Gadgets and Video Games

[ Joe King ] Rhode Island bill S.2156 ( PDF ) is silly … ( How silly is it?

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ESA says Rhode Island game bill is unconstitutional, Jack Thompson … agrees?

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There’s no question: retail has a serious lack of Wiis, once again. Yes, this is 2010, but you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking it feels more like 2008 . Following up on several tips over the past month about online and retail Wii “shortages,” the best we can discover is that supply is still coming in to retailers, but that demand is exceeding it — it’s that same old Wii song we’ve heard for years .

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Retailers still receiving Wiis, demand outpacing slowed supply

Dr. Phil recently broke off a piece of uncomfortable truth for one of his show’s guests in a sassy manner. This isn’t exactly newsworthy – the mustachioed television personality is no stranger to telling things how they are – however, the subject of the intervention is definitely worth further examination: A mother who began to neglect her family in favor of her virtual plantation in FarmVille .

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Dr. Phil lays the verbal smackdown on a FarmVille addict

David Perry’s “It’s not OnLive ” service, Gaikai , recently gained $5 million in venture capital, a Security and Exchanges Commission filing shows. For the uninitiated, basically Perry wants to beam games directly into your house. We imagine the tech behind it is kinda like that crazy set-up the Riddler had running all over Gotham, hence the need for such a large sum of money.

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Score $5 million in funding for Gaikai

For those of you out there on your third or fourth sleepless night, unable to catch some Zs for worry that Sony is losing money on its physical-media PSP models to the PSP Go , it’s time to rest easy. Sony Europe head Andrew House recently told GamesIndustry.biz that digitally distributed titles are “additive to the business.” Better yet, newer PSPs aren’t eating older ones. “I don’t think there’s been a huge amount of cannibalization.” Okay, okay, he’s talking about PSP Go sales proverbially “eating up” PSP-3000 sales.

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PSP Go isn’t cannablizing PSP sales, House says

We can’t tell you the number of times we’ve been packed into the mall during holiday season like angry, sweater-draped sardines and thought “This is great, but what if four people could swing plastic instruments around and warble an off-key version of ‘Thunderstruck’ just a few feet from us?” Finally, a retailer has stepped up to cater to our needs as Old Navy has announced it’ll be putting Rock Band kiosks in 700 of its stores beginning on Black Friday. Also, on Dec. 9 and Dec.

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All the great Rock Bands started at Old Navy

Did you know that there’s a murderer in your house … right now ? It’s sitting there on your coffee table, in your Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, or PC. It’s name is Modern Warfare 2 , and it lets your eight-year-old child become a terrorist and kill people

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Fox & Friends gets ‘fair and balanced’ with Modern Warfare 2 discussion

Are you in the mood for some reading that’s a bit heavier than the video game news post you’re currently digesting? We suggest you check out this Random House page to read an excerpt from the first chapter of the Elder Scrolls -based novel, The Infernal City . The few pages of text introduce us to what will likely be the book’s plucky protagonists, Anna