At first we thought this Wii Pole Dancing game was a joke—how could something so sexy come to such a “family-friendly” and casual console like the Wii? Turns out it’s not a joke.

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If this is the future of casual gaming, motion controls, and Wii, count me in. Boom Blox may not be the best Wii game, depending on your proclivities, but it’s definitely the best use of the Wii yet. It’s immensely accessible, wonderfully tactile, and stands as one of the best treatments of gaming in a 3D space.

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Id Software announced Doom 4. Also, they’re hiring, in case you have a knack for designing better in-game flashlights.

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Blizzard is fighting against a company that sells a bot program for use with World of Warcraft, but is doing so in a novel, and scary way: using your RAM to play games is copyright infringement, until Blizzard tells you it isn’t.

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Rockstar Games just confirmed that they have released a patch for the Playstation 3 version of GTA IV which was causing issues with online play.

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The title sold about 3.6 million units on April 29, its opening day, bringing in roughly $310 million (
€200.91 million). This is $10 million (€6.48 million) more than what Microsoft Corp.’s “Halo 3,” another blockbuster game, took in during its first week last fall.

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Live from Sony’s PlayStation Day 2008 in London, David Reeves has just announced Killzone 2 for February 2009, ending speculation that the game would arrive this fall.

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Microsoft is teaming with the Companions in Courage Foundation to deliver Xbox 360 kiosks to children’s hospitals across the country, the company announced today. Each kiosk will include an Xbox 360 packed with select games, movies, television content and access to a private network that allows hospitalized children to play games and chat.

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Warcraft and StarCraft developer Blizzard has begun offering direct downloads of select PC titles via a new portion of its online store.

Furthermore, owners of certain Blizzard efforts can now register their CD keys on the site to add the titles to their Blizzard Account and download them for free at any time.

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The emerging effort to use videogames as a channel for selling music is entering its next phase with the recent release of “Grand Theft Auto IV.”

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As we have stated, we have no plans to introduce a Blu-ray drive for Xbox 360,” said a Microsoft official in an email to GamePro on Monday. “Games are what drive consumers to purchase game consoles, and we remain focused on providing the largest library of blockbuster games available.”

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Crysis sold 1 million copies worldwide as of February this year, but Crytek is nevertheless struck by how many illegitimate copies are circulating. Crytek engine business manager Harald Seeley said that he could not reveal specific internal figures pertaining to piracy of Crysis, but he added, “I can say the level of piracy was the. . .

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This New York Times blog article describes how the release of GTA IV affects Take Two’s stock price and any potential deal with EA.

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See what’s been discovered by Liberty City locals! Check the categories on the right to show markers for just about any person, place or thing in Liberty City. First to find something? Right click on the map location and choose “Add Marker” to share your original discovery.

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The Chinese language Economic Daily News is reporting that Pegatron, an OEM subsidiary of ASUS, has won the order from Microsoft to assemble the Xbox 360 with Blu-ray Disc ROM drive — shipments are expected to being in Q3 of this year.

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