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Remember when it cost just a quarter to play your favorite arcade games? What would you say if I told you that you could play two Atari arcade classics for just one red cent a game.

While these pint-size versions of Breakout and Tetris aren’t totally faithful to their arcade counterparts, they only charge a single shiny copper penny to play.

Today I came across this website that sounds rather familiar: GamersBook. Ah, is this a new FaceBook wannabe? I bet so (look at the domain).
[GamersBook – The FaceBook wannabe]
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Major Nelson just posted a new video showing how the upgrade process to the Nixie “NXE” is going to go.

Don’t turn off your Xbox when you are upgrading and you should stop any major downloading or filesharing on your computer while that Nixie goodness is being served to your Xbox 360 on November 19th.

While this generation's game consoles in the living room are able to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or an Ethernet connection, Tectoy's Zeebo takes a different route by relying on 3G instead. This is weird, since 3G networks aren't exactly widespread and they are also infamous for the lack of coverage. Still, the Zeebo will be released in Brazil later next July before making its way to other markets in the following months.

Joystiq and Xbox 360Fanboy got their hands on the new Street Fighter II HD Remix trailer. It is so awesome it is slightly painful to watch.

The inclusion of this song in the movie King of Kong a Fist Full of Quarters made it Oscar worth. Of all the games released in 2008 I have been pineing waiting for this one the most. This is the game that made me get a Hori Xbox 360 Fighting Stick. We know this game is out soon.. but how soon... Not soon enough.

I hope you guys can prove me wrong. But this game, QWOP (named after the controls) is definitely one of the hardest if not the most.
[QWOP]
You job is to control a runner to run but not with the...

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Here is a bunch of questions about the Xbox 360 NXE that I've gotten in comments.

Major Nelson just posted a video of what Xbox Avatars will look like in games.

Oh man they are going to add Avatar support to the Xbox Live Arcade games: Uno, Bomberman Live, Hardwood Hearts, Hardwood Spades and Small Arms via a software title update! I am going to see if these updates are available yet

Major Nelson just posted a video of what Xbox Avatars will look like in games.

Oh man they are going to add Avatar support to the Xbox Live Arcade games: Uno, Bomberman Live, Hardwood Hearts, Hardwood Spades and Small Arms via a software title update! I am going to see if these updates are available yet

Earlier this week Microsoft invited me over to Redmond to take a look at the New Xbox Experience that is part of the new Xbox 360 Dashboard. It was the first time in a while that I've made it all the way over to Redmond since I live on the other side of the Puget Sound. I caught an early ferry and had good I-520 traffic karma and found my way to the building at Microsoft that houses a significant part of the Xbox team. I was a little surprised that they did not have an Xbox 360 demo kiosk on the ground floor lobby.

Earlier this week Microsoft invited me over to Redmond to take a look at the New Xbox Experience that is part of the new Xbox 360 Dashboard. It was the first time in a while that I've made it all the way over to Redmond since I live on the other side of the Puget Sound. I caught an early ferry and had good I-520 traffic karma and found my way to the building at Microsoft that houses a significant part of the Xbox team. I was a little surprised that they did not have an Xbox 360 demo kiosk on the ground floor lobby.

Earlier this week Microsoft invited me over to Redmond to take a look at the New Xbox Experience that is part of the new Xbox 360 Dashboard. It was the first time in a while that I've made it all the way over to Redmond since I live on the other side of the Puget Sound. I caught an early ferry and had good I-520 traffic karma and found my way to the building at Microsoft that houses a significant part of the Xbox team. I was a little surprised that they did not have an Xbox 360 demo kiosk on the ground floor lobby.

Jakks Pacific has been cranking out a variety of arcade games you can play on your TV for several years now. But all of their arcade systems up until now included 4, maybe 5 games. Their most recent model, the Arcade Gold game system ups the ante by cramming 8 old school arcade games into a single package.

I am working on my big Tokyo Game Show post but I just have to say that the new Xbox dashboard (NXE) is going to ship worldwide on November 19th.

Also Bungie new game is Halo 3 Recon.

Last month we told you about Aptus’ new line of Mini-Motion controllers that will be available for different games. Here’s some more info on the games. The games planned are called Cars of Fury, Hoverboard, and Home Run King. Yeah, they don’t sound all that swell. The skateboarding game comes with a miniature skateboard controller; the car game has a USB car; Hoverboard has a hoverboard etc.