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The Nintendo brand has always been synonymous with clean-cut family-friendly entertainment. If Rockstar Games is the Jack the Ripper of the videogaming world, then Nintendo is the antithesis, the Mickey Mouse or Hannah Montana. But as everybody knows, sex sells, and Balance Board Blog explains how Nintendo could convert xbox 360 and PS3 players who have not yet been charmed by Nintendo's advertising campaigns.

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Since its debut last year, Rock Band's slow but certain domination of the world has become clear, particularly in regards to the downloadable content (DLC) of the game. With new music made available through the magical portal known as the Internet on a regular basis, the Rock Band junkies of the world -- and there are many -- can rest easy knowing that their latest, greatest fix is just a download away. Perhaps most exciting of all is the fact that entire albums are now being released for the game, starting with Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengeance and The Cars' eponymous debut album over the past few months and continuing next week with The Pixies' Doolittle. But this awesome push into the realm of album downloads got us thinking: What other LPs would we like to jam out to in our living room? More after the jump...

Casual gaming is on the rise. That's a fact. You can see this not only by the success of the Nintendo Wii, which is built on casual gaming, but also the success of games such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Singstar. The question now is how much of a lurch towards casual will Sony and Microsoft take the PS3 and xbox? And how much that will influence the games industry for the future?