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First Look: ZHP
Zettai Hero Project (or ZHP as the developer wants it known in the U.S.) comes our way from the same team that worked on Nippon Ichi Software’s Disgaea series. Instead of alchemists and sword-and-sorcery fantasy, though, this time we get superheroes.

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Ready at Dawn confirms 13 laid off
Ready at Dawn , the Southern Californian developer behind the upcoming God of War: Ghost of Sparta for PSP, has laid off 13 of its employees, a statement on its website confirms. While a source told Joystiq that as many as 50 were let go including contractors, company president Didier Malenfant told us, “The number on the site is accurate, that’s why we put it up to make sure stupid rumors don’t …

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WRUP: Giving air to some other games edition
Between the May and June NPD s — along with the UK weekly sales — it’s quite clear that Take-Two CEO Ben Feder wasn’t exaggerating when he said Red Dead Redemption ” sucked the oxygen out of the room ” at retail since its release. Alan Wake , along with several high-profile racing games , were just a few of the obvious victims. If you’ve got names of other games that were casualties of RDR ’s …

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Toy Story 3: making of the video game
How do you create a video game that retains the unique character of a beloved franchise while pushing the boundaries of gameplay?

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PlayStation 4 Development Helped by Game Makers
Sony is only four years into its ten-year PlayStation 3 lifespan, but it’s already doing some preliminary planning for the next console in the line. Develop reports that Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida talked frankly about the company’s new direction and future plans in a recent interview. “When Ken Kutaragi moved on and Kaz Hirai became the new president of SCE, the first thing Kaz …

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Want some 3G to go along with that DS or PSP?
Popular gaming handhelds like Nintendo’s DS and the Sony PlayStation Portable already boast Wi-Fi antennas for online shopping, Web browsing and multiplayer matches, but now a Japanese wireless giant is floating the idea of a handheld console with 3G support when Wi-Fi isn’t an option.

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New Michael Jackson Game Gets Title, New Details
The first dedicated Michael Jackson game in more than twenty years now has a name, which was revealed along with some new details. Titled Michael Jackson: The Experience , the new game is being developed for the Nintendo DS, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3. And as previously reported, it will be making use of the Wii MotionPlus, Kinect and Move. According to Eurogamer , Wii version will be much like …

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Fitness freaks work out with video games
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA: Ever since Nintendo launched the Wii, gamers have been interacting with characters and working out with virtual trainers in titles like Electronic Arts’ “EA Sports Active” or Ubisoft’s “Your Shape.”

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Cheap Date Tips – Play Some Games
You Got Board Games Or A Wii? A fun-filled cheap date of videogames, board games and cards can be a big hit. Nintendo Wii provides an opportunity for an exciting and maybe even competitive date.

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Analysis: Examining Declining U.S. Console Revenues – What’s The Cause?
[Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews examines May's hardware NPD figures -- why have console sales slumped 20% year on year to $241.5 million for the month, and which platform bears the brunt of the responsibility?] When the NPD Group released its May 2010 estimates for U.S. video game console retail sales, the headlines sounded grim. Not only were industry revenues down overall, but software sales …

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NEWS: DSi LL Sales Increase in Japan
The release of Love Plus + helped the portable lead the pack in Japan last week. The Wii and Nintendo DS Lite saw slight sales increases of 100 units each in Japan this week, while the Nintendo DSi fell to 17,036 units. The big winner this week for Nintendo was the DSi LL, which increased 10,000 units to slightly over 41,000 sold. This increase is most likely due to a combination of the release …

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Want some 3G to go along with that DS or PSP? (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson – Popular gaming handhelds like Nintendo’s DS and the Sony PlayStation Portable already boast Wi-Fi antennas for online shopping, Web browsing and multiplayer matches, but now a Japanese wireless giant is floating the idea of a handheld console with 3G support when Wi-Fi isn’t an option.

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It plays some newer ones, and some older ones, but their are still some of each that it doesn’t play. The playstation screen will sometimes come up after a few minutes, but it rarely goes on to the next screen. From what I can see inside my consul, it’s pretty dusty. Is that why?

‘Swords’ is a Wii game about swords
Filed under: Mac click to see the sabery screens If using the Wii Remote and MotionPlus to control a sword sounds like the sword of thing you’d be into, you should consider Majesco’s new game Swords — because that’s basically the whole game. Swords , developed by Panic Button, is a time-traveling arena combat game in which you fight sword practitioners from different cultures and time periods …

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No Call of Duty: Black Ops For Wii?
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Wii) Retailer listing suggests new Treyarch game is not coming to Nintendo’s console.

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Get ready for some more ‘Monster Hunter’ action on Wii
If you shrug off Nintendo Wii games as being too easy, you might want to try your hand at Capcom’s Monster Hunter Tri, the latest in the 10 million-unit-selling Japanese video game series. While the premise sounds fairly straightforward slaying creatures to protect your people the execution is far from a cakewalk.

