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There’s a problem with a lot of Xbox LIVE Arcade Games — their online communities tend to die off before too long. Even the good ones can suffer from this, simply because there’s so many competing XBLA games and people often will pick only a few multiplayer games, usually retail, and stick with them. As noted on Team17’s Facebook of all places,Worms 2: Armageddonreceived a major patch today. Hopefully there are people still actively playing it who will appreciate the work that’s been done....

Sometimes I feel like the last person on Earth who stills loves watchingThe Simpsons, but after seeing what Electronic Arts has done with this amazing cartoon franchise, I expect to see a lot of pastThe Simpsonsfans coming home toSpringfield. With the knowledge that previousThe Simpsonsgames where merely other game concepts withThe Simpsonsname slapped on just to sell it to fans of the show, EA developers decided to make this game truly a monument toThe Simpsonsculture....

(Editor’s Note: The above headline style is hilarious to me, so if you think I’m overusing it, please go to hell. — Nex) On the latest episode ofPodtoid, our ownRob “I haveKirby: Squeak Squadbedsheets” Summaproclaimed that he thought the PSP should have the same kind of tilt-sensitivity that the SIXAXIS does. Of course, he was widely shouted down and his car was later keyed, but it’s an interesting idea, nonetheless....

How am I only now hearing aboutCelestial Mechanica? This beautifully animated game comes to you from the minds of Roger Hicks (rComplex) and Paul Veer (animator of Super Crate Box) and is a “mixture of action, puzzle, exploration and adventure.” And you know what else?It’s only $5(Mac link). Digging the music? You can get the soundtrack after giving it alisten to here. Seriously. I’m super annoyed I’m only now hearing aboutCelestial Mechanica....

Attention all people happily awaiting the arrival of Steam on Mac: you can settle down now. And by that I mean you ought to disband your pitchfork- and torch-carrying mob. Here’s the latest update from Valve, in the company’s exact words: “Valve today announced the public release of Steam for the Mac is May 12. Please stay tuned for more information.” Boom. In case you happen to be wondering, yes, that was the press release in its entirety....

So I wassupposedto hold off on revealing this until tomorrow, but thanks to the folks over at Cryptic Studios I’m able to provide you with this tasty morsel of superheroic news. Today, 2k Games announced their role as the international publisher for Cryptic’s upcoming superhero MMO for the Xbox 360 and PC,Champions Online. Champions Onlinemarks the first MMO published by 2k Games, and while naturally the respective executives are crowing over how happy they are to be working together, it’s not simply lip service....

I turned 23 earlier this week, and as people often do when they grow a year older, I started thinking back to my younger years. I have done a lot of growing up, but there is one thing that has nearly always remained constant: I loved video games, and spent nearly as much time writing and drawing about them as I did playing the games themselves. This morning, my mother surprised me with a big collection of drawings she had saved from my childhood....

Hey you! LikeGTA IV? Love penis? Then you’ll bethrilled to knowthatGrand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damnedcomes complete with a pubic mushroom and all the trimmings. That’s good to know. I can already hear the likes of Jack Thompson andThe Daily Failsalivating, and not just because of the promise of cock. Rockstar has no intention of avoiding controversy, it would seem, and is looking to push the envelope with the first swingin’ donk to grace an Xbox 360....

Thanks toEurogamerfor this. It looks like both,Final Fantasy IIIfor the DS andFinal Fantasy XIIfor the PS2 will be seeing European releases in the not-too-distant future. Well, OK; theFFIIIrelease is in spring 2007. Square Enix is gearing up for a busy first few months of next year – with Final Fantasy III on Nintendo DS now down for release in the spring. That’s in addition, of course, to PlayStation 2’s Final Fantasy XII, which we’re told to expect early in the year....

This past weekend, over 150 students of Parsons New School of Design broke up in to 19 teams for theLittleBigPlanetDesign Jam. The goal? Design and build an original playable level for Media Molecule’s upcoming PlayStation 3 title LittleBigPlanet using the in-game creation tools provided. The catch? Do it in 24 hours. The students worked from noon Saturday to noon Sunday, functioning on nothing but soda, Red Bull, pizza, and their own creativity....

All weekend long you have been hearing stories of people getting shot at, riots, and bitchy store clerks. Well today I have for you a story involving some jerks, a bastard, andexlaxs. so i go tovonsand buy 8 coffees, some food, and some x-lax laxatives. i bring it to my car and put some laxatives in 6 of the coffees andseperatethem from mine and #7s. i pull back towalmartand bring all the drinks and food upfront....

The playground antics of Activision and ex-Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West have been pretty embarrassing overall, but the evil publisher today revealed that it’s always willing to sink one step lower and truly drag us into cringe country. Activision has announced it will be redistributing the money it owes Zampella/West to loyal IW workers as a petty parting shot. “Vince and Jason had very large bonuses; those bonuses are being redistributed to everybody else, to the people who did not allegedly attempt to steal company secrets,” reveals Dam Amrich....

As Tony Ponce pointed out this weekend,Adventure TimeandRegular Showare two modern day cartoons that are packed to the gills withvideogame logic and tributes to gaming culture. Today’s episode ofAdventure Time(scheduled to air at 8pm) looks like it might be the most videogame-est episode of them all. The show’s stars, Jake the dog and Finn the human, end up inside of their videogame console. That transforms them from hand drawn animations to polygon based graphics....