Video Games & Gaming

Shaun White for Nintendo Wii (Wee!!!!)

July 16, 2008

While much has been made about how little excitement Sony and Nintendo have generated at the E3 game show (click here), there's actually some pretty cool stuff coming out.

Take this for example: Nintendo had Shaun White, the gold medalist at the Olympics, demonstrating his upcoming snowboarding game, Shaun White Snowboarding, where you can stand on the sensitive balance board that Nintendo has shipped with its Wii Fit fitness system.

Got to give you a pretty good feeling of what it's really like (of course without the wind, snow, etc.) -- and the feeling of big air!

Game will be available for Xbox 360 and PS3, but what about the board?

Now you too can shred like the greatest!

(Thanks to EXPN.com for the photo.)

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Animal Crossing: City Folk adds VoIP & SMS

July 15, 2008

According to BetaNews, in Nintendo's E3 keynote this morning came not only the official announcement of Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii, but also something unexpected - VoIP functionality (voice chat) and native SMS/e-mail interactivity.

Animal Crossing: City Folk is the third in the Nintendo Animal Crossing series - a life simulator game. Sounds like Second Life to me. This follows-up the lauch of Animal Crossing in 2001 and Animal Crossing: Wild World in 2005. You assume a anthropomorphic character (resembling both human and animal) and in the open-ended life simulation game you live in a village but there is little preset plot or mandatory tasks.

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Logitech Wireless Keyboard for Nintendo Wii

July 15, 2008

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Guns N' Roses Back on Rock Band

July 14, 2008

Not to be outdone by the earlier American incarnation of the Stones, now Guns N' Roses is getting their game on with a new song on Rock Band 2.

Now isn't it a bit ironic that Slash's "old band" is taking on Guitar Hero, which features the top hatted guitar slasher on its cool video game?

But it also shows us how much the music business has changed when a video game will debut a song -- can ya believe it?

Would GNR been a better choice than Aerosmith for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith?

I have my own opinion, but let's hear yours.

BTW, you can get all of the details of the exciting Rock Band development here.

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Xbox 360 Price Drop Coming

July 8, 2008

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Guitar Hero III on BlackBerry

July 7, 2008

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AOL BigDownload Indeed!

July 2, 2008

AOL has introduced its newest online gaming site, BigDownload.com, moving to expand its niche audience and boost targeted ad revenue. The addition to AOL's smaller GameDaily.com is a joint venture with Weblogs, an information-based Internet company.

WIth 700 downloadable files, the site includes 100 full games and 600 teasers, along with game-related news. An additional 50 to 100 new files will be added to the site each month, according to sources

Unlike its main competitor, Yahoo! Games, BigDownload will not require customers go through a registration process before they start downloading gaming content.

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PlayStation 3 helps discover oil

July 1, 2008

The technology used in the PlayStation 3 is being used to help explore and find oil much faster than before. Woohoo!

Using IBM technology, specifically the IBM PowerXCell 8i, which was originally developed for the Sony Playstation, a Spanish Oil company reports that specialized "Cell" microprocessors are speeding the search for oil and natural gas reserves located 30,000 feet below the Gulf of Mexico up to 6 times faster than current technology. Repsol and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center are using a process known as Reverse Time Migration (RTM), a sophisticated subsurface imaging tool accepted by the oil industry.

It has proven essential for imaging areas of complex subsurface geological structure, such as the rich hydrocarbon provinces of the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Brazil and West Africa.

Posted in Home Entertainment, TMCnet, Technology and Science, Video Games & Gaming, Video Hardware & Software

Already Rocked Out on Guitar Hero Aerosmith -- Right?

June 30, 2008

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Why Not Guitar Hero: Led Zeppelin or Somebody Else?

June 27, 2008

You know, we've had many long talks at home about what band we would have chosen for the first dedicated Guitar Hero offering.

Now many out there are probably very satisfied with the choice that was made, I imagine many of your may have chosen a different band if it was up to you.

Lots of votes at home for Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page vs. Joe Perry -- are you kidding???) or even Buckethead. And let's not forget Jimi Hendrix; I could go on and on ...

Now wouldn't it be cool if the folks behind Guitar Hero opened up the voting to the players/fans of the game, who could vote for what band/guitar hero they wanted to see next on a dedicated game.

If it worked for American Idol, then why not Guitar Hero?

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