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Famitsu magazine has the first details on a new character forTekken Tag Tournament 2.Her name is JC, and she’s some kind of acrobatic wrestler. She’s that masked girl that you might have seen from earlier trailers ofTTT2.Andriasangsays that JC uses an acrobatic form or wrestling that makes use of her full body. I say that she looks ridiculous. Famitsu also gives some details on the gameplay system. You’ll select two characters before a fight, and you’ll be able to switch between the two for combos, hence the game’s name....

(Editor’s Note: The above video doesn’t really have much to do with the comic, but it IS from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, er, kind of. It comes courtesy ofOvertime Comedyand it’s way funnier if you had seen the original show. — Nex) The 80s were a decade ruled byThe A-Team, The Chicago Bears and a new video game company from Japan called Nintendo. Along with having a system that undeniably dominated the home console space for most of the decade, Nintendo also branched out into other realms of marketing releasing everything from theSuper Mario Bros....

A group of marketing materials forEarthboundwas recently picked up on eBay by a gamer known as “Jesse” and, like a good gamer, he shared his good fortune with the internet. Once of the more interesting pieces includes a retailer book with information about the upcoming game to encourage stores to carry it. As you may see above, one of the encouragements used was the promise of a $2 million marketing push aimed at a youth demographic....

I don’t know what it is with you people. You think any game that involves aiming, shooting, swinging, shuffling, kicking, punching, poking, or pulling would be great on the Wii. So when rumors spread across the Internet that Portal might be ported to Nintendo’s console, ya’ll went wild. Sorry guys — right now, it’s a no go. “It’s an extremely interesting idea,” Valve’s Doug Lombarditold CVG, “but there’s nothing in product — not yet, anyway....

Nick is the Editor-in-Chief of one of the largest gaming news outlets out there, so this kind of suckage is inexcusable. Laughable. He’s one of those guys that only knows how to mash down on the gas pedal button. I can’t believe he runs this website. I’m kidding. This is just payback. Honestly, he has beat me at every game we’ve ever played against each other. It just felt good to see that he sucked so hard atGran Turismo 5....

Next week,underratedNintendo 64 gamePokémon Snapwill be coming to the Wii’s Virtual Console in Japan. While this is not really news unto itself (unless you secretly adore the game like me), whatisexciting is the fact that the game will come with some surprise Wii online functionality. All the pictures taken in the addictive on-rails “shooter” will be able to be posted to your Wii message board and sent to any of your Address Book buddies....

We’ve seen all sorts of retarded “advergames” over the years, but I think this one truly takes the cake. At least witYo Noid,Cool SpotorDoritos Dash of Destruction, they were advertising products that would appeal directly to gamers. Old Spice? Not so much. Nevertheless, the insane, twisted, hideous offspring of Old Spice and gaming has slithered onto the Indie Games channel of Xbox Live. Not one, not two, but three games are available for download —Old Spice Racers,Newton vs....

Yesterdaywe posted the announcementthatOutRun Online Arcadewas coming to the PSN and XBLA platforms next year. We also would have had a sparkly new trailer to go with it but, well, Total Video Converter is a useless piece of sh*t and I’m gladI illegally downloadedI was given it legally. Now packing Clone2Go which is free and not useless, I bring you the trailer forOutRun, with speeding cars and pumped up music to get you pumped for the pumping pumpery that is OutRun....

One of my all-time favorite PlayStation games,PaRappa The Rapper, is making a comeback … yes. I’ve actually asked for it on a few occasions, so it’s good someone is listening. You see, Sony announced today that the original PaRappa The Rapperis coming to the PlayStation Portable in July. Maybe this PSP won’t go away after all: Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) announced today the North American release of PaRappa The Rapper(TM), an iconic character-based music and hip-hop game, available in July 2007 for PSP(R) (PlayStation(R)Portable)....

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby! Persona 3is going portable, jumping from the PlayStation 2 to the PSP. This was confirmed in the latest Famitsu, who also says that there will be a new main character — a female. In the scan, you can see this main character as well as what appears to be a female persona. We’re withSiliconerain saying that this looks like a female Orpheus. I don’t know what all of this is about, but I hope a sex change was not involved....

It’s that time again, folks: I’m here to give you yourweekly listof what Sony has brought to the PlayStation Store. For the first Thursday in September 2008, we’ve got a number of noteworthy additions to the Store, including thefourth episode ofQore, Sony’s “digital magazine” featuring the one and only Veronica Belmont. The $2.99 episode includes a month of exclusive access to theMotorStorm: Pacific Riftdemo, among other goodies. Next up is a new full retail game,NFL Head Coach 09....

I have a long and happy history with theWormsseries of games. Many a night that should have been spent studying for my college classes was frittered away with my dorm roommate in epic duels ofWorms 2. Similarly, I have played just about every iteration since. So, yeah,Wormsholds a special place in my heart. That’s why I was so excited to have the opportunity to preview the latest game in the series....

The sequel toPrey— that portal-driven first-person shooter with vagina-looking alien doors — has been a long time coming. The latest issue of French magazineJoystickhas the game on its cover, meaning we should hear the first details soon. Outside of what the cover tells us, we don’t know anything about the game yet. It’ll feature at least one gun and aliens, that much is confirmed. We also know that the rights for the title have shifted from 2K Games to Bethesda, who was snapping upPrey-related trademarksway back in 2009....