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PC gamers, have you been hiding in your foxhole, waiting for communications from Battlefield: Bad Company 2 command regarding the new DLC mode, Onslaught? Well buck up, soldier -- we've got good news. It's headed your way. Confirmation comes courtesy of PC Gamer, who regrettably weren't able to secure intel regarding potential price point and date of availability for the co-op mode.

Onslaught adds objective-based gameplay to four maps: Valparaiso, Atacama Desert, Isla Inocentes, and Nelson Bay. Here, up to a squad of four players must secure objective points and battle waves of CPU-controlled enemies. Onslaught mode is currently available on the Xbox 360 and PS3 for 800 Microsoft Points and $9.99, respectively.

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MADRID, Spain – July 13th, 2010 – Virtual Toys and Streamline Studios announced today that HoopWorldTM, an original 3-on-3 arcade basketball game for WiiWareTM, will be available on July 19th, 2010. HoopWorldTM brings over-the-top arcade basketball with a kung-fu power-up twist to the platform, offering unlimited replay ability via seven uniquely themed teams and six outdoor [...]

#squareenix Take a trip through Disney Town, the Dwarf Woodlands, the Castle of Dreams, the Enchanted Dominion, and Deep Space, in this Worlds trailer for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for the PSP. More »

Check out more screens in our Flickr set Minato-ku, Tokyo – July 9, 2010 – Hudson Soft re-introduces the Japanese retro sensation Shooting Watch to gamers everywhere, and on the go. 16 Shot! Shooting Watch is now available as a digital download for Nintendo DSiWareTM for 200 Nintendo DSi PointsTM. Players can test their button-tapping proficiency [...]

Break out your flannel and get ready to challenge your quiz skills with the latest DLC for BUZZ! Quiz TV and BUZZ! Quiz World PS3 — BUZZ!: The 90’s Quiz.

The new BUZZ!: The 90’s Quiz downloadable quiz pack boosts your question bank with over 500 new questions on the movies, music and events that shaped the decade that brought you Pearl Jam, Pulp Fiction and Party of Five. Prove your 90’s trivia chops with cool questions like these:

WHICH OF THESE TV SHOWS STARTED UP IN THE 90′S?

• STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
• THE X-FILES
• BEVERLEY HILLS 90210
• THE WIRE

WHO DID BILL CLINTON DEFEAT IN THE 1996 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?

• DAN QUAYLE
• GEORGE H. W. BUSH
• WALTER MONDALE
• BOB DOLE

WHO FOUND HIMSELF ‘HOME ALONE’ IN 1990?

• COREY FELDMAN
• MACAULAY CULKIN
• RIVER PHOENIX
• ED FURLONG

WHICH GUNS N’ ROSES TRACK, AT 8 MINUTES, 57 SECONDS, BECAME THE LONGEST TRACK TO ENTER THE U.S. TOP 10 IN 1992?

• PARADISE CITY
• WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
• NOVEMBER RAIN
• SWEET CHILD O’ MINE

WHICH FILM BECAME THE FIRST TO GROSS $1 BILLION AFTER ITS RELEASE IN 1997?

• TITANIC
• LOTR: RETURN OF THE KING
• STAR WARS EPISODE ONE
• JURASSIC PARK

Once you’ve gotten your 90’s trivia fix, be sure to catch up on recent BUZZ! DLC including the Celebrities downloadable quiz pack for BUZZ! PS3 and the PSP-optimized National Geographic: Prehistoric and BUZZ!: The 00’s Quiz question expansion packs, now available to download on the PlayStation Store. See if you’re a true trivia champ by answering fun questions like these:

Celebrities Quiz Pack for BUZZ! Quiz TV and BUZZ! Quiz World PS3

NICOLAS CAGE CHANGED HIS REAL SURNAME TO BREAK AWAY FROM BEING LINKED TO WHICH FILM-MAKING UNCLE?

• CLINT EASTWOOD
• MARTIN SCORSESE
• FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
• QUENTIN TARANTINO

National Geographic: Prehistoric PSP-Optimized Quiz Pack

WHICH ANIMAL, RELATED TO ELEPHANTS, BECAME EXTINCT TOWARDS THE END OF THE LAST ICE AGE?

• MASTODONS
• SABER-TOOTHED CAT
• MAMMOTHS
• THREE-TOED SLOTH

BUZZ!: The 00’s Quiz PSP-Optimized Quiz Pack

WHICH OF THESE FILMS WERE RELEASED DURING THE 00′S?

• SPIDER-MAN 2
• AMERICAN BEAUTY
• BRAVEHEART
• SHREK

Keep checking in with us at the PlayStation.Blog to stay up-to-date with the latest BUZZ! DLC!

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is set to launch on July 27 and, soon thereafter, fight fans will be able to download an additional character, Makoto. Rather than provide you with some hum-drum stills of the new character, we've got the next best thing: actual gameplay footage. Peep it past the break.

Though Realtime Worlds' pseudo-MMO crime sim APB is still relatively hot off the presses, it doesn't look like the developer plans on letting the title languish. The game's official site was recently updated with a blog post outlining the studio's post-launch plans for the title -- a laundry list which includes lofty objectives such as enacting stronger countermeasures against cheaters and campers, and improving the handling of the game's guns and automobiles.

