• Oh man nearly 20 minutes of Brutal Legend footage with walthrough by Tim Schafer.

• Universal bought the rights to make an Asteroids movie.  Asteroids.  I can't even think of something to say about that.  Really?  Asteroids?

• A DLC pack is available for Battlestations Pacific today for 160msp/$2, and a larger one is coming on July 23rd for 800msp/$10.

• Battlefield 1943 is being released next week on XBL and PSN for 1200msp/$15.

• Capcom put up a teaser site for Sengoku Basara 3, which will likely never reach western shores.

• Suda 51 says that any future No More Heroes games won't be on the Wii.

• The Dragon Ball license has left Atari and returned to Namco-Bandai, signaling the final deathblow against Atari.

• Apparently there's some hilarious SEC drama with Phantom Entertainment.

• Some sort of Left 4 Dead DLC announcement will be made by the end of the summer.

• Grandmaster Flash is one of the DJs in the upcoming DJ Hero, and two of his mixes were announced: Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" vs N.E.R.D.'s "Lapdance" and his own "Here Comes My DJ" vs Gary Numan's "Cars".

• Next week's Rock Band DLC is a 3-pack of terrible Green Day songs and an 8-pack of Mayhem Fest metal songs, none of which will actually be fun to play.

• Good Old Games update: Crystals of Arborea, Ishar III were added to the Ishar compilation (you can get all 4 games for $5.99!) and Personal Nightmare is now available for $5.99.

• Fallout 3 is 50% off this weekend on Steam.  There's also a bigass 2K games pack for a nice price.

• The terrible indie FPS Merchants of Brooklyn was renamed Drug Wars, possibly to disassociate itself from the dozens of terrible reviews.

• Piranha Bytes' upcoming game Risen will be released in October after some extensive bug testing, hopefully avoiding the same buggy fate Gothic 3 ended up in.

• Apparently the next Zelda game won't be "radically different" from the previous ones.  Somehow I don't expect Nintendo to ever make any changes to their franchises.

• A Home survey asks players what they want so that people will actually visit the game.  Some of the features mentioned (stand up comedy?) are discussed in this article.

• The PSP Go's processor is a little bit faster than the original PSP's, though its unknown what it'll actually be used for.

• Indie darling Fez is coming to XBLA next year, hooray!  More than 5 people will have played the game!

• Go buy Jonathan Coulton's new CD/DVD.  At least download it.  Pay money if you feel like it so he keeps making more awesome stuff.

• The hilariously awful boxart for Dead Space: Extraction was revealed, prompting Joystiq to photoshop the screaming face into the picture for every article today.

• The Chinese "ban on gold farming" is not so much a ban on gold farming as it is banning using in-game currency to buy real items or gamble. That's kind of the inverse of the gold farming problem.

• GameIndustry has an interview with Sega Europe's managing director Gary Dunn.  He really likes the new motion controllers.

• Woo hoo! If you live in Europe, DJ Hero costs about $50 more than in America, coming in at £108.

• Eidos's president says that everyone should bring their 'A' game or expect commercial failure.

• Though not exactly gaming news, The Pirate Bay was bought out and will be transformed into a more legal P2P service somehow.  Isn't everyone even halfway intelligent on private trackers now anyway?

• New registered "Hero" titles, but these ones are registered by the Fitness Company and are titled things like Fitness Hero.

• Fun Fact: Suda51 really REALLY likes Burnout Paradise.

• Rumor-town: There was a Wii version planned for Brutal Legend, but it's been scrapped.

• Ether Saga, a super adorable and incredibly generic Asian MMO, is now online and free to play.

• Blizzard has been filing a number of trademarks for the word "Cataclysm", which looks to be some kind of code name for Battle.NET 2.

• Blizzard also thinks that one should build games for the hardcore gamer, as accessibility can be added later in the design process.

• ...and as expected a SERIOUS ONLINE PETITION demanding that LAN play be added in Starcraft 2 has been started.

• The tech trees for Starcraft 2 have been released.

• AlienWare is now offering a very slick looking "gamer monitor".

• Someone already hacked together a PS1 emulator for the Palm Pre.

