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Cower before Creepy Dan.

Cower before Creepy Dan.

GameTrailers has the debut moving-picture preview for Telltale's episodic Back to the Future game and, if you ignore the animation and lip-synching, it's looking pretty ... um -- hey, how awesome are those movies? They're on Blu-ray now, you know. Maybe we'll forget all about this awkward teaser when the first episode of the point-n-click adventure is made available for free sometime soon.

Revealed as a five-episode series, Back to the Future begins this month, before taking a winter break until February, when it'll pick back up with a new episode each month until the finale:

• December: "It's About Time" (Episode 1)
• February: "Get Tannen!" (Episode 2)
• March: "Citizen Brown" (Episode 3)
• April: "Double Visions" (Episode 4)
• TBD: "OUTATIME" (Finale)

Back to the Future will be available for PC, Mac, PS3 (via PSN) and iPad. Previously, Telltale announced plans to launch the PC and Mac versions first. Check out the trailer after the break, or don't ... if you're chicken.

#clips OK, they didn't really build it. But Nintendo did send along the supplies, complete with Nintendo-themed candies. Trish, Tristan and I built the Gingerbread house, complete with a trapped Mario, waiting for his princess to save him. More »

Many of us can't play PS2 games on our PS3s right now, but Sony has come up with a clever, and distinctly Sony-like, workaround for that problem: sticking a PS2 into a Bravia HDTV. And only ten years after the system's contemporary, the Dreamcast, was packed into a Fuji TV.

The budget-focused (okay, maybe it's not all that Sony-like) Bravia KDL-22PX300 includes 720p output, four HDMI ports ... and a PS2. We bet you can't guess where the PS2 hardware is in that sleek, sleek design. The set's currently available in the UK for £199.95 (about $312).

Hi everyone, it’s time for this week’s video store update!

Celebrate the release of The Expendables on the video store with Deal of the Week, where you’ll find explosions, tough guy banter and glorious mayhem in action films featuring the cast of The Expendables all at limited-time low prices. Go to Featured Collections > Deal of The Week for incredible deals on Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Crank, Transporter 3, and more. Next, get an adrenaline pumping rush with UFC 123 (available 12/4) to recap Machida’s defeat to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, plus BJ Penn’s knockout victory over Matt Hughes. Also, brace yourself for some of 2010’s hottest Hollywood blockbusters hitting the store this week. Go to New Releases > New Release Movies to find action-packed titles like Knight and Day and Ong Bak 3, or titles featuring your favorite vampires with smoldering good looks in The Twilight Saga: Eclipses and Vampires Suck.

Check out our incredible collections on the store, including the Vampire Movies collection, where you’ll find captivating 90’s classics like Interview with a Vampire, campy favorites like Fright Night, and of course, the wildly popular Twilight Saga. Then, continue the celebration of Gran Turismo 5’s release with Spotlight on Racing for gripping, thrilling racing titles including The Fast and the Furious, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Speed Racer, and more!

Before you head to the video store, check out the trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, available starting this Saturday for both US and Canada users!

New TV shows and movies arrive every week. Here’s a taste of what’s in store:

Just in TV
US Store: American Dad: Season 6, Ancient Aliens: Season 2, Paranormal State: Season 5, The Walking Dead: Season 1, Chuck: Season 4, Lie to Me: Season 3, The Event: Season 1, Sons of Anarchy: Season 3, and more.

Canada Store: Bleach: Season 12, The Walking Dead: Season 1, The Event: Season 1, Caprica: The Series: Season 1, 30 Rock: Season 5, Outsourced: Season 1, Tears to Tiara: Season 1, and more.

New Release Movies
US Store: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Knight and Day, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Vampires Suck (Unrated), 41 Year Old Virgin…, American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, Ong Bak 3, Please Give, and more.

Canada Store: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Knight and Day, Vampires Suck, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, 41 Year Old Virgin…, Hunt To Kill, Sports Illustrated: Making of Swimsuit 2010, Street Dreams, Solitary Man, and more.

Top TV Downloads

US:

The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Wildfire The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Vatos The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Days Gone Bye Sons of Anarchy | Season 3 – June Wedding The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Tell It To The Frogs Sons of Anarchy | Season 3 – NS The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Guts Family Guy | Season 9 – Brian Writes a Bestseller South Park | Season 14 – Crème Fraiche Stargate Universe | Season 2 – Visitation

Canada:

The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Wildfire The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Vatos The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Tell It To The Frogs The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Days Gone Bye The Walking Dead | Season 1 – Guts Clash of the Gods | Season 1 – Zeus How The Earth Was Made | Season 1 – San Andreas Fault Ancient Aliens | Season 1 – The Evidence Ancient Aliens | Season 1 – The Mission Ancient Aliens | Season 1 – The Visitors

Top Movie Downloads

US:

The Expendables Grown Ups Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Lottery Ticket Knight and Day Eat Pray Love Knight and Day Extended Edition Assassin’s Creed Ascendance The Last Airbender Vampires Suck

Canada:

The Expendables Knight and Day Vampires Suck Knight and Day Extended Edition Grown Ups Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Eat Pray Love Hunt to Kill Countdown to Zero The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

You'll be able to play the weird Kinect Pac-Man minigame on February 8.

That's also when you'll be able to play the rest of Namco Bandai's Body and Brain Connection, the brain training/exercise collection from Brain Age consultant Dr. Ryuta Kawashima -- but it's more interesting to think about it as the Kinect Pac-Man thing, with bonus brain training and exercise-based minigames.

