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Dec 29, 2006 01:39 AM
GIV...A profile of Child's Play , Penny Arcade's Charity D$1... Japanese sales charts : DS still tops POD...Playstation Magazine's audio podcast debuts HUH...Is Best Buy hoarding PS3s for a promotional blitz? RND...Rosie O'Donnell calls Donald Trump a...
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Dec 28, 2006 09:59 PM
GIV...Adam Sandler donates a PS3 to charitable teen FLX...UK Chiropractors' Wii Warm Up Exercises JIN... Tekken 5 launches as PS3 downloadable; fanboys rejoice SAW...A Newb's Guide to Gears of War BL8...Wired News' Vaporware 2006 List BLU...PS3 as Blu-Ray...
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N'Gai Croal
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Dec 26, 2006 07:17 PM
MOM...Nintendo Enlists Mothers to Help Sell Wii NO1... Metacritic's Best and Worst Rated Games of 2006 HUT... Madden NFL 07 is the Year's Top Seller GRR...Analyst Predicts Further Shortages for PS3, Wii POL... Gerard Jones on Sex, Violence and Videogames...
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Dec 26, 2006 06:06 PM
Most people wouldn't associate VH1 with videogames, but Harold Goldberg's Game Break blog marries an informed take on interactive entertainment with a grouchy wit that wouldn't be out of place on VH1's own " Best Week Ever ." Goldberg's recently inaugurated...
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Dec 22, 2006 11:37 AM
As the news coverage of videogames continues to expand from magazines and Web sites to TV shows and podcasts , it was only a matter of time before the segment got its own version of "Capitol Gang" or "Crossfire." Last month, the popular gaming site GameTrailers...
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Dec 21, 2006 11:20 AM
One of the most outspoken and prolific observers of the videogame industry is Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter. Unlike many analysts, he's willing to make brash statements and bold predictions, which has earned him fans , detractors and haters ....
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N'Gai Croal
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Dec 19, 2006 03:33 PM
In the downslope of Orson Welles' career, the actor-writer-director was less known for his seminal films than for his role as a TV pitchman for Paul Masson Vineyards, wherein he would sonorously intone "We will sell no wine before its time." Substitute...
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Dec 15, 2006 01:58 PM
It's rare that a game developer creates exemplary original titles on multiple systems. Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi managed to do so three times in a five year span-- Space Channel 5 (1999; Dreamcast), Rez (2001; Dreamcast and PlayStation 2) and...
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N'Gai Croal
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Dec 13, 2006 07:44 PM
We first met Andre Vrignaud, a.k.a. Ozymandias , in San Francisco during the fall of 2001. At the time, he was Intel's evangelist to PC game developers, where he impressed us as both whip-smart and highly opinionated. These days, he works for Microsoft....
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Dec 13, 2006 04:05 PM
In Part I of our interview with Alex Ward, director of design for Criterion Games, he discussed the next iteration of his hit racing series Burnout and the lengths to which he was willing to go to procure a PS3 ahead of its March 2007 launch in the U.K....
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Dec 13, 2006 03:10 PM
A month ago, we wrote a post about a photo essay on the facial expressions of gamers at play. Now comes a group of Flickr users who have put together Wii Motion, a "photopool" of images of people playing with Nintendo's Wii. We have to agree with Joystiq's...
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Dec 12, 2006 02:40 PM
Every overnight success is a long time in the making. For thirty-three year-old Alex Ward , director of design for the Electronic Arts-owned Criterion Games , his journey included a stint as a games tester, a detour into decorating, and a lucky break...
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Dec 12, 2006 11:47 AM
Why is Square Enix 's announcement of Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS such a big deal? In Japan, the Dragon Quest franchise is the equivalent of Half-Life in the United States. The sequels take a long time to be developed, but when they finally ship,...
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Dec 11, 2006 05:44 PM
Nintendo's Wii is already a hit. And like any even remotely popular new machine, it's bringing the tinkerers and hackers out of the woodwork. Here are three that we found intriguing: 1. DarwiinRemote, a program that lets you use the Wii remote as a freehand...
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N'Gai Croal
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Dec 8, 2006 02:34 PM
In Part II of our interview with Elevation Partners co-founder John Riccitiello , he acknowledged the unlikeliness of the Xbox 360 reaching 10 million consumers by the end of 2006, but praised Microsoft for the promotional power of Xbox Live Marketplace...
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Dec 8, 2006 01:38 PM
Beginning today is our occasional look at a single videogame feature that we believe that other game creators should borrow, copy or steal. Why? Because these features are so engaging that they ought to become standard. First up is Epic Games and Microsoft's...
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Dec 7, 2006 03:28 PM
Last week's executive changes at Sony Computer Entertainment reminded us of the day we learned why it's foolish for outsiders to presume to know the course of Sony Corp. While in Tokyo during the fall of 2004 for PlayStation Portable reporting, we were...
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Dec 6, 2006 12:41 PM
In Part I , Elevation Partners' managing director John Riccitiello talked about why sales of the Xbox 360 are ramping up more slowly than did those of the PlayStation 2, and why true next-generation games like his own Mass Effect will give Microsoft the...
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Dec 5, 2006 12:31 PM
John Riccitello is a talker. This is an observation, not an insult; we're frequently accused of the same thing. Ask him the right question, and the former president at such companies as Sara Lee and Electronic Arts (reporting to CEO Larry Probst, whom...
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N'Gai Croal
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Dec 5, 2006 02:23 AM
Last night, Stephen Colbert found out something we've known for a long time: Will Wright is one of the most engagingly polymathic interviewees around. Electronic Arts invited us to shadow Wright, the creator of Sim City and The Sims, for his appearance...
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Dec 1, 2006 03:34 PM
How far would you go to score a PlayStation 3? Most people would draw the line at giving up their babies to perfect strangers for a night or two. But for some listeners of KDWB 's morning radio show in Minneapolis, the chance to get their hands on the...
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Dec 1, 2006 01:11 PM
Most pro football players would love to appear on the cover of EA Sports' Madden NFL series of videogames. But there is that well-documented cover curse , in which said athletes have been injured in the season that they appear on the box. The curse has...
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