There is a good article at BBC about Nintendo’s next generation console and how it is innovating its own path.

[The] Revolution aims to shake the basic formula of gaming to attract new people to the world of gaming, says Nintendo.

As with any new ideas and innovations there are risks involved. Innovation is a spark that keeps businesses and people moving ever onward and upward. Without innovation, new products, new services, and new ways of gaming would never emerge. We would be forever stuck doing the same old games the same old way.

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The beloved name Commodore, which is easily recognized by those more aged among computer and gaming aficionados, changed hands earlier this year to Yeahromino Media Ventures. They have now announced their intention to return the brand to gaming and are forming a new company, called Commodore Gaming. This new company will produce software and hardware that will use its vast catalog of retro games.

The new company will produce standalone TV devices similar to the wildly successful Atari and Pac-Man self-contained units, as well as software packages akin to Intellivision Lives or Atari Anthology. Furthermore, the Commodore Games label will produce original game licenses as a more traditional games publisher.

Source: Gamasutra

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UPDATE: I guess that’s it for the free stream of the pilot…

The new Chris Rock pilot is now unavailable from Google Video as a free video stream. UPN is offering the pilot of Chris Rock’s new show “Everybody Hates Chris” as a free download via Google Video. Smart — a TV pilot has a lot more to lose from being obscure than it does from not raking in every possible cent of advertising revenue.

Source: Boing Boing

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Three Marvel-licensed videogames have come out in the same week, and if for some reason you only get one this week, which shall it be: Ultimate Spider-Man, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects or X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse? IGN compares and contrasts each of the games and only one comes out a winner. I’m a big X-men fan, but Spiderman looks really slick too.
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I heard this, yet unproven myth, many years ago and thought I’d continue this somewhat daffy legend tale called: “The Deer, the Dog, and the Bambulance”.
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Over at Engadget or Joystiq they did some unpacking of the Game Boy Micro. It looks small but I imagine they’ve packed a concentrated amount of fun in to it.
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I was watching TV and saw this car commercial. It had all the illegible warnings on the bottom of the screen, as we’ve come to expect in these lawsuit crazy days. “Professional driver on a closed course…” (Read on …)

If it is anything like the manga or the original Japanese TV episodes, this will be a fun game. I can’t say anything nice about the English dubbed version of the TV episodes… bleh…

If you’ve not heard yet…

Creator of video game staples as the Super Mario Bros. series and The Legend of Zelda series, and most recently, Nintendogs, Miyamoto will be in a meet and greet for fans in the NYC area. (Read on …)

I like to read the articles at Fool.com and these two articles about another of my favorite companies, Marvel. The first article talk about the upcoming holiday season and what exciting Marvel related games we’ll be seeing on store shelves shortly. (Read on …)

Here is an interesting point of view on the new Nintendo Revolution controller and the future of Nintendo as a whole. I don’t think this guy really likes Nintendo much.

“Realistically, I wouldn’t be surprised if the DS started gearing down over the next year, and we saw a complete decline of good DS games.” - Gam3r@TheGATE.ca

The article can be found here. I don’t know if I agree with him, but he makes some interesting points.

I saw this over at Joystiq and it is sure strange. Click here and see for yourself.

The crazy roof crows, that live to break large nuts, on the stone roof in the morning. The crows look through the skylight with a smirk across their beak. Whilest sleeping I can hear them rapping, rapping on my chamber door… no wait roof.

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