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You remember Slamball right? You know that sport that was started back in 2001 and premiered on Spike TV? No? You sure? Let me refresh your memory then. Back in 2002, Spike TV brought to us a full contact, high flying, trampoline using sport called SLAMBALL. Its played on a Slamball court that consist of 8 trampolines, 4 at each end. A player scored by using said trampoline to boost themselves into the air to either, shoot, layup or SLAM the ball in for points. Now these aren’t always used, some of these guys still treat it as Basketball as they like to shoot outside of the trampoline for the downtown shot.  The difference between the two sports besides that its full contact, is that its a four on four game, as opposed to the five on five that the NBA has set in regulation. Only after its run on Spike did it air on CSTV, Versus and CBS (currently airing on CBS). It will pick up another network when Family Friendly Cartoon Network picks it up July 11th.

Now I’m not one to judge here but, Slamball, On Cartoon Network? REALLY!? I guess they’re trying to get more people to migrate to this channel that are over the age of 12 and are more the age of 15+. I guess Ted Turner is trying to do something right…but only time will tell with this one. Slamball is a very exciting and innovative concept that has caught the eye of many that has had a chance to watch it. If you haven’t watched it already, your chance comes next month on Cartoon Network, or you can wait for it to show again on CBS?

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Popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay has been sold to a company named Global Gaming Factory X (Sounds like a new reality show for MTV or Spike). As we all know back a month ago the two founders of The Pirate Bay were prosecuted and the decision didn’t go in their favor. You can also recall a blog post from TPB that states that TPB may be sold. The thing that gets me is that it took for the events that led up to this for a sell to happen. It kinda reminds me of the Napster situation, one of the biggest P2P Music Sharing Programs out forced into a paid service, and The Pirate Bay is heading in that same direction. Don’t worry though the guys have promised that the money from the sale will go to a worthy cause. To a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, openness of the nets and etc. I wish these guys the best of luck with their fight against the legal system and hope they prevail.

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Today, Music has lost a legend. The man behind the moonwalks and leg kicks and the single man force behind influencing some of the artist of present day. Michael Jackson is dead, at the ripe age of 50 the Pop Legend leaves behind his music legacy, family and friends. This is indeed a sad day for fans and artist alike. What a week this has been though, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcet, now Michael Jackson.

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As a football fan, I feel obligated to chime in (late) on this Brett Farve situation that has been going on since Farve’s 2nd retirement. As much of a fan I am of Brett Farve, sometimes you have to know when to hold them, and when to fold them. For Farve, that time is now, when he first came back I was like “are you kidding me” until I saw what he did with the Jets. He had a hell of a season with them, and for that time period I accepted Farve as a main stayer in hopes that he retired and stayed retired at the end of the season. Its been longtime since the end of the season, Farve has once again retired, and yet, talks are going on about Farve coming back…AGAIN. What needs to happen for farve to stay permanently retired.

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Today a tragedy has happened, two Red Line Metro trains collided with each other between the Fort Totten and Takoma Stations. 4 people have been confirmed dead while many others are being treated for critical and minor injuries. Being that I live in the Washington D.C. this hits home a bit more for me than other who don’t live within Maryland, Virginia and D.C. This is a sad day for those who’ve lost loved ones and my heart and thoughts go out to them. Right now, Train service is limited from Glenmont to Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood Stations and from Shady Grove and Silver Spring stations. Also they are investigating this a homicide situation though it may not be. More news is developing as I type this and to keep up with it, watch the twitters and the www.wmata.com site for more info. As well as CNN and other news outlets.

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The official Box Art for Guitar Hero 5 has been released and with the release of the game down the line. You would think by now that since Activision has stepped into the full band scene that Rock Band has dominated since their first game. You would think that they would just change the name from guitar hero to Band Hero or whatever shows that they are in the full band era of Music Games. Anyways, here’s screenshots of the box art courtesy of Nerdiest-Kids.com.

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The highly anticipated release of Marvel vs Capcom 2 on the PSN and XBL Marketplace will have to wait a bit longer. According to Examiner.com, we can expect the games release before the end of July. So all of you on the PSN enjoying the demo still, you’ll have a bit more time with it before the release of this game. 360 Owners, the wait will be a bit longer than expected.

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Tekken 6 is coming out October 27th this year and today the budle for the game has been announced. When you go after the Wireless Fight Stick Bundle, you will pay 150 dollars for the Fight Stick, Tekken 6 Game and art book. To me, this is an awesome deal for a pretty good fighting series. Even though I have a Street Fighter 4 Fight Stick, this makes me want the special edition so bad. Screenshots after the jump!

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Later this year we’re going to see yet another Dashboard update for Xbox 360, an update that Xbox Live’s Major Nelson says will “Increase the speed of the Xbox Guide”. Not his exact words, but we’ve heard this all before with the last Dashboard update the NXE, and the thing just lags. This update will be available later this year according to Major Nelson and hopefully the faster guide isn’t just a broken promise.

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As most of my friends know already, I’m a Madden gamer. Well not just Madden but I play other sports games, anyways, Gamestop is doing it again with the early demo access of awesome (at least everyone else had an awesome time with the fight night demo on their own consoles). When you go down to Gamestop and Reserve your copy of Madden 2010, you get demo access early. But not just any demo access, 20 minutes of the Cardinals vs Steelers Super Bowl game. While its rumored the rest of the masses will get an 8 minute demo of the Giants vs Cowboys. For me, this is pretty cool, cause I get to see for myself if this years game will be better than last years and for those who dislike the madden series for reasons of “repetitiveness”, a possible reason to get their hands on a demo that will not change the minds of most. Madden 2010 hits stores, August 14th.

Source: Joystiq.com

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