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Take some giant robots, add laser blasters and energy blades, toss in swarms of mechanized opponents, and you’ve got a surefire action hit, right? Dream on, Namco Bandai.

Game blog Kotaku reports that Xbox 360 repairs are taking upwards of six weeks due to a spike in returns after Microsoft extended the console’s warranty from one to three years in early July.

The Tiger Woods franchise has been rolling along on auto-pilot for several seasons now, but the ‘08 offering is prepared to up the ante for new-gen golfers. EA’s Tiburon studio, fortress stronghold for Madden Football, NCAA Football, and NASCAR among others, has taken on the challenge of revitalizing Tiger’s namesake and they’re hitting all the greens.

12 New Screens Hot Off the Presses!

Get your dragon on with these new screens!

Half-Life creator and founder of Valve software, Gabe Newell, strongly hinted at plans to develop games for Nintendo Wii, calling his current exclusion of games on the system as “an obvious hole in our strategy.”

Now you can play with fire an not worry about burning your house to the ground.

Some new Sega Rally Revo screens for the PSP!

I really like blowing things up. In most situations this statement would land me in prison, where making things explode would be limited to the warden’s anger, but thankfully I have my PS3 and Warhawk to help with this slight aberration, letting me enjoy the soothing art of explosions.

Sony confirmed the depletion of PS3 60GB machines at the company’s online store on Tuesday suggesting that only retail units remain for the discontinued and cheaper model.

Check out these beautiful Sega Rally Revo screens!

As my car pulled out of Reno, NV last summer I questioned whether or not my decision to buy a cowboy hat in the parking lot of a truck stop from a guy named Leslie was a good idea.

Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed last week at the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany that Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be released as a free download on the PlayStation Network this October.

All the achievements for Two Worlds!

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Blue Dragon!

All achievements for MotoGP 07 are here!

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is, for the most part, Nintendo’s first established franchise to really utilize the Wii’s motion-sensing strengths. With the exception of WarioWare Smooth moves, Nintendo’s franchises on the Wii have consisted of repurposed GameCube games (Twilight Princess and Super Paper Mario) or titles with traditional control schemes that make little to no use of the Wii’s features (Mario Party 8, Mario Strikers Charged and Pokemon). Playing through Corruption, you get the sense that this game was developed with the Wii in mind, a feeling that precious few titles have thus far evoked.

Take-Two interactive said on Monday that the de facto banning of Manhunt 2 for Wii, PS2, and PSP has been reversed thanks to the game’s new “Mature” rating awarded by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board.

A lesson in do it yourself.

It’s a brave new world out there