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If you missed Maurice Tan’s preview of Ronimo Games’ 2D multiplayer battle arena gameAwesomenautslast week you’re in luck, that is if you’re attending this year’s gamescom in Germany. For the first time all sixAwesomenautswill be playable on the show floor for this upcoming PSN and XBLA download. gamescom patrons also get an exclusive previewing of a new cinematic featuring theAwesomenautsdone in the style of 80’s cartoon-intros. If the trailer is half as awesome as the music in theirE3 trailerattendees are in for treat....

[When we’re looking for blogs on a specific topic, we’ll put out a Bloggers Wanted call. Check out the blog prompt, write your own response in the Community Blogs and tag it with the “Bloggers Wanted Essay Response” tag, and you may see your blog promoted to the front page.— JRo] I think this week is going to produce some contentious blogs and, to be perfectly honest, I’m kind of excited about it....

TheWashington Posttells us about a Canadian-developed video game that aims to demonstrate what it’s like to drive drunk. Developer Jim Parker, a digital-media professor at the University of Calgary, says that the goal is to make teens think twice before mixing vehicles with vodka or any other type of booze. With the help of some of his students, Parker hopesBooze Cruisewill be used in schools and by police to prevent teens from doing this in advance....

If you’re hungry for fast food, but also need a way to burn off those calories, Burger King and Microsoft have got your covered. If you’re hungry for fast food, but also need a way to burn off those calories, Burger King and Microsoft have got your covered. {{page_break}} The fast food giant has teamed up with the folks in Redmond to giveaway a slew of Kinect merchandise, promising to give away one Kinect for Xbox 360 Prize pack every 15 minutes online....

A researcher, Jim Karle, at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada recentlyreleased a studythat claims that gaming directly benefits short term memory. In his studies so far, it seems that gamers complete memory-based tests faster and with fewer errors than those who do not game. One could argue that his study has a somewhat low sample size, or that it takes place in Canada (where people are bred for their delicious brains), but this is definitely a nice juxtaposition from the recent (and prolonged) media saturation of the violence that gamers cause....

Oh, how I loves me the board games. And I especially love it when board games come to videogame consoles because it means I don’t have to make a mess and then clean it up or even have an appropriately-sized table to play them on. Or friends, for that matter. So it is that the classic board game about medieval France made by Germans (who probably know France better than anyone, if you think about it) will bemaking its wayto Nintendo’s handheld....

Sony Online Entertainment’s PlayStation 3 and PC MMODC Universe Onlinecould be available either late 2009 or early 2010. At least the guy that penned the game’s overall script various DC comics thinks so. In an interview withMTV Multiplayer, Geoff Johns may have let the release cat out of the bag, but he also had something to add to the collective knowledge ofDC Universe’sprogress. The main story arc is finished. From the interview:...

[Here’s our own Tim Sheehy’s exclusive first look at the upcoming release build of Hazardous Software’s Achron. -Josh Tolentino] For those of you who may not be familiar with the title,Achronpresents real-time strategy with a bit of a twist. Rather than only functioning in real-time, it introduces the element of free-form time travel, effectively making it the first meta-time strategy game ever developed. In short, thinkStarcraftmeetsTerminator. How does that work exactly?...

Yesterday was a grand day. I got a little brown box delivered to my door. Looking at the label, I noticed the Gamecock logo and squealed with glee. This could only mean one thing: My much-anticipated copy ofDementium: The Wardhad arrived. I quickly wrapped up my work for the day, settled onto my sofa with cat and headphones, turned out the lights and prepared to immerse myself. Before I begin my review I have to stress something for the readers: Playing this game without headphones is a crime....

I love the smell of commerce in the morning. Ever since I first started working in retail all those years ago, Black Friday has been my favorite day of the year. The lines of people banging at the gates, waiting to consume en masse, willing to do just about anything to save some cash on their holiday shopping, fill my soul with something I can only identify as patriotism. The raw energy of the day is just thrilling....

Withan anticipated release date of March 16,Dragon Age: Origins — Awakeningis ramping up the hype quite nicely. Today, we get a short introduction to Velanna, who joinsthe previously-featured Andersin the “Guild of Mages Who Totally Have Some Beef With Everybody.” I’m glad to have more mages available to me inAwakening— between Alistair, Sten, Oghren, Shale, and the warhound (I named mine Nanook), the original was on warrior overload. As you’ll see, this “trailer,” is only about 40 seconds long....

The four winners of Dream.Build.Play 2009 — an annual competition — areDust: An Elysian Tail,HurricaneX2 Evolution,Max Blastronaut, andRotor’scope — The Secret of the Endless Energy. In its third year running, Microsoft’s Dream.Build.Play competition gives good Xbox LIVE Indie Games developers a crack at creating an Xbox LIVE Arcade title (or titles) and, at the very least, lines their pockets with mad cash. This year’s competition — much like 2008’s — has a prize pool of $75,000 that the winners share....

In just a few minutes (9:00 a.m. PST) we will start our liveblog of the Nintendo press conference. You can hit the jump to follow along using this fancy new liveblogging software I just downloaded on my computer. It’s fancy! I am going to try my best to contain my excitement, but if they announcePikmin 3, be prepared for more smiley faces than you have ever seen in your entire life....