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It really is a crying shame thatLittleBigPlanethas hadpoor salesthus far. The title offers a dizzying array of tools for creative individuals to run free, and when you marry brilliant minds with the game’s level editor, you get an endless stream of amazing work. Exhibit A came weeks before the full game was even released: a crafty programming genius built acalculatorcapable of performing addition and subtraction, and the world was blown away....

It seems that theMGS4boost wasn’t enough to give Sony any perpetual sales momentum in Japan, as Nintendo has left the competitioneating its dust. Nintendo’s little white waggle box is currently outselling the black box of Blu-ray 3:1, leaving the fight for first place in the Land of the Rising Sun more like holding a midget at arm’s length and, to quote Ricky Gervais, “steadily kicking him in the bollocks.” That said, Sony can at least claim victory in the handheld market, as the PSP is still outselling the DS....

Yeah, the US economy sucks and the dollar is weak. As gamers (and poor people) we don’t like to hear about that. It makes regularly purchasing $60 videogames with a clear conscience a bit more difficult. If you’re anything like me, you try to pretend that you don’t know about it. Ignorance is bliss, right? Our buddyMichael Pachter brings it back up, though. TheWedbush Morgan analyst says that its really the weak dollar, and not production problems or component shortages, that is causing the Wii hardware shortage....

[Update]Congratulations to Joshua Hudson and Luigi Takes Over. They are each getting a pair of Distant Worlds tickets for the Atlanta show on May 6. For everyone else, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is offering up a nice deal to all of you Dtoiders! Instead of purchasing the ticket through Ticketmaster, just get in contact with the Group Sales department instead where you’ll be given a 10% discount on the ticket price....

Exactly one month ago, 2K Gamesheld a contestasking all willing designers to come up with the cover art forBioShock Limited Edition. Afternarrowing downthe submissions to a lowly 12 finalists, a panel of judges from 2K and Irrational choose their 3 favorite designs. The winning cover art (pictured above) was created byAdam Meyerwho will be receiving a copy ofBioShockfor PC and Xbox 360, plus an all-expense paid trip to the game’s launch party in August....

At age 28, WWE Superstar Randy Orton is already at the top of professional wrestling, or as some prefer to call it, sports entertainment. Born into a family of wrestlers, Orton quickly accelerated through the ranks since his debut in early 2000, participating in televised storylines that had him besting wrestling legends — Ric Flair and Mick Foley, among others. Known as the “Legend Killer,” Orton is now a legend in his own right....

Liked the Working Designs scrpit forLunar: The Silver Starwhen it was released on the PlayStation some years back? Well, don’t expect that same translation to be in the upcoming PSP version. If whatRPG Landis saying is true, XSEED is looking to ditch the Working Designs translation and do their own. That’s not to say that the XSEED translation won’t be good. It could be great. Hell, they could make it better by spending time to weed out all of the dated pop culture references that Working Designs pumped into the PS1 version....

In D3Publisher’s wildest dreams, Matt Hazard is an established videogame character, with best-selling titles dating back to the 80s. In reality, Matt Hazard’s first videogame appearance was on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 earlier this year, withEat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. Again, Hazard wasn’t really returning fromanything, but it sure is a hell of a lot more fun to buy into the game’s backstory. The self-referential shooter parodied videogame cliches with varied success, with tongue-in-cheek nods to everything from the role playing game genre to inane (and sometimes obvious) in-game tutorials....

Do you really likeHalo? Are you frustrated by the amount of open space in your home which is going to waste, when it could be filled with perfectly good plastic crap? Don’t worry. 20th Century Fox is here to help. Clearly still wanting a big slice of theHalomoney-cake after theimplosionof its proposed movie, Fox has just signed a deal with Microsoft putting it in charge of worldwide merchandise licensing for the franchise....

With the next Bond film dead in the water until MGM gets its act together, the world isn’t going to be getting any new Bond action for quite some time (even Jeffery Deaver penned book is a good ways off). Except in the form of a videogame;Blood StoneandGoldenEye 007are all we’re going to get. With that fact in mind, I wondered how important the games were becoming to not only the mythos of Bond, but the franchise as a whole....

Looking to downloadRecord of Agarest Warfrom the PlayStation Network? Make sure you have some hard-drive space available, because this one’s a whopper! The downloadable strategy RPG, originally a full retail title, willchomp up ten gigsof your HDD according to the game’s North American publisher Asksys Games. Wow. “I asked around, and it looks like the final size is going to be somewhere around 8-10 gigs,” says an Aksys forum administrator. “It sounds like a lot, I know, but I’ve been downloading the debug ROMs at home to take the load off our office internet, and they only take a few hours–I usually start them when I leave for work, and they’re done by lunch....

This is a picture of some rocks. There’s nothing amazing or awesome about these rocks. They’re just normal rocks. So what the hell is this doing on Art Attack Friday? Well to one individual over at the newly startedWeb site called Foodomain, these rocks are simply more than just normal rocks. Foodomain saw these rocks and wanted to see how they would look like as different videogame art styles. FromThe Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Vice City, Mega Man, Silent Hill, Half-Life 2, Zork Iand to many more, Foodomain rendered these rocks as they would appear in various videogames....

This week’s Art Attack Friday artist articulates most of her love for the line of signature Square Enix characters. Mujia Liao (aka yukikominazuki) is a Canadian animator with a pro handle at injecting voluminous color in her work. Commited with fresh linework and rich color palettes, works likeBlood Festfeaturing Vincent (shown above) powerfully beam with character. While she certainly covers the main range ofFinal Fantasy VIIfolk, my favorite works of her are definitely theHirada Remix(which is gushing with cute) and her dramatic and monochromatic portrait of Manga super starNa Na....