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#3d I don't think I remember the last time a "trend" in entertainment technology generated such widespread loathing as 3D has in the past six months. If you're one of the haters, brace yourself, because it's only going to get worse. More »

I never thought of Blaster Master as an open world game, but I guess it is! You may not have access to all the areas in the game, and while there are ’stages’ or ‘levels’, you can roam around at your own pace. Technically, Blaster Master is an open world game in the [...]

The CD comes with both music and drama/interview features, as far as I can tell. No word on any of these extras or bundles coming to the states.

The following image has flooded my inbox, and at first I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Surely Game Informer’s staff is well aware of Pit, as well as the Kid Icarus series. Was this some sort of joke? I think Jeff was specifically trying to piss off Kid Icarus fans with that one. [...]

#id Musician Trent Reznor has had a long relationship with game developer id. He scored Quake and did music for Doom 3 that did not make it into the game. No wonder there have been rumors about Reznor and Doom 4. More »

#review Bizarre Creations combines the street racing thrills of its Project Gotham Racing series with the neon glow of its Geometry Wars games, throws in a little WipEout and Mario Kart and winds up with Blur. More »

#screengrab Carleton College's Goodsell Observatory gets pranked. As seen on The Star Wars Blog via Albotas. More »

Zynga makes FarmVille, which, in turn, makes it a lot of money. Today the company announced that it has used some of said moolah to purchase Challenge Games, a social games developer in Austin, TX. The exact amount of simoleons it cost Zynga to do so wasn't disclosed.

Challenge Games, which created and operates two Facebook games, Warstorm and the disturbingly titled Ponzi, will henceforth be known as Zynga Austin, joining the company's studios in Baltimore, Bangalore, Beijing, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Zynga will continue to run both Challenge Games ... games, and probably wants you to stop reading this and get back to playing FarmVille right about now.

#rumor Harmonix, the studio behind both the original Guitar Hero and Rock Band, could be working on something a little different at the moment: a dance game, built around Microsoft's Project Natal. More »

#politics As part of a draft plan to "save journalism" (as in, "save newspapers"), the Federal Trade Commission is making a number of proposals to Washington. Among them is a 5% tax on consumer electronics. Hey, game consoles are consumer electronics! More »

#clips If you're going to do up a class-based team shooter like a televised sporting event, you gotta bring the shaving products advertisements. Monday Night Combat finally found just such a sponsor. Now on to natural male enhancement and mutual funds! More »

#hori Hori's very necessary Dragon Quest Slime Speaker Stand heads stateside, just after the North American release date of Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. Support your Nintendo DS with a slime for just $49.99—whatta bargain! [Amazon via GoNintendo] More »

Sony gives buyers what they've always wanted.

Originally slated to arrive this past February, Stardock's latest strategy offering, the 4X title Elemental: War of Magic, is in beta and headed for release by September. To show off the latest build of the game, its developer/publisher summoned up the above video, which serves as a walkthrough of its basic stages -- starting out on a barren landscape and ending in ... marriage?

Stardock has also delivered a new batch of screens from Elemental, which we've rounded up in the gallery below, as if by magic.

#sports EA Sports put out three more screens of the newly renamed NBA Elite 11, and series producer David Littman - you might recognize that name from NHL 11 - gave an interview explaining how the new controls will work. More »

There was some discussion going around that Metroid: Other M was going to see a September 2nd release in Japan, and now Nintendo has confirmed that via the official Japanese site. We linked you into the site earlier today, but now there are some other bits of art since we made that post. [...]

#ps3 Sony's new PS3 bundle, packing in a copy of LittleBigPlanet's "Game of the Year" edition and an honest to goodness HDMI cable, will be available at retailers far and wide starting this weekend. More »

#clips If you're going to do up a class-based team shooter like a televised sporting event, you gotta bring the shaving products advertisements. Monday Night Combat finally found just such a sponsor. Now on to natural male enhancement and mutual funds! More »

In what may be the most puzzling film-to-video game adaptation partnerships in the history of mankind, free-to-play game developer Bigpoint and Universal Studios have announced plans to create a browser-based MMO set in The Mummy film franchise. We've been sitting here, staring at that sentence for a good ten minutes now, and we still don't know what to make of it.

A recent press release announcement describes The Mummy Online as "a free-to-play Action-RPG MMO game" where players "take on heroic roles as adventure seekers," all the while exploring the tombs and crypts of Egypt in the early 20th century. Players will interact with characters from the films, will engage in battle against "ancient evil," and, presumably, will periodically be forced to exclaim some variation on the following:

• "Man, I really hate mummies!"
• "Oh no, not mummies again!"
• "I'm getting awfully sick of all these mummies!"

This clip has been edited down to bring Morgan’s distaste into one, giant, bitter video.

#konami Konami has set June 29 as the official date for Ninety Nine Nights II's release on the Xbox 360 in North America, a big, bright hack-and-slash sequel from developers Feelplus and Q Entertainment. Any takers? More »

#pc In the early arcade days, games often looked nothing like their cabinet art. A modder's taken care of that for Donkey Kong, producing a cartoon-based PC remake you can pick up for free. More »

#clips Don't feel like playing through Sega's new espionage role-playing game, Alpha Protocol, to get to The Good Stuff? You might be better off that way, getting your Alpha Protocol satisfaction by enjoying its naughtier bits through YouTube. More »

Clara talks iPad, Red Dead short films, hoverboards and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World!

Clara talks iPad, Red Dead short films, hoverboards and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World!

Clara talks iPad, Red Dead short films, hoverboards and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World!