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Fabian Toulouse's Articles in Arts & Entertainment

  • Birthday E-cards: Sunshine On a Rainy Day
    You know how you cannot wait for your birthday to roll around when you are young? It seems like an eternity passes before it's "your day" again. When you are a kid you count off the days on the calendar, make lengthy lists of what you want, beg your parents for a blow out of a party, and then on the big day you get overexcited and wild and eat birthday cake till you puke.
  • PS3 Games: The Skinny
    If you want to stay on top of what's new in PS3 games, hook up to Games Radar. You can't find a better site for gaming info. Be warned, though. If you're not careful, you can get sucked in and spend way more time roaming around their website than you do actually gaming. If you live and breathe games, you'll get a real buzz previewing all the games in the works. Just try not to drool on your keyboard. The graphics previews are awesome, and the game reviews rock. They tell you what's great and what's not so great. If a game blows chunks, they tell you exactly why.
  • Game Cheats: The History
    Cheat codes for video games have a colorful history. Hardly a game ever manufactured-even dating back to early Atari and the first computer games-has not had cheats either built in or a had way to program in changes. True, cheating sort of came about by chance, but today there is a whole game cheat culture with its own corner of the publishing industry.
  • Game Cheats: Never A Bad Thing
    Cheat codes in computer and video games have always gone hand in hand. Practically from the first days, computer games, cheats were imbedded to make thorough play testing More efficient for game developers. One early code for the game Manic Miner was actually the game maker's phone number. Game makers did not bother taking out the cheats and gamers embraced them. Like hidden bonus tracks on CDs and special features on DVD's, they became expected. Whether for personal computer, gaming console, or handheld game system, seldom is there a game without cheats included.
  • Cheat Codes In Action
    Say you're up late at night at a friend's house playing Grand Theft Auto and you're feeling a little wacky. What better occasion to employ a few cheat codes to up the wack factor? Turn the pedestrians against you and watch the bullets fly from every corner! The cheats for that game are especially awesome, but almost every video game known to man has cheat codes imbedded in it. From back in the dawn of the gaming industry, in fact, developers included them for their own use-they made testing the games easier-and just never removed them.
  • New Nintendo Wii In The Works
    No having anticipated the demand, the Nintendo Wii gaming systems have become a precious commodity. Especially during the 2007 Christmas season, finding a Wii meant using some skillful maneuvering. Fortunately, Nintendo Wii games are not nearly so hard to find, but you may be getting tired of your old ones. Right now there are just forty-four Nintendo Wii games on the market-not all that many, really. That is about to change, however, as forty-five new Nintendo Wii games are to be released in the upcoming months, the bulk of them of them during the summer and fall.

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