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FROM GADGETELL - Thanks again to the folks over at Slacker for offering up a few premium accounts to give away. We had three (3) one year premium internet radio accounts to give away, and now we have three lucky winners. Each of the winners (listed below) will need to send an email… MORE »

FROM GADGETELL - The folks over at Slacker are offering up three (3) one year subscriptions to their premium internet radio (a $120 value). If you aren’t already using Slacker we highly recommend you check it out and enter the giveaway, so you can upgrade to premium for 1 year at $0. The… MORE »

As if fans really need another reason to get psyched about the upcoming animated Star Wars: Clone Wars film, Toys R Us is having an in-store midnight sales event featuring Clone Wars products and also giving away four five-feet tall Clone Wars action figures.

Doors to select stores will open at 12:01 a.m., July 26, 2007 (that’s late Friday or really early Saturday, depending on how you look at it). On shelves will be various Star Wars related items including action figures, building sets, models and, of course, video games…

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FROM APPLETELL - It’s been a week now since Apple has released the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 software, and we’re not done celebrating. To prove it, Appletell’s ready to share some gaming goodness with you, our faithful readers.
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Just in time for the 4th of July holiday, Activision has announced that Guitar Hero 3 players can download the Top Gun Anthem song for free. No, it’s not Danger Zone, and it’s not Berlin’s epic Take My Breath Away, but it’s memorable, 80’s flavored and patriotic all the same. The free part certainly doesn’t hurt either.

From the press release:

“The instrumental, guitar-heavy theme was immortalized in the hit film that inspired a generation of young men to awkwardly serenade women at bars, perform perfectly-timed “flipside” high fives and threaten to “buzz the tower.”

Ah, Top Gun, a true bastion of nostalgia. The song can be downloaded via Xbox Live or the PlayStation network beginning July 3, 2008.

Read [Kotaku]

As the scalding heat blows across the east coast, Xfire predicts cooler weather for June 2008 due to three events with Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Meet Team Millenium, a broadcast of the Sunwell Raid Redux and the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris…

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Round-robin stories are common in writing classes and schools as a writing exercise which builds a story everyone has contributed to. It’s a fun way to join together as a community and bond. Atlus has decided that it would also be the perfect form for its Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard contest.

The “Storytellers of Lagaard” contest is now taking place in the Atlus forums, and will last until May 13, 2008, 5:30pm PDT. Everyone is invited to join the Atlus forums and post as often as they like, but there are a few restrictions. The Atlus administrator Inzaghi states that participants should keep each entries under 200 words, not post too frequently, quote the last sentence of the post ahead of you and not spam the topic. The person who contributes the most and best additions to the story will win a copy of the Etrian Odyssey II 3 CD soundtrack.

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The retail version of the massive multiplayer online real time strategy (MMORTS) title SAGA is now available for free for a limited time at FileFront. The site will be giving away 50,000 retail keys with downloads of the game between today (May 7, 2008) and May 11, 2008. The full version of the game normally costs $19.95, and you don’t have to pay a monthly fee to continue enjoying retail-only extras. It’s a pretty good deal, considering SAGA came out March 4, 2008.

If you don’t get to FileFront in time to get a free retail version of SAGA, then don’t worry. You can still enjoy the free version of SAGA, which can be downloaded at the official website. The differences are somewhat substantial - the retail version allows players to spy on each other, trade with other users, form guilds and engage in combat with other players. 

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If you’re upset about having to wait for NIS America’s delayed DS puzzle game Puchi Puchi Virus, there’s a slight silver lining. The company is going to make it up to you with a Puchi Puchi Virus contest.

The NIS America News page states that the company will be giving out four Puchi Puchi Virus Anti-Virus kits. Each kit comes with candy anti-virus pills (probably like the ones Joystiq received), Puchi Puchi Virus information, and a copy of Puchi Puchi Virus.

Keep reading for entry information.

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New Yorkers are so lucky. Mario Kart Wii comes out April 27, 2008, and Nintendo is giving New Yorkers free cab rides to promote the game. If you live in New York, New York, stop by the Sheraton Hotel at 811 7th Avenue.

On April 24, 2008, there will be such a thing as a free ride, if your timing’s right. From 8~10am and 12~2pm, people can line up for a free ride that Mario will thumb down for you. I’m guessing there will be Mario Kart Wii decorations and videos as well. Of course nothing compares to the mental picture of some poor person in a full Mario costume flagging down cabs.

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