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“Pixels” is a short film which popped up about a month ago featuring classic game characters breaking out of a television and wreaking havoc through New York City. It was pretty damn cool. So cool, in fact, that Adam Sandler’s production company, Happy Madison Productions, has partnered with “Pixels” creator Patrick Jean to develop a feature film based on the concept. According to Heat Vision, Happy Madison is currently in talks with Columbia, with whom they have a “first-look” deal....

Over the years, the prestige surrounding “arcade stick” controllers has ballooned into something epic. Back in the days of the NES Advantage, stick controllers were made to help ease old-school gaming fans, who weren’t as comfortable with the NES “joypad,” into the new world of gaming. Like the Wii’s Classic Controller, these sticks were relatively cheap and easy to come by, and were made specifically for people who weren’t too keen on Nintendo’s latest innovation in game control....

The firstLost Planetwas a great game. Unfortunately, I got really bored with it about a quarter of the way into the game and never touched it again. Even though I got bored with the first one, I’m really looking forward toLost Planet 2. The four player co-op aspect of it is what’s really selling me on the game. Being able to blast giant bugs and ride in mechs with three of my buddies looks like a blast....

Once upon a time, two-dimensional “run-and-gun” shooters were a staple of the gaming landscape. But after being granted the immersion and strategic variety available in the third dimensions, it looked like the days of running to the right and holding down the fire button could end. Thankfully, that hasn’t happened yet and the genre now appears to be going through something of a renaissance as gameplay elements from their 3D cousins find themselves tucked into that comfortable old format to create experiences simultaneously familiar and fresh....

The tactical shooter is a sub-genre that has existed for many years as a more “hardcore” alternative to mainstream first- and third-person shooters. Often marked by squad-based, stealthy combat, and a more deliberate pace than theHalos andCall of Dutys of the world, the tactical shooter offers an ostensibly closer approximation of the nature of real-life military operations. Zipper Interactive is the home of theSOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALsfranchise, one of the longest-running tactical shooter series on the market....

Yes, I’m reusing the pic. Gimme a break. No one got the joke last time, anyway. In aquick post on the PlayStation.Blogthat went up at around 7:30 PM EDT yesterday evening, Eric Lempel, the Director of PlayStation Network Operations, let us know that system software v2.35 for the PS3 would be going live “shortly”. I can now confirm for you that the update has been put up; it is currently available for download through your XMB....

Sony will not fold under the pressure of reduced console prices this holiday season. In a recent interview withVideoGamer, Sony Computer Entertainment managing director Ray Maguire confirmed that Sony is not prepared to slash PlayStation 3 prices and fully expects the console to compete this holiday season with the lower-priced Xbox 360 Arcade and the Wii. From the interview: At the moment there’s a marketplace for PS3 and I think for this particular Christmas, with the kind of quality of games we’re seeing coming out this Christmas, I don’t think the price of the console is going to be an issue at all....

Sony’s pricing of PlayStation Move is pretty clever. They can get away with saying that the Move experience costs less than $100, since theSports Championsbundle — which comes with the game, the PlayStation Eye camera, and the wand — retails for $99.99. (And if you already have the camera, the wand itself is $49.99.) But technically, in order to have access to thefullrange of Move games, you’ll want to shell out an additional $29....

Rare used to be the darling of the videogame world, with its contributions to Nintendo systems being hailed as some of the greatest and most memorable adventures of all. It’s so sad to hear somebody from Rare now suggest that nobody knows about the studio anymore. Still, theUK studio has hopenow that Peter Molyneux is in charge of Microsoft creative shenanigans. “It’s great that he’s been promoted into this new creative position and encompassing Lionhead and Rare as well,” states head of animation Louise Ridgeway....

The first bit of downloadable content for Capcom’sResident Evil 5, ‘Versus Mode,’ is nowavailable in North America. It is not available, however, in Germany. According to aEurogamer.dereport (viaVG247), the content failed to get a content rating in the country, thus preventing its release. The four-player oriented zombie busting DLC — weighing in at ahealthy1.86 megabytes — doesn’t have a different level of violence than the content already included on the disc, which makes this sort of funny:Resident Evil 5was rated and released in Germany....

Let’s play the word association game withVolition’sRed Faction Guerrilla. I’ll start. Fire, ostrich, crumble, break, topple, catastrophic … story? That’s right folks, you heard it here first.Red Faction Guerrillahas a story. The only reason I know this — I didn’t read Nick’sundoubtedly awesome preview— is because of Volition’s latest developer diary for the game discusses it. (Psst: knowledge is power.) you may view the diary after the break. The game’s writer, Drew Holmes, narrates it....

Game developers have made no secret of their hatred of the used game market, but few people have vocalized it in such harsh terms as InstantAction CEO Louis Castle. According to him, retailers such as GameStop are parasites and thieves. “I still love making big traditional games that make a lot of money, and I want to think about different ways we can keep making those games,” says Castle, who currently makes Facebook games....

Eurogamerwas told by a UK retailer that the upcoming model “is a definite for October.” This backs up two other tips they received on the matter from other retailers. No information on what the bundles will include for sure, though a bundle withFifa 10has been leaked and anAssassins Creed IIbundle has been rumored. The source says that Sony is planning on revealing the bundle/bundles at TGS this year. Sony has, of course, declined to comment on the matter....