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Red Dead Redemption takes top spot again for the second straight month.

Red Dead Redemption takes top spot again for the second straight month.

Red Dead Redemption takes top spot again for the second straight month.

The long-dormant Oddworld franchise is ready to make its return. Just Add Water, developer of Gravity Crash, has been working with Oddworld Inhabitants on "multiple projects, across multiple platforms ... starring all of your favorite Oddworld characters." Just Add Water Managing Director Stewart Gilray has also revealed that franchise creator Lorne Lanning is involved in the new projects.

While further details aren't yet available, a few more teases will be revealed on the PS Nation podcast tonight. To keep abreast of any breaking revelations, you can also follow AbeMudokon on Twitter.

#bulletstorm Just before this year's E3, the people who make Bulletstorm—EA, Epic Games and People Can Fly—sent us a big wad of meat. In was inedible, thanks to the shell casings, teeth and fingers inside. It was gross. More »

There's a strange calculus that we all apply to digitally-distributed gaming content. iPhone games, XBLA and PSN releases, etc., divorced from the usual MSRP for retail products, all suffer the same fate: intense pricing scrutiny. While our reviews aim to be more experiential and less commercial, I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't applying that same calculus to the latest Dragon Age: Origins DLC, "Leliana's Song," while I played it. How much new content is there? How long is it? How does that compare to the retail version? And, of course, how much does it cost?

Let's cover that new content first: "Leliana's Song" is a fully-voiced expansion featuring several new characters (like your companions Sketch the mage and Tug the dwarf), some new music, and some new (albeit dull) locations. A particular disappointment: despite Leliana's Orlesian (read: French) lineage, and despite this being her origin story, you won't see a single Orlesian blade of grass in this adventure. Instead, you'll spend time in the oft-recycled Denerim Market and you'll sneak through the Arl's castle; familiar environments, to be sure. Depending on what you're hoping to extract from "Leliana's Song," there's either a wealth of content (new dialogue! new music!) or a dearth of it (old locations!).

There will be blood.

Microsoft is bringing its motion-sensing camera to a town near you.

I’ve placed the footage after the jump, as I don’t want to spoil anything for you guys. This footage comes from very, very late in the game.

There are not one but two brilliant Okami-related items in this post, and we tossed and turned all last night about which one we should put pre-break, and which one we should put after. In the end, we flipped a coin, and this amazing Okami polystone statue won. It features a terrific sculpture of everyone's favorite Shinto deity, Amaterasu, and will be available starting at the 2010 International Tokyo Toy Show for 15,540 yen. That's about US$176, so it's not cheap -- but at about 8" across and about 5" tall, it's a nice chunk of sculpted form.

We're still not sure we made the right decision though -- the second piece of collectible Okami gear will be found at the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con, and also after the break.

Here it is.

This isn't the first 3D system. Let's celebrate with some classic Nintendo ports!

Cheating at Duck Hunt by holding the gun two inches from the TV I don’t care how you feel about gaming now…I’d say that a large majority of you guys and gals did this back in the day. I admit to doing it a few times, but then I realized it was more fun to [...]

Sun, sand, and one Horsemen of the Apocalypse...

#sports The Madden NFL 11 demo will release July 27, and in addition to five minute quarters, it will feature adjustable AI sliders, unlockables, and an early redeemable achievement. More »

#review Little girls. In frilly dresses. Shooting things. Yep, you're about to read a DeathSmiles review. More »

The ten independently-developed games which will be featured on the show floor at PAX Prime 2010 have been announced. There are a few recognizable names in this year's PAX 10 collection, including Super Meat Boy and Retro City Rampage-- but there's also plenty of lesser-known (but assuredly spectacular) indie titles in the mix as well, like the pictured Fowl Space.

Check out the full list of featured titles posted just past the jump, or catch a glimpse of each game in the gallery below. If you want to give the games a once-over at PAX Prime, you might want to grab one of the remaining one-day passes for the event.

Watch this footage if you dare.

I’m hoping that the news of Swords and Soldiers heading to PSN will get more people intersted in the WiiWare version. Now would be a great time for Ronimo and Nintendo to re-promote the WiiWare release. If you haven’t picked this one up yet, you’re truly missing out on some of the best [...]

PS3 unit sales up 85 percent over last year.

Mario & Luigi Partners in Time (nds, korea) - commercial 1 - commercial 2 Sengoku Basara 3 (wii, japan) - commercial 1 - commercial 2 Thanks to Cadaver for the heads up!

Compared to last month's disappointing NPD numbers, with the industry down 5% overall, this month's numbers are ... well, they're still sort of a bummer, but for nearly opposite reasons! While hardware was down in May, 20% year-over-year, it's up 5% this month with every console posting positive percentages. The newly revamped Xbox 360 led with the biggest improvement, with sales up 132%. The Wii managed to place 3rd, with the lowest overall improvement at 26%.

While last month's software sales were up 4%, mostly riding on Red Dead Redemption's back, this month's numbers are still Red Dead-heavy, but down 15% year-over-year as Rockstar San Diego's horse opus fell from a combined 1.5m units to just shy of 1m. Much of the month's software lineup looks the same as last's - there's Super Mario Galaxy, barely dropping at all; there's UFC and Wii Fit; and, of course, New Super Mario Bros. - but we're also welcoming Just Dance back to the top 10 along with newcomers Toy Story 3 on DS and LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 on Wii. Check the full software list after the break.

• DS: 511K, up 127K (+33%)
• 360: 453K, up 257K (+132%)
• Wii: 423K, up 88K (+26%)
• PS3: 305K, up 150K (+97%)
• PSP: 121K, up 62K (+105%)

Take a spin through Spider-Man's darkest universe.

The image above was posted on the official Capcom Unity blog, and there was no other information given. This was indeed a post direct from Capcom, so this is the real deal.

#yeahyeah Westboro Baptist Church, the notorious "Gods Hates Fags" congregation out of Kansas, will be in San Diego next week to rain down 45 minutes of eternal and inconsequential damnation upon your idolatrous worship of Spider-Man and Green Lantern. More »