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Social gaming and criminal gaming, together at last.

This is the third in the making-of video series.

“Los Illuminados” by ArcadeArt - purchase yours here!

On the eve of the launch of Q-Games' latest super-stylish opus, PixelJunk Shooter, the studio's president, Dylan Cuthbert, decided to drop a new trailer for the title on PlayStation.Blog. We've posted it above -- as you can clearly see, it contains all of the requisite elements to fulfill the game's moniker: There's pixelated enemies, a great deal of of shooting, and plenty of junk to aim the aforementioned shooting at. The blog post also contained good news for thrifty fans of the franchise -- on Dec. 22, Q-Games will bundle PixelJunk Eden, Monsters and Racers together into a single $19.99 bundle. Sounds like a pretty sweet package if you're hoping to receive a new PS3 from ol' Saint Nick this holiday season.

When Microsoft rolled out Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm support for the Xbox 360, a number of users were less than impressed. Specifically, those with child Xbox Live accounts were not allowed to use any of the new applications. Outside the US, Microsoft has now released an update that allows child accounts to access these features, so long as parental permission is given. Major Nelson advises users to set each application to log in automatically upon first activation. Otherwise, those with child accounts will be prompted for parental permission every time the application is launched. Fear not, US gamers, the update will hit American shores on December 15.

Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka, Creatures Inc. president and composer of classic NES titles like Kid Icarus, has put out a new song. What’s this song about, you ask? Well…it’s a song all about being Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka!

Unreal shooter gets some tweaks.

The latest Famitsu reveals a third entry in Atlus's hardcore dungeon RPG series Etrian Odyssey (Sekaiju no Meikyuu). Etrian Odyssey 3 ditches the series' forest setting for the seaside town of Armolode, in which an earthquake has recently uncovered -- surprise! -- a big labyrinth. According to the 1UP translation, the new game will include new character classes "including prince/princess, phalanx, monk, pirate, and shinobi," and will allow players to explore the ocean by ship when they aren't being killed in the labyrinth. The game will be released March 4 in Japan, and has a pretty good shot at a North American release: not only has Atlus USA translated the previous games in the series, it continues to show willingness to publish first-person DS RPGs like The Dark Spire and the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey.

See who you'll shoot down.

Can this year's NCAA installment avoid the Sophomore slump? Check out the GameTrailers video review of EA Sports' newest College Basketball sim.

Sequel to the smash hit Puzzler Collection features more than 1,000 games like crossword, sudoku, and wordsearch to all-new games such as jigsaw.

Defend the road and your city on the PC and the Xbox 360.

An evil mastermind threatens to destroy the city in the first episode of Blue Toad Murder Files from Relentless Software.

The young pilots of Innocent Aces have a strong will to fight.

A portion of Eurogamer review… The heavy emphasis on puzzles, slower pace and the harrowing boss encounters make it feel more like a true horror adventure, and once you get to grips with its foibles it becomes strangely satisfying and rewarding. For those who still hanker after that style, and maybe missed out on Zero the [...]

Another year for Wii, another year for Nintendo to spend at the top of its game.

New game by Artificial Mind & Movement lands on PSN.

Fight your way through Hell's minions.

As the World of Warcraft epic continues, Frostmourne can no longer protect the Lich King from the sins of his past.

Get the scoop on the changes right here.

It's been two weeks since Revenge of the Wounded Dragons, SOE / Wanako's modern tribute to games such as Double Dragon and Kung Fu, was supposed to arrive on the PlayStation Store. The game's imminent release was even announced on PlayStation.Blog for the early pre-Thanksgiving PSN update that arrived on Tuesday, November 24. For reasons unknown, the game was bumped and will instead punch up the retro vibe on PS3 tomorrow, December 10. The two-player game will run $9.99 and you can watch a nice, quick video of it in action in our earlier post. Really, we promise it doesn't drag on.

Say what you will about Rare, it certainly knows us. The company announced via its Twitter account that the XBLA version of Perfect Dark was officially slated for early 2010 and not winter like it promised, and before we could even work ourselves into the hint of a lather, Rare chided that the window "is still 'winter', stop moaning." To help smooth things over a little more the company dropped the fresh screenshot you can see above. OK, Rare, you're forgiven ... this time.

I would like to think that Nintendo would get this bit of DLC out in North America and Europe, but you never know. It’s not like they have a ton of time to deliver it!