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Being able to customize your Xbox 360 may sound like a good idea, but when it comes down to paying for the privilege, it appears that gamers would rather spend elsewhere. Microsoft has admitted that nobody bothered to buy 360 faceplates, and the accessory is being phased out. “We don’t ever create an accessory with the intent of having it fail,” says global marketing boss Albert Penello. “The idea wasn’t bad … people used to put faceplates on their cell phones....

The Last Storydeveloper Mistwalker has thanked fans forOperation Rainfall— a huge effort undertaken by fans who want to seeXenoblade,The Last StoryandPandora’s Towerget confirmed release dates in North America. “We appreciate all your support. Tears,” Tweeted the studio, in between personal thanks to various folk who have contacted them. Operation Rainfall has kickstarted a letter writing campaign aimed at Nintendo of America, and has spread the word across various game sites, social networks and Youtube....

Shocker, right? Arguably the biggest game release of this year wound up being the one most stolen? Hard to imagine. Yet that’s exactly what the people at TorrentFreak are claiming. Their yearly research into the games people love to steal has found that the first-person shooter hit the top of both the PC and Xbox 360 lists for most unauthorized downloads with 4.1 million and 970,000 downloads respectively.The Sims 3,Street Fighter IVandPrototypealso saw a considerable number of downloads....

This week I’m taking it easy on your brains. Really easy. Super incredibly hyperbole easy. So easy that reading this paragraph might be harder for some of our readers than actually beating this game. If you’re ready to set out on a three minute quest that challenges you to do nothing more than mash the spacebar a few times, thenSuper PSTW RPGcan fill your every need. Once you’ve taken a few minutes to beat it, come back here and check outthis flash video....

PC people can now make whatever level they desire inLeft 4 Dead. Last month Valve handed the keys and the tools over to its devout community. That update probably won’t become available for the Xbox 360 — Microsoft’s LIVE service isn’t built to handle such a thing. But frown not, Xbox 360 crowd: Valve is planning to release another round of downloadable content forLeft 4 Dead. At a preview eventOfficial Xbox Magazineattended forLeft 4 Dead 2, Valve’s PR man confirmed new content is on its way....

A new Japanese Nintendo DS title from Namco Bandai was just announced, and this one sets out to turn on the waterworks. Called99 no Namida(99 Tears), this game aims to make its players cry their hearts out, thus relieving stress and aiding in relaxation. That’s right, let it all out. The folks atIGNsay that the title is set in a city where people forgot how to cry, and players one day encounter a store called Source of Tears....

A new batch of content has been released forInversionas part of Namco Bandai’s flood of stuff out of Level Up. There’s a mess of screenshots in here and almost all of them seem to have at least one guy who has lost contact with the ground in some way. I can’t tell if everyone leaps at each other all the time or if this relates to the game’s central gravity manipulation mechanic....

Aerox continues his streak as my favorite tipper for today by sending in a link to the above trailer. I’ve beenfollowing the progress ofSoul Calibur: Legendsfor a while now, mostly as I think it’s an interesting experiment in what Namco can do other than 3D fighters, but the more I see, the less I’m impressed by it. That clip up there is footage of a gentleman named “Lloyd” hacking his way across a number of different backdrops....

Well, that is until you hit someone on accident. That’s real violence right there. A study by by Dr. Patrick Markey at Villanova University shows that those Wii Remote motions assigned to violent attacks, such as the ones inManhunt 2,won’t make you any more violent than traditional games. Markey pulled together 118 participants to play bothManhunt 2andTiger Woods PGA Tour 2008on the Wii. He gauged their level of psychoticism before and after playing these games, permitting them to use both standard and waggle-style controls....

One of the surprise reveals from tonight’s Spike VGAs was the announcement of a newTrue Crimegame. The game looks to take place in Hong Kong and will see you playing as an undercover cop who’s trying to make his way into the Triads. The last two games in theTrue Crimesseries were pretty, well, bad. The games were an attempt to capitalize on theGrand Theft Autohype, but they never really took off....

Today Nintendo has decided to drop a slew of product announcements in our laps, including red Wii and red DSi XL bundles, as well as officially revealing the Wii Remote Plus. Today Nintendo has decided to drop a slew of product announcements in our laps, including red Wii and red DSi XL bundles, as well as officially revealing the Wii Remote Plus. {{page_break}} All of the fun kicks off on November 7, when a limited edition red Wii hardware bundle hit shelves....

There isn’t a nice package to wrap the Nintendo downloads in this week, unlike the previous two which had Halloween orDomothemes. Still, games came out and the point of this is to tell you what the hell hit across Nintendo’s three digital download platforms: Virtual Console, DSiWare and Wiiware. Thus, we begin. On Virtual Console this week, we see the release ofFighting Street(800 Wii Points), the colorful TurboGrafx16 port of the arcade version of Street Fighter....

Nintendo has announced that a new 3DS color, “Flame Red”, will be available across North America from September 9, joining Cosmo Black and Aqua Blue. Interestingly, the red 3DS was one of the first colors ever revealed for the system, with early shots of the console almost always being in that particular color. For some reason, however, only blue and black appeared at launch. In any case, Nintendo thinks this new color, thefamed price drop, and an upcoming bunch of games will make the 3DS a serious holiday contender....