MS CFO: We're Not Forcing Kinect On Anyone
"some of it will work and some of it won’t"
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Carmack Fights Back Against FPS Snobbery
Defends making games in the genre.
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EA: Consoles Now Only 40% of Gaming Business
"Our fastest growing platform is the iPad right now and that didn’t exist 18 months ago."
industrygamers.com news
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Bastion Reviewed
"A-" "Other developers, take note: this is how it's done. "
1up.com impressions
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Capcom's Nazo Waku Yakata 3DS - preview
Of note, you will be able to hit on maid cafe maids, give voice commands to a kendo fighter, burn the chinhairs off an American BBQ enthusiast,
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Goldeneye Reloaded listed as a PS3/360 Game
Retailer listing says 28th October release in europe
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Capcom might show Wii U-related project at TGS
Say to never underestimate Nintendo
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Pachter's Top 5 Sellers This Holiday Season
Skyward and Gears 3 to sell 10 million each.
industrygamers.com news
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Ubisoft's First Quarter Returns Detailed
Sales down 36% over last year at the same time.
ubisoftgroup.com news
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Inafune Discusses Mega Man Cancellation
"I'm sorry that I couldn't be of assistance"
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Cube games can be downloaded on Wii U Ware
Says Director of Entertainment & Trend Marketing at Nintendo of America
nintendogal.com news
gamingeek
1UP Reviews Captain America PS360
"C-" "like a cardboard facsimile of Arkham Asylum"
1up.com impressions
aspro
FBI Busts Anonymous
14 arrests and the acquisition of dozens of computers.
industrygamers.com news
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Breakthrough in holographic data storage performance
500GB of data to be stored on a single CD-sized disk, burned 100x faster than 2009
slashgear.com news
gamingeek
The Press Room Episode #98
Yoda returns with Dvader in the latest Press Room.
thepressroompodcast.com editorial impressions news
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1up preview Aliens Infestation
Infestation isn't shy about wearing its Metroid influence on its sleeve
1up.com impressions news
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Pokemon dev reveals 3DS hardware insights
The 3DS has two CPUs -- one devoted to the game, another devoted to network communication
1up.com
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Order up 3DS screen and details
3D and Enhanced Visuals! - Re-tooled graphics and a new level of immersion!
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Epic Concered About Cheap iPhone Games
Thinks they may even effect sales of Gears 3.
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Inafunes Announces First Post-Capcom Game
1. Mobile 2. Social 3. HAHAHAHAHAHa
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Adding another one to watch to the DL'able games Topic!
...Oh Arrrrrchiiiiie!
Heh! ...and it's about Samurai!
I've been playing the God of War collection, plus God of War 3. I finished part 2 and am currently working on the other ones. I'm also near the end of Spirit Tracks which is something I play when I'm not at home.
I also took the time to play Uncharted 3 with some Gamespot buddies and Uncharted 2 with Steel and Aspro...best mp games ever. I also finished Golden Axe since it was free.
Vader, see if you can download the Pandora app on your phone. There's tons of video game music on there. You can also listen to the songs from Fallout.
Bondi's homicide-homage to 1940s Los Angeles is on sale at Amazon for the criminally low sum of $37.00.
I have it but I didnt know it had game music, sweet!
I cannot plus this enough.
Podcast is done!
They play much better football than America, even if they didn't really in the final. Epic game. Japan ftw. rofl@Hope Solo in the penalty shoot out compared to the short Japanese goalkeeper. America's penalties were terrible though, but still.
Epic game.
Pretty popular train of thought in some places.
Brazil choked even worse than the US women team.
Holy shit.
Fucking Pandora and only being available to US residents.
God I need to get into VPN settings..
Rofl, didn't score a single one?
I think the Japanese keeper is better than Solo in everyway except looks. Japan is the only team that actually plays technical football that is not painful to watch. They did not show it in the final, except for a few moments.
Should we mention that the USA is bankrupt and that some of the ' countries' are loaded?
Wait first Argentina and now Brazil out?! Holy shit, must watch Copa America.
Hope Solo is incredibly overrated. Kaihori ftw.
Time to shed some manly tears.
