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Like many of you, I have finally had the chance to check out the “New Xbox Experience” (NXE). It functions, looks nice, and even though it tries to throw advertisement after advertisement in my face. I don’t mind. That’s what it’s supposed to do.

But one of the biggest things I was most looking forward to most was the ability to stream my Netflix instant queue straight to my Xbox 360 without having to hook up my laptop every time I wanted to watch movies on my T.V. Unfortunately, it seems that Sony Pictures Entertainment is having a small licensing spat with Netflix over its (few hundred) titles being streamed on the rival console…

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National Geographic, the media company known primarily for their magazines and documentaries profiling nature and the environment, have decided to enter the video game market.

The media organization has already formed a game division, National Geographic Games, with a goal to provide “entertainment with substance.” Thus far, the company has produced Herod’s Lost Tomb for the iPhone and Namco Bandai’s National Geographic: Panda for the DS.

National Geographic Games has announced its intent to work with Sony on…

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The pre-holiday surge of big games has just about come to an end. All those games have successfully grabbed our attention while the older games are left to sit in the corner and collect dust. Gamefly is coming to the rescue by slashing prices on certain games until November 24, 2008.

These games may not have been the apple of every gamers eye but, for these prices, there’s a place for these games on our shelves. The discounted games cover all platforms except for the PC and PSP and no game is more than $29.99.

Click through for a list of the best of the discounted games…

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If you’re a LocoRoco fan, you don’t have to head to the PlayStation Store to sample a demo of LocoRoco 2‘s gameplay. Instead, you can visit Spil Games’ Games.co.uk site to play a Flash LocoRoco 2 minigame. It isn’t up for very long though. When LocoRoco 2 for the PSP comes out on November 21, 2008 in Europe, the Flash minigame will be removed from Spil Games’ site.

Its fairly simple to play. You use the left and right arrow keys on your computer to control the actions, like the shoulder buttons you use for the original LocoRoco and LocoRoco 2 games. There are six different levels to play, and the goal in each level is to make flowers bloom by rolling over a wilted flower with the proper color LocoRoco…

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According to Joystiq, Sony’s VP of Sales, Ian Jackson, has announced that the previously delayed keypad for SIXAXIS controllers will be arriving during the first week of December 2008.

Sure,  you could just use a USB keyboard, a Bluetooth headset or just tap out those letters one by one on the SIXAXIS controller but then you wouldn’t get the luxury of paying…

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Every so often a video game comes alone that changes the way its genre is seen forever. We often the words “innovative,“ “immersive” and “groundbreaking” to describe the games’ merits, putting them clearly above all others. However, there’s only a small number of titles that can be seen as redefining the genre.

We know these games when we see them because it’s usually imitated over and over again. A game that redefines a genre doesn’t have to be an entirely brand new idea because, truth be told, very few ideas are 100% original. Instead, a genre-defining title is one that grabs the attention of people who never would play that type of game otherwise…

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We know you guys are anxiously awaiting a certain Capcom reinvigorated fighting game to hit your favorite digital distribution servers but Capcom asks you to patiently wait a little bit longer.

In the meantime, during its Ask Capcom Round-up, a question-and-answer round between Capcom’s offical forum goers and the big man himself, Christian “Sven” Svensson, one of the forum patrons asked the question a lot of us have had on our minds: “How long does the approval process usually take”? To which Mr. Svensson replied:

“Depends on the territory and the time of year/how busy the submissions team is. It also depends on…

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Valve seems to have a love-hate relationship with the PS3. On second thought it seems more like a hate relationship.

EA took the responsibility of developing The Orange Box for PS3 in place of Valve which was clearly inferior to the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game. Valve’s most recent endeavor, Left 4 Dead,  is shaping up to be one of the must-play titles of this year with an emphasis on zombie slaying. We know the game is coming to Xbox 360 and PC but a PS3 port has been up in the air since the beginning. Now that dream has been shattered into shards of a broken dream courtesy of Valve’s own Chet Faliszek…

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The 2008 Toys R Us Big Toy Book has been released and this year and the sneak preview mailer is 80 pages of holiday gifty goodness.

There are a lot of video games spread throughout the Big Toy Book this year.

The most noteworthy deals include $10 gift cards with minimum purchase, $5 off Leapster and similar kids’ game systems, Star Wars DS System Value Pack and pink DS bundle for $159.97 each, free exclusive DS Littlest Pet Shop stylus, PS3 BD Remote for $24.99, PSP Skype Headset for $29.99, a free tag team figure with WWE Smack Down vs. RAW game purchase, $100 Pyramat chair and two Toys R Us-exclusive DS games Pet Adoption Center ($29.99) and Soul Bubbles ($19.99). There are also some pretty decent iPod/iPod Touch offers including a $25 iTunes card and $10 gift card. Check way below for a list of more free-stuff-with-purchase type offers.

Click through for a page-by-page breakdown of video game (and iPod) deals as well as a list of other Toys R Us freebies…

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Check out the gallery: Toys R Us 2008 Holiday Big Toy Book scans

If you’re still holding out to buy a PS3, Wal-Mart has a good offer to get you into the door.

Starting at 8 a.m., Saturday, November 8, 2008, Wal-Mart will be selling the 80GB PS3 for $399 with a $100 gift card as an added bonus. Wal-Mart can’t sell every PS3 at this price so it will only have 4 units per store. If you’re in an area that has been…

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