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GameStop wants you to punch a dude in the face in one of their stores this weekend. On Saturday, the bastion of civilization will kick off a national tournament for EA Sports’ sleek boxing title,Fight Night Round 4. The tournament is in-store tiered (at over 2,100 locations — call your local GameStop to find out if they want you to cut a dude’s head open), but skilled finalists will be able to leave the confines of the store and fight in Las Vegas, Nevada....

We’ve seen enough living room family gaming promotional videos to last us a lifetime. Nintendo started it with the Wii a few years back, but here recently both Sony and Microsoft have been putting their own versions out with their new alternative control schemes. Today we saw a trailer that showed off what Sony’s new controller, the motion sensing Move, could do. The trailer we saw at Sony’s press event featured wireframe overlays of what the Move controller was to represent in each gaming situation shown....

Geon: Emotions is coming to Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday for 800 MS Points. If you’ve got no idea what genre of gameGeonis, don’t feel too bad. I didn’t know what was going on either until I went on a quest for knowledge and found the developer’s Web site. In the words ofStrawdog Studios, their game is a “fast paced, rainbow colored arcade collect ’em up for 1-4 players.” Ah, it all makes sense now!...

Today, Ubisoft announced that Altair would be making a special appearance in their upcoming game,Prince of Persia. It’s not Altair in the literal sense — it’s a skin. In less exciting news, you can also have the opportunity to download the protagonist fromSands of Time. To get the Altair skin, you’ll have to do a bit running around. First, register at Ubisoft’sofficial website. Then, after purchasing the title on December 3, you’ll need to head back over to the site and register your gamertag or PSN screen name in conjunction with the game....

Here’s something we all already knew: People like to waste time on the internet while they’re at work. It’s possible that you’re doing it right now. In a weird way, I am doing this very thing right now. Remember the tribute to Pac-Man Google had up the other day? RescueTime, a company which produces productivity software, thinks they know about how much of the world’s time was taken up by the delightful diversion the engineers at Google created....

It appears as thoughBest Buyhas slashed the price on, what I feel, is the best game on the Xbox 360 right now,Rainbow Six: Vegas. I’m not sure how long this sale will last, but you might as well try to get it while it’s hot. So if you got $40 burning a hole in your pocket, then pleasego and buythis game now. It’s one of the best reasons to own a 360....

While touting its “strongest-ever” game line-up at the Leipzig Games Convention, Microsoft dropped some details on theGrand Theft Auto IVDLC that we know so very little about. “In autumn there will be news from Liberty City; the first episodes ofGTA IVwill be available for download exclusively on Xbox LIVE, underlining Xbox 360’s leadership role in the field of digital entertainment.” There you have it, folks. The downloadable content isfinallycoming. But is it too late?...

Activision has released a new trailer highlighting the songs currently available in theFebruary Mega PackDLC forGuitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. The pack includes tracks from Marilyn Manson, Children of Bodom, Black Label Society and Firewind. You can download the pack right now for PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. I don’t know if I would cough up for this entire package. Hell, I’ve barely heard of half of these bands. But the Marilyn Manson content is pretty compelling....

Did you know that everytime a Sony exec lies an angel gets its wings? Yup, it’s true. Happy Sony Day, y’all! to continue today’sall-Sony-all-the-timenews day, we at Destructoid bring you the just-announced software lineup that will be coming out in the next few months for just about every Sony platform, including some dates on those most-wanted PlayStation Network titles. Take a look: Some important PS3 titles to watch for: Available Through Retail Channels F....

Dude, man … this is totally tripping me out, bro. USA Todayis reporting that 18 Grateful Dead songs will be playable inRock Band. All of the songs will be original master recordings, and will include songs like “Truckin'” and the Dead’s 80s MTV jam, “Touch of Grey.” Rhino Entertainments’ Mark Pincus is “confident that Rock Band will be instrumental in introducing kids to the magical music of Grateful Dead.” And hallucinogens, of course....

OH YEAH! IT’SHYDRO THUNDER HURRICANE, BABY! WHY AM I YELLING?! BECAUSE THAT’S HOW YOU TALK ABOUT RETRO ARCADE RACERS. YOU HAVE TO YELL! BOOM!!! The beloved boat racing series has been brought back by the very small development team at Vector Unit, and stays true to the roots of franchise. Everything is built from the ground up, yetHurricanemaintains the over the top, kick-you-in-the-face attitude feel of old school arcade racers. For your youngins, just thinkBurnout,but on water....

Prepare your sides for the splitting of a lifetime, because this is comedy you just can’t buy! IGN officially gave the PC version ofCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2a 9.5, but when you compare it to theaverage reader review, something doesn’t quite add up. That’s because the reader rating forMW2currently stands at 1.3! It seems that a lynch mob of PC gamers, angry over the lack of dedicated servers and 9v9 multiplayer cap, have descended upon IGN’s reader reviews like piranha’s on a tampon....

Here’s what I got in our tips inbox this morning: Subject: PLASMA CUTTER HELLO MY NAME IS DAVID JOE I SEND THIS ENQUIRY TO YOUR COMPANY IN REGARDS TO ORDER SOME( Plasma Cutter)..I WILL LIKE YOU TO EMAIL ME BACK WITH THE PRICE,SIZE AND THE METHOD OF PAYMENT YOU DO ACCEPT TO PROCEED..REGARDSDAVID JOE David Joe, you must have the wrong address. I don’t stock plasma cutters. And trust me, if I had plasma cutters, I would not sell them to you or anyone else....