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Drug Dealer Gets Three Years In Wii Bowling Case
A Florida man whose home was notoriously raided by undercover detectives who stopped to play Wii bowling has agreed to a plea bargain that will send him to prison for three years. Michael Difalco, of Lakeland, Fla. was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in the state pen and surrendered a ton of property under…
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This Week’s Madden Moments Also Are Free [Updated]
Last week’s sponsorship with Verizon Wireless carries over to this week, meaning the three latest “Madden Moments Live” for Week Four of the NFL are free. Ordinarily they’re redeemed with Madden Coins, earned in online play or purchasable outright. All three this week apply the rewrite-history mode to nailbiters from the NFL’s Week Five. They’re…
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Ousted Tampa Bay Rays Can Get Back To We Farm Now
Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Rays succumbed to the Texas Rangers in the playoffs. We’re not blaming iPad Farmville clone “We Farm,” but David Price, who made a costly fielding misjudgment in that game, is a big fan of the game. So are fellow starting pitchers James Shields and Matt Garza, who with Price were a…
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UncategorizedMr. Campbell, Mr. Inafune; Inafune-San, Campbell-San
At last, a meeting of masterminds at Comic-Con New York. That’s Keiji Inafune, creator of Capcom’s Dead Rising series, and none other than Bruce Campbell, the iconic actor of The Evil Dead and other pillars of the zombie-film genre.
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Video Game Tech Solves The Mystery Of The Sunken Chest
Pectus excavatum, better known as sunken chest, was once believed to a purely cosmetic abnormality. Why would patients suffering from a cosmetic problem complain of shortness of breath? A little applied video game technology solves the mystery. Sunken chest is the most common congenital deformity. occurring in one out of every 1,000 children. It is…
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Redbox Takes Video Game Rentals Nationwide
Redbox, the kiosk rental service offering DVDs at grocery stores, drugstores, convenience stores and store stores, will expand its pilot offering of video game rentals to locations nationwide. An email sent this week to customers says games are coming in “late October.” The rentals will be $2 a day; DVDs are a dollar-a-day. Redbox’s site…
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Career-Mode Jordan Available With This NBA 2K11 Code
The incentive for completing NBA 2K11’s “The Jordan Challenge” is “Creating a Legend,” which allows you to take Michael Jordan through the game’s career mode. If you can’t beat all 10 challenges, an unlock code out there will bypass it. The code is icanbe23. Enter it by going to Features from the main menu, then…
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Signs Point To NBA Jam On Disc [Updated]
GameFly has listed NBA Jam’s PS3 and 360 version for release Nov. 18 and while that’s most likely a placeholder date, the fact a rental service lists the game indicates it will be a retail disc release, not a download. EA Sports has yet to confirm its intentions for NBA Jam on PS3 or 360;…
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Rock Band 3 DLC Opens With The Doors
Rock Band 3 launches October 26, bringing with it three free and nine paid tracks from classic rock band The Doors and a confusing new way to classify downloadable music. Three of The Doors biggest hits will be available the week of Rock Band 3’s launch: “Light my Fire,” “Riders on the Storm,” and “Touch…
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UncategorizedRob Corddry Teaches Us To Respect Our Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Enemies
Actor and comedian Rob Corddry teaches us how to rebuild our brotherhood on a new viral website for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood that aims to take the hurt out of murdering your friends. “It’s not me crouching up and down over your face after I kill you; it’s my character crouching up and down over your…
By Mike Fahey