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It's got Kate Winslet? It's on a boat? It features just enough Billy Zane involvement? No, no, we can only dream. Bungie makes the analogy between Halo: Reach and James Cameron's disaster film because you know how it ends before it even begins. "Reach is going to fall and 700 million people are going to perish as a result," said Bungie creative director Marcus Lehto in a new interview with Edge. Dude, spoiler alert! How the developer is handling the seeming contradiction between the reward of "beating" the game and experiencing the fall of Reach is the meat of the Edge interview. It's a fine read if you want to know more about the next Halo game than just how many guns you'll be able to fire at the same time. (Seven, if you must know. Yeah, we were confused too.)

Gaming's star-studded web series is back.

Court documents reportedly contain information on secret MMO project.

Burlingame, Calif., January 21, 2010 - Natsume, a worldwide developer and publisher of family-oriented video games, announced today that Cheer We Go and Squishy Tank for the Nintendo DST will be released this March. Both titles will retail for an MSRP of $19.99 and are rated E for Everyone by the ESRB. “Squishy Tank and Cheer [...]

The other day we learned that Japanese arcades would be offering up more Mr. Saturn plushes as prizes. Today we see that these prizes are actually brand-new. You can win yourself a mini Mr. Saturn plush, perfect as a cell phone strap. 50 lucky gamers that take a survey about the plush [...]

Time Traveler update includes three new worlds, guild crops system.

It seems impossible, right? Well, this Xbox Live thing is apparently pretty popular. Trixie revealed via her Twitter account that in the seven years since the service launched on the original Xbox, gamers have racked up 17 billion hours on Xbox Live, equal to 2 hours of play time for every person on the planet. And with 20 million subscribers on the service, you're looking at an average of 850 hours for every member. Another one of her Tweets states that there have been "more than 1.2 billion downloads of gaming and entertainment content," which averages out to about 100 downloads per second. And according to our completely scientific analysis of these figures, we conclude around 750 million of those 1.2 billion-plus downloads were free gamer pics and themes, Rambo stuff specifically. [Via G4]

Direct link here AiRace: Tunnel definitely looks like it could be a bit of fun. We’ll have to see how it holds up once it actually releases on Jan. 25th.

Demon Lord enters the battlefield.

Sega's classic arcade title looks all next gen on PS3.

click to Excella-size Of all the characters we can imagine playing in the new Mercenaries Reunion mode in the upcoming Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition, Excella Gionne is probably at the bottom of the list. Well, Ashley -- Leon's little tag-along in Resident Evil 4 -- might rank lower. While the press release assures us that Excella's "mercilessness contrasts with her beauty" and that she has a "strong fighting instinct backed up by superior martial art skills," it seems just a little suspect. She's a CEO, not a warrior. Can you imagine Steve Ballmer and Howard Stringer teaming up to fight their way through the zombie apocalypse? Actually, that sounds completely awesome. Why don't you check out some screens of Excella -- and some new screens of the "Desperate Escape" episode -- while Joystiq Publishing works up a development document for Ball and String in Zombie Town. The Gold Edition DLC will be available February 17, followed by a retail release in March.

Love Stories for Adults: DS Harlequin Selection - comes from Genius and Nintendo - set for February 25th release in Japan for ¥3,800 - 33 novels from the Harlequin Series - includes five titles that have never before seen release in Japanese print - genres such as Passion, Tender, Suspense and Historic - stories rated on such levels as “pure love,” [...]

Why? Because we said so.

More videos here, here, here Even the official Japanese site for Zangeki no Reginleiv has been updated with new videos. Hit up the links below to check them out. Character videos Weapons videos Thanks to Terranigma_Freak and Postma for the heads up!

Can you win the Seven Years War?

Check out our Flickr set for more screens Calling all aspiring young artists! Majesco Entertainment Company, an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced Let’s Draw! for Nintendo DS™. Based on a best-selling line of Japanese drawing books, Let’s Draw! challenges players to create full images by combining small, easy [...]

Trackmania, the most fun-filled racing game around, and currently played by millions worldwide, makes its big entrance into the console world a remarkable adaptation for the Nintendo Wii™! Focus Home Interactive is pleased to offer the very first images of the Wii version of this now legendary racing game! Using your Wiimote and your Nunchuk, [...]

Producer says fighting game is Wii exclusive.

Producer says fighting game is Wii exclusive.

Nintendo of Japan just launched a line of budget Wii re-releases -- something that hasn't happened out of Nintendo in a long time. The Minna no Osusume Selection (Everyone's Recommendation Selection) is a series of third-party games marked down to ¥2,800 ($30.53), and given new box art that pretty much obscures the original image, making it really difficult to tell which game it is. Since the best-selling Wii games are all still selling at full price, Nintendo determined the titles to be released in this collection in a really smart way: with user recommendations from the Nintendo Channel. Each of the games is given a "medal" rank based on the user response, with the most recommended game on the list being Chunsoft's visual novel 428. Other titles in the collection include Muramasa, Arc Rise Fantasia, We Ski & Snowboard, and One Piece and Dragon Ball Z games. See the full list of initial releases after the break.

We know, we know -- there's been a constant flood of Mass Effect 2 media over the past few weeks. What with your SyFy channel specials and your six trailers being released at once, we can appreciate that you might feel a bit overwhelmed. That's why we're promising that today's clip -- the launch trailer, mind you -- will be the very last bit of media you see for the game on Joystiq before the game launches. That is, of course, unless there's something really, really amazing released in the next five days. But, ya know, it'd have to be pretty sweet. Like, the sweetest. Gallery: Mass Effect 2

For years we've waited for the news, patiently biding our time, but we need wait no longer. Somewhere in Hertfordshire, UK, 21-year-old Lisa Courtney ... has caught 'em all. Her 12,000-piece Pokémon memorabilia collection has landed her in the Guinness Book of World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition, and if a 12,000-piece set doesn't constitute 'em all, then we don't want to know what does. Now, if you'll excuse us, we have to go tell Griffin about this so he can start writing Lisa creepy love letters.

Alawar Entertainment's all-new archeological journey available now.

Two new games heading to the DS.