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Willis helps Sliders climb in Prospect League standings
Trevor Willis came to the Springfield Sliders with plenty of good feelings. A junior outfielder at the University of Iowa, Willis had helped the Hawkeyes finish 30-28 overall, including 13-11 in the Big Ten Conference, good enough for second place. It was a heck of a lot higher than what Iowa was picked to finish.

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2K Sports Unveils Michael Jordan Cover of ‘NBA 2K11′
Since 2K Sports announced in early June that the legendary Michael Jordan would grace the cover of their upcoming NBA 2K11 basketball title, fans have been curious as to how the cover would look. The MJ cover could feature a number of classic images of the NBA great. Maybe an image of his trademark Air Jordan silhouette dunk, one of the defining moments of his career? What could it be?

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Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 video game review
Lego Harry Potter is a game made for kids of all ages and the best Lego game yet, says Tom Hoggins.

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Reminder: Club Nintendo Deadline Approaching
The cut-off for Elite Status is coming up.

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Japanese hardware sales, June 14 – June 20: Rise of the Touchables edition
As you text-skippers have already noticed, there’s been a pretty significant shake-up in this week’s Japanese hardware sales chart, with all three incarnations of the Nintendo DS getting substantial sales boosts. There’s been a lot of speculation as to how these increases came about — most seem to think it has something to do with Japan’s recent discounting of all three handhelds, as well as …

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games Launch LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4
BURBANK, Calif.—-Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games are building the magic in retail stores today with LEGO® Harry Potter™: Years 1-4, available now in North America for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system, Wii™, Nintendo DS™, PSP® system and Windows PC.

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PSA: Club Nintendo year ends June 30
If you’ve been lax in your Club Nintendo registration recently, we suggest you go register those DSi XLs , black Wiis , copies of WarioWare DIY , and your other first-party stuff. The Club Nintendo “year” — during which your earned Coins will count up toward Platinum or Gold status — elapses June 30. Continue reading PSA: Club Nintendo year ends June 30 PSA: Club Nintendo year ends June 30 …

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Nintendo to treat boy’s lazy eye
A SIX-YEAR-OLD British boy was given an unusual prescription to treat a lazy eye – play video games.

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Shippin’ Out June 27-July 3: Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Singularity, APB
Busy week at retail includes blocky sorcery, sci-fi FPS, City Interactive’s Sniper: Ghost Warrior, not-quite-MMOG APB, bloodthirsty Naughty Bear, Sin and Punishment sequel, and more.

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Married with Sims
We take an intimate look at the upcoming console-exclusive version of The Sims 3, which is headed for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and DS with Tim LeTourneau, general manager of The Sims Studio.

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Review: Lips Party Classics: I love the 80s
Following hot on the heels of the last Xbox instalment, Lips Party Classics, I Love the 80s adds more pure guilty pop pleasure to the game’s collection of well-known party tunes.

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Montgomery man gets 9 years for Naperville home invasion
The last of four defendants charged in connection with the November 2008 home invasion and the armed robbery of a couple in their Naperville apartment pleaded guilty today to taking part in the crime and was sentenced to nine years in prison. Ryan Springs, 21, of the 2200 block of Brentwood in Montgomery, pleaded guilty to the Nov. 10, 2008 home invasion of an apartment at 796 Inland Circle …

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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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I am trying to buy a birthday gift for 10 years old boy and wasn’t sure what to get. I know he likes playing nintendo DS so thought of getting him a new game. Any suggestions?

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.

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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The White Stripes Add Three More Tracks to Rock Band
Rock Band 2 (Wii) Plus the Futureheads, the James Gang and more for Rock Band DLC.

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10 years of Nintendo’s BEST and WORST
It started with N64 and Game Boy, it ended with Wii and DS, and there was a whole lotta Cube in the middle. Come with us as we take a stroll down Memory Card Lane…

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I don’t have a DS; were I to get one I’d get an XL, more than likely. If I already had one, though, I probably wouldn’t bother.

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Nintendo handheld DSi XL coming to U.S. March 28
Nintendo will bring its latest dual-screen handheld video game system to the United States at the end of March, the company said on Wednesday.

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Jumblatt to ‘heal big wound’ 33 years after father’s death
BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt announced he will deliver a speech on March 16 that “would heal a big wound.” The speech will mark 33 years since the assassination of Jumblatt’s father, PSP founder and renowned politician Kamal Jumblatt. “These will be the final words. I will not utter a word afterward,” he told Al-Akhbar newspaper in an interview published on Tuesday.

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LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4