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From StarCraft II to Minecraft, a year of upheaval and evolution.

It's been 365 days of Mods, vengence and shooting -- but was it worth it?

Yes, this really is an accessory for your accessories. It helps to make your RIDE board and Balance Board a little more steady. Now you have less of a chance of cracking your head open from a nasty fall…maybe.

Lots of cars, tracks and drivers.

A new PS3 system software update, v3.55, will be released soon. This is a minor update that adds a security patch.

#rockstargames Rockstar Games' detective adventure, L.A. Noire is due to hit the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next spring after a very long wait. Four fresh shots of the 1940s investigative adventure are here to make that wait seem ever longer. More »

If you're anything like us, you haven't even begun to do your holiday shopping yet. Whatever your preferred excuse is, you've got a get a move on. Time is running out and, in the interest of you helping you not be the jerkiest friend ever, we'd like to present you with this Toys R Us sale.

The gist of the sale is this: buy one thing, get another thing of equal or lesser value at half off. That's it . Up until December 24, the sale extends to all video games on all platforms, any hardware accessory, guide and T-shirt. Happy bargain hunting!

[Thanks, Swooded]

Sequel requires PlayStation Move controller.

Great sequels, awesome online multiplayer, and the rebirth of Pac-Man made for one hell of a year.

The highs and the lows of the Wii and DS.

Shadow-manipulation puzzler Echochrome 2 will make its merry way onto PSN on December 21. The unique puzzle game, which uses PlayStation's Move controller like a virtual flashlight, is all about manipulating the shadows created by objects in each level to help the character escape. The game ships with 100 levels, each playable in three different modes, and will also feature a robust level editor.

Still not making sense? Check out the previously released video to get a better idea of the flashlight-infused gameplay.

#eidos Tomb Raider is starting anew with the next grand Lara Croft adventure, revealed earlier today on the cover of Game Informer magazine. Tomb Raider's reboot, an open world origin story, may also signify another serious change for the franchise. More »

As promised, Oddworld Inhabitants reports it will successfully launch The Oddboxx before the end of 2010. A collection of the studio's previous Oddworld games, The Oddboxx includes Abe's Oddysee and Abe's Exoddus, as well as Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath -- the latter two games' first appearance on the PC platform.

Launching on Steam during "the 2010 Holiday Season," gamers will be able to download each title individually or in a complete bundle. Expect "a few new additions and enhancements" to the games, which Oddworld Inhabitants says will be announced "in the run-up to its release date."

Magic: The Gathering breaks into the third dimension with Tactics! Get the full details on the game on PC and PlayStation Network!

Magic battles come to life in Tactics on PC!

#wellplayed This week, exceedingly popular computer game World of Warcraft undergoes a cataclysm, reshaping not just the game's landscape but how you play in the game. More »

Two more crazy Kinect hacks have been captured on video, making a nice thematic pairing. First, Razorfish's DaVinci software has been ported to Kinect, allowing users to draw onscreen by making gestures, and then interact with those drawn objects Crayon Physics-style.

Second, researchers at UC Berkeley's Hybrid Systems lab mounted a Kinect on an autonomous quadracopter, allowing the machine to sense its surroundings in 3D. You know who else invented a crazy helicopter thing? That's right -- Da Vinci! We told you there was a theme.

Check out both videos after the break, and ponder the question: if Kinect can now fly around on its own, why would it want to stay home and play MotionSports with you?

Bring the fight back.

Special digital collection coming this Holiday.

Coming from the Gaijin Games Twitter… Thanks to NintenDaan for the heads up!

Harvesting the Same Ol' Ideas

Whereas previous media has focused on the whole "Hey, check out our '40s L.A. setting" thing, the latest screens of Team Bondi's L.A. Noire highlight the "investigation" aspect of the game. As a detective, you have to scour crime scenes, talk to witnesses, interrogate suspects, and do actual detective work in order to solve cases.

Of course, given the historical setting, we suspect a lot of the investigation time will involve you desperately wishing for a time machine so you could just perform a DNA analysis or check a fingerprint database. L.A. Noire is decidedly pre-CSI.

#pc For some video gamers, December 7, 2010 is the world-stopping release day for the next World of Warcraft. There's another mammoth computer game coming out that day, a sequel you may not have thought you needed: Bejeweled 3. More »

#poll World of Warcraft's Cataclysm goes down early tomorrow morning, unleashing the ferocious Worgen and inventive Goblins upon Azeroth as playable races. I'll have to play both races, but the classes I pick are up to you guys. More »