• The top ten most played games on the Wii up to now. I'm actually kind of surprised to see two Harvest Moon titles on there (Rune Factory is Harvest Moon don't try to trick me).

• A new Final Fantasy game is coming to the DS, sounds awfully familiar to FF1 except with teenagers.

• Another Uncharted 2 multiplayer demo is in development.

• Here's a list of Capcom PS1 and PSP games that will soon be out for download on the PSN.

• If your Xbox red-ringed with the E74 error, you should have received a refund check in the mail by now f you were previously charged for it.

• A slew of information came out today about the case of private patent holders vs Microsoft over who invented Xbox Live.

• The super kid-friendly game making software Kodu is now available on Xbox Live.

• The awesome strategy game Band of Bugs is getting avatar support and a new expansion priced at 240msp/$3.

• A truck in Canada was raided of 1,300 Xbox 360s.

• The top 30 game franchises of 2008 have been tallied up by Wedbush Morgan.

• The entire development team at Blue Omega, developers of Damnation, have been laid off. This could be directly related to the fact that I have never heard of Damnation. (ed 2 note: it was a really mediocre FPS)

• Red Faction Guerrilla is getting 3 DLC packs, the first of which is titled "Badlands" and will be released in August for $10/800msp.

• Kotaku has a preview of My Sims Agents.

• NBA 2K10 is getting a hugeass "limited edition" that comes in a giant locker that can hold 20 gmaes.

• Konami's Vandal Hearts, the upcoming downloadable strategy RPG sequel, seems to have slipped from its September release date to a "Winter 2009" release.

• Acclaim is giving their MMO SpellBorn a complete redevelopment.

• Here's a pretty neat monster size comparison chart for the newest Monster Hunter game.

• The Issue 15 update is out for City of Heroes. It's primarily a cosmetic update but also updates the mission creator.  Wait for the upcoming expansion in a couple months for a real update.

• The team behind Painkiller: Overdose is working on another game on the engine titled Dreamkiller.  Expect shooting waves and waves of enemies and smiling the entire time.

• Battlefield Heroes has two Michael Jackson themed outfits available now for free.

• The vile tasting Mana Potions is doing a cross promotion with the MMO Lunia.

• Sega talks about how much they like mature rated games on the Wii.

• Engadget has a hands on with MotionPlus and the current games available for it.

• Renegade Kid, the guys behind Dementium and Moon, is working on a DS platformer titled Maximillian and the Rise of the Mutant Mudds.

• According to some kind of Taiwanese hardware site, Sony has signed contracts with two hardware manufacturers to produce the PS3 slim for delivery within the next month.

• The PlaystationNetwork was down for most of the day today for maintenance.

• Last.fm will be free to Live Gold members, whereas Silver members can only use it for 3 hours per month.

• Oh good, a direct sequel to Gears of War 2 has come out as a trashy paperback novel. Barf.

• The former VP of THQ is now the VP of MTV Games.

• Here's a neat 7 minute documentary on the making of Earthworm Jim.

• Serious Sam is being remade in HD for XBLA and the PC.  The XBLA version will also support 4 player local and online co-op, howbout that?

• Apparently laying off a ton of people and throwing millions more dollars at videogames make them good?  Works for THQ!

• If you care about the new Kingdom Hearts game here's an interview that might be interesting?

• Sega comments on the death of Micheal Jackson, though I feel like it'd be more appropriate if they didn't. Moonwalker really wasn't a shining moment for Jackson's history.

• Gamasutra has an interview with the president of EA Games.

• The system designer from Mass Effect 2 is interviewed in a vaguely rude way.

• Followed by the lead designer from Mass Effect 2 claiming there will be no new game + in ME2, so the continuation into ME3 would be smoother.

• Trine will be available on the PC for $30, but will only be $20 on PSN.

• This interview mentions that Overlord 2 DLC should be announced soon.

• Konami trademarked a new Suikoden game, lets see if anything comes of it.

• A new FF11 mini-expansion will be available for preorder on July 5th.

• And we have our annual Dreamcast game release.  Move along, nothing to see here.

• Rock Band gets a 3 pack of Foreigner songs and another Warped Tour pack for DLC this week.  Regular prices and all that.

• You'll one day be able to switch factions in World of Warcraft for an "equivalent" character.

