Madden Curse Strikes Again

Cover boy Shaun Alexander fractures foot. Out for a month. Dorsey Levens (2000): Ending career due to injuries. Eddie George (2001): Playoff fumble led to Ray Lewis touchdown. An injury the following year seriously hampered career. Daunte Culpepper (2002): Numerous injuries. Get the History of the Madden Curse and see if its coincidence or karma.

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Wal-mart May Not Install Wii Demo Units, Say it's Too Dangerous

Wal-Mart's electronics department layout does not have an allotment of space to demo the Nintendo Wii for the fourth quarter. Manager says it's because they have a "fear of some kid getting hurt or injuring others in the process of flailing his arms around." As of now it's just a rumor.

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Coming in 2007: The Microsoft PlayStation 360

It's been a nightmare year for Sony, but things are just going to get worse. Think you can save Sony by buying more PlayStation 3's this winter? Think again. Every PS3 you buy will drive Sony further toward selling off the company. And who's lining up to buy? Your pals at Microsoft, of course.

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IGN: No Price Cut for US PS3

Sony says no price drop for the North American PS3. Hirai did confirm, though, that the 20GB model would ship with an HDMI port in the US, as it will in Japan.

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25 Minutes of Guitar Hero 2 Video

An anonymous tipster — quaking in trepidation lest he be discovered giving us an 'exclusive' — directed us to this absolutely awesome 25 minute Guitar Hero 2 video. It was a competition held at Beerland in Austin at with the IGDA. Amazingly, the guy who ended up winning the competition had only play Guitar Hero a dozen times... and managed to win without even looking.

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Virtua Tennis 3 Drops Online Play For PS3 Version?

According to a Finnish website, the PS3 version of Virtua Tennis 3 will not feature an online mode. Apparently, Producer Mie Kumagai from Sega said that Sony has not delivered the necessary information about their online network to make coding the online mode possible. Rumor mill for now, but since this exaclty scenario happened with Tony Hawk's Project 8 as well, we believe it.

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New Kameo DLC announced

Rare just announced a new Downloadable Content Pack for Kameo, the Kameo Design-A-Skin DLC, which will be released tomorrow for free. They let some fans design new skins for the old Kameo characters, and look for yourself here how they turned up. The Pummel Weed and Snare skins almost makes me want to buy back the game.

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Trailer of Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Ubisoft just released this trailer of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, which confirms the mid-October release date and shows some gameplay sequences.

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Game Scoop! Podcast 9/22/2006

Nine out of ten doctors recommend the IGN Game Scoop! podcast for those times when videogame news seems too hilarious to be true. Game Scoop! is concocted from a powerful mixture of Doug Perry (Xbox), Jeff Haynes (PlayStation), David Adams, and Daemon Hatfield (News and News, respectively), and is specially formulated to help you digest gaming news in a safe and amusing manner.

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Tiger Woods Squares Up in London

EA has announced the location of its Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 event, now revealed to be taking place in Leicester Square in Central London from 10.00am today. For our US readers, that's pronounced "Less-ter Square" - any attempts to wrangle it into "Lye-sest-er Square" will be duly mocked by smug Brits on the tube ("subway").

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14 High res Playstation 3 trailers

Movies of Afrika, Lair, Monster Kingdom, Resistance: Fall of Man, Virtua Fighter 5, Metal Gear Solid 4 and more.

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Confirmed: PS3 Is Region Free

Sony's Phil Harrison confirmed that the PS3 will have region free games, including those downloaded from the PS3 online service.

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Nintendo brings its Wii console to life in a big way

Nintendo, the No. 2 video game consolemaker, has always been known in the industry for being different. But never before has the company bet so much on being unique as it has in its next-generation platform, which it plans to unveil on Nov. 19.

While Microsoft and Sony duke it out for video game supremacy with their Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 respectively, Nintendo is charting a divergent course that is creating more buzz than its high-powered rivals.

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