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Time is screwed now that the Raving Rabbids have a time traveling washing machine … machine. Players will go through time and decide if the past needs fixing or leave things the way the Rabbids have altered history as they play through the party-games. Up to four-players will be able to work together online or through one screen.Travel in Timewill also feature MotionPlus support and Facebook integration because EVERY game needs Facebook support now....

Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that eight tracks will be available for download on theRock Bandstore next week. That takes the total number of songs out of thecoveted “666” spotand into a total of 674 playable songs. Each track will run you the usual $1.99 on PlayStation 3, or 160 MS Points on the Xbox 360. Or, if you have a Wii, 200 Wii Points. Yes, that’s right, these tracks are hitting the Wii at the same time....

Of all the groups that have done marathons of gamesTheSpeedGamersare probably the most prolific. With over $150,000 already raised for charity they are at it once again. This time they’re spending all week playing Mario games, which, by the way, is the greatest way ever to spend an entire week. They started this past Friday and will be playing until the 18th. you’re able to, of course, donate at any time and all the donations will be going to ACT Today....

Longtime viewers of Joss Whedon’sDollhouse— both of us — may have noticed thatthis week’s episodeshared a pretty prominent plot element with everyone’s favorite postmodern stealth series. Without getting into specifics, The Bad Guys inDollhousecreate an army made up of soldiers with genetically linked minds, who can wordlessly synchronize their actions and read each other’s minds. Sound familiar? Of course, Eliza Dushku defeats the psychic soldiers roughly eleven hours quicker than it took David Hayter to do the same thing, but you get the general idea....

This weekend, I received a nondescript envelope in the mail. Inside the brown envelope I found a letter confirming my trip to ride the Moscow Metro, along with two tickets. I immediately made the connection toTHQ’sMetro 2033, the recently-announced first-person shooter based on a Russian novel. I was right, of course — the Russian on the ticket (and in the letter) was identical to some of the text used in the promos for the game (particularly the “Fear the Future” text, shown in the big black letters above)....

In true USA Today underreporting form, the colorful everyman’s paper says that because of Internet chatter and common sense launch stats, the Wii is the winner and will get the cookie. Lacking any true facts of substance, the USA Today’salarmist headlinecould sway those on the fence of ignorance to pick up the Nintendo Wii. Truck stop diner crowds cheer in unison: David Nieves, 26, of Philadelphia gives the Wii an A-....

Will Greenwald over atCrave: The gadget blogrecently received a copy ofWario: Master of Disguisefor the Nintendo DS to review and was unimpressed by the swag that came with it. Most game companies send neat promotion items along with their games likesunglasses,a snow globeora piñatabut Nintendo decided to send out with their game a purple mask and a fake mustache. How cheap of them. I hope the rest of their advertising campaign isn’t as bad as this or the game will end up in the bargain bin in no time....

Cutting it a bit close for having this officially on the weekend I realize, but sometimes a good reason to donate some money doesn’t come along until Sunday. This weekend’s charity is theKickstarter for Babycastles’s Manhattan exhibitionof independent gaming. I can’t really say it better than they do to explain the reasons for the exhibition: “At a Manhattan location, we’re aiming to strongly influence the public perception of video games and the culture surrounding this art form....

A large portion of the videogames as art debate focuses on games telling serious stories, having deep meaning, and being fairly unique. Yet, there’s another issue within the games as art debate that I want to focus on: the auteur. Behind every successful game, there is a large team that goes into making it. From the writers to the programmers to the think tank of designers who come up with all the various facets of gameplay....

Yesterday I beganpicking apartNo More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggleto see what meaning I could derive from the game. For me the entire series speaks volumes about the world of gaming and analyzing it is a great way to get conversations going about gaming in general. It’s also a good way to have people tell me I’m over-analyzing stuff. But I like doing that, and I think that art needs to be discussed and analyzed and that we should share our differing opinions on what games mean to us....

It “turned out nobody bought it,” says Microsoft marketing directorAlbert Penelloin an interview withOXM. “We don’t ever create an accessory with the intent of having it fail. The idea wasn’t bad … people used to put faceplates on their cell phones. Rewind five years, faceplates were what everybody wanted to do.” Without sales, naturally they “killed that one pretty quickly,” Penello continues. While I don’t sport a custom faceplate these days, allowing users to easily customize their electronics is a concept I will happily get behind....

I played and somewhat enjoyedWhite Knight Chronicles(review coming tomorrow) on the PS3. One of my favorite little features of the game was the Crystal Camera, a snapshot tool that I used like a phone cam in-game. I probably spent a bit too much time with that, as you’ll see soon. I really like thisWhite Knight Chroniclescommercial that highlights both online play and the dangers of obsessing over the perfect shot with the camera....

Bad news for Wii fans. The decidedly excellent lookingExplodemonis no longer coming to WiiWare as previously promised, now set to be a PlayStation Network exclusive. The retro-themed sidescroller looked like an action-packed answer to XBLA’s‘Splosion Man. It still looks that way, except only for PS3 users. Nintendo fans havealreadyturned on the game, now sh*tting upon it and declaring there are better games on WiiWare. Meanwhile, sensible people can take solace from the fact that it may still some to WiiWare in the future....