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This may appear fancy a raunchy story — the sort of catfight tale ending in on broken nails and torn clothing. We got type of anticipating this scuffles to take place as seven beautiful ladies tussled such beyond Thursday night in at a Manhattan bar & restaurant referred to as Sutton Place. Alas, we did not get to see anything and everything underlyingly lewd, but there got definitely a sufficient amount of sweaty bods to force the male crowd to a frenzy.

Taking portion in a Nintendo publicity stunt referred to as “Wii Box in the City,” such women tested out this gaming intelligence and battling skills in a Wii Sports boxing tourney to win a Wii system. The night was demented all night as crowds of supporters cheered and jeered. It came downward to Mari (in blue) and Regina (in yellow) for the championship. We caught up investing in Mari before the big fight; she informed us nearly her Wii experience: “I’ve played Wii before. It’s want a workout.” Regina on the a greater number of hand had never played the Wii before, additonally both ladies never had any gaming undergo past that.

Soon, it was opportunity for the ultimate fight. The two fought bravely, but in the end Regina won surrounded by a knock out. “Oh my god, you won!” exclaimed May, Regina’s smartest friend, whose excitement was fancy such a of a kid on Christmas morning. Regina gave her lucrative prize during to May who carried on to laud her bestest friend: “She in fact killed it! She’s the bestest friend ever!” Who appreciate so gaming and bar fights might bid friends closer together?

New Zealand’s Office of Film and Literature had to reiterate this week that store clerks can’t sell Grand Theft Auto IV to parents purchasing it for their children. The New Zealand Herald reports the office had to repeat itself after receiving calls from clerks who didn’t know what to do when a parent “demanded” to buy GTA IV with their 14-year-old in tow.

GTA IV is rated R18 by the New Zealand government and it’s illegal to make it available to anyone under that age. In New Zealand, even if it’s their own kid, the adult could be jailed for 90 days or pay $10,000 fine; however, the law has never been enforced.

[Via GamePolitics]

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Talk of Grand Theft Auto IV possibly hurting Iron Man’s opening was clearly wrong. According to Variety, the movie made $104.2 million during its opening weekend, proving Paramount’s Rob Moore right when he said that young males can carve out two hours to see Iron Man.

Variety did explore GTA IV’s impact on the home video market recently, which showed no major releases targeted at the young male demo for the week. Probably the best comparison would be to see how the Iron Man video game did in sales when NPD comes out next month, and we know we’re going out on a limb on this one, but we’re pretty sure GTA IV won that battle.

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Wired reminds us that that today is the 16th anniversary of when the ubiquitous first-person shooter genre really took off. Wolfenstein 3D celebrates its “sweet sixteen” in the firm knowledge that it not only helped springboard a genre, but also id Software, which went on to make the Quake and Doom series.

Although the FPS had been around since the ’70s, Wolfenstein 3D is the game that most people (old enough) can point to being their first real experience with the genre. The game is also remembered for being one of the earlier instances of censorship, as it was banned in Germany for its non-educational use of swastika and Nazi music. As for the next time we’ll re-return to castle Wolfenstein? The last we heard it’s supposed to be later this year.

Update: Wait, it’s 2008? So much for celebrating its quinceañera.

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Considering that some countries are mulling the idea of making texting a recognized subject and allowing students to use text-speak on exams, we suppose it’s not too outrageous to hear of handsets being used as educational tools and not seen as a hindrance. Nokia has teamed up with Mindset Network in order to spearhead the M4Girls pilot project, which utilizes Nokia 6300 handsets loaded with educational material to “help improve the mathematics performance of Grade 10 girl learners.” Reportedly, the initiative will be piloted in two South African schools, and students lucky enough to take advantage will have access to educational games and other material created to meet the needs of the national curriculum. No word on whether the program will filter out to other locations if it proves successful, but here’s to hoping that eventually gets answered with a resounding “yes.”

[Via textually]

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Taking a cue from America’s army and, er, America’s Army, the Australian military is also using online games to pump up flagging recruitment numbers. As the New Zealand Herald reports, Australia’s Defence Jobs web site allows visitors to control crude, Flash versions of ARV Tiger Attack Helicopters, F/A-18 Hornets and more.

The games aren’t exactly new (JayIsGames discussed one of them back in 2004) but they’re getting increased attention now as a way for military recruitment to compete with a fierce job market. “It is critical to the future of the ADF that Generation Y and beyond can access and interact with recruiting information via the technology they are comfortable with,” said Defence Science and Personnel Minister Warren Snowdon, who sounds extremely old.

Two of the Air Force games have recorded over 300,000 plays, according to the Herald report, which might not seem like much compare to America’s Army’s 8+ million users. Remember, though, that America’s defense budget exceeds Australia’s (and indeed, the rest of the world’s) by leaps and bounds. Whoo! We’re No. 1! Don’t mess with the U.S.! These colors don’t run! And so on …

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