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News Video games could become part of the modern physician's repertoire, based on research released this week that suggests playing games reduces sensitivity to pain. US professor Bryan Raudenbush conducted a study with 30 college students. [20 Mar 2003]
US seamen given tech toys to pass the time
News The Interactive Digital Software Association has donated Nintendo GameCubes, PlayStation 2s and Xboxes to every submarine in the US fleet. US Navy submariners have been given games consoles to help them pass the lonely hours beneath the waves. [30 Aug 2002]
Satoru Iwata
AS Profile But its position soon slipped with the advent of the PlayStation and then the Xbox. Iwata is the Nintendo chief who turned the company's fortunes round. In the early 1990s, Nintendo led the global games console market. [12 Oct 2007]
Russian pirates caught doing some Finn wrong
News The gang operated thorough an illegal site called levyshop.fi where CDs, PlayStation games and movies were being sold for as little as £3. Police in Finland have caught a gang of Russian internet fraudsters who were illegally selling pirated... [06 Jul 2001]
All-in-one OS launches in Singapore
News These allow, for example, Atari programs to be run on a Windows PC, PlayStation games to be used on a Macintosh or Windows applications to be run inside Linux. Two Singaporean inventors who say they've created an operating system that can run... [05 Sep 2003]
The rise and rise of the Asian tech empire
AS Analysis While Jobs took the category of digital music players and recast his company as the one that brought that platform to the masses, Iwata at Nintendo launched the Wii, bringing gaming to millions who had never before picked up an Xbox or PlayStation. [12 Oct 2007]
