pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag"Culture/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/topix/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_viewamp;newsId=20081120005394amp;newsLang=enamp;ndmConfigId=1000639amp;vnsId=41"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="340" border="0" align="top" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/slurpeecups.jpg" //abr //div 7-Eleven, bastion of the 2AM munchies, announced recently it's going to expand its video game offerings. The company currently plans to offer a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/topix/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_viewamp;newsId=20081120005394amp;newsLang=enamp;ndmConfigId=1000639amp;vnsId=41"seven titles/a over the holiday season (like a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/wrath-of-the-lich-king"emWrath of the Lich King/em/a, a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/fallout-3"emFallout 3/em/a, ema href="http://joystiq.com/tag/world-at-war"CoD:WaW/a, a href="http://joystiq.com/tag/gears-of-war-2"Gears 2/a/em) "while supplies last." Depending on how things go, Sleven plans to have more titles beyond the predicted "hot-selling" games.br /br /We're all for 7-Eleven carrying games, we're even more for it continuing to avoid training its employees properly and a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/11/7-11-sells-wrath-of-the-lich-king-early/"breaking street dates/a for blockbuster titles like emGears of War 2/em and emLich King/em*.br /br /small*Yes, we realize in the case of emLich King/em it didn't mean much because the servers weren't up, but it's avoiding the midnight lines that counts./smallbr /br /[Via a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=26681522amp;part=rssamp;tag=gs_newsamp;subj=6201484"Gamespot/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/7-eleven-getting-comfortable-with-game-sales/"7-Eleven getting comfortable with game sales/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/topix/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_viewamp;newsId=20081120005394amp;newsLang=enamp;ndmConfigId=1000639amp;vnsId=41Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/7-eleven-getting-comfortable-with-game-sales/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1379510/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/7-eleven-getting-comfortable-with-game-sales/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HbwcS5kR1e2GVSjlMQhlGVxuwiE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HbwcS5kR1e2GVSjlMQhlGVxuwiE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=gtmf6OgA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=gtmf6OgA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=eLZY95ia"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=eLZY95ia" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/NwsEMF4x7Qg" height="1" width="1"/

Since the game is right around the corner and I'm looking forward to it thought I'd make a thread with some of the news lately.
http://prince-of-persia.us.ubi.com/intro/


Release Date is 12-02-08.

Pre-orders are automatically upgraded to the Limited Edition for free!
Quote: Reserve Prince of Persia and you will automatically be upgraded to receive the FREE Limited Edition upgrade. This is a reservation-only offer. While supplies last. Limited Edition will include:

• An exclusive look at the making of Prince of Persia
• A Prima digital mini-strategy guide
• A digital art book chronicling the game’s journey
• Original soundtrack scored by master composer Inon Zur
• Collectible Limited Edition packaging.

New announced DLC:
Altair Skin: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/932/932434p1.html
Old Prince Skin (free ) if you Pre-order from Gamestop: http://www.gamestop.com/browse/Produ...px?groupid=226

They are supposed to be heavily supporting DLC for this game which should be interesting.

Deals:
Amazon Pre-order price is 56.99 w/ free saver shipping: Amazon.com Exclusive Pre-order Bonus Order your copy of Prince of Persia and receive the Amazon.com Exclusive Prince of Persia Penny Arcade Digital Comic. Limited to products shipped and sold by Amazon.com. Offer valid while supplies last. Instructions on how to download the comic will be emailed 10 business days after the release date.

Pre-order Bonus
Pre-order your copy of Prince of Persia for the Xbox 360 and get $10 off a future video game purchase. Offer valid when shipped and sold by Amazon.com

I'll post more info as I find it. :)

