It’s official - SCEA announced today the April 17 North American ship date for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, available exclusively for PS3. Developed by famed Polyphony Digital, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be available for $39.99 on Blu-ray Disc (BD) and as a download via the PLAYSTATION Store.

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“Rez HD is one of the best games ever made, it costs around $10, and you don’t even need to leave the house to get it. In over a decade of critiquing games I’ve never felt the need to say these words in a review until now: Just buy it.”

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Kay Hymowitz recently stated on NPR that 20-30 year-old men should stop playing video games and become productive members of society. Why can’t we do both, and what makes games the problem?

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After bleeding red for months, Sony’s games division finally turned a profit last quarter. This after Sony slashed prices on consoles,

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How did Microsoft pull it off? They were a boring, monolithic software company helmed by Bill Gates, the world’s biggest geek. They made Windows. They made spreadsheet software and word processing programs.

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Our inside source of all things video gaming has been right almost every time it comes out of the shadows to give us information, so I’m going to dispense with the back story. Wherever his or her information is coming from, it’s usually solid. After I spoke to Sony about the possible discontinuation of the 80GB PS3 model, I lit the mole-signal.

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While this is good news for those looking for a new laptop at a lower cost due to the smaller Blu-ray player, gamers who have yet to purchase a PS3 may be able to get in on this as well.

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With the extra time from the original October 2007 release date to the recently announced April 29th, 2008 ship date, they
’ve really pulled it through and now go as far as to say as they are identical (sans the 360 exclusive DLC).

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Famous anti-gaming crusader Jack Thompson calls the Fox News vs Mass Effect story contrived and self-help author Cooper Lawrence. In other news Hell freezes over.

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Going up against the Fox News monster can be tough, especially when they’re overflowing with ignorance on the subject of games. Geoff Keighley talks about his appearance with GameDaily BIZ.

“I sort of felt a little bit like I was on an Onion News Network skit or something like that. It was a little off the wall…”

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Last month, a Virginia Tech student was found dead in the Target parking lot of the Christiansburg, Virginia store with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. His name was Daniel Kim, a 21-year old senior at the university.

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In the last six years, there’s been one constant when discussing Microsoft’s foray into the strange and seductive world of video game console manufacturing: they had yet to turn a profit on any of it. No more, with today’s announcement of Microsoft’s second quarter earnings which showed a relatively impressive six-month income of $524 million.

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Sony has just forwarded the first high-resolution screenshots of Resistance 2. These are not magazine scans. Looks pretty amazing and detailed!

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Self help author Cooper Lawrence, along with Fox News came under heavy fire from gamers last week when they mindlessly branded Mass Effect as pornography. While Fox News hasn’t come forth with an apology, Lawrence has admitted her mistakes in an interview with the New York Times yesterday after angry gaming fans trashed her book on Amazon.

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My luck is sometimes known as the worst in the world and this kind of cements it:

Yep. This means that the podcast most likely wont happen this weekend unless I am able to find another headset around the house that works. I’ll update if I do. I have already placed an order on amazon for a new microphone and headset but they will not arrive until next week.