fit units have been sold since...
...addition to narrative structure, Bethel and Mayer sought to achieve a personal feel through their production choices and do-it-yourself methods. A simple handheld video camera was used, and occasionally the point of view wobbles or frames appear over-exposed. This, Bethel says, was a result of allowing the space to dictate how he moved and reacted, and led to the feeling that anyone could have made the film...
...their neat suits and shiny shoes. Two scruffy passengers we discovered curled in the corner of a remote bathroom turned out to be holding tickets to LAX. They had chosen their spot because it was the only place they could find that had an outlet to charge their handheld video-game console...
...accounts on YouTube than barricade themselves in a farmhouse. And while “Diary” is not the most terrifying of Romero’s films, it provides a strong and compelling commentary on human nature in the age of new web technology. Although shot entirely with handheld cameras, “Diary” is presented as a polished film-within-a-film. Romero forgoes the hyperrealist tone of recent horror film “Cloverfield” and cult classic “The Blair Witch Project” by editing together shots from multiple sources...
...Singapore team. Ian Pang, 29 and Singaporean, studied Japanese thinking he would one day have to move to Japan to design video games. "I thought I was going to have to pack my bags; Singapore had no games industry," Pang says. Instead, he now produces the latest Star Wars handheld game from Lucasfilm's 40,000 sq.-ft. (3,700 sq m) office space near Singapore's Changi Airport. Ho, the computer-science student, says he struggled to convince his parents that he could make a living in digital art and gaming. "Having Lucasfilm here really legitimizes the field...