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Gaia Online just announced the release of celebrity-inspired items for Gaia users. This week’s items now allow registrants the opportunity to dress up their avatars as Snoop Dogg or The Incredible Hulk with hairstyles, purple pants, green fists and more. This marks the first time fully licensed celebrity-branded virtual items have been sold in the virtual world.

In a partnership with virtual goods sales and distribution system Virtual Greats LLC, Gaia Online will allow users to collect or “snare“ quality celebrity items each month to create…

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For those of you who remember the Gaia Online announcements from Boston Anime 2008 in March and zOMG! closed-beta announcement in July 2008.

I was tickled pink to take a personal tour of the upcoming zOMG! MMO game with senior producer and director of zOMG!, Dave Georgeson. The game looks amazing. Don’t let those little saucer-eyed marshmallow puffs of cuteness fool you. From the preview demonstration Georgeson and his team gave, its nothing I’d wanna hug or hang around with but its a world I can’t wait to explore.

If you think Gaia Online is amazing, you will be more than pleased with their newest game scheduled for the end of Summer 2008…

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These days conserving energy is a top priority especially with the amount of power the Xbox 360 and PS3 can consume on a daily basis. Although we have yet to see a serious attempt to make an environmentally friendly console, one device is planting the idea of wireless game controllers without batteries.

The Wind-Up Remote Control uses hand power instead of battery power. It works by rotating a wheel at the bottom of the remote until the controller…

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As if responding to my previous post concerning the price of videogames and the cost of a tank of gas, KansasCity.com has posted an article concerning the energy consumption by videogame consoles…

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It’s Earth Day 2008 (April 22, 2008) and the average price of gas around my town (near Cincinnati, Ohio) has finally reached $3.60 per gallon. That means a 14-gallon fill-up now costs $50.40. Yep, the price of the average console videogame.

Which will you try to spend less on, games or gas? Will gamers across the country buy one less game a year to have enough money to drive to work one extra week?

Consider this: Staying home and playing videogames means less time on the road which translates into less time quickly consuming automobile fuel (and polluting)...

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Nintendo is apparently too busy to take little things like environmental justice too seriously. According to GameDaily, Greenpeace has NIntendo listed at the very bottom of the Guide to Greener Electronics, a listing of how well corporations comply with industry-relevant environmental practices such as providing timelines for PVC and BFR phaseouts and the institution of recycling programs. Last November, the company was the first in the world to score an absolute zero, and this week, Greenpeace reports a tiny, marginal improvement to .3/10.

In case you were wondering how the other members of the “big three” fared, Sony is the reigning champion at 7.3/10, and Microsoft has seen something of an improvement from November’s report, moving up from 2.7/10 to 4.7/10. I think it’s safe to say that Nintendo has quite a bit of catching up to do in this department.

Read [GameDaily] Also Read [Greenpeace]

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