• Blizzard says they're planning to have a 4 to 6 month public beta for Starcraft 2.  Also there won't be LAN play in Starcraft 2, what the shit?

• More expansions have been announced for both Everquest 1 and 2.

• Gold farming has been banned by China, will continue normally as if nothing happened.

• Rolando, which was previously going to be completely removed from the iTunes App Store before Rolando 2, will remain available due to enough outcry about it.

• Carmack loves the iPhone, and says that most Id games will come out for it eventually in one form or another.  Doom Resurrection is out, anyone played it yet?

• DSiWare: Sudoku Master for 500pts/$5

• WiiWare: Water Warfare for 800pts/$8, Reel Fishing Challenge for 500pts/$5, and Silver Star Reversi for 500pts/$5

• Virtual Console: Fantasy Zone II (Master System) for 500pts/$5

• This week's Rock Band tracks for the Wii include Pearl Jam, Deep Purple, Mission of Burma, and a handful of other tracks.

• Sony's master plan for exclusives on the PS3 is apparently not working very well.

• Hulu has begun to specifically block any users trying to view videos from the PS3's browser.

• Sony patented some sort of software based PS2 emulation.

• This week's Live Arcade games are Worms 2 and  King of Fighters '98 for 800msp/$10 a pop.

• This week's Live Deal of the Week is Fable 2's Knothole Island for 560msp/$7, down 30% from the regular price.

• There's some kind of silly 360 beta something or other that's floating around right now, that apparently features licensed avatar clothing.

• Here's more weird evidence that an avatar-based beta is happening.

• The list of achievements for Arkham Asylum has been released.

• A "big announcement" about 1 vs 100 is coming next week.

• Halo Reach may use Project Natal.  A flagship game would really boost sales.

• Hey our maybe one French reader!  Microsoft is teaming up with Canal+ to let you stream video to your 360!

• An article about the PEGI ratings board in Europe mentions that a recipe for making crystal meth is somewhere in GTAIV. Really?

• EA is considering the Sims 3 leak and subsequent rampant piracy as a large-scale demo program.

• A consumer survey may have leaked a few details about Command and Conquer 4.

• Bioware's PR team mentioned something about new Mass Effect DLC on their Twitter.

• THQ is opening a new enormous office in Austin, TX.

• Here's the weekly NPD numbers for the PC sales charts, but the really important part is that the NPD will no longer be keeping track of PC sales numbers.

• A ridiculous sort of controller is coming out for the iPhone. Are any games going to support this at all?

• Action Half Life 2 is out after 80 million years in development. Next up: Black Mesa Source. Maybe.

• A C64 emulation app was rejected from the iTunes store.

• Here's some photos of different colored Wiis in the wild.

• If you want to see the inside of your DSi, here's a crystal clear shell replacement you can order.

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• Here's Microsoft official and hilarious list of things you cannot do with Avatars if you're making a game.

• Miyamoto was voted the hero of most game developers with John Carmack in second place.

• Dio has been replaced by Tim Curry in Brutal Legend because, according to Schafer, the character grew to fit Curry better.

• Some details about Max Payne 3: Hobo Revenge have been revealed by Game Informer.  New voice actor, cover system, and multiplayer are some of the new stuff.

• Criterion says that people who claim to have "maxed out" consoles are wrong.

• The guy who bought the gold Nintendo World Championship cartridge off of eBay for $15,000 is trying to resell it for $25,000.

• UbiSoft's boss Guillemot says that games cost $60m to make.

• Gearbox is still working on Aliens: Colonial Marines but it won't be out until next year.

• Konami will be making some Metal Gear announcements... um, soon?

• Bionic Commando sold less than 27,000 units its first month. I don't know whether to feel sad or just not care because the game is so mediocre.

• Brutal Legend fans in England have set the new world record for mass air guitaring.

• The track list for the Rock Band Country Track Pack has been released.

• Some guy made this old Atari cartridge into a wallet.

• Valve is releasing the source files for most of TF2's original maps for fast and easy editing.

• Thanks internet for this naked Zoey mod for L4D.

• You will now be able to get a mount in WoW at level 20.

