Category: "Wii"

Blogger & Former Nintendo Employee “Jessica Carr” Joins Ripten.com

The now infamous blogger and former Nintendo employee Jessica Zenner (alias Jessica Carr) will be joining the staff here at Ripten.com.

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Table Tennis Preview: How to Smack Balls like a Rockstar

Leagues beyond Wii Sports Tennis This week Rockstar Games held an informal get-together for game journalists in the San Francisco Bay Area to hang out at a Metreon sports bar, have some drinks, and learn to play Table Tennis on the Wii.

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Party: GameCock Puts Out for Austin GDC

If the decreased number of sexy chicks at recent industry events has got you down, you can count on GameCock to pile them on after hours. We were fortunate enough to get an invite to their party at Fado Irish Pub this past Thursday night. I think they may have mentioned games…once or twice, including [...]

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Tiger Woods 08 “Game Face” Servers Down — EA Sports Issues Apology

EA Sports announced a new feature this year for Tiger Woods 2008 that would allow gamers to upload a picture of themselves and use it to create an in game character that they said would not only look like them, it would actually be them.

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COD4 Beta: Infinity Ward Promises To Make Things Right

Angry fans that waited for the Call of Duty 4 Beta sign up today at noon soon realized that the site could not take the traffic and that it crashed again, just like it did when news of the beta was first announced.

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GameCock Media & Blazing Lizard Studios Announce Pirates VS. Ninjas Dodgeball

The Internet has put in some long hard hours on the issue, but Blazing Lizard’s first game promises to solve it once and for all—Pirates or Ninjas? Yes, Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball should do the trick. But how exciting can dodgeball get?

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Midnight Release? Call In Sick? What’s Your Annual Madden Release Ritual?

The Madden 08 countdown is coming to a close, and whether you are a fan of the game or not, you can not deny that the annual release of Madden has become a holiday of sorts. Football has tailgating and Madden has it’s share of midnight releases across the country. We here at ripten.com want [...]

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EA Sports Madden 08 In-depth Review

At the 20… 10… 5… oh! Down just short of the goal! We won’t bother hitting you with a creative intro, because there will surely be enough sites out there filling your head with marketing mumbo jumbo. In other words, you won’t confuse our review with something you may find on the back of the [...]

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Precedents for Progress: How Nintendo’s Past Helped Shape Gaming’s Future

On a normal day, you’d find me spinning around in my office chair contemplating the meaning of life, the Mayan calendar, and global warming, but today the mailman came bearing gifts. Yes, today is a good day.

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“It’s Not A Rumah” — Schwarzenegger Will Appeal California Videogame Ruling

Contrary to his line in The Simpsons Movie, now in theaters, apparently Mr. Schwarzenegger believes it is his job to lead as well as read.

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Activision First Quarter Numbers In – Publisher Ready To Defend #1 Ranking

Publisher Activision Inc. strummed in their 1st quarter earnings on Thursday to the tune of $27.8 million. That kind of green can buy enough web fluid for at least a few more Spider-Man videogame sequels.

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Marketing Aside, EA or 2K? Which Game Delivers A Next Gen Football Experience?

The news is in regarding All-Pro Football 2K8′s initial sales, and the numbers don’t look good. From a business standpoint, the numbers are very important to Take-Two and 2K Sports. The company has come out and said that they realize they are in competition with Madden. This caused many individuals to laugh at the remark, [...]

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2K Sports and Konami Announce MLB Power Pros – Gameplay Video

Fans of Major League Baseball will have yet another change up thrown their way this Fall from 2K Sports.

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 Photo Game Face Video – Get Your “Golf Face” On

How many times have you stepped onto the virtual green, reached for your club and thought, I’ve done everything possible to customize my golfers face but that still looks nothing like me? Get ready for all that to change.

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Real World Weather Affects NCAA 08

Videogame football doesn’t reschedule for no stinkin’ tornado… It’s been a feature long imagined since consoles first connected to the Internet, but now the latest version of NCAA football from EA Sports will actually change the virtual field conditions according to the real-world weather outside.

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