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Strategy giant Paradox Interactive has quite a few seasonal deals on various places. The easiest way to go is Steam, with the option to pick up theParadox Complete Pack($75/€55). That includesMount & Blade,Mount & Blade: Warband,Sword of the Stars: Ultimate Collection,Majesty Gold,Majesty 2and theKingmakerexpansion,Lead and Gold, theKing Arthurgames and all theHearts of Iron IIIyou’ll ever need. Most of the games are 50% off individually as well. Green Man Gaming has deals ona numberof Paradox games, most notablyHearts of Iron IIIfor about €2 less than on Steam....

Dongle action! I can’t really quantify why I want this Japanese PS2-to-Wii controller dongle converter from Gametech, but I do. I mean, I could have just bought the PlayStation 2 version of said games rather than buying the Wii version. But I didn’t. I wanted to improve the balance of black game cases to white ones, I guess. If you’re not digging the Wii Classic controller[why?]or the GameCube one and/or you’d rather play with your PS2 ones, this nifty adapter lets you plug up and go....

It looks like Capcom’sResident Evilsurprise for Wiifans is out of the bag. The latest issue of Famitsu has revealed the upcoming Wii title Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. The game is being handled byUmbrella Chroniclesdeveloper Cavia, and looks to be a sequel to 2007’s on-rails shooter. The game will take place in Resident Evil 2’s Racoon City setting, and and will have players controlling Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy. With the publisher set to officially make some sort of announcement in North America on Thursday evening, we should know more soon....

Kim Swift — maybe you’ve heard of her. She had a lead role in the making ofPortal, which you also may have heard of. Kind of a big deal. Like “among the top 10 games of the decade”big deal. Swift has now moved on over to Airtight Game, whose first title,Dark Voidfor Capcom, ships early next year. It’s said that Swift will be team leader in developing “games aimed at a more diverse audience....

Just a heads up, guys! If you have been looking forward to downloading comic books for your PSP,today is the dayto do it. At 3pm EST and 5pm GMT, Sony’s much-lauded PSP comics service will launch, allowing you to browse and purchase comics for your PSP’s digital reader. The service will be available in North America, the UK (exclusive Ireland for technical reasons), Australia and New Zealand. Hundreds of comics are said to be available, spanning such publishers as Marvel, IDW, iVerse and 2000AD....

A couple of days agowe told you about the new PlayStation Portable model, the PSP 3000. Sony packed in a new microphone and Skype software into the already lighter, thinner package. They also mentioned a newupdated LCD screen, but I didn’t give it much thought until I sawFamitsu’scomparison pictures. Wow, what a difference! Anyone that has played a PSP-1000 or 2000 outside can tell you that it makes a better mirror than a game system....

Kota Suzuki, composer on Capcom’s upcomingResident Evil 5, said that he feels that the Western world is leading in game music production. But, Japan is catching up. “I get the impression that production at western, particularly American developers is ahead of those in Japan,” Suzuki said in an interview with music4games. “But, I think that more and more in Japan, the process of making video game music is becoming specialized.More and more Japanese production companies are working together with foreign companies, and sound production quality in Japan is approaching that of the west....

It’s all morph balls, Mother Brain, and madness as the RetroforceGO! crew celebrates the release of the awesomeMetroid Prime 3: Corruptionby talking about all thingsMetroidthis Sunday night. From the original NES classic to the underrated gemMetroid Prime Pinballfor the Nintendo DS (yeah, that’s right, I said it), we will be talking abouteverything, including what makes this series just so darn great (or not so great if you are Dyson once we focus on the first twoPrimes – yikes!...

I’d been tipped off several months ago that the folk at Harmonix had slipped a reference to myself intoRock Band 3, for whatever bizarre reason. I thought that was pretty cool, but didn’t hear anything else from Harmonix after that, so I assumed it never happened. Then I am informed that there is a monocle accessory in the game called the “Sterling Reputation”, and I kind of piss my knickers....

MTV Games and Harmonix will be reaching into the wallets of Jimmy Eat World and Stone Temple Pilots fans soon. Track packs for both bands are set to hit the Rock Band Music Store next week. MTV Games and Harmonix will be reaching into the wallets of Jimmy Eat World and Stone Temple Pilots fans soon. Track packs for both bands are set to hit the Rock Band Music Store next week....

If you’re going to shoot someone in the face, leg, or neck, make sure you look doing it. Vogster, in collaboration with Ecko Unltd. will make sure you’re looking “fly” (that’s what the kids are saying, right?) will make sure you’re doing it up right inCrimeCraft, when the MMO shooter launches this August. It’s been announced that Ecko apparel will be available as part of the already deepCrimeCraftcharacter customization. Players who purchase the game withBest Buywill receive an exclusive Ecko....

If you have been holding off living out your wild west fantasies inRed Dead Redemption, you might want to wait another month. Rockstar has justconfirmedtheRed Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition, which will arrive in North America on October 11th. It will include the full game plus all free and premium downloadable content, includingUndead Nightmare. The exclusive pre-order bonuses will also available as will Solomon’s Folly, previously only accessible on PlayStation 3....

For once, I wish a press release came with a quote. Rockstar Games and Pizza Hut have entered into an agreement to shower one very lucky (and soon to be very out of shape)Midnight Club: Los Angelesplayer with theroughequivalent of free pizza for a year. No joke. The promotion is called theMidnight Club: Los AngelesPizza Hut South Central Showdown (or MC: LAPHSCS, for short). All you have to do to get in on the promise of free pizza is check out Rockstar’s rules and regshere; download the free South Central Map expansion on Xbox LIVE or PlayStation Network and then race to the top of the leaderboards consistently through several rounds of a tournament structure....