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10.19.2009 10:00 am

Are pink game gadgets sexist, silly, or neither?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you’re a girl, does that mean you like pink things?

And if you like pink things, does that make you a girl?

Game Guy has wondered about this lately since a pink video game modification for an Xbox 360 controller, revealed…

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05.04.2009 6:32 pm

CrossFire might give Nintendo’s Wii real firepower

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

UPDATE: Penguin United forwarded this artist’s rendering (left) of the CrossFire Remote Pistol late Tuesday. Many thanks to the company for its prompt response.

Nintendo Wii’s motion-sensing capabilities give the console plenty of potential to be great for shooter titles, but so…

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12.15.2008 9:04 am

Xbox 360 theft at Missouri university solved using console’s controller

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

My father worked nearly three decades as a police detective and excelled at his job. One time, I asked what was at the root of his success and he revealed a key secret to crime-fighting:

Most crooks are idiots.

Hollywood leads us…

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11.13.2008 8:52 am

Electronic Arts joins the virtual fitness movement with ‘Sports Active’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Until now, the sports fitness genre has been owned by Nintendo, highlighted by its “Wii Fit” action-exercise game. Today, game maker Electronic Arts tries to add its own workout plan.

The company’s new sports fitness title, “EA Sports Active,” plays on the Nintendo Wii…

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11.11.2008 11:19 am

Gene Simmons stamps face, name on guitar controller

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The guy who redefined the term “guitar licks,” Mr. Tongue himself, is angling for a taste of the music video game pie.

Kiss guitarist Gene Simmons has put his face and name on a new ax-shaped guitar controller for PlayStation 2 and…

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11.09.2008 8:30 am

The odyssey of the game controller

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ever wanted to know where the game controller originated and how it evolved into something like the Wii wand?

This site does a fair job of charting how controllers have evolved over the past generation by depicting them on a “family tree”…

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10.23.2008 9:00 am

Wireless guitar for Wii is recalled by manufacturer

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Owners of the Rage Wireless Guitar, a peripheral controller for the Nintendo Wii game system and sold by Performance Designed Products Inc., should stop using the devices due to a risk of chemical burns from them.

PDP and the Consumer Product…

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08.29.2008 11:36 pm

That’s one heck of a game controller

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We’ve seen some interesting hobbies here at Game Guy HQ, but a 4-foot game controller sits way up on the list.

Take a peek at this project, from start to finish, of a super Super NES project, and be amazed.

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06.16.2008 5:19 pm

Sony may be working on two-piece motion-sensitive controller

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

DualShock 3The arrival of Nintendo’s motion-sensitive controller for the Wii console nearly two years ago was revolutionary; it changed not just how we play video games, but what we think about and expect from new titles.

And it spurred competitors to change…

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02.15.2008 2:19 pm

“Guitar Hero: Aerosmith” heralds new trend in gaming

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

America’s top-selling rock band will reach a new pinnacle in pop culture this summer when a version of “Guitar Hero” devoted to the group Aerosmith is released.

And if you think this is the only one-group game that Activision has on…

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