Gamertell

That’s right, sports fans, the New Orleans Saints have just garnered their first superbowl victory, proving EA’s predictions correct. According to a post at 1Up, this marks the sixth accurate prediction of the game, in which EA uses football sim Madden NFL for accurate pigskin analysis. The only year they’ve been wrong was in 2008 when the New England Patriots suffered a tragic loss to the Giants. Full disclosure - I’m a Boston girl. It still hurts.

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Every year, the good people at 1Up (namely, Scott Sharkey) put together a wonderful, wonderful list of good, free videogames. This year’s edition came out today, and it’s a doozy. There are more than 101 games on offer, across the strategy, platformer, shoot-em-up, puzzle, adventure/RPG and action/arcade genres, with an aptly-titled “WTF” category on the side. It’s pretty comprehensive, and seriously deserves a bookmark.

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That’s right, frozen beverage enthusiasts. An exclusive slurpee flavor (Kratos Fury) with even more exclusive God of War themed cups will soon be kicking ass at a 7/11 near you. Mountain Dew, Sony and 7/11 are all in the plot to make your gaming time more delicious. Or perhaps just sugary.

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This is one of the coolest uses of cupcakes and gaming that I’ve ever seen. Some folks over at Steel Head Studio have created 100 gaming-related cupcakes, some from the board gaming-realm, but most from the wonderful land of videogaming.

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The alternate headline to this item would have been “I am Alive is still alive”, just for the record. But on to the good news - as has been going around the blogosphere today, Beyond Good and Evil 2 and I Am Alive are still in development. Patrick Klepek at G4 reports:

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Captain’s log, supplemental: today marks the very beginning of a bright new online saga for Star Trek fans. The Trek MMO, aptly titled Star Trek Online, has just entered open beta. Interested captains, cadets and, um, cardassians, can mosey on over to the registration site and get hooked up. You will need a beta key, which you can get as a preorder bonus, or from one of the partner sites listed on the page.

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It’s not every day that I get a press release with the word (onomatopoeia?) BOOOOOOM-SHAKA-LAKA!  in the subject line, but hey, today is a special day. Besides being a palindrome (01.11.10), its also the day wherein a new NBA Jam game has been announced. Currently in development at EA Canada (the team behind NBA Street and NBA Live), the new title will reportedly:

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Some really fantastic news coming from Penny Arcade today - the Child’s Play charity, which seeks to raise money for ” toys, games, books and cash for sick kids in children’s hospitals” raised $1,780, 870 in 2009. It was a record-breaking, banner year, in which the goal was set at $1 million - which is incredible, given the state of the economy (and the abysmal unemployment rate).

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Matt Hazard: Bloodbath and Beyond headlines today’s PlayStation Store offerings. The $14.99 downloadable sequel to last year’s not-so-great 3rd person shooter had shed its AAA-aspirations for a cool-looking old-school aesthetic, a move that can only be described as “wise”.

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Holy Guacamole, Batman - the app store (which contains applications for apple’s mobile devices iPod Touch and the iPhone) has hit (and now exceeded) three billion downloads. That’s a whole hell of a lot of useful “there’s an app for that” programs and indie games, no?

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