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Actually using the marketplace like maybe it should be used, Lexus and Atari have formed an unholy alliance and have just released a new,FREE, roster of cars from the Lexus line to players. Here are thedetails: Atari has formed a new partnership with luxury automaker Lexus to bring a free “Lexus Car Pack” download for Test Drive: Unlimited to Xbox Live Marketplace beginning today. The initial car pack will include the Lexus GS 450h hybrid-powered sport sedan and the Lexus LS 460 sedan....

Apologies in advance if this post seems thrown together and isn’t super informative, because that’s exactly what it is. I was gone on vacation until very recently, the forums went down, which halted our planning for Friday Night Fights, and now a metric ton of E3 news has made for one incredibly hectic Friday. So, rather than being vaguely organized like normal, we’re going to have to do things a little differently tonight....

Ever sinceit was revealed to me(yesterday),Game Center CX: Arino’s Challengehas become my own personal video game equivalent of theMo-dettes: absolutely no one’s heard of it, it’s amazing and bringing it up in casual conversation will either make you look like a pretentious douche or the coolest person since Steve McQueen. Since I’m assuming very few of you have heard of it either, here’sGame|Life’s rundownof some of the minigames it contains. The title is sort of an improvedWarioware, based ona Japanese television show....

Last week’sSuper Smash Bros.leveldebatewas one of the closest game debates we’ve ever had. At first the Saffron City stage received a burst of votes, but then Sector Z surged to the top. Then, out of nowhere, a wave of Hyrule votes turned the discussion into a three way tie. Proving yet again that everyone’s vote counts, here are the incredibly close top results: As promised, this week we move on to the next game in the series:Super Smash Bros....

“It’s worth checking out to play with the swing mechanics and to see the game’s impressive visuals,” Conrad wrote in the Destructoid review ofBionic Commando, “but I wouldn’t recommend wasting more than a few hours on it and can’t encourage anyone to pay retail price for the opportunity.” Well, now you don’t have to. It looks like Capcom’s poor sales of the title are your gain. Today retailer GameStop has dropped the price ofBionic Commandofor the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to $19....

Word on the street is thatGears of War 2is going to get yet another piece of downloadable content on top of next week’sSnowblind map pack. A user over on the game’s official forums stumbled across the above Asian Xbox LIVE Marketplace product page, but the forum post has since been deleted. Dark Corners, according to the image above, appears to be the next DLC forGears 2. While I don’t think it’s impossible that this could be another map pack, I do think it’s unlikely....

Considering how excitable I get around games I am looking forward to, this is actually the first time I had gone hands on withGears of War 3and been given a chance to do an interview. Despite being awesome I still only got to play beast mode and the Microsoft boys are still keeping pretty tight lipped about the story both on and off camera. Spoil-sports, but at least he agrees with me… CARMINE MUST LIVE!...

Do you like free stuff? Of course you do. Sometimes you even take free stuff when you don’t want it, simply because it is free. Atrain whistlemight be a good example of this. Well, if you’re in the mood to get something free that you may or may not want and you own a PSP then Sony has got a deal for you. To get people excited for thePSP’s digital comic store, which is landing next month, the company isgiving away a free comic....

Man,Portal. That was a long time ago; probably further back than you remember. The prolonged lifespan ofTeam Fortress 2has you all confused. It is now 2010, and the Internet dwellers have only just stopped going on about how the dessert is malarkey. Let’s keep it that way, please. The Xbox LIVE Arcade version of the game has dropped down in price to $10 temporarily. Yep,this is another oneof those deal of the week promos....

The human imagination is a real magnificent and powerful thing. Like for instance, when I look at a cloud, I sometimes see kittens and bunnies. This writerover on game-ismis the same way. Except, instead of clouds and kittens, he sees GlaDOS as a woman hanging upside down and bound up. This take on GlaDOS is really interesting, and slightly erotic. Game-ism believes that GlaDOS wants to be killed by Chell, the main character ofPortal....

Ooh, here’s a terrific one. Good Old Games is offering Double Fine’s belovedPsychonautsfor $2.49 on this otherwise yuckiest of yucky days. The sale isgood for today only, but it should be an impulse buy for anyone still on the fence. The game is certainly not perfect, don’t get me wrong — it is, however, one of those rare universal titles that everyone who actively enjoys gaming ought to try. If you’re one to wait until the last possible moment, realize that this discount ends on Thursday, February 24 at 10:00 AM EDT....

Today’s a good day to look at some absolutely gorgeousElder Scrolls V: Skyrimscreenshots. Of course, every day is a good day for that, but only today have we got some new ones for you. In this humble gallery of new images, you’ll get to gawp at snow, a man about to blast a wolf in its stupid wolf face, and a spooky cave that is so scary, you’ll do a poo in your pants....

Today marks the 11th anniversary ofDeus Ex, the greatest game of all time and a product of the ’90s that blew away PC gamers and future developers when it was released. While its non-linearity, immersive world, and narrative approach were revolutionary and hugely influential for a first-person game at the time, it’s not exactly remembered for having the best voice acting. What better way to end the weekend than a recollection of some of the finest moments inDeus Ex?...