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#clips Don't get bummed out, Starcraft fans! We're not going to let the morning pass without some good news. Well, not news. It's more a clip, of what Starcraft would look like on the Nintendo Entertainment System. More »

New Downloadable Games Will Blow Your Mind, Not Your Budget

#breaking Released last year, this is the official concept promotional image of Microsoft's upcoming motion control system Project Natal. It is black. More »

#sega Border Break is the latest in a long line of Sega arcade games featuring mechs beating the crap out of each other. Here's an action figure base don one of them, so you can bring the battle to your desktop/bathtub. More »

#nsfw Along with a younger version of the protagonist, role-playing game Nier (read our review!) is getting new downloadable outfits. One of which sure is saucy! More »

#culture "Hard" in gaming is relative. What I might think is easy, you might think is not. What you might is a piece of cake, I may find impossible. More »

#japan In 1998, Stanford University's Henry Lowood began preserving video games and video game artifacts. Lowood, along with a four member committee, has announced a game canon, for the Library of Congress. Japan begs to differ. More »

#3ds An FCC filing submitted by Nintendo and Mitsumi, an electronics manufacturer, seems to be for the new Nintendo 3DS handheld. There's not much to it, but what there is should give hope to fans of widescreen gaming on the go. More »

#opinion We can all agree that video games are a form of entertainment, but just what about them entertains you? What are you looking for, or getting out of them, when you sit down with a controller in hand? More »

#nintendo While Nintendo possibly isn't showing the Nintendo 3DS until the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, today in Tokyo, Nintendo provided vague hints about what is to come. More »

#toys The first images of the recently-revealed Batman: Arkham Asylum action figures have dropped from a gargoyle and landed online, and if they're one thing, they're faithful to the source material. More »

#retro It's 2010. Hopefully by now you have beaten 1985's Super Mario Bros. If not, please get off my lawn and go away. If you have, continue onward to spoilers! More »

#korea The scandal enveloping Korea's professional Starcraft scene appears to be worse than first believed, with eleven gamers under investigation amid allegations that gambling organisations have been running a "training institutes" to lure players into illegal match-fixing. More »

Get your first look at Ignition's Old Testament-themed PS3 and Xbox 360 action title.

#pokemon The female trainer for the totally new forthcoming Pokémon: Black & White is wearing, as website Tiny Cartridge points out, Daisy Dukes. But what are Daisy Dukes? More »

Chances are you’ve never played All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.. That might have something to do with the game only seeing release in Japan, and even then it was hard to get. The title was as a limited-edition prize. The sprites in the image above represent popular radio personalities at the [...]

#books Most, if not all of you, will at some stage of your life been read to from a Golden Book. They're a childhood staple. But what if there were Golden Books that, uh, weren't exactly suitable for the little ones? More »

A portion of a WiiLoveIt review… The addicting and unique gameplay makes this one of the best tower defense games I’ve played in recent memory, putting it right up there with games like Swords & Soldiers, Crystal Defenders, and Starship Defense.

#japan In 1998, Stanford University's Henry Lowood began preserving video games and video game artifacts, reports the New York Times. Lowood, along with a four member committee, has announced a game canon, for the Library of Congress. Japan begs to differ. More »

With The Forgotten Sands just around the corner, we track the evolution of the series.

With The Forgotten Sands just around the corner, we track the evolution of the series.

With The Forgotten Sands just around the corner, we track the evolution of the series.

Do you remember that part at the end of Return of the Jedi, where Lando is flying the Millennium Falcon through a corridor as the Death Star itself explodes around him? Remember how exciting it was, when he just barely cleared the exit, a plume of flames and spaceship debris chasing mere hundredths of seconds behind?

Split/Second isn't a game that glorifies the fundamentals of racing. These are represented, sure; folks familiar with the genre will likely be drifting and drafting onto the podium within the first few races. More than that, though, Split/Second rewards players who quickly master the art of catastrophe evasion -- an art which frequently requires you to navigate cinematic hazards mimicking Lando's narrow escape. It's a winning recipe that provides some of the most satisfying thrills I've ever experienced while behind the wheel of a virtual automobile.

Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta (about Joystiq) New game announcements, lawsuits and lots of news kept us busy this past week. You'd think that we're building up to some big event next month or something, right? There is the 2010 FIFA World Cup, we suppose ... ohhhhh, yeah, that. For now, let's cap off this week with our regular look back at the past seven days.
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• Boot Disk - Our retro game feature explores the first RTS game from the now defunct Ensemble Studios, Age of Empires.
• All You Need To Know - In a different type of piece, we give you the 411 on a game that we think might be released for the PC, Red Dead Redemption.
• Freeware Friday - Our look at free PC games checks out the recent title Hero Core.
• Contests - You still have some time to win one of two Intel Core i7-920 processors and a special in-game item kit for new Luna Online players.

Mario's Aussie launch will be a little later than other countries.