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The voices behind famous video game characters

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“It’s-a mario-martinet-jpg_193403me… Mario!” Admit it: you heard the voice of the Nintendo icon in your head when you read that sentence. But if most people were to walk past Charles Martinet, they wouldn’t give Mario’s voice actor a second glance.

Voice acting isn’t a great career path for fame seekers, but if you’re lucky enough to work the pipes of a major video game star, it can be the role of a lifetime. Curious what Mario or Master Chief look like in their street clothes? Check out the most famous faces you’ve likely never seen.

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Gearbox, Sega sued over Aliens: Colonial Marines

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Aliens: aliensColonial Marines might have rankled critics, but that’s nothing compared to how it upset fans. And one fan in particular.

Plaintiff Damion Perrine filed a false advertising lawsuit against publisher Sega and developer Gearbox Software Tuesday in the Northern District of California, saying demos of the game shown at industry trade shows and public events were not accurate representations of the game that hit shelves.

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Happy 20th birthday, World Wide Web!

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Bill worldwideweb-20thbday-top640Clinton had just taken office. The World Trade Center was recovering from a terrorist bombing in its parking structure. Women were finally allowed to fly warplanes. And the day-to-day habits of the free world was about to undergo a tectonic shift.

On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web as we know it was officially birthed.

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Microsoft’s ‘IllumiRoom’ tech extends games beyond your TV

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Console microsoft-illumiroom-top630manufacturers have been quick to point out the advantages of playing video games on a big screen, but Microsoft has loftier ambitions.

The company unveiled their ‘IllumiRoom’ technology in January at CES, but we’re now getting a more complete picture of what it can do. And it’s pretty cool stuff.

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Hi-tech pajamas hide bedtime stories

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Of smart-pjsall the weapons in a child’s arsenal to stretch bedtime out as long as possible, there is none more valuable than the bedtime story. Inevitably, your young son or daughter will take FOREVER trying to pick out just the right book before you can corral them back into their bed.

Technology to the rescue! Smart PJs are new nighttime apparel that not only keep kids comfy and cozy as they doze, but they’re festooned with patterns that hide QR codes that can quickly be converted to bedtime stories.

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Nintendo abandons E3 keynote

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One nintendo-skipping-e3-presserof the tentpole events of E3 won’t be taking place this year.

Nintendo shocked the gaming world late Wednesday by announcing that it has decided not to hold its annual E3 press conference. Instead, the company said, it plans to focus on smaller events and will address the gaming world through a series of Nintendo Direct broadcasts, essentially cutting out the large, noisy middleman.

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Nintendo has sold fewer than 400,000 Wii Us so far this year

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If wii-u-sales-top640there was any remaining doubt that the Wii U has been struggling, Nintendo erased that in its latest earnings report.

The company reported that in the past three months, it has sold just 390,000 units of its next generation console. Life to date sales for the Wii U are under 3.5 million. That’s more than 500,000 less than the company had predicted in January, a figure that had been revised downward from initial forecasts of 5.5 million.

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Xbox Live subscriptions continue to rise

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With xbox-live-substhe successor to the Xbox 360 likely to hit stores before the end of the year, you’d think people might hold off on things like an Xbox Live subscription at this point in the console cycle. But apparently the online service is more popular than ever.

Microsoft reports Xbox Live subscriptions hit 46 million worldwide in the most recent fiscal quarter. That’s up 18 percent from a year ago.

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Female video game characters shedding stereotypes

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Female female-characters-top640characters have had a rather dubious run in the video game world. When they aren’t damsels in distress, they’re oversexualized stereotypes meant to titillate rather than foster a sense of empowerment in players.

There have been exceptions, of course — Half-Life 2’s Alyx or Samus from Metroid — but progress has been slow. In the past year, though, the exceptions are starting to become … well, if not the rule, less of the exception.

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