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VGN for Friday, January 20th, 2006

Video Game News:


Top 5 reasons Gamers are better than Sports Dorks.

A sports Dork isn't just your casual sports watcher who catches the
weekend game.  He's the guy who knows everything about everything in
his
chosen sport or sports or at least thinks so.  He watches or listens to
sports programming outside of the actual game for hours every day,
accomplishing nothing.  He's way too obsessed with the accomplishments
of
people he'll most likely never meet and has a hard time making an
honest
connection to anyone who doesn't share his disease.  He's the guy who
makes every conversation into a free flowing trivia contest about stuff
you never needed or wanted to know about, all you wanted was last
night's score.  He thinks Jim Rome is actually God.  He's not your
average
sports watcher, he's a Sports Dork.



5.  Our hereos are actually heroes, and ones we can control the actions
of.  Yours are self-centered anabolically bloated tick sack egotists
who make way more money than they're worth from running forward and
falling down with some
other guy on top of them breathing heavy, or being able to run in a
straight line and catch balls or doing a bunch of drugs and date raping
girls.

4.  We actively participate in our hobby.  Sports dorks yell at the TV
screen for participation, usually thinking they know way better what to
do than the athlete he's yelling at.  He's a passive watcher of sports
who thinks it's more important than anyone else does.  We actually
control things and do stuff, then we go live life outside of that.

3.  If a hot chick (or guy for the chicks) asks a gamer to put down the
controller and have sex, they'll pause the game and go have sex. 
Freaky sex.  Anime sex.  A Sports Dork will angrily offer that the
person
wait until after the game, by which time he's too drunk and swollen
from
all that beer, chips and dip to maintain an erection.  Go ahead, ask a
Sports Dork to pause their game, see what happens.

2.  We don't naively think we're cooler than we actually are.  Sure,
statistically we're smarter than your average sports dork, but we
aren't
fooling ourselves into thinking the public sees us as something we're
not.  Sports Dorks think they're cooler than everyone by virtue of
their
extensive knowledge concerning shoe sizes of every pro baller since the
50s.  No, not really cool at all.

1.  Unlike you, one game won't kill us.  Sure that guy in South Korea
died after 50 hours of continuous gaming, but that spanned many games. 
Just recently one guy almost died over one game that beared no
consequence to his well being in any way except in his Sport Dork
brain.  Of
course, being a typical Sport Dork, the walk to the fridge may have
killed him too.





600,000 XBOX 360s sold...but not to me.

Fri Jan 13, 8:31 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) has sold
600,000 of its new
Xbox 360 video game consoles in the United States since its November
launch, an analyst for market researcher NPD Group said on Friday.


The Xbox 360 debuted to much fanfare on November 22 in North America.
Since then it has been in short supply. Analysts, video game publishers
and retailers have said shipments during the key holiday season fell
short of expectations.

Microsoft said in a statement that its challenge has been to meet
consumer demand for the Xbox 360. The company, which did not comment on the
NPD numbers, said its manufacturing facilities are running at full
capacity and that a third manufacturer will come online next month.

Microsoft last week confirmed its target of selling between 4.5 million
and 5.5 million Xbox 360 consoles during the current business year,
which ends June 30, 2006. It said in its statement on Friday that it will
provide information on its Xbox 360 business during its quarterly
financial report later this month.



Sony Reveals PS3 Titles

Some we know, some of which we don't; but please don't expect too
much...
Posted: 19:09 on 18 Jan 2006
By: Chris Leyton

In an attempt to fill the void encircling the Playstation3 since its
no-show at CES'06 Sony has today updated the Japanese Playstation website
with listings for the first six titles in development on the next-gen
format.

Although the likes of Gran Turismo Series and Genji 2 are hardly likely
to surprise, certain other titles are a little more mysterious but
ultimately likely doomed never to move outside of Japan.

The full list includes:


    * Eye of Judgement
    * Genji 2
    * Angel Rings
    * Monster Carnival
    * Gran Turismo Series
    * Everybody's Golf 5



Naturally anything even bordering specific has been kept well away with
even the tantalising suggestion of a release date marked as
unannounced. Still with only 17 weeks to go, we should hopefully have something a
little more concrete to go on.

Games sell well?  Really?



Walaika K. Haskins, newsfactor.com Tue Jan 17, 4:17 PM ET

Retail sales of video-game consoles, software, and accessories climbed
to a record $10.5 billion in 2005, an increase of 6 percent over the
$9.9 billion sold in 2004.


The record-setting year exceeded the previous record set in 2002 of
$10.3 billion, according to a recently released report from the NPD Group
that compiled the data from sales at some two-thirds of U.S. stores.

Portable-gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS and Sony PlayStation
Portable (PSP) drove sales, accounting for some $1.4 billion in software
buys.


What I've been Playing:

Half Life 2--XBOX

Burnout Revenge in glorious HDTV



Anime News:

Join us for our free, monthly showing of anime on the big screen!

When: Midnight, Friday, January 20th

Where: Lowes Cineplex at Universal Studios Orlando

We will begin wristbanding at 10:30 pm at the table just inside the
lobby.
Zeta Gundam: A New Translation

87 years have passed since the day when mankind first emmigrated to the
space colonies along the orbit of Earth. Militarism has worked into the
corrupted Federal government, victorious in the One-year War, 7 years
ago. In response to this situation, an initially anti-earth coalition,
A.E.U.G., makes its move. Chaos could spread again, and disturb the
pseudo-peace of populated solar system, destroy youths and their romance.
Heroes and the wise who experienced the One-year War might survive and
fight with, or against each other's might, once again. A retelling of
the groundbreaking "Zeta Gundam" series, this new trilogy features
adjustments to character designs and up-to-date new scenes.

Running Time: 90 minutes


Convention Corner:

Otronicon 

January 20th-29th, Orlando Science Center.

FX Show 

January 27th-29th, Central Florida Fairgrounds.

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