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November 16, 2010
The Latest Rumors about Kinect!
On Monday, Microsoft combated rumors of a dwindling Kinect supply for the holiday season. Gossip was swirling about a potential retail drought, but Gamestop's SVP of Merchandising and Marketing Bob McKenzie announced that this has not been a problem.
McKenzie told IGN that the Kinect has exceeded their initial sales expectations but that Microsoft was sending out good and timely replenishing shipments to the stores.
According to McKenzie, this weekend brought in massive sales for the Kinect. However, he said very few stores are out of stock regardless and that Microsoft is doing quite well keeping up with supply and demand.
Unfortunately, no
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November 16, 2010
Games & News: Silent Hill movie sequel to come soon
Silent Hill, is coming back to movie theaters, this time it's based on Silent Hill 3 and in 3D. Fangoria reports that the next Silent Hill movie, Silent Hill Revelation, will tell the tale of the third game's main character Heather Mason and the search for her father.
The official synopsis reads is that Heather Mason and her father have been on the run and one step ahead of forces she can't understand. On the eve of her 18th birthday, she is plagued by her nightmares and her disappearing father. In addition, she discovers she's not who she is."Â
This movie will be somewhat based
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November 13, 2010
Games - Play Poker online via XBOX LIVE
Poker use to be a game, a few friends would play together on a late Wednesday night. Over time, poker has been accepted as a very competitive sport. We can watch players from around the world play Texas Hold em' on channels like ESPN. Players can start to play as soon as they learn how to sign up on Full Tilt of Poker Stars online.
There have been rumors of Microsoft creating a Full House Poker Beta trial. This will allow gamers to play poker online with millions of users. Microsoft has been quite about the beta version, and only a selected few are going to be allowed to play. With Poker becoming available for Xbox Live players, this could lead to something even bigger. As far as I know, players will only be gambling with fake money. Gambling with fake money puts the game in the same category as many poker games, BORING!
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November 12, 2010
Games - Japan's COD: Black Ops to be censored.
Black Ops in Japan will be different. The game was retouched to tone down torture and graphic violence but also some additional details. Square Enix (yes, that company that invented characters like FFX-2's Thief Rikku, another excuse for this blogger to go to anime conventions), who publishes COD games in Japan, has removed the swastikas from the flags in the game's "zombie mode"Â and were instead replaced by the iron cross in all console versions except their subtitled versions.
The reason for the change was because of the difference in culture. A counterclockwise version of the swastika in Japan is known as a manj,
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November 12, 2010
Game News - FPS Training Program for Parents!
If you're reading this, you're probably an Evil Controller fan which means you definitely don't need to learn how to play first-person shooters, but you probably know people that do. People that need a grip of help. Well, whether it's your girlfriend or boyfriend, your parents, or maybe even your older/younger brother, FPS Trainer's purpose is to do just that.
FPS Trainer
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November 09, 2010
Gamer News view - Patience
It's expensive to be a gamer, new games come out all the time and it's difficult to stay on top of releases. Quality titles are becoming more spread out as the investors behind them get afraid of launch windows that carry larger more well known titles. Gears of War 3 was pushed back to Fall 2011 and I guarantee that games projected to come out around that time are being rushed to come out before then, or are being given more development time to come out later. Economic times are tough right now and every publisher wants our money.
But really, if we were smart, we'd wait a year before purchasing any game, because in the long run, that would save us money. Anyone that uses Amazon has probably noticed how quickly games that aren't triple-A titles drop in price, but even those come down eventually. BioShock 2 came out a little over 8 months ago and is now only $27.99 brand new. That's a much better price then the original $59.99 we'd pay on day 1. We
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November 03, 2010
Games - DR2 producer shares his views on zombies
Keiji Inafune, producer of Dead Rising series, has been in the past influenced by George Romero's Dawn of the Dead movies, but it wasn't just that movie series that inspired the creation of Dead Rising.
In a recent interview with Dengeki Online (a Japanese online magazine) that Resident Evil 4's zombies (despite they weren't really zombies...more like 75% zombies with free will) made him make Dead Rising because those "zombies"Â run. He stated that zombies shouldn't run...and why are they running since they're zombies.
"If I made my own [zombies]....there would be zombies like this."Â
~Keiji Inafune, Dead Rising
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November 02, 2010
Gaming News - ESPN To be more interactive with its audience
Let's take video games and combine them with sports, what do you get, ESPN on Xbox LIVE! The gaming world is going to become a lot better with this release. ESPN has decided to partner up with Xbox LIVE and make the world of sports more interactive. I think this is a great step for our generation. A lot of people enjoy watching sports, but never been able to interact. ESPN and Microsoft plan to change that very soon. People will have the ability to watch 3,500 live and on demand events. They can vote on who they think will win the game. With the Kinects coming soon, gamers will not need a remote to change the channel.
I think this is a very exciting a unique combination, but it will definitely need working on after this initial launch. The problems with interactive products are the bugs that constantly occur. Over time that should become less of a problem. There are the possibilities of gaming going 3D. They are
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November 02, 2010
Coming in November there will be the 2011 Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition going for around $30,625 to $33,500. The thing people are asking about its existance. Mike Manley, President and CEO of Chrysler-Jeep Brand, said that their partnership with Activision marries two things together "€œ Jeep Wranglers and popular entertainment experiences, which will open to a new group of consumers.
It also to point out that the Jeep will make an appearance in Black Ops. The 2011 Wrangler and its Unlimited Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition is primarily based on the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, it'll come only in black, feature Black Ops
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October 30, 2010
Games News - Black Ops to pass up Modern Warfare 2?
EA marketed Medal of Honor in a way that suggested it could be the next Modern Warfare, although it was a decent attempt, it just didn't match up. Will Call of Duty: Black Ops fall flat on it's face in the same way? At this point it's a little difficult to tell. The Call of Duty games developed by Treyarch have never been given the same critical acclaim as those made by Infinity Ward, but with Infinity Ward's lead programmers, designers, and Engineers starting there own venture with Respawn Entertainment, I'm guessing Activision's paying special attention to this title.
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