Blog Focus on Video Games
Blog Focus is Technorati's daily roundup of the top stories as told by the bloggers of the world. Each day a handful of posts, no matter how popular or nascent, will be selected by editors to portray a general unscientific reaction to discussion points around the 'Net.
No, Mrs. Webb. Video games are perfectly safe for you to play, even at your advanced age. Now just take the controller and press the center bu...
... do you think it's a good idea to chew the controller, Mrs. Webb? No? Then just take the controller back in your hand and press the glowing center button to st...
... Mrs. Webb, don't use your face to smash the buttons. You just press your finger against the...
Oh, I'm sorry you've poked your eye out. Let me get some ice for you.
Perhaps you should read a little through your good eye before you try again, Mrs. Webb. How about we start you with some links to the big gaming news of the day as reported by blogs everywhere? Now just click on the...
... stop eating the mouse, Mrs. Webb.
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun — In the much-anticipated BioShock 2, John Walker tells us you will be able to enjoy multi-player Capture the Flag except flags will be possessed school-age girls. That's got to make standing for the national anthem in the undersea city-state of Rapture very disconcerting.
• SlashGear — Chris Davies reports that Nintendo reported miserable profits this year as the Wii craze seems to have diminished.
• Business of Video — Streaming videos from Netflix is coming to the PS3 next month and will be coming to the Wii within the next few months, according to Dan Rayburn. Maybe that won't sell a million new Wiis, but it stops anyone from skipping a Wii because they want streaming video.
• Crave — However, there's always one way to stem the bleeding: new hardware! John P. Falcone says there's a new Nintendo DS coming out in Japan that's much larger than its predecessor. There's nothing yet on a North America release date, which should give Mrs. Webb enough time to practice on something she can't accidentally swallow.
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