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According to rumors out of the UK edition of PC Gamer, Lara Croft’s next tomb raiding adventure may be her biggest yet. According to the magazine, Crystal Dynamic’s upcomingTomb Raidergame may be set in an open world. “Set on a Japanese island, the idea is to have one cohesive level with multiple ways around the puzzles,” the magazine writes in its rumor section, “Spy.” “We’ll also be exploring Lara’s origins, so she’ll be younger and inexperienced in the ways of raiding tombs....

The tables are turned! There have been a whole bunch of Sackboy versions of other game characters making an appearance in the PS3 titleLittleBigPlanet, but now the original Sackboy is going to another game for a cameo. He comes to the Atlus release3D Dot Game Heroesas a playable character. A new update for the game adds fifty fan and staff created heroes, the ability to carry over some swords in the New Game+ mode, and other fixes....

Yesterday, on the first public day of Comic-Con International in San Diego, Naughty Dog introduced a brand-new co-op mode forUncharted 2called “Gold Rush.” It’s playable at kiosks in the Sony booth on the show floor, though I imagine that you’ll be waiting in line for a while if you want to try it out. In the video below the fold, Naughty Dog PR man Arne Meyer explains how Gold Rush works....

Along with Capcom’s big precense at San Diego Comic-Con comes a blast of game assets for their premiere titles, including theseResident Evil: The Darkside Chroniclesvideos and screenshots. We’ve seen it before, and unless you have the fine eye of a hardcore Resident Evil fan, there’s not much new to see. Some blood, some zombies. Claire. Leon. Spiders. You know the drill. If you’re at San Diego Comic-Con (like Dale and Colette are), you’d have a chance to play the game… and pick up abad ass t-shirt....

Remember us telling you thatselect press were going to get to see Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 cranking out the next generation of game graphicsduring GDC 2011? That happened, and those press members came away impressed. Now you can see some of what they saw in this video. The trailer, called Samaritan, showcases the power of UE3 and DirectX 11 together. IGN says that Epic is releasing this updated Unreal Engine development kit today, March 9th....

A signed copy of the rare Sega Mega Drive gameTetriswould be a great collector’s item, but asking $1 million for it is just silly. This wouldn’t be the first silly price on gaming collectables oneBay, but they claim this copy up for auction is the only signed copy. From the auction listing: If you are a hardcore videogame collector you know what this is: simply a rare if not THE RAREST videogame on earth; a lot has been said about the numbers but is rumored only 3-8 copies exist worldwide....

Waaaaay the eff back in Februarywe discovered that Snoop Dogg would have musical tracks coming toRock Band. The quote from the press release alone was great enough to keep us excited for a few months, but I’m pretty sure everyone forgot about the fact that the tracks were coming. Then someone over at theRock Bandforumswas watching VH1 and saw one of those pop-up ads in the corner that said the tracks would be releasing on Sept....

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, the survival FPS title developed by GSC Game World for the PC, will not hit retail outlets until September 15th due to a “problem in manufacturing.” Instead of something funny like a coffee spill, it is being reported byShacknewsthat the game was recalled. Apparently, GSC Game World forgot to package in one of those pesky CD keys that allow people to play the game. This manufacturing tragedy will also affect the Steam release of the game....

Sony has announced some upcoming management changes today. Kazuo Hirai will be promoted to the position of Chairman at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., effective September 1st, following the retirement of Akira Sato. Taking over Hirai’s position as President and Group CEO will be Andrew House, currently President, CEO and Co-COO at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Also part of the announcement is the news that, effective yesterday, Ken Kutaragi has retired from his position as Honorary Chairman at SCEI....

Thisshouldn’t be a surpriseto anyone who has been paying attention, but now it’s official:Skypefeatures are coming to Sony’s PlayStation Portable. The service will be available through a system software update sometime in late January, and has a similar feature set to the full Skype client. The client will support free voice calls between Skype users, contact management, along with pay SkypeOut (to land lines and mobile phones) and SkypeIn (receive calls from land and mobile lines) services....

Sony’s boss over the Computer Entertainment division, Shuhei Yoshida, says that they’ve learned from the mistakes they made with the PSP. Their path for their next portable, codenamed NGP, is aimed to go above and beyond the simple goals they had for PSP. “Our biggest mistake, I would say, with PSP was we were just so happy to provide the PS2 gaming on the go, and we kind of stopped there,” Yoshida said in an interview withGamespot....

Sony has criticized the practice of platform exclusives, claiming that doing so limits a game’s marketing potential. Obviously this does not extend to Sony itself, which has a cache of impressive exclusives yet to come, includingKillzone 3,Resistance 3andinFAMOUS 2. As far as third-party games go, Sony is all about the multiplatform. “When you make a title exclusive, you limit its promotional power; we don’t want to do that,” said brand manager Scott McCarthy....

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has addressed thePlayStation Network hack attackonce more, asserting that Sony was victimized just for attempting to protect its content. He made the claim are a shareholder meeting, where he was grilled over the PSN situation. “We believe that we first became the subject of attack because we tried to protect our IP (intellectual property), our content, in this case video games,” he said. “These are our corporate assets, and there are those that don’t want us to protect them, they want everything to be free....