PlayStation 3 Uses Heat Pipe Cooling

In an interview with Japanese site PC Impress Watch, Sony
â??s Ken Kutaragi said that because of the power of the Cell processor and the RSX graphics chip, PlayStation 3 will use a custom cooling solution, with heat pipes. Heat pipes conduct the heat much faster than conventional cooling, and are commonly used to cool high-end PCs.

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Wii launch in late Oct in Japan... 10 Days Later in US/UK

A French gaming website has dropped some info on the Wii launch, and they are claiming that this info comes from someone very close to Nintendo. The author of the article even says that they obtained the info themself, thus trying to push this story further from rumor, and more towards fact. Take this with a grain of salt

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Wii's final secret: What's under the flap?

Speaking to US mag Game Informer, Nintendo of America's recently elected president, Reggie Fils-Aime divulged exactly what the Wii's flap was for...

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Grand Theft Auto 4 Gets RAGE

Rumors have been confirmed. The next Grand Theft Auto title will make use of the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine -- the same one the developer used for Table Tennis on the 360. Does this mean we'll see extra-sweaty mobsters and ping-pong physics?

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Great Ideas That Changed Videogames Forever

An awesome list of the 20 most important gameplay ideas that changed videogames - everything from the life bar, to power-ups, to grappling hooks, to end bosses.

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The 11 Most Ground-Breaking Controllers of All Time

GamePro.com recently compiled a list of the most influential, revolutionary, and just downright ground-breaking video game controllers ever released. Did your favorite controller make the list?

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Sonic, Nintendo style!

IGN is has just uploaded some amazing looking screenshots of the Nintendo Wii game "Sonic Wild Fire". The graphics look awesome for this next-generation exclusive.

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Sin City Style Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop tutorial for how to get the Sin City art style in your images.

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XBOX Live Anywhere Screenshots!

Images of the new Xbox Live Anywhere service, which will be debuting soon, have popped up over at the Xbox.com forums. One of the features of this service is the ability to use your mobile phone to make your Xbox360 download live media and demos when you are out! Pretty cool, images at the link!

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How the Wii Controller Works

Analysis of the Nintendo Wii's motion-sensitive controller has raised some interesting questions about the nature of the device and how necessary the control strip is for game play.

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DS Lite: Time's Gadget of the Week

Time magazine sings the praises of Nintendo's new (in America) DS Lite gaming system. They are particularly impressed with its potential to appeal beyond the known gaming crowd.

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List of control schemes for Wii games

A list of the control schemes (that Nintendo has made public) for Wii games. Seems like developers are incorporating the Wiimote into the games very well.

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136,500+ DS Lites Sold In North America In Two Days

"A number of retailers across the territory report sell outs as New Super Mario Bros. and Brain Training take two of the three top spots..."

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Final word on DS Lite

The Nintendo DS Lite is officially unveiled in the US tomorrow. Is it worth your time to wait in line?

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Gnarls Barkley Performs Crazy... in Star Wars Costumes

Featuring Chewbacca on drums, Imperial officers on strings, stormtroopers on bass, Rebel pilots on backup vocals, Jango Fett and Obi Wan on keyboards and Darth Vader on lead vocals.

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Video and photos of Spiderman 3 shoot in NYC

Spiderman swings across Foley Square in New York City.

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Sony: "PC Dead, Nintendo For Kids, We Innovate"

Sony execs Richard Brunois and Phil Harrison claim the PC is dead, long live the PS3. As well, they claim that Nintendo is essentially for kids and they are the true innovators.

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Nintendo's DS Lite launch party in New York

"Wouldn't you know it, last night instead of going out and getting our social life on, Paul and I cruised over to Rockefeller Center to the Nintendo World Store for the official DS Lite launch event (it being the eve of June 11th and all)."

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Top 50 Game Ending Songs

You will no doubt find some old favourites in the list, and probably a lot of other titles youâ??ve never played or even heard of. There are MP3 files for each one of the songs.

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Star Trek vs. Star Wars

A video on YouTube that finally answers the old Internet forum question of: Who would win in a battle between the Enterprise and an Imperial Star Destroyer? Very clever editing of the original movie/show footage and dialog, combined with CGI.

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More PS3 Downgrades On The Way?

The connected PS3-party wet blanket who brought us covert info on the PlayStation 3 has dug up some dirt from a phantom insider who claims the PS3 may see even more downgraded specs.