Check out APB's blog to see all the changes Realtime Worlds hopes to implement. We'd personally like to see the addition of a third faction: Bystanders. Think about it! You wouldn't do any actual fighting, but rather, would have to conduct your mundane day-to-day business while avoiding everyone else's scuffles. Also, you can't make any of your own clothes. You shop at the Gap, just like all the other Bystanders.

Peter Molyneux brought out the big guns to impress the crowd at the TEDGlobal conference: a child stomping on a snail. Okay, maybe it's more impressive when you learn that the child was Milo from Milo & Kate, Molyneux's Kinect-based AI game, and the decision to squash the mollusk was split between demonstrator Dmitri and Milo himself.

According to Wired UK's writeup of the talk, Milo encountered snails on a walk, and asked the demonstrator if he should step on it. When Dmitri encouraged him, Milo ended the poor e-creature's e-life. Live tweets from @TEDNews note that Milo hesitated before doing so. The demo continued with Milo going home to eat dinner, getting in an argument, and soliciting some words of encouragement from the player.

All of this is significant not because we hate snails, but because this is the first demonstration we've seen of Milo since E3 2009. Molyneux ended the demonstration with the shocking truth that all the world's Milos are going to form a Borg-like hive mind, with the AI data "in the cloud" (as Wired puts it), continually learning from individual interactions. He also revealed a more concrete, game-like narrative for Milo, in which players experience a "tutorial" during which Milo's family moves, with the game opening up afterward to allow you and Milo to explore the new surroundings.

Players will be able to explore at leisure a vast and vivid asylum known as the Hanwell Mental Institute

#art Yes this concept art for a flying Koopa Troopa is pretty great, but not nearly as great as the real thing as spotted in Miami Beach. More »

#limitededition EA's modern take on the Medal of Honor series is getting a special Limited Edition version that costs exactly the same as the regular version. Of course you get what you pay for. More »

I didn’t know that Kellog’s had gotten back into making gaming-themed fruit snacks. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen some of these. Time to hit up the store and stock up! Thanks to Kamehameha X for the heads up!

Take a gander at the ins and outs of Sony's new program.

Going from a free, community-driven environment to the closed storefronts on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network calls for some added incentive. Developer IllFonic claims its console version of Nexuiz, which began as an open-source shooter for Windows, Linux and OSX, will be the first downloadable title developed with CryEngine 3. That's quite an upgrade over the Quake 1 engine that once powered the arena-based first-person shooter.

Looking to reap the benefits from Crytek's support and technology -- not to mention Quake Arena Arcade's continued absence -- Illfonic plans to launch Nexuiz simultaneously on PSN and XBLA this winter. According to lead designer Kedhrin Gonzalez, maintaining the collaborative, malleable nature of the original will "definitely" be a goal. "Nexuiz was built by a community and we're bringing that vision to consoles," he said. "But we had to change some things in order to make it more accessible to console players."

Initially, that audience will find some standard multiplayer offerings like Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag, wrapped in a fast-paced fragfest not unlike Unreal Tournament III (which supported basic modding on PlayStation 3). We should be able to see how community-created content takes shape when the game is showcased at this year's Penny Arcade Expo, which will take place in Seattle from September 3 until September 5.

Capcom's Yoshinori Ono has been doing the press rounds talking about Super Street Fighter IV lately. The developer is planning to port the game to arcades and Ono implied during a Famitsu interview (via IGN) that any changes for the game's arcade release could make its way back into the console game. "If it's a tuning update similar to the June 15 update, I believe we'd be able to offer it for free," Ono said. "However, if it's the kind of update that adds new moves, it's possible that it could be paid."

Ono said something similar in an interview with the PlayStation community. "If we do make some changes to the arcade version, it is not impossible to apply the same changes to the PS3 version. However, as I can't get down to it yet, I have to ask you to wait for a while." What kind of things would you guys want to see in a patch?

Another look at Nexon's free-to-play action-MMO.

burda:ic expands their alaplaya.net gaming portfolio in NA with free-to-play virtual sports combat.

#event Next week, I will join talented game designer Eric Zimmerman and talented Take-Two CEO Ben Feder to tell the world what video games will be like in 2040. For this knowledge, we're charging 10 bucks. More »

A mash-up of a bunch of different gameplay elements makes for a complex game.

Capcom's Yoshinori Ono has been doing the press rounds talking about Super Street Fighter IV lately. The developer is planning to port the game to arcades and Ono implied during a Famitsu interview (via IGN) that any changes for the game's arcade release could make its way back into the console game. "If it's a tuning update similar to the June 15 update, I believe we'd be able to offer it for free," Ono said. "However, if it's the kind of update that adds new moves, it's possible that it could be paid."

Ono said something similar in an interview with the PlayStation community, actually. "If we do make some changes to the arcade version, it is not impossible to apply the same changes to the PS3 version. However, as I can't get down to it yet, I have to ask you to wait for a while." What kind of things would you guys want to see in a patch?

In VIDEO GAMES LIVE, a new PBS special, the world’s most beloved video game franchises come together to celebrate gaming culture and the incredible music surrounding it. An immersive event featuring the best game music performed by top-notch musicians and choirs combined with synchronized lighting, video, live action and audience interactivity, this performance [...]

IllFonic licenses CryEngine3 for futuristic arena first-person shooter.