[Video removed due to a scary copyright infringement email from Microsoft. NoHalofor you!] We in the ‘hardcore’ demographic of the gaming community might not be quite as hyped forHalo 3as we are forcertain other games, but there’s no denying that the blockbuster title is going to be absolutely huge and things like this clip of manual scans is going to be snapped up by frag-happy obsessives the world over. There’s not much for me to comment on, it’s just some leaked manual scans just in case you can’t wait until September to look at pictures of guns....

This month’s musing all began with a statement I made to Anthony almost exactly a month ago: “I suck at games.” Now, I didn’t make this revelation just recently. I’ve always kind of known my place and dealt with it in silence. But I had a particularly bad day that day; when I couldn’t get past a boss in‘Splosion Man, I went toOverlordthinking I could soothe my bruised ego, but I had left myself in a tough spot there as well....

[It’s time for anotherMonthly Musing— the monthly community blog theme that provides readers with a chance to get their articles and discussions printed on the frontpage. — CTZ] War has changed. The battlefield is a very different place to what it used to be. Tight-knit shootouts in empty corridors, made up of pathways, pipes, dilapidated complexes and bare-textured temples have all but been vanquished. The days in which people would be drawn together by battle, where your strongest of kin could also represent your greatest of enemies, have vanished....

While there was some mixed feedback over the recent announcement ofMega Man 9, the majority of gamers were pretty excited to see the title, not to mention the retro look. We may still have a while to wait until we actually get our grubby little paws on the actual game, however, so what’s to do in the meantime? Replay every Mega Man ever made, perhaps? Well, here’s a tip for a good start: head over to GamesRadar and check out their insaneMega Man Week, which exclusively features the handmade wallpaper you see above....

If Christopher LaPorte has his way, CES, DICE, and decadence won’t be the only reason gamers are going to be clamoring to get to Las Vegas. The former medical sales professional will be leveling up downtown vegas this spring when he opensINSERT COIN(S), the city’s first videogame-themed bar and nightclub. After seven years of orthopedic implants and radiopharmaceuticals, LaPorte decided to it was time to drop the act. A long time gamer, LaPorte says that while he was golfing with clients trying to make sales, he dreaming about dropping his next quarter into aStreet Fighterarcade cabinet....

Well isn’t this just getting interesting? Yesterday, we informed you ofJohn Romero’s recent calling out ofGamecock main man Mike Wilson. Well, Mike Wilson has responded to John’s statements bysending a letter to Kotaku: While I am not at all interested in reliving those days, I will also not allow you to rewrite the history of it all, more to your liking and to my public detriment, and I will in no way take the rap for what you did (or didn’t do)with your dream company....

Breathe deep and call a pal… it’s zombie hunting time. Yes, in addition to the already revealedcompetitive multiplayer,Dead Rising 2will feature full two-player cooperative play through the game’s entire main story. Here are the basics, and it’s pretty straight forward: During any time, a second player can be invited to join a game in progress. Each player will control the game’s main protagonist, Chuck Greene, and any kind of continuity or logic gets thrown out the window in lieu of pure fun....

A billion years ago, I reviewedFar Cry 2. During the process, my save file corrupted. I didn’t think to mention it; I believed at the time it was a misfortunate and random bug. It wasn’t, as many of you noted in my review. But put those bad feelings away. The patch Ubisoftteased earlier this yearfinally went live for all platforms yesterday. Whew. In addition to fixing the tragic bug, the title update/patch also gives multiplayer a bit of a boost....

In thisvideo, Jenny McCarthy says she has a warrior inside of her. This opens itself to any number of lewd comments that may or may not involve facepainted and barely coherent WWF wrestlers from the eighties. I will leave those comments foryouto make.In other news, Jenny McCarthy has Warrior Femininity, which she apparently got to grips with while playing Tanya in EA’s upcomingRed Alert 3. There really isn’t much more you can say than that, really....

Jason Zumwalt, the voice actor behind the excited-by-American-teetees Roman Bellic inGrand Theft Auto IV, is a funny guy. There was evidence of this in the form of asketch Zumwalt put together, where he pleaded for cash because he hadn’t made any money off of his work for the blockbuster game. But these are only jokes, people. “I posted a sketch two weeks ago where I spun the Miley Cyrus/Vanity Fairshoot into asick incest thing, and folks thinkthat’sreal,” he told us....

Today, Konami unveiled theSilent Hill: Homecomingwidget. The widget is described as an “interactive book” that will give users a glimpse into the pretend lives of some of the characters inHomecomingvia journal entries. It also has a few screens, videos, and various tidbits of news pertaining to the game. The widget can be foundhereand if you’re feeling froggy, you can embed it into your favorite social networking page. It’s sure not to annoy any of your normal friends, really, we swear....

There are a few great signs that something is actually vaporware. The most prominent sign is usually a game never actually having a release date, but always being hinted at as being released sometime within the next year. That’s one check forL.A. Noireas we’ve been putting it onmost anticipated listssince its announcement wayback in 2006. The Rockstar published/Team Bondi developed game also lacks a confirmed console (though it is rumored as a PS3 exclusive), which is yet another sign of vaporware, by the way....

An anonymous source told Eurogamer last night thatSplit/SecondandPuredeveloper Black Rock Studios is being hit with lay-offs. Supposedly, only 40 jobs are safe from termination with about 100 jobs at risk. Disney Interactive Studios has since confirmed “a reduction of its workforce from its Brighton-based internal game development studio.” The source said that Black Rock had pitched quite a few new projects to Disney Interactive, without much success. Work on a sequel toSplit/Secondwas started after the title was wrapped up, but new management at Disney and a push towards freemium games led to the cancellation of this sequel....