Archive for the ‘Getting Started’ Category

Dungeons & Dragons Is Back, Kicking It Old School Online

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Gaming has become nearly completely computerized. D&D has gone online, but the ‘comic book guy’ demographic isn’t necessarily buying it.

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EA Drops Bombshell: Wii Games “No More Than $49.99″

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

EA dropped the news during a conference call “…we have ramped up [game] production for the Wii and DS Lite’ following significant excitement over the Nintendo-created consoles at E3. Wii games won’t cost more than US$49.99 at launch.” If Wii games were to cost the same as HD games on the 360/PS3 then their advantage could be eliminated!

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DSMeet.com Interviews the Nintendo 64 Kid

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

“I think I used my lifetime supply of excitement all in one gift that year”

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DS Lite leading in Time’s Gadget of the Year race

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The lil’ guy appeared out of its league in Time’s Gadget of the Year race, but [at the time of this writing] DS Lite is leading the online ballot with 44% of the vote — 27 percentage points ahead of Apple’s MacBook Pro.

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Diggnation: Kevin Talking About Jerking And Shooting The Carrot Juice

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

From Diggnation 70 At Macworld: this clip shows Kevin talking about Dan coming to his house and playing Rayman. Jerking and carrot juice shotting occurs.

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Differences between Western and Japanese game Design Philosophies

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

“…why do gamers in each of these markets like the games that they do? Why are American sales charts dominated by the likes of big, burly men with guns while the Japanese flock towards fanciful RPGs?”

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Customer seeks Mario 360 game at EB Games.. an Employee recounts the Story

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

“There will never be a Mario game on the X-Box or X-Box 360,” at this point she looked at me and told me “You don’t know anything about these games, my 11 year old son told me he wanted Super Mario -Whatever- for his XBox 360.”

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Comparison: Ridge Racer 7 on PS3 vs. XBox 360

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

nice comparison with screenshots

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CES: Bill Gates applaused Nintendo as a Competitor, Ignored SONY

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

During the interview of a Japanese news TV program, Bill Gates applaused the strength of the Nintendo DS and the Wii, but no word for SONY.

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Carmack not so thrilled about Vista.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

id Software development legend John Carmack believes Microsoft is “grasping at straws” in an attempt to get gamers to upgrade to next-gen PC operating system Windows Vista.

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