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#clips While game studio Valve torture the world with a lack of updates to the Half-Life universe, animator James Benson has whipped up for kicks his own vision for an updated, improved Half-Life game. More »

Whether we’re talking Trophy Level, KDR, or NPD, us gamers are a pretty stat-obsessed lot. Last week, we announced that a million PlayStation Move units have been shipped in North America. This morning, have a look at some more stats about the first month of PlayStation Move’s availability.

Later this week, we’ll have more Move stats for you as the Sports Champions team will share some interesting gameplay tidbits.

#cars You can keep your trashy Call of Duty Jeeps: we'll take a classy little car inspired by a Nintendo console any day of the week. More »

#rumor First revealed in summer 2009, Metal Gear Solid: Rising is an action game starring Metal Gear creator Raiden and set between MGS2 and MGS4. The game was expected to be out in 2011. Those expectations, it seems, are wrong. More »

#music British rapper Dan Bull, who we've heard from before, returns with an elegantly-worded plea to Bethesda that amounts to: Fallout is nice, but a new Elder Scrolls game would be better. More »

#clips This fall marks the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. What better what to say "congrats" than with a fan-made Super Mario game that puts Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3 and Super Mario World in a blender. Drink it up! More »

#fallout Fallout: New Vegas is pretty fun when it's not breaking down on you. Problem is, that happens a lot. Hopefully a "comprehensive" patch due for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 in the "coming weeks" will fix that. More »

#pokemon The Pokémon Company held a "Pokémon Popularity Contest", polling players on which Pocket Monster they want to meet. The winner is not Pikachu. That Pocket Monster wasn't even second! More »

#pc If you suck at shooters - think Call of Duty, Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield - then you probably need help. You could ask your friends, but for a less embarrassing solution, you could try FPS Trainer. More »

#rip This Sunday, 75-year-old Yoshinobu Nishizaki, co-creator of 1970s animated series Space Battleship Yamato (imported to the West as "Star Blazers"), fell from his 485-ton boat "Yamato" at an island port in southern Tokyo. More »

#activision The Call of Duty series has gone from the Second World War to the present day and now, with Black Ops, back to the Cold War. That's seventy years of warfare covered across seven main Call of Duty games. More »

#xbox360 In an effort to give Japanese gamers a hands body-on with Kinect, Xbox Japan set up a demo station at a large electronics store in Tokyo's Shinjuku. Make that, a lonely demo station — for now, at least! More »

You're doing it wrong. But it's still a great workout.

#toys Rockstar doesn't do action figures. There have been none made for Grand Theft Auto, none for Bully, none for Rockstar Table Tennis. So fans have to step in, do it themselves. More »

#culturesmash During the 1980s, Japan saw trends like Hello Kitty-type character products and brand-name fashion. The 1990s gave birth to Tamagotchi, Bandai's portable game character, as well as sticker picture machines and even Windows 95 fever. Now? More »

We go behind the scenes of Krome's collapse and talk to the CEO and a number of ex-employees.

We go behind the scenes of Krome's collapse and talk to the CEO and a number of ex-employees.

We go behind the scenes of Krome's collapse and talk to the CEO and a number of ex-employees.

We go behind the scenes of Krome's collapse and talk to the CEO and a number of ex-employees.

If you're looking for a wonderful way to kill some time (and monsters), you can't do much better than The Ball -- a clever little PC action-adventure title in which your main weapon is, in fact, a giant, titular sphere. You can grab a demo for the game on Steam, or on our sister site Big Download.

We take a look at some awful game covers and guess what the games might be about.

We take a look at some awful game covers and guess what the games might be about.

We take a look at some awful game covers and guess what the games might be about.

We take a look at some awful game covers and guess what the games might be about.

The first week of November had unexpected game announcements, new demos and more news for PC gamers. As we always do, let's go over the last seven days together, shall we?

Exclusive Features

• Nimbus Review: We review the very unique puzzle-racing indie game.
• Freeware Friday: The weekly column returns with a look at the arcade game Super Crate Box.

Downloads

• The Ball Demo: It's a free slice of the cool new puzzle-shooter game from Teotl Studios
• HAWX 2 PC Benchmark: See if your PC can handle the upcoming port of Ubisoft's flying action game
• Medal of Honor R7 patch: Download the latest patch for EA's recent shooter.
• Borderlands 1.41 patch: This new patch for Gearbox' 2009 shooter raises the game's level cap
• The Witcher 2 Dev Diary video: Check out this exclusive to Big Download video dev diary about the upcoming fantasy RPG.
• Battlefield Play4Free Announcement trailer: It's the first look at EA's upcoming free-to-play shooter.

So, how's everybody getting prepped for the super impending release of Call of Duty: Black Ops? Perhaps you've been stretching your atrophied fool-shooting muscles by hopping back into previous entries into the series? Maybe you joined the actual military, working your way up the ranks to join the most secret of branches of our armed forces? Have you just been wearing your night-vision goggles to work, much to the collective chagrin of your boss, co-workers, and any passersby who worry that you're standing on the razor-thin cusp of insanity?

Those are all completely functional methods of preparation, we guess. We usually just go to the mall, and let teenagers beat the everliving crap out of us while they scream obscenities. See, it's more important for us to build up a tolerance to being humiliated by adolescents ten years our minor. But hey, different strokes and all that.

We finally received our package containing 5 copies of Kirby’s Epic Yarn, as well as 25 patches featuring Kirby’s transformations in the game. The package came in on Friday, and now we’re showing you the 25 people that get a patch, and the 5 that are going to receive a copy of the game! Patches [...]