Namco Bandai also sent out a bunch of new screens of the intellectually stimulating minigames contained within Connection. You get to work out with an animated light bulb! How many games let you do that?

#clips Classic Battlefield: Vietnam map Operation Hastings is coming to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam, but only after a little online teamwork. More »

Much like it did with Battlefield 1943, developer DICE will add an additional map, Operation Hastings, once a community challenge is met in the multiplayer expansion Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. However, this time DICE isn't making the challenge a collective kill count of 43 million. In keeping more with the spirit of cooperation in the game, the map will unlock once the community accomplishes 69 million team actions (double entendres abound).

In order to unlock the fifth Vietnam map, you'll have to heal, spot, repair, revive and resupply as often as possible ... but you were already doing that, right?

BFBC2 Vietnam will be drafted into service on December 21. Check out the Operation Hastings challenge video after the break.

On December 21, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam will arrive on the PlayStation 3 with the low, low cost of $14.99, adding some great new gameplay to an already fantastic shooter. You may already know that this expansion comes with new weapons, new vehicles, and four new maps, but what you may not know is that one of the most popular maps from 2004’s Battlefield: Vietnam will also be included in the bundle.

The fifth map, Operation Hastings, will add a new avenue for PlayStation gamers to show their superiority on the Battlefield featuring everything that makes BFBC2 Vietnam amazing: tanks, Jeeps, temples, boats and helicopters all in an environment featuring a distinctive bridge that separates the map into two main areas. Though, it’s not as easy as all that. It’s entirely up to you to unlock this fifth map.

To unlock Operation Hastings, we’ve decided to start up a new community challenge for all of our fans dubbed The Battle for Hastings. To unlock Operation Hastings, our entire audience will need to perform 69 million team actions within Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. While this sounds like a daunting task, we’re sure our PlayStation 3 fans can handle it, as these actions include resupplies, revives, heals, spots and repairs, allowing for plenty of avenues to achieve this goal.

Get ready to jump back into the Battlefield on December 21, and we’ll be counting the support actions until you unlock Operation Hastings for the entire world to enjoy.

#china If you type "Edison Chen" into Google Image search, you'll probably see him singing, dancing and screwing. Lots of screwing. More »

#screengrab By Virtual Shackles, via Gizmodo. More »

Yeah, it definitely missed the summer, but as of December 10, Steam aficionados will be able to download a port of quirky Xbox Live Arcade and PSN strategy title, Greed Corp, for $9.99. The Steam version boasts a tweaked level and difficulty progression scale for the campaign and the ability to skip past lengthy AI turns. Of course, it'll also have Steam achievements and all of the usual platform functionality.

#xbox Microsoft's internal news crew Channel 9 recently paid Xbox HQ a visit, bringing a camera along for the ride. If you've ever wanted to see what the place that runs the Xbox looks like, well, you are about to. More »

MJ's dance game reportedly offering a creative solution to piracy.

#coolness You know in Predator how the creature is able to cloak itself in the surroundings and appear almost invisible? Well, someone figured out how to do that on Kinect. More »

Not only are friends great when you need bail money at 4 a.m. (don't ask), but they're also good for fighting monsters and stuff in Darkspore. At least, that's what we hear from people who actually have friends.

#ds Some publishers of Nintendo DS games like to install their own anti-piracy measures, which while being unable to prevent pirates from physically copying a game, can prevent people from enjoying those pirated copies. More »

Ten joyous games that caught us with our pants down this year.

Ten joyous games that caught us with our pants down this year.

#legal On January 1 of this year, Japanese copyright law changed. If you've seen this warning screen and you're downloading DS games from the internet, you might end up in jail. More »

#sony The PlayStation 2 isn't dead. It's just sleeping. Sleeping in the belly of this Sony Bravia LCD television set, with which it's become a co-habitant in a bargain-priced entertainment solution. More »

Arcade roster bolstered by two new characters.

#japan For those who don't have an original PS3, there's a lid covering the slots on the console's front. Slots that are perfect for mini SD cards or — better yet — letters. That's exactly what was found in one PS3. More »

Even though you'll have to temporarily step away from the World of WarCraft, and abandon your guild, in order to pick up Cataclysm (unless you buy it digitally), you'll still have the opportunity to commune with fellow WoW players while buying the new expansion.

GameStop will be hosting midnight release events, including "trivia and dance" contests, starting at 10PM on December 6, at its 3,500 stores across the U.S. Buying the expansion at one of these locations won't just increase your risk of vampire attack (what, you don't worry about that at night?), it'll also qualify you for savings on routers, headsets and other PC gaming accoutrements. Additionally, people who buy Cataclysm from GameStop within the first 48 hours of release get a 50-percent bonus in PowerUp Rewards points.

#blizzaard Earlier this year, Blizzard attempted to introduce a "real ID" system, whereby users on the company's forums would have their real names shown. It, uh, didn't go down very well. So why has Apple now done exactly the same thing? More »

#pressplay It was already known that Yun and Yang were heading to the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV. That's not who I'm talking about. More »

#iphone Zynga, the social games powerhouse behind games like Farmville, made a significant purchase today, scooping up Newtoy, the developers of super-popular iPhone game Words With Friends. More »

#tellusdammit It's Friday, late Friday. You know who reads Kotaku late at night? You. So let's talk. More »

You don't know flickr user Encaja en Camon, but rest assured that the account in question has some pretty awesome and simple LEGO adaptations of famous games and their characters. Above, you can check out Sonic's blocky noggin, while just past the break we've included a couple of our other favorites.