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The Trophy List and Soundtrack For Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit

The 51 Trophies For Need for Speed; Hot Pursuit have been revealed, which mean 50 achievements for the upcoming racer’s Xbox 360 version. Most of these cover in-game acts but a few require you to explore its social networking component. You can also get a look at the game’s soundtrack here. Bronze • Settling the…

Get Your First Look At Warcraft: Cataclysm During Tomorrow’s Football Game

MMOs and the NFL aren’t exactly peanut butter and chocolate, but tomorrow they combine tomorrow afternoon to give you the first look at cinematic footage from World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Blizzard sent word that they’ll be debuting a commercial during the broadcast of tomorrow’s Dallas at Minnesota game (4 p.m. EDT/ 1 p.m. PDT, on…

Super Mario Bros. Celebrates Our Favorite Mistakes

On the occassion of the silver anniversary of Super Mario Bros., Nintendo has put out this video celebrating the most famous glitches of the original, ones that first spread not by Internet or message boards, but grade school lunch tables. Some of these more qualify as exploits (the infinite 1-Up trick) or novelties (dancing on…

Being Like Mike — and ‘Nique, and Spud

Fooling around in NBA 2K11, I picked the 1990 Atlanta Hawks for one reason: Dominique Wilkins. Sure, the Hawks had Moses Malone late in his career, but let’s be honest. You play this team for the Human Highlight Reel. Early in my matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves – come on, I needed an easy side…

What Do Boobs And Goombas Have In Common?

I dunno, they’re both kinda smooshy? They also form the title of a video game burlesque show running this weekend and the next two in Chicago. Can we officially call this a fad? Tickets here. Seen via Reddit.

Assassin’s Creed’s Harlequin Bro-Mance

Preordering Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood delivers you the Harlequin for use in multiplayer. Should you lay down your $5 there for this bonus? This video gives you a little more to think about – and a nice view of Rome’s architecture.

Box Scores: Seven Hours Of Hangtime

Reader Austin D. recently fired up his Nintendo 64 to play an entire season on NBA Hangtime. That’s 34 games. Austin has no memory pak, so he had to play them all at once. That’s more than 7 hours. Nonetheless, he triumphed against the CPU, with the difficulty set to maximum (Austin notes that Hangtime’s…

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Patent Application Imagines The DS Helping With The Groceries

Still trying to sell the DS to people who don’t typically play games, Nintendo has plans for an application linking the DS with a supermarket’s inventory so users can simplify their shopping list and find what they need more easily. Sounds like nothing more than a weekly circular on the handheld but I could see…

The Moneysaver: Planes, Trains & Automo-deals

There’s no way on earth we’re going to get out of here tonight. We’d have more luck playing pickup sticks with our buttcheeks than we will getting a flight out of here before daybreak. Hardware • Microsoft Store offers this Xbox 360 bundle: 4GB Console, 2 Wireless Controllers, 12-month LIVE card, and 4000 LIVE points…

The Week In Review: Just A Little Bit Longer

Surprise. Gran Turismo 5 is delayed again. That may not be news in the ironic sense, but it is in terms of what folks were talking about at the beauty parlor and feed store, if gamers gathered in such places. We also packed in seven reviews, among them Medal of Honor, NBA Jam, and Kirby’s…

Halo: Reach Rank Cap Should Be Lifted In November

The latest update from the minds behind Halo: Reach says the game’s rank cap, currently limited to Lieutenant Colonel Grade C, will be lifted once the game’s community completes 117 million daily and weekly challenges. That is quite a lot, but then, quite a lot of people play Halo: Reach, and so Bungie expects that…

And You Thought Your Day Was Boring …

The Swiss set a record for the longest tunnel ever dug, 35 miles through the Alps, connected yesterday. How awesome would it have been to attach a giant Cthulhu head to that borer for the moment it broke through? I’ve spent the whole day inside evaluating two wildly disparate video games. I don’t know what…

Original Xbox Has A New Launch Date — Literally

Literally. YouTube user ShredRexx attempted to soft-mod an original Xbox but wound up frying it. Perhaps taking a page from this stunt, he placed it atop an airbag from an older car and, well, see for yourself. [seen via Reddit]

Celebrate Uncharted 2’s 1st Birthday In Multiplayer

Uncharted 2’s studio is running a 24-hour One-Year Anniversary Event in the game’s multiplayer beginning in about five-and-a-half-hours, offering five playlist favorites, quintupled cash payouts with no cash cap, and an exclusive anniversary Nathan Drake multiplayer skin. Not only that, you’ll likely spot one of the more than 30 Naughty Dog staff members, representing all…

Red Dead Redemption DLC Gets Standalone Disc Release

For those who haven’t picked up Red Dead Redemption, or aren’t interested in its main singleplayer campaign, Rockstar will soon release a single disc that includes all of the downloadable content, playable without the main game. “Undead Nightmare,” taking its name from the game’s latest DLC extension, will include that, the Outlaws to the End…

A Little Bit Of Code In Your Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Achievements

The list of achievements for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is upon us; before you descend on it to pick pan for nuggets of info, let me ask you, do you know Morse Code? One of the achievement titles(for solving all of Subject 16’s puzzles) is rendered in dots and dashes (I think). If not it’s some…

DC Universe Online Screens Take It Underground

The latest raft of screens for the superhero MMO from Sony Online Entertainment depicts beatdowns in the Bat Cave, the Metropolis Subway, and the Temple of Isis. Enjoy!

EA Sports Chief Sees FIFA Evolving Beyond Discs

Peter Moore, the president of EA Sports, predicts a future in which the standout FIFA series transitions from annual disc-based releases to a more persistent online game. Moore, speaking to MCV, said that EA Sports’ FIFA title needs to provide a persistent world reflecting the year-round quality of international football. “This year there was, what,…

MLB 2K10 Says The Giants Win The Pennant — And World Series

Postseason sports means time for sports game developers to predict champions. Going against two heavy favorites in Philadelphia and the New York Yankees, MLB 2K10 says the Giants will win their first World Series since moving to San Francisco in 1958. If that comes true it’ll be a bona fide underdog story. Sports books right…