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Hello, PlayStation World! I’m back to share our most exciting news of the year. We’re thrilled to let you know about our upcoming PlayStation Network exclusive, TerRover. We’ve been working hard on this one for a while, and we’re eager to let you get your hands on it and discover the engaging gameplay for yourselves.

You can do just that with the free demo of TerRover available with both versions of Qore tomorrow. Plus, you can watch the (hopefully not-embarrassing) interview with me at E3, chatting it up with Veronica about why the game is so much fun.

The TerRover is a cute little robot buggy with a big smile and warm heart in need of your help to find a new planetary home for him and his friends. The TerRover’s controls aren’t quite like anything else out there. His head slides back and forth across his body as you change direction. One button press places his head under his body to turn him over. And most importantly, the left stick lets you pivot your TerRover up and down from either end. You’ll need to master this skill in order to save the TerRover population!

You get weapons and tools, too. Choose from various chassis equipped with rocket launchers, magnet cables and more. They’ll come in handy in tight spots, and assist in collecting all the mechanical parts scattered about and discovering the numerous secret areas and hidden passages. You’ll find yourself aching to come back and explore every inch of every level.
 
We’re very eager here at Creat Studios to find out what you all think of our newest game. Sony Online Entertainment has been incredibly supportive, and they’ve helped us make the best game we can. As always… a big, big thank you to all of our fans out there. We simply could not what we love without you. Please drop by our website, check us out on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter, as we want to know what you think.
 

This is the first hint of a Beta program for the latest Killzone game.

Enjoy Gaming ltd., Worldwide digital and European retail publisher, is proud to announce ‘Spot The Difference’ Nintendo DSiWare™ available in the Nintendo DSi™ shop later on this year. Spot The Difference will be the fifth Nintendo DSiWare™ game released this year by Enjoy Gaming ltd. Spot The Difference is the universal classic puzzle game. Two pictures [...]

#screengrab You can keep your raft-paddling and dance dancing. I'm hanging out for Kinect's moustache-twiddling minigame compilation. As seen on the USPTO. More »

#downloadables This week's Nintendo Download brings a collection of six downloadable games so underwhelming you probably shouldn't even bother reading about them. Did you read Lisa's column? It's pretty awesome. Go read that instead. More »

#expansionism Eleven-year-old MMO EverQuest is getting its 17th expansion pack in October, raising the level cap, adding more than 450 new spells, 18 raids, 13 zones, more than 120 quests, and finally giving players somewhere to live. More »

Barry Steakfries, the deliciously-named hero of Halfbrick's PSP Mini Age of Zombies, is back in a new iPhone adventure. Monster Dash doesn't stray too far from Barry's skillset: instead of blasting zombies attacking him from all directions, Barry now runs endlessly forward, blasting every monster in his way across several different monster-themed landscapes. "Blast your enemies with the one shot Pacifier," according to the press release, "electro-charge your way to victory with Mr. Zappy, and look out for the ultimate in raining destruction - the Machine Gun Jetpack!"

Monster Dash will barrel into the App Store on August 19. At that point, we'll see if Barry's personality (and anti-monster violence) will be enough to propel Monster Dash into the same kind of success seen by Halfbrick's last iPhone game, Fruit Ninja. Check out a (live-action!) trailer after the break.

Pokémon This Pokémon is called Wakoishi (ワコイシ). No further details are known, although it is possible that this image is a fake. There has been no mention of this Pokemon in any of the previous reports so we’re very skeptical. We’ll let you know as soon as possible Vaporeon gets the Hydration ability if you get it [...]

Get ready to rule the seas.

AIOMI will attend the most important European videogame expo with IVD.

Just like its older brother Killzone 2, it appears that upcoming Guerrilla Games FPS Killzone 3 will be getting a beta in some form. A recently launched site with the URL "http://beta.killzone.com/kz3/beta-login.html" and a gated login (that's apparently not allowing anyone in as of right now) certainly seems to imply as much. Adding to the possibility is the fact that the Killzone 2 Community Website service on PSN lists "Killzone 3 Beta Website" as a launchable location, as spotted by Iron Star Movement.

We've reached out to Sony and Guerrilla for more details, but we have to imagine it won't be completely different from betas we've seen in the past-- (say, the Killzone 2 beta, for instance -- with online multi and a few game modes, perhaps). That said, this game does have jetpacks, and that changes things a bit -- namely, our excitement for more info.

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Embark on incredible adventures and feel the amazing atmosphere of Wild West in the latest hidden object shootout.

Bioware's upcoming MMO about a galaxy far, far away offers four new choices for characters' species. Star Wars: The Old Republic adds four races: the Sith Pureblood, the original Sith race; the Miraluka, a blind species adept at using the Force to see; the Mirialans, a green-skinned people with strong natural agility; and, finally, the Zabraks -- like the Darth Maul lookalike you see above.

We've got screens of each newly-announced race in our gallery below. Last one to click through is a scruffy-looking Nerf herder!

A new champion approaches: Galio, the Sentinel's Sorrow.

#feature My obsessive-compulsive tics suggest less of a "personality" disorder and more of a "She's probably just crazy" disorder. More »

Fleet new players give big boost to dodging skills.

Welcome you to the House of Thule.

StarCraft 2 took a slide down the charts this week to fourth, as Toy Story 3 regained the top spot on the UK All Formats chart. There also appears to have been some promotion (the demo, perhaps?) in the region last week for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 because it surged up the charts from eighth to second. According to Chart-Track, Activision-Blizzard's Modern Warfare sequel could potentially overtake Dr Kawashima (aka Brain Age) as the UK's "biggest unit seller" next week.

Dance on Broadway, Ubisoft's pseudo-sequel to Just Dance (holding just fine at #6), knows that life is a cabaret and moves up another spot to third. The other chart-topping stalwart, Red Dead Redemption, drops to fifth -- its lowest position since launch. Check out the UK top ten after the break.

There's no Virtual Console this week, but there is a game about giving people massages. So ... yeah.

WiiWare is also host to a sequel to Hudson's My Aquarium, while DSiWare features a gravity-shifting puzzle adventure, chess, an extremely complicated-looking music program and something for the little ones. Your kids learn how to count, while you learn chess and massage techniques! Education!

The latest Hawk game hits the streets and the snow.

New Game Downloads Take Players Under the Sea and Over the Top

#tomonobuitagaki Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of jiggly fighting franchise Dead or Alive and the upcoming Devil's Third, is keen on getting into Japanese politics. Oh, he also thinks the country's game industry is dying and that Japan failed to import Western capitalism. More »

Few details revealed at SOE Fan Fair.

#hotflashes An authoritarian state. The future. Whom can you trust? More »

See the seventeenth expansion of EverQuest.