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Watch Major League Pitcher Play Wii Fit
Remember that baseball player who wanted to slim down his Mii and wound up losing 25 pounds in real life? The Wall Street Journal chronicled his success story in a video. San Diego Padres pitcher Heath Bell bought Wii Fit for his 11-year-old daughter, originally, but hijacked the game for himself as part of his…
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Turbine Swept Up in Infringement Lawsuit
Turbine, maker of Dungeons & Dragons Online, has a busy legal department of late. In addition to suing Atari, it’s being sued – along with Sony and Blizzard – by a holding firm alleging infringement of their patented realtime technology. The company, Paltalk Holdings Inc., has successfully settled claims against Microsoft, alleging it infringed the…
By Owen Good - Uncategorized
Yet Another Disgaea Gamesave Panic Results in Free DLC for All
No sooner does Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days go out the door than NIS America has to send out another message concerning some alarming gamesave notices that players are getting. This time, they’ll be rewarded for their needless anxiety. Gamers were getting some confusing error messages regarding downloadable content, which is strange because the game…
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Writing for MMOs: A GDC Perspective
Gamasutra has a great write-up of a Game Developers Conference Austin panel wherein Tracy Seamster of ZeniMax Online and Steve Danuser of 38 Studios talk massively multiplayer online game writing. To me, MMO writing seems tough. There’s just so much text to take into account like menu text, quest text and dialogue trees (to say…
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Yao Ming to Play This Season, if 2K10 Has Anything to Say About It
2K Sports fired up another batch of NBA 2K10 screens, giving us a look at Shaq as a Cavalier and Vince Carter as a Magic, uh, person? Also, Yao Ming, who’s expected to miss the season with a bum foot. Apropos of nothing, Kobe Bryant looks a little like Lt. Daniels from The Wire in…
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Nike Thanks the PlayStation with 24 Pairs of Shoes
Nike sent a size 10 love note to Sony for past collaborations on console-themed kicks, but this series, based on the face buttons of a PlayStation controller, might be a little hard to find. Only 24 pairs will be made. They also won’t be sold to the general public. Ron Eagle, the director of product…
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Need For Speed: Shift – The True Driver’s Experience
Need for Speed Shift drifts its way onto store shelves this week, and the official trailer shows up what to expect from EA’s more realistic take on the classic racing series. I don’t even drive this realistically in real life.
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Casting Call for “Contra Bros.” Bomberman, Tetris Pieces …
Someone’s doing a shoot in LA “for a commercial that will show all over the internet on game related sites,” and their list of needs includes everything but the kitchen sink. Not that there’s anything wrong with kitchen sink cosplay. “Do you have a passion for acting AND gaming? Do you have a costume emulating…
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Konami Reflects On DSiWare
Konami throws its hat into the DSiWare ring with Reflection, a puzzle platformer from Intrinsic Games that has the player controlling one character twice over. Reflection stars Kirra, a young adventurer tasked with retrieving the pieces of a broken magical mirror that has ripped reality in two. Kirra herself is split in two as well,…
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SCEA Working on Something Called “TV Superstars”
This trademark filing, listed Sept. 11, shows Sony Computer Entertainment America is working on something called “TV Superstars.” One can only hope it involves Gabe Kaplan and Lynda Carter, and Telly Savalas, smoking during an interview with Howard Cosell. The filing covers “computer game and video game software,” for “operating a real-time game for others…
By Owen Good
