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Sega has continued its commitment to treating Sonic like a two-bit prostitute by striking a deal with third-party peripheral maker Mad Catz. The deal gives Mad Catz exclusive rights to produce a range of accessories bearing the dead smile of everyone’s favorite molested rodent. Hooray for them! Quite what kind of accessories are in the pipeline is anybody’s guess, but Mad Catz is sure to make good use of this new deal....

Walk down your nearest Best Buy’s Wii section and try not to be attacked by useless pieces of plastic and random things you’ll never need for your Wii. It’s not possible, those things are vicious. The accessories market on the Wii is massive, and mostly useless. Hell, most of the accessories out there can’t even be thought of as cool collector’s items since so few of them are connected to Nintendo themselves in any way....

A Taiwanese manhas been namedthe first ever person to successfully “complete”World of Warcraft, collecting the game’s staggering 986 Achievements to effectively do everything there is to do in the hugely successful MMO. This is literally the mostamazing newsof the day. ‘Little Gray” beat the game after killing390,895 creatures, administering7,255,538,878 points of damage, completing5,906 quests (averaging 14 quests a day), raiding 405 dungeons and hugging 11 players. I believe we can safely add another statistic to the numbers — he has had sex 0 times during this period....

You probably haven’t even poppedMass Effect 2into your Xbox 360 yet, but why should that stop you from downloading a slew of the game’s DLC? As spotted byIGN, the game’s day-one downloadable content is now available on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace — simply click on the links below and add them to your download queue. As you may notice, some of this stuff was reserved for pre-order customers and those picking up the Collector’s Edition of the game....

Max Payne 3is going to be quite a departure for Rockstar’s morbid action series, featuring an older, more grizzled (not to mention balder) Max and a brand new Sao Paulo setting, the game’s come a far way from its New York noir roots. So far, in fact, that Payne will no longereven be voicedby James McCaffrey, who brought the character to life in the first two games. This will be a very different game indeed....

It’s been about two months since Capcom announced thecancellationofMega Man Legends 3. Hopefully, you’ve been able to get over all the sour feelings, because if you haven’t, the following isreeeeeallygonna break your heart. You may remember about theMega Man Legends 3: Prototype Version, a demo / prologue of sorts that was planned for the launch of the 3DS eShop. Obviously, the game was delayed at the last second and later shelved along with the main project....

Microsoft quietly came in and rounded up all of competitive gaming, leaving no room for the PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii to play along. We’re very proud of the fact that these professional gaming leagues have picked Microsoft platforms… for their competitions,” said Shane Kim, corporate vice president of Microsoft Game Studios. “That’s a great endorsement from people who are pretty key influencers within the industry.” Combine this with their online domination with their LIVE service, exclusives on cometitive favorites like theHaloseries andGears of War, and an installed user base of almost 12 million Xbox 360s, and it looks like Microsoft has competitive gaming in the bag....

Ever wonder how well Xbox Live is doing for Microsoft? According toBloomberg, their online gaming service likely broke the $1 billion revenue mark for the first time in the year that just ended. Actually, estimates say that they made $1.2 billion last year, even beating out analysts’ estimates. A Goldman Sachs analyst says that their sales for the service were up from $800 million, from the year before. Sales of movie and TV show downloads topped the subscription earnings for the first time....

Eureka! You knew it was coming, but get excited anyway. It’s okay. I’ll wait. No, we’re excited too. It made ourmost-anticipated games listfor this year. And it makes a lot more sense than being excited abouta nine-year-old game that we all already havebeing re-released as a download. Yep, I said that. Objection? Fresh from Capcom’s event Captivate ’09 comes this rousing trailer forMiles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations, the spin-off from the crazy popularPhoenix Wrightgames that features the purple-wearing prosecuting attorney....

[VirtualGirl’s ChocoMog is f***ing sweet. That’s really all there is to say about it. Check out the gallery for the full-on spectacle of her work in the gallery. I must see this in person. Some day… — DMV] So its done! My choco-mog is complete! For those of you who do not know what I am talking about, I am taking sculpture this semester in school. For our first project we were required to make something that combined two animals, using sheet metal and rods....

The Arcosur neighborhood association in Zaragoza, Spain seems to have a geek on the staff. Antonio Almudi, president, says that over 80 percent of those asked voted in favor of videogame names for their streets. Now there’s twelve streets named after game characters. There’s a Mario Street, Space Invader Street, Final Fantasy Avenue and Tetris Square. Get it? Tetris Square? Referring to Mario Street, he said: “We wanted to be the first neighbourhood in the world which has dedicated a street to one of the most symbolic personalities of our modern culture....

TheseGrand Theft Auto IVscans are from the latest issue of the British gaming magGames TM. The 7-page-long exclusive preview contains details about the gameplay and some brand new in-game pics that make me feel all warm inside. Here’s a quick list with some of the notes from the article: Sounds to me like they want to make this chapter more realistic. What do you guys think? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?...