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If Steam sales and iPhone apps have shown us anything in the past few years, it’s that gamers are cheap, and many will buy games for pocket change without hesitation. Enter Frima Studio, a Canadian developer that has been putting out PlayStation Minis since the program started. Five games, which normally sell for two bucks apiece have been bundled together, with the price slashed in half. Five games for five dollars is certainly a deal, and while they may all be worth at least a dollar apiece, only one of the five games is really worth your time....

The first two batches ofMega Man 10DLC are out, and both are tailor-made to please the most loyal ofMega Manfans. Bass mode and Special Stage 1 bring us characters who have never been seen in a NES-styleMega Mangame, and the results aren’t entirely what I expected. I thought I knew these guys. I’ve played as Bass before inMega Man & Bass, and I’ve fought Special Stage 1’s Enker in bothMega Manon the Game Boy andMega Man Socceron the SNES....

Richard Stallman is a large man. A large man with a beard that could easily hide a family of poor, migrant workers from La Migra for days on end. Am I claiming that Mr. Stallman is guilty of hiding illegal immigrants in his beard for fun and profit? No, I’m claiming that he hates video game consoles. A Dtoid reader, Matthew, sent us an email earlier directing my attention tothis ZDNet blog, where Mr....

Harmonix is kicking off theRock BandNew Year with its first Johnny Cash track pack, and giving away select tracks featured in previousRock Bandtitles. Johnny Cash Pack 01 The full pack will run you $26-05-2025 MS Points/1350 Wii Points, or you can get individual tracks for $1.99/160 MS Points/200 Wii Points. Select tracks (marked with “X”) can be upgrade to Pro Guitar/Bass for an additional 99 cents/80 MS Points/100 Wii Points)....

I know you’re sick of hearing about it, and you just want to play the damned thing, but the time is near —Rock Bandhas gone gold. The game is in final production and manufacturing, and the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are on schedule to hit stores on its November 20 launch date. “We have a small army filling our warehouses with final product,” says Alex Rigopolous, CEO of Harmonix. “Now, our focus is putting together an amazing selection of downloadable music content for players, so players can continue to further customize theirRock Bandexperience post-launch....

Today, Rockstar announced that they will publish a Team Bondis next-generation title calledL.A. Noire. No specific console has been named, but in 2004 they were talking about a PlayStation 3 release.The crime thriller plays in the late 1940s and the first trailer will be released on the Oct. 5.Official homepage

Sorry, Jim. We can’t do anything about the region locking of gifted Virtual Console games (send them to me, Nick), but we can help you to listen to your favorite MP3s on the Wii again. We know how you love to do that. The newest Nintendo WiiPhoto Channel updatemaystrip the Wii of MP3 support in favor of AAC, but for those 11 of you that are dying to have your MP3 functionality back, there’s a bit of good news fromNintendo customer service....

An alleged developer from Obsidian has anonymously ranted about the spectacular failureAlpha Protocol, explaining some tantalizing revelations behind the game’s development and claiming that it should have been canceled instead of theAliensRPG. “I worked on this game (a fact of which I am not proud). I’m not here to defend it; I agree with all these reviews,” claims the supposed developer. “There was a ton of work put into this game....

The big word on the street this morning is thatFamitsumagazine apparently revealedDead Rising 2‘s new multiplatform status. “We’re finally putting out newDead RisingandLost Planetgames,” Capcom’sKeiji Inafune issupposedly quotedas saying. “As a main principle we’re thinking about multiplatform, and expanding upon both slightly from the Xbox 360 version.” A Capcom rep, however,has respondedto the rumor by suggesting that a mistranslation has taken place:“Dead Risingwas a huge success for us and is obviously the kind of game we’d like to continue to make....

The way I see it, we only need one video service. But it makes sense that other companies want to try it out for themselves. If the rumors pan out to be true, EA will have a company-specific video service up on their website soon. A source tells The BBPS that EA is working to launch a portal that will let users upload videos of gaming strategies and achievements. There will be a video ranking feature, and a “follow” service will mimic Twitter’s function of letting users know about others’ activities....

TheSaints Rowseries is, by far, one of the most ludicrously extreme franchises out there. Unfortunately, however, even Volition has standards. According to the studio, trying to censorSaints Row: The Thirdhas been like attempting to define pornography … oh, and they also won’t have farts in jars. “It’s like defining porn. I can’t define it, but I know when I see it,” said senior producer Greg Donovan in the latestGame Informer. “Not every crazy weapon idea that gets thrown out at meetings ends up getting used....

It is now possible to playSecret of Monkey Island: Special Editionon the go. This morning, we were surprised to find theSpecial Editionversion of the benchmark adventure title on the App Store.We knew it was coming, of course. LucasArts has been delightfully silly about the possibiliy of an App Store port. But we didn’t know when it was happening. The title weighs in at 351 MBs and currently costs $7.99. According to the “Application Description” of the App Store page, the title is a faithful port of the recent rerelease....

A brand new video has been released for Capcom’sDynasty Warriorsclone,Sengoku Basara 3. The third game in the series is starting to look like it might not be terrible, which is more than you can hope for, really. This latest footage is all about Tsuruhime. She looks like she plays almost exactly the same asDW6‘s Sun Shang Xiang. In any case, her special attack gives you a right old look up her skirt, which is really the only reason I posted this video....