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Confession time — I’ve only installed one user created mod designed to work with the PlayStation 3 version ofUnreal Tournament III. Prior to its release, I was positive that the capability would yield some really interesting results on the console, and was pretty excited to check them out. Then life and work happened. But theseUnreal Tournament IIIcharacter mods by community modder Organ are too ridiculous to ignore. Just check out Master Chief, for instance, who’s looking as good — if not better — than he does inHalo 3on the Xbox 360....

Mega64’sfirst GDC 2010 commercialdidn’t make the cut so they’ve made another commercial and this one definitely appeals to the nerdier side of gaming. Unfortunetly for Mega64, the second ad is just as bad as the first one. Also, fun fact! That guy walking around holding the pizza sign in the backgroundof the firstGDC 2010 ad wasn’t planned at all. It was just some douche cutting his way into the video and the guys had no idea it was happening until it was all over....

Hollywood loves turning videogames into movies. What happens when indie film studios turn indie games into indie movies?! An instant EGOT winner, that’s what. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar AND Tony Award winners. All of them.

Hitman.Kane & Lynch.Freedom Fighters. These aren’t exactly games you’d be comfortable playing with your kids or younger siblings. So when the developer behind those titles, IO Interactive, announcedMini Ninjas— a multi-platform family-friendly title based on an original IP — some gamers were a bit stunned by its direction. What, we can’t choke people with piano wire? “I think that it’s at least partly to do with the fact that we’re getting a little older, and many of us have kids and family now,”Mini Ninja‘s Game Director Jeremy Petreman tells me....

Since you guys likedSembeo sound matrixso much, here’s another spatial sound synthesizer program that lets you create music. This one feels slightly more like a game in that each note has an intended direction to it, so by planning out where collisions will occur you’re able to control more complex sounds, although after a few collisions it’s mostly a case of sitting back and enjoying your song as it takes on a life of its own....

Who would have thought that tiny, simplistic digital life forms could have such ferocious firefights? The above footage is showing off Domination, one of the six multiplayer modes in Introversion Software’s upcoming PC gameMultiwinia: Survival of the Flattest.Multiwiniais the multiplayer-based sequel to Introversion’sDarwinia, and focuses on series protagonists the Darwinians, who have split apart into different warring tribes after the events in the first game and are now referred to as Multiwinians....

PlayStation 3 owners dying to get their hands on some classics are in for a treat. Namco Bandai has announcedNamco Museum Essentials, a digital download title collection that will be released this July. Yes, we’re talking a collection here, includingPac-Man,Galaga,Dig-Dug,Dragon Spirit, andXevious. Also included is the “re-envisioned”Xevious: Resurrection, featuring 1080p visuals and “enhance gameplay for today’s refined shoot’ ‘em up audience.” Hey, that’s you!Namco Museum Essentialswill support trophies, as well as PlayStation Home rewards and worldwide leaderboards....

Here’s something nice to dream about: Sonyis looking intobringing the PlayStation Store to the PSP, eliminating the need to connect the PSP to a PC — instead, you’d just connect via the ‘net and download away. So instead of needing a PC nearby to watch your favorite anime, you now just need to search for the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot. With their bigger pushtowards digital distributionand the greater possibility ofa PSP HDD, the future seems clear for their next console....

Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury News posteda blurbto the Mercury’s technology blog early this morning and the news, while technical, seems mostly positive for fans of Microsoft’s little white (or black, or Spartan …) console. According to Mr. Takahashi, the newest iteration of the motherboard powering the 360 is going to be called Jasper — a name once fitting only for coal miners, and the dogs of coal miners — and will begin fabrication in August of 2008....

I think we’re at that point now where we’ll just have to look at the slowly releasedFinal Fantasy XIIIscreenshots and videos to hold us over until the game’s release. I’m happy to do that as long as they’re new and interesting to look at. Here’s something interesting: hot glasses girl. Meganekko, if you will. Jihl a PSICOM commander and she looks like a bitch. That’s okay, though, as I like my girls with a little attitude....

There’s no escaping the sights and sounds ofJust Dance— not even at San Diego Comic-Con. Ubisoft has announced Just Create forJust Dance 3, a mode in which you record your own dance choreography by way of Kinect, and then challenge your friends like you’d play normally. How scandalous! Just Dance 3and Kinect can now handle four-person simultaneous multiplayer as well. Thankfully, it’s jump-in/jump-out. A handful of new songs were talked about at SDCC:...

So far, Capcom has been rather stingy when it comes to showing footage ofOkamisequelOkamidenin action. Fortunately, that miserly attitude has been made up for with a nice three-minute trailer that looks absolutely bloody gorgeous. And cute. So very, very cute. This DS follow-up to the critically acclaimed PS2 title is promising to be pretty damn hot, and it looks incredibly impressive for a portable title. Anyway, don’t let me keep chatting your face off....

As the year comes closer to an end, the new releases continue to shrink. But that’s a good thing as the last couple of months have been crazy. It’s especially good for people looking forward toPersona 4as that game takes like 500 hours to complete from what I’ve heard. What’s looking sw33t to you this week, Dtoiders? Hit the break to see the short list of releases and trailers for the upcoming games....