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Will Nintendo Be Added To PhyEd Curriculum?

150 middle schools in West Virginia have started using Dance Dance Revolution in Gym Classes. They are trying to reach todayâ??s overweight, yet technologically savvy, kids. Maybe next year they will add Wii Tennis?

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Net Neutrality: Who Voted for What?

Here is a list of Representatives who voted Yes, No or Nothing at all for Net Neutrality. It is sorted by state so you can easily check what your representative voted for. If they voted against what you believe then be sure to vote them out in the next elections.

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Bungie Has Reached A Major Milestone In The Development Of Halo 3

The design, engineering, art, test, tools and audio teams, have all been working hard on a major internal milestone. Thanks to everyone who worked late and hard to reach that goal, and they should all have a beer this afternoon to celebrate. With new and old vehicles, weapons and maps being implemented in the 2 hour multiplayer testing sessions.

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Red Steel Not Just a Gimmick for Wii

GameDaily's Robert Workman takes another hands-on look at Red Steel, the launch-title first person shooter for Nintendo Wii. The article talks mostly about aiming and sword fighting with the Wii-mote and the pacing of the game.

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Rare Nintendo Prototypes Discovered

This lucky person has put up the collection for sale on eBay a piece at a time, releasing new copies of the Star Fox Championship Weekend game pak into circulation as well as prototype versions of Tetris and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past plus the second known copy of the English version of Earthbound for the NES.

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Blizzard Folds on WoW Guide Suit

You may remember the suit that Brian Kopp brought against Blizzard. He sued due to wrongful takedowns under the DMCA of his ebay auctions. The case was settled today allowing him to resell his guide on ebay. The settlement helps more than just Kopp, as it sets a precedent.

Commentary on the wow gold blog.

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Super Mario Bros Tricks in Animated GIFS

This site page has "all of the known tricks of the games based on the Super Mario Bros engine. we concentrate here on tricks that are nearly impossibly difficult to play in real play, but are useful in the making of tool-assisted speedruns. For most of the tricks, a frame advance feature in an emulator is a definite must-have."

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Nintendo DS can be used as a touch screen controller for the Wii

At the Nintendo meeting in Tokyo, Saturo Iwata said that the Nintendo DS can be used as a touch screen controller for the company's next gen console Wii.

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Nintendo Booby-Traps DS Lite Press Boxes?

Makes the time-honored tradition of opening up the box of your expensive electronics even that much more fun!

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Why You Should Be a PC Gamer in 2007

This is a comprehesive list of all promising PC games slated for 2007 release. Lots of screenshots!

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Nintendo Monopoly prototype pictures released

There's going to be a Monopoly board game based on Nintendo characters. The tokens look pretty sweet.

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Wii - 4 Million Consoles Available This Year

Yesterday president Satoru Iwata said that they plan on shipping 4 million this year, and the remaining 2 million from January to March 2007

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Google Browser Sync Unifies Your FireFox Browsing

Google Browser Sync is a FireFox extension that unifies your bookmarks, history, saved passwords, and persistent cookies across all the computers where you install it.

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The Best Google How-TO Ever

Complete guide to all the most advanced features of Google search. It demonstrates how to easily find & download mp3s and complete albums too.. heh, when will the RIAA be suing Google?

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Sony CEO Obsessed with Xbox 360, Bill Gates

When asked about the success of the Sony Pictures movie The Da Vinci Code, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer emphasized the worldwide box office sales, then said, "It also beat Xbox 3 in Europe in its second weekend..." Reporter: "You mean X-Men..." Stringer: "God I walked into that, didn't I... Look, the skill of Bill Gates is he's so brilliant"

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MPAA Decides Not Enough People Know About ISOhunt

A week ago, they were crowing about how shutting down Pirate Bay was such a huge victory for the entertainment industry. Instead, the site was back up two days later, and only suffered additional outages because so many more people started using the site...

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More Smash Bros Brawl Characters News

Sakurai announced Bowser Jr., the "Celda" version of Link, and Ridely, the archenemies of Samus, would all be joining the cast of characters for the Wii release. Three current characters that will not be returning: The Ice Climbers, Mr. Game & Watch, and Young Link. Sakurai stated he wants a roster 40 deep, with 1-2 more non-Nintendo characters.

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Wii - 4 Million Consoles Available This Year

Yesterday president Satoru Iwata said that they plan on shipping 4 million this year, and the remaining 2 million from January to March 2007

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The Wii Virtual Console: How it will change everything.

