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New images from the crime drama.

When rising through the ranks of the mob, you have to take the good with the bad.

$150 price point deemed appropriate.

Take the boys into the alley.

Consolidate your power.

The Marvel Icon gets his first starring role on all platforms.

The Marvel Icon gets his first starring role on all platforms.

To celebrate its swiftly-approaching tenth anniversary, Rockstar Games will compile all of the visual elements that have gone into designing its catalog of games into a three-book set sometime next month. The pages therein will contain everything from conceptual illustrations, models and wireframes to advertisements and box art. This beefy, aesthetically pleasing package comes with an asking price of $450.

As attractive as these tomes would look propped against one another on our coffee table, we find it difficult to reconcile the fact that we could spend the same amount of money on a PS3 or 360 and copies of Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City. Heck, we'd even have enough cash left over for one of those novelty-sized party subs, which would increase our enjoyment of the aforementioned items tenfold.

Quintessential JRPG experience is summoned to Wii.

- being worked on by Akaoni Studio - 50 animations to beat - Hold the DSi upside down, so you hit on the upper half of the rival - Draw quick lines for aiming each punch - use D-pad or buttons to dodge/block - charged special punches - similar to Punch-Out!!

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A portion of a Nintendo Life review… Looking past the questionable control option and simplistic gameplay is easy, however, considering that there might not be another WiiWare game with such a great mixture of cute, colourful visuals and engaging gameplay fundamentals. Is it worth 800 points? If puzzle games float your boat, definitely.

Anxious to envelop yourself in your Maserati's splendor and hit some hairpin turns at 100mph? Well, you can do that later. Now we want to tell you about this video game.

EA has announced that its MMO experiment, Need for Speed World, will be available for download on July 27 -- a week later than initially expected. Those who pre-ordered the Need for Speed World Starter Pack -- a $20 primer that gives players $20 in SpeedBoost (in-game currency), full access up to level 50 and some power-ups including Nitrous and Traffic Magnet -- get a week's head start and can play Need for Speed World starting today. Those who pre-ordered get further incentive in exclusive cars, double experience points, driver name reservation and permanent VIP status.

Racers looking for a free taste of the game will be able to download a special trial version (that unlocks all game modes and provides free play up to level ten) here as of July 27.

I don’t think Mario would be all that put-off if he lost his job. I guess we’re saying that plumbing is his real job? He hasn’t done any of that in years, so he should be just fine without it! If we’re saying that princess-rescuing is his full-time profession, than I could [...]

Looks like you might be able to get your copy of Arc Rise Fantasia a tad early. Give your local GameStop a call and see if your copy is in-stock! It may not be weeks early, but one day is better than nothing!

Grab your goggles.

Everybody has an opinion at the moment about Kinect's $150 price tag, but let's hear what the analysts who get paid for their opinions think. We've got reactions from EEDAR's Jesse Divnich, Lazard's Colin Sebastian and Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter.

#comiccon2010 The latest game in the Red Faction franchise will be taking over THQ's booth at the San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, with bloody new screens and a suspenseful new trailer heralding the impending Martian invasion. More »

New open-world RPG coming next fall.

Pre-order now for early access and challenge the world to become the top street racer.

#kinect This look at Microsoft's internal take on the true cost of motion gaming, obtained by Kotaku, has its charm, but isn't completely anchored in reality. More »

Get ready to enter the alliance.

The oft-surfacing rumor of Activision's intent to incorporate a pay-to-play plan for the multiplayer portions of its Call of Duty franchise sprung up once again yesterday, when a player reportedly captured video of a hidden Marketplace item titled "Modern Warfare 2 Membership." The buzz was quickly quieted by a Tweet from Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, who stated, "nobody has to pay to play COD or MW2 multiplayer, nor will they."

A more thorough report on the subject of Modern Warfare subscriptions came from Activision's Dan Amrich, who explained, "This video shows just a glitch," further explaining, "since you can access a Live subscription renewal from within the MW2 game interface, it appears some data got jammed between two parts of Live." See, we always said some poor menu would fall into those cracks on the surface of Xbox Live Marketplace. Now we've gotta get it out. Denny! Denny, fire up the backhoe.

This isn’t just an homage to Super Mario Bros. This has the same level design, enemy placement and more. I wonder if Nintendo can get involved and take this one off sale. Thanks to Fraz for the heads up!