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Where’s my “I brake for Chocobos” bumper sticker? I think that’s what a lot of gamers are asking themselves these days. I don’t mean that item in particular, rather, “where are all the gamer related products?” I’ve been noticing in the last month that mainstream companies seem to be lacking in the marketing and designing of products towards adult and child gamers. You would think with video games being the number one form of media today that more brand-name companies would start producing more gamer-related products for sale....

We heard earlier about a potential release date, but now Capcom has confirmed it.Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of the Two Worldswill hit shelves on February 15th, 2011. As you heard yesterday, there will be a Special Edition available for about $70. It will come in a steelbok case featuring exclusive artwork and will hold inside a 12-page comic, a one month subscription to Marvel Digital Comics, and 2 DLC characters, Jill Valentine and Shuma Gorath....

Everybody wants to be happy. But what would happen if everyone actually was? How would we be able to appreciate all the joy without having pain, destruction and misery to put it into context? Would we, through our ultimate happiness, actually be miserable? How would we even know? Thank God we have Happy Cat to look out for us.Meow Meow Happy Fightis the story of how Happy Cat saved us all from a blissful future....

Holy crap! A post about Michael Jackson on a videogame blog that is actuallyrelevantto videogames! That makes a nice change, doesn’t it? It’s being reported that Michael Jackson, otherwise known as the world’s first real Splicer, has a posthumous game in the works. Just after Jackson’s death, rumors about a brand new videogame had started to occur. According toMCV, those rumors are actually true, and the title has been in development for several months....

There’s always been a lot to buy on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and Microsoft is without a doubt hoping you’ll spend as much money as possible buying Games on Demand. Unfortunately though, some have accused the ‘soft of being “deceptive” with the use of their proprietary MicrosoftBanana Dollarspoints system, wherein players must first buyBanana Dollarspoints that are then used to pay for DLC, Avatar accessories, games, and other such trivialities. In fact, fanboys for Sony’s PSN crow that their store displays prices in real money and not according to someBanana Dollarpoint conversion rate....

Japan seriously gets the best limited edition sets ever. Case in point, theMiles Edgeworth: Perfect Prosecutorlimited edition setlooks simply amazing. The limited edition package is coming with all of this win: That’s all cool, right? Well that’s not all! You’ll also be receiving thisMiles Edgeworthtea cupfor pre-ordering the game. Yes, a f*cking tea cup. How awesome is that? And don’t forget about the limited editionMiles EdgeworthDSithat’s coming out too. The unit is going for $240 and comes with the game....

This isthe best storyyou’ll read all day, guaranteed. A young man from Deltona is currently sitting in jail after assaulting his mother with ataco. According to reports, 54-year-old Dena Moir turned her 19-year-old son’s Xbox 360 off, and he threw the delicious Mexican snack in her frail face, making sure to also call her, and I quote, “a retard.” I told you this story was good. The trouble started when young Zachery refused to come downstairs for dinner, despite being called a number of times....

Thanks to everyone who participated last month — we got a bunch of wonderful entries, and I’m glad to see more people writing blogs who haven’t written them in the past. Let’s keep it up for March! This month, I’d like you to write something about game difficulty. As the last few Musings have been, the topic is wide open. Some suggestions include (but are not limited to): Are games easier or harder than they used to be?...

A lot of you really liked theHalo: Reachbeta. In fact, more people played theReachbeta on day one than the entirety ofHalo 3’sbeta period. Just the first week alone saw 14 million games played with over 157 million kills committed. That’s a total of 29 years of game time, folks. This is the final week of theHalo: Reachbeta and the last gametype is now available. My boys at Machinima give you a basic overview of the new modes in the video above....

Those of you who read DToid like a priest reads a Bible might recalla recent pieceI constructed in which I discussedan interviewconducted by MTV’s Stephen “The Kurt Loder of Gaming” Totilo in which he was consistently sidestepped by Nintendo’s Perrin “Descriptive Nickname” Kaplan. Try as he might, Mr. Totilo just couldn’t seem to pin her down on any one subject, and Ms. Kaplan demonstrated the lithe agility of a greased puma in dodging anything that might make the House of Mario seem less than sacrosanct....

Developers might be shanking their own grandmothers right now for a chance to hop aboard the motion control gravy train, butUncharteddeveloper Naughty Dog isn’t so keen, at least for its flagship franchise. If you were hoping to bring a little waggle into Nathan Drake’s life, you’ll be waiting for quite some time. “We really don’t have any interest in using the motion control to do a third-person action game,” says Naughty Dog boss Evan Wells....

Straight from the mustachioed mouths ofJeux-Francecome some newFinal Fantasy VII Crisis Corescans, courtesy of Famitsu and Dengeki Playstation. Check out some of Niero’s handiwork for a fewolder scansfrom earlier this month. New details about the battle system were also released, but more on that later. Say what you will about the PSP or Square-Enix spinoffs, but this game looks fantastic. The art style looks similar too, but not quite like that ofFinal Fantasy XII, and I doubt that anyone can say that’s a bad thing....

Nothing like playing a video game with cartoon graphics in High Definition. Maybe if they converted the old Bugs Bunny cartoons into HD we could finally see their genitals hiding under all that fur. Yes, I know I’m sick for thinking that but don’t deny you’ve thought about it at some point too.New from Insomniac studios is the trailer for the upcoming PS3 game,Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. Hit the video above to check it out....