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag"Culture/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/business/" rel="tag"Business/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/josh_gross/11/20/ufc-cuts-fitch/"img width="490" vspace="4" hspace="0" height="326" border="1" align="top" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/ufcfiring.jpg" //abr //div strongUpdate/strong: Fitch caved in and signed the contract. Thanks to Scott for reading a href="http://mmajunkie.com/news/13299/report-jon-fitch-will-sign-videogame-agreement-returns-to-ufc.mma"MMAJunkie.com/a.br /br /strongOriginal Story/strong: The Ultimate Fighting Championship has a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/josh_gross/11/20/ufc-cuts-fitch/"released/a welterweight crown contender Jon Fitch for refusing to sign his image rights away emfor a lifetime/em to UFC-based games being made by THQ. Fitch stated he thought it was "crazy" to sign "anything away for your lifetime." Fitch isn't the only one kicked out, many of his teammates from the American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose have been dismissed for refusing to submit.br /br /We'll take this to mean that Fitch won't be appearing in THQ's emUFC 2009 Undisputed/em expected in May '09. We know, all 10 of you out there who were going to buy the game and cared are devastated.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=312325"Eurogamer/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/ufc-fires-fighters-for-not-signing-video-game-image-rights-away/"UFC fires fighters for not signing video game image rights away/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:43:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/josh_gross/11/20/ufc-cuts-fitch/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/ufc-fires-fighters-for-not-signing-video-game-image-rights-away/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1379328/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/ufc-fires-fighters-for-not-signing-video-game-image-rights-away/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/4gvD-T-H6Ufp76I9xAUFsIWDd0E/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/4gvD-T-H6Ufp76I9xAUFsIWDd0E/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=B935UDEF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=B935UDEF" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=GjKRusZR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=GjKRusZR" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/ToES-NIwcSo" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/932/932434p1.html"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/11/princepersia.jpg" //abr //div We don't typically like to register our video game consoles with game publishers. After watching emEnemy of the State/em, we like to stay off the grid, even if we don't exactly understand what the grid is or why it should be avoided. This may just be enough to turn us though: Ubisoft says that those who register their Gamertags or PSN IDs with Ubisoft.com will be able to download a free Altair skin to use in emPrince of Persia/em.br /br /Is it a classic example of brand dilution? Sure! But is it a cool enough case of brand dilution to make us ignore that? emAbsolutely/em.br /br /p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/pretend-youre-altair-in-prince-of-persia/"Pretend you're Altair in Prince of Persia/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:15:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/932/932434p1.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/pretend-youre-altair-in-prince-of-persia/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1379262/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/21/pretend-youre-altair-in-prince-of-persia/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/t4CW8woDXV0r38Se6btsomExgIk/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/t4CW8woDXV0r38Se6btsomExgIk/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=sDi2Vlqm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=sDi2Vlqm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=VEwgtIHI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=VEwgtIHI" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/CrilPtmcrN8" height="1" width="1"/

Jon Fitch has been released from the Ultimate Fighting Championship as he refused to sign away exclusive image rights for the new and upcoming UFC video game from THQ. "We thought that was kind of crazy," Fitch said. "Why would you sign anything away for your lifetime?"

pimg src="http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/news2001/21202/jonblow.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"/As the closing keynote of the 2008 Montreal Games Summit, independent game developer and thinker Jonathan Blow, previously a Game Developer magazine columnist and an IGF winner for his time-bending title Braid, offered a striking deconstruction of a major video game conceit: that they can offer profound experiences through traditional storytelling forms. Blow argued that, in fact, the interactivity of gameplay -- and its requirements of "fun" and "challenge" among others -- is in fact .../p pmap name="google_ad_map_RIAhiOhElz1hOJOEhjr7HvFWi0Q_"area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/RIAhiOhElz1hOJOEhjr7HvFWi0Q_?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//mapimg usemap="#google_ad_map_RIAhiOhElz1hOJOEhjr7HvFWi0Q_" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgclient=ca-pub-3896033488060561channel=feedburner-rssoutput=pngcuid=RIAhiOhElz1hOJOEhjr7HvFWi0Q_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamasutra.com%2Fphp-bin%2Fnews_index.php%3Fstory%3D21202"//pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=WCItN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=WCItN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=gWHsN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=gWHsN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?a=RZReN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/GamasutraNews?i=RZReN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GamasutraNews/~4/460815638" height="1" width="1"/

img alt="EGM - Image 1" title="EGM - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126536/egm-streetfighter4_qjgenth.jpg?104649" style="cursor: pointer;" align="right"Is the magazine industry already bust? You've probably heard a lot of print media transferring to the e-format due to various reasons (mostly because of the lack of demand and rising printing costs), and it looks like a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/ziff-davis/8900" id="tag" title=""Ziff Davis/a Media's very own flagship publication, PC Magazine, is wrought by the same problems.brbrEarlier this week, the publication firm has revealed their plans to cease print circulation of PC Magazine, and opt for the e-publication approach. "The viability for us to continue to publish in print just isn t there anymore," said Ziff Davis chief executive Jason Young.brbrThe move to digital content won't be all that rough on the publication since they already have an online counterpart of the magazine in the form of PCMag.com. With this foundation already existing, it's now all a matter of getting more content online.brbrFurthermore, Young also noted that they're currently considering a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/electronic-gaming-monthly/3710" id="tag" title=""Electronic Gaming Monthly/a to follow suit. The decision to halt printing for a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/egm/452" id="tag" title="Electronic Gaming Monthly"EGM/a and publish it online instead isn't finalized yet - the matter will have to be settled by next year.brbrFor the record, EGM is the last remaining video game magazine being circulated in print by Ziff Davis.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="Dan Hsu officially announces resignation from Ziff Davis and 1UP" href="http://www.qj.net/Dan-Hsu-officially-announces-resignation-from-Ziff-Davis-and-1UP/pg/49/aid/117991"Dan Hsu officially announces resignation from Ziff Davis and 1UP/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Ziff Davis Media files for bankcruptcy due to overwhelming debt" href="http://www.qj.net/Ziff-Davis-Media-files-for-bankcruptcy-due-to-overwhelming-debt/pg/49/aid/115284"Ziff Davis Media files for bankcruptcy protection due to overwhelming debt/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=VWNBvHgJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=LoD7ae54"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=bCWPFpRe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=43" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/6_p7JlWptwI" height="1" width="1"/

