If you’ve seen the movie Blood Diamond starring Leonardo di Caprio and Jennifer Connely, you’ll understand this situation better.
This news is quite disturbing. Imagine, people enjoying their games on Playstation 2 at the comfort of their homes for the price of deaths in Africa. It is said that a rare metal called coltan is used [...]

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Nintendo announces Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for DS, along with other new 1st and 3rd party titles. But Mario and Zelda are nowhere to be found.
I and the rest of the world has just finished watching the live podcast of Nintendo’s Media Summit that happened at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2008 or E3. This [...]

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This announcement practically ends any possibility for Playstation dominance for this console generation. As of now, I cannot see any nearby announced game title that can practically boost the sales of the Playstation 3 up to par with Nintendo’s runaway hit Wii. Gamespot confirms this fact.
The launch of Grand Theft Auto 4 and Metal Gear [...]

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Yes, this is my first article about Diablo 3. It has been announced for quite a while but I’m only writing about it now. Some months ago, the release of Diablo 3 was anticipated when knowledge spread that developer Blizzard purchased the domain diablo3.com. But that’s not what I’m going to discuss here.
Fans of the [...]

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OMFG! I just read this announcement a while ago at Gamespot. The SNES classic time travel themed RPG, Chrono Trigger will be remade for the Nintendo DS! I can’t help but feel a bit excited even if it’s a remake because this has always been I game I wanted to play in an official platform. [...]

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This is one topic that has been debated over at countless gaming community sites. And this is what I have to say about this: Gone are the days when videogaming was meant only for kids. Today, video gaming is meant to be enjoyed by people from all ages and from all walks of life.

And how, you ask, do I support this claim?
Read on!

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A bomb was dropped a few days ago within the gaming community. A bomb in the form of a controversial statement by none other than the president of the Olympics, Jacques Rogge, 66-years old. In a recent interview with The Times, Rogge said, and I quote:
“Kids are attracted to visual, interactive forms of communication. It’s [...]

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New generations of gamers tend to only recognize the current popular titles as the “best-selling” games. Nowadays, the trend’s usually about that “cool mature game” such as the Final Fantasies and the Grand Theft Autos. But thanks to certain companies and people who keep track of the videogame sales records, we can actually see who [...]

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In a shocking announcement yesterday at Level Up India’s Website, Philippine Ragnarok (pRO) players were caught off guard. Fellow players mass messaged the link to everyone, and the word spread fast. It has been announced to the Indian Ragnarok (InRO) community that the InRO servers will be merged wth the pRO servers, and that the [...]

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Obesity among the video gaming crowd especially in the USA has become a lingering issue for years. Although there were some attempts to respond to this issue, such as the release of dance games in the 90s, it didn’t really solve the problem. Now with Nintendo’s newest Wii game called Wii Fit, the obesity issue may have found it’s solution.

Wii Fit is another game developed and published by Nintendo among the Wii Sports brands. It features a series of mini games that incorporates a “Wii Board” peripheral geared towards losing weight via aerobics, yoga, dancing, and other odd mini-games. Read more.

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