TRANSFORMERS review coming June 29! Classic Game Room HD reviews SHREK FOREVER AFTER for Nintendo DS. This CGR review of Shrek for Nintendo DS has Shrek Forever After gameplay on DS showing Shrek game play.
Hulu coming to Xbox and PS3 very soon
More of the pre-E3 rumours prove to be true
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Hulu Subscription Service Teased for PS3 and Xbox 360
While I was cobbling together my PlayStation Plus review, Hulu went ahead and launched its long-anticipated paid subscription service, Hulu Plus. For $9.99 a month, you’ll be able to stream content to your iOS4 iPhone or iPod, 3D or WiFi iPad, and Samsung Internet-enabled TVs or Blu-ray players.
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Fable III to get episodic downloadable treatment after full game is released
Filed under: Downloads , RPG After Lionhead Studios released their RPG Fable II for the Xbox 360 as a full retail game, the developer released it again as a series of downloadable episodes via Xbox Live. Now Gamesindustry.biz has announced (free registration required) that Fable III will be getting a similar re-release via download sometime after the full game. Lionhead Studios’ head man Peter …
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Will the Xbox 360’s Kinect technology show up in PCs this year?
Filed under: Hardware Microsoft hyped up their Kinect motion sensing control system for the Xbox 360 console to the top of its lungs at E3 2010 last week, but when will that kind of technology be made available for PC owners. Our sister site Engadget reports that the tech may be coming sooner than you might think. The site chatted with a vice president of PrimeSense , the company that is behind …
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New Xbox 360 Giveaway — Let’s rock this
Find out how to win a new Xbox 360 unit with transfer cable, flash drive, chat pad, headset, and 12 month Xbox Live Gold subscription. We promise it’ll be relatively painless and you might make a few new friends, even.
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After E3: Xbox 360 vs. PS3 Price Fight
With Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 shaking up the console landscape, who wins E3 from a price per peripheral standpoint? Microsoft – Xbox 360 – PlayStation 3 – Video game – Xbox
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Lebanon has marginalized Palestinian refugees for too long. Parliament should seize this opportunity to turn the page and end discrimination against Palestinians.
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Fear and loathing at E3: Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony
E3 came and went last week, and associate editor Chris Holt was there. What he noticed is that original ideas are few and far between in the land of game consoles.
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After Making History, Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation Waits Out the Big Waves to Showcase Its Ground-Breaking …
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. , June 19 /PRNewswire/ — Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation will make history again when day 2 of the 2010 Sponsor Me Ala Moana Bowls Contest resumes early next week. With sunny and clear conditions, and a big swell forecasted, Ubiquity is ready for another industry changing broadcast. Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation’s patented IP backhaul technology and methodology …
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Win It: One-Year Netflix Membership & iPad or Wii!
Now you can stream Netflix movies right to your iPad or Wii — and “Extra” is giving you a chance to be one of the cool kids! We’re giving away five one-year Netflix memberships and each winner will also win…
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E3 2010: Konami Launces ‘Dance Revolution’ for Wii
This week at the E3 show in Los Angeles, Konami debuted a brand-new “Dance Dance Revolution” title for the Nintendo Wii.
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After a week of video games, a look at E3’s winners and losers
The Sony PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox made moves on Nintendo’s Wii at the Electronic Entertainment Expo — the three days each year when all eyes are on the video-gaming world.
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Library calendar: Free employment workshops
Courtesy of library staff Monday, 10:30 a.m. Westside Library, Career Specialist@Your Library (fourth Monday of every month). Free employment workshops. Come spend the whole day or drop in for a session that interests you. Call your branch for workshop details. No registration required. Call 574-6815.
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Our couch potato Olympic mascots
Wenlock and Mandeville sound like Agatha Christie detectives, “in the loggia with the commode”. Or, perhaps, an Edwardian musical act. “I say, Mandeville, old chum. My dog has no nose.” “Really Wenlock? What does he smell of?” “You idiot. How does he smell?” “I don’t know, he’s your dog.”
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Researchers Use Wii Fit to Help Restore Soldier’s Balance After Traumatic Brain Injury
(PhysOrg.com) — Kansas State University researchers have found that Nintendo’s Wii Fit helped improve balance for a solider with a traumatic brain injury, a problem many soldiers are facing after serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Nintendo president to execs: Prepare for war with Apple, our enemy of the future
Nintendo is preparing to unleash the full force of its development and marketing artillery…
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Nintendo to beef up piracy measures in 3-D machine
Nintendo’s president said Friday that anti-piracy measures will be beefed up in its planned handheld game device with 3-D technology in a move to guard against software theft. Nintendo – Handheld game console – Technology – Video game – Game
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Nintendo profit drops after six years of growth
Price cuts on the Wii and sluggish global sales trigger an 18 percent drop in annual profit for Nintendo, the company’s first earnings decline in six years.
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Live-action Alan Wake prequel premieres on Xbox Live April 25
If Alan Wake ’s TV show-like presentation isn’t, well, enough like a TV show for you, here’s some good news: next week, the first episode in a six-part live-action Alan Wake series will be available on Xbox Live. Bright Falls , shot on location in Oregon, acts as a prequel to the events in the game — which hopefully means that at least some weirdness was taking place in the game’s location …
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Purchase NLL Lacrosse 2010 Presented by Reebok Lacrosse, via download to Xbox 360 for only $5
The National Lacrosse League’s new video game is now on sale!
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Review: After Burner Climax on Xbox 360
My last experience of playing After Burner was when I used to go to the local arcade as a teenager. After Burner stood out due to the cabinet it used, and was always more expensive to play than the other, standard cabinet games. After Burner Climax was developed for the arcade by Sega’s AM-2 team in [...]
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Wideload Games’ whodunnit title for the Wii, Disney Guilty Party, gets mid-summer release
Wideload Games’ Disney Guilty Party for the Wii is scheduled to release in North America on July 27.
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Wii Fit accident made me a sex addict: U.K. woman
A woman in the United Kingdom says she has the urge to have sex up to 10 times a day after she fell off her Wii Fit board.
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Strange if true: Woman becomes sex addict after Wii Fit fall?
A newswire story that sports a few hoax-y elements about a woman who fell off a Wii Fit balance board and ended up with a massive sex addiction has been picked up by “weird news” and gaming blogs today. The woman in question is 24-year-old Amanda Flowers from the UK. (While “Flowers” isn’t an uncommon surname, it [...]
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Dennis Meyers Posts 400 Towers’ First 300 Wii Bowling Game.
Wii bowling was introduced to the residents of 400 Towers a month ago. It only took a month and one day for Dennis Meyers to post the first 300 game at 12:10am today 4/16). Dennis, an avid bowler (and pool player) was reluctant to start Wii bowling while he was still competing in league bowling two nights a week. After watching for a few nights, he decided he would try it. He was hooked …
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News: SEGA brings more lightgun games to Wii
Gunblade NY and LA Machineguns. SEGA is bringing two more arcade classics to the Wii, by the looks of things. The Entertainment and Software Ratings Board website is listing a “Gunblade NY & LA Machineguns Arcade Hits Pack”. It’s been given a “Teen” rating and is down for the Wii. “This is an arcade-style first-person shooter in which players engage in missions to protect sections of New York …
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Woman Develops PGAD After Wii Fit Injury
A United Kingdom woman has been diagnosed with persistent genital arousal disorder after falling off her Wii Fit board and damaging a nerve, the Toronto Sun reported.
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