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There’s no escaping Steam this week, it seems. Currently,you can graball of theBorderlandscontent on the digital distribution service for a cool 75 percent off. That means the Game of the Year edition, complete with all four add-on packs, is a mere $7.50. It feels like forever ago since I fought the good fight alongsideBrad Nicholson. He crawled into the final boss’ mouth and killed it the only way he knew how — by punching the poor thing to death....

That’s right — tonight, Dan Paladin (the lead artist ofCastle Crashers, in case you didn’t know) will be joining the Podtoid crew to discussCastle Crashersand answer listener questions. Also, it’s Tiff’s last episode. As was the case withBraidtoid, feel free to toss out any and all questions you might have for Dan, and we’ll attempt to get to as many as we can. We’re asking more listener questions than we would for a regular Podtoid episode, so your chances of winning some cool swag are much increased....

If you’re considering pickingBattlefield: Bad Company 2on the PC and are thinking of going all digital, here’s the deal for you. Through theonline EA Store, Electronic Arts is offering gamers a free copy ofBattlefield 2142to anyone who pre-orders the upcomingBad Company 2prior to February 25. According to my powers of math, that’s a $19.99 value. Pre-ordering the digital copy online also guarantees you may pre-load the title starting on February 28, ensuring you can start shooting the crap out of things on March 2 when the game is officially released....

So I’m flipping through the latest issue of EGM and I come to their previews of all the next gen games and something catches my eye. Something so beatiful, so amazing, and so sadistic. The Darkness (X360/PS3) fromStarbreez(the amazing team that brought us The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay). I was in total shock as I read their very small article on the game. Why you ask? Because no one has been talking about this at all!...

I am going to love to hatePuzzle Quest: Galactrix. Why? Because this game is going to steal away my life. I never got into the firstPuzzle Quest. I never understood the appeal of it and never gave it a proper chance. I probably would have skipped over looking atGalactrixwhile previewing some of D3’s other titles at their preview event had it not been for the appeal of the sci-fi aspect. I have nothing against fantasy, but anything science fiction-related always gets my attention....

Arcade sports games are all about bombastic spectacle — basketball players soaring twenty feet in the air for a dunk, hits so vicious that helmets are knocked off — and in baseball, that means home runs. Specifically, I’m referring to towering blasts that leave stadiums and smash lights, à laThe Natural. So it’s only appropriate that 2K Sports has tapped Prince Fielder, All-Star first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers (and brawny home run machine), to be the coverboy for their upcoming arcade baseball title,The BIGS 2....

PS3 users may have been experiencing some bad luck when trying to getModern Warfare 2to work on their Black Box o’ Blu-ray. A new update was issued forMW2PS3 that fixed a problem with Trophies, but what followed as an even worse problem — PS3 users found the multiplayer portion completely unplayable. Ouch. Server overload is being blamed for the problems PS3 users are facing, and it’s being claimed that the new issue has nothing to do with the recent update....

The PlayStation Storecame back last night, and naturally that means only one thing … people are struggling to access the PlayStation Store. The PlayStation Network is trying to deal with an inevitable surge of traffic as people desperately attempt to get their hands on weeks of backed up content. Sony has confirmed that “extremely high traffic” is causing people to receive error messages, but that it’ll ease up as the day goes on....

TrueOneMoreUser has brilliantly mashedTeam Fortress 2up withThe Dark Knight. We postedthe originalLaw Abiding Citizenvideo, so I’m obligated by Internet law to cover this new one as well. He’s swappedTF2characters in place of Batman and co. — the end result is surprisingly entertaining. Be sure to compare the mashup with the film’s official trailer to really get a sense of how crazy good this is. I can’t fathom how long it must have taken....

What’s Remedy up to now that Alan Wake is done and out? How about a new “AAA console title” next? There’s a job listing on the Remedy website looking for aSenior Producerfor a key position in this AAA console project. They are looking for someone that has shipped another AAA console title in a similar role, and require the applicant to move to Finland. The job ad doesn’t give us anything else to go on, so we’re going to guess that it’s anAlan Wakesequel....

Zombies, psychopaths, andquestionable parenting skillsall came to Xbox Live Arcade this week in the form ofDead Rising 2: Case Zero. It’s a new main character, a new story, new survivors and the same old zombies all in a neat, focused package. Read on for our review. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero(Xbox 360)Developer: CapcomPublisher: CapcomRelease date: August 31, 2010MSRP: 400 MS Points InDead Rising: Case Zero, we’re given the first opportunity to play new series protagonist Chuck Greene....

Quantic Dream would have you believe thatHeavy Rainis not a videogame. The studio has long-standing fantasies of being in the film industry, to the point where its last game,Fahrenheit,completely masqueraded as a movie. Director David Cage even put himself in the game, sitting in a director’s chair in the middle of a “movie studio.” Arrogant, perhaps, but you have to admire the team’s conviction. Heavy Raintakes whatFahrenheitstarted one step further, producing what Quantic Dream calls an “interactive movie....

Hey, it wasn’t me. Q Entertainment brought it up. And yes, I’ll takeRezclassic on my PSP. Now would be great, thanks. Check out the followingtweetfrom Q Entertainment: Porting Rez HD to PS3 would be more work than you think. And for it to be playable on PSP, perhaps the original Rez might be more apropos? Apropos? Maybe. Great? Yes. Do it. Are you asking? Or are you dropping hints? Maybe I’m reading too much into this....