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Wii MotionPlus Is Wall Street Journal Approved
You know you’ve got it made when even the Wall Street Journal wants a piece of your sweet, sweet motion controlled action. In both written and video form, Wall Street Journal technology reporter Katie Boehret tackles Wii MotionPlus, Project Natal and something called Canesta, which works kind of like the Clap-on for your TV and…
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Second Skin Documentary Debuts In Theaters, On Hulu
Second Skin, Pure West Films‘ documentary about the lives of the people behind the players of massively-multiplayer online games, hits select theaters today, but if you can’t make it there’s always Hulu. Second Skin provides a rather balanced look at the relationships formed via online games, from friendships to romances to relationships that go even…
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Arkham Asylum: Making The Game, Respecting The Franchise
With the demo dropping today and the game right around the corner, Eidos and Warner Bros. release another behind-the-scenes video to make sure everyone knows how much they respect the franchise. If this were any other comic book franchise, I’d say they were laying it on a bit thick, but Batman fans have been burned…
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Penny Arcade’s Tekken 6 Comic Packs A Pouch
That’s no typo; Namco Bandai has enlisted the boys from Penny Arcade to create a Tekken 6 web comic, and they’re focusing on the most compelling fighter the series has ever produced. Yes, Penny Arcade is telling the secret origin of Roger, Tekken’s gestalt character, who is actually two fighters in one. When an erroneously-named…
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The Humorous And Romantic Old Republic Smuggler
Humor and romance are two things you don’t often associated with an MMO character class, but those are two qualities BioWare is focusing on for the Smuggler class in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Senior writer Hal Hood talks about creating the Smuggler class in the latest developer diary on the Star Wars: The Old…
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The First Game Dedicated Entirely To Sushi
City Interactive makes a bold claim while introducing its upcoming Nintendo DS game, Sushi Academy, the “The first-ever video game dedicated entirely to sushi.” Bold words! I’m pretty sure I’ve played a sushi-themed puzzle game or two in my lifetime, but if they mean the first-ever video game dedicated to the preparation to sushi…well who…
By Mike Fahey