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#pc As expected, Microsoft's new online shopfront for PC games has gone live. We were promised a bigger, better store. So has it delivered? More »

Most of the retailers' Black Friday catalogs we've seen thus far have begun to blend together, as almost all seem to be offering the same selection of holiday hardware bundles with various perks and bonuses. Walmart's recently released list of doorbusters and deals follows suit, including its own takes on the New Super Mario Bros. Wii Bundle (which includes an extra Wii Remote Plus and 'chuck) for $250 and the 160GB Uncharted 2 PS3 bundle (which also includes a limited edition Medal of Honor) for $300.

However! Walmart is also marking down a metric ton of games to $10 or less, including inFamous, the God of War Collection, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Red Steel 2 and a whole lot more. A few more recent titles will be discounted to $29, and, finally, all of the store's DS Lites will be marked down to $89. Check out more details about these offers (and more!) after the jump!

#iphone Until it was removed from the App Store yesterday you could, for a short while, get what was basically Minecraft for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Only difference was this game was called Minecrafted. More »

The failed MMO returns with an all new free to play system next year...

#starcraft There are lots of people out there who refuse to pay for video games. If you're wondering how many, let's take a look at illegal Starcraft II downloads, and you'll see they number in the millions. More »

If you were to remake the Super Meat Boy intro, what would you use? You'd need something squishy, that's a given. What's that? Clay? That's a brilliant idea. Unfortunately, YouTube users iheart2embalm beat you to it. Sorry to spoil your plans. Maybe you could use cheese or something?

#sports Philadelphia Phillies perfect game-pitcher Ray Halladay will grace next year's edition of MLB 2K when 2K Sports' baseball sim comes back to console, portables and PC. The predicted Cy Young award winner is, unsurprisingly, honored to be this year's coverboy. More »

Just as planned, the new browser-based Games for Windows Marketplace launched today. "Definitely you should show up on day one, because we're going to have a great pre-order on a title you may care about," product manager Peter Orullian teased several weeks ago. Well, we're not seeing "it" aaand ... there's not even Call of Duty: Black Ops on offer (or even Modern Warfare 2 for that matter). A Steam-killer this not -- not yet, at least.

What the Marketplace does have going for it is a relatively user-friendly, if (for now) bare-bones interface, anchored by Live integration (squint and you'll see your faded-out, cross-platform Gamerscore in the upper right when you log in). Of course, Microsoft has stated its intent to vastly expand the site's catalog by offering plenty -- and there are plenty -- of PC games that are not Live-enabled. The new design also wisely highlights both the Deal of the Week (Osmos for $2.50) and new "DailyDeal" (GTA IV for $12), which are going to be key aspects of the new Marketplace.

Additionally, there's an option on the site to add Microsoft Points to your Gamertag (Windows Live ID) account, and, while not obvious until you proceed to "checkout," you can use points as a payment method to purchase Games for Windows content -- already a dangerous aspect of the new Marketplace.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam may have a $15 price tag, but as we continue to wait for its "Winter 2010" launch date to be specified, check out the Achievements and Trophies you'll be aspiring to garner in the game.

#screengrab The Pokémon of your nightmares, as frighteningly re-imagined by Pixiv artist Yoshio, as seen on Reddit. (Click to evolve into larger picture.) More »

How the next generation of wireless connectivity can impact gamers.

Screw your friends and neighbors in the latest edition of the trivia classic.

#xboxlivearcade One addition to this week's list of new releases is the highly anticipated Pac-Man Championship Edition DX which hits Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday. It's joined by Alien Breed 3: Descent. More »

Telltale games has released a free Back to the Future game on Facebook called Blitz Through Time. It's a pretty straightforward Bejeweled Blitz ripoff, though of course it's skinned up with sounds and graphics from the classic movie series. Your goal is to match three or more same-colored gems in a row, pushing the in-game speedometer all the way up to 88 miles per hour, where you'll ... change the background to a different time and start matching gems again.

Fun? Sure. New? Not really. But if you're a real BTTF fan, "liking" the game on the fan page will enter you in a contest for some related prizes. You can see a short trailer for the game after the break. Of course this is all promotion for the actual BTTF adventure game, which comes out sometime next month.

#tips A teaser trailer has been discovered in Sly Collection, which hit streets Nov. 10, and it seems rather definite that a Sly 4 sequel is coming. When? Well that's probably what the question mark's all about. More »

#clips Using YouTube's in-video linking feature, design studio Analogue has sliced up George Romero's horror film Night of the Living Dead into a piece of choose your own adventure interactive fiction. More »

Man, remember when you had to comb through message boards looking for tips on how to find that 200th medallion or the location of that secret power-up? Those days are gone, thanks in part to handy video walkthroughs. Today, we present some footage from Game Videos documenting the location of every piece of Call of Duty: Black Ops Intel in the game. After all, knowing is half the battle!

When Pandemic shut down last year, it took several projects with it. Kotaku has obtained footage of what was to become Mercenaries 3: No Limits. It would appear this game is not related to the announced Mercs Inc., which is currently on assignment in Limbo.

The showreel is rough, giving an idea of new game concepts and revealing a character who sounds a little like Uncharted's Elena after swallowing bad-girl pills. Head on over to Kotaku to see the Mercenaries that once upon a time you may have been able to eventually pay for.

Will we ever get Ni no Kuni in North America? I don’t know, but let’s hope an importer pics up this pen stylus! We have to take baby steps, right? Thanks to Tomato for the heads up!

#xbox360 Epic Games' beefed up Xbox 360 shooter series may be adding a little motion control to its Locust-chainsawing action, according to one report that says Gears of War is getting Kinect enabled. More »

We’ve talked about this issue before, but now we have some footage of the problem in action.

We're not reviewing the Super Stardust HD follow-up, yet, and here's why.