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Confession: I think Dakota Fanning and Abigail Breslin are the same person. Of course, they’re not. Fanning is a 14-year-old blonde actress best known for her roles in movies like War of the Worlds andThe Secret Life of Bees. Breslin is a 12-year-old blonde actress who starred in Little Miss Sunshine andNim’s Island. Or maybe it’s the other way around. I don’t know. I do know this (and I doubled checked I had the right actress here, because I’m a serious journalist): Dakota Fanning will be featured in the videogame adaptation ofCoraline....

Getting antsy as we nearWarhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II‘s February 23 launch date? Lucky for you, the sci-fi RTS is getting a beta in a few short weeks, and anyone willing to participate can do so. The beta is happening through Steam, and if you happen to ownDawn of War: Soulstorm, you’ll get access starting January 21. For everyone else, the public release of the beta is happening on January 28....

[Dtoiders CaptainBus and mrandydixon give us the first Debatoid, offering a comprehensive exploration of a pretty interesting topic. Check it out and join the debate. Want to see your own writing on the front page? Write something awesome andput it in the C Blogs. — Kauza] Welcome to Debatoid! We take a controversial topic, form a proposition, and set two contenders the challenge of stating their case in favor of and in opposition to the proposition....

Yesterday you checked out the third installment in ourBoy and His Blobseries,Caves, and if you’re really excited about the game, you might have watched theSwampandForestlevel walkthroughs too. We finish the series today with our walkthrough of the Gearworks level, and you guys get yet another chance to jump in the comments and discuss whether the boy’s voice is adorable or annoying. I vote adorable, but that’s no big shocker. A big thanks to Sean and everyone atWayForwardwho graciously allowed us to visit their offices and took the time to play through these levels for us....

I never know how to write a post when I am asking people to watch a video with me in it. I don’t know; it just makes me sound so …cocky.Let’s just get this over with quickly, since I feel so uncomfortable.If you missed my appearance last night on Spike’sGameTrailers TV, you’re able to catch it all in the above video (it’s a half hour long, so grab some popcorn). On the show, some fellow videogame “insiders” and I discuss the nominees for the Spike VGA Game of the Year (theannual awards showairs tomorrow night at 8 PM EST)....

When we were asked to reviewIron Grip: Warlord, I was intrigued. I hadn’t heard of the game, even though it had already been out for a while, and the idea of a hybrid tower defense/first person shooter interested me. Because we were told that the game really shined in multiplayer mode, I rounded upKnives,ScottyG, andBlindsideDorkand we all checked it out. How did it play? Does the hybridization of the two genres work, or fall flat?...

If you buy a retail version ofDeus Ex: Human Revolutionon PC, you won’t actually need the disc in order to play it. In fact, you won’t need anything at all, because the copies come packaged with a free code for the OnLive version. “Gamers get the best of both worlds — a physical copy for their home PC and an OnLive cloud gaming copy for instant-play anywhere on an HDTV, PC, Mac, and soon iPad and Android tablets,” said OnLive president Steve Perlman said....

The shiny, fancy video we have here makes it really easy to get excited about Eidos’Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I’ve been on board since early this year when we got a first look at what they’re doing with the title. I love the gold and black theme and the moody lighting in this trailer. It never breaks away from this color scheme, but it doesn’t bother me — I think it looks great....

[As originally postedon Japanator] All you Dragon Ball fans can rejoice, for already are there videogames being worked on for the series. The franchise reboot has already kicked off their ancillary marketing campaignby announcingthis upcoming DS title from Monolith Soft, the company behind theXenosagafranchise. For those of you wondering what the hellDragon Ball Kaiis,check out Japanatormore often. But, to give you a short version of the story, they’re going to be rebroadcastingDragon Ball Zin HD over in Japan starting next month, and the show will be re-edited to follow the manga’s storyline more closely....

Wizards of the Coast and SOE are partneringto take the classic paper gameMagic: The Gatheringin an unexpected videogame direction — 3D strategy. We’re sure the cards will still have a role inMagic: The Gathering Tactics, but the above teaser suggests that this is the full-blown 3D realization that dorks have been thinking about since they purchased their first Goat card or collected that full set of foiled Lands. The PC and PS3-bound title was announced yesterday afternoon, but we missed a spot in our coverage....

Kizukorecently interviewedthe king of tasteful game promotion, Denis Dyack, and managed to find out a range of interesting information aboutToo Human, including that it can take between “15 and 80 hours to complete” and that all the loot in the game is “probably not possible to get – not for a single person.” Denis tastefully omitted that shooting your gun in the game is equivalent to using a gun as a ball-jointed doll with a spring loaded into its arm....

There’s a certain nostalgia involved in the idea of meeting up with the neighborhood kids and tossing around the ol’ pig skin.Backyard Football 2009, the newest edition of the best selling kids’ football game, takes a fun-sized approach to the NFL by featuring famous players in their child-like form. Tom Brady is no longer the hulking football superstar that you know today, but the cute little kid with a great throwing arm....

Ah,Sonic. It’s the game that you used to love, and then began to hate, got your hopes up for, and maybe even gave up on. It’s all very sad, really. It’s sad for the Sonic fan, and probably just as bad for Sega’s pocketbook. That’s why Sega is trying to overhaul the whole three-dimensionSonicformula withSonic Unleashed.The game wasn’t quite ready for hands-on yet, but Sega did give us a thorough run-through, showing off the new “unleashed” night time game play for the first time....