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How Are Gamers Hurting Themselves?
Between January 1, 2004 and January 1, 2009, 696 gaming-related injuries were reported in the United States. How are gamers hurting themselves? Researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia gathered together data on five years of gaming-related injuries in an attempt to identify how gamers are getting hurt while playing their games. Polling the National…
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Who Wants To Play Disc Golf With Death?
A trio of sinister skeletal figures joins the cast of Sony’s PlayStation Move sports game this week, as the Haunted Pack brings the undead back to Sports Champions. I say back, because when the PlayStation Move first debuted at E3 in 2009, we were shown a tech demo that starred a skeleton. The person demonstrating…
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Nintendo’s Former Mommy Helps Create Kiddy Cities
Last week Cammie Dunaway left the gaming industry after three years as Nintendo’s executive vice president of sales and marketing. Where is Cammie going? She’s taken on a role that will generate countless jobs for children 13 and under. Now that she’s left Nintendo, Cammie Dunaway tells GamesBeat’s Dean Takahashi that she has become the…
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The Nintendo Download: Revenge Of The Belly Dancer
It’s a banner week for the Nintendo Download, as the sequel to a belly dancing half-genie platformer for the Game Boy Color becomes the priciest DSiWare title yet. In 2002, WayForward Technologies released Shantae for the Game Boy Color. It was a strong platformer, following young half-genie Shantae on a quest to recover a prototype…
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Fallout: New Vegas Is Done, And It’s Time For Cake
Fallout: New Vegas is 100% complete, the PC specs are out, and the New Vegas designer Robert Lee gets a splendid cake. All is right with the world. As seen on the Bethesda Blog Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.
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Xbox Live Indie Clips: The Tribes Of Ursea
Centaurs and not-so-centaurs spill blood on the fields of battle in this week’s Xbox Live Indie Clip, the Tribes of Ursea. People often ask me how I chose which games to feature in the weekly Xbox Live Indie Clips article. Sometimes they are suggested to me through friends and co-workers. On occasion the developer themselves…
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Metropolis And Gotham Are Nice, But You Wouldn’t Want To Live There
It’s like you can’t go five feet in DC Universe Online’s Gotham City or Metropolis without seeing superheroes and super villains duking it out. I bet property values are way down. This batch of screens for Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online show some over-the-top combat going on in the streets of Gotham and Metropolis.…
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Man Wins (Ig)Nobel Prize For Swearing
Anyone who’s played a particularly frustrating video game can attest to the therapeutic effect of dropping the F-bomb. The phenomenon has now been scientifically proven, and the man behind the research awarded for his efforts, sort of. Annals of Improbable Research magazine held the 20th annual Ig Nobel awards last night at Harvard University, and…
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Is December 7 The World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm Release Date?
A day after Amazon.com suggests a January release for World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion, MMO Champion uses a combination of patch info and official forum posts to nail down December 7 as the date. What does Blizzard say? MMO Champion came up with the December 7 date by putting 2 and 2 together. The first…
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The North Koreans Invade Homefront Multiplayer
You won’t find any opposing forces in this multiplayer trailer for THQ’s Homefront. Just North Koreans in snazzy outfits. This is one very promising trailer. It’s a bit short on action, but the lead up is certainly impressive, and those North Koreans from the future (the game takes place in 2027) certainly know how to…
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Bulletstorm’s Box Art Kicks You In The Face With Color
The bright and colorful North American box art for Epic’s Bulletstorm is a boot to the head of those more serious first-person shooters. It’s these bright colors that draw me to Bulletstorm. I’ve no problem traversing the dreary grey and brown worlds of games like Resistance, Killzone, or Epic’s own Gears of War. I just…
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Ugly Force Unleashed II Watches Are Collectively Attractive
These Force Unleashed II X G-Shock watches might be hideously ugly, but only 50 pairs are being made, and that makes them beautiful. The two limited edition Force Unleashed II watches from G-Shock (a Casio brand) aren’t the sort of timepieces a person wears anyway. These are watches you keep in a box and sell…
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Microsoft Names New President Of Everything Fun
The man with one of the most impressive houses in the gaming industry now has a title to match, as Microsoft officially makes Don Mattrick the president of its Interactive Entertainment Business. It’s not really that big of a change, moving from senior vice president to president of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, at least not…
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Massively Multiplayer Online Petz
Fresh off the launch of its first massively multiplayer online game, Might and Magic Heroes Kingdoms, Ubisoft steers its online gaming initiative in a decidedly lighter direction with Petz World. Over the years, the Petz brand has grown from a pair of rudimentary pet sims into a veritable kingdom of animal interaction sims. The original…
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Forza 3 And All Its DLC Ultimately Collected
Microsoft kicks off a multi-year partnership with BBC hit television show Top Gear next month, packing in 90 minutes of Top Gear TV content into the Forza Motorsport 3 Ultimate Collection, along with every bit of DLC released so far. Today is a day for making people feel bad about buying downloadable content. First Dragon…
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Turning Old Vegas Into New Vegas
In the latest developer diary for Fallout: New Vegas, the team at Obsidian talk about how they tackled turning something old into something new, while keeping it old. I’m confused. Building a world based on the real world das we know it today is easy. With tons of old movies, archive footage, and photographs available,…
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Free-To-Play Free Runner FreeJack Enters Open Beta
FreeJack is a parkour MMO that looks like Jet Grind Radio, only without the skates, and starting tomorrow you can test it out. Free run through the streets of New Jack City against thousands of other players in FreeJack, a free-to-play parkour racing MMO from GamerKraft and Games Bridge Entertainment. It’s not the sort of…
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MAG Upgrades To Version 2.0
The 2.0 patch for Sony’s MAG went live today, bringing with it PlayStation Move support and enough game tweaks and changes it could be considered a whole new game. The full list of changes hitting in MAG patch 2.0 is huge. Developer Zipper Interactive has upped the level cap 60 to 70. There’s a new…
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