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“Alice” is now a trippy video game
Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” is in theaters and Disney Interactive is offering two games tied to director Tim Burton’s quirky film, one for the Nintendo Wii and Windows PCs, and the other for the Nintendo DS. While they are both titled “Disney Alice in Wonderland,” they are completely different games. This is a review of the Wii and PC version as played on the Wii.

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Sam & Max Season 2: Beyond Time and Space Wii review
Publisher: Telltale Games Developer: Telltale Games Genre: Adventure Release date: Available now Adventure gamers who thought their treasures were lost to the ether of time owe Telltale Games a heaping helping of praise. During the last six years or so, the developer has resurrected many beloved properties that vexed our membranes way back in the mid-1990s, with rock [...]

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Catching some air
The city of Glendale’s skate park is celebrating its sixth anniversary of Equinox on Saturday. Special events throughout the day include Game of the Skate from 2 to 4 p.m. and the Best Trick Contest from 4 to 5 p.m. Games are free for those 18 and younger.

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Xbox 360 Arcade currently $130 in Canada
If you’ve been holding out on buying an Xbox 360 for the last five years you live in Canada, you’ll be totally psyched to hear that the Arcade bundle of Microsoft’s console is currently on sale in for $130.

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Microsoft’s Game Room for Xbox ‘rewinds’ the hits in our hands-on demo
Microsoft showed off its new retro-tastic Game Room UI for Xbox 360 in playable form at GDC last week. While the “make a virtual representation of a gaming space” idea might seem ripped straight from Sony’s Home , there aren’t really any actual similarities — outside of the fact they’re both in 3D, at least. You dive disembodied through the different game rooms pretty intuitively, with …

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Show some respect: The Xbox 360 coffin
Plenty of gamers have been there when an Xbox 360 has loudly whirred a disc the final time, and I imagine most of us end up binning the bricked box (so long as it’s out of warranty, obviously). But Aussie designer Alexis Vanamois wants us to show a little respect, damnit, so has designed an Xbox [...]

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The first Xbox was released in 2001 and ever since everyone has been on an Xbox gaming binge. So everyone that has an Xbox wants an Xbox 360 and everyone that has a PS2 wants a PS3. Well soon enough did the Xbox 360 come out and the right after the 360 came out the PS3 came out. It is always going to be that way because play station is ahead of Microsoft by a few years but that is only because Microsoft builds and sells software for computers. They are ahead by a lot if you ask me.

The Xbox is a computer itself even though many people do not know that. You can take your Xbox apart and work on it yourself if you know what you are doing. Like me and my friend took apart his Xbox and put a mod chip in it and then he could do all kinds of things with his Xbox. That is why the Xbox 360 already comes like a modded Xbox because that is the way everyone wanted their systems to be. They want them to where you can download a mass amount of songs and info. Even though you cannot play Xbox live on a regular Xbox that has been modded you can still whoop up on your friends that come over and play.

Even though at first people were not impressed by Microsoft’s games and its systems. Soon after they had heard what was going on they produced some of the most killer games ever released on a gaming system. Some of those games would be Transworld surf, tony hawk, need for speed underground 2, all of the Rainbow 6 games, all of the Call of Duty games as well as all of the Ghost Recons. All of those games were like games of year for a few years. Like the first Halo that came out for only Xbox was game of the year. So you can not tell me that Xbox isn’t a good system.

In 2002 Microsoft made a thing for Xbox called Xbox live. That is a server or servers in which you can get online and play Xbox online with a bunch of people and you could say whatever you wanted to say because you were online and nobody knew who you were. Today everyone is playing on Xbox live for 360 like for Halo 3 and for gears of war and games like that. You will never see someone playing Xbox 360 online playing golf. People want to shoot and kill they want to have fun while playing video games.

Even though the Xbox was cool the Xbox 360 would soon own and everyone would soon hate the PS3. I think the PS3 is the worst system that play station has ever come out with. Who makes a system that cannot play regular DVDs? I mean come on at least make it play both regular DVDs and blue ray disk. That is not cool at all when I first heard that the play station couldn’t play regular DVDs I went nuts.

Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard is perfect for your HTPC, not your Wii (video)
For HTPC owners looking for the perfect couch-borne computer keyboard, this Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard looks like Natuzzi nirvana, packing QWERTY (with function keys) and a touchpad all in a package that should fall to the hand more comfortably than that Scientific Atlanta remote your cable company has saddled you with. There’s even a laser pointer, making it a snap to indicate strange shapes …

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Marcellus Free Library celebrates Olympics
Vancouver is not the only city celebrating the 2010 Olympics, in Marcellus the Library is hosting the 2010 Wii Winter Olympics. The athletes, with the help of Mario and Sonic,

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Hudson Entertainment Gets Ready to Cook Up Some Fun with Diner Dash on WiiWare
Diner Dash (Wii) Fan-favorite casual game coming to WiiWare March 29.

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