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Cabela's Alaskan Adventure
That is exactly what Medal of Honor: Airborne players will have to parachute into when they boot up their respective game discs (PS3, Xbox 360, PC, or PS2, as well as the Wii, but no specific media available for Nintendo's console yet). Mad Catz Goes Old School for Xbox 360 Mad Catz Interactive, Inc., a leading third party video game accessory provider, announced today that its Arcade GameStick for Xbox Live Arcade, Xbox 360 and PC will ship to major US retailers for availability this holiday season. Through collaboration with Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. and PopCap Games, Mad Catz has introduced a joystick controller bundled with three full Xbox Live Arcade games: Frogger, Time Pilot and Astropop.
"Our launch of the Arcade GameStick is consistent with our strategy of developing new revenue streams from video game software bundled with a unique controller," said Darren Richardson, President and CEO of Mad Catz. "Retro-arcade games are a hot market segment, especially on Xbox 360 Live Arcade, and this officially licensed Xbox 360 Arcade GameStick is the answer for anyone that values the control and finesse that only a real joystick can provide." "Frogger and Time Pilot are classic games that hearken back to the heyday of the original video game arcade," said Yoshinori Aoyagi, Manager, CEO Office at Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas ( Review ) It's hardly surprising, then, to note that several of the new additions railroaded into last year's Lockdown have been quietly ditched for Vegas - for very sound reasons. So, out go Ding Chavez (boo!), quicksaves, multiple pointless ways to blast a door down, tension-defeating heartbeat sensors, annoying trip wires and even more annoying sniping missions, and dense squad AI that seemed to have big problems shooting on target. The 'in' column makes for heartening reading: sensible checkpoint saves, Call Of Duty 2-style recharging heath system, superb squad AI, refined controls, duck and cover control system, squad revives, hugely improved visuals, multiple paths within levels, snakecam 'tagging' and, oddly, one fewer man in your squad. On a basic, fundamental level, Rainbow Six Vegas is an absolutely huge leap up for the series, and easily one of the best tactical shooters ever made - but don't assume that means it's perfect. Greater Tulsa Reporter Wins Four National Awards The Greater Tulsa Reporter Newspapers received four coveted national awards from the Independent Free Papers of America at the IFPA annual conference, held this year in Hershey, Pa. Sept. 21-23. The GTR Newspapers also won four national awards at last year's annual conference, held in Minneapolis. The GTR Newspapers, established in 1993, include the Union Boundary, Jenks Gazette, Tulsa Free Press, Owasso Rambler, Broken Arrow Express and Bixby Breeze. The awards given were for local business coverage, a sports article, a holiday shopping advertisement and the GTR internet site. The business article was written by D.J. Morrow Ingram in January 2006, and was titled "Tulsa Area Leaders Discuss Past, Future." The sports article, published in March 2006, was written by contributing writer Bruce Howard and was titled, "Love of Game Leads Players to Senior League." Howard also serves as director of sports broadcasting for the University of Tulsa. Will freshman class live up to the hype? Rivals.com selected the top 25 storylines for the upcoming 2006-07 college basketball season and will be releasing articles daily, counting down from No. 25 to No. 1. The No. 2 storyline centers on how the NBA's age limit has forced the top high school players to head to college.
The NCAA might want to consider increasing its marketing budget for the upcoming college basketball season. Designing a campaign for the newcomers would be even better. When it comes to the latest freshmen class, they've got their best product in more than a decade. Thanks to the NBA's age limit rule, the top high school players are in college for the first time since 1995 - when Kevin Garnett started what would become a trend. In the last decade, many of the top prep prospects skipped college and headed to the NBA.
Comparing the Xbox 360 and PS3 side-by-side Why do most PS3 launch games look about the same as second-year Xbox 360 games? That's what the peeps over at 1UP are trying to unearth via side-by-side screen comparisons in an attempt to justify the PS3's $200 premium. NICARAGUAN REBELS: Iran-Contra may haunt Gates Soon after the Sandinistas downed an arms-laden plane over Nicaragua 20 years ago, Robert Gates met privately with three other senior CIA officials. They met to decide what they would tell Congress as it investigated whether the secret mission violated a U.S. ban on military aid to the right-wing insurgents seeking to topple the Marxist government. That meeting was the subject of an inquiry by Iran-Contra prosecutors when they considered indicting Gates over allegations that he deceived Congress about the illegal program. Questions about whether Gates told the truth about his role in the Iran-Contra scandal 20 years ago might surface again during a Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday on his recent nomination by President Bush to replace Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense. South Africa: Reverse Strategy Hilary Joffe's probing analysis goes far beyond the usual pro or con discussion, Lest we get sidetracked by the debate over basic income grant (November 21). She is right in saying that the basic income grant (BIG) debate may be wrongly cast for the reason she gives. But her alternative of the social wage is surely not the answer as government is already doing a lot on both counts.
Arguably both "work around" the main issue, which is how the economy is working. I believe we have got trapped in a mindset calling for growth in the first economy and in exports. This is a very limited perspective of a country as rich in resources as we are, since it leaves out any prospect of a job for a huge number of people for a long time to come, and it guarantees we shall remain a polarised society.
Ballmer quips on Xbox 360 shortages Microsoft CEO and formidably wealthy man Steve Ballmer has quipped in a recent meeting that even he can't get hold of an Xbox 360 for his kids in North America, suggesting that he too will have to join the queues and hand over his cash like all the other gamers eager to get a taste of the next-generation. "The Ballmer children do not have their Xbox 360 yet. I'm in the same boat as many of you," Reuters reported Ballmer laughing. "Thanks to the wonders of Sarbanes-Oxley, management does not get a free Xbox 360," he added. 'Sarbanes-Oxley' is a reference to the anti-corporate crime legislation which prevents employees taking products as perks... they instead have to be counted as pay. The law was introduced in the wake of the Enron scandal, which shook the very heart of corporate America, as we can see by Ballmer's lament. HEATHER NEWMAN: Give me a game Games are about a $7-billion industry in this country, and the vast majority are sold in the last three months of each year. But this holiday season offers things that others haven't. For starters, there are two new kids in town: Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii, and those consoles -- plus all the accessories and games to go with them -- should keep video game buyers at a fever pitch through the end of the year. That leads to some big wins for Xbox 360 owners, as games for that console hit their stride. It's been out for a year, meaning that developers had real, final hardware to work with when they put together the titles that are hitting shelves this holiday season -- leading to graphical and gameplay goodness for fans who are picking up the new games. If you haven't gotten a PS3 yet and haven't been on pre-order lists for months, chances are you're not going to get one before the holidays are over. |
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