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Sony announced this week that BBC America programming is heading to PlayStation 3's across the United States. To kick off the new partnership, BBC America has made the first episode of the American version of "Top Gear" available at no charge (normally $1.99 for SD, $2.99 for HD), at least for the first two weeks. "Doctor Who" and "Being Human" will join "Top Gear" on the network's launch list at some point in December, and BBC America promises to "rapidly add BBC programming each week, including the best of the BBC's library as well as currently airing series."

As you've likely already guessed, the BBC's offerings can be found in the video section of the PlayStation Store starting right now.

If you didn't manage to snag a PSP "3-Game Digital Pack" at your local retailer yesterday, Amazon's offer of a $150 PSP Go -- lasting until "Cyber Monday" -- should help mend your broken heart. If Sony's digital-only handheld doesn't get you going, perhaps the site's other Cyber Monday deals will? You can find all the specifics after the break.

#photoshop Last week, Kotaku 'shoppers took red pen in hand to annotate the lesser appealing aspects of games' looks and suggest airbrushing instructions. I don't know that we made things any worse, but we did make them funnier. More »

Back in 2001, Nintendo released a fairly gorgeous commercial for Golden Sun -- however, for all its glitz and glamor, it wasn't exactly packing in the coherence department. A giant crystal dragon, totally wrecking shop in a jap-packed opera house? We don't remember that in the original Game Boy Advance RPG. As it turns out, there's a reason for that: That sequence wouldn't make it into the franchise until this very year, with the release of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn.

Check out a comparison of the commercial and the (slightly spoilery) clip from Dark Dawn after the jump -- just try not to think about why it took almost a decade for the translucent dragon to arrive. Was the commercial just prescient or something?

#ps3 ESRB certificates for Metal Slug X and Front Mission 3 indicate both titles will be released as PSOne Classics sometime soon. More »

Here’s a bit more proof that Game Informer is going to reveal the new Lara Croft game in their next issue. We just recently found out that the ‘A Survivor is Born’ tagline from the Game Informer teaser was registered by none other than EIDOS, which is now part of Square-Enix. If that [...]

#clips This unholy marriage of Microsoft technology and Nintendo software comes from Yankeyan, who probably just gave Shigeru Miyamoto an inspiration for the Wii's next exergaming title. More »

Adorable puzzle game ilomilo may already be out (for free, no less) on Windows Phone 7 devices, but did you know you can play it on your Xbox 360 as well, like, right now? A dutiful tipster pointed us to the developer's website, where a "super secret" access page gives out an Xbox Live code that redeems for the trial version of the game.

As you probably already put together, downloading the trial version of ilomilo also means that -- if you're willing to shell out the 800 MS Points ($10) it costs -- you can totally buy the full game. More bizarre? The game doesn't have an official release date just yet. So, you can buy it right now and tell your friends you're on that new, new, new ish. That "hasn't even been given a release date" ish, you know?

[Thanks blahman!]

#legal Zynga, makers of Farm- Frontier- and all things -ville on Facebook, slapped Disney with a lawsuit after it acquired social games competitor Playdom and, Zynga alleges, hired off ex-Zynga workers to learn its "secret sauce." The matter is now settled. More »

Single Game Deals

Left 4 Dead 2 $5.00

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare $14.99

Wings of Prey $14.99

Supreme Commander 2 $3.75

Galcon Fusion $2.50

Kings Bounty: Platinum Edition $8.75

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light $7.49

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City $10.20

Indie Pulse Pack $4.99

     Audiosurf

     Beat Hazard

     BIT. TRIP BEAT

     Rhythm Zone

     The Polynomial - Space of the Music

Gift Deals

6-Pack of Counter-Strike: Source $24.99

10-Pack of NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits $14.99

8-Pack of Red Faction Guerilla $39.99

6-Pack of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City $44.99

#stickjockey With respect and admiration for, if not apologies to, the late Ernie Harwell, here's something adapted from his famous Induction Day speech at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Aug. 2, 1981, which itself was adapted from this 1955 essay. More »

The precarious, towering pile of evidence that Square Enix is planning a big reveal for a new installment in the Tomb Raider franchise just got a little bit taller -- Tomb Raider BIZ, a fansite for the crypt-plundering series, recently uncovered a trademark filed by the UK office of Square Enix, reserving the phrase "A Survivor is Born" for use with "computer game software" and "video game software" and "potpourri." Aha! We made that last one up. Just making sure you're paying attention.

So, in summary: The full spread teaser posted in the latest edition of Game Informer was definitely placed there by Square Enix, is probably hinting at a new Tomb Raider game, and we'll totally hear more about it when the cover of the next issue of Game Informer drops, which will absolutely happen on December 6. We're no mixologists, but that sounds like a pretty delicious recipe for a rumor cocktail.

Remember the days when Sackboy had to flip switches upon switches upon switches to make something work? With LittleBigPlanet 2‘s Controlinator, those days are gone. Now you can control anything you with just by adding the Controlinator and selecting the controls you wish…

During the holidays, we often end up at a relative's house, wiling away hours without a gaming console anywhere in sight. It's times like these that we turn to our trusty iPhone, where Sega's six best-selling games are currently on sale until December 1. Head past the break for all the details.

Dokkora #038 Unova / #532 National Type: Fighting Species classification: Muscle Pokemon Abilities: Guts – Boosts Attack stat by 50% when user has status ailment Brute Force – If the user’s move has less than 100% chance of hitting and a chance of inflicting a status ailment on the opponent, that move will be 30% more powerful but will not have [...]

#ssfiv Capcom's official Japanese-language blog posted a few screens of new characters Yun and Yang in their Arrange Costumes, where they change from a mere skateboarder and rollerblader into a skateboarder chef and a rollerblader waiter. More »