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Just the Links, Ma’am: 6.17.08

Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Consumer Report: Nintendo Wii Menu version 3.3 update destroys homebrew, Freeloader support (Nintendo Wii Fanboy; Nintendo Everything via videogaming247) Enthusiast: PlayStation 3 “trophies,” in-game XMB finally inbound for firmware v2.40; release date unspecified (PlayStation.Blog) Nintendo’s Laurent “geeks and otaku” Fischer promises some sort of Wii storage [...]

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From ToyCyte: SDCC Gears of War Exclusive

Over at our sister Cyte, the exuberant ToyCyte, Nicolas has an article I thought might interest our gaming readers. At the San Diego Comic Con, NECA is releasing exclusive Gears of War figures. I highly recommend you head over to ToyCyte to read up on all the latest in toy culture.

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Serious Games Teach Real-Life Spies

Vital Passage, Sudden Thrust and Rapid Onset: their names sound almost pornographic. But these are the titles of serious games — that is, games not intended primarily to entertain — that will be used by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency to train real-life spies in a more compelling manner than classrooms afford.

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Pirates of the Caribbean Writer Stuart Beattie Penning Script for Halo Movie?

Film website Latino Review reports (via GameSpot) that Stuart Beattie, the gentleman who penned Pirates of the Caribbean and is currently composing screenplays for Gears of War and Spy Hunter, is also writing a speculative script for a Halo movie.

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Epic Blows Off Some Steam

As bearish as their voices have been recently concerning the future of PC gaming, Epic Games is hardly in the same predicament as Atari; thus, their motion today to begin distributing titles on Valve’s digital content distribution network Steam is slightly more of a surprise than last week’s announcement.

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