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Will you wield dual machine pistols or some other incredibly destructive weapons?

Watch footage from campaign and challenge modes.

Like having a task force that fits in your pocket.

Check out our adrenaline pumping footage, complete with dozens of kickass kills. And yes, it's spoiler free.

Brutal, bombastic and every inch the videogame equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster.

It's set to be one of the biggest selling games of all time. Is it one of the greatest?

It's set to be one of the biggest selling games of all time. Is it one of the greatest?

Infinity Ward's latest FPS epic is here. Check out our in-depth, spoiler-free impressions here.

New Need for Speed confirmed for release next year.

New Need for Speed confirmed for release next year.

New Need for Speed confirmed for release next year.

New Need for Speed confirmed for release next year.

A bunch of well-known game devs collected into one mash-up of a picture. How many of the devs can you name?

“Torahime” by slill I need to get back into Muramasa. I was loving it, and then my game got accidentally saved over. Where will I find the time?!

Like so many fancy Italian citizens in the Renaissance, Assassin's Creed 2's Ezio Auditore di Firenze has a sweet villa in the country to run off to whenever he's feeling overburdened by his ... ahem ... work. In this latest (and final) developer diary for next week's big game, we are introduced to the quaint villa where Ezio holds a vacation house. A perfect place to store weapons, explore family relics, and think about the world - a place where he can improve the economy to his own benefit and make life easier for himself. We picture the villa as a fully realized (and mid-1400s-styled) version of GTAIV's many save houses, but, ya know, with assassin stuff instead of gangster stuff. But then again, being an assassin is pretty gangster. Uh oh, this is way too confusing - we'll have to get back to you after Assassin's Creed 2 comes out next week.

It seems a bit silly to have a launch party for a game that pretty much "launched" already. NYC became host to the official Modern Warfare 2 launch, where enthusiasts were able to wait on line for their chance to play the game. After the festivities, they could walk one block away to GameStop to buy a copy of the game at midnight -- and no sooner.Funnily, a good percentage of people waiting on line already had a copy of the game. Why bother going to the launch event, then? Perhaps the swag proved too enticing: XL Modern Warfare 2 t-shirts and the chance to oogle at IGN's Jessica Chobot were more than enough reason to wait on line for upwards of an hour.Considering this is arguably the biggest game release of the year, the event ended up being a bit underwhelming. Other than the dozens of Xbox 360 demo kiosks (with nary a PS3 in sight), Activision didn't offer much else to see or do. For the sake of this blogger, a more "ridiculous" marketing budget would have offered a far more spectacular launch party, one filled with fireworks, ninjas and dedicated servers.

At the annual SEMA car show in Las Vegas this week, Gran Turismo 5 creative lead Kazunori Yamauchi was on-hand demoing his game for showgoers and talking to the press. Amidst a torrent of questions from Autoweek, Yamauchi roughly calculated the cost of creating Gran Turismo 5: a cool $60 million. That's what five years of development on a single game has cost Polyphony Digital thus far, an amount Yamauchi says was totally justified in order to "get it right." "We threw away the legacy code from GT4 and started from scratch ... It's been five years from [the release of] GT4, and that's the same amount of time it took to develop the first GT4." And rather than dodging the reasoning behind the lack of a solid GT5 release date anywhere outside of Japan, Yamauchi flatly offered, "That's more depending on SCEA marketing decisions." Allow us to venture a guess - first half of 2010, perhaps?[Via VGChartz]

Tour many different styles of tracks in different environments.

Speed off the line in the same style everyone loved all those years ago.

I thought this DDR mat turned purse was pretty damn cool. Mom Brain and Nintenho didn’t seem to impressed. Well…screw them! I’ll use it then!

Nintendo brews the formula for fun once again.

Your 3D Dot quest begins!

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This is not the Wii versions, but we have shown footage of that. With that said, I can’t pass up a dinosaur being punched in the face. That’s truly badass…and stupid.