Electronic Arts debuts fitness video game for Wii

Electronic Arts Inc unveiled its first personal training product on Thursday, tapping into the growing appeal of video games as fitness systems as seen with Nintendo Co Ltd's hit title "Wii Fit" earlier this year.

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RBI Baseball - Bunt Home Run

If you've played RBI Baseball enough, you've no doubt seen the rare but not unthinkable bunt home run. Thanks to the way that the fielders get glued to their bases so quickly, it's possible for a bunt to get past the remaining infielders and, thanks to the fact that RBI Baseball is played on not grass but green ice, the ball can make it all the...

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Inventor of Suicide Bomber Game Says It's No Big Deal

"Have you tried playing it? It's absolutely pointless," says the inventor, who won't reveal his name. ("I have received several death threats," he says.) But seriously, is he honestly that surprised about the furor?

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MotorStorm's Target Render "Pissed Us Off A Lot" Says Devs

Here's an interview we conducted with MotorStorm lead designer Nigel Kershaw and creative director Paul Hollywood. The most revealing part of the interview -- which you can watch in the 1UP Show segment above -- comes when Kershaw reveals his frustration at how often the subject of the original E3 target video for MotorStorm comes up in interviews.

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Why I can't go beyond the first 5 mins of Call of Duty

I've been avoiding Call of Duty: World At War. Not because its developer, Treyarch, has yet to inspire me. Not because it's another World War II shooter. I've been avoiding World At War because the featured enemy is the Japanese Empire. Let me explain:

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We are comfortable with Nazis as demons. This is wrong.

The issue of creating bad guys in video games is an important one, and it's sad that conversations about World War II, the issues of responsibility and duty, and even the nature of evil get lost because we're all so comfortable turning the very human people who fought on both sides of that war into either heroes or villains.

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New spoiler design increases SUV fuel economy 3.4% at 67mph

Collaborating researchers from the University of Michigan-Dearborn and a commercial company have developed a truck/SUV spoiler that is unlike other spoilers. The team adapted fluid dynamics algorithms to produce an unexpected design which they claim yields a 5% reduction in drag and a complete reversal of lift.

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4,300-Year-Old Pyramid Discovered in Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a pyramid buried in the desert and thought to belong to the mother of a pharaoh who ruled more than 4,000 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Tuesday.

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The HTC Touch Pro, a QWERTY Diamond

Call it Raphael no longer! HTC has officially thrown the cover off its Touch Pro today -- the QWERTY slider sibling of the recently-unveiled Touch Diamond -- which should cover the bases for those who loved the Diamond's keen looks but decided they'd go our of their gourds without a full set of physical keys at their disposal. Under that glossy...

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How To Downgrade your PSP & Upgrade to a Custom Firmware

There are a lot of different ways to downgrade, which one you’ll have to use depends on your current firmware. Some are harder to break than other, but it’s always possible. We will be posting a simple step-by-step guide, so that nearly everyone will be able to find his or her way through the bulk of information available on the web.

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