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Ok, I’ll be honest, best I can suss out from the press release is that Thrusmaster’s T-Freestyle NW gaming board is a piece of wood with rubber bumpers that works in concert with the Wii Balance Board to produce a RIDE like experience for current and soon to be released Wii snowboarding and skateboarding games.  And I don’t know what Rolling Motion Board technology is, but whatever ‘koolaid’ Thrustmaster’s marketing team is cooking up I want a sip of it.

It’s crafted of genuine maple and launches this holiday season (end of November) for $29.99. …Continue reading: Thrustmaster Intros Budget Friendly RIDE Experience

Having just played Xevious not to long ago, seeing these lighters only furthers my warm fuzzy nostalgia feelings.  A week or so back we saw the classic Sega gaming systems as Zippos, and while they looked sweet they were way over priced.

These new Namco Games Zippos are not quite as expensive (about $110), but have a greater mass appeal.  Channeling Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Galaxian, and of course Xevious, these Zippos are ready to make an appearance at next year’s E3.

Still too overpriced or what?

[via OhGizmo]

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Buy.com, via Ebay has the DJ Hero Bundle with Turntable For Nintendo Wii for $89.99 + free shipping = $89.99 shipped! This game includes a turntable, game and all the fun in the world to make you into a super star DJ like PJ! …Continue reading: DJ Hero Bundle with Turntable For Nintendo Wii – $90 Shipped

Well, I guess I was wrong, it is week 41 for Walmart!  Because today that leaked deal, the Xbox 360 Arcade console with $100 Gift Card for $199, it’s now live.  Unfortunately, it looks like it’s available in stores only, but they’ve got it listed on their website, so it doesn’t get more official than that!

Update: I’m hearing the sale start this Saturday, 11/7, despite Walmart already listing it on their site.

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In what’s shaping up to be one of the biggest game releases ever, today has found that MW2 will have two separate strategy guides.  One of them is the normal guide that you’d find for most all games, but the other is the “premium” strategy guide.

Oh snap you might say?

All that is different between the two besides the price difference is that the “premium” one will hard bound and that it will divulge how to get all of the achievements and trophies.

I personally think it is a waste to buy a guide for any COD game but from a business standpoint, which it always is, this is a great idea.  Milk them udders!

Say it like Satan would.  Slow and bellowing…BUY NOW!!!!

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Hardcore zombie fans rejoice, because Valve, the makers of Left 4 Dead, have just released a demo of Left 4 Dead 2, the highly anticipate co-op game to Xbox Live Gold members. That’s right, you can download it right now!

I played the first one and though I can’t say I was addicted it’s definitely an entertaining experience.  The co-op aspect makes the game all the more fun and the arcade style feel makes it an easy ‘pick up and play’.

The sequel to the best-selling and critically-acclaimed co-operative multiplayer smash from Valve®, Left 4 Dead™ 2 promises to become one of 2009’s top-selling games and set a new benchmark for co-operative action games. Left 4 Dead 2 takes place at roughly the same time as the original, and leads four new “Survivors” through the southeastern United States — from Savannah, Georgia to New Orleans’ French Quarter. The title adds melee combat, new monsters and weapons, the AI Director 2.0, and more to create a larger game than the original. Visit www.l4d.com for more information.

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For all intense and purposes the PSPGo has been considered a down right failure in the video game hardware business.  This is further evidenced by a somewhat dismal launch in the console’s country of origin this past Sunday, which saw a total of 28,275 units sold on day one.  Compare that to the DSi which moved 170,000 units or the PSP-3000 that sold 140,000 units (the latter has a more comparable price point for all your nay sayers).

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It looks like Nintendo is feeling the pressure from the iPhone.  So much so, that the company’s President, Satoru Iwata, is perhaps considering an Amazon Kindle like wireless model to deliver games to the portable gaming unit.

I’m interested because it’s a new business model in which the user doesn’t bear the communications cost.

Currently Nintendo DSi users can access the Nintendo store to download a variety of content via WiFi, but that requires that the user be within proximity of a signal and seriously hinders the purchase anytime, anywhere impulse.  Of course, this kind of delivery system would be implemented in the next generation of Nintendo DSes and would add some significant cost to the handheld device, something Nintendo may not be willing to do.

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I’d love to say I could say ‘I told you so’ but since I never once wrote about the inevitable demise of Nokia’s N-Gage gaming platform on this blog I really can’t.  But alas, the gaming unit has met its end.  The news actually comes as no surprise.  First it was all about the N-Gage phone, which at best was like talking into a stack of stale hard tacos.  That hardware obviously failed.  Then Nokia had an epiphany and decided to make N-Gage less about hardware and more about an app store for a select set of Nokia handsets – they had to have the computing power.  Course, then the iPhone came along and pretty much upstaged anything Nokia had done from a gaming stand point for mobile handsets.

But like all things Nokia, the N-Gage store will stay open until September 2010, with service running through the end of next year.  Then Nokia will just offer all its gaming content through their Ovi store,  So to reiterate, Nokia ain’t getting out of the gaming biz, they’re just simply rebranding it.

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Not too long ago we posted on the expensive but cool TouchScreen Rubik’s Cube and today we have the Classic Nintendo version.  Though I don’t recognize all of these icons, I’m sure there are fanboys out there that have these tattooed in special places.

Designed by deviantARTist r4r3truffle, this item is not for sale at this time.  I have never been that great at puzzles and I definitely have never completed a Rubik’s Cube.  I’m not so sure this version could get me interested.

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