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Kojima Productions can make some excellent games. But their countdowns are transcendent. Continuing an annual tradition. Hideo and company have opened yet another mysterious E3 countdown, this time teasing images of various foods being chopped. Perhaps the imagery of foods is supposed to represent the hunger gamers have for exciting revelations from the trade show. Or maybe the use of knives is symbolic of the lighting bolt action waiting to be discovered in Metal Gear Solid Rising. Or maybe, just maybe, Kojima is set to unveil his next project: Cooking Mama 4: Mama's Revenge, the franchise's first M-rated entry.

As usual, we welcome your conspiracy theories. However, let us warn you: you will be wrong.

#openthread The week before E3 is always a gathering storm of rumor, hype, and anticipation. Friday, however, delivered something unusual even for the usual pre-expo chatter: A potential look at what could be a show-stealer for Nintendo. More »

#exclusive Earlier this week, a mysterious viral clip appeared online. It was followed by another equally mysterious clip. Sony denied the clips were theirs. So, alright then, who made them? More »

It's difficult to squeeze humor out of a situation as upsetting as the BP Oil Spill, but Virtual Shackles' "What They Do Best" does so in a pretty effective manner. Don't get us wrong -- it's not humorous enough to make us forget that in like, three weeks, the oceans will be overrun with hideously mutated, island-eating petrobeasts, whose misery-songs will pierce the nightmares of sailors young and old. But ... well, it's still good for a laugh, and that's probably why it won last week's Wrapup. Congrats!

Second and third place went to Penny Arcade's "The Universal Analogy" and Brawl in the Family's "Cartoons," respectively. If you've got a favorite strip you'd like to see in tomorrow's Wrapup, just drop a link in the (new and improved) comments section, or send in a tip!

Sorry, this isn't an MMO adaptation of Naughty Dog's Uncharted franchise. Instead, Uncharted Waters Online is Tecmo Koei's long-running online RPG, and it's making its way to America and Europe via CJ Internet. Like Pirates of the Burning Sea, the experience centers around traveling the oceans, trading, exploring and battling on both sea and land.

While Uncharted Waters may be an unfamiliar name Stateside, it's been big enough in Asia to warrant three expansion packs and an online-enabled PS3 port. While CJ Internet is only bringing the PC version to English-speaking audiences, the free-to-play model being adopted should make it an easier sell to the MMO masses.

#killzone It's nice to see a Killzone game where ruined cityscapes aren't the dominant environment. It's also nice to see that it's yet another 2010 game featuring jetpacks. Why? Because jetpacks are great. More »

#e32010 I'm not usually one to get excited over trailers, even ones with a heavy focus on gameplay footage. But hot damn, seeing Isaac floating around making nasty things explode like this has me more than a little excited. More »

#rockband3 The next version of Rock Band is going "Pro," adding a new keyboard controller, a 102-button, six-string guitar controller and a new cymbal add-on for the game's drum controller. How much will Pros have to pay to play? More »

#itagaki Famed video game designer Tomonobu Itagaki and his select group of creative warriors at Valhalla Game Studios are making a new game, Devil's Third, a hyper-violent shooter for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. More »

#starwars This cinematic trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is gorgeous, but also feels a little off; I know the room's locked, but even still, I wouldn't trust a few stormtroopers to take out a freakin' Jedi. More »

#clips Here's the E3 trailer for Sony's hotly-anticipated PS3 racer, Gran Turismo 5. Those still hanging for its release will notice something is missing. More »

Looksley's Line Up, also known as "that game everyone thought was a 3DS demo," arrives in Europe today under the title Tales in a Box: Hidden shapes in perspective! If your interests lie less in the uncomfortably futuristic, and more in the vintage, Final Fantasy II is available on Virtual Console. This is the one we know now as Final Fantasy IV. See the rest of the Wii and DS downloads at Nintendo UK.

