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Tower defense-style strategy games are nothing new, nor are variations on tried and true game formulas. ButPixelJunk Monsters Deluxeis a tower-defense style game that is a variationandimprovement on its predecessor, and ends up being pretty close to perfected as far as this style of games goes. To say it more clearly, if you’ve played the PlayStation 3 gamePixelJunk Monstersand liked it, you’re going to lovePixelJunk Monsters Deluxeon the PSP. It’s that much better of a game....

Harmonix decided to pull the veil off of next week’s Rock Band downloadable content a bit early, revealing it in the latest issue of the digital Rock Band Community Zine. And here you go: Foreigner 3 Pack“Blue Morning, Blue Day”“Feels Like The First Time”“Headknocker”—Black Rebel Motorcycle – “Weapon of Choice”—Vans Warped Tour 3 PackDear and the Headlights – “Sweet Talk”The Devil Wears Prada – “Hey John, What’s Your Name Again?”Thrice – “Image of the Invisible”...

Rockstarrecently revealedits newGrand Theft Auto IVdownloadable episode,The Lost and Damned, and there isa rumorthat the expansion will not just be available via the Xbox Live Marketplace. Priced at $20, a boxed “version” of the episode is currentlylisted by GameStop. According to the listing,The Lost and Damnedwill include a 2-sided poster and “an Xbox LIVE Marketplace token card. The token card will contain a unique code to purchaseThe Lost and Damnedover the Xbox LIVE Marketplace....

Remember when all the writers went on strike? It sucked. Television seasons were cut short and my television stopped being fun when I wasn’t playing videogames. What if that happened to videogames, but instead of writers it was the voice actors? We’d have no more voice acting in our games or at least very low quality voice acting. Every game would either sound likeZeldaor the original dialog track ofResident Evil. That is not a world I want to live in, friends....

If you’re at PAX Prime this weekend and you’ve got reservations about the newSSX, let Electronic Arts ease your mind. A portion of the game’s vast mountain ranges is playable at the event in Seattle this week. Do well enough, and you might even score some sweet schwag. Only one drop from the game’s nine mountains is playable on the PAX show floor, a steep course found on the Himalayan Makalu mountain peak....

What kind of training is required to wear those mammoth suits?Section 8’sprotagonists probably crawl in the desert for weeks at a time with a camel strapped to their back before being deemed capable of orbital dropping in one of those metal coffins. It’s hard to find the practicality of such a cumbersome item, especially if the wearer has to run, dodge bullets, or put a knife in some dude’s neck....

No one really knewexactlywhat to expect from the upcoming free downloadable content forLeft 4 Dead(Xbox 360 and PC)when it was first announced. Sure, we knew that it would allow for Versus mode play on the Dead Air and Death Toll campaigns, and that it’d come with a new Survival mode, but really, how much is that to go on? Thankfully,IGN has put outa few videos showcasing what we can expect....

If I could’ve somehow figure out how to get this time machine to work, this story might have been different. It would be about a rock guitarist who, after a long night of drinking Jack Daniels and snorting cocaine out of a suicidal porn star’s butt crack, managed to come out of a coma long enough to record an epic solo for a forth coming double album. These days, the best news I have about guitarist Saul “Slash” Hudson is that he’s going to be a playable character inGuitar Hero III....

If you readour preview, you know we’re totally diggingDS strategy role-playing titleLuminous Arc 2. Long story short, this sequel is more polished and entertaining than its predecessor, and we’re having much more fun with it. Look for our review shortly. We’re also totally diggingAtlus’ pre-order goodiesfor some of their upcoming titles, includingLuminous Arc 2. Today they’ve sent us a sneak peek at Luminous Art (I see what you did there!), the official art book forLuminous Arc 2....

The folks at Snowblind have decided to head into the woods to talk at cameras aboutLord of the Rings: War in the North. This is the result. The video gives you a pretty good overview of what to expect fromWar in the North, the upcoming action-hack-n-slash-RPG. If you like killing things in a group and then collecting the stuff that said dead things drop, this is the game for you....

Sony is currently passing around an electronic survey askingGod of Warfans what they want from a possibleGod of War IIICollector’s Edition. It would be foolish for Sony not to release an extravagantly priced version of the game — c’mon, we’ll all buy it — so we’ll take this as an interesting look at what Sony is considering tossing in the package. Here are some of the key items that the surveyed can rate between one and ten....

Defending 3D cities from a wave of 2D retro baddies inSpace Invaders Get Evensounded pretty cool to me. But, after hearing of this pricing scheme, some of the Do Want-ness has worn off.. Game|Lifesays that although the game is priced at 500 Wii Points ($5), you’ll have to pay that much for each of the four levels, making the total package $20. To be fair, I haven’t had a chance to play Get Even yet....

Most. Exhilarating. Headline. Ever. Today is a very good day for anyone looking forward to Black Rock Studio’sSplit/Second. First off, we have a North American release date: May 18. That’s certainly a long time from now, but if it means actual, worthwhile videogames to play late this spring, I’m all for it. Next up is the game’s box art, which is in the gallery. Since seemingly every time I have written about cover art has ended with someone calling out my preferences, you’d best take my approval ofSplit/Second‘s box art with a handful of salt....