Today is a wonderful day. It is 08-06. That is all…

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Jeff Hardy has Signed a deal with the WWE. What is next?

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Street Fighter II – Hyper Fighting for The Xbox 360 Arcade Is Offically Out!

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My brother messed up, I won a game of hold ’em, and I my in-laws lost their central air… I am not evening including the fucked up Saturday that I had… Wow… wow.

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I am not happy right now. My brother was arrested for ***. The reason I am pissed is because he is driving a dealer car… If he would have hit someone, we would be fucked… More later.

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I just found out that Michael J Fox is not the orginal Marty McFly. This guy named Eric Stoultz is the orginal. Check out BTTF.com . The site itself has lots of other information about Back to the Future too.

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During Monday Night Raw, Todd Grisham announced that Stephanie McMahon had given birth to a baby girl, Aurora Rose Levesque, weighing 8 lbs., 7 ounces. Grisham wished well to the McMahon-Levesque family. As noted, there was no mention of Trips being the father.

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Last night marks the first time I have been to a theater in over a year. I thought about why I left and if I would go back. I know you never say never, but I think the business is none for me. I talked it over with a friend of mine and I decided to write a book or short story on the business. I had fun and enjoyed certain times in the business.

Clerks 2 made me want to finally do this. I guess I should start writing.

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Last night, my brother, Aaron, went to go see Clerks. 2. Needless to say, we loved the film. The only problem we had was the “MARK” fans sitting behind us. They did not even get most of the jokes. I wish we sat somewhere else. The film was 9 out of 10.

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I hope all of my friends in San Diego are enjoying this years convention. I will see you guys in Chicago this year!!!

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taken from: GameDaily.com

There’s never been a company that has dominated the video game business for three straight console generations. Can Sony pull it off? It’s not looking good as the high price seems to be putting off not only prospective consumers but also developers, and that could be a vicious circle.

Is Sony’s PlayStation 3 in trouble before it even launches? Sony has been the undisputed champion of the last two console generations, towering over the competition, but now it seems like every analyst, developer and industry pundit is placing a laser sight directly on Sony’s forehead.

The biggest problem would appear to be the pricing for the system. Even the lower priced $500 SKU is expensive, and $600 seems ridiculous to most. Ever since Sony revealed this pricing strategy at this year’s E3, the company has been put on the defensive, arguing that it’s a “computer” and that with the inclusion of a high-def Blu-ray player it’s really a “bargain.”

Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer himself has admitted that the console is expensive and that consumers are paying for its “potential.” In the PS3’s native Japan, the reaction has been less than pleasant, with more than 90 percent of developers in a recent survey stating that the price of the console is just too high. And indeed it seems that this high price is affecting whether or not certain developers decide to develop for the PS3. Sony’s PlayStation business has always been backed by incredibly strong third-party support, but now for the first time that could be in jeopardy.

According to a BusinessWeek Online report, some developers are actually steering resources away from the PS3 in favor of the more affordable Wii from Nintendo and even the Xbox 360. Hirokazu Hamamura, president of publisher and game industry researcher Enterbrain, believes that Sony’s next-gen console might not be a smash hit the way previous PlayStation systems have been. “Many developers think the console’s initial high price will lead to slow sales and are holding off on creating games for Sony,” Hamamura explained.

“At its autumn games preview on July 13, for instance, traditional Sony ally Electronic Arts spent far more time showing off innovative Nintendo games than it did titles for the PS3,” emphasized BusinessWeek. “EA announced six Nintendo Wii launch titles and showed long working demos for two of those. But it offered only a short clip of a car-racing game for PS3. EA says it’s still testing the potential of the PS3.”

Ultimately, developers and analysts agree that in order for the PS3 to be a success in the long run, Sony will have no choice but to bring the cost of the system down as fast as possible. “It’s likely Sony will have to discount more…and faster” than planned, commented JP Morgan analyst Hiroshi Takada.

taken from: GameDaily.com

Wii and XBox 360 is the way to go!

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taken from: CNN.com

The Chicago grandmother was seated at one of four chattering Wheel of Fortune games in the Big Apple-themed casino — a rococo affair with a mock Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, and Coney Island roller coaster.

