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505 Games’ cutesy, ultraviolentNaughty Bearhas multiplayer. This was news to me, and realistically, it’s likely the first you’re hearing of it too. The online component is comprised of four modes, all of which are shown in the attached trailer. “Assault” has two teams either attacking or defending a statue; “Cake Walk” involves players holding onto a cupcake for as long as possible; in “Golden Oozi,”only kills with the titular weapon count; and then there’s “Jelly Wars”: three bears bring jelly deserts to a mixer before a fourth player can kill them....

AnAliens vs. Predatormultiplayer demo is hitting the Internet tomorrow, and here are three screenshots to herald its arrival. After months of waiting, I finally get to see if this game is any good. I have the Hunter Edition on pre-order so this bitch better not let me down. In any case, the game has so many different modes that at least some of them have to be great. With three single-player campaigns, a horde mode, and a whole bunch of different multiplayer games, my hope is thatAvPwill have something for everybody....

Rejoice! Despite doubthaving been castover the presence of dedicated servers inAliens vs. Predator, developer Rebellion has today announced that the cross-species slaughterfest will support them. Looks like PC gamers shan’t be needing to sign any petitions for this one. “Despite rumors, Rebellion has always been planning to support dedicated servers forAvPPC and we can now officially confirm that this is the case,” says CEO Jason Kingsley. “Rebellion has always appreciated fan support....

Here’s another reason to lust after this Smartphone with game controls. They had me at PSOne Classics, but exclusives on other hot games helps. Developer Mojang toldGamasutrathat this PC port will come to Xperia Play before it comes to any other Android phones. Of course, this version ofMinecraftwill be customized to work with the Xperia Play’s controls and buttons. For now we have no pricing or length of time on the exclusivity of the Xperia Play version....

It looks like Realtime Worlds is serious about launching thisAPBgame they’ve been talking about for a million years. The publisher has started started accepting applications to the game’s beta program. They’re looking for people to meet certain criteria, so you’ll have to answer a few questions. Questions about your marital status or how many children you have, for instance. Maybe if you’re married with children, they’ll assume you don’t have time to play an MMO and should be spending more time with your family… jerk....

Right in time for Comic Con, Ubisoft has announced that anAssassin’s Creedcomic book mini-series is in development. The series is being illustrated by Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl, and will be revealed at Comic Con next week during a panel entitled “Assassin’s Creed: Behind and Beyond the Brotherhood.” Don’t care forAssassin’s Creed? The panel will be moderated by the lovely Morgan Webb of G4TV, so that’s a thing. The mini-series is part of Ubisoft Montreal’s “UbiWorkshop,” an initiative that will bring the studio’s properties to mediums outside of games....

IfGametap is the whoreof video game content delivery, then Richard Branson’s unfortunately namedAWOMO(A World of My Own) is thenew kid on the block. Thispoor, dumpy kidwill inevitably get beat up, even though it’s only a matter of time before everyone starts rolling out their ownmetaverses— and then it will seem likesecond nature. Ars Technicareports more details on the partnership between Virgin Games and Game Domain International (GDI), that Branson claims will “do for PC games what iTunes has done for music” by integrating faster content delivery with a virtual world interface....

As part of some kind crazy limited supply promotion,Best Buy will be dishing out “exclusive bonus tracks”forGuitar Hero IIIfor anyone willing to order Metallica’s upcoming CD,Death Magnetic. It isn’t clear as to what tracks can be downloaded via Best Buy’s instructions, but one would assume that a few Metallica tracks would be included with the package. Best Buy didn’t mention having to actually listen to the CD or taking it out of the wrapper, which should take some of the pain out of the purchase....

WhileBlackmight not have blown people away as much as the hype leading up to might have made us believe it would, it was still a technically impressive FPS and those behind it showed true potential. So it shouldn’t be that surprising that people are looking forward to the devs behind it next game, whichOXMseems to have accidentally outed. In a post that has since been taken down (hereis the Google cache) the magazine’s online component announced that the next issue would be revealing all about the game....

Carcassonneis the secondboard gameto be turned into an Xbox Live Arcade title. As always, it’ll be available this Wednesday for, you guessed it, 800 Microsoft Points. If you’re one of those guys that enjoysCarcassonnein real life, you’ll be pleased to know that its virtual counterpart will include the “Rivers II” expansion set and both online and offline multiplayer. For everyone else: this game supports the Live Vision camera, so I think you know what to expect....

If there’s one person who you can trust when it comes to gaming technology, it’s John Carmack. In an interview withIndustryGamers, the id Software programming god shared his thoughts on the gaming landscape of the future. A future in which the role of mobile platforms and cloud gaming will be a huge one. Noting how at the start ofRage‘s development the iPhone didn’t even exist, he shares his thoughts on the current state of mobile devices: “One thing that we hear a lot, especially from our older developers, is, ‘I don’t spend a lot of time sitting down in front of my 360 or PS3, but I pull out my iPad and play some little game all the time....

After so much anticipation, it was a rotten start for the brilliantCastle Crashers, riddled as it still is with online connectivity issues and corrupted save data. One of those issues, the online co-op, has been fully acknowledged by The Behemoth, who areworking with Microsoftto release a patch for the game soon. “When we went through testing, Microsoft approved all our network code and we had no problems at all. There are those things in real-world scenarios that we couldn’t account for,” claimed art director Dan Paladin....

Nicalis, the publisher ofCave Story,Ika-Chan, andLa-Mulana, is planning to put a newCave Storyt-shirton sale with all the proceeds going towards helping Japan recover from the recent Earthquakes/Tsunami and the coinciding fallout from said disasters. I’d be buying this shirt anyway, but knowing that my sale will go towards helping the Japanese people through this time of crisis is just the icing on the cake. Nicalis is still wondering how much to sell the shirts for....