It’s back-to-school time, and Verizon Wireless is hoping to appeal to the touth and “tween” market with its new Blitz messaging phone with an integrated camera and media player capabilities. The Blitz phone features a slide-out QWERTY keypad to keep those teenagers running up the text-messaging and email charges, while offering Web and email capabilities that’ll make acing classroom tests a breeze. Why guess when you can Google?
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Midway Blitzes the Xbox 360
Midway Games has shipped Blitz: The League for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console game system, adding another platform to its million-selling rough-and-tumble football title. The idea behind Blitz is all about keeping football aggressive, messy, muddy, nasty, and mean, rather than offering a by-the-rules, simulated-celebrity experience in officially licensed sports titles. Players take on a run-down football franchise and try to turn it into a league dynasty—with in-game help from four-time Super Bowl linebacker Bill Romanowski as the character "Bruno Batagglia."
