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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Last night we decided to go bowling. All I can say is my right arm is sore as hell. I never realized how much the 10 pound balls can hurt you. I will say that everyone had fun and I doubt we will be doing it again anytime soon.

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taken from: SciFiBlog.com

The Nintendo Wii has surprised a lot of people, generating loads of buzz from its strange name, unique controller, and low price point. But are those things enough to topple the monster consoles from Microsoft and Sony? An admittedly underpowered machine, Nintendo has taken a very risky path, ignoring gamers’ cries for cranked specs and flashy graphics, instead going after casual gamers and focusing on what made people gamers in the first place: fun. Will this risky strategy pay off, and will the Wii succeed in the face of super-charged, high-priced competition? For a number of reasons I think the answer is a definite yes.

Every generation of consoles has given gamers a vast improvement in graphical power, justifying a new investment in hardware and games. The jump in graphics from the NES to the Super Nintendo to the Nintendo 64 was drastic, making the older systems obsolete immediately. However, systems have reached a point where the graphics can’t look much better on a standard-definition TV. That’s the reason for the jump to high-definition for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which gives HDTV owners a lot more to play with, but for a huge jump in price. The fully-loaded PS3 will run gamers a gasp-inducing $600 ($500 for a lesser version), a price that cost Sony a boatload of gamer goodwill when announced. After all, the PS2 cost $300 when it was first released — people aren’t used to spending that much on a game console. The Wii, on the other hand, is not HD-capable and barely upgraded the graphics from the GameCube, the previous console to come from Nintendo. Instead, the revolutionary changes come in the form of the Wii’s controller, which looks more like a remote control than a video game controller and is motion-sensing. The cost, while not yet announced, is expected to be either $200 or $250, less than half that of the PS3.

Will casual gamers balk at lesser graphics, instead choosing to continue the pattern of upgrading the consoles purely for graphical enhancements? I don’t think so. If a hardcore gamer really wants the hottest graphics and latest technology, they have a choice. They could invest $2,000 in a new HDTV, $600 in a PS3, and another $300 in a few games, or they could buy a high-end gaming PC for the same price. A gaming PC has the benefit of being upgradeable and never becoming obsolete, unlike the PS3, which will only become more outdated every day it sits hooked up to that flat-panel TV. While high-end gaming PCs have always been a niche market for gamers with a lot of cash to throw around, the Xbox 360 and PS3 demand a similar investment of money in order to get their full potential. They’ve thrown themselves into a much higher-end market, pitting themselves against products they just can’t compete with. It’s entirely possible that the relative success of the Xbox 360 so far (it was released last November) can be attributed to hardcore gamers who buy every console regardless of the price. Once they have all picked theirs up, the market for high-end consoles may shrink much faster than Microsoft and Sony expect.

The Wii, meanwhile, remains affordable and is meant to work on a regular old TV. It remains at the same price level people are used to paying for consoles, and a price that casual gamers will be willing to spend on something they use for fun on the weekends. After all, it’s a video game console, not something you should be forced to consider as a serious investment. And that’s the main reason I’m certain the Wii will do so well: it’s aimed at casual gamers, a large group of people that Microsoft and Sony have pretty much ignored, instead greedily going after the smaller, more moneyed, hardcore-gamer market.

Combine these things with the unique, you-just-gotta-try-it controller and the new Virtual Console, which will allow people to play older games from the NES, SNES, N64, Sega Genesis, and TurboGraphix 16, and you’ve got a console people will be dying to get their hands on. Nintendo read the market, saw how the big guys were shunning a huge number of people, and created a product designed to give them everything they wanted and more. Mix that with a product unveiling by Sony so badly blundered Nintendo couldn’t have written it better themselves and you have a recipe for underdog success. Mark my words: the Wii’s gonna win.

taken from: SciFiBlog.com

Now if everyone realizes the Wii will suceed, then I can sleep better.

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taken from: OnNintendo.com

It looks like EA is seeing the light, or is it Lite? Anyway, EA recently announced six games for Nintendo’s forthcoming revolution, the Wii. A couple of the games were already announced but a few were not. All the games will be custom-designed for the Wii and the WiiPointer by the dedicated Wii team at EA Canada. Here’s the list…

The Godfather
Harry Potter
Tiger Woods PGA Tou
SSX
Madden NFL 07
Need for Speed Carbon

Also, EA had some nice words for Nintendo’s latest innovation. John Schappert, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA, had this to say… “Once we started to experiment with Madden on Wii, there was an explosion of innovation. Everyone in the studio is energized by the creative opportunity afforded by both the hardware and controller. By reaching into our catalogue, we are able to bring a fresh and distinctive experience to some of EA’s most popular franchises. Creatively, the game play possibilities are staggering and endless.”

EA has also revealed that more titles for the Wii are in development and will be announced at a later date.

taken from: OnNintendo.com

Ya See, Nintendo is going to win this war!

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