Every year when the EA Sports announces the cover athletes for their acclaimed Madden Football and NCAA Football franchises, it’s kind of a big deal. This year is no different, but there’s a twist. Generally, the cover athlete has been an active player that was named the NFL MVP or won the Heisman Trophy the year before. There have been very few exceptions. This year is an exception. Notice that I mentioned the player being “active?”

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All of the game industry leaders, and us mere mortals, are amazed at how much Wii has dominated its field. Not only is it an overnight success (well, sort of, it’s not like Nintendo has been a scary presence for Sony ages ago), but it seems to be keeping its momentum for quite some time now. A few years back, the experts and analysts said that it’s almost impossible for Wii to stay ahead of the game.
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There are around 5 million PS3 consoles being sold annually all over the world, Wii has reached the 4 million sales mark, and the Xbox has reached the magical seven figure sales (which is almost, if not slightly more than, Japan’s population rate). These figures may not be as accurate as we might have liked it to be, but one thing is for sure, these gaming consoles are selling fast. This means that a family with kids can have a single, if not two, consoles in their house… And for sure the kids are not letting them gather up dust.
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This game, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, is unbelievable in the number of players that can interact and play together on this game. Traditionally, multiplayer games have the same type of story line with the same type of weapons, and even the same way to advance from one level to the next. The Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures places a whole new spin on multiplayer action-adventure games because the fighting and warfare takes place in first person and real time and the player is totally in control of his fighting moves. Each stroke of the sword is entirely controlled by the player. The player can do combo attacks by linking sword moves to magic spells and also to arrow attacks. Each attack is put into action with individual key commands.
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Ninja Gaiden II is the sequel to the original Ninja Gaiden game that was created for the Xbox 360. Ninja Gaiden II is scheduled to be released in June of this year. Team Ninja is developing the game for the Xbox 360. Microsoft Game Studios is publishing Ninja Gaiden II soley for the Xbox 360. Team Ninja usually develops games that are published by Tecmo. Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos was created for the NES, however Ninja Gaiden II for the Xbox 360 is not the same game as the earlier edition.

GAME PLAY
The player will guide the main character, Ryu Hayabusa, throughout the game. The mission is to avenge the clan of Ryu Hayabusa and also to put a stop to the destruction of the human race. Ryu will have access to an array of ninja weapons. The main player will have to expertly guide Ryu to fight his way through dangers, hazards and risks. New games play, new health regenerators, new levels, new adventures, new nemeses, and ultimately, new combat weapons will give the player a new level of intense action game play.

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People are buying tons of expensive hardware just so they can enjoy their games to the fullest extent (and the prices of games nowadays ain’t peanuts either, with the dollar sinking ever so fast). However, as with most things, people often forget tweaking with their software just so their gaming experience would become better than before.

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Gamers (who are doubling as college students) of the world, take heed; do not download games while inside your designated campus dorms.

BBC reported earlier that Tollbar Business and Enterprise College (located at Station Road, New Waltham, Grimsby, UK) suspended 74 students from downloading a game from the internet (the name of the game was not revealed).

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Almost everyone is dead crazy over Wii, and it shows. The Wii console took the market by storm ever since it was first revealed back in September 2005, and a couple of years forward, and it is still a force to reckon with. Even the head honcho of the gaming console industry, PS, and the previous second most popular console, Xbox, could not do much to deter the fresh and undeniably creative idea behind the Wii.

But is it time for the superbly popular Wii to take a bow, and make way for the others?
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