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The primary means of travel in World of Warcraft is running. You run pretty much everywhere, and some fans became curious as to what it would be like to physically experience that same amount of running in real life. The result was Aaron and Elijah’s RL Race Across Azeroth.

These guys even worked out the how the running in WoW would correspond to running in the real world. They built a treadmill which would work with WoW, set it up so they would run at six mph and prepared to run from the gates of Shadowglen to the sentries of Darnassus. They also dressed up like their characters - for scientific purposes of course.

Click through to watch Elijah and Aaron’s Treadmill Race Across Azeroth video…

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Wait no more, for the the exclusive Gamertell Need for Speed Undercover media post has arrived. As a follow-up to my synopsis of the exclusive Need for Speed Undercover event on August 14, 2008, you may now revel in exclusive photos and audio to satiate all humanly senses except for taste and smell.

Click through for all the goods!

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Check out the gallery: Need for Speed Undercover Event at Bubble Lounge with Maggie Q

At Ubidays 2008 in Paris, Ubisoft released the first teaser trailer for the first sequel to the 2003 cult classic, Beyond Good & Evil. The trailer clearly shows that the game will be sporting some nice, new next-generation graphics. While it is unclear at this point if the trailer was rendered or used the game engine, it was still quite nice.

The teaser video, titled “I the Pig”, showcases BG&E’s two staring characters, Jade and her alien pig friend Pey’J, stranded on…

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Thanks to the miracle of TiVo/DVR, I didn’t even see the return episode of NBC’s series Scrubs until last night. The good part is that I didn’t miss the homage to Space Invaders and someone was nice enough to slap it on YouTube. Click through to check it out…

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The Tribes series of games were only moderately successful, but acquired a cult status with quite a few players still playing games in the online sci-fi shooter game series. Leaked alpha-level game videos hint at the return of Tribes-esque gameplay. The videos were serendipitously discovered by Shacknews.com, as they were available through unprotected website links on GarageGames’ InstantAction.com, a browser-based video game service launching in 2008.

Probably the links to these alpha-level game videos, only meant for internal use, remained unnoticed as InstantAction.com is still under development. An anonymous source, claimed to be close to GarageGames, told Shacknews.com that the videos depicted early work on the title and were meant for internal use.

The new game bearing a stark resemblance with Tribes shouldn’t surprise anyone, for GarageGames was founded by many Dynamix (Tribes’ developer) veterans after the developer was disbanded by its owner Sierra. The new InstantAction online games platform is going to rival Flash-based games, and will allow complete 3D game content to be rendered inside the browser unlike Flash.

Read [Shacknews]

After its fun and obnoxious E3 2007 appearance referred to as EIEIO (Expo for Interactive Entertainment Independent and Original), including an official funeral for the event, Gamecock has hit my radar hard and keeps on coming.

The latest visual assault is in the form of a semi-scandalous video titled “Fury: Life is What Happens While You’re Level Grinding,” promoting its upcoming game Fury.

Click through to view the video and for info on getting in on the beta…

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Electronic Arts announced today its soundtrack for the singing, dancing and music video-creating game Boogie, which will be released for the Wii on August 7, 2007, in North America and August 31, 2007, in Europe. The 38 songs span four decades from “ABC” by the Jackson 5 to recent pop hit “Fergalicious” by Fergie.

Boogie will ship with a microphone and has a suggested retail price of $59.99. The game is rated E10+ by the ESRB and 3+ by PEGI Europe.

Click through to get the full list of songs with the artist who made each song popular…

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AP’s LA bureau reported that Blockbuster announced on Monday (June 18, 2007) it will offer primarily Blu-Ray HD for it’s DVD inventory.

Blockbuster had been renting with both HD DVD and Blue-Ray HD DVDs in select store, with 70% of customers choosing Blu-Ray movies.

Blockbuster is still being cautious, allowing the 250 stores and web site will continue to offer…

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Added to the Playstation Store this week, available for download through the PS3:

MLB 07 Show Turorials (Free) - Three videos. The best-selling baseball franchise is back! This season we’re proud to introduce a slew of new features including: Road To The Show, Adaptive Pitching Intelligence, Online League Play, Real Time Roster Updates and unique Umpire Personalities. MLB 07 The Show.

Ratatouille Trailer (Free) - In Disney/Pixar’s new animated-adventure, “Ratatouille,” a rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession

Hod Rod Trailer (Free) - Self-proclaimed stuntman Rod Taylor (Andy Samberg) is preparing for the jump of his life. Rod plans to clear fifteen buses in an attempt to raise money for his abusive stepfather Frank’s life-saving heart operation. He’ll land the jump, get Frank better, and then fight him, hard. Hot Rod in theatres August 3rd.

Ridge Racer 7 Add-on Content (Events and Decals are Free, Background Music is $99 each or all 21 songs for $14.99) - Drift around corners at speeds over 160 mph taking the lead as Ridge Racer 7 brings gamers a driving experience unlike any other. With full support of the Playstation Network, Ridge Racer fans have an entirely new world to explore and drift through.

(Descriptions from Sony’s press release).

Site [Playstation Store]

University of Illinois researchers recently studied the impact of video game magazine’s depictions of overly muscular male characters on the drive for muscularity among preadolescent boys. According to the News Bureau of the University of Illinois, the study consisted of two rounds of testing conducted one year apart with researchers administered questionnaires to groups of two to five boys, separated by visual barriers who were then asked to report the genres of magazines they read each week. “The boys’ drive for muscularity was gauged using a child-appropriate version of a standard “drive for muscularity” scale. Drive for muscularity was defined as desire for muscle mass.”

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