The victory of the Japanese women’s soccer team at the FIFA World Cup tournament in Germany smashed a lot of preconceptions, most of them having to do with Japan’s international sports profile. However, a more specific truism bit the dust Sunday afternoon in Frankfurt when Japan came out on top, and that’s the notion that the more money you spend on a sport, the better your chances. About 1.5 million girls and women play soccer in America in some sort of organized fashion. There’s a popular professional league. Women’s soccer is a huge business. In Japan, about 45,000 girls and women play soccer. The women’s semi-pro and pro leagues are barely solvent, and there are no organized teams in Japan for elementary school girls. In fact, one of the more interesting factoids to come out of the news about the victory is that many of the members of the Japan national team started playing soccer as children on boys teams.
As pointed out in an article in the tabloid Nikkan Gendai published before the championship victory, Nadeshiko Japan was winning in spite of their meager remuneration. Very few of the members have pro contracts. Two members, Aya Samejima and Karina Maruyama, earned the most at one time playing soccer, about ¥5 million a year each, but that’s because they originally played for the Tokyo Electric Power Co. team — in Fukushima, as a matter of fact — and were thus company employees. After the disaster of March 11, Tepco’s soccer team activities were suspended, but by that point Maruyama has already left. She went to the U.S. and played for while but ended up returning to play for JEF Chiba. Gendai says her salary there is “very small.” Samejima stayed with Tepco until March and then moved to the USA, where her salary was better, the equivalent of about ¥300,000 a month. Team captain Homare Sawa earned about ¥3.6 million a year playing for the Nihon TV team, which among women soccer players is considered “good.” NTV dissolved its team not long ago, and Sawa now “makes less” playing for a team in Kobe.
They’re the exceptions, though. Gendai characterizes most of the players’ financial situations as being “borderline poverty.” When the national team was preparing for the World Cup they couldn’t start practice until after 7 every night, because most of the members had part-time jobs during the day at convenience stores and other small businesses. They had to provide their own food and were usually too tired to cook for themselves and so ended up eating a lot of junk food and instant meals, thus obliterating another truism: that athletes have to eat well to win.
Compare this to the men’s national soccer team, which employs its own chef who travels with them wherever they go. In fact, if you compare the two organizations’ financial situations, it’s easy to see how much more “cost effective” the women’s team is. Most of the pay for national players comes through incentives. Nadeshiko Japan will receive a total of ¥1.5 million from the Japan Football Association for their first place finish at the FIFA World Cup. If the men’s team came in first, they would receive ¥35 million. Second place? ¥25 million for men, ¥1 million for women. Even if the men place in the top 16 they receive some sort of bonus, but the women’s team have to place at least in the top four to receive a bonus. Also, the men’s team receives a bonus of ¥2 million for each game they win during the World Cup final. The women’s team receives ¥100,000 per win. The men’s team even get a bonus for a win during the preliminaries. The women don’t. According to Gendai, seven members of the the men’s team received a total of ¥20 million each in various bonus payments from the last FIFA World Cup in South Africa, even though the team only placed in the top 16.
It’s not clear what the women will receive after their stunning victory but some rough arithmetic would indicate that each player will probably get less than a million yen at most. If the USA women’s team had won, they would have received from the relevant American soccer association a bonus of $3 million, or ¥237 million, not to mention lots of promotional opportunities. (At present the members of Nadeshiko Japan are only being used for a lowkey ad campaign for the lunchbox chain Hotto Motto.) Not to put too fine a point on it, but do these figures make the Japanese women’s victory all the more impressive? Local news are already reporting projected “economic effectiveness” of ¥1 trillion. It’s difficult to get any more impressed with the team at this point, but even taking into consideration the size of the men’s soccer market compared to the women’s soccer market, already the Japanese language Twittersphere is exploding with one sentiment: Given what these women have done for Japan, not to mention the Japanese media, they deserve to be paid.
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"About 1.5 million girls and women play soccer in America in some sort of organized fashion."
Must be a lot of poverty-stricken girls in America.
There would be a meltdown if I did that.
I've been playing Majora's Mask, got inside the Great Bay temple and there were like 6 swirling cogs and a devices to turn them. There was no way I was doing that at 10 o'clock at night so I just quit.