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Microsoft Kinect official UK launch date announced

The European launch date of the much awaited addition to the Xbox 360’s arsenal has finally been announced. Mark November 10, 2010 on your calendars as this is the day that Nintendo Wii’s game sensors will meet its match on European shores.
With the staggering lead in the race of Nintendo Wii against its competitors, Microsoft [...]

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The Force Will Be with You in New iPad and iPhone App

Fans of Star Wars will surely be jumping in giddy fervor as the Star Wars: Battle for Hoth makes a grand entrance to the iPhone and the iPad.
The iPhone and iPad app is a tower defense game that will put your strategy and reflexes to the test.
Your goal in Star Wars: Battle for Hoth [...]

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Pop cap pulls out Michael Jackson resembling Dancing Zombie

“Any resemblance between Dancing Zombie and persons living or dead is purely coincidental” — that’s not what the estate of Michael Jackson thinks and the King of Pop’s dearly departed demands PopCap to remove the back-up dancer summoning zombie out of Plants vs. Zom ies.
The undead version caricature of the King of Pop was in [...]

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There’s a zombie on your Xbox Live Arcade

“There’s a zombie on your lawn; you don’t want zombies on your lawn,” sang the sunflower on the credits of the hit Pop Cap game, Plants vs. Zombies. The sunflower has got it all wrong as zombies visiting the lawn, or pool, or even the roof has been one of the biggest hits to casual [...]

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Michael Jackson Video Games, Anyone?

Whether you be an MJ fan or not, admit it. You HAVE tried to do a Moon Walk or sing Ben in falsetto or groove along with Thriller or at least stomp along the beat of They Don’t Care About Us… I am positive that almost everyone who knew the King of Pop has at [...]

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Nintendo Rides the 3D Wagon

That’s right!
Behold, the Nintendo 3DS—and get this: It does not require any special glasses!
The latest handheld gaming console from Nintendo is scheduled to be out in the markets by April next year but some journalists were recently given the chance to have some ‘hands on’ time with the nifty little gadget.
At first look, the 3DS [...]

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Beckenbauer: Technology Could Have Saved England in World Cup 2010

Franz Beckenbauer is a lot of things: ‘Der Kaiser’, as in ‘The Emperor’ of German football, the only man who ever won a World Cup both as a player and as a team manager and a football coach. A fan of England is one thing he surely is not. But the Hall of Famer did [...]

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June 28 — 38 years of Atari

Exactly 38 years ago, the company that launched the game that is touted to be the biggest game of all time was officially launched. Atari, the humble arcade juggernaut, made its entrance into the business revolutionized gaming.
Pong — the gaming giant that spelled millions of quarters and hookies and failed report cards and crying mothers, [...]

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Goals increase traffic, Twitter unable to handle

The World Cup may be the biggest sporting event after the Olympics. And Twitter’s traffic is proof that the world has football fever in the World Cup 2010.
Twitter can’t handle this much traffic. World Cup 2010 has been making fans tweeting every single goal that is made. Causing 2,940 tweets per second when a player [...]

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PC Gamers: Fighter Jet Pilots Trapped in 60 Yr. Old Chain Smoker’s Body

In an attempt to determine whether PC gaming may be considered as a sport, Dr Dominic Micklewright, from the University of Essex conducted a series of physical and psychological tests on professional PC gamers to compare their performance to professional athletes.
Professional computer gamers sometimes earn tens of thousands of pounds yearly, from prizes and sponsorship. [...]

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