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03 Sep 2009 11:16

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Tech: One in four Xbox 360 owners will soon own a brick

  • 23.7% of Xbox 360s will eventually fail; LOL source
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01 Sep 2009 09:50

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Tech: This is your brain on Tetris. Any questions?

Playing Tetris (and games in general) changes the composition of your brain and helps make you smarter. Which is awesome. source
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31 Aug 2009 10:39

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Tech: Electronic Arts has to buy lots of ads to market a game

  • $10 million cost of creating an average Electronic Arts video game source
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27 Aug 2009 19:16

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Music: Ryan Adams needs to review more retro video games

  • Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wasted: It’s loud, it’s confusing, there are a bunch of lights going off, people (robots) are shooting at you, you need pizza, etc., then its game over.
  • “D.R. Adams” • In a blog post for The Awl, where he discusses being a teenager, playing “Gorf” and listening to Danzig. A reference to “Moonlighting” gets in there, too. You know, Ryan Adams might be an overcreative screw-up, but he’s sure an entertaining one. • source
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21 Aug 2009 11:39

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Sports: John Madden says his namesake video game succeeds at its goal

  • I wanted it as a teaching tool to teach people about football and then not make it simple. This is kind of the way the game has gone. The game is easy to start, but hard to be the best at. It is hard to perfect.
  • Retired NFL coach and announcer John Madden • Discussing his still-popular video game franchise, one of the most popular video game series in history. And it has an effect on the players, too – they watch more football, go to more games and have more football knowledge than us normal people. To give you an idea, 43% of “Madden” players watch 16 or more hours of NFL programming weekly. Holy crap. Get off the couch, you bum. • source
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18 Aug 2009 21:53

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Tech: Took long enough: Sony finally cuts the PS3’s price

  • The cost of the Sony Playstation 3 at launch; it’s gone down a little since then, but was sold at a huge loss at launch. source
  • The launch price of the Nintendo Wii, which managed to sell like hotcakes AND be profitable at launch. source
  • The price of the PS3 as of tomorrow. It only took Sony about two and a half years to get it priced this cheap. source
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03 Aug 2009 11:28

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Offbeat: Two icons of our childhood – Lego and video games – combined

  • Someone with a lot of time on their hands created this video. And that person’s name is Mr. Awesome. Best part? He has a whole collection of these videos.source
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03 Jul 2009 21:36

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Tech: Nerdy? Need a weekend project? Try hacking these old Atari games

These Atari 7800 classics, along with a bunch of others, are now open source. Re-program them to your heart’s delight! source
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12 Jun 2009 10:23

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Politics, Tech: Why did video games start to suck and become no fun?

  • Today’s video game is more like a movie – as long as you turn the crank on the side of the projector, eventually you’ll experience the entire thing. That is the opposite of playing a game, since you are never guaranteed to win a game.
  • Blogger “agnostic” • In a long-winded rant about how video games became elaborate productions instead of simple, fun things that were reflexive challenges. We agree. Video games suck now because they’re overly complex, and we totally stopped playing them for this reason. • source
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04 Jun 2009 22:25

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Biz, Tech: GameStop takes a huge chunk of the pie. Game companies want it.

  • 48% GameStop’s profit margin on used games. WHOA! source
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