An interesting new game has made its way onto the shelves of Toys R Us meant specifically for the Nintendo DS. The player plays the shaman (reminds me of my once favorite PC game - Populous) and he is tasked with saving lost souls and guiding them to safety. He must safeguard these fragile beings by placing them in protective bubbles so he can transport them through a series of increasingly treacherous and hostile worlds.

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Seems everything is competing for the budget consumer this season. A trend set by the Apple iPhone and now perhaps being taken up by the Xbox 360. The Xbox had long resisted any sort of price slash despite being beaten black n blue by its chief competitor, the Nintendo Wii.

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Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the worst polluter of them all asked I to my magical mirror into the gaming world. The reply was Nintendo shocking me to my core since I have been rooting so hard for this firm since I ever laid eyes on Mario. The quarterly Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics ranks 18 electronics firms by how green their production processes and products are. The rankings consider the top electronics firms of the world.

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And thats what the term creative refers to in case you ever did wonder. If you were given a ping-pong table and asked to re-invent it, I betcha none of us would even come close to what this inventor has come up with. But obviously tired of being the third person to sit out at these games, he decided to take matters in his own hands and come up with a variation that would allow 3 people to play at the same time.

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Sonys power hungry gaming machine is about to take a turn for the better. For those geeks who would know such things, the Sony Playstation 3 is the most power hungry of all the competing consoles. The chief reason for its power addiction is the chipset which was 90 nm. Sony plans to bring down the usage by almost 20% by going in for a 65 nm chipset.

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I dont know whether to say that its the reason for the Wiis success or the reason why hardcore gamers dont really believe that the Wii is a gaming machine. After all for those who kill terrorists or cops (depending on their preference) several times a day in their amazingly realistic games - a character like Nancy Drew isnt even worth the time spent thinking about.

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For the really dedicated gamers amongst us who believe that the Wii is severaly underpowered and wish to overclock it. They do need a sort of system to warn them before melt-down occurs. The extreme-mods folks have been kind enough to design something fashionably funky which serves the purpose.

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Ever thought that you could have profited a lot if you knew what the Wii was all about before Nintendo released it? Well, why regret something that cant be changed.

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