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VIDEO: We’re old and can’t tell if it’s offensively cornball or the greatest thing we’ve ever seen… …

Excellent news for Nintendo fans, Mario completists, video game historians, and casual Wii owners desperately in the need of some proper games. The Wii is getting a special edition of Super Mario All-Stars (ie. the SNES compilation of Super Mario Bros. 1 - 3, including both the Japanese and US versions of SMB2. ie. a gift from God), and yikes, does it sound a lot more special than the average special edition.

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If there’s one piece of advice that’s always stuck with us, it’s ‘don’t suck someone else’s socks’. Kirby clearly didn’t heed this advice and it’s landed him in no end of trouble. Yup - this sock sucked him in instead. That’ll learn ‘im. At least… that’s the meaning we’ve taken from this brand new Japanese trailer for Kirby’s Epic Yarn, headed to Wii this autumn.

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We’ve PAXed our bags, called a PAXidriver, and we’re ready to down several six-PAX of boozey drinks! So… what we’re trying to say is… WE’RE GOING TO PAX THIS WEEKEND. And know what we want to do the most? Meet YOU, of course, both at our panel, and during a live, boozey recording of our stupid podcast, TalkRadar. So if you plan to be at gaming’s foremost celebratory celebration, then cure our crippling loneliness and come hang out with us…

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It’s been mentioned many a time how absolutely massive a deal the Dragon Quest game franchise is in Japan, but it’s still a bit hard to conceptualize until you see things like the amount and variety of merchandise available overseas… …

Best Buy has begun testing a new in-store program for customers to trade in their old games for store gift cards. So congratulations, you all have another entry to the list of places that will buy your games for less than the amount of change in your pockets… …

Sure, there are plenty of gaming awards kicking around, but the Golden Joysticks are the ones to be voted by you, the guys and girls who actually buy and play the games. There are no committees of journos and games industry execs deciding who wins, just a giant online ballot box where gamers cast their votes and a piece of software spits out the final counts. So in a nutshell, that’s why you should care about the Joysticks and head to www.goldenjoystick.com to vote. Now! …

It might lack the satin sexiness of Ada Wong or the strike-a-pose foppishness of Leon Kennedy, but this inspirational Licker costume has a special charm all of its own. It is quite simply the best Resident Evil cosplay I have ever seen. …

Ever since the late ’80s, the phrase “darker, grittier” has been synonymous with two things. Firstly, stimulating adult reinterpretations of existing media. Thankyou, The Dark Knight Returns. Secondly, misguided reboots that grind all the joy out of their predecessors in the name of an adolescent sales boost. Damn you, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Final Fight: Streetwise

The Mega Man franchise has greatly fluctuated between light and dark over the years, the original games making up the former tone and the X and Zero sagas taking care of the latter. Being a mash-up of all Mega Man eras, we expected the tone of the upcoming Korean MMO Mega Man Online (MMO MMO?) to be pretty eclectic, but yikes, does this anime trailer imply very serious business indeed. It’s epic, it’s bleak, and it implies that the finished game is going to take in an apocalypse roughly every 15 minutes.

Though surprisingly, I might actually love it a bit. In fact I’m pretty sure it’s incredibly badass. In fact I’m pretty sure I want it turned into a full-length movie instead of a game. Immediately. Take a look and tell me what you think. …