The gambling device in question is a fairly typical modern Vegas slot. Three spinning reels occupy the center of the machine. Players can wager as little as a quarter, and small jackpots — a dollar or 10 — come along frequently enough to keep the action going. But the huge bonus prize is the real draw — announced by an electronic display that resembles the ticking wheel on the TV game show, placed just above eye level.

As her losses mounted to more than $200, Budz fed the machine $5 tokens, pressing the Spin button almost rhythmically — no serious slot player touches the pull handle on a one-armed bandit. To Budz, a few hundred bucks on a Vegas visit is “just entertainment.”

Then it happened: The symbols on the three reels matched, and the digital Wheel of Fortune began to spin, indicating a win. On the top of the machine, the jackpot was posted: $4 million. Budz couldn’t read the total; she’d forgotten her glasses. But her husband, standing behind, did. “Seven digits,” he yelled. “Seven digits!”

Not long ago, a scene like this would have been incomprehensible. No single slot could pay out $4 million. Not physically, and not practically. Even in constant use, it would be impossible for any single machine to collect sufficient incoming wagers to make such mammoth paydays happen.

What made Budz rich, and what has made casinos even richer in recent years, are new digital networks that connect virtually every slot machine in every casino in the country. Wheel of Fortune, for instance, is part of the MegaJackpots system, a network within 18 states and one Native American reservation that encompasses more than 8,000 machines, about half of them in Nevada.

Because all these slots are wired together, every coin and bill inserted is monitored and tallied by banks of central computers, often hundreds of miles away. The maximum jackpot, advertised in flashing digits above each cluster of machines, mounts identically and simultaneously with each spin. The networks behind these monster jackpots are the essence of modern Vegas, a city already so wired, and so primed for more, that it’s become a proving ground for digital tech at the crossroads of money, profit, crime, entertainment, illusion, and delusion.

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I really have nothing to say but this article was VERY interesting.

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taken from : EuroGamer.net

Electronic Arts’ Jeff Brown has revealed the extent of the publisher’s support for the Nintendo Wii, and believes that the console’s place as second in line to either a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 could be very good news for Nintendo.

Speaking to Eurogamer during EA’s summer showcase Brown, who is EA’s corporate communications VP, noted: “everybody’s saying that the Nintendo Wii is so unique that it’s going to be the second system people buy, meaning if you own a 360 or a PS3, you’ll probably also buy a Nintendo Wii.”

“The funny thing is, some people say that discursively, like it’s some sort of dig at Nintendo – and what they don’t get is that if you’re second on everybody’s system, you’re first overall.”

Brown also revealed that EA plans to offer the Wii more support than it did the GameCube. “This is not a business plan, but there are a lot of people at EA who are walking around whispering: ’40 / 40 / 20 per cent’,” he said. EA has already pledged six titles to Nintendo’s next-generation format, and Brown says that interest in the console internally has gone up after it received a spectacular welcome at E3.

“One of the things that we noticed after E3 is we thought, you know, we’re going to support Nintendo, they’ve got an extraordinarily loyal base of consumers all over the world, and we had a number of games we planned to make for Nintendo Wii. That said, we were very surprised by the level of enthusiasm we saw at E3 and subsequently for the Wii,” he told Eurogamer.

It’s inevitable though, Brown said, that EA will direct its support based on market behaviour. Asked whether EA is equally committed to all three next-gen formats, he responded directly: “No.”

“I don’t want to be indiscreet, but the truth is EA is most committed to the platform with the biggest installed base. We’ve always been very practical and open about the fact that this is a business; if you do well in business, you get to keep making more games, and you can hire more people to make more different kinds of games – as long as you remember that this is a business first.”

Brown also poured scorn on suggestions that the PS3 will be put in an impossible position by its unusually high price point.

“Everybody writes these big stories like ‘Oh my God, what will this mean? Will they stumble for the next for years, can they recover?’ When Sony first put out the PlayStation 2 there were hardware shortages, and some manufacturing glitches, and everybody was like ‘Can they recover?’,” he told us.

To read more of Brown’s views on the next-generation formats, and EA’s current direction, including questions of PS3 pricing and EA’s commitment to new intellectual property, read the full Jeff Brown interview elsewhere on the site today.

taken from : EuroGamer.net

I am still a fan of playing games on the XBox 360. I doubt I will be playing Madden 08 ONLY on the Wii.

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