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We first brought you newsof this upcoming side-scroller back in May, but today Nintendo has officially revealedWario Land: Shake It!for North American release. The game appears to mix classic side-scrolling platforming with Wii Remote functionality. Shaking the remote will cause Wario to take out enemies, loot treasures, and cause earthquakes. Nintendo says the game has multiple stages and missions, with many unlockables that will keep players coming back to collect more coins or just improve their best play times....

I’ll admit, sports are something that I don’t know anything about. So I asked my girlfriend about this trailer forFIFA 12. It felt rather emasculating, but this is how dedicated I am to achieving proper journalism levels. She told me that when it comes to soccer (or football, for you non-Americans), Manchester City is not the same thing as Manchester United. I also learned that if you walk around in Europe with a British accent saying “Yeah, Manchester United,” you can get into events for free....

The delay of thePokemon Global Linkwebsite was a sad, yetunderstandable one. Thankfully, the full launch isn’t as far off as it might’ve seemed like: the site goes live on Wednesday! The major features to look forward to, in case you haven’t heard, are the Dream World and the Global Battle Union. In the Dream World, you can extract Pokemon with special abilities who aren’t native to the Unova region, and itlooks adorable....

Advertisers still want their piece ofWoWpie and I found it interesting that Gillette is the company to do so. We recently came across a rather dull press release that spilled some marketing beans. Gilette is attempting to reach the 11-million (predominately male)World of Warcraftplayers by placing a banner ad in the right-hand portion of Blizzard’sofficial site. Sure, Gillette was successful in reaching a demographic but I have a feeling that their ad isn’t going to resonate withWoWplayers....

As youfound out yesterday thanks to Ashley, GameStops all over the country will be hosting specialWorld of Warcraftlaunch events tonight. Unlike any of the other GameStops though, the San Francisco event is going all out in theWoWcelebration. ThePowell Street GameStopstore will be shutting down Powell Street between O’Farrell and Ellis Street tonight from 7:30 to Midnight. There will be severalWoWthemed activities forWoWlovers to participate in while waiting for the Midnight release of the game such as:...

Anyone planning on picking up the sexy black Xbox 360 Elite or the stand alone 120 GB hard drive will have tons of content to look forward to. Microsoft will be including the full version of Hexic HD as well as a bunch of gamer pics and themes on the Black Xbox 360 Elite 120 GB hard drive. The stand alone 120 GB hard drive will include HD game trailers, 3-5 playable demos depending on the region and several Xbox Live Arcade demos....

Microsoftannounced todaythat they will be offering players ofGrand Theft Auto IVa limited window of free access to Live Gold following the release of its upcoming DLC expansionThe Lost and the Damned.Running from February 17th through the 22nd, players will be able to experience the game’s multiplayer offerings without the need for a subscription to the service. The downside is that thisonlyapplies toGTA IV. No Netflix, noGears of War 2, nothing else....

The weekly YTMNDs are back in action. Sorry for the absence last week, E3 sucked my soul into oblivion. Speaking of E3, I became most over joyed when I heard thatG4 talked about my YTMND featureon T.V! That nearly made my week. I’m easily amused, like a cat batting a ball of yarn. To make up for last week, YTMND Thursday is slightly bigger than usual. This was actually a harder week to find stuff because the Internets is going crazy with the Harry Potter spoilers....

Back in the early days ofLeft 4 Dead, there was this sudden influx of announcements for ambitious custom campaigns. How many of these creations panned out? Either I’m looking in all the wrong places, or many of them are either abandoned or stuck in development hell; such is the way of modding. “I Hate Mountains,” though — it’s the real deal, and it only just came out yesterday. I’ll let the trailer above do most of the heavy lifting here, but yeah, this is a five-part campaign complete with alternate routes and the sort of attention to detail you would expect from a group of highly passionate fans....

Electronic Arts has announced today thatCrysis Warhead, the not-sequel to last year’s PC first-person shooterCrysis, will be hitting North American shelves on September 16. By pre-ordering the game from theEA Store, gamers can save $5 off of the regular retail price, or $10 when purchasing bothWarheadand the originalCrysis. If you don’t care about $5 or $10, send it to me so I can buy candy. I like candy. Crysis Warheada follows a parallel story to the original title, and puts gamers in the st-kicking boots of Sergeant Michael “Psycho” Sykes, a st kicking super-soldier that doesn’t take s**t, but instead just kicks it....

That’s right. Wordon the streetis that classical musician and sensitive artist 50 Cent will be making a cameo appearance inModern Warfare 2, news which dropped following his visit to Infinity Ward. Despite the image above (pilfered fromNeoGAF), it’s not been confirmed that any motherf*ckers have stolen Fiddy’s crystal skull in theCall of Dutysequel. 50 Cent will be lending his vocal talents to the game’s multiplayer, as confirmed by Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling....

I was a very busy shark during the month of August. To the point that I didn’t have as much time to devote to the Monthly Musings topic last month as I usually do. Here are the blogs that did actually make it to the front page: There were a lot of good blogs made last month and I just didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to go through them all....

Yesterday we told youthat Activision boss Bobby Kotick said that even one billion dollars in development for a new MMO couldn’t take overWorld of Warcraft. Now, Lars Buttler, formerly the VP of for Global Online at Electronic Arts and currently the CEO and co-founder of Trion World Network, would like Kotick to get his pinky out of his mouth. “Nice try Mr. Kotick. We understand that Activision has to defend its merger and scare competition – but I have to call his bluff,” Buttler toldGameDaily....