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Los Angeles' trendy video game art house iam8bit is hosting a one-night event for PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, with the final release code playable for the first time in public. The event is dubbed the LA Beatdown, and it takes place on Wednesday, October 24 from 7 p.m. - 11 p.m. at this location.

LA Beatdown is completely free to enter and includes the following goodies: the game playable on a 25-foot widescreen; exclusive, one-time-print t-shirts and posters with art by Boneface for the first 500 attendees (check out the design above); a museum-style exhibit featuring characteristic items from each Battle Royale character; a photo stage with props from the game; and complimentary alcoholic beverages for those 21 and older. Vizzi food truck will be parked outside as well.

Entrance is first-come, first-serve, so if you're in the LA area start planning for a thumpin' hump day now.

#virtueslastreward I wrote a bit yesterday about Virtue's Last Reward, the fantastic adventure game that has been keeping me up every night for the past week and a half. More »

The glossy revamp of Sony's PlayStation Store has been delayed in several territories, including the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Sony Network Entertainment VP Eric Lempel says "an exceptional experience with the new store" must be certain before a new launch date is announced, and that means adjusting the overhaul in response to inconvenient issues that have bothered customers elsewhere.

The new storefront missed its launch date with the UK, but is already available in seemingly imperfect form in PAL territories like Turkey, Greece, Hungary and where can we get a panini right now?

Since this live-action ad is two minutes long, chances are you won't see it in full on your TV. Unless you've got your TV hooked up to your PC, in which case kudos. Either way, sit back and enjoy this NFS: Most Wanted TV commercial. It features 120 seconds of flashy looking cars, 52 seconds of Tonto, and 2 seconds of pixelated finger-giving. Also, who else hears that song and thinks of this?

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#senrankagura The boob ninjas are back. With Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus coming to the PS Vita next February, developer Marvelous AQL has released a new trailer as well as images and profiles for 5 of its jiggly new ninja girls. More »

Continuing its Day 1 Digital promotion, PSN has launch-day downloads of Doom 3: BFG Edition and 007 Legends available today. On top of that, all PS Vita users can hop into a PS All-Stars: Battle Royale beta. PS3 owners can get in on it too, but they'll need a PS Plus subscription.

Silent Hill: Book of Memories launches today for the PS Vita, and PS Plus members can add Payday: The Heist to their Instant Game Collection. There's also a large Halloween-themed sale discounting select spooky games and DLC, the complete list of which you can see over on the PlayStation Blog.

#dokuro Looks neat, doesn't it? This is Dokuro, a new puzzle-platformer by Game Arts (the Japanese dev behind games like Lunar). And it's out for Vita today. More »

PlayStation Plus members have the privilege of beating up Kratos tomorrow. A public beta of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is due to launch tomorrow on PS3, and it'll be opened up to everyone on October 23. All Vita users will have access to the beta tomorrow, Plus or not.

The beta limits character choices to Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Killzone guy, Sly Cooper, Parappa, and Fat Princess, and allows four-player tournaments in the Metropolis and Hades stages.

Make good use of that license to kill this week with 007 Legends...

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#theweekingames Just 007 Legends from Activision represents the big console release in an unexpected lull in the fall release cycle. Serious Sam 3: BFE arrives on Wednesday for the Xbox 360. More »

Capcom Producer Tomoaki Ayano recapped announcements from New York Comic Con, including "cross-link" features for Street Fighter X Tekken in a Capcom Unity blog. The feature allows players to use their PlayStation Vita consoles as controllers for the PS3 version of the game.

Ayano also noted an October 30 release date for alternate costumes for Street Fighter X Tekken and a mid-December release window for the next "hefty" game update. The update will include character balance fixes, such as tweaked anti-air abilities for Tekken characters, in addition to several visual effects changes.

PomPom Games (the folks behind Mutant Storm Reloaded, among a few other shooters) has released a brand new game on PlayStation Mobile-compatible devices called Rebel, and as the developer says, the game came from an interesting plan to try and make a shooter ... without shooting. The result has the player running around an island in between slower enemy bullets, trying to aim those bullets at other bad guys, all the while collecting gems and power-ups.

Sounds fun. There are multiple levels and game modes to unlock as you play the game, which you can open up by collecting more and more gems. Rebel is available right now on any PlayStation Mobile device (including the PS Vita) for $1.99.

