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The American leg of US World Cyber Ggames 2008 will take place at the Samsung Experience in New York, NY, on May 31, 2008,  and June 1, 2008. At stake are cash and prizes worth more than $20,000 along with a place in the WCG USA National Final. The first leg or the WCG 2008 US Open will include some of the best gamers in America who have their sights set on qualifying for the WCG 2008 Grand Finals in Cologne, Germany, in November 2008.

The Grand Finals will have…

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A recent study has found videogames may be creatively galvanizing. Researchers around the world seem to be locked in a seesaw battle when it comes to video games as they draw conflicting inferences. But this is certainly not one of those studies that anti-game attorney Jeff Thomson can use to make his case against our first love.

The research was conducted by a group of media researchers led by…

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Two industry old-timers have combined to launch Music Video Games & Trade (MVG), a music games website.

The website, which will cater to music fans and casual gamers, is the result of the joint efforts of David Warhol, president of video game studio Realtime Associates, Inc., and Vincent Bitetti, a video game publishing executive and former CEO of TDK Mediactive (bought by Take-Two in 2004)...

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Id Software’s first-person shooter Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is now available for $60 on the Xbox 360 and PS3. The game was already available for the PC and has received rave reviews and several awards. The Xbox 360 version has been developed by Nerve Software while Underground Development is behind the PS3 version of this action-packed title set in the Quake Universe.

Published by Activision, the game is set in the year 2065 and is the extension of the…

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Apple’s iTunes juggernaut has been beaten by Rock Band. Yes, Rock Band, the video game. A brand new single from an upcoming Motley Crue album has registered more downloads as a Rock Band download compared to iTunes and Amazon.

The single, “Saints of Los Angeles,’ has been downloaded 47,000 on Xbox 30 Marketplace and PS3 Store since it first became available as a Rock Band download, according to Reuters. The same track has downloaded merely 10,000 times on…

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Sega has announced yet another game for the handheld which promises innovative gameplay: PictoImage a drawing-oriented puzzle game that will help you hone drawing and mental skills.

Players will be required to accurately guess an image from an extensive library of 300 drawings in the single-player and two-player modes. The fun doesn’t cease there as the pictorial game has a multi-player mode which allows up to eight players to turn-by-turn draw an image based on a word that can be the name of an animal, object, food or “Other.” Competitors also have to guess the word that describes a drawing in front of them.

There will be eight different multi-player modes and players can raise the bar for their competitors by adding their own words to the game.

PictoImage release date has not yet been announced but is expected in August 2008. It hasn’t still received a rating, either, but don’t expect any protests over a benign game like this.

Read [Nintendo Life]

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The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is falling apart as major industry players are leaving the organization. Activision and Vivendi were the first to bid adieu to ESA soon followed by LucasArts. More recently, on May 23, 2008, iD Software also joined the list of emigrants and decided not to renew its ESA membership.

ESA has pretended to be calm and under control in its stilted press notes acknowledging the departures. But the powers that be at the organization must be well aware of the dire consequences of the exodus. According to Jeff Brown, EA’s VP of corporate communications, during an interview to GameIndustry, the solution to the current predicament is simple: ESA should…

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Alienware has again pushed the envelope, producing one of the most powerful notebooks known to us Homo sapiens. The Area 51 m17x notebook is Alienware’s newest addition to its lineup and it surely will make its owner the subject of very pleasant geeky envy. Let us quickly breeze through its vital specs before you start thinking of bolstering your esteem by owning one.

At its heart is an Intel Core 2 Extreme processor with a…

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“You are fat,” the Wii Fit game stated matter-of-factly, as the world crumbled around a 10-year-old British girl, who had been excitedly standing on the game’s Balance Board peripheral until the heart-breaking pronouncement.

However, her father hasn’t come to terms with the game’s assessment of her stepdaughter’s body weight and refused to accept it. “She is a perfectly healthy, 4ft 9in tall 10-year-old who swims, dances and weighs only six stone,” the miffed father told the Daily Mail. Although he agreed to his stepdaughter being sturdily built, he didn’t accept that she was “fat.”

The game is under considerable fire from British obesity experts, who have…

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All you air guitarists can continue to pamper your musical dreams and fantasies in grand style as Activision has heralded the Guitar Hero game. The game titled Guitar Hero World Tour was announced on May 22, 2008, in a press release and it will come stuffed to the hilt with several new additions.

The release heavily plugs revamped guitar among other additions but it drops a bombshell with the promise of downloadable content (DLC) for the Wii version of the Guitar Hero World Tour.

The game will feature recordings from the eminent likes of Linking Park, Van Helen and…

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