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The first of theSerious Samindies,Serious Sam Double Dfrom Mommy’s Best Games, will release on PC later this month. you’re able to download it on Steam and other such places starting Tuesday, August 30 for $7.99. The main point that’s been emphasized time and time again is the gun-stacking mechanic. DesignerNathan Fouts says there are80,640 various gun combinations — and a number like thathasto be legit. But don’t take it from me, give this video a moment of your day instead....

By all accounts, the verdict is thatShadow Complexis a pretty damn good game. It brought the experience and production values of a fully-fledged retail game into a downloadable title and earned well-deserved praise for doing so, even in spite ofrecent controversies. The game can also add another notch to its bedpost, since it’s just become the biggest selling single-player XBLA game in history. Shadow Complexhas been bought 200,000 times since the game’s launch on August 19, providing that a game can be awesome, new and still sell a bunch of copies....

This is actually happening:Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripperis coming to the Xbox 360. Chew on it and let your imagination run wild for a few seconds before moving on to the second paragraph. The adventure title, being developed by Frogwares Studio on the PC, places you, as Sherlock Holmes, during the time of Jack the Ripper’s hooker-viscera fueled rampage in London. The objective is to solve the historically unsolvable and catch Jack before he destroys the city’s party atmosphere — point and click style....

GamePoliticswas cool enough to introduce the world to Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein. In an interview withCanada, Bauerline talks about his ridiculously largely titled bookThe Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30). At one point in the interview, Bauerlein spouts that the “digital age” and its crazy contraptions like the Internet, blogs, and videogames has made us all idiots....

Sonic CDwas recently announced for digital rereleaseon just about every possible gaming platform, with the exceptions being the Wii and the 3DS. No word yet on why the game is skipping a 3DS rerelease, though it’s a safe bet that Sega is trying to avoiding competing with themselves in the 2D Sonic market with the upcomingSonic Generationson the 3DS. As for the Wii, word has it thatSonic CDis skipping WiiWare because of the service’s 40MB file size restrictions....

Sony rounded out 2007 rough year with pretty solid PS3 sales. They moved 4.9 million units in the time between October and December. it’s not the Wii’s 7 million for the same time frame, but it is a solid comeback for the company. Despite that, it seems that they have dialed back the forecast a bit for the year ending in March. According toReuters, Sony is moving the target back from 11 million to 9....

Sony is the future! It’s so far ahead in the future that everything it does, like Trophies and motion control, kind of looks like things that were done in the past, but Sony did it so it’s actually the future because ofreasons! In keeping with this theme, someone from Sonyhas statedthat the PS3 Wiimote issoadvanced, it’s a couple of generations ahead of the curve. This ought to be good. “It’s another generation forward, or even a couple of generations,” says R&D prez Paul Holmon....

inFamous 2, Sony’s second worst kept secret sinceKillzone 3, has re-emerged thanks to the discovery of a freshly registered domain for the game. Sony has reserved “infamous2thegame.com” for unannounced purposes. and at the risk of taking something too literally, we’re pretty sure the domain is forinFamous 2, the game. The game is no secret. An actor Tweeted that he hadauditioned for the game, and many rumors have circulated since about the gameappearing at E3, havingonline multiplayer, andreleasing later this year....

Crooked billionaire Takafumi Horie has madea most bold statementindeed — the former Livedoor boss has stated that Sony’s hardware division, including the PlayStation 3, should be sold onto Microsoft so that the company can concentrate on making movies. The former funky fraudster, commonly known as Horiemon, suggested that at one time he was going to take Sony over, and also offered some advice to the company he never owned: “What was so appealing about Sony was that it has plenty of audio and visual content....

In an effort to help you navigate Sony’s movie and television offerings more quickly, a new app called Video Unlimited has been launched. It’s not anything hugely different from the previous video store — just easier. Open the app up you’ll be presented with a few categories of different types of offerings. For example, pick New Releases and the newest releases show in a grid of squares, letting you pick what you might be interested in....

Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t most of you playingOdin Sphereover half a year ago? Why then, is the UKonly now hearingabout a release for the bloody thing? I didn’t even know we didn’t have it yet because I’ve not bought PS2 games in the UK for a while, but that’s just a little bit rubbish. Apparently it’s coming sometime in 2008, but we don’t even have a date yet....

As we assumed, EA CEO Jon Riccitiello was talking aboutStar Wars: The Old Republicduring the recent fiscal conference call in which he mentioned a “major” MMO, as well as a key driver for digital sales, wasslated to be released in Spring 2011. Confirmation comes from Bioware’s Sean Dahlberg via the officialOld Republicmessage board. Dahlberg said that the team couldn’t give out a specific date, but they are indeed targeting a Spring 2011 release....

Next month, Wii owners in Japan will be able to downloadSuper Smash Bros64 through the Virtual Console. Unlike most other Nintendo 64 titles on the Virtual Console that sell for 1,000 Wii Points,Super Smash Bros.will run 1,200 Wii Points. The extra $2 charge is Nintendo’s “We know people will buy this no matter how much we charge” tax. Hopefully, Nintendo of America doesn’t pull this extra $2 bullsh*t whenSuper Smash Bros....