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UFC 2009 Video Game Trailer

I’m pretty dorked up for this game. As a longtime UFC fan and video game nerd, this looks remarkably promising. It’s going to all come down to controls, though.. there’s so many fighting styles and reversals, that the system would almost NEED to be complex. I’m excited to see how this turns out.

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Tecmo Bowl is Back! HutHutHike!

I’ve never been one to hide my nerdliness or my affinity for football. When the two meet, I tend to lose it, and today I find out about the rebirth of Tecmo Bowl… simply the greatest football series of all time. Madden’s got nothing on the simple charm of “HutHutHutHutHutHutHutHutHutHutHutHutHutHutHutHike!” Real men need no more than 8 plays and if they’re feeling really manly… Four. No football game has ever, for me, replicated the simple fun of going 99 yards with Bo Jackson, or blocking every kick with Lawrence Taylor. So color me geeked to find out that they’re relaunching the franchise on the DS.

Here’s to hoping for a return to the simplicity that was its hallmark.

From the press release:

TECMO BOWL: KICKOFF brings a host of new features that will further enhance the gameplay experience, including:
• Customizable Teams: Choose team colors, emblems, player names, team cities and abilities.
• Super Abilities: Tactically use over-the-top plays to take over a game.
• Wi-Fi and Wireless Multiplayer: Play against friends across the country or across the room.
• Stylus Control: Feel the action by using the stylus to control your player.
• Variety of Teams: Choose from 32 different teams.
• Cut-Scenes: All-new cut-scenes showing off the dramatic presentation of various plays.
• Customizable Playbook: Prepare for gridiron greatness by customizing your playbook.
• Music and Sound Effects: Turn up the heat on your opponent as you play the game to rock ‘n’ roll remixes of the most memorable tunes in football gaming history!

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Free, browser-based Guitar Hero III. KA-chow!

Behold. Rock and thank me later.

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Hacking video games to cheat is a business strategy

Fantasy games like “World of Warcraft” and computer environs like “Second Life,” to name a few, have their own currency or other virtual valuables that can be traded for hard U.S. dollars.

In other words, hacking into a video game to cheat can be a business strategy. And so clamping down on it could be key to maintaining virtual worlds’ economies and reputations. Even chip-maker Intel Corp. is suggesting a technology for doing it.

But one huge question is: Can cheating really be stifled?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_hi_te/video_game_cheating

I’ve never played the games cited in this article, but I have played football online. Cheating has turned me away from playing games online or with anyone I don’t know.

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Sony slashes PS3 price tag by $100 – CNN.com

Sony slashes PS3 price tag by $100 – CNN.com

Sony drops price of current 60GB PlayStation 3 console by $100 in U.S.
PS3 still costs twice that of Nintendo’s best-selling Wii console, which is $250.
Some expect Microsoft to respond with its first price cuts on the Xbox 360.
Sony to revise PS3 console with bigger 80GB hard drive.

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