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Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday he hadn’t rule out making a second bid for the White House, though he said it was unlikely.

• Has anyone ever called a Week 2 retirement press coference before? Brett Favre might want to give it some thought. The Packers were throttled at home, 26-0 at the hands of their division…

Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay wasknocked out of Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels in the first inning when Garret Anderson lined a single off his pitching elbow.

According to a recent post on SNK-Capcom.com, Capcom may be developing a new Versus fighter featuring superheroes from the DC Comics universe. (thanks ForeverGeek)
They write:
“In non-related E3 news, we heard some buzz from Capcom a deal with D…

The RNCC dispatched half-dozen operatives to search through tax, court,and other records for DIRT on Democrats to use in negative ads..

On the eve of its rivalry game against No. 7 Florida, No. 13 Tennessee lost two key defensive starters for the season, the school announced on Sunday.

Joystiq attended the recent PAX convention and apparently the new game from The Behemoth (the masterminds behind Alien Hominid), Castle Crashers was the big hit of the show.
Many of the attendees stated that the game was good enough to warrent the…

Nintendo gets studied, Second Life gets hacked, and Sony’s Ken Kutaragi shows a moment of weakness. Check out the highlights for this weekend:

Joystiquery
Nintendo’s 8-bit power play a staple for MBA courses
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: September 9, 2006
PAX: The Castle Crashers test
Joyswag: A Castle Crashers tee for your thoughts
Poll: What classic games do you want on the Wii?

News
Second Life’s user database breached
Wii-eel attachment looks rather un-wii-ldy
Kutaragi admits “decline” in Sony’s hardware capabilities
Video Games Live adds Halo 3, Civ IV to repertoire
EA: Spore is PC only … for now
How’s Vivendi planning to follow their blockbuster WoW act?

Rumors & Speculation
PS3: better than a toaster?

Culture
Sassify your inner econ geek
McDonald’s rips off Gordon College Mario show
Awful CD-i Zelda games get remixed
Touchscreen Starcraft demonstrates how RTS games were meant to be played
Ze Frank talks video games, we laugh

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After winning a $1 million jackpot from a scratch-off lottery ticket in 2002, Valerie Wilson of New York bought homes for her children, and now she’s still working in a deli. Will her second lottery win change her life? [CBS News]

Ring of Honor capped off its seven-month feud with Combat Zone Wrestling in a Cage of Death match, featuring five ROH wrestlers vs. five CZW competitors. Also on this show, American Dragon defended his ROH World Title against CZW’s Sonjay Dutt, and A.J. Styles went one-on-one with rising star Davey Richards.

PetManimal writes “Ken Mingis, Computerworld’s Mac editor, has given Vista a spin on his Macbook Pro in order to review and compare hardware performance with OS X. It’s not a rigorous benchmarking, but he does notice a few issues relating to power consumption: ‘Since installing Vista, I have found that my MacBook Pro runs hot. No doubt Microsoft hasn’t worked on power management issues that might affect Apple hardware, which leaves me to wonder whether I’m slowly cooking the motherboard of my laptop. It’s not hot enough to fry an egg on the aluminum case, but my laptop is noticeably warmer than when I use Mac OS X. I’ve also noticed that battery life is substantially reduced. Once again, energy management for Apple hardware is not likely at the top of Microsoft’s list. Once Apple writes updated drivers to work with Vista, I’d expect these issues to be addressed.’”

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Quick: guess the second-best selling game in the Vivendi game portfolio, after World of Warcraft.

If you guessed Ice Age 2, you’re a freak (or you peeked). You’re also clearly in touch with the ideas expressed by Vivendi’s chief Jean-Bernard Lévy, who told investors last week that the company’s working on a portfolio of games that are “capable of being played online or on a mobile phone on a train for 15 minutes,” according to the International Herald Tribune.

It’s refreshing to hear the head of a major games publisher talk about diversifying his product portfolio along the lines of game session length. For too long, companies have focused diversification efforts along genre lines, a rigid segmentation strategy that lacks relevance in this age of on-the-go entertainment via DAPs, mobile phones, DSs and PSPs.

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