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br /In their own wordsbr /br /“3-Dimensional e-mail software. Bring e-mail to life. E-mail just got cool and fun.”br /br /Why it might be a killerbr /br /It is an approach that works well for a change.br /br /Some questionsbr /br /What is the price of an activation code?br /br /What it doesbr /br /Are you tired of the tried an tested approach to e-mail inboxes? If that is the case and you are looking into bringing the whole process alive, then this company seems to have devised the right solution for you. br brIn essence, a 3D Mail box provides a 3D environment that works with Hotmail,Yahoo Mail and GMail and transforms the whole experience altogether by bringing a sense of humor to the proceedings. The idea is to make your inbox feel like a cross between a movie and a video game. br brFor instance, one of the available sets places the whole scene at the Los Angeles International Airport, and each e-mail becomes a Jumbo jet that lands or departs as you send and receive e-mail communications. On the other hand, the Miami Beach set will let you feed spam messages to the sharks that are passing by and so on. br brIf you are interested in such an approach and wish to give 3D Mailbox a try it is possible to buy an activation code online and download the latest version, which weighs about 80 MB.br /br /Link: a href='http://www.3dmailbox.com'http://www.3dmailbox.com/abr /Our Review: a href='http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/3dmailbox-com-3-dimensional-email-software'http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/3dmailbox-com-3-dimensional-email-software/abr /br / nbsp;div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=KKdTaYEc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=JN1WJZpv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=cxk1DUyQ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=cxk1DUyQ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=mRvqj5XG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=mRvqj5XG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=TrWaSPgo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=cMNIAxfg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=cMNIAxfg" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/killerstartups/BkQV/~4/JdTVC8rMwac" height="1" width="1"/

The world premier of Fight Night Round 4 (Xbox 360/PS3) will be shown live at Spikes Video game Awards on December 14. Boxers so far confirmed for the game are Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Muhammad Ali. The game is expected to be released sometime in 2009.

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7-Eleven is ready to take the proverbial plunge into video game sales after dabbling in it over the past years with successful Slurpee beverage promotions aimed at top-selling game franchises like Microsoft's Halo and EA Sport's Madden. This month, participating 7-Eleven stores introduce a line-up of seven of the top video game titles for sale as well as one of the most comprehensive selection of prepaid gift cards for another growing gaming phenomenon – Massively Multi-player Online Games, or MMOGs.

A recent report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has revealed that video game console usage across America stands at approximately 16 billion kilowatt-hours per year—which is roughly the amount consumed by the entire city of San Diego. This is only a rough estimation, but there is no doubt that many of us waste a significant amount of energy when we leave our consoles running for hours on end. Even Energy Star has recognized the problem and begun setting standards on energy consumption for these devices. Obviously, the short-term solution to the problem would be to save your game and shut off the system when you are done—but it's a bad habit that is hard to break. So, my question is: do you leave your game console running when you are not playing?

http://gizmodo.com/5094411/question-...onsole-running

A report has been released blaming gamers for a US1$billion waste in electricity via their beloved consoles. But checking out the report further highlights a gross assumption.

Jason Young, chief executive of Ziff Davis, has said that they are "considering taking its other print magazine, the video-game publication Electronic Gaming Monthly, into an online-only format, but would not make a decision before the end of the year."

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An Edmonton judge banned two teens from playing video games for their connection in the microwave death of a cat, despite no direct link between gaming and the crime.

The judge later said that the video game ban was included in his probation for the teens because he wanted to mirror the sentence imposed in a previous judgment in the case.

A group of teens broke into a house in Edmonton last December, vandalizing the home and then grabbing the family cat and placing it in a microwave. No one tried to remove the cat as it screamed in agony for 10 minutes, according to the newspaper.

http://kotaku.com/5094143/judge-bans...or-cat-killing

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