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jOG forces Wii gamers to move around even more

By Shawn Farner on Wednesday, Jan 7th 2009 1 Comment

If you think snapping your wrist to serve in Wii Tennis is laborious, you’re certainly not going to like this newly announced product. The jOG for Wii (as well as PS2) only allows gamers to use their joysticks if they’re physically jogging.

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Gamestop rumored to stop accepting Xbox games Feb. 9

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Jan 5th 2009 No Comments

For a long time now, Gamestop has accepted all sorts of games for trading. So, not only could you purchase brand new games, but you could also bring in your old games you no longer played and trade them in for another used or new title. But if you’re looking to unload your original Xbox games, you had better think again.

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Mad Catz releases two new products designed for Rock Band

By Staff Editor on Friday, Jan 2nd 2009 No Comments

Mad Catz has been a little behind with the third party accessories for Rock Band. Fear not because they have released not one but two separate products, one being the M.I.C and the other a portable drum kit. Both are made to be somewhat simple and portable.

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Fitting an Xbox 360 into a PS3 case just may make your eyes bleed

By Staff Editor on Tuesday, Dec 30th 2008 12 Comments

Well it finally happened, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was fit into a Playstation 3 case. This May be able to fool your friends into thinking you had enough money for you, but look at it twice and you will see that there is something very strange about it. For one there is a big hole in the front.

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Star Wars Battlefront III renders leaked by former Free Radical developer

By Staff Editor on Monday, Dec 29th 2008 No Comments

One of the many employees of Time Splitters developer, Free Radical, That were laid off recently as the company underwent administration has posted a few images from his modeling work on Star Wars Battlefront III on his very own personal blog.

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Heath didn’t want a Wii for Christmas, so he beat his girlfriend up

By Staff Editor on Monday, Dec 29th 2008 1 Comment

We talk about video game violence as a very controversial subject, but what about violence from getting a video game system? Apparently 26-year-old Heath Blom did not want the Wii that his grandparents bought him for Christmas so we went nuts on family members.

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Sony PS3 sales dwindling this holiday season

By Staff Editor on Monday, Dec 29th 2008 1 Comment

Just as the Playstation 3 starts catching up to its competitors the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, it sees a sudden slowdown around the holidays. The early results of this holiday season were not in Sony’s favor as they fell 19 percent from last year.

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Dissidia debuts at number one in Japan by selling 489,126 copies

By Staff Editor on Monday, Dec 29th 2008 No Comments

As to be expected Dssidia was number one on last week’s Media Create Japanese sales charts by selling 489,126 copies. This however was not the best debut week ever for a Japanese PSP release title, that honor goes to Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G with the absurdly high number of 820,000 sold in the first week.

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Wii knockoff spotted in a store display

By Staff Editor on Monday, Dec 29th 2008 No Comments

We recently saw a knockoff version of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 as well as a knockoff of the PS3, but where do you ask is the Wii version? Well we’ve found it over yonder on Flickr via Engadget. This console goes by the name “MiWi2,” does this mean there was a first one?

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Star Wars Galaxies Emulation Project to launch playable test server early next year

By Staff Editor on Friday, Dec 26th 2008 1 Comment

The SWGEmu team has just announced that they will be going through with plans to launch a fully playable beta test server for the new Star Wars Galaxies Emulation Project. This beta test will take place sometime in the first quarter of 2009. The announcement was made on the team’s message board just yesterday.