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Modern Warfare 2 Deployed To NASCAR Paint Job
10:00AM Michael McWhertor | Just as DJ Hero, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Guitar Hero have done before it, Modern Warfare 2 will grace the chassis of GameStop’s NASCAR Nationwide Series entry car. It’ll do so this weekend, too! More »
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Mario Goes Round And Round In NASCAR Race
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | If our glowing review for Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. doesn’t convince you to buy a Wii, perhaps seeing Mario, Luigi and his Toad followers on a NASCAR chassis will! More »
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DJ Hero Does NASCAR
8:20AM Mike Fahey | Target and Activision have teamed up to plaster Martin Truex Jr.’s No. 1 Chevrolet with giant DJ Hero logos at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in North Carolina this Saturday. More »
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Peter Moore: No More NASCAR Games From EA
12:40PM Owen Good | In an interview, EA Sports boss Peter Moore says his division’s plans for doing more NASCAR games have, like Ray Earl Don’s No. 78 Chevy in turn four at Rockingham, blew up. More »
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Activision Teams Pros With GI Joes
4:00AM Mike Fahey | Activision is teaming up with nonprofit troop support organisation Pro vs. GI Joe for the Activision Showdown series, pitting pro-athletes against our troops overseas in games like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. More »
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Guitar Hero Car Repeatedly Turning Left At Daytona 500
7:20AM Michael McWhertor | Activision will once again throw tons of cash at the Guitar Hero franchise via NASCAR endorsement, as it sponsors cars at the Daytona 500 race and beyond promoting “upcoming Guitar Hero titles.” More »
LittleBigPlanet Meets…NASCAR?
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | Halo 3 on a NASCAR? Predictable. The Wii on a NASCAR? Understandable, since everybody has a Wii these days. But we’re struggling to find just where, exactly, the NASCAR fanbase and the LittleBigPlanet fanbase dovetail. Yet dovetail they did over the weekend just past, this GameStop/LittleBigPlanet racer finishing a respectable 5th place. Not bad for a car that looks like it was knitted by my gran. More »
Video Games Aren’t Real Life, Even For NASCAR Drivers
2:40AM Mike Fahey | Most of us out there who have played a racing game for any period time have fantasized about being in the game while we’re driving real cars, but the important thing is that we don’t act on such fantasies. Tell that to NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, who attempted to defeat rival and two-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson by…purposefully bouncing his car off a concrete wall. “I planned on hitting the wall, but I didn’t plan on the wall slowing me down that much,” Edwards said. “In video games, you can just run into the wall and run it wide open. That’s what I did, but it didn’t quite work out the same as the video game.” *rubs temples* Oh my head. How are we supposed to keep our children from setting people on fire when their role-models decide that driving at top speeds on a crowded raceway is a good time to see how accurate the physics in GRID are? Johnson wins, Edwards hits wall on purpose [HamptonRoads.com] More »
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GameStop Sponsors Race Car With Call of Duty Skin
8:00AM Owen Good | Watch NASCAR much and you notice the winning driver’s post-race genuflection to his sponsors can get to be a mouthful. So it’s probably a good thing Joey Logano finished 16th in last night’s Food City 250 at Bristol, Tenn. in stock car racing’s Nationwide series. Otherwise Logano would be like: “Well, Jerry, we just have a super group of guys on the Call of Duty World at War GameStop Joe Gibbs Racing Number 20 Toyota team. Just a great car, ran super good and I’m glad we could get a win for the Call of Duty World at War GameStop Joe Gibbs Racing Number 20 Toyota team. “I thought we was gonna run out of gas there at the end but I got a nice push from my teammate Jerry Jeff Jeeter McPheeter racin’ in the Peter Jackson’s King Kong The Official Game of the Movie … Number … 14 ..”. [starts breathing into paper sack]. Food City 250 Results [USA Today] More »
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