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Well thats up to you.

Apparently EA and Doritos have teamed up to allow the fans to decide who should be the cover athlete of Madden 11 this fall. Click on the link below and you can vote for Jared Allen, Drew Brees or Reggie Wayne. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of defensive players on my Madden cover and I’m not sure Reggie Wayne deserves it over Brees who has had a great year. Then again, I’m not sure I want the curse to be on Brees seeing as how I won’t Fantasy Football with him heading up my squad this season. Decisions, decisions…

http://www.doritoschangethegame.com/index.html

Behold, the seven minute trailer for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII from the Tokyo Game show now dubbed in English, you know so you can actually have some clue as to whats going on!

Well our favorite novelty music act may have been snubbed from the emmys but perhaps a bigger claim to fame awaits our favorite heroes Bret and Jemaine, better known as Flight of the Conchords.

If they can be believed (and who knows if they can but their label SubPop also confirmed it) the Kiwis will have at least three of their songs coming to a Rock Band game near you as downloadable content.  Just which three songs haven’t been revealed just yet but SubPop also claimed in an interview last year that they were working with the developers to convert all of the Chonchords songs to the popular game.

So which three songs would you like to see for the first release?    If I’m thinking of which three songs would best fit Rock Band you have to think of something that includes good guitar, drums and vocals.  That makes it a little bit hard because our boys aren’t known for their drumming prowess.  They have also confirmed that one song from the new album (I told you I was Freaky aka the season 2 songs) would be part of the first downloadable track pack.  I’m thinking we’ll probably also see some more of their popular stuff so prime candidates would be Business Time, Robots, The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room and Sugalumps.

Now what would it take to get playable versions of them in the game?

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I think these Madden 2010 team ratings are from a spectator at E3… I don’t know if they are legit.  It is great to see the Raiders ahead of the Donkeys!  The player ratings seem to be slowly leaking out here and there.  The Raiders top offensive player… Lorenzo Neal 91… and Garcia (75) is higher than Russell (72)… controversy.  Fargas and McFadden are both 79.

1st Patriots 93
2nd Steelers 92
3rd Giants 89
4th Chargers 88
5th Eagles 88
6th Titans 87
7th Colts 87
8th Cardinals 86
9th Cowboys 85
10th Panthers 83
11th Ravens 82
12th Falcons 81
13th Vikings 80
14th Bears 79
15th Redskins 79
16th Jets 78
17th Packers 78
18th Dolphins 77
19th Seahawks 77
20th Bills 76
21st Texans 75
22nd Saints 74
23rd Buccaneers 74
24th 49ers 73
25th Jaguars 71
26th Raiders 71
27th Broncos 70
28th Chiefs 69
29th Browns 68
30th Bengals 67
31st Rams 66
32nd Lions 65

Check out this link to see a video of the new Madden 10 uniform selection interface.  Pretty cool, it looks like you can mix and match.  I hope the Raiders and other AFL teams will have their 50th anniversary throwbacks.
Uniform change in Madden 10-VIDEO – Madden General Discussion – Madden NFL Series: EA Forums

That my friends is not a mock up, not a photoshop creation, but a picture of the actual PSP Go that will be revealed at E3 next week. Just wanted to throw it up before the announcement on Tuesday.  Stay tuned for specs, and if I’m ambitious maybe I’ll throw up some more E3 announcements next week.  Should be a fun show.

There have been whispers of rumors going around for some time now concerning an all new PSP that are rapidly turning into defaning roars so I figured I post something on it for the world at large.  Unlike the brighter screen, better buttons or better battery life of previous versions this one promises to be somewhat of a game changer for the form factor PSP.  The two biggest features of course are the slide out buttons and the death of the UMD!

This picture is just a fan mockup but I expect it to be similar to the final form.  Its also likely given Sony’s one up mentality that they will probably add a camera on this little bugger to compete with the DSI.  Now if they really wanted to revolutionize the handheld market they would combine this model with a full touchscreen ala iphone.

A number of video game announcements trickled out from CES this week and one that was originally met with little fanfare was EA announcing that they would be creating their own space in PS3’s vastly underwhelming Home.  After further review however (and helpful video demo) it actually looks pretty cool and I’m optimistic for the future of Home if they and other companies take this approach with it.  Check out the video below.
The EA Sports Home space is actually pretty awesome – PS3 Fanboy

Well its official, Nintendo has revealed the brand spanking new DSi handheld.  Here is a quick summary of the new specs:

• Two built in cameras
• 12% thinner then the DS Lite (comes at the cost of the GBA slot, no more old schoolin)
• Music Playback
• Internal Storage (no word on how much)
• SD Card slot for additional storage
• Slightly larger screens (3.25 inches)
• Photo Synching with the Wii photo channel
• Free web browsing via Wi Fi
• DSi Shop (buy games and applications directly over Wi Fi

Nintendo is calling the DSi a “third platform” but really its so similar to a DS I’m not sure who they are trying to fool with that.  It will launch November 1 in Japan in black and white colors (I chose the black for the pic above because it showed up better then the white) and will retail for approximately $178 US.  No word on the US release other then sometime 2009.

Check out more pics at DS Fanboy

Depending on your state of mind this is either the stupidest in a long line of stupid plastic attachments for your wavering wii-mote ooooorrrr if you let your inner geek out this could just be the coolest thing ever!  It would probably be a whole lot better if the Star Wars games for the Wii actually felt like you were participating in Lightsaber battles.

I think Joystiq puts it best though, “You pay $35, you put one on your wii-mote and your pretender works better!”
Thrustmaster releasing Wii Glow Saber on an unsuspecting public – Joystiq