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This isn’t the first time Eminem has shown his love for the original Donkey Kong. Check out his latest Tweet… To my fellow Kongers, peep the new high score. Just imagine if I had more free time… He’s got a way to go to get the best score out there, but it’s clear that Eminem has [...]

#sega It's blue skies and barrel rolls for After Burner fans, as Sega puts a date and price on the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network release of arcade dogfighter After Burner Climax. More »

Sometimes, it's the dead of night and you're just sitting in the dark, eating some cold pizza and crying to yourself. You're waiting for something good to happen. Then you kind of feel this tinge you can't really define -- it's in the bottom of your gut, so you decide to tune into those nets. Well, friend, we're glad you decided to grab your board and surf this information superhighway, because Fuelcell Games' Indie PC title Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is making the jump to Xbox Live Arcade.

You can read the announcement over at the official blog, which is sadly light on the details. Up until now, we've only had the trailer above to constantly loop, but eventually we'll get the equivalent of a trailer that we can actually control -- a prospect that is about as good as it gets.

#wtf Some trademark filings make sense, or we can at least see where they're going. Neverdead? Sure. Someone's working on a zombie game. But then Ubisoft goes and uncorks "Horse Gaga" and yes, the mark is for a video game. More »

Downloadable arcade game services seem to be doomed to shaky starts. Nintendo's Virtual Console Arcade launched in March 2009 in North America and didn't see a single new game after its launch day until June. It's currently home to just 12 games.

Microsoft's Game Room is off to a similar start. After its (buggy) launch last week, which brought with it an admittedly hefty lineup of 30 games, there won't be any more new additions for around a month. "New games will be added to the service every week, starting in late April," a rep said on the Xbox forums. But hey, at least that's a commitment to weekly releases, unlike, say, Virtual Console Arcade, to which games are released randomly, on no schedule and without warning.

[Thanks, Miguel!]

A portion of a GameSpot review… The Good * Loads of varied microgames * Creation tools are powerful but accessible * Assembly Dojo game design challenges are great * Additional microgames are made available for free on a regular basis. The Bad [...]

Direct link and videos for WarioWare D.I.Y., Monster Hunter 3 and Disney Fireworks here

#ps3 It may not be the timeliest of additions to the LittleBigPlanet virtual closet, but Sackboys and Sackgirls will get some Pixar-designed clothing choices this week. Nine new costumes from The Incredibles hit the PlayStation Store this Thursday. More »

Not many of us have the good fortune of taking a soak in a hot tub time machine and waking up in 1986, the year the fighter jet pilot officially became the raddest job on the planet. Fewer still know the whereabouts of a decent arcade that has an After Burner Climax cabinet, the 2006 revival of Sega's classic air combat franchise. Thankfully, in less than a month, all of us can experience the glory of stopping a nuclear inferno from within the cockpit.

Sega of America has dated the Xbox Live Arcade release of After Burner Climax for April 21, followed by an April 22 release on PSN. The publisher did not announce a price for the downloadable title, but the Japanese version was previously priced at the $10 equivalent.

Now this is a commercial that I think you guys will enjoy a bit more. It may be old promo footage to us, but it’s new to TV viewers!

#easports The agent for former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow says he was in Orlando last week to do "promotional work" for EA Sports, and while nothing's confirmed, it's almost unimaginable he won't be on the cover of NCAA Football 11. More »

#insanelytwistedshadowplanet Artist Michel Gagne's stunning Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet will be coming to consoles, thanks to developer Fuelcell Games and Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service. Why is this important? Because this game looks amazing. More »

We're glad you like Battlefield 1943 so much ... because that's all you're going to get from it. Even though DICE's XBLA multiplayer shooter has reached one million downloads on Xbox Live this week, producer Gordon Van Dyke told us at PAX that there really aren't any plans for DLC. It's extra surprising when you consider that it's also the fastest rise to one million downloads for any Xbox Live Arcade game in existence, releasing back in July 2009.

We wonder how many people waited until it was $10 to buy?

This week's VC in Brief can be described with one word: epic. Seriously, Ogre Battle 64 is one of the more huge games on the N64 console. It's a traditional fantasy title -- a SRPG, if you want to go all technical on it -- and relies upon many of the genre's staples. As such, the above video weighs in at over 10 minutes. It's without a doubt the longest video we've done yet.

• Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber (Nintendo 64, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points)

Every week, we like to check out what's new on the Virtual Console. We offer VC in Brief as a sort of taste to help you decide whether or not you would want the game in question. We also toss in our own two cents because we're pushy jerks like that.

The crew's back in a brand new room. We talk about the 3DS!

No you probably can't.

#grandtheftauto If you ever owned a copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, specifically the naughty version that contained the crude, digital doggy-styling mission known as "Hot Coffee," you may already be five U.S. dollars richer. Publisher Take-Two is sending out checks. More »

#gameroom New games will be added to the Xbox Live Game Room on a weekly basis - but those updates won't begin until late April, according to a community manager in an official forum. More »

Sony's not telling us what the secret site means, so we're pooling our guesses.

Boston's gaming convention is in the books; these stories shaped the show.

Boston's gaming convention is in the books; these stories shaped the show.

Boston's gaming convention is in the books; these stories shaped the show.

The ironically named iFixIt has, once again, completely disassembled a new electronic device, allowing us all to get a look at the bits that compose it without having to tear apart our own beloved devices. The latest hardware to go under the knife screwdriver: Nintendo's just-released DSi XL, which, in its torn-down form, takes up even more space!

In exhaustive detail, the iFixit team pulls apart the new, big DS, cataloging all the parts inside. Unsurprisingly, the internals are very similar to the previous DSi, save for a larger (in both capacity in physical size) battery and one fewer ribbon cable. Oh -- and, of course, those massive screens.

Boston's gaming convention is in the books; these stories shaped the show.

#screengrab Guus Oosterbaan's dedicated Pong console, encased in cement, as seen on the creator's blog, via Make and Gizmodo. More »