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The DS has been gifted with games that force players to hold the system in all sorts of weird ways: upside down, to the side, and sometimes even completely closed. PSP is joining the play-your-system-the-wrong-way trend with the newly announced Advance! Protect! Fight!. According to Andriasang, you hold the system vertically. The analog stick is used to move the cursor, with the R button used to click. Essentially, it's meant to simulate a mouse.

Advance! Protect! Fight! is one of the few games that can function properly in the closed mode of the PSP Go. In fact, you could probably play the game with just one hand with the Go. Too bad Tecmo couldn't think of this control scheme first, right?

#zenbound2 There has been much talk about gaming on the iPad, but not a whole lot of delivery. More »

The PSN Top 10 sales charts don't look very different from previous months, do they? With the exception of Hustle Kings, the top 10 is populated with familiar faces, including Mortal Kombat II, which debuted on PSN nearly three years ago. Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 takes the top spot for the month, likely boosted by the half-off sale it had. With little new scheduled for March on PSN, it seems likely next month's list will look very similar. Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Hustle Kings Final Fantasy VIII (PS3/PSP) Final Fantasy VII (PS3/PSP) Flower Madden NFL Arcade Mortal Kombat II Resident Evil 2 (PS3/PSP) TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled Battlefield 1943

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Attention, private military operatives. Brian Gauld here providing you with vital information on how you can become the Ultimate MAG Soldier. Between now and May 29, compete in the MAG online ladder on GameBattles.com for your chance at prizes valued at over $15,000 including Sony Style Gift Cards and MAG PlayStation Home virtual items. Every month there’s a new challenge and with each challenge comes another chance for you to win prizes from your friends here at SCEA. At the end of each of the three months, prizes will be awarded to the top 10 challenge finishers.

In order to participate, you’ll need to authenticate your PlayStation Network ID on GameBattles in your Profile. Not a GameBattles member? Sign-up here. Registration is open so join the shadow war, and sign-up quickly to become the Ultimate MAG Soldier.

Attention, private military operatives. Brian Gauld here providing you with vital information on how you can become the Ultimate MAG Soldier. Between now and May 29, compete in the MAG online ladder on GameBattles.com for your chance at prizes valued at over $15,000 including Sony Style Gift Cards and MAG PlayStation Home virtual items. Every month there’s a new challenge and with each challenge comes another chance for you to win prizes from your friends here at SCEA. At the end of each of the three months, prizes will be awarded to the top 10 challenge finishers.

In order to participate, you’ll need to authenticate your PlayStation Network ID on GameBattles in your Profile. Not a GameBattles member? Sign-up here. Registration is open so join the shadow war, and sign-up quickly to become the Ultimate MAG Soldier.

#sega Sound-alikes be damned! Renowned actors Don Cheadle and Samuel L. Jackson bring a little class to Sega's Iron Man 2: The Videogame, signing on to lend their voices to their in-game counterparts. More »

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (March 5, 2010) –SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced that Iron Man 2: The Video Game will feature the voices of renowned actors Don Cheadle and Samuel L. Jackson. Expanding their roles from the upcoming Iron Man 2 summer blockbuster from Marvel Studios, Cheadle voices Tony Stark’s [...]

Japanese video…translated into Spanish subtitles…and if you can’t understand either of those languages, you can at least hear some music and check out some new footage!

The latest trailer for Yakuza 3 (embedded after the break) is all about Kazuma Kiryu's memories of his life before the events of the current game. In other words, you'll see clips from Yakuza 1 and 2 interspersed with footage of Kazuma kicking people. A one-minute trailer is hardly enough to bring you up to speed on the story if you haven't played either of the PS2 games, but it does help demonstrate the visual upgrade the franchise has received as it makes the jump to PS3. (Just imagine how good Yakuza 4 will look!)

Speaking of memories, Sega is right to release a bunch of trailers for this game -- the publisher needs to do everything it possibly can to remind people that Yakuza 3 is coming out, in the hope that a few people might pick it up when they go to buy Final Fantasy XIII or God of War III this month.

See the war from its most dangerous vantage point.

Uggghhh…I get so disappointed when I see the stats for Dead Space: Extraction. I know a few of you guys get a bit peeved with me when I complain about the lack of sales for this title, but I stand by my opinion. I really do think that more people should at least [...]

Pop Island has finally been dated for release in Europe. Expect the title to be available for download on March 12th, 2010. That one was a long time coming!

#feature Billions of dollars? Got it. "Astonishing arrogance and unbridled greed"? Alleged. Video games are so close to being Hollywood, that we must celebrate a breakthrough: A possibly boring contract dispute that could be as juicy as Leno vs. Conan. More »

Like good, sane people, our friends at AOL Radio are huge fans of God of War. They've not only managed to add the entire God of War III original soundtrack to the Video Games Score station, but they're also giving away a free downloadable MP3 from the upcoming PS3 game. "Brothers of Blood," composed by Cris Velasco, has everything you'd expect from a God of War instrumental track: a brass-heavy orchestral score with dramatic choral singing.

