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Gizmondo Rising Again In 2008? Yes, Says Plextek
Despite yesterdays excellent rumor smash performed by our sister site Gizmodo, it seems like the doomed Gizmondo handheld is destined to return to the market, thanks to the efforts of UK electronics design firm Plextek. Eurogamer spoke this morning with Plextek's technical director Ian Murphy, who confirmed the rumored resurrection.
"There are a few things to do, and it will be a while before that happens," Murphy continued. "But yes, the product has been recovered from the liquidators and we are bringing it back to market."Murphy contends that the only reason the Gizmondo failed in the first place was an overall failure to get the product to market - a failure they plan to rectify later this year. While most of the Gizmondo folks - including convicted criminal and car abuser Stefan Eriksson - will not be attached to the project, former Gizmondo Europe chairman Carl Freer is fully on board. All I can say is that now is the perfect time to reintroduce another handheld to the market, what with how much the PSP and DS are struggling...oh wait.
Gizmondo is coming back - it's official [Eurogamer]
body mods
Kotakuite Jason sends in this picture of his friend, who is just begging to have a tiny guy shimmy his way up his body to plunge a sword into his abdomen. The gods of irony are watching your friend's weak point tattoo very closely Jason.
Colossus Tattoo - Very Bad Idea
Kotakuite Jason sends in this picture of his friend, who is just begging to have a tiny guy shimmy his way up his body to plunge a sword into his abdomen. The gods of irony are watching your friend's weak point tattoo very closely Jason.
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Rockstar's Secret Bully
The much too talked about, consistently delayed, Bully is finding its way into the media yet again, this time via the Miami Herald. An article in this morning's Herald titled "Secretive New Video Game Might Inspire Bullies" consists of some interviews Miami-Dade school board members and the illustrious Jack Thompson. One school board member, Frank Bola os, has introduced a "resolution" to have local merchants refuse to sell the game and is urging families not to purchase it. In news from the future, Miami-Dade is not letting residents use the Internet for fear that someone might purchase Bully online. More »
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Tennessee Busts Out the Violent Games Ban Stick
GameSpot reports that Tennessee Senator Tommy Kilby is trying to shoehorn a bill through legislation that will make it illegal to sell or rent a violent game in Tennessee. This is a whole new level of legislation as previous bills attempted by other states have focused on keeping these games out of the hands of minors. If the law takes effect, Tennessee would become a dry state in terms of "extremely violent video games." However, the size of that "If" is pretty huge. More »
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Center for Disease Control and Prevention to Investigate Video Games?
Apparently so. GameSpot reports that senators Joseph Liberman, Hilary Clinton and Dick Durbin have teamed up to ask the Center for Diseas Control and Prevention to study the "impact of electronic media use." So what? More »
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Counter-Strike Clan Leader Allegedly a Pedophile
GamePolitics retells the sad, disturbing tale from GotFrag concerning 52-year-old George Finley's recruitment policies for the Green Berets, a competitive Counter-Strike clan. Finley was arrested in London, Ontario on the heels of accusations that he "solicited obscene pictures of young boys" he recruited for the Counter-Strike clan. Allegations against Finley have him using Ventrilo voice chat to solicit the pictures. Supposedly, Finley promised the boys PC hardware if they complied. More »
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Family Guy Game Equals Suck
The Family Guy is hitting current gen consoles this autumn. I expect a high degree of sucktitude, though the Simpson franchise finally pulled off a winner with their last title, so you never know. More »
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Utah Senate Knocks Games-as-Porn Bill Out
In Utah, video games aren't porn after all. More »
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Utah Game Law Examined by Experts
It wouldn't be President's Day without some politically flavored news, right? For that we thumb to GamePolitics who directs readers to an op-ed piece in the Salt Lake Tribune on the First Ammendment ramifcations of Utah's Violent Games Equal Porn bill. The op-ed, penned by First Ammendment experts Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards admits that the concerns of Utah Rep. David Hogue are valid, but that his methodology isn't. The two experts pin the responsibility for what media children consume firmly where it belongs - back on the parents. More »
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Violent Games Equal Porn?
GamePolitics reports that Utah representative David Hogue has slipped launguage into a bill that equates violent games and pornography as media that needs to be kept out of the hands of minors. The law would make it a felony to "exhibit or sell violent video games to minors." Everyone's heard of "gun porn," but this is taking the games and porn thing way too far. More »
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Best Buy Purges Managers for 360 Shenanigans
An IGN link refers to Best Buy cleaning up some of the mess surrounding the Xbox 360 launch. The word via The Inquirer reports that a bunch of Best Buy employees (sounds like managers and white collar, primarily) were shown the door after an internal investigation. It all sounds so formal and intense, considering this is over a (still extremely) hard-to-find game console. More »-thumb.jpg)
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Thief Jacks Game Systems from Hospital
The Evening Times reports that PlayStation and PlayStation 2 units in the Children's Ward of Yorkhill Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland were ganked. The report says there is only one game console left in the children's ward now. The Yorkhill Hospital hopes to raise enough money to have a PlayStation 2 beside each patient's bed in the Ward. They are holding a Go-Kart night to raise money for the PlayStation 2's sometime in March. More »
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Still Battling the Toronto Sun
The newspaper that asked "Did Need for Speed Kill?" drew the ire of Kotaku reader Skitzo and he updated a message board with where things have gone since the email exchange. The short story is that the Editor-in-Chief was less than sympathetic to Skitzo's complaints, but he did get the EIC to admit that the cover was done the way it was (see image for idiocy) simply to sell newspapers. More »
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One Reader's Battle with the Toronto Sun
Reader "Skitzo" emailed the editor of the Toronto Sun after the paper's cover story pinned a car accident that killed a taxi cab driver on Need for Speed. I yanked Skitzo's name from the exchange and pasted the text, after the jump. More »
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More Need for Speed Blame on Accident
With absolutely zero disrespect to the family of the driver who was killed, the image above - the cover of the Toronto Sun couldn't possibly be more repulsive. Video games can kill now? They can perform actions? To my knowledge they are inanimate objects incapable of killing anyone on their own. The type of language that's being used surrounding this horrible incident is extremely frustrating. Where are the parents of these two youngsters? We can't actually be trying to hold video games accountable for this, can we? More »
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Car Accident Fingers Need for Speed
Toronto's news, Pulse 24 reports on a car wreck that claimed the life of a cab driver. One of two Mercedes Benz automobiles, allegedly locked in a street race, hit the taxi cab and caused the accident. In the passenger seat of one of the Mercedes involved in the wreck? A copy of Need for Speed Underground. The story's lede: "It appears to be a tragic case of life imitating art—or in this case, a video game." Sounds like more finger pointing at the video game industry is incoming. More »
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