21-year-old Michigan Pro Joe Cada at Final Table in Fifth Place for the WSOP November Nine Profile

During the WSOP 2009, all eyes were on the youngest main-event champion in history. With hardly a year past since he had edged past Phil Hellmuth to become the youngest player to ever win poker’s most prestigious title, Peter Eastgate was making an incredible run to contend for what could have been his second consecutive world championship.

With barely a hundred players remaining from an original field of 6,494 at the WSOP 2009, Eastgate was poised to finish his second run as champion. Interestingly enough, in his journey deep into the 2009 WSOP main event, the reigning world champ played several hours with another talented young pro, Joe Cada, who didn’t shy away from engaging in a little playful trash talk with the champ. Read the rest of this entry »

Notching the five star mark, the new and improved Wii Sports Resort promises gamers a virtually simulated experience

Bringing the zing back to its gaming experience, Nintendo has released the eagerly awaited Wii Sports Resort scoring five out of five stars almost instantly as gamers worldwide checked out the new product.

The all new Wii Sports Resort features an intense workout experience.

Priced at $49.99, the game includes a Wii MotionPlus attachment with jacket, sold separately for $19.99, needed to play the dozen games included in the package.

The Nintendo team’s expert finesse in designing games and related hardware is clearly reflected in Wii Sports Resort. It combines two sensors – an accelerometer and gyro – and the new Wii MotionPlus can detect rotation and twist movements as demonstrated in Frisbee and Sword Play games for instance. The graphics are bold and clear and the imported Mii has a more life-like body with very attractive outfits. Just like Wii Sports, the better a gamer gets at playing the games, the more intense the experience or gaming workout becomes, especially if attention is paid to the individual gamer’s form and technique. Another feature that makes it alike Wii Sports is the physical demands of the interactive sports games and the potential for injury.

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Battlefield 1943 now officially the fastest-selling game download.

With the inclusion of only three tweaked multiplayer maps, some gaming fans were not holding out much hope for Battlefield 1943, but with a download price of just $15 reflecting the somewhat limited content, Electronic Arts’ (EA) latest online release has shot off the virtual shelves and is breaking records left right and center.

In fact, Battlefield 1943 has notched up a massive 600,000 purchases since its launch, making it the fastest selling day-one and week-one download release to ever hit Xbox Live’s global network, rather than just attracting players to the point of merely selling well.

Hitting the market as the multiplayer sequel to the hugely popular World War II shooter Battlefield 1942, the new release caters for up to 24 players across the existing Pacific gameplay environments of Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. EA had initially locked off a fourth map called Coral Sea, promising to unlock it on each respective platform when its gamers amassed an online kill count of 43 million. However, after players collectively reached 43 million kills, their respective console versions received access to the additional Coral Sea map.

With the Xbox 360 sporting a stronger rate of adoption, that figure of 43 million was surpassed with ease on Xbox Live in a mere five days – although PlayStation Network players were not far behind, reaching the required mark in a respectable eight days.

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Strategy and satire make up for stick-man graphics in The Kingdom of Loathing.

The Kingdom of Loathing, or KoL as it is popularly known among avid gamers, is meant for those who get a thrill out of challenging puzzles and a satirical edge.

Kingdom of Loathing is a darkly funny, browser-based, multiplayer role-playing game designed and operated by Asymmetric Publications. The creators Zack “Jick” Johnson and writer Josh “Mr. Skullhead” are included in the operation of the web browser-based game. This player turn-based MMORPG makes up for its lack of graphical sophistication – with most of the game world drawn in a crude stick-figure style and hardly any animation at all — with clever writing and a bizarre, complex world that takes months to explore entirely. This is possibly also the only game where a player can get hopelessly addicted to goofballs and then ascend to a higher plane of existence within a brief span of 15 minutes.

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Sims 3 World Adventures will soon be released by EA

Famous videogame company Electronic Arts has said it will extend its Sims franchise and has promised to bring The Sims 3 World Adventures expansion pack. For PC and Mac computers, this expansion pack will be available from November 16 this year. The Sims 3 game itself was released in June and it is hoped the expansion pack will come on time unlike the delays faced by the game. Computers apart, EA will also launch this expansion pack for the iPhone platform.

EA’s Sims series are one of those widely played games by gamers of different ages. This game puts players in the virtual world, a simulated world, where they are meant to take decisions on their own and draw the world around them. The World Adventures expansion takes the Sims on the world trip where player will get the opportunity to visit different locations that include China, France and Egypt in the game. Buyers of the expansion pack will get 1000 SimPoints that can be used in-game for buying The Sim Store exclusive contents.

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