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Ah, cell phone gaming. It’s almost an oxymoron considering the poor attempts at real gaming on cell phones. Nokia tried and failed, in great part because the handheld gaming market is monopolized by Nintendo, with Sony’s PSP the only real competitor left. That is, until Apple positions the iPhone into being the handheld gaming rookie [...]

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So Rock Band brought the music party game genre to a new level when it added drums and a microphone to complement the guitar scene. What it did best, however, was make subtle improvements on the existing crop of guitar controllers, but leave the general mechanics in place. Apparently, Guitar Hero IV will jump on [...]

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The Wii collecting dust in our living room has been eager for our attention, humming with it’s blue luminescence every few weeks. We ignore it, however, because of our sad disappointment with the Wii’s game library. Almost a year ago, we had a similar complaint, and though things are looking less grim for the future, [...]

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When a Mac user walked into a room of gamers and started talking games, he was laughed at, beaten, bloodied, and dragged to the nearest ditch to die.
Well, he was laughed at, anyway.
But times have changed. Not because Apple has really strengthened their Mac lineup to support games (despite Apple’s random announcements over the years [...]

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The rumour band-wagon is hastily moving forward that a gyroscopic controller from Microsoft will fulfill the role of the Wii’s innovative control scheme. Nintendo doesn’t feel particularly threatened, however, because they’re keen on pointing out how they did it first, and somehow, this first-to-market strategy is what they believe to be key to market success.
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