• New Downloadable Content
• WiiWare:  Eduardo the Samurai Toaster for 800pts/$8, Rainbow Islands for 800pts/$8, and Let's Catch for 1000pts/$10
• Virtual Console: Space Harrier (Genesis) for 800pts/$8
• DSiWare: A goddamn Mario Clock and Mario Calculator for 200pts/$2 a piece.  C'mon.  The press release tries so hard to make this sound interesting.

• There's going to be a DS version of the new Aliens shooter that's coming out next year. Why?

• Mario Galaxy 2 is going to have very little story. Mario games aren't exactly known for their amazing epic tales so I'm not too worried.

• The next Zelda will require Wii MotionPlus, which isn't entirely surprising.

• A black Wii is going on sale in Japan soon.

• Japanese Club Nintendo members have a shot at winning a shiny blue Wiimote and Nunchuck combo. Damn you people and your fancy colored consoles.

• Looks like a new Tingle game is in development that the US will never see.

• Prisoners had to have their PS3s taken away after they were found using them to connect to wifi to chat with outsiders.

• Final Fantasy Tactics has been rerated by the ESRB for the PSN.

• Production of LittleBigPlanet action figures has been canceled. Noo. :(

• You can now play in bikinis in Metal Gear Online.

• The PSP Go battery should last about as long as the old ones that used UMDs, and probably less than playing games off of the memory cards on the old one.

• Rumor: Destructoid thinks that Sony will announce an App Store for the PSP, where you an buy and download smaller games.

• Oh no Xbox Live is down all day Tuesday HOW WILL I DOWNLOAD MY EVANESCENCE ROCK BAND DLC TRACKS!?

• This week's Live Arcade games are Sam and Max Season 1 for 1600msp/$20 and Magic the Gathering for 800msp/$10.

• Molyneux wants to give Rare an identity, praising that they have incredible employees there but can't find their niche.

• Here's the emergency Xbox Live killswitch.

• Kotaku blindly speculates that 1 vs 100 may become pay to play after the beta.  My guess is that the season pass automatically schedules each show rather than making you do it manually.

• Forza 3 will have a 24 hour Le Mans mode, God help me as I try to complete that.

• 1up blindly speculates that Natal is just a secret cover for the next Xbox or some crap. It's seriously stupid.

• Xbox Live Community Games is now known as Xbox Live Indie Games.

• May NPD is now available, number nerds!

• Joystiq has a nice roundup of all of the big trailers from E3.

• Edge subscribers got an absolutely amazing poster.

• Yes, Project Natal works with black people.  Just in case you didn't know.  Thanks N'Gai.

• Hey look, some details about Metal Gear Arcade.  3D glasses?  Online multiplayer?  Huh.

• A ton of 360/PS3 DLC hit today, including a free Saints Row 2 pack, the new Call of Duty:WaW map pack, Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island, and more!

• Green Day is coming exclusively to Rock Band, with a 3 pack of terrible songs from their awful new album coming on July 7th.  More songs are coming at a later date.

• Some Zeno Clash free DLC should be ready in a little over a month.

• John Carmack is totally gonna go tell Apple what's up with all these iPhone inefficiencies.

• Peggle is $1 on the iPhone for the next few days. Click this link and buy it now.  Do it.

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Games and Demos

• Bomberman ULTRA ($9.99)
• Bomberman ULTRA demo
• Heavy Weapon ($9.99)
• Heavy Weapon demo
• Gunstar Heroes ($4.99)
• Medal of Honor (PS one Classic) ($5.99)
• Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 for PSP ($22.99)

Expansions & Add-ons

• Killzone 2 Flash & Thunder Map Pack ($5.99)
• Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island ($12.99)
• The Last Guy Add-on ($1.99)
• LittleBigPlanet ICO Costume Pack ($5.99)
• Sony Unleashed Empire City & Adabat Adventure Pack ($2.99)
• Call of Duty: World At War Map Pack 2 ($9.99)
• Tom Clancy's HAWX Supremacy Pack ($9.99)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Spyglass Hill Golf Course ($7.50)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Course Pass ($2.25)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Apparel (x16) ($1.50 - $2.25)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Equipment (x16) ($1.50 - $2.25)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Intermediate, Advanced and Expert Clubs (Drivers, Woods, Irons, Wedges and Putters) (x15) ($1.50 - $1.99)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 10 Max Stats Costumes ($3.75)
• Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 Packs 7, 8 ,9 and 10 (free)
• Saints Row 2: The Unkut Pack (free)
• MotorStorm Pacific Rift Atlas Signature Livery Pack (free)

