With industry news lately so dominated by tear-soaked tales of high-level executives being put out of their misery by pinkslip-wielding, immortal corporate overlords, we welcome today’s announcement…
Today in PS3
European launch of PlayStation 3 delayed until March 2007
North American, Japanese PS3 launch limited to 500,000 units
Are you ready to break-up with Sony?
Sony’s fumble gives Microsoft, Nintendo a share of PS3’s holiday pie
Sony: 1mln to 1.2mln PS3s for North America in ‘06
As PAL waits, potential customers fire back
News
Free indie games “magazine” launches
Current best selling PC games: Keyboard and mouse FTW!
New PSP hack gets downgrader, e-Loader
SCEA fills months-vacant top PR slot. Salut!
Captain Obvious: UMD price drop brings huge sales
First PS3 Ridge Racer 7 screens surface
How to make a GTA trailer
Devil May Cry 4 information leaked a tad early
Uwe “I make crappy game movies” Boll silences his first critic
WoW players set up memorial service for croc hunter
Nintendo of Korea gets seal of (dis)approval
Rumors & Speculation
Rumor: Playstation-based cell phone?
Culture
Stupidly obvious online safety and parenting tips from NCsoft
German Honda ad apes Tetris, Simpsons
Nintendo’s (sometimes sordid) past now available on Google news archives
Designing a DS Lite case: arts & crafts with a purpose
Nintendo patents high scores, wet water
From gaming teen to virtual entrepreneur: how to cover college tuition
Stand-alone AI card: is it viable?
MS State marching band plays video game music during halftime show
Slate author: Madden taught me football
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I was a late bloomer when it came to knowing the rules of football. I learned the basics (four downs, touchdown is six points, etc.) from NFL Blitz when I was 15; a few years back I started to understand positions and audibles when I came to college and started watching our football team and going to the games.
For Slate author Felix Gillette, the intricacies of football were made clear via Madden 2007. In this interesting narrative, Gillette examines how more minor details in televised football have become understandable as a result of a few Madden sessions.
As Gillette concludes, “in the years to come, people who grew up learning about football via Xbox will expect broadcasters to give them more complex information.” Has video games provided a means by which one can learn complex rules in an entertaining environment? How might this process be applicable for, say, quantum mechanics?
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