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Jimi Hendrix Rocks Out on 2,000th Rock Band Track The number of available Rock Band tracks soars past 2,000 just in time for Rock Band 3. How many nights have you spent pressing buttons on plastic instruments with your friends? During those nights, how many tracks did you buy In the midst of...

New Typing of the Dead Gets Gamers Jobs A new version of Typing of the Dead teaches players how to survive both a zombie outbreak and the job hunt. Typing of the Dead wasn't necessarily the kind of game you'd expect to be a hit. The very thought of playing a touch-typing game makes anybody...

Study Finds Wounded Friend Rate Up, Gaming Injuries Still Rare A recent medical study tells us exactly how we can get hurt playing motion games, but concludes that we probably won't. With the number of outlandish statements made by the media and politicians about gaming on a daily basis...

Kojima Wanted to Use Snatcher Disk for Real-Life Noir If Kojima's plan had succeeded, Snatcher's disk would have linked the game with the real world, relaying hidden messages and releasing crime scene odors. Whether it involves using rumble in interesting ways or looking for Castlevania...

AMD Changes the Game With $200K Donation No need for a pledge drive this time: AMD has donated $200,000 to a Texas PBS station's initiative to help teenagers develop socially-conscious games. With all of the negative press out there in the mainstream media about videogames, it still comes as...

Catch 'Em All With Your Typing Skills in New Pokemon Pokemon Typing DS pits you against hundreds of monsters, armed only with a wireless keyboard and your touch-typing skills. With all of the news pouring out of Japan about the 3DS, it's easy to forget that Nintendo's current handheld will...

Your Happiest Memories Could Appear in Child of Eden The creators of [http://www.amazon.com/Child-Eden-Xbox-360/dp/B002I0H8FK/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285703969&sr=8-1] want to use your favorite photographs as a morale booster while you speed through their final level. Have you...

I never tire of that picture. :D

Players Pick the Pace in Bioshock Infinite Rather than tossing players into a constantly-moving explosion festival, [http://www.amazon.com/BioShock-Infinite-Xbox-360/dp/B003O6EB70/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285259175&sr=8-1] will allow players to explore and choose exactly when they...

Warcraft Romance Ends With Felony Charges Angie L. Jenkins may find herself stuck in a dungeon of sorts after having sex with a minor that she met through World of Warcraft. Romance in World of Warcraft is nothing new. Plenty of like-minded gamers have dated, fallen in love, and gotten...

Capcom Crosses Mega Man With LittleBigPlanet Mega Man Universe will let you create the side scroller you dreamed about back in grade school. Ages ago, I used to spend my school days ignoring my teachers and drawing my own Mega Man maps on graph paper. I'm sure that I wasn't alone in this -...

PSP Knights in the Nightmare Includes Free Bonus Game Deciding that an art book just isn't enough this time, Atlus has announced that every copy of [http://www.amazon.com/Knights-Nightmare-Sony-PSP/dp/B003S55EXC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1283972173&sr=8-1] will come with a free...

New Kinect Brain Age Will Train Brains and Bodies Professor Kawashima wants you to drop the DS and start waving your arms as he judges your mind in a new Namco-developed Kinect...

I actually had trouble when I signed up for Xbox Live since my family name is "Gay." I couldn't even put my full name in my Live profile until earlier this year (or lateish last year, I can't quite remember).

I've gotten that comment many times. :)