NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A Microsoft Corp. official said cutting the cost of all three Xbox 360 models allowed the video game console to enjoy good September U.S. sales.

JERSEY CITY, N.J., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The video game "Bejeweled" helped bring about the weekend wedding of a New Jersey couple.

WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall Tuesday of Nintendo of America Inc. lapel pins.

GLASGOW, Scotland, March 14 (UPI) -- Sixteen Scottish schools have been selected to take part in a program that involves students playing 20 minutes of Nintendo games before school.

DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Some senior citizens in Des Moines, Iowa, are set to begin league play in virtual bowling thanks to the technology of the Nintendo Wii.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Nintendo plans to issue tens of thousands of rain checks to appease Christmas shoppers who want the sold-out Wii video game console.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- One holiday season later, Nintendo's Wii is repeating its 2006 success and still is just as hard to find, a San Francisco report said.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Nintendo Wii remained atop America's most wanted holiday gifts among online shoppers, according to a survey of 100 retail Web sites.

TOKYO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Sony's PlayStation 3 has now surpassed the Nintendo Wii in total sales in Japan, thanks primarily to a recent series of marketing moves by Sony officials.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Nintendo says it has increased the production rate of its Wii game console three times this year and still isn't making enough.

REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A raid ordered by the Hong Kong High Court yielded 10,000 products allegedly used to play pirated Nintendo software, the company said.

BRADENTON, Fla., Aug. 21 (UPI) -- GE Security, Inc. has won a DHS order for 80 CTX 9000 DSi systems to scan airline passengers checked bags.

LONDON, July 17 (UPI) -- Video games giant Nintendo has removed a game from sale in Britain because the game uses the word "spastic" in its script. It is the second time in a month Nintendo has had to remove a game from stores for using an offensive word, the Times of London repo

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (UPI) -- Too much time playing the Nintendo Wii video game system can give you an acute form of tennis elbow, says a doctor in Barcelona, Spain.