The PSN store is about to get an overhaul next week and Sony's announced some planned PSN maintenance prior to the relaunch. This Monday, October 15, from 4am PT/7am ET until 4pm PT/7am ET, PSN will experience some downtime.

If you've logged into PSN over the past few days or make some time to do so this weekend, you shouldn't be affected. That's not to say you'll have access to all of PSN, though - during the downtime, the PSN Store, PlayStation Home and Account Management sections of PSN will be unavailable.

It'd be impossible to sit down and write out everything that you love about everything. It'd be a pursuit of madness. Why would you do it? Just to have some kind of time capsule for all of your cherished memories?

But what if you did it within the confines of a video game? It would be an even madder pursuit, for sure, but that's exactly what Retro City Rampage is. It's a love letter to all of developer Brian Provinciano's favorite things within the borders of an 8-bit open-world crime game - a game, I might add, that is so beautiful in its simplicity and hilarious in its execution that it has become one of my favorite games of all time.

#persona Have I mentioned that I'm excited about Persona 4 Golden? Honestly, it's the one reason I'm thrilled to have a Vita, and one of the games I'm most looking forward to this fall. And would you look at that? Atlus has dropped a ton of new videos of the game on their YouTube channel. More »

#retrocityrampage Kotaku video editor Chris Person and I are really into Retro City Rampage, which is a parody of just about... every game we played as kids. More »

#psvita Jin Air, a subsidiary of Korean Air, is back with Sony handhelds it wants to rent domestic travelers. Units are available to rent out of Incheon Airport and expect more details about available titles. More »

Retro City Rampage, Vblank Entertainment's insanely in-depth 8-bit parody of classic open-world action tropes, is out now for PC, PS3 and Vita. We mentioned this was happening yesterday with the game's lovely launch trailer, which we've refrained from embedding above to give you more time to just go out and buy Retro City Rampage already.

Retro City Rampage is available for PC via Steam, GOG and its official site, and is on PS3 and Vita through PSN and the PS Store, regularly priced at $15. It's 10 percent off on Steam through October 16 ($13.50). Go get some.

#djmax The Korean-made DJMax games are some of the most popular in the PSP's library—in addition to being some of the best music games ever made. Now, with DJMax Technika Tune, it's coming to the Vita as well. More »

Check out the Mechromancer gameplay where they wreak havoc on the Highlands.

Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation may be a prequel to Assassin's Creed 3, but that doesn't mean Aveline can't mingle for a bit of cross-game chit-chat and co-operative stabbing with Connor. Because that's a thing that happens.

#showus Retro City Rampage will be out tomorrow for PlayStation Vita, PS3, Steam and GoG. We already told you that. But what we can't possibly do on our own is identify every gaming in-joke packed into this amazing launch trailer. More »

#orgarhythm Believe it or not, the PlayStation Vita has been quietly picking up steam this fall. Two new Vita games from Japan with weird premises and even weirder titles—Dokuro and Orgarhythm—are coming to the U.S. within the next couple of weeks. More »

Defend humanity against the alien invasion with XCOM: Enemy Unknown...

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What does it look like when one man devotes most of a decade to a single game? We'll find out tomorrow when Retro City Rampage launches on PC, PS3, and Vita.

#retrocityrampage It is now official: October 9, 2012 is the new May 15, 2012. May 15 was the day we got Max Payne 3 and Diablo III. October 9? The world will receive Dishonored and X-COM: Enemy Unknown, both of which are incredible (see? see?). AND there will be a new episode of the acclaimed Walking Dead game. More »

#theweekingames We use the phrase "highly anticipated" a lot, but it plainly defines both Dishonored, from Arkane Studios, and Firaxis' treatment of beloved strategy title XCOM: Enemy Unknown, both of which arrive on Tuesday. More »

With the tail end of baseball season in full swing, Sony dropped the price on MLB 12: The Show to $29.99 for PS3 and $19.99 for Vita. Baseball fans that aren't ready to call it quits can take advantage of the game's cross-platform features at a combined $50, less than the PS3 version launched at in March.

Sony's San Diego studio also teamed up with ESPN to simulate this year's MLB playoffs in MLB 12: The Show, and has the Washington Nationals facing the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. The Orioles haven't been in the world championship since 1983, and the Nationals haven't appeared in the World Series at all. Those hoping for an interesting end to the MLB playoffs should keep their fingers crossed for Sony's simulation to come true.