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BBC iPlayer Gets Its Own Wii Channel
4:20AM Mike Fahey | The UK’s iPlayer TV and Radio on demand server for the Wii gets an upgrade next week, graduating from Wii Internet Channel feature to full-on BBC iPlayer Wii Channel. More »
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Jury Awards $16 Million In Fatal Win-a-Wii Stunt
1:00PM Owen Good | A jury awarded $US16 million to the family of a Sacramento-area woman who died in a 2007 radio stunt in which participants chugged water and held their bladders in order to win a Wii. More »
Radio Station Sells Soul To Nintendo
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Sydney radio station 2UE are one of the biggest radio stations in Australia. And a reasonably respected one to boot. So it’s a little strange/sad to see that, for the next three weeks, the station have changed their name to 2U-Wii. GET IT. This isn’t a throwaway joke, either; every logo and watermark on the station’s website bears the new, temporary 2U-Wii logo. 2UE: More »
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Survey: One Third Of Gamers Buy Music Game Songs
2:20AM Leigh Alexander | Have you bought a song or album because of Guitar Hero? Jacobs Media, a radio consulting company did a survey that found one third of players buy songs from the games, calling music video games “game changers” for rock music. Big label artists obviously agree, with Metallica, Aerosmith and Coldplay on their way down the pipeline hoping to introduce new fans to their tunes through the magic of mashing brightly-coloured buttons on plastic instruments. Jacobs Media also pointed out there’s an internet radio station, RadioIO, with a channel that plays nothing but rhythm game music. No one’s gonna taaaake me aliiiiiiiiive. Have music games influenced your taste in music, or your buying habits? And while we’re at it, what’s your favourite track from Guitar Hero? More »
Two New GTA IV Radio Widgets Hit
3:00AM Brian Crecente | Yesterday’s Grand Theft Auto IV info glut didn’t just include 20 new screens, there were also a handful of new wallpapers featuring drugs, cops, guns and tatas. There were also two new widgets for two more radio stations. Hit the jump to listen to the grooves of K109 The Studio and the rants of WKTT Talk Radio. More »
Listen To My Sexy Voice on ABC Radio Tomorrow
3:00PM Logan Booker | Okay. It’s not that sexy.
True, I sometimes force my voice to drop a few octaves for the ladies, but I usually end up coughing in their faces or spilling my apple martini on their shirts. Which is definitely not sexy.
But we won’t be talking about any of that. The main topic of conversation will be the review of an R18+ rating for video games and its opposers – though I’m sure we’ll cover other bits and pieces.
If you’d like to hear the irresistible timbre of vocals, tune in to 774 ABC Melbourne around 3:30PM AEDT. For those unable to pick up the station on their electronic frequency catcher, you can stream it from the ABC Radio Melbourne website. More » 
Radio Station to Broadcast People Playing Rock Band on Air
9:00AM Flynn De Marco | If you’re like me you probably read the headline and thought: WTF? But apparently it’s true. A DJ at east coast radio station WFMU will be playing Rock Band live on the air tomorrow morning with the help of some local listeners over LIVE (with the exception of the singers who will have to come to the studio). Now, I can kind of see this working from a vocals end if you cranked it up high enough, but all in all it seems a bit ridiculous and will likely leave many listeners confused. In a related note, if you tune in to the same station the following week you can listen to me dance the lead in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Rock Band (The Video Game) LIVE on WFMU! Rock with us! [WFMU] More »
Gordon Freeman Pours Heart Out On Coast To Coast
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | We know. He can’t/doesn’t speak. And if he could/did, he’d be more of a man than to go whining about it on national radio. But if you can suspend enough disbelief to imagine he can/does, you can also muster a chuckle or two as George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM, totally falls for it. More »
