Cool stuff like the ESPN X-Games, which of course attracts lots of the Beautiful People.
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But I'd be lying if I said the X-Games and the Winter Olympics weren't an ambition of mine.
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It was like a Disneyland for gamers with some X-Games, real Navy SEALs, and Hollywood talent thrown in for good measure.
He sat out the ESPN X-Games in Los Angeles in June, having won 24 medals in snowboarding and skateboarding, including 16 gold.
And after his performance at the Brits, the judges believe Wakefield has what it takes to make the top three at the international X-Games.
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Representatives from ESPN tell us that a native 720p 60 3D signal performs better during fast motion, which is something we'll see during the Derby and Summer X-Games.
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Commercially, it makes sense that beach volleyball and various X Games-like events have become part of the Olympic story in an effort to modernize the Olympics while targeting a more youthful demographic of viewers.
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Caleb was a four-time X Games medalist attempting a move he has landed several times previously.
Caleb is a four-time X Games medalist who fell short on his rotation on a move he has landed several times previously.
Burke is a four-time Winter X Games champion in skiing the superpipe, a version of a traditional halfpipe with walls over 5m (16ft) high.
One thing spectators won't experience: a drop-off of the X Games.
Pepsi-Cola's Mountain Dew, another soda pop for teenagers, reaches out to what it calls "Dew Dudes"and "Dew Dudettes" by helping to sponsor ESPN's X Games and such grass-roots events as the Vans Warped Tour, a music festival complete with skate ramps, where teens can strut their stuff.
He started sweeping out the shaping room of a surf shack as a kid and worked his way through the industry, eventually becoming an on-air announcer for the Winter X Games from 1996 through 2005.
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New Amazon-exclusive features like X-Ray for Movies, X-Ray for Textbooks, Immersion Reading, Whispersync for Voice and Whispersync for Games.
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He worked on series like The Uncanny X-Men and Battle Chasers before joining up with Vigil Games to work on the original Darksiders.
As video game blog Kotaku reported back in November, Microsoft and Nintendo have rolled out new ecologically friendly cases for games found on their Nintendo Wii and X-Box 360 consoles.
This month a mob of 250 youngsters, many of them sporting baggy clothes, multicolored hairdos and multiple piercings, will invade the refined Aspen Mountain resort to appear at the Winter X Games, part of ESPN's twice-yearly "extreme sports" lollapalooza.
The case has brought increased scrutiny to the X Games, the combination of quirky, hair-raising events that were once pushed to the distant margins of televised sports but have in recent years been added to both Summer and Winter Olympic slates.
While the lumbering relics of the computing past are torn up for scrap--or, if they're lucky, stashed away in a museum--games such as Pac Man or Galaga are endlessly recycled for use in online services, such as X-Box Live, or on mobile phones and handheld devices.
Hosted by Sal Masekela, the X Games telecast will once again feature a talented collection of on-air commentators.
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From the new Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem cross-over, to the announcement of two new Zelda games (well, one new one and an HD remake of Wind Waker) the Nintendo goodies just keep dropping.
That changes if you throw down even more money on a 5760 x 1080 triple-display rig, in which case NVIDIA takes the lead in some games, but loses in others -- leaving the two rivals closer than the single-card reviews we looked at yesterday.
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Oh, we almost forgot -- they've boosted out the keyboard in favor of a more useful D-pad and A, B, X, Y button formation -- which is, needless to say, awesome for playing awesome games.
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In ten years the X Games have become, pound for pound, one of the most valuable enterprises in television sports--and a favorite venue for Sony, Gillette and other marketers eager to reach an elusive audience: 12- to 19-year-olds.
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