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Be careful how you Wii over Christmas, fat boy
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Consoles

2008-12-21 16:47:08
Doctors are predicting that the number of 'Wii Knee' injuries caused by games consoles could rise over the holiday period. Lazy gits are apparently most at risk.


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Apple’s iPhone gaming intentions
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology feature

Category: iPhone

2008-12-14 20:58:23
Lookout Nintendo and Sony, as long suspected Apple want to muscle in on your territory by pushing the iPhone as a gaming handheld console.


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Nintendo DS Scrabble beats 8 year old using swears
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Consoles

2008-12-13 05:44:07
She thought it would help her eight year old with his vocabulary, but this mother was not expecting a game of Scrabble on the DS to expand his word knowledge quite so much.


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Wii obliterates opposition in November
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Consoles

2008-12-13 00:07:50
The Nintendo Wii continues to set new sales records over rivals Microsoft and Sony.  Despite pinning hopes on overtaking Nintendo with Black Friday thanksgiving sales, both Microsoft and Sony have been routed again in the U.S.


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Review: Call of Duty: World at War – Once more unto the breach
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT

Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog

2008-12-12 22:47:10
Not fair Treyarch, I still haven't found my socks after they were knocked off by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare late last year, and already a new Call of Duty is there to be played.  Surely returning to WWII is a mistake with a shooter franchise that has already said goodbye to that era?


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iTWire games of 2008
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT

Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog

2008-12-11 22:06:28
As mid-December rolls closer, it is time to ponder lists.  Gift shopping lists, New Year’s resolution lists and of course, best and worst of the year.  So here is a list, a waffling walk through 08’s greats of the gaming world.


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Nintendo Experience opens
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Services

2008-12-10 16:22:56
At 7:30AM this morning, a crowd has begun gathering in front of the new Nintendo Experience EB Games store.  A gaming equivalent cross between the Apple Store and an M.C. Escher painting, Nintendo has rebranded and is planning to connect gaming with even more people.  iTWire got a sneak preview experience.


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X-Men Origins: Wolverine details unsheathed
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Products

2008-12-09 22:40:01
Activision release details of the Twentieth Century Fox movie to game tie in.  This time around the hairiest of all X-Men gets a work over with X-Men Origins: Wolverine.


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INTERVIEW: Mary Beth Haggerty – Autodesk
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT

Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog

2008-12-08 23:52:10
Appearing at the Game Connect Developers conference last month, Mary Beth Haggerty, Autodesks’  Senior industry manager for video games sat down with iTWire to talk all things Autodesk product wise, as well as video gaming industry trends.


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Video Game Piracy: The widening problem and how to stop it
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT

Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog

2008-12-07 23:05:31
Studies indicate that around 10 percent of video games in an average household are of the illegally obtained variety.  Observationally the practice of video game piracy is on the rise, and it is not just at  P2P sites and market stalls.


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Nintendo explain racial slur in Animal Crossing
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Products

2008-12-04 17:35:44
The most family orientated of the three big players in electronic games has been rattled by a controversy with a racial epithet contained in the popular Animal Crossing game.  But don't get too excited, there is something easy to blame, the Internet.


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Nintendo Wii and Ugg Boots lead Black Friday sales
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Consoles

2008-12-01 00:12:21
What financial crisis?  The Wii dominates the Black Friday sales weekend.


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Review: Guitar Hero: World Tour – The family perspective
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT

Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog

2008-11-30 19:46:27
You guitar heroes, you think it’s all about you.  Well now here comes Guitar Hero: World Tour, where a whole band of rhythmically challenged, living room inhabitants can get together and dream a little.


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Panasonic set to Wii over HDTV competitors
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-11-27 19:29:08
Sony used free PS3s to shift Bravia HDTVs in a promotion earlier this year – now Panasonic is offering a “Bonus Wii” with every VIERA Full HD Plasma TV to boost sales in the most crucial Christmas season ever in the face of the global economic crisis.


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Australia’s first “Nintendo Experience” coming Dec 11 at EB Games
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-11-26 23:13:45
With the lure of a free Nintendo DS or Wii games title for the first 100 people to enter the new “Nintendo Experience” zone at EB Games in Swanston Street, Melbourne Australia, on December 11, as well as the chance to win DS or Wii consoles, the Nintendo Experience looks set to be superlative!


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Nintendo blows its own trumpet
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Consoles

2008-11-24 16:34:37
Riding high in sales still, Nintendo announces its line-up to Christmas and some sales figures to gloat about.


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GCAP08: Future trends in games – bye-bye hard-core?
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT

Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog

2008-11-21 16:18:58
Having attended a number of presentations over the past three days at Game Connect Asia, there are some trends emerging in the game development industry, with a focus on garnering future markets.  In many ways traditional hard-core gamers might be upset.


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Video game consoles waste $1 billion in energy, not!
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Sustainability

Category: Energy conservation technologies

2008-11-20 17:48:52
A report has been released blaming gamers for a US1$billion waste in electricity via their beloved consoles.  But checking out the report further highlights a gross assumption.


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Beware! Animal Wii crossing
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Products

2008-11-18 17:55:52
Hang on, no, let me read that again.   Animal Crossing is coming to the Wii, be there.  Nintendo announce the details of Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City.  The popular franchise has crossed over to the Wii console. 


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Electronic Arts climbs on board the fitness wagon
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Products

2008-11-17 00:05:31
Having shifted resources towards the Wii platform, EA are now bearing the fruit of their investment.  EA SPORTS Active is described as “.. an exciting and groundbreaking milestone for EA SPORTS” by EA SPORTS president Peter Moore, but is it just Moore of the same?  You be the judge.


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