Guitar Hero World Tour tracks

• European Track Pack 06 ($5.49) - "The Bitter End" by Placebo, "Cadillac Solitario (Live)" by Loquillo y Trogloditas and "Adrenalina" by Finley

Rock Band tracks

• Iron Maiden Pack 01 ($19.99) - "Aces High (Live)," "2 Minutes to Midnight," "Run to the Hills (Original Version)," "Number of the Beast (Original Version)," "The Trooper," "Can I Play with Madness," "The Clairvoyant," "Wasted Years," "Hallowed Be Thy Name (Live)," "Powerslave," "Fear of the Dark (Live)," and "Iron Maiden (Live)" by Iron Maiden.

Rock Band Unplugged tracks

• "Constant Motion" by Dream Theater ($1.99)
• "Sex Type Thing" by Stone Temple Pilots ($1.99)

• Warriors Orochi Z isn't coming to the US on the PS3. However, Warriors Orochi 2 on the PSP is actually a port of Z and will be released in the US, don't tell anybody!

• The "majority" of back catalog games will be released on PSN when the PSP Go launches.

• Sucker Punch explains why they maintain PS3 exclusivity.

• Sam and Max Season 1 is coming next week to XBLA for 1600pts/$20.  I guess Rocket Riot is coming out too!

• Xbox Live is going to be down all next Tuesday.  Don't panic.

• A whole bunch of Sega Genesis games were released on XBLA for 400pts/$5.  Take that Virtual Console!

• This week's deal of the week is the Gears 2 Combustible map pack for 560pts/$7.

• The Halo ODST controller is a Gamestop exclusive, part of the super limited bundle that will clutter store shelves for months to come.

• Both Micheal Anthony and Sammy Hagar will be excluded from GH: Van Halen.

• A brief word with Tim Schafer doesn't really reveal any new details about Brutal Legend, but it does reveal that Tim is awesome.

• EA has confirmed that Battlefield 3 is in development.

• Bioshock 2 will feature deeper moral choices than kill a child or save a child. They could do literally anything and it would be deeper than that.

• Crystal Dynamics has fired another 25 people.

• Doom for the iPhone is due out next week.

• Valve claims they will be patching upgrades into Left 4 Dead 1 when Left 4 Dead 2 comes out.

• The ESRB is claiming they should be rating iPhone games. This really has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with the ESRB wanting more money.

• Reggie is really excited to have Team Ninja working on the next Metroid game.

• There is apparently a new PS3 bundle coming out, $499 for the console with MLB 09 and Quantum of Solace.

• It takes an analyst to figure out that $250 is too much for the new psp. Thanks you big ol' pack of geniuses.

• Activision's fix for Prototype not installing correctly is "mess around with the data on your hard drive". Thanks guys.

• The remake of Turtles in Time will be an XBLA exclusive for a limited time.

• Crackdown 2's page on Xbox.com revealed that the game has 4 player coop play. Yesssss.

• Gamestop is having a ridiculous blowout on all Guitar Hero and Rock Band bundles. Loving that GH2 on the ps2 is still $10 more than GH3 on the ps2.

• The first official screenshots of Final Fantasy XIV Online are out.

• The next Game Informer has a story on Max Payne 3.

• EA was looking into some kind of motion control system but it never came to fruition.

• Borderlands is due out for reals this October.

• The people who organize the Tokyo Game Show have announced that there will be a night entirely devoted to indie games. They're currently calling for game submissions.

• Oh no, piracy has crippled the Sims 3. They managed to sell only 1.4 million units in their first week.

• Logitech is coming out with a completely ridiculous $300 flight stick.

• Dungeons and Dragons Online is now completely free to play.

• Princess is in another castle

• LittleBigPlanet has completely awesome Shadow of the Colossus sackboys coming this Thursday.

• Ghostbusters for 360 is region free.