Real as in streaming advertisements piped dynamically to games like EA’s forthcoming Madden 2008, NASCAR 2008, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008, NHL Hockey 2008, and Skate. An extension of Microsoft’s game ad company Massive Inc. (purchased by the Redmond software…

HD DVD for Xbox 360 On the Cheap
From $200 to $180, now those of you sitting impatiently on underutilized high definition TVs can slap an HD DVD player on an Xbox 360 for $20 less. Stepping in at Comic-Con 2007, Microsoft announced the price trim to…

Surprise! Video Game Advertising Works!
So it’s just after dusk in the land of Whizbangya and you’ve been hacking your way through the Forest of Dunderbrush for hours with your Ooloo of Liquidation, wearily lopping heads off mutant Rabittoids and Chipskunks in hopes of leveling…

Hot Off the Grill: Combat Mission Shock Force Demo
If you’re not a wargamer you’ve probably only noticed Combat Mission in passing, perhaps on the obscure end of one of those “the year in” awards lists (where it typically lands a notch or two up from top-down wargames like…

Dust Off Your Fedoras for LEGO Indiana Jones the Video Game
To quote a great sage and rocker, I was born in a small town. Make that eight years scrambling around a backyard hill wide and long as a crooked football field, and because this was still the early 1970s,…

Mitt Romney and the Video Game “Cesspool”
While I was standing in line waiting for Harry Potter 7 last Friday, Mitt Romney was busy in Ida Grove a few hours away talking about terrorism, sexual deviants, and describing much about our current popular culture — including video…

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