The PlayStation Vita, originally known as the PSP 2, will officially launch next Wednesday... however there are reports of some being released into the wild early.

I can personally vouch.

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With the release of Sony's second handheld device, let's look back at the other notable handheld gaming devices that have kept us either occupied and/or distracted.

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Modern Warfare 3 launches today. It is the third Call of Duty game in the "Modern Warfare" sub-series, the fifth Call of Duty game developed by it's lead company Infinity Ward, and the seventh core title (not a spin-off) released so far in the Call of Duty series history.

The first Call of Duty was released in 2003.

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Since 1995, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or "E3," has been recognized as the largest trade show for the computer and video games industry. This year E3 is being held from June 7 to June 9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Expected announcements range from a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, to Nintendo's newest console which is currently only known as "Project Cafe."

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Hey all,

I had absolutely nothing to do this Sunday. So in light of this article, I used NCAA Football 11's TeamBuilder feature to create a Cal team that has the uniforms that we wore from the mid to late nineties as well as the one we started wearing once Tedford came to Cal.

Here's the link: http://www.easports.com/teambuilder#/school/2272803096:1284946667

I have additional info after the jump.

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 Does this game rise up to the challenge and face EA's football series? (via img.photobucket.com)

Electronic Arts (EA) and their sports division (EA Sports) has not had any real, serious competition in the world of American gridiron football since 2005 when the last edition of 2K's "NFL" series was released to the public. It was widely regarded as the best sports game released at the time, however, money issues on Sega's end as well as the NFL deciding to give their licensing rights exclusively to EA for the Madden series quickly brought an end to the franchise. It attempted a come back in 2008 with backing from a few ex-NFL celebs like Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice (yay!) and John Elway (BOO!), and it was called All-Pro Football 2K8. While it wasn't Madden or NCAA, it also wasn't widely regarded as better than the former.

Quite the interesting mix we got there... (via upload.wikimedia.org)

Let's fast-forward to May 29, 2010. A gridiron football game has been released to the public. It is the first game of its kind: using an in-game physics engine for all of the player tackle animations instead of pre-recorded animations using motion capture. While it successfully accomplishes this task, does it outplay and outshine EA's series? Let's find out after the jump.

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2005 was a disappointment for many, I'm sure (it was for me, I tell ya). Joe Ayoob was hailed as the next hot Cal Quarterback following the departure of Aaron Rodgers, and the leg injury to Longshore.

Boy, did that fall flat.

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Hey Cal Fans,

According to the released videos of NCAA Football 2009 from EA Sports, The Bears are getting a uniform change for this season.

The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dzaD734w60

It appears that the pants stripes are changed, there are new stripes on the shoulders, the number style is different and the helmet gets a gold stripe down the middle.

Whether or not the uniform change is official is yet to be seen. I guess we either need to wait for some sort of press release from the AD, or just wait to see for ourselves opening day!

Go Bears!