The Wii Virtual Console has the potential to be one of the biggest things to hit gaming in a long time. Imagine having a huge library of great games all available to you at any time. The controller is not the only part of the Wii that is truly revolutionary. This could mean big things if Nintendo plays its cards right.

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It's Hard Out Here For A Gamer

It's more expensive than ever to be a hard-core gamer as Microsoft Inc. and Sony Corp. add costly upgrades to their new high-powered video game consoles, and those higher prices may keep some fans on the sidelines for a while.

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Sony's PS3 is in the Pricing Danger Zone

Historical prices and sales suggest the PS3's price may cause it to fail. Will this trend continue... or will games, graphics, etc. bail out Sony's new console?

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2.5 million Nintendo DS sold

Is the DS better than the PSP?

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Blizzard's Secrets Revealed

Several articles outlining in detail how Blizzard Entertainment (makers of World of Warcraft, Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, etc) have gained power, how they are wielding power, and the how the entire game industry has changed because of them. Especially how the rest of the world has changed views of people that play multiplayer games.

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Nintendo planning Instant Messenger for Wii?

According to the latest United States patent (7056217) filed by Nintendo (planned six years ago) and is now published on June 6th, 2006 it states the following: Messaging service for video game systems with buddy list that displays game being played.

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Quake for the Nintendo DS

A site with a video with of a playable work in progress of Quake 1 ported to the nintendo DS.

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Nintendo planning Instant Messenger for Wii?

According to the latest United States patent (7056217) filed by Nintendo (planned six years ago) and is now published on June 6th, 2006 it states the following: Messaging service for video game systems with buddy list that displays game being played.

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Halo 3: Behind the Scenes

Found this online. Thought it was awesome. It's a behind the scenes done by the folks at Bungie for the upcoming Halo 3. Sweet!

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Sony: "We Get No Breaks" On the PS3 Price

Mercury News interviews Kaz Hirai. He compares the PS3's position with Xbox 360's, talks about the price and Sony's arrogant statements as of late.

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Nintendo Expects Limited Losses From Wii Launch

Nintendo said on Wednesday it is unlikely to lose much money on the launch of the Wii, in sharp contrast to Sony, which expects a hefty loss on the debut of its PS3.

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Final Nintendo Wii secrets revealed by Game Informer?

This article from the upcoming Game Informer magazine focuses on the pros and cons of the development environment of the upcoming Nintendo Wii. As well as revealing the last big secret concerning hardware functionality

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Nintendo Wiimote prototypes

Interesting prototypes for Nintendo's Wii controller, noticeably one has an analogue stick and another a rounded style d-pad.

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Nintendo Wii Wins Top Video Game Critics' Award

Video game critics Wednesday honored Nintendo's Wii console and Electronic Arts' upcoming "Spore" video game for bringing fresh ideas to the $28.5 billion industry that has been criticized for relying on films for inspiration and on game sequels for sales.

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Video games push for Olympic recognition

Global Gaming League talking with China to bring competitive gaming to the Beijing 2008 games

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How Sony Failed to Connect, Again

Early in 2005, more than a dozen Sony employees from the company's consumer electronics divisions gathered for an unusual meeting in the tiny Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters of digital media start-up Kinoma.

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Wall Street says sell your Sony stock

Ok, it's an upgrade from their previous advice of 'Strong Sell,' but it's interesting to note the phrase "a lack of visibility in Sony's games division."

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Play Original NES Super Mario Bros. in 3D!!!

Super Mario Bros 2.5D is a remake of the classic, Super Mario Brosâ?¦ in 3D. How can you remake a 2D game in 3D? Add depth! Defeat enemies as Mario in a whole new way with 3D views and 3D graphics!â?? More screenshots, info, and where to download it after the jump:

download link at bottom of article.

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Half Life 2: Episode one Released

Valve have now released the first half life 2 expantion, HL2:EP1, Playable on steam NOW

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Moore: Gamers Don't Care About Backward Compatibility

In an interview with Kikizo, Peter Moore got a little chest-thumpy and started talking about how gamers don't really care about backwards compatibility. Then he says that Msoft "under promised and over delivered" on the Xbox 360's Backwards Compatibility.

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"The Playstation 3 Is a Computer"

Good interview with Sony's head game designer Phil Harrison.

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