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Here's what went down today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology:

• Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise is scheduled for release this fall for Nintendo DS.
• Hideo Kojima says the West has surpassed Japan when it comes to game-making.
• Microsoft's Shane Kim says the 360 will have a seven-year life-cycle.
• Guitar Hero IV's drum peripheral has been spotted and shot.
• Electronic Arts has closed their fiscal year and have posted income of $3.7 billion, but actually lost $454 million on the year.
• A convicted killer is claiming to have played Grand Theft Auto just before committing the double murder that puts him up for a potential execution.
• Peter Molyneux says that Fable 2 will be "content complete" by the end of the week.
• One thing you can say about The Sims franchise, they never miss an opportunity to spread The Sims' word. The latest entry: MySims Kingdom for the Wii and DS.
• A  gamer with the tag "TheGayerGamer" has had his name changed because it was deemed offensive.

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• Big Noyd spits an exclusive track on this week's Freestyle 101.
• Kojima might be producing the upcoming Metal Gear movie and that Paul Thomas Anderson is interested in directing.
• The WiiWare title LostWinds is getting a quick sequel.
• Big rumors about Guitar Hero IV hit the web. New instruments and custom track creation?
• LEGO Indiana Jones got a PC demo, available for download today.
• Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise was announced by Microsoft Games Studio.
• Too Human received a release date: August 19th, 2008.
• Microsoft Games Studio announces a release date for Banzo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.

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The Daily Feed with Layla Kayleigh...

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Check out what went down today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology.

• Blizzcon 2008 was announced.
• Nintendo launches WiiWare in the US!
• Hideo Kojima clarifies his statements about MGS4 and the PlayStation 3.
• Miyamoto praises US Indie game developers.
• EA officially announces Skate It for the Wii and DS, while confirming Skate 2 for PS3 and 360.
• Speed Racer didn't do so well at the box office.
• Amazon and Gamestop are both taking pre-orders for God of War III.
• Playboy lost several million dollars in the first quarter of 2008, across all its businesses.
• Activision announced Pitfall: The Big Adventure for the Wii.
• SNL tries to parody GTA IV, but isn't very successful.

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The Daily Feed With Layla Kayleigh...

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• Activision Publishing CEO and president Mike Griffith dropped a few tantalizing details about the next Call of Duty game.
• Universal and Take Two are combining forces to bring us a Bioshock movie.
• X-Play's look at the top ten games for adult eye's only.
• Would you play a game you had to exercise to be good at?
• Here's a huge rumor: Microsoft is releasing their rumored-but-not-confirmed motion controller next week.
• Blizzard has revealed some new details of the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.
• Check out our brand new gallery of shots of Top Spin 3.
• We could have a Guitar Hero 4 as early as this coming holiday season.
• Sony Computer Entertainment has reported that the Gran Turismo franchise has shipped over 50 million units worldwide.
• Rock Band has three tracks for ya, all new wave-tastic.

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The Daily Feed with Layla Kayleigh...

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Here's what happened today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology!

• Pandemic has announced The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, a title envisioned as similar to their Star Wars: Battlefront games, but set in Tolkien's Middle Earth.
• Stride Gum is jumping on the "I hate Uwe Boll" bandwagon.
• It's not confirmed, but it looks increasingly like a Wii version of Kid Icarus is in the cards.
• THQ posted a pretty big loss of $35.3 million for their 2007 fiscal year and they are going to have to lose 200 employees.
• Check out this virtual horse.
• THQ has gained exclusive videogame rights to Marvel Super Hero Squad.
• Peter Moore is impatient for PlayStation Home to come out.
• A lot is going on with the Zune.

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The Daily Feed with Layla Kayleigh...

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Here's what went down today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology.

• Good news, PlayStation 3 brothers and sisters: A patch for your version of Grand Theft Auto IV should be available today.
• Nintendo launched The Nintendo Channel for the Wii last night.
• We have pics of Lego Batman... Two-Face, baby.
• Boom Blox, the puzzle game out now for the Wii, has mightily impress X-Play. Check out the review.
• Common will co-star alongside Christian Bale in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins for Halcyon Pictures.
• RIAA spoke about net neutrality today.
• id Software announced that production has begun on Doom 4, and they may want you to work on it.
• We take a look at the Alienware Area-51 m15x Laptop.
• While being interviewed by CNBC, Take-Two honcho Strauss Zelnick was asked about glitches in Grand Theft Auto IV. There are none, he says.
• Grand Theft Auto IV is the most played game on Xbox Live for the first week of its release!
• The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO IP) Act was just passed under suspension of House rules by the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Bioware plans to add some pretty massive piracy protection to the PC version of Mass Effect.

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The Daily Feed with Layla Kayleigh...

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Here's what happened today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology.

• Secret Agent Clank is coming your way on June 17th.
• MotorStorm 2 is coming your was too.
• Sony's LittleBigPlanet will not be innovatively platforming inside your PlayStation 3 until October.
• The Xbox murder case continues.
• When South Park - The Complete 11th Season is released on August 12 it will include downloadable content for Rock Band as a bonus feature.
• Zune is getting some new features.
• According to Sony boss David Reeves, the PlayStation 3 is outselling the 360...at least in Europe.
• The Mirror's Edge trailer is pretty tight, yeah?
• Warner Music Group is planning on running a test starting this month that will change the price of certain songs on a number of unspecified online music stores to reflect demand.
• EA Sports has cooked up a new division, called "EA Sports Freestyle."
• Think you're a great virtual driver in Gran Turismo? Put it to the test and you could win a spot in a real race.

