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'Major League Baseball 2K10' (ALL) One Million Dollar Contest

by Rainier on Jan. 28, 2010 @ 9:39 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Major League Baseball 2K10 is the new iteration in the long running baseball series, now 2009 American League Gold Glove and Silver Slugger Award recipient Evan Longoria of the Tampa Bay Rays on the cover.

'Space Ark' (XBLA) Gets Delayed - New Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Jan. 28, 2010 @ 9:32 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Space Ark is a fun homage to the bright and bouncy arcade games of the late 80s such as Rainbow Island and Arkanoid, with an added mix of Pinball. Originally scheduled for Q4 2009, Space Ark is now slated for spring 2010.

Good Old Games Adds Classic Activision Titles

by Rainier on Jan. 28, 2010 @ 9:27 a.m. PST | Filed under News

GOG.com has signed a digital distribution agreement with Activision, expanding its catalog with a slew of classic titles, starting with Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, while more titles will be unveiled gradually in the coming weeks, DRM-free of course.

'Guitar Hero 5' (ALL) And 'Band Hero' (ALL) February DLCs Revealed

by Rainier on Jan. 28, 2010 @ 8:24 a.m. PST | Filed under News

For the first time ever, you can customize the makeup of your band with any combination of instruments in-game: two guitars and two drums, or three guitars and a microphone, etc. while also adding new gameplay mode. For the first time in a music video game, master tracks from heavy metal band Black Sabbath are hitting center stage, in addition to 30 Seconds To Mars, Breaking Benjamin and Third Eye Blind

'Save the Turtles' (NDS) Announced - Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 28, 2010 @ 8:20 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Save the Turtles allows puzzle solvers to act as good humanitarians by aiding the endangered sea turtles as they burst from their shells and make the life or death break for the deep ocean’s safe blue waters. 

Thursday, January 28, 2010 Shipping Announcements

by Rainier on Jan. 28, 2010 @ 8:13 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:


We will update this throughout the day when new announcements become available. Read more for details ...

'Brain Cadets' (Wii) Announced

by Rainier on Jan. 28, 2010 @ 8:01 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Brain Cadets challenges gamers to complete a number of tests under the watchful eye of the toughest Drill Sergeant around, in the race to progress from lowly Private up to the prestigious roll of Field Marshall.

'Art of Murder: Cards of Destiny' German Demo Available NOW

by Rainier on Jan. 28, 2010 @ 12:14 a.m. PST | Filed under Demo

Young FBI agent Nicole Bonnet receives a mysterious package. Inside she finds a complicated logical puzzle that appears to be a message from a serial killer. This is just the beginning of an epic duel of minds between Nicole and the ruthless murderer, who leaves playing cards by the bodies of his victims as signature.

Unless You Came In Here To Wipe My Ass, I Believe We're Through

by Rainier on Jan. 28, 2010 @ 12:00 a.m. PST | Filed under MOTD

At some point last night, I was working on my message of the day, and while I thought about what to write, I fell asleep. That does sound weird on its own, and you're probably thinking, "Maybe you should get that checked out," but there's a very good reason for it.

You see, every Wednesday, we have homemade tacos for dinner, and we've done so for the past 10 years. It's not that we are creatures of habit, but they are so good that we made a regular thing out of it. We bragged about this to some of our friends, and they decided to join us in the festivities last night. Three bottles of wine later, we were all pretty saturated. The key to this story is that wine makes me sleepy, so the end result is that I dozed off in mid-thought.

'Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy' - New Screens

by Rainier on Jan. 27, 2010 @ 7:52 p.m. PST | Filed under News

Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy, the new micro-expansion pack will vastly increase the amount of diplomatic options available to players in the game and help make forging good relations with other empires a major option for would-be galactic conquerors.