Gadgets and Video Games

Hey PS3 owners, have you been waiting for the PSN equivalent of Trials HD ? Well, Joe Danger’s for you. Have you been waiting for a new side-scrolling Sonic the Hedgehog game? Then, Joe Danger is also for you. How about an HD version of Canabalt

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GDC Hands-on: Joe Danger (PSN)

If you weren’t lucky enough to be in New York for the last Capcom Fight Club , you’ll have another opportunity on January 7 to play Super Street Fighter IV , win prizes, and maybe — just maybe — see Seth Killian from a distance. Capcom is bringing its exclusive fighting celebration to Las Vegas for CES, filling its Planet Hollywood suite with as many hadoukenthusiasts as it can.

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Capcom takes its Fight Club to Las Vegas

What’s the only thing more satisfying than aligning colorful blocks on a rectangular grid while simultaneously recreating pleasant ambient tunes from musical artists such as Moby? Simple — doing so while simultaneously donating to charity. That’s the package that OneBigGame and Zoe Mode will offer on XBLA at some point this winter, when their music/puzzle game Chime lands on the XBLA. Though we’ve known about this non-profit puzzler for a month now, we’ve yet to see the title in action. Fortunately, OneBigGame dropped a gameplay demonstration video earlier today, which we’ve posted above

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Charity XBLA game Chime’s gameplay explained in latest trailer

If you haven’t noticed, just about every foreign sales post we do somehow references football (or, as our primitive North American minds have designated it, soccer) — including the post you’re reading right this hot second . The terrifically named, PSP-exclusive J. LEAGUE Football Club Tsukurou! 6 Pride of J took top honors in the Japanese charts this week, pushing the portable platform to a first-place finish over its ill-equipped, football-less competitors. We know better than to stand in the way of progress — so, from henceforth, Joystiq will be changing its focus from video games to the foot-centric sport which half of our posts tend to be about anyways.

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Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 9 – Nov. 15: New direction edition

If you enjoyed the Cowboy Bebop -meets-Master Chief action presented in the first episode of Halo Legends (seriously, that main character looked just like Spike Spiegel!), then you may want to check out the second episode of the Spartan-themed anime premiering today on Halo Waypoint . For 24 hours starting at 12:00AM PST (about eight hours ago), Xbox Live Silver and Gold members will be able to access “The Duel” through the “all-things- Halo ” hub.

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PSA: Second Halo Legends episode free, available today only

Click to make more epic . From the looks of things, Warren Spector and his Junction Point Studios aren’t doing a Mickey Mouse job of their, well … Mickey Mouse job

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Disney Epic Mickey screens and art are suitably epic

click to Boomer-size Valve took the wraps off Left 4 Dead 2 ’s brand-new competitive multiplayer game type, “Scavenge,” at a press event in San Francisco this evening. According to the developer, this mode is built purely for “quick, more frantic gameplay.” (Yes, L4D actually can be more frantic). Scavenge has the four survivor characters scrambling to collect gas cans from various spots in a confined location — in this case a motel, pictured — in order to fuel up a generator before a two-minute timer expires. There are 16 cans total and 20 seconds are added to the clock for each one that’s successfully retrieved

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Left 4 Dead 2’s new ‘Scavenge’ multiplayer mode revealed

When Activision sent out a press release this morning regarding a Guitar Hero DLC discount, we couldn’t help but notice a tiny trademark symbol dangling precariously above the term “Rocktober[TM].” That got our mind grapes juicing: Isn’t that the term EA has been using to market Br

click for gallery Microsoft and Infinity Ward just announced the availability of a Modern Warfare 2 -themed Xbox 360 console at a press event in Los Angeles. Included in this “limited edition” $399 package is: a 250GB Xbox 360 console, with the requisite Modern Warfare 2 markings (the so-called ” Super Elite “); two wireless controllers, presumably also apparently not Modern Warfare 2 -themed (though, notably, not Mad Catz’s officially licensed wired controllers); and, lastly, a “standard edition” copy of Modern Warfare 2 . No matter how you do the math, that’s a good deal. As most of us know, the only thing that moves more consoles than “a good deal” is “a good deal” that includes the words “modern,” “warfare,” and “two” somewhere in the title.

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$399 Modern Warfare 2-themed Xbox 360: 250GB HDD, wireless controllers, game

Finally , some footage of Assassin’s Creed 2: Discovery , the