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War is almost upon us.

One of the World's best known characters of all time gets a brand new LEGO adaptation with new features!

As reported on these very pages yesterday, EA and DICE got a group of semi-celebrities together last night to celebrate the impending arrival of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 with a charity tournament, pitting NFL stars and 90210 actors against each other in a bragging rights team match. The celebs also selected their own team names for an upcoming Major League Gaming tournament, and the winning team in that match (which you can predict right now on GameStop's website) will end up giving $25,000 to the winning celebrity's charity of choice.

The event kicked off with a red carpet event, and Matt Lanter and Tristan Wilds of the new 90210 joined gossip blogger Perez Hilton to talk about crushes on their costars and how awesome Bad Company 2 was. Meanwhile, we wondered, where's the actual game?

Our thoughts on RE5's zombie-bite-sized new content.

The survivor Sigrun joins the fight in Awakening.

Now available for pre-order.

While you probably won't be experiencing any classic GoldenEye action on Xbox Live Arcade anytime soon, it looks like Perfect Dark will let you do the next best thing! Yes, the real GoldenEye will likely never see the light of day on XBLA, but that doesn't mean its maps and weapons can't appear in Perfect Dark. According to Kotaku, Microsoft's Ken Lobb has confirmed at DICE that the unlockable GoldenEye weapons and maps featured in the N64 version of Perfect Dark will be included in the upcoming XBLA version as well.

Of course, there really wasn't any reason to think they wouldn't be, but it's nice to hear all the same. So, if you've got the unlocking talent, you'll be mowing down your friends with a Klobb* in the Felicity, Temple and Complex maps in no time.

*Yes, GoldenEye fanboys, or the RCP-90.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – February 19, 2010 – Game development studio Firemint today announced that its worldwide hit Flight Control has arrived on Nintendo DSi™. The game is available in Europe, the UK and Australia from today, and will be available in North America from Monday, February 22, 2010. Flight Control is available for wireless download [...]

Jace Hall is putting out an album called ‘Video Games Aren’t Bad For Ya’, and he wants to make sure that message comes across loud and clear to all the game critics out there. Mr. Hall had this little gem to say… When you are told that you are being lazy, or wasting your time, [...]

Special treats for early buyers.

Another version to make you forget about R.

Here's the thing about the StarCraft II beta: you've played this game before. In the time I've spent with the beta over the past 24-plus hours, I've been Zerg rushed, I've had my buildings annihilated by a group of Reapers that snuck through the back of my fortified area, and I've had Protoss ships lay waste to countless heavy Thor units -- which looked like they could take on anything and survive. I absolutely loved every minute of it, as familiar as it was.

The StarCraft II beta is hopefully indicative of the final multiplayer product will be like: fast, pick-up-and-play games where resource management down to the millisecond can spell your doom or give you that one squad of units that brings you back from the brink of all hope being lost. It's an incredibly polished experience, helped along through a clean and efficient UI that doesn't clutter the screen and by simple matchmaking that only requires a few clicks to get into a match or join a group of players.

Gearbox head Randy Pitchford delivered some claptrap at DICE today, saying that Borderlands has sold 3 million units globally. A good sign for 2009's fastest-selling original IP, which may not have generated the most revenue, but it's apparently starting off 2010 with good momentum. And with a third DLC pack on the way, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, it appears Borderlands may welcome even more travelers.

As DICE is a business conference, Pitchford was also quite open about what's important to Gearbox as a studio -- he also shared his Gamertag ("DuvalMagic"). He shared components of what he thinks are important to the company's employees, like aggressive profit sharing, milestone bonuses and discretionary merit based rewards. He also mentioned a crass, but wise, tenet of the studio's hiring process: "No drama, no dicks, no douchebags."

Another version to make you forget about R.

Namco Bandai makes the move to PS3 arcade hardware for latest title.

Namco Bandai Monster Hunter clone approaches half million sold in two weeks.

Namco Bandai Monster Hunter clone approaches half million sold in two weeks.

Gearbox head Randy Pitchford delivered some claptrap at DICE today, saying that Borderlands has sold 3 million units globally. A good sign for 2009's fastest-selling original IP, which may not have generated the most revenue, but it's apparently starting off 2010 with good momentum. And with a third DLC pack on the way, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, it appears Borderlands may welcome even more travelers.

As DICE is a business conference, Pitchford was also quite open about what's important to Gearbox as a studio -- he also shared his Gamertag ("DuvalMagic"). He shared components of what he thinks are important to the company's employees, like aggressive profit sharing, milestone bonuses and discretionary mert based rewards. He also mentioned a crass, but wise, tenet of the studio's hiring process: "No drama, no dicks, no douchebags"

Be prepared to be scared… Direct link here (thanks Florian!)

A portion of a Siliconera review… Zangeki no Reginleiv and all of its flying giant limbs is mindless fun with a little wrist strain from nunchuck dashing. However, Zangeki no Reginleiv is so mindless I imagine people are either going to love it or hate it.

Namco Bandai Monster Hunter clone approaches half million sold in two weeks.