Videogame peripherals of the past sometimes put focus on the feet instead of the hands. From the Power Pad from the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System to the dance mat used in the Dance Dance Revolution series, gamers the world over have used their walking sticks for more physical gameplay experiences. But nothing that preceded it can compare to Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board, turning the living room into a fitness centre for the whole family.

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=47d9463714b9b9b00066c1e5ctxt=wwwr1.2.1.0maxX=156maxY=117" border="0" alt="les-moonves.jpg" title="les-moonves.jpg" width="156" height="117" /Following a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/viacom-lowers-earnings-outlook-amid-economic-decline"the lead of its old sibling/a Viacom, CBS has just come out with an a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081010/ny38340.html?.v=1"earnings warning/a of its own. Blaming the ugly local ad market and the economic crisis, the company says quarterly earnings will come in at $.42-$.44, compared to $.51 in the year ago quarter. Unlike Viacom, the company doesn't have much to offset the horrible ad market -- no hot videogame, no a-cylical film business./p pAnd with the bottom dropping out of the local business, the company is facing another issue: "Based on preliminary results, the Company expects to incur a strongnon-cash impairment charge of approximately $14 Billion/strong, in the third quarter of 2008 to reduce the carrying value of goodwill, intangible assets strongrelated to FCC licenses and investments/strong."/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Oyr-GRMVyIjBptII7bPoo0E3bkY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Oyr-GRMVyIjBptII7bPoo0E3bkY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=wm0lixgu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=wm0lixgu" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=HwvehXus"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=VS39CRg3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=tJfQgklt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=tJfQgklt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=BeInS3Yp"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=qaIpunX1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=vlSYq1sE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=JTfJtXKf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/IHk0nFs6TBE" height="1" width="1"/

img src="http://www.edge-online.com/files/imagecache/article_homepage_large_144x108/macys.jpg" alt="Former Macy#039;s Man Joins Activision" title="Former Macy#039;s Man Joins Activision" class="imagecache imagecache-article_homepage_large_144x108" /br /pstrongThe former EVP of corporate marketing for retail giant Macy's is heading to the realm of videogames./strong/p pBrad Jakeman will join Activision Publishing in November in the newly-created position of chief creative officer./p pHe'll head up global advertising, media, marketing and consumer research for all Activision Publishing franchises./p pThe exec will report to Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith./p pa href="http://www.edge-online.com/news/former-macys-man-joins-activision"read more/a/p

Microsoft's partnering with a number of New York colleges and schools to work math- and science-friendly video games into middle-school classrooms. Wait, you say -- don't middle-school kids already have enough love for videogames?

h4Sounds good?/h4 pThe Wii’s Nunchuck is set to become a musical instrument, because Nintendo has launched a musical videogame for the console..../p

img src="http://www.edge-online.com/files/imagecache/article_homepage_large_144x108/indiecade-at-open-satellite.jpg" alt=" Indie Festival Begins" title=" Indie Festival Begins" class="imagecache imagecache-article_homepage_large_144x108" /br /!--paging_filter--strongIndieCade at Open Satellite is being held in Bellevue, Washington from October 10-17./strongbr /br /It will be the first major exhibition of international, independent videogames and videogame art in the Seattle area and the first stand-alone independent videogame festival in the nation.nbsp; Indiecade has attracted visitors within larger shows like PAX and E3, but this is an event in its own right.br /pa href="http://www.edge-online.com/news/indie-festival-begins"read more/a/p

The CG-animated flick doesn't bring anything special to the popular horror videogame franchise. If anything, the latest game trailer looks better than this boring puppet show. br/ br/ Wired.com pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=kUt42v"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=kUt42v" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/417128475" height="1" width="1"/