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We look at some of the upcoming video game releases, including the hugely hyped Call Of Duty 3: Modern Warfare.

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A virus like HIV needs a protein to multiply. Find how that protein is created, and you take a step toward stopping it.

The problem is so complex even computers couldn't figure it out. So University of Washington scientists created a video game.

It required players to figure out the protein structure. The winning team found a solution in just 10 days.

[NSFW] What exactly this is, we can't tell you, but have we watched the video three times, we can tell you yes.

Monofonus, the Austin-based record label and multimedia organization released this trailer yesterday, supposedly for a video game in which you would control one of the avatars in some sort of dry hump battle?

Sounds great. Even if it's not real, it's certainly worth a laugh or two.

Every week, people across the globe spend 3 billion hours playing video games, but that isn't enough for Jane McGonigal.

She believes that video games can help solve some of the world's biggest problems — and we really should be playing more.

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Those Angry Birds have been pushed off their perch by a 14-year-old boy. The video game Angry Birds was created by a team of professional designers.

Robert Nay, in his Utah bedroom, managed to come up with a game that's even more addictive: Bubble Ball.

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The Boy Scouts of America announced it will reward skills for playing video games. Scouts who master a game can earn a belt loop or pin for their efforts.

There are other tasks involved. For example, they must explain why it is important to have a rating system for video games.

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Nintendo's Wii had been on winning streak. The video game was so popular, Nintendo watched its profits triple over the last three years.

But in Tokyo Thursday, the company announced its quarterly profits fell 61 percent, and sales of Wii consoles fell for the first time since the product came out in 2006.

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