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So, the boys behindBlackhave a brand new shooter coming out. It’s calledBodycountand now we know a little bit more than a name, with the first screens and details filtering onto the Internet. How exciting! Bodycountwill put you in the role of an agent in “The Network,” an imaginatively named group that kills people as part of a “clandestine power struggle.” Destructible cover is the focus of the game, with players able to tear the environment up and ruin the nice furniture....

Harmonix and MTV Games have teamed up with T-Mobile to help highlight “emerging artists” via Rock Band Network. Got a band? Got a friend who knows this guy who worked on his car and did a great job on his brakes that has a band? Is your dad in a band? Tell them to head over towww.rockband.com/t-mobile(through April 11) and to upload a song, a band photo, and a bio. MTV Games execs will then screen the bands, giving one a chance to be professionally authored and put onto the Rock Band Network store....

It’s beginning to look a lot like [insert whatever holiday it is that you celebrate here]! Nintendo has announced that it’s continuing its long-standing money-printing tradition of releasing two limited-edition Nintendo DS bundles for the holidays. Yay! One bundle will ship with a DS in a new color that Nintendo is calling “Mario Red,” which just means that it’s red and has an “M” on it. That particular bundle will be paired with a copy ofNew Super Mario Bros....

I love my Xbox 360 just as much asI love my PlayStation 3. It’s got a great library of games that I’ve invested a considerable amount of time and money into over the past few years, and it’s a system that will likely still be serving me for some time to come. That said, in a significant parallel to the PS3, my love for the system seems to come at an inverse proportion to my love for the company behind it....

[It’s time for anotherMonthly Musing— the monthly community blog theme that provides readers with a chance to get their articles and discussions printed on the frontpage. — CTZ] When it comes to pitting two fighters against one another to do battle,Mortal Kombatis about where my pseudo-expertise ends. In terms of my current proficiency, the best comparison to make is probably this: my skill in fighting games is akin to the guy who leans back and flails his open palms in a flurry of half-hearted slaps....

Thanks in part to id Software’s Technical Director John Carmack’s iPhone love, most of the developer’s back-catalog of games seems to making its way quite nicely to Apple’s portable do-it-all device. While its upcoming titleRAGEis already slated to get the iPhone treatment, Carmack has already had conversations about bringing some of its parent company’s titles to the platform.

Clearly, the PC version ofResident Evil 5is the best one you’re able to own. Why? Because modding it allows you to turn that cackling freak Irving into the joker. That’s what the modding community has done, as demonstrated in this clip which also has Chris Redfield as a rotting corpse and Sheva done up in the style of a Na’vi from James Cameron’sAvatar. They then get attacked by a bunch of machete-wielding Weskers....

The patch will primarily affectTeam Fortress 2, as detailed below: If you talk to anyone who’s playedTeam Fortress 2in the last couple of weeks, you’ll most likely get one of two responses. You will hear unrivaled amounts of praise for the game if the person you’re speaking with is a PC gamer, but if he/she happens to have playedTF2on the 360, you are going to hear lots of shouting and words like “lag” and “unplayable” will be brought up constantly....

One of next year’s most promising titles is easilyKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It looks beautiful, has a wad of talent behind it, and I’ve been told by those who have played it that it’s a lot of fun. Sadly still, nobody’s paying attention to it. Hopefully that’ll change once EA decides to start properly promoting the thing, but in the meantime, help yourself to some new screenshots, just as a reminder that it exists....

As a fan of what Crystal Dynamics was doing with theTomb Raiderseries, I must say I was a bit miffed when I first read aboutLara Croft and the Guardian of Light. To tell the truth, I am still a bit concerned about it, but none other thanNick Chester himselfhas high hopes for it, so I have latched my wagon to his and we are on the high hopes train. The trailer above brings new hopes by detailing the upgradable weapons system used in the game....

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Lightis coming to Steam and Crystal Dynamics has assumed we’re all going to be angry. After all, by using Steam,Lara Croftis using DRM, and that’s evil. Of course, considering that most people actuallylikeSteam, Crystal Dynamics is probably gearing up to apologize for something very few people will have a problem with. “We’ve gone down the road of implementing Steam DRM where we’ve committed to the US being an exclusive and we’re going to make a decision as to whether or not we’ll use different distribution channels,” says CD’s Karl Stewart....

I’veexpressedmyexcitementforWWE Legends of Wrestlemaniaa few times in the past, and a few of you have concurred. But will it be any good? We’ll get a taste and see this week. A demo forWWE Legends of Wrestlemaniais going to be available this Thursday, March 5. The demo lets you recreate the classic Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant Wrestlemania III match up, with the ability to control the two legends as well as Bobby “the Brain” Heenan....

It’s been a very quiet year for the Wii, and while it sounds like the perfect time to throw out games such asThe Last Story,Pandora’s TowerandXenoblade, Nintendo of America seems absolutely adamant in refusing to localize them. Frustrated fans have therefore decided to take matters into their own hands, and have set up a snail mail campaign to bombard Reggie Fils-Aime with requests for these three games. The campaign got kickstarted in anine-page IGN Boards threadwhere it’s been met with healthy community support....