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Wait... I'm so confused. Is this a 2.5D remake of Mega Man 1 with other Capcom influences or something...? What? Reminds me of that PSP Mega Man remake with the big head, Mega Man Powered Up. Weird. I need more information! How could you play as Ryu? Hadukens instead of the mega buster?

The songs that have been stuck in your head for the last few weeks since Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game was released, can now be stuck in your iPod.  Bleep-bloop your way on over to Amazon where you can now pick up Anamanaguchi's complete chip-tune soundtrack from the game.

Perfect for getting it together, defeating evil exes, and surviving a zombie onslaught.

It's clear from the outset that developer 2k Czech** wanted to make this a "cinematic" game. The first 15 minutes of the game is almost entirely pre-rendered movies. They spend a great deal of time talking about your (Vito's) life as a child immigrant, your father's  alcoholism and dirty dealings, your views on the wealth disparity within the city, etc. It certainly does a good job of drawing you into the world and the characters, but there is one huge problem: This is a game, not a movie.

Back in the days of Grand Theft Auto 3 (the original), your character didn't even talk. He just nodded when people told him to do horrific and sociopathic things. In a way, this was a smart move because there was no context to dispute the man's character. Maybe he just was a sociopath.

Young Vito,...

Atari and Cryptic Studios recently announced that they are currently working on a new MMORPG called Neverwinter, based on the Dungeons and Dragons based Neverwinter Nights games. However unlike earlier games, this new MMO will be based upon the new Forgotten Realms; the 4^th Edition D&D Forgotten Realms. If you are unfamiliar with the 4^th edition version of Forgotten Realms, it’s the one that gutted the setting and threw away everything that made it interesting.

(Warning, the following will be me bitching about this and far more D&D info than any sane person really needs to know. Short story, it is due Q4 2011 and no one responsible for making Neverwinter Nights 1 or 2 is even scarcely involved on the development side.)

This version of Neverwinter is based roughly 100 years after the events in earlier games. Basically, Mystra the goddess of magic was assassinated by...

First, they licensed "Droid."  Now, they've gone all in and licensed R2-efffin'-D2!

That's right folks, a new limited edition R2-D2-themed Droid is dropping from Motorola on September 30th.  A white base, with a full R2 back, and a standard Droid 2 running Android 2.2 under the hood.

If you didn't have enough reason to buy a Droid, you sure do now.  Get news as soon as it breaks at Verizon's official site.

The darkness fades and my vision begins to clear. As the echoes of Ron Pearlman’s voice fade from my ears, the first things I see are my bound wrists, followed by the open grave that spoils the dessert earth. Before me stands a man who could easily blend into any image of the Rat Pack. His black and white checkered jacket makes him stand out from the 2 bandit thugs on either side of him. As they argue back and forth, he stops them, telling them that unlike a convict, a real man looks someone in the eyes when he kills him. This man, Benny voiced by Matthew Perry, apologizes for having to kill me and informs me that it’s not that I’m unlucky, but that I was set up from the start. As he says this he pulls a silver-white poker chip from his pocket while leveling the pistol. Then he shoot’s me in the head and darkness engulfs me once again.

At QuakeCon 2010 the event that I was anticipating more than anything else was the opportunity to get my hands on...

To unlock Zombie Survival Mode in this summer's hottest side scroller beat-em-up, hit down, up, right, down, up right, down, up, right, right, right from the start menu.

You'll be prompted to choose a character and difficulty, though the difficulty is largely dependent on how you've built up your character's stats and their level. I wouldn't recommend going into it without working on your stats first.

You'll be placed in an online leaderboard based on your KOs and survival time. I had 74 KOs in approximately 5 minutes on my first try on Easy with a level 16 Scott. At the time of this post, the top ranking had over 850 KOs within about a half an hour. There's a lot of fun to be had here, even if you've already completed the game.

In a pair of articles over at USA Today Gamehunters, Mike Snider revealed today the names of some of the primo voice acting talent that we can expect to hear in Fallout: New Vegas. Topping the list is Wayne frikking Newton. Yep, Mr. Las Vegas himself will be providing the voice for a centuries old computer DJ. From the sound of it, Mr. Newton may be replacing Fallout 3’s DJ Three Dog, and let me just say, good riddance.

Some of the other voice actors (and their characters) include: 

Matthew Perry (Friends) lends his voice to the character Benny, the head of the Geckos crime family, and a bit of a weasel. 

Zachary Levi (Chuck) will be voicing a playable character named Arcade. A member of the Followers of the Apocalypse (the crazy-ass cult that...

EA announced recently that the next big Sims game (that isn’t technically an expansion) will put players in control of their own medieval fantasy kingdom, and all the dirty, plague ridden, little quasi-European peasants they could ever hope for. EA’s announcement hints that rather than being either a lone sequel or spin-off, The Sims Medieval may be part of an entirely new Sims series. The Sims Medieval is expected to hit the shelves sometime next year unless it happens to get delayed for some reason. But that shouldn’t be a problem, as what are the chances that the release date on an EA game could get pushed back due to delays?

According to EA, Sims Medieval will give players the opportunity to create heroes, ride off on quests, build up and control the destiny of a kingdom, and control every sim in the land. Players will be able to control sim kings, queens, knights, wizards, blacksmiths and bards. The various quests available...