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Sensationalist headline is GO! While the headline up there is true I have actually twisted the words around a bit to make it seem even more shocking and appalling so as to grab your attention. However, this is simply anABC Newsstory about a Pediatric group warning us that overexposure to popular media is not good for children. The story is on two recent articles by the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Communications and the Media in the November issue ofPediatrics....

… wait, do people actually still playPhantasy Star Universe? Hmm, I thought that thing was a failure. Oh well, that didn’t stop Sega from developing and planning to release an expansion. Here are the details from the fresh press release: SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced that Phantasy Star™ Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus, will be available for download on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and in stores for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and PCs in Fall 2007....

Battlestar Galacticabeauty Tricia Helfer revealed on last night’sGameTrailers TVE3 special that she has a role inHalo: ODST. Tricia will be voicing a character named Dare in the upcoming game. Yup, that’s pretty much all the info Tricia revealed. We haven’t heard much aboutHalo: ODSTsinceTokyo Game Showand the biggest new bit of information is about the voice talent. Not sure about you, but the last thing I could care about in aHalogame is the voice talent....

We’ve been getting plenty of pre-E3 trailers around these parts. If you scroll down I think you might notice one or two of them. Most of them comprise of awesome action shots and stuff about the game. Most of them also make sense. This one that we received from Ubisoft does not — I don’t think. Maybe it does, maybe I’m missing something. Let’s run through it. Rabbid. Big eyes. Wires....

I recently sat down with Matt Findley, president of inXile Entertainment, to play and discuss the studio’s upcoming hack-and-slash action game,Hunted: The Demon’s Forge. “Fantasy’s the roots” of the title, he said, since it’s “what got me into this business twenty years ago.” Findley and inXile love fantasy games, “but the problem with fantasy right now is [that] there’s no action games,” he explained. That’s the void thatHuntedattempts to fill — it’s a cover-based third-person action game withGears of War’s trademark “stop-and-pop” shooting (of arrows instead of bullets, mind you) and a traditional fantasy aesthetic....

Back when Harmonix revealed the firstRock Band, we had a chance to go to its offices to check it out a few months before it was released. It looked great — the guitar formula that they had perfected, married with drums and vocals? Sign us up. But we had to ask while we were there — when the hell are we going to get a newAmplitude? Of course, they weren’t really ready to give specifics, but it seemed like a project they’d like to pursue again in the future....

These days, it seems like action and shooter genre games tend to star a generic hero or lead. They’re just faces and names, with some kind of special ability, power, or training. It seems that they begin to blur into one another, with one gun-toting brute looking like another. There has to be some kind of real hero out there that can take the role of lead in this type of game, right?...

Kotakuis currently posting gratuitous and diabolical upskirt panty pictures of Princess Peach fromSuper Smash Bros. Brawl. It’s a disgusting, common-denominator attempt to increase pageviews and provide wretched, misogynistic titillation for the grotesque virgins that frequent the Internet — and I want a slice of the pie! Jonathan Holmes:I wonder if Nick would go for it. With editor-in-chief Nick Chester on a plane and unable to fire me for at least a few hours, the time is ripe to indulge in Kotaku’s sordid and despicable chicanery....

Just a heads up to everyone who uses that dusty old physical DVD to stream Netflix moves to your television via your Wii: it’s not going to work for much longer. According to an email sent out to Netflix members, the Wii disc will cease to function on February 16. That’s it. You’re done. It’s a coaster. A small back scratcher. Throw it out. Of course, you can download the Netflix streaming software from the Wii Shop Channel if you haven’t already....

According to an Australian classification, anR-Typegame isheading to Xbox Live Arcade. Known asR-Type Dimensions, there is no clue as to whether or not this will be a brand new game, but at least it’s one of the five videogames that the Australian government has allowed to be released in its country this millennium. If the information is all present and correct, Microsoft will be publishing the affair, and the game has been developed by Tozai Inc, the company responsible for bringing the newLode Runnerto XBLA....

As a guy who lives in a city that used to be divided into two areas by a wall, it intrigues me very much to see how the storyline ofPrototype 2is developping. I had a chat with the studio head of Radical Entertainment about what happened to New York after the ending ofPrototype 1…so if you haven’t finished the first one yet beware of spoilers! We also chatted about how the city is divided in to three zones, and the gameplay implications of said zones....

Everyone is getting pretty excited overthe new trailer forResident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. Everyone except for me. Look, when the news wasoriginally announced, I was a happy little boy. I’m a hugeResident Evilfan, but even I have my limits.Umbrella Chroniclesis taking the previous games and mixing them into one little package. So what does that mean? It means that I’ve already played this game 15 times now. Let me break it down: Resident Evil 1for PS1,DS,GC, plus theDirectors Cut....

In the current economic climate, with studios suffering layoffs every other day, many publishers have stated a preference for sticking with established IPs that are almost guaranteed to sell well. Simulation sports games launch on an annual basis, but as EA found with3 on 3 NHL Arcadeearlier this year, a downloadable PlayStation Network/Xbox Live Arcade game is a relatively low-risk way to bring in some revenue between those yearly releases....