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Take your game to the next level with this car-smashing trailer!

SouthPeak’s Fast Food Panic for Wii has shipped. DS owners have been able to get taste of Fast Food Panic for 2 weeks and now it’s time for Wii owners to serve up some fast food fun. You will work against the clock to turn your restaurant into a thriving business. You will be busy preparing [...]

The Salarian Mordin joins Shepard's crew in an effort to atone for his sins and fight for the lost.

BioWare has posted a clarification for those having issues redeeming Mass Effect 2 promotional codes received in the Collector's Edition of the game or as pre-order bonuses from retailers. The codes require you to go to MassEffect.com to redeem, and although PC players just have to download a file in most cases, it's the Xbox 360 users that are stumbling into an issue. Take note: If you have played a recent EA game with an online component (like Battlefield 1943) on your Xbox 360, chances are you already have an EA.com account linked to your Gamertag. If this is the case, do not create a new account on BioWare's or EA's site to redeem your code. Xbox 360 owners that have played an EA game online and have their Gamertags tied to an account should not input their codes until they can log into their EA.com accounts. If you've already tied your Mass Effect 2 DLC code to a new account, the only way we know to get the game content is to transfer your new account over to an existing one, which requires getting in contact with EA. We're currently contacting the publisher to see if EA can implement a streamlined process to transfer accounts and will update as soon as we hear back.

Here’s a fan translation that I didn’t even know what going on! Apparently the Puyo Pop fanbase is a lot more rabid than I thought! A fan translation for the DS version of Puyo Pop 7 has already been put together, and you can grab the patch at the link below. I’m [...]

Microsoft will hold its X10 event in San Francisco next month, giving us our first looks at Fable 3, Halo: Reach and Left 4 Dead 2 add-ons. The invite-only event will also include other games expected in 2010, including Alan Wake, Crackdown 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, Final Fantasy XIII and the Xbox Game Room. Microsoft's "X" events have been held for the last few trips around the sun by our health-insured brothers in Canada. We'll surely be in attendance for the February 11 event and get you info as soon as we can. We'd let you tap into our ocular implants, but the event won't have wi-fi for an uplink. Sorry.

A portion of an NWR interview with Produer Ryota Niitsuma… NWR: Are there any more Vs. ideas in pipeline? Who would you want to have Capcom square off against in the future? RN: There are a whole lot of properties that I would like to work with, a whole lot of game developers I’d like to work [...]

To slay the dragon you must become one--and then, there can be only one! Dvinity II: Ego Draconis takes dragonheart highlanding to a new level!

We dish on the free mission and preorder bonuses.

The stars of Mass Effect 2 and industry insiders recap their personal experiences with the storyline in the conclusion of the documentary series.

Turn 10 is giving players a chance to vote for the vehicles that will be included in a future Forza Motorsport 3 DLC release. Running until January 29, a poll on car enthusiast site Jalopnik.com features 120 vehicles for players to choose from, focusing specifically on "iconic" and "classic" rides. The partnership with Jalopnik doesn't end there; March's Forza 3 DLC pack will feature the most "coveted 2009 and 2010 models" as chosen by the site's editors. If you're looking for your favorite whip to make the cut, you best make your click. Wait, what's this? The Batmobile is not on the list? Where's the option for a write-in candidate, huh?

Washington and Lee University students Anna Rogers (from left), Stephanie Brown, Jennifer Ritter and Hannah Kate Mitchell rehearse using WiiMotes that create music from their moves. “I think the use of hardware that allows for increased expressiveness of physical gesture and motion as well as novel and yet-to-be-discovered interactive devices is clearly on the rise. [...]

Travis Touchdown's second outing on the Wii hits store shelves.

Starting tomorrow, the screen-tearing present in the Xbox 360 version of Darksiders will (hopefully) be a thing of the past, as the game's official blog reports the patch will be available for download starting tomorrow. You'll find the update available starting tomorrow at 2am PT (5am ET). We'd like to be a bit more excited about it, but knowing that everyone ever in the world will eventually succumb to the apocalypse ... well, we're finding it a bit difficult to get pumped about an update to some video game. If you'll excuse us, we're going to call our families and tell 'em how awesome they are. [Via VG247]

If the thought of buying before trying seems as alien as making a sandwich out of textbooks and old toilet paper tubes, then you'll want to keep reading: Rising Star has announced that a demo of Half-Minute Hero will hit the EU PSN next week. Dubbed "Hero Mode," the demo will allow players to select between three missions included in the final game. Half-Minute Hero features a series of quick challenges blending together a menagerie of genres, such as RPG, RTS and even shoot-em-ups. It's currently set to release in Europe on February 12. [Via Videogamer]

BioWare hits another snag with its downloadable content.

Though we still don't have a release date for Dead Rising 2, we have gotten first word of a film (Keiji Inafune's directorial debut) based on the series. The title directly translates to "Death Disease Contamination Dead Rising," which we think you'll agree is a pretty great name for a movie. Bonus: With only its first trailer, this thing is already making us confused and a little headachey. As near as we can tell, it's a movie about four Asian people fighting zombies in a warehouse with both conventional armaments and a weaponized wheelchair. Oh and some parts are in first person. ... We know, right? This old chestnut again?! If you can stand the tedium, the trailer's right after the break. [Update: Also from Andriasang: The film will apparently be coming to the web (as you may have guessed from the productions values) this year, though 360 owners will be able to watch it early.] [Via Andriasang]

I guess we could say that the potential of Cosmic Walker is truly limitless at this point. Nintendo, in typical fashion, has been very quite about Cosmic Walker. Just what type of game is it, what are the goals of gameplay, and when are we going to learn more about it?! Just [...]

A portion of a 1up review… By being the high-quality, consistently enjoyable action game it wanted to be the first time around, Desperate Struggle is now a must-buy, and at the very least, finally makes the series deserving of the evangelism surrounding it.

Marcus and Dom stay frosty on the Lost Planet in this Gears of War/Lost Planet crossover trailer!

The pile of stuff you can acquire with your copy of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is steadily growing. Atlus has already thrown a soundtrack CD in with every copy in the first printing, and now it is offering a "mini-poster" with copies of the DS role-playing game pre-ordered through GameStop. In the press release announcing the bonus, Atlus's Aram Jabbari extolled the somewhat more tangible nature of the poster than the CD, calling it "a bonus item that you can feel, something you can caress gently and hold against your face, something you can take a big whiff of and enjoy." You are, of course, welcome to just put the poster on your wall and look at it occasionally.