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#rumor GameFly has listed NBA Jam's PS3 and 360 version for release Nov. 18 and while that's most likely a placeholder date, the fact a rental service listing the game indicates it will be a retail disc release, not a download. More »

#rentals Redbox, the kiosk rental service offering DVDs at grocery stores, drugstores, convenience stores and store stores, will expand its pilot offering of video game rentals to locations nationwide. More »

#dlc A trio of Rocky Horror Picture Show tracks are coming to Guitar Hero later this month, giving us an excellent opportunity to post a picture of Tim Curry in lingerie. More »

#nintendo It's always fun seeing random Chinese hardware manufacturers with a sense of humour. Case in point: this hard drive case, shaped to look just like a Nintendo Wii. More »

#clips This never before seen, by me, trailer for Super Meat Boy is a take on the 80s-style video game commercials we really should see more of these days. More »

#nintendo You know Mario. Everyone knows Mario. Perhaps you even knew him once as Jumpman, the hero of Donkey Kong, before he was properly named. Maybe you even knew him as Mr. Video. But Mario was once known by another name. More »

#panasonic Panasonic's new portable online games machine, The Jungle, is out of the bag and now 100% official. What's the company line on the handheld designed exclusively for online gaming and MMORPGs? More »

#rockstar At first I was scared that Rockstar adding zombies to Red Dead Redemption would come off as silly. After seeing the first four screens for the Undead Nightmare downloadable content, I'm just scared. More »

#capcom Osaka-based studio Capcom is already working on Super Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil for the Nintendo 3DS. That's not all. More »

#lucasarts LucasArts has revealed a somewhat unexpected addition to the cast of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, the star of comedic adventure game series Monkey Island. Either some cloning procedure has gone horribly wrong or Guybrush really is that mighty. More »

#hideokojima Hideo Kojima, the creator of Metal Gear, may not be best known for his subtlety. But rarely have we heard the man behind Solid Snake get as exceedingly enthusiastic as he does when describing Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. More »

#mods "Household Holes" is the Internet's foremost journal of research into the means of kit-bashing, jury-rigging and misappropriating everyday items for, uh, pleasurable insertion. Don't ask me why I know this, I just read it for the articles. More »

#screengrab What happened to Kirby, indeed. I'd say that thing is an epic yard. Seen in an email Nintendo sent to gamers this morning. Thanks to reader Christian C. More »

#free Electronic Arts and Yum! Brands are thick as thieves. Last year we had some kind of Kentucky Madden Super Fried Smack Pack meal; this year, sibling fastfood hut Taco Bell is handing out free discs for the Sims' Wii franchise. More »

Wayforward Technologies' gorgeous looking platformer Shantae's Risky Revenge will dance its way to Nintendo's DSiWare download service on October 4, according to the dev's official newsletter. Ready the Nintendo Points! More »

#nintendods Cave Story, the delightful shooter-platformer released via WiiWare early this year, looks like it will hit another Nintendo platform soon. The new issue of Nintendo Power lists Cave Story for DSiWare in its new game index. More »

#pokemon That short, blurry, fan-made trailer for a live-action Pokémon movie didn't do the thing justice. So let's watch the thing, in full, in its original form. More »

#gameface New York Jets center Nick Mangold on the edge of his seat during a Halo: Reach event at the Jets' training facility earlier this month. More »

#activision If Activision stripped all of the cutscenes from StarCraft II, pasted them together into one big movie and charged between 20 to 30 dollars for you to buy it, would you pay? Activision's Bobby Kotick thinks you would. More »

Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales and marketing, is leaving not just Nintendo but the game industry effective Oct. 1, a month shy of her third anniversary with the company, according to Nintendo. More »

#haloreach If you have the drive space, you may want to consider installing Halo: Reach to your Xbox 360, as loading some game types can go nearly two to three times as quickly. More »

#northamerica What's not to like in this week's North American PlayStation Store update? Maybe that there are too many things to download? Or that you don't have a PlayStation Move to enjoy a handful of new Move-only demos? More »

#cosplay We've seen our share of Team Rocket cosplay from hardcore Pokemon fans, but never anything quite this good, with every hair on Jessie's head in its right place, every Pokeball expertly polished. More »

#pullquote A "former senior employee" of Farmville devs Zynga recounts a meeting he once had with the company's boss. Via SFWeekly. More »

#clips At the Penny Arcade Expo out here in Seattle, Valve Software is showing some Portal 2 co-op in action. I got to see four basic levels from what appeared to be the start of the co-op campaign. Introducing: the ping. More »

#what Telltale Games' tease that featured a cryptic crossover between Homestar Runner, Penny Arcade, Sam & Max and Team Fortress 2 turns out to be the developer's latest gambling game, Poker Night at The Inventory. Yeah. More »

Mega Man Universe, which will be making an appearance at this weekend's PAX, looks pretty great. More »

#wii I can tell you, they're not for the pursuit of medical science. More »

#callofduty We'll be playing Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer for the first time tonight at an Activision event in Los Angeles, a shindig expected to be filled with announcements, excitement and plenty of hands-on time with Treyarch's new shooter. More »