19th February 2007. Los Angeles, USA. Interactive Studio Management (ISM) in association with the CMP Game Group will be hosting a charity poker tournament on Tuesday, March 6th during the Game…
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The consortium of racing interests and Tote staff in talks to buy the state-owned bookmaker for £400m plans to take the business into internet poker and bingo.Such new revenue streams are vital to…
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SAN FRANCISCO - After San Carlos professional poker player Jim Rashleger lost $600 as part of a federal action against online gambling this year, he took what seemed to him the logical step to…
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RIVER GROVE, Illinois – (PRESS RELEASE) — Deaf people from Illinois and surrounding states are expected to compete in the area’s first Deaf Texas Hold’em poker tournament Sunday, February 25 at…
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TUSCALOOSA | Mark Upton, a 40-year-old Northport resident, said heÂ’s been playing poker since he was 5 years old.But despite his 35 years of experience, he hasnÂ’t had a lot of luck with the game.“IÂ’m…
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NBC & CNBC Will Broadcast 64 of The World’s Best Poker Players Going ‘Head-To-Head’ at Caesars Palace
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Washington (Feb. 22, 2007) - Citing a bit of wisdom from Kenny Rogers, the U.S. Tax Court ruled that tournament poker is gambling, not a sport, and thus not exempt from the Section 165(d)…
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Chad Brown has been honoured with the Title of Bluff MagazineÂ’s Player of the Year 2006. Brown, a professional poker player who has been playing poker since boyhood, considers this one of his…
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One of the chief copy protection mechanisms employed by Blu-ray discs that is unemployed by HD DVD is called ROM-Mark, which basically uses unique identifiers that can only be hard coded on discs by authorized duplicators — in other words, it’s that per-disc physical watermarking that makes copying (although not necessarily ripping) Blu-ray movies just that much harder, Which is partly why we’re a little dubious about this new app, BRDGen, which claims to be able to make and edit (and export for recording) PlayStation 3 compliant disc images. Anyone with a Blu-ray recorder, PS3, and a healthy bit of patience care to see what this thing is capable of?
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So, the graphics might just be warmed over GameCube fare, but the Wii sure does take those wimpy specs and runs with ‘em. A new showdown between the big three home consoles and a mid-range PC doesn’t compare games or GPUs, but rather power consumption, and the Wii wins by a landslide. The watts don’t just bleed during gameplay, DVD playback seems to require immense effort from the 360 and PS3, and even the consoles in “idle” mode consume about ten times the watts of the Wii. Of course, the consoles consume a minimal amount of power in standby, which is substantially more when the Wii’s Connect24 service is on, but not quite a deal breaker, just about a $1 a month of power. So if you’re looking to shave a few bucks off your power bill or do your treehuggin’ duty to the environment, it looks like the choice is fairly obvious — though you’ll naturally have to look elsewhere than the Wii to get your video playback kicks.
[Via Joystiq]
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Reuters - Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s (7974.OS) Wii
was the best-selling video game console in the United States in
January, and the Japanese company also boasted four of the top
10 games, data released on Wednesday showed.
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It sure took its own sweet time to make it to market — we first saw this thing at E3 in 2006 — but the Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows is finally available for purchase. The adapter lets you use your standard wireless 360 peripherals, such as the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller and Wireless Headset, with your Windows PC. That means Windows users, which have been enjoying the fruits of a USB 360 controller since before the console launched, can finally get in on some wireless action, and it’ll only cost them $20 for the privilege. It also means that much more fun for upcoming Games for Windows titles such as Shadowrun, UNO and Halo 2, along with generic game controls and VoIP functionality. Microsoft is also releasing a $60 package which includes a receiver and a wireless controller. Both items should be available at retail now.
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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment:
Nintendo has been on an Apple-like hit parade since the disappointing market performance of the GameCube. The DS and DS Lite handily staved off highly touted competition from Sony. The PSP may have appealed to a different, if for now narrower, demographic, but units are units, and there’s no escaping them when you’re marketing a platform.
The launch of the Wii has been nothing but magic mushrooms from the hype around the controller to the E3 reception to late-night Wii Tennis face-offs between Conan and Serena Williams. Check out this apologetic fan comment on Amazon’s product page: “Graphics might not be high definition, but it looks very close to the Xbox 360 and PS3 when not running in HD mode. And definitively better than the original Xbox and PS2.” Better than the Xbox and PS2, eh? That’s setting the sensor bar pretty low for a system that shipped six years after the PS2.
Yet, it’s no suprise that the Wii has been highly sought. I thought it was the best consumer technology product of 2006. The Nintendo team has executed almost flawlessly, but the company has brushed aside criticisms regarding product shortages without so much as a flick from a Wiimote. Commenting earlier this month on the mayhem surrounding Sony’s PlayStation 3’s product launch shortages, Nintendo of America vice president of marketing and corporate affairs Perrin Kaplan noted that “we didn’t have anyone in line that got shot waiting for our system. So there’s one sign of the different approaches between our two companies.”
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We’ve had our eye on ATI”s new top-end R600 graphics chip for some time now, first getting a look at some impressive early benchmarks and then being taken aback by the foot-long graphics card the chips will call home (at least in some configurations). Sadly, it seems that those with money and power (as in 270W) to spare will have to wait a bit longer to slot one of the behemoths into their own PCs, with The Inquirer reporting that the R600 chips, and consequently the graphics cards based on ‘em, have been delayed yet again, now pushed back to sometime in the second quarter of this year. There doesn’t seem to be any word on the reason for the delay, but the news apparently came straight from ATI parent company AMD. Given what the cards are likely to cost, however, we’re guessing that at least some won’t be too disappointed in the delay, with the extra time allowing you to save up some more money and make some more excuses for why you’re spending so much on a graphics card.
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AP - Video games are usually a solitary pastime. But that doesn’t mean that gamers are anti-social misfits, any more than readers, knitters or crossword solvers. We have friends, siblings, spouses and kids, and when we’re not off saving the world on our own, we enjoy playing games with our loved ones.
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Judging by the sheer number of modifications and hacks for the NES that are out there, we’d have thought the limit to the number of things that it’s possible to do with the hardware is close to being reached. Apparently not: as this latest mod by a guy called Mark Feldman proves, as long as the games stick around, people will go to extraordinary lengths to get authentic hardware to go with it. Mark’s wireless NES controller mod for Wii involves opening up a SNES and NES controller, sticking a wireless transmitter, a microcontroller, and an iPod mini battery inside, and constructing a wireless receiver module with a GameCube cable on the end. Thanks to some sort of black magic — Mark refers to it as “coding” — when all this is put together, an off-the-shelf Wii can interpret the control input from the modded controllers, and the nostalgia-fueled gamer can play classic games on their virtual console without worrying about wires, and without a Wiimote-tethered Classic controller. Full details of how to make your NES controller wireless, and how to code the microprocessor so that it’ll understand the signals, are available on Mark’s site. Before attempting to execute any of the plans, we’d recommend warning friends and relatives that they may not see you for a while. Especially spouses: they tend to get worried when their SO disappears to the basement with a bundle of chips and circuitry.
[Via hackaday]
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