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...launch of the Xbox Live Marketplace video store is part of Microsoft's current strategy to draw non-gamers to the platform, migrate "version 1" Xbox users to the newer Xbox 360 system and keep the 360 competitive with the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii consoles...
...boys turn to playing video games. Renee made chili dogs for them to nosh on, but the food is all but ignored as the teens rush to the living room to feed what seems to be their true addiction: Guitar Hero on PlayStation 2 and Mario Superstar Baseball on Nintendo GameCube, which they simultaneously start up on two adjacent television sets. There's no more small talk, just grunted taunts and the occasional "Not now!" thrown at any adults who try to intrude. Small wonder that more parents are putting their money on poker...
...Raised on Nintendo and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, the troops fighting this war want to experience the kind of battle promised to them by Splinter Cell and Total Recall. The videos they make are an attempt to salvage a war whose coherence crumbled soon after Saddam's statue fell. However, while they offer the credibility of an unvarnished image, they lack any meaningful context of what came before and after the clip, or what's happening outside the frame. One veteran described them to the Wall Street Journal as "kind of like the ESPN highlight reels - the music is pumping...
...Nintendo's new game controller is quite intriguing. As a nongamer, I quickly saw beyond its recreational use to its potential in other areas. For example, could the movement and motion described as part of the gaming experience be incorporated into a program of rehabilitation therapy for people recovering from illness or injury? Could that be used as part of a strengthening program for older adults? If Nintendo is looking for new markets, perhaps its engineers and developers should meet with some physical-therapy experts and explore the possibilities. Kim Enders Muscoda, Wisconsin...
...bookend? To get some kind of closure?Or just to remember?The sports section I produced for Commencement last year—the predecessor of the one you’re reading now—had 32 pages, but what I remember most is how I hid the Nintendo games so my writers would get back to work, how we went to IHOP at 8 a.m after working all night, how I ended up answering to “Mom” by the end of it, how we lost all track of night and day putting together a behemoth...