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California school to offer DDR as PE alternative

Schools to mix video games, exercise:

“We’d like to see how kids take to it, especially kids who are not involved in league sports like soccer,” Buster said. “We really jumped on the idea of looking at what children love to do and what gets them to move. These games are fun and engaging [...]

Game companies closer to getting a clue about women gamers

Marketwatch has an article about the games women play and the companies marketing to them:

But a respectable foundation on which the industry can build the ranks of female customers appears to be in place, as 43% of all gamers now are female, according to the Entertainment Software Association. The average female gamer over [...]

Japanese classrooms to be outfitted with oversized American technology

From CNET:

Classrooms in Japan will be getting Xboxes, but not for playing games. Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will donate Xbox consoles enabled with video chat capabilities to all elementary and junior high schools in Tokyo’s Suginami ward in hopes of helping the children become more IT-literate.

Instilling an appreciation for the wonder [...]

Cover of every Super Mario World song

It must be Mario music day. Jason Cox has made his album of covers of every song from Super Mario World available on the Internet Archive and single-handedly created the “mariocore” genre. According to the cover, instruments used include banjo (for some toe-tappin’ ragtime), asscheeks, coconut thumb piano, and a turkey locator. There’s also some [...]

Everybody do the Mario

You got your Mario in my DDR! You got your DDR in my Mario! You’re not my real dad! GameCube Europe has given us screenshots and boxart and the warm sense of security that comes from knowing that your dream of doing a jig with Toad (to cross a river, inexplicably) will finally come true. [...]

List of 360 titles in Xbox UK mag

Donkey Kong Universe has a scan of a page from the Official Xbox Magazine UK with a list of games to be released on the Xbox 360. Some games that caught my eye:

Jade Empire 2 Crazy Taxi title Sonic game Banjo Kazooie game Killer Instinct 3

The numbers are in

Games Are Fun has the results from the third in a series of surveys of developers, retailers, and consumers conducted by the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, asking which console will rule the roost, which one is the prettiest, etc. I’d quote the article but it’s just a bunch of numbers. I do have a chart [...]

Next-gen systems could help cure cancer

PS3 controller to deliver constant stream of new cytotoxic drug, Microsoft claims Xbox 360 will kill twice as many cancer cells per second with three simultaneous injections.

Actually, it’s just an article at Wired News proposing we put all that computing power about to come our way to good causes like Folding@Home:

The next generation [...]

Game Manuals

Game manuals!

Game manuals:

Have you ever rented a game that came with no instructions?

Have you ever bought a used game and found out later that the package you received didn’t come with an essential map or answers to copy protection questions required to play the game?

Have [...]

Pink goo triumphant, supervillain middling

Has the Nintendo DS come of age? Has the dry spell ended? Some said post-E3 that road ahead for the DS looked to be full of promise while the PSP so maybe the good times are coming.

Exhibit A is Kirby Canvas Curse, whose main features seem to be the magical ability to make you not [...]