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When I last spoke with Zach Wigal, founder of Gamers Outreach Foundation, he was just finishing up a Halo 3 tournament in January to raise funds for his community.

I caught up with Wigala few weeks ago and learned he has just earned the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award.

Wigal said he only became aware of the program a few months ago after doing an interview with Chris Erickson of 360StyleCast podcast and added that…

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Not many attendees were impressed with this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). During an interview held Thursday, (July 17, 2008) Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s senior managing director and general manager of entertainment analysis and the development division, told MSNBC that even though many fans of long running Nintendo franchise games such as Mario, Zelda or even StarFox were upset he felt that E3 was no longer a place for those types of game.

Click through to find out what game companies thought of E3 2008…

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Nokia’s new N-Gage service has been marred by several delays and, in December 2007, the company formally pushed the launch of the service to the first half of 2008. Now with a pre-launch version, N-Gage First Access, being made available to N81 users through the official N-Gage website, the full version can’t be far off. And just before the launch of the service, the ongoing Game Developers Conference proved to be a great platform for the cellphone maker to shed more light on N-Gage’s new avatar as a standard gaming service for Nokia cellphone which will allow users to download and…

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The idea of a one console gaming system in the future has been drawing mixed reactions across the internet lately.

The creator of God of War, David Jaffe, started a blog asking readers why having a one console system is a bad idea. Nothing wrong in that. The single system debate that has been circulating the web since October 19, 2007, when EA’s Gerhard Florin told BBC News that having one console gaming system would make it easier on game developers having to create compatible copies of their games for multiple systems.

Somehow, many of the headlines on the internet paint Jaffe as an advocate or supporter of the one console game system idea, leading to even more blog posts questioning Jaffe’s original post…

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In a rather interesting gesture, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has unveiled her likeness in the virtual world, Second Life, during the National Innovation Summit held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Makati November 26, 2007. She as joined by members of the Department of Science, Technology Secretary Estrella Alabastro, IBM Executive Vice President for the Innovation and Technology Department Nick Donofrio.

Arroyo’s intent was to show her country that she is not opposed to change and innovation.

During the summit, with a theme from TV series Battlestar Galactica playing in the background, the president got her first glimpse of her Second Life avatar.

“Preparing our growth sectors of the future enables us to tap the opportunities of the 21st century.We will promote fast-growing industries where high value jobs are plentiful…let us declare that technology is the foundation of future economic development,” the President stressed in a speech given in July 2001 prior to hosting the summit to introduce a program that is designed to strengthen the country’s competitiveness in the global knowledge-based economy and transform the Philippines into a technology hub in Asia.

Creating a Second Life avatar is the first step to creating a virtual Philippine Embassy in the game. The virtual embassy will be largely used by IBM for global conferencing with many of its executives regularly meeting with the use of their own avatars.

“We believe that innovation is key to our national competitiveness,” Arroyo said during the summit.

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Well it is official, for all you fans of the classic 1980’s comedy Ghostbusters, Sierra Entertainment announced the development of a next-gen action game that is set to be released Fall 2008 on all major platforms. While this might not be the film sequel fan’s had all been hoping for, Sierra Entertainment is certainly banking on this game being the next best thing.

This news will no doubt please a great many fans out there that have been eagerly awaiting the return of the beloved franchise. While there has been a number of previous titles released for the Gameboy, including a short-lived animation series in the mid ‘90s, fans of the original ‘80s film classic will finally get to see the journey of the original cast continue as they try to save New York City from hordes of undead monsters and ghosts.

While few details have been released about the actually plot or even game play, Sierra Entertainment has already stated that the game will be written by the film’s original creators, none other than Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Terminal Reality, which may be best known for the Bloodrayne series, is developing Ghostbusters for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. On the other end, Red Flag Studios, creators of the upcoming Mushroom Men, will be developing Ghostbusters for PS2, Wii and the DS.

Set circa early 1990s, gamers will get the chance to play out their childhood fantasies of strapping on a proton pack and hunting down all manors of creatures that go bump in the night. Along side players on their heroic venture, the film’s original cast including Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson are all slated to reprise their roles. Other cast favorites will also be making cameos including Annie Potts, Brian Doyle Murray and William Atherton.

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