This one comes from GameStop up in Canada… I usually don’t like the 1st/15th/30th as release dates, because they work out to be placeholders. This time around, the date falls on a Wednesday, and that would actually make sense. Either way, I sure hope the price is right! Thanks to Mechagalaxy for the [...]

Sorry if the headline mislead you in any way No, the perpetually delayed Gran Turismo 5 still doesn't have a release date. Trust us, we looked! Unfortunately, it wasn't at the end of this new E3 trailer, either. Guess you'll have to make do with some incredibly gorgeous footage in the meantime.

Minus the hardcore guitar music, this new trailer for Dead Space 2 reassures us that Visceral Games' horror follow-up won't stray too far from the original. Considering how beloved the first game was, that's not a bad thing at all.

Darn that Darth Vader -- sure, he's a Sith Lord who betrayed his master, will blow up a planet without a second thought, and even threatens to kill his own soldiers, but honestly, you just can't trust the guy. This brand new E3 trailer from LucasArts for Force Unleashed 2 shows the game's protagonist Starkiller getting betrayed by ol' helmethead yet again, and then lightsaber slicing and dicing his way out of a whole heap of space trouble.

We already knew that Starkiller would be dual-wielding lightsabers in the game, and while this trailer is vague to say the least, it does hint at why we're seeing him whole and hale again, instead of the (spoiler) less-than-lively state we saw him in at the end of the last game. Looks like it's an Attack of the Clones all over again. At least that force power looks fun -- hopefully we'll see more at E3 next week. Watch the whole thing after the jump.

#art LEGO games have mostly been confined to kid's titles and platformers. We've yet to see a LEGO first-person shooter. If we ever do, I really hope it looks like this. More »

SOCOM fans have been eagerly awaiting this: a story-driven PS3 game developed by franchise creators Zipper Interactive. In addition to adding PlayStation Move support, SOCOM 4 is promising a much more engaging and comprehensive story mode, evidenced by this new story trailer. Strangely, Shanghai comes under attack (yet again!), evoking -- for better or for worse -- an Army of Two vibe.

#tellusdammit Who is ready to talk? Are you? What about you? And you? More »

Finally! Actual gameplay footage of Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas surfaced in the latest episode of GTTV, and unsurprisingly, it looks a lot like Fallout 3. If it weren't for the bright lights of the casinos, one would be hard-pressed to tell the difference. This E3 trailer is cut to make New Vegas look more like a FPS, but pay attention, and you'll see some VATS action as well.

One man. Seven evil boyfriends. Infinite quarters.

Minus the hardcore guitar music, this new trailer for Dead Space 2 reassures us that Visceral Games' horror follow-up won't stray too far from the original. Considering how beloved the first game was, that's not a bad thing at all.

Valhalla Studios announces its new game just before E3.

Missed Tomonobu Itagaki? After a controversial departure from Tecmo, the producer of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden found himself with some free time ... and a job offer from THQ. Devil's Third is the debut game from his new studio, Valhalla Games -- and it features all the violence and gore that you'd want from an Itagaki game. Unlike many of his previous titles, this looks to be a multiplatfom release, gracing both the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Check out the trailer, courtesy of GameTrailers, after the break.

#clips We're pretending the last Battlestar game didn't exist. We are also, sadly, trying to pretend this web-based MMO is actually a space shooter that looks as good as this trailer. More »

Today we’re proud to present the first gameplay trailer for Killzone 3. What you are about to see is a trailer made completely out of in-game footage, taken from the game’s fourth mission, called “Frozen Shores.”

Killzone 3 will take you to dangerous new corners of the Helghast home planet, and reveal that its environments are far more diverse than ISA Command had previously believed. In addition to the larger and more varied environments, Killzone 3 also introduces a brutal melee system and plenty of awesome new battle gear, including the Helghast jetpack and the WASP missile launcher demonstrated in the trailer.

Enjoy the new gameplay trailer, and please let us know what you think in the comments!