Valve Announces Steam Cloud, Network to Store Saved Games
www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52906
Valve today announced Steam Cloud, a new system in Steam that will retain gamers’ saved games and configuration files indefinitely. More …

Rumor: Microsoft May Debut New Xbox 360 Motion Controller Next Week
kotaku.com/388741/rumor-microsoft-may-debut-new-xbox-360-motion-controller-next-week
Rumors about Microsoft entering the waggle market with a specialized, Wii Remote concept swiping controller have been popping up for the better part of a year. Talk of a partnership with Gyration, speculation that Bungie had quashed a proposal for a motion controller tied to Halo 3 and murmurs that Rare was now tasked with leading the waggle wand brigade have been bubbling up frequently. Microsoft and Gyration have both denied or brushed off the rumors, but we’ve just heard it pop up again.

Rumor: Realtime Worlds hopes APB becomes GTA Online
www.joystiq.com/2008/05/08/rumor-realtime-worlds-hopes-apb-becomes-gta-online/
As far as rumors go, this one isn’t much of a surprise. A mysterious masked man told Eurogamer that developer Realtime Worlds recently bought the distribution rights to its forthcoming MMO All Points Bulletin (APB to you kids) with one specific goal in mind: “so that it could try and sell it to Rockstar as GTA Online.”
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This week we spend the first part of the show cutting into Thompson’s comments last week on NPR’s Talk of the Nation.  We also talk about Doom 4, a Bioshock movie, Spore, and Wii Pole Dancing.

 

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