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Hey, guys! Remember when GameStop used to sell legacy games and hardware? Atari, Genesis, you name it. Those were the days, before the company began swallowing up the competition and ditched the retro wares in favor of almost exclusively cramming used copies of week-old releases down your throat. Wouldn’t you like to go back to those simpler days? Fat chance. GameStop has added theRetro Game Vaultto its PowerUp Rewards program, giving you the option to use points accrued through in-store purchases towards titles from the SNES, Dreamcast, PlayStation, NES, and more....

Play as a marine, Xenomorph, or Predator For 48 hours, GOG.com isgiving out free copiesofAliens versus Predator Classic 2000to people who register their email address for the GOG Galaxy beta test. Easy enough. But what is Galaxy, exactly? It’s an upcoming DRM-free online gaming platform,as previously described here. Think of Steam as imagined by the GOG.com folks, essentially. For the beta, “You’ll be helping us to analyze and improve the performance of the multiplayer component of GOG Galaxy,” hence the free game with multiplayer....

Crap, dungeons are back As part of the latest Nintendo Direct, more details were given on the upcomingPikmin 4. On top of that, they’ve also revealedHD versionsofPikmin 1and2.While the HD versions arecool on their own, they’ve actually shown off a lot of previously unknown information, so let’s take a look. ThePikmin 1and2HD versions will be available today. They only showed off the title screens of each, so it’s hard to tell if they’re just HD upscales or if they got theMetroid Prime Remasteredtreatment....

The Gran Rey Cero ability inType Soulis a powerful moveset that replaces your existing standard Cero move. Before you can use Gran Rey Cero, you first need to obtain the ability and equip it. Here is how to get the Gran Rey Cero ability inType Soul. How to get Gran Rey Cero to use the Gran Rey Cero ability inType Soul, you need to consume nine Hogyoku Fragments while you are a Vastocar....

Aftermarket Parts are special attachments that can change weapons entirely, and if you’d like to change the burst-fire M16 into a fully automatic assault rifle, you’ll need to know how to unlockWarzoneandMW3‘s JAK Patriot. May 15’sCall of Dutypatch not only nerfed the overpowered Tonfa stick, but also introduced another new Aftermarket Part as Season 3 Reloaded rumbles on to its conclusion. Unfortunately, the JAK Patriot won’t just be added to your inventory, and you’ll need to put in some work to get your hands on it....

Gato Roboto and Gears Tactics also sound good The Long DarkandGato Roboto, two on-the-fence games I’ve been meaning to play for months, are coming to Xbox Game Pass soon. Will I play them? Hopefully! The former isa cut above many survival games, and the chilly wilderness backdrop sounds weirdly cozy. The latter isa cute cat metroidvania. Will Ireallyplay these games? Probably not. (At least not for a while.) That’s kind of how it goes with these services, though – sometimes titles pop up at exactly the right moment, and other times, you just aren’t feeling it....

Plus pics of two separate limited editions There seem to be mixed reactions toInjustice: Gods Among Us, and while the roster has a few more Batman characters on it than I would have probably liked, it’s still undeniably neat to see a game like this exist. We’ll have to watch for any new additions to the cast leading up to the title’s July 19, 2025 (April 19 in Europe) release on PlayStation 3, Wii U, and Xbox 360....

Also, a cat gun. That is all. [Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as much a part of the show as anything else.] We’re getting set to head into the weekend, so you know what that means, yes’sir, it’s another epic edition ofFriday Night Fightsover atDtoid....

More games based on TV shows, please Video game adaptations are more popular than ever, especially when it comes to the games-to-TV/film side of things — just look at the endless conversations surroundingHBO’s adaptation ofThe Last of Us.Last year I wrote alist of my dream TV shows based on game franchises, and now that some of those areactuallycoming true, I thought it was high time to flip things around the other way and bring about even more manifestation....

I was a little worried when ourman in Japan Allistair PinsofpreviewedHot-Blooded Tough Guy Kunio Kun 3Da few months back. The mode he had the opportunity to play was based off of the originalRenegade, and as Conrad Zimmerman always says, “Renegadewas never, ever awesome”. I can’t wholly disagree with Conrad there. Though I love the Renegade’s wanna-be 50’s greaser jukebox soundtrack, the game itself is pretty dull by today’s standards. What I really want from this game is a newRiver City Ransom/Scott Pilgrim-styled action-RPG....

Looking forward to a brand newLegend of Zeldafor home consoles? According to Nintendo head honcho Satoru Iwata, you won’t have to wait that long. The president has confirmed that the next bigZeldagame is due to release before the end of 2010, which means we in the West may very well get the thing in time for Christmas. It all depends, of course, on when Japan gets it, since Nintendo’s never been a big fan of worldwide launches....

This is the Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon developer Outside of the occasional Wii port likeTransformers: Cybertron Adventures,Next Level Gameshas been working with Nintendo quite a bit since their inception. Not only are they responsible forSuper Mario Strikers, but the newPunch Out!!and most recently,Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon. They’re not owned by Nintendo, but according to co-founder Jason Carr — it’s time to make their partnership official, and for right now, Next Level Games will develop exclusively for the Big N....

The wait will soon be over, or beginning, depending on who you ask Tomorrow at 8:00 pm PT / 11:00 pm ET, Nintendo Direct will be showcasing its first glimpse ofAnimal Crossingfor mobile, during a roughly 15 minute video presentation they have planned. Previously announced inApril of last year, alongsideFire Emblemfor mobile devices, Nintendo has been rethinking (or arguably for the first time realizing) its mobile marketplace potential, ever since the release ofSuper Mario Runand its overwhelming popularity....