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Indie studio Curve has released the first trailer for its upcoming PlayStation Network title,Explodemontoday. Here it is! Okay, so “first trailer” isn’t entirely accurate. We’llposted a trailer before, but according to the developer, this was only “pre-vis” concept footage. What you’re seeing now, we’re told, is a much better look at the final product. Curve says it’s “an explosive homage to SNES-era platformers mixed with a modern physics-puzzle twist.” Translated that means “it looks awesome,” I’d....

Legendary Pictures has revealed the line-up for their Comc-Con panel this year and lo and behold, they have listed theirMass Effectfilm! Legendary had previously announced they acquired the rights to the franchise’s silver screen incarnation on May 24, with the studio’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni producing the film alongside Ari Arad — not to be confused with franchise-ruining Avi Arad (Spider-Man 3, X-Men: The Last Stand)who optioned the rights in 2008....

If there is one thing I can always have more of (and there isn’t, there are many things) it’s moreLittleBigPlanet. I don’t own a PSP though, so moreLBPis not coming my way any time soon. For those of you who do own a PSP or possibly one of those new fangledPSPgos(PSPgoes?) there is now anofficial datefor the game’s release. That day is… wait for it… wait for it… Nov. 17. That’s about as far as I can drag this out....

It’s Thursday night, it’s 10 pm Pacific, it’s time to party. I’m your excellent host, Conrad Zimmerman and I’m clearly having an awful nineties flashback. Backlog, a live streaming effort to rid my shelves of unplayed games runs again tonight as it does every weeknight at this time, barring the inevitable technical difficulties which plague my hardware and my soul. Right now, I’m over on our Justin.tv channel playingKiller 7....

The brisk pace at which Ubisoft Montreal has been putting outAssassin’s Creedtitles won’t carry on indefinitely, according to creative lead Alexandre Amacio. The series “is all about cycles,” he tells Eurogamer — “we have the Ezio cycle and the Altair cycle, and both of those are set to conclude inRevelationsand we have the Desmond cycle, which is set to end on December 2012. But there’s many cycles within the brand — that’s the whole point....

On April 24, the people over at Turbine celebrated the second anniversary of PC MMO,Lord of the Rings Online. And they’re inviting you to do the same. Both old and new players may find something worthwhile from the festivities. Let’s explore a bit shall we? Until June 30, new specialLOTROpricing plans have been made available. Any multi-month plan is now a generous $9.99 a month. Both oldies and newbies can lock into this rate for the rest of their time with the game....

A demo for the newestMedal of Honorgame,Airborne, is available for PC and Xbox 360. The PC version of the demo weighsin at 1.27 GB, while the 360 demo is about 970 MB.While playing this demo was certainly a visceral experience, I’m not entirely sure that gamers who aren’t already fans of war games will be sold on the concept. If you want to know what you’re missing out on, just watch the video above....

I believe this is a first, but an HD collection is getting a limited edition version. Then again, it’sMetal Gear Solid, so I think Konami’s partly justified in this! TheMetal Gear Solid HD Collectionlimited edition comes in fancy packaging and includes a 248-page art book. It’s not exactly the mostlavishof offers, but as a big fan of MGS, I definitely want it. It’s going to look damn pretty on my shelf, that’s for sure....

Jeff “I’ll stop making games becauseFroggeris better thanSpace Giraffe” Minter is getting impatient. According to the bearded animal fancier, Microsoft has been sitting on his latest work,Gridrunner +++, for months, and he’s not happy. “We sent it off to [Microsoft] months ago, but they’ve just not said anything – we’re just waiting for them,” explained Minter when asked for a release date. “Basically I’m going to carry on with the PC version of it if I don’t hear from them soon, because they’re just sitting on the demo we sent them three or four months ago....

Using the spoken word to communicate what makes a Kinect game more fun than a non-Kinect game is an uphill battle. For one, it’s not terribly easy to find someone in the gaming press that likes Kinect all that much, and if you do, they may not have more to say beyond “Movearaoundalot! Movearound! Goooooood!“ Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda has an interesting approach on to explaining what makes Kinect so great:...

I think of two things when I hear ‘magic wand.’ One is something you’d give to a little girl to make her a happy little princess. The other is something you’d hand to an older girl to make her a happy little princess. Neither mental image has anything that would connect it to Microsoft or gaming. J Allard filed a gaming-related patent for a magic wand in November of 2007.Edgesays that this patented device can “utilize one or more sensor from a collection of sensors to determine an orientation or gesture in connection with the wand....

(Editor’s Note: The above clip comes courtesy of1up, and portrays a roundtable discussion between Hideo Kojima, Shinji Mikami and Goichi Suda at the recent Snake Vs Zombie Event in Tokyo. For those of you without aural passages stuffed full of fish, subtitles have been provided.)After watching the entirety of the clip, I’m sitting here with my jaw on the floor at the sheer amount of talent they could fit on that stage....

The reason EA DICE went with the first-person perspective inMirror’s Edgewasn’t to torture players who occasionally experience motion sickness. It was a conscious decision designed to make players feel more connected with the game’s protagonist, Faith, and her movements. It was also because DICE is pretty familiar with the perspective. The producer for the game, Nick Channon recently explained the design decision in aninterview with Gamasutra. Channon said that DICE has “done a lot of first person work” and were “inspired” to doMirror’s Edge....