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The Daily Feed with Kristin Holt: 5.5.08

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Here's what went down today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology!

• This week's Wii virtual console titles feature two fantastic games: Pokemon Puzzle League, originally available on the Nintendo 64 and NES classic beat-em-up Renegade.
• On Saturday, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer sent a letter officially withdrawing $46 billion bid for search engine Yahoo.
• Niko Bellic's biggest crime of all may be the slaying of the Nintendo Wii.
• Fans of Disturbed, you'll want to mosey on down to your local Best Buy and pre-order their new album, Indestructible. It comes with a code to download two of the tracks off of the new album to play in Rock Band.
• A lot of people bought GTA IV and a lot of people went and saw Iron Man this weekend.
• A Rock Band track pack is coming to the Wii and PS2.
• Iron Man cruised to a bruising box office win over the weekend,
• Valve's Doug Lombardi told CVG, "We're not PS3 developers."

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The Daily Feed with Alison Haislip:...

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Here's what happened today in the world of videogames, technology and popular culture!

• Activision and Vivendi are skipping E3 2008.
• More Guitar Hero III downloadable content is coming featuring 3 Muse tracks.
• The creator of Gran Turismo is an excellent driver.
• The new FPS, Darkest of Days, opens their website.
• Rockstar's Dan Houser says, "F*** all this stuff about casual gaming," in an interview with New York Metro.
• More rumors about an Xbox 360 with Blu-Ray hit the web.
• Next-Gen.biz examines the profitibility of MMO's.
• The Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV could be outselling the PS3 version at retail by a margin of two-to-one.
• The next set of Rock Band DLC has been announced.
• Check out some new screenshots from LEGO Batman.
• FFVII director, Yoshinori Kitase, talks about a possible PS3 remake.

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The Daily Feed with Kristin Holt: 5.1.08

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Here's what happened today in the world of videogames, technology and popular culture!

• Liberty City Gets Google Mapped
• 'GTA IV' Multiplayer: Team Mafiya Work
• Announcing G4 Rewind
• Republican Leader is Former Computer Pirate
• 'GTA IV' is Most Expensive Game Ever Made?
• Epic Fail: Summer Blockbusters
• Thompson: Gamers Vandalized My Home
• No PC 'Madden '09' Coming
• Infogrames Buys Atari
• Sessler Vs. Jack Thompson On NPR

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The Daily Feed with Kristin Holt:...

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Here's what happened today in the world of videogames, technology and popular culture!

• Activision revealed some tracks for Guitar Hero On Tour!
• Sims Online is ending.
• Crytek, creators of PC-Only FPS Crysis, are going to stop just producing for PCs.
• If you're at work, and you're jonesing for some Guitar Hero, now you can play some tasty licks in widget form!
• GTA takes digs at Halo 3.
• Phillie won't pull down GTA IV ads.
• Here's a PS2 to PS3 guitar controller converter!
• The price of PlayStation 3 downloadable content is going down in Canada.
• A guy bought a 15k NES game. Genius!
• Nintendo is recalling "character lapel pins" that were sold at its two retail stores in Seattle and New York City "because they contain lead in excess of levels.
• Both Microsoft and Yahoo were given the opportunity to develop and own the Steam game-download service, but both companies turned it down.
• Tabula Rasa wants you back.

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The Daily Feed with Alison Haislip...

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Here's what happened today in the world of videogames, technology and popular culture.

• Blockbuster is getting into gaming in a big way.
• Some policeman know that GTA is just a game.
• It's Grand Theft Auto IV day around the world!
• Are people calling out for Grand Theft Auto IV?
• X-Play's GTA IV review for you.
• Tha Alkaholiks are on Freestyle 101.
• Gamefly's top ten list!
• Grand Theft Auto's social club is open for business.
• The City of Heroes/City of Villains MMO family is celebrating their 4th year in business with User-Created Content.
• According to Valve, creators of Portal, the sequel won't be out for a long time.
• Some gamers are reporting that GTA IV is freezing up PS3 systems.
• A British chap was knifed in front of a line of up to a hundred people waiting to buy Grand Theft Auto IV  last night.

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The Daily Feed with Layla Kayleigh...

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Here's what happened today in the world of videogames, popular culture and technology.

• According to an interview in Gamesindustry.biz, you were almost playing Portal on Xbox Live.
• Terminal Reality, developers of the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Videogame, confirmed that the new game will feature the original Ray Parker Jr. theme song.
• The first reviews are in for Grand Theft Auto IV, and guess what? Everyone really likes it.
• According to Nintendo guru Shigeru Miyamoto, while Wii Fit is fun, it's no substitute for exercise.
• Are "exclusive" reviews ethically problematic?
• Double Dragon is available on Wii.
• Did you enjoy the first Assault Heroes on Xbox Live Arcade? If so, you'll be getting a sequel on May 14.
• Boll to box Bay?
• The first user-created, in-game radio station for GTA IV is available for download.
• Leslie Benzies, the president of Rockstar games, recently compared critics of Grand Theft Auto IV to the people who hated Elvis Presley back in the 1950s.
• Ubisoft announced some details of the new Prince of Persia.
• According to a source at UPS, brown-clad drivers in shorts are swiping early copies of Grand Theft Auto IV.
• Apparently, the Xbox 360 version of