Kotaku
We know, Dead Rising on Wii looks different, but it's going to play different too. It's got waggle! And not just any waggle: Capcom are bringing Resident Evil 4's waggle to 2006's zombie mall simulator. Gun combat will work exactly the same, with pointing of the Wii Remote for aiming and a shake of the nunchuk for a reload. (Read More)
Metro News
Lewis Kasman emerged Wednesday as the other secret weapon Florida federal prosecutors used to indict John A. (Junior) Gotti for three New York murders - charges that could send the mob heir to prison for life, sources told the Daily News.
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Kotaku
When the 360's new dash is launched, it'll cost you nothing to build an avatar. It'll cost you nothing to customise it, either, so if you throw on the wrong coloured pair of slacks, relax! Just change them over, no questions asked. But what about the future? VentureBeat asked Microsoft's John Schappert whether Microsoft wer (Read More)
Submitted by Dcb360:
You may have been wondering where Bungie was at this year's E3, well the head of Microsoft's division confirmed that they stopped Bungie from announcing a new Halo branded game. (Read More)
Wired: Game|Life
LOS ANGELES -- Look at the happy smiles that Wii Music puts on people's faces!
I swear I didn't mean to, it's just impossible to not laugh as you're hitting drums by shaking your hands like an idiot while somebody is playing air guitar with a Wiimote next to you.
Wii Music is one of the titles that Nintendo talked up a (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Hey alpha-mates. We're going to try a little contest here on socialmedian.The two individual on socialmedian who have the most followers (besides myself and any other socialmedian employee) by midnight eastern time this Friday, July 18, we're going to give a free iphone to. Just a little something to help folks start to d (Read More)
: It worked as a nice way to get people to know about the Newsmaker feature. Now, it's really up to the site working for itself and for the people using it.
: congrats to the winners. I'm back to stubbornly awaiting the u.s. launch of the Blackberry Bold (and then still possibly biting the bullet and going w/ iPhone)
Advertising Age - Homepage
Several agency CEOs agreed that young talent is going elsewhere for careers. I found that consensus alarming, as our industry has long been considered sexy by the (naive) youth entering the business. I say "naive" because agency life always appears more glamorous than it really is.
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TECH.BLORGE.com
Freedom of expression is one of the cornerstones of the Internet, with anything which is above the law pretty much allowed and tolerated. But those freedoms can sometimes be manipulated to cause someone else’s right to express their views seemingly disappear.The relationship between US Senators Barack Obama and Hilary (Read More)
MSNBC
John McCain raised almost as much money as Barack Obama in May, placing him virtually on the same financial footing as his Democratic rival. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
This is post #2 of a 2-part post on today's information overload problem and how we can cope. Please read part 1 here. The information overload problem has reached a critical point. Workers drowning in their inboxes and jumping from task to task have now cost the nation $650 billion in lost productivity. A research group at (Read More)
TechCrunch
In April, Facebook caught up to MySpace in worldwide unique visitors (actually nudging past it with 116.4 million unique visitors versus 115.7 million for MySpace). Now the worldwide comScore numbers are out for May and Facebook continues to blow past MySpace with 123.9 million uniques (up 6 percent), versus 114.6 million (Read More)