Should you want your morning commute to get a little more vengeance-y, head over to the AOL Radio blog to download the MP3 onto your favorite MP3 player.

When your Xbox 360 suffers from the Red Ring of Death (and it will), there are a great many things you may want to do to it. You might feel like hurling it from the roof into a waiting wood chipper. You might feel like drowning it in your own tears in a desperate attempt to cool its heat-blasted insides and restore it to life. Ultimately, however, you'll probably do what we all do: Send it in for repair. That is, unless you're Jasper Stevens.

Stevens, you see, decided to turn his busted box into a robot sculpture. Featured at technabob, Stevens' RRoDMan is most productive form of nerd rage we've ever seen. Even more impressive, Stevens claims that the uses no tape or glue. We can only assume that the sculpture is held together by broken dreams.

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It's a fantastic day to be in Europe like retro and retro-style downloadable games. Coinciding with that amazing Bit.Trip Runner trailer, its predecessor Bit.Trip Void is now avaiable on WiiWare, along with the authentically NES-style Mega Man 10! There's even a real retro game available on Virtual Console -- a pretty good one, at that.

The theme even extends to DSiWare, where you can get Dark Void Zero, a promotional game that outshines the game it was meant to promote. You can play it on the DSi XL, which was released in Europe today!

• Zaxxon (Arcade, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
• Bit.Trip Void (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 600 Wii Points)
• Mega Man 10 (WiiWare, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)
  
• Dark Void Zero (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
• Flips: The Bubonic Boulders (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
• Globulos Party (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 500 DSi Points)
• Pinball Pulse: The Ancients Beckon (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
• Real Football 2010 (DSiWare, 1-4 players, 800 DSi Points)
• New English Training: Learn with Tempo - Advanced Edition (not available in the UK) (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)

Locate Sam Fisher by using advanced photo technology developed by NASA, Carnegie Mellon and Google.

Ed Stern, the lead writer of Brink, discusses the art design of the upcoming shooter.

The post-apocalyptic first person shooter from THQ and 4A games locks and loads for a March 16th release.

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Beyond a statement released by ex-Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella's lawyer yesterday detailing the lawsuit the two are filing against Activision, we've seen little in the way of back history on the various events that lead us to the debacle we're seeing this week. This morning, though, Joystiq obtained the entire 16-page court document (gallery-ized below for you) that details, among many other things, the ex-employees' complaints about Activision in the wake of their untimely departure.

The initial claim of unpaid royalties is represented in the documents, even going as far as to claim that the publisher fired West and Zampella just weeks before having to pay out said royalties. "Activision fired them in hope that by doing so, it could avoid paying them what they had rightfully earned, and to seize control of the Infinity Ward studio, to which Activision had previously granted creative control over all Modern Warfare branded games," the document reads. In the history lesson portion of the complaint, it's revealed that Activision allegedly purchased the studio for just $5 million originally (in two different chunks), and the Call of Duty franchise (including Treyarch-developed titles) has earned over $3 billion since 2003.

Finally, the complaint claims that, before Infinity Ward agreed to develop Modern Warfare 2, the then-studio heads "were not eager to extend their employment" as Activision had apparently begun demanding a more constant development pace at the studio. "Despite assurances by Activision that West and Zampella would have complete freedom to run Infinity Ward as an independent studio, Activision had begun to intrude upon Infinity Ward's ability to create quality games. For example, Activision forced Infinity Ward's employees to continue producing the games at a breakneck pace under aggressive schedules, and West and Zampella were concerned that Activision was emphasizing quantity over quality."

Regardless of the veracity of these allegations, it would certainly appear that the gloves have come all the way off. We'll have a more thorough breakdown of the entire document later today, but for now you can see it in its entirety below.

The post-apocalyptic first person shooter from THQ and 4A games locks and loads for a March 16th release.

Sony is helping bring the daredevil to your console.

Sequel set for this year.

Film to document historic journey by world's first second generation astronaut.

Next Thursday, those entrenched in The Great Splicer Uprising of '59 will get a chance to beef up their arsenal in Bioshock 2's multiplayer mode with the Sinclair Solutions Test Pack on March 11. Here's what you'll get for your 400 ($5) on Xbox Live and Games For Windows - Live, and $4.99 on PSN:

• Rank Increase to level 50 with Rank Rewards
• New playable characters Louie McGraff and Oscar Calraca
• 20 new trials (some only available after a player achieves a rank of 41 or higher)
• A third weapon upgrade for each weapon
• Five additional masks (some only available after a player achieves a rank of 41 or higher)

Happy Splicer hunting! (Splunting?)

Let me make sure this is clear to everyone. The above advertisement is not from Nintendo, it was created by German retailer Karstadt. A pretty classless advertisement, but it gets the point across! Thanks to Daniel for the heads up.