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Looking for Wii/WiiWare games to pick up/ask for for the holiday season? Well you have a ton of goodies to look forward to! While the year may not have been the best for first-party releases, there were a ton of great third party efforts on the platform. In my opinion, this was [...]

Have you purchased any of the Cooking Mama games? Between Wii, DS, cell phones and iPhone, I’m sure you’ve grabbed at least one installment in the series. If you have, you’ve helped contribute to the 7 million units sold that the Cooking Mama brand has just achieved. There’s no denying that gamers [...]

A whole lot of free coming your way.

Paramount has announced that a free update is now available for the Xbox 360 version of Star Trek D-A-C. The update adds two new ships to the game, the missile cruiser and the support frigate. The missile cruiser packs heavy, long range attacks, while the support frigate can heal friendly units and destroy escape pods. A new single-player survival mode has also been added as well. The online portion has been updated with more options, like configuring bot AI and the number of points needed to win. Probably the most important addition, however, is host migration. This will automatically switch hosts if the current host decides to quit -- rather than simply dropping everyone from the game. Considering we were dropped several times even in the trial version, that's probably a good addition.

Ummm ... "Smells Like Teen Spirit." That is all one needs to know about next week's Rock Band DLC. How many of us out there will finally learn the lyrics to the song we mumbled for years every time it popped up on the radio?Remember radio? Wow, feels like forever ago. Check out the full update after the break. Select a platform below to view complete DLC listing:

There are some more pics of the person in question here, as well as a theory as to who it might be. What do you guys have to say?!

No superhero story is complete without the ever-powerful nemesis.

Professor Layton and the Devil's Flute is out in Japan tomorrow, so Level-5 decided it was an appropriate time to go ahead and announce the next DS game in the second Layton trilogy. At a Devil's Flute launch event, Level-5 president Akihiro Hino revealed the above artwork for Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask. This fifth game has Layton and Luke investigating the mystery of the title artifact in Casino City, which seems to have been created by the wish-granting mask. According to a Famitsu report that leaked before the official reveal, there could be major changes to the familiar gameplay system. Miracle Mask will be out in fall 2010, and may be followed by a second movie, Hino said. The company first has to solve the puzzle of how much money it will receive from the first one. [Via Famitsu, Andriasang]

Three new pop songs become available for LEGO Rock Band.

Discover the story of Shiren.

Deadly Creatures Deadly Creatures is a game that should have gotten a lot more attention than it did. THQ didn’t advertise the game in any way, shape or form, so it’s not surprising to see that the game bombed. If you can find this one in the bargain bin, pick it up!

Building an antihero from the ground up.

Hidan and Kizaku get the chance to show off their moves.

Wii Fit Plus can help keep that belt from moving one more notch this Thursday.

Check out more screens in our Flickr set EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - November 25, 2009 - Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced the availability and new details for pop’n music, the high pace rhythm game starring a cast of fun and highly entertaining characters! For years, pop’n music has been known as a fan favorite and [...]

The Ys series gets around. Primarily a PC-based franchise, Falcom's action-RPG series is ported to everything that can play games in Japan. It appears on the PSP in the form of Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim, Ys I&II Chronicles, and (soon) Ys VII. Yet another Ys game is migrating over to PSP, as Falcom announced that Oath in Felghana, a port of the PC game of the same name (pictured), will be released in Japan on April 22, with upgraded controls, voiced "events," and the ability to switch between versions of the soundtrack.Oath in Felghana is a remake of Ys III: Wanderers from Ys, swapping out that game's unusual side-scrolling gameplay for the traditional Zelda-esque Ys style.

Rockstar obviously doesn’t want gamers forgetting about GTA: Chinatown Wars this holiday season, which is why they’re sending out more review copies to the press. They’ve also included a fortune cookie with two special messages. Hit the jump to see what the messages are. In true Rockstar fashion, the messages are a bit off-color… ‘fellatio’ [...]

Direct link here IRVINE, CALIFORNIA — NOVEMBER 25, 2009 — Atlus U.S.A., Inc. today launched the official website and video trailer for Shiren the Wanderer™, the upcoming Wii™ entry in the long heralded Shiren series. The video, which features a healthy mix of gorgeous CG cutscenes and in-game action, introduces fans to the game’s mythology-laden, [...]

Microsoft and Tor Books have issued a friendly reminder that the Halo: Evolutions story collection has officially hit the shelves. The collection includes tales from the Halo universe penned by series authors Eric Nylund and Thomas Buckell, as well as others by 343 Industries' Frank O'Connor, Bungie's Robt McLees, sci-fi author Karen Traviss and others. The book retails for $14.99, but it can be had for much less if you know where to look. For those who have picked it up already, any good?

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You think you know everything about Shattered Memories, but you don't.

Boxed version will not require online authentication.

Double pack of downloadable classics coming next year.

Another holiday guide that goes out of its way to not suggest video games, but instead, other gifts to gamers. There are a few decidedly game-related items on the list, but overall you should still be able to find something that appeals to your inner gamer. I know there were a handful of [...]

A recent press release has informed us that with the release of today's Rock Band 2 DLC pack, Harmonix has met its goal of having over 1,000 songs on the platform before the holidays. According to the presser, these tracks represent the work of 390 musical artists. The rhythm gaming community has downloaded over 60 million songs from the Rock Band Music Store, which Harmonix has kept alive and kicking with new musical additions for 105 consecutive weeks. To put this achievement in chronological terms, we'd estimate that the average length of these songs is, oh, about four minutes. By our calculations, a full playthrough of the Rock Band catalog would take you two days, 18 hours and 40 minutes. Not accounting for the number of times you'll inevitably fail out on "Painkiller," of course. Congratulations, Harmonix, on this rocking accomplishment! Now, get back to work. That Paul Simon track pack isn't going to program itself.

The Lufia series always had the stereotypical spiky-haired protagonists, but now that the Lufia II characters appear in 3D in Square Enix's DS remake, they look even more Square Enixy. Not that it's a bad thing: the cinematics in this debut trailer look really nice, with a somewhat cel-shaded effect, and the in-game action is also nice-looking, as far as DS 3D goes.The game itself looks really different. Square Enix classifies this as an action RPG, but between the combos and the grappling, this looks like an action game. We suppose it's an RPG because when you hit something, numbers come out. Lufia II (or Estpolis) is out in Japan February 25.