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Tweet It’s been a few months since I logged into Hulu. Finally did today as I was wanting to watch something funny, had Family Guy on my mind for some reason… Anyways, I found it interesting and well put together how Hulu has integrated the social sharing/viewing aspect. I’m still not ready to upgrade to [...]

Tweet Sony has had its share of troubles with security regarding the  Playstation Network (PSN). Between the Call of Duty Black Ops multiplayer fiasco and hacked accounts it can be a major headache just trying to keep gamers happy.  That job just got a lot tougher.  Sony has suffered a multi-day PSN outage.  As of [...]

Tweet Great news for videogame players and fans of the Mortal Kombat game… Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC recently announced that Mortal Kombat, the award-winning fighting game created by NetherRealm Studios, will add Kratos, from the multi-million unit-selling God of War franchise, as a new warrior to their line-up exclusively [...]

Tweet In what is being deemed a revolutionary move, GameMine is introducing the ‘buy, sell and trade’ video game market found at major “brick and mortar” retailers at an online alternative hosted on its new website, www.gamemine.com. Registration is now FREE, providing access to all features on the website including, game information, purchasing, preordering, renting, [...]

Tweet Update: Just like that – 3.42 is now available and it’s a mandatory update if you want to continue to use the PlayStation Network and PlayStation Store. None of the cool functionality is in this update, as was in 3.41 (as described below). This latest update seems to target specifically a “hardware security issue”, [...]

Tweet Gaming enthusiasts nationwide now have more reasons to shop Best Buy as their gaming destination. Launching in close to 600 Best Buy stores this week, with additional stores to soon follow, the new Best Buy Trade-In program offers customers an opportunity to sell pre-owned video games. To celebrate the new offering, customers who trade [...]

Tweet Developer Visual Concepts has released a new trailer for NBA2K11, the first 2K game to feature Michael Jordan. Developed by Visual Concepts, and published by 2K games, the game will feature all the traditional basketball modes you would expect, including quick play, online games and the ability to design your own player and guide [...]

Tweet In high-tech South Korea — which has one of the highest broadband penetration rates in the world — the StarCraft video game series has spawned devotion more akin to professional sports teams. Indeed, video game players there can get lucractive contracts from professional teams with corporate sponsorships. Games of large tournaments are broadcast live [...]

Think of Milo as a real child in a virtual world. In Microsoft’s words, he’s “the world’s first real virtual character who is convincing enough to be considered human.” Video after the break.
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Tweet The joystick. For many years since the dawn of gaming in arcades the joystick had been the primary mode of input for most if not all gaming. Even devolving into game pads and such during the NES and Sega Genesis days it was still really a mode of inputting things in a analog source. [...]