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Dante’s Infernolead developer Jonathan Knight isn’t hoping tobreak any boundarieswith his upcoming action title. According to him, the aim ofInfernois to simply be an action game, and provide the best experience it can in an established and popular genre. “I’d say we’re working pretty squarely in this action adventure fighting genre,” says Knight. “It’s a great genre, we love the genre, and it’s more important to us to deliver a great game in that established genre than it is to particularly branch out and try too many new things....

When I create these Deal listings I usually pick some of the best stuff that ends up in our inbox or on my desk. I’m loyal to no outlet, though I do prefer Amazon for their free shipping (yay for Amazon Prime) and no tax. But Target wins today with several good deals that will be available in-store this weekend. There’s no Target affiliation here. I’m honestly more of a Walmart guy....

Max Payne(the game) has a deep plot about drugs and crime, themes of loss and revenge, a some what subtle background in Norse mythology, and gunfights — lots and lots of slow motion, totally awesome gunfights. Max Payne(the movie) has a plot about government super-soldiers, no apparent themes whatsoever, a complete and total lack of subtlety about its Norse mythological influences, and two — count them — two, gunfights. Fine maybe its two and a half gunfights, but that still makesMax Paynea terrible movie, and an insult to a game that was wonderfully melodramatic and — I can’t stress this enough —full of gunfights....

Next week, Insomniac is releasingQuest for Bootyon PSN, a downloadable sequel of sorts to last year’s incredible PlayStation 3 gameRatchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. From what I hear, this expansion is short, but every bit as creative and polished as previous retail games. I, for one, cannot wait to play it! Fans of the series will love to hear that at the very end ofQuest for Booty, the following message appears:THE QUEST CONTINUES IN FALL 2009 …...

The Sony Conference showed off quite a bit of the upcoming PSP sports titleNBA 09: The Inside. The title is being developed by SCEA San Diego, the same developer responsible for the decently deliciousMLB 08: The Show.NBA 09will feature several game modes perfect for handheld devices, and will support both multiplayer and downloadable rosters. There are quite a few features being brought over toNBA 09, several of which are fresh and crisp like that deli sandwich you love so much....

Mickey Rourke is an intimidating guy. He was scary as hell inKillshot, empathetic as hell inThe Wrestler, and generically badass as hell in this trailer for Bethesda’sRogue Warrior. The whole trailer is just pre-rendered non-gameplay footage, unfortunately, but this trailer still seems to imply several things: firstly, that the game will be at least moderately stealth-oriented, and secondly, that Mickey Rourke could kill a man through the power of his vocal cords alone....

[Editor’s note: The guys are chatting about the presentation Microsoft gave to the gaming press on 6/13] Want to know why I am so angry? Want to know how Dale dealt with his confusion? Want to know what THE KINECT EXPERIENCE feels like? Check out this pro/con session, hosted by Rey Gutierrez. We may not have the hot live stream or the exclusive television presentation, but what we do have is loads of shouting and swearing....

Due to my unspoken rule to hold off on buying new consoles until I see a library I want, I have not purchased a next gen console. 360 was getting higher on my list as far as titles go, but I’m still a little reserved about owning the “shooter box”. Wii seemed fun, but I knew that party titles and Mario weren’t enough to make me invest in a system. PS3 was out of the question – I wanted to play almost nothing on it and the price point was too high....

I can see someDead Space-like horror/adventure action, and that’s about it. The trailer is supposed to show scenes from a post-apocalyptic surface, while most of the game will be set in underground bunkers. I know it doesn’t show you that much, but bear with me. Afterfall: InSanityis a game from Polish developer Nicolas Games, and is being billed as a “hardcore survival psycho horror.” The Afterfall universe itself features an alternate history of Europe where World War II had a different conclusion and in which Hitler launched a nuclear V2 rocket at Russia in 1945....

Namco Bandai has confirmed that a demo for Ninja Theory’sEnslavedwill be hitting PlayStation Network next week in North America. If you’re in Europe, though, you may download it right now; feel special, yeah? The publisher says the demo will hit PSN on September 21, but we have a feeling it’ll actually be on Monday, September 20. Why? Because that’s when we hear the PS Store will update next week, due to a scheduled maintenance on Tuesday....

There’s card games likeCuldcept Sagawhere you have to play to earn the cards, and others likeEye of Judgmentwhere you must go out and purchase them. If card-based videogames are your thing, but buying and sorting through packs isn’t, then you’ll be interested in the Complete Disc forEye of Judgement. Sony will release thisEye of Judgment: Complete Diskin Japan soon. The disk contains 300 cards, whichSiliconerasays translates into one card from each of the three 100 card sets....

Fable 2was released in the United Kingdom this Friday, and local boy Peter Molyneux will be pleased to know that it boldly swaggered into the sales chart top slot. In a list that contains bothFIFA 09andPro Evolution Soccer 2009, that’s pretty damn impressive. I was finally able to sit down and playFable 2this weekend. It’s bloody good and I have no reason to complain about the Xbox 360 exclusive’s number one position....

Fallout: New Vegassenior producer Jason Bergman has more news onan impending patchfor the game. For PC users, it’s looking good: the patch will go live today. Bethesda expects it to show up on Xbox 360 this week, and as for PlayStation 3, well, PlayStation Networkneeds to be fixed still. While many of us are anticipating this for the “optimizations and stability improvements” bit, you’re able to read up on the full balance tweaks to weapons and perks onthe Fallout forums....