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Filed under: Culture, Retro

Digital apes hailing the NES controller — what more could you want? Entitled “Also sprach Miyamoto” — a reference to either Nietzsche or “that song from 2001: Space Odyssey,” depending on who you ask — this Threadless T-Shirt submission currently has been scored by over 1,600 people and the comments show an extremely positive reaction, so we will likely (and hopefully) be able to add this piece of gaming chic to our wardrobe in the near future.

Incredibly hot!

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One series into its first preseason game, the Washington Redskins’ revamped offense took a significant jolt.

Running back Clinton Portis hurt a shoulder on the Washington Redskins’ opening series Sunday night and left the preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Running back Clinton Portis partially dislocated his left shoulder during Washington’s opening series of the preseason Sunday night, a significant setback for the Redskins’ revamped offense.

Filed under: Nintendo Wii

A memo sent to UK Virgin megastores has been “leaked” onto the internet. Purportedly, Nintendo will be contacting selected stores today to discuss installing Wii countdown clocks. That doesn’t mean the release date will be known tomorrow, though — it just means, if this leak is to be believed, that Nintendo will be contacting stores about the installation, which could occur at a later date.

Nintendo’s “Wii Prove our Promise” presentation at the Leipzig Games Convention will take place early August 23rd (4:15 a.m. EST). With no Space World and a promise to reveal launch details by the end of September, this seems like the likely platform for announcements.

And, if this memo is true, the clocks will likely be installed the same day, or earlier and then activated. Still, these “leaked memos” do nothing but incite fanboyism and instill generally false hope. The rumor derived from a post by an administrator on the Nintendo Wii Chat forum and quickly made its way to the top of Digg’s gaming section. Don’t get too caught up in the hype; while countdown clocks would be a smart marketing move, these rumors rarely work out.

The memo has been transcribed below, or you see the original scan here.

Nintendo Wii Countdown Clocks

As the launch of the Nintendo Wii approaches please be aware that your store will be receiving a Nintendo Wii Countdown Clock to help instore activity and pre-awareness.

Nintendo will be contacting your store to arrange the installation of the countdown clocks from the 14th August.

Please see below for the list of stores receiving the clocks.

• Megastore
• Piccadilly
• Liverpool
• Cribbs Causeway
• Kings Road
• Bournemouth
• Leeds
• Meadowhall
• Birmingham

Kind regards,

[name erased]
Head of Games

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Devine told Young before the match that as a former partner, he knows he chokes all the time. Tenay and West talked about how fragile and paranoid Young is. The crowd chanted “Super Eric” early. Devine dominated early. Fire extinguishers were utilized in the rafters as pryo caught something on fire…

Afterwards, a homeless man ran to ringside and attacked Slick Johnson. The announcers recognized him as Earl Hebner. Hebner was pulled away by officials. He screamed at Larry “Mo” Zbyszko. He said Slick cost him his job and he was taking Larry down with him. Yes, they continue to focus on two referees and a lame duck authority figure.

lukfil writes “We all know of floating point numbers, so much so that we reach for them each time we write code that does math. But do we ever stop to think what goes on inside that floating point unit and whether we can really trust it?”

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Business

Advanced Media Network is reporting, via their anonymous sources, that Silicon Knights has dropped Unreal Engine 3 for use in its epic (both in scale and development time) title Too Human. The developer, citing difficulties with the Unreal Engine working well on the Xbox 360, will supposedly build their own engine from scratch.

Silicon Knights declined to comment on the rumor. While it’s possible the developer had issues optimizing the Unreal Engine (their E3 showing undulated from 30 frames per second to a “slide show” presentation), other titles like Epic’s own Gears of War have shown that the engine is capable of working phenomenally. And Silicon Knights building their own engine would cause another monumental delay.

We’re tentatively calling BS on this one, but with a game already a decade in development, what’s another year?

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