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Video game maker THQ hopes to draw in artists with tablet for Wii
Video game publisher THQ hopes to draw in artistically inclined fans when its uDraw GameTablet is available for the Wii this year.

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Universities turn to Wii Fit as way of examining concussions
Across the spectrum of athletics from youth soccer to the National Football League , concussions are one of the most worrisome of injuries: hard to diagnose and even harder to know when an athlete has recovered. Now, in an unusual combination of real sports and their digital imitators, a handful of… History – National Football League – Sport – Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Lou Gehrig

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THQ uDraw GameTablet to Bring Drawing to the Wii
Game publisher THQ has decided to get into the NIntendo Wii accessory business, announcing it plans to launch the uDraw GameTablet for the Wii in time for the end-of-year holiday season. The uDraw tablet docks with the standard Nintendo Wii remote, and offers a 4×6-inch drawing surface with a pressure-sensitive stylus that players can use to draw on screen and manipulate objects. The tablet …

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Games to Play in Line at Comic-Con
A useful way to spend your time while you wait for your favorite panel. Not only good for Cons, but also family game night, commercial breaks and shared plane rides. Scrabble, like Risk, made better by an A.I. that can manage the small pieces and complex math.

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Toy Story 3: The Video Game
PlayStation 3/Nintendo DS/Xbox/Nintendo Wii/PC/Sony PSP; £39.99-£49.99; cert 7+; Disney Interactive Load up Toy Story 3 and within moments you’re barrelling on horseback through a hazardous canyon, dodging bright red projectiles fired by a pig in a pink spaceship. It’s big and colourful fun that’s hard to dislike. Sadly, it’s not long before the cartoony action is undermined by frustrating level …

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SEGA Reveals Launch Plans to Bring Marvel’s Mighty Thor Franchise to Gaming Systems for Original Epic Adventure
SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON—-“By Odin’s beard!” SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc. today announced they will bring Marvel’s hall-of-fame franchise Thor™ to video game systems for an epic third-person adventure: Thor: The Video Game, scheduled for release on all five major video game platforms in 2011 including the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the …

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Kinect Officially Priced At $150 and includes Kinect Adventures Game
After much speculation that Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller would be priced at $150, Microsoft has finally given the official word that it is in fact true and throws in a free copy of the Kinect Adventures game ($49.99 Value)….

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EA Sending NFL Fans To Training Camp, More Details On Alice, Fight Night
As the game industry passes the halfway point of 2010, Electronic Arts unveiled new details on a number of key games for 2011 at a media briefing at its Redwood Shores headquarters. Following the unveiling of Maxis-developed sci-fi action RPG Darkspore, the company revealed the Wii game EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp. The game uses the Wii’s motion-sensing capabilities and a pack-in heart …

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Sony partners with IndieCade creators to bring indie games Home
PlayStation Home Director Jack Buser announced a new partnership with IndieCade creators — now called Codename — today that expands the indie games scene on Sony’s virtual world/game platform. Among the first indie devs on the service are The Odd Gentlemen, The Peanut Gallery, and Lazy 8.

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PODCAST: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 192
Half American, half English, all drivel.

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News: WarioWare heads Nintendo downloads
Plus: Surviving High School! Save the Turtles! Nintendo has announced this week’s line-up of Wii and DSi digital downloads due Friday. Top of the list is WarioWare D.I.Y. Showcase, a WiiWare accompaniment to the DS make-your-own-microgame game which also hits Europe Friday. The WiiWare Showcase will allow players to download show off various DSi microgame creations on the big screen. This costs …

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D3Publisher to Bring Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me to Wii, Nintendo DS …
LOS ANGELES—-D3Publisher, a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, today announced that it will bring Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s inaugural 3-D CGI feature film, Despicable Me, to Wii™, Nintendo DS™, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, and PSP® system.

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Konami Announces Gormiti: The Lords of Nature
Gormiti: The Lords of Nature! (Wii) Popular European toy and TV franchise is Konami’s latest adaptation coming to Nintendo Wii and DS in 2010.

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How to Rent Movies in a Video Service War
You may have noticed lots of deal-making recently between movie studios and their post-box-office money makers, Blockbuster and Netflix. Just this morning Netflix announced its movies would be streamed to members Wii consoles, for example. Shares of both companies have fluttered with each new deal, and Blockbuster even filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a few weeks ago as their stock …

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Nintendo Downloads Bring Zaxxon, Military Madness
Monday is again upon us, and that means more Nintendo downloadable releases. This week provides a light but significant Wii crop, alongside several DSi releases. For WiiWare, we have Military Madness: Nectaris (above) from Hudson for 1,000 points ($10). The turn-based strategy series makes its return with shiny new visuals, a Commander unit, online multiplayer co-op modes, and leaderboards. If …

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Need To Backup Games? Game Copy Wizard Will Copy Any Console Game, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Dreamcast & More
If you are looking for software to copy your video games or any other console games look no further. Game Copy Wizard is a better and easier way for you to completely backup any Video Games.

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Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce (Xbox 360)
It’s not often that a game makes the jump from a portable system to the home consoles.

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Novell to unveil technology to bring Xbox 360 games to the iPhone
According to PCWorld, sometime today Novell is slated to demonstrate some impressive new technology that will allow developers to port their Xbox 360 games into iPhone apps, as well as Android games. It’s worth noting here that no one’s talking about taking Halo 3, running it through some software and having a working iPhone port. What [...]

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I recently purchased a Playstation 3 system on Amazon it had alots different user names and the memory was just about full so while browsing through some of the previous users data i came across a playstation 1 game that was purchase by the previous owner i’ve did a system restore and now the game is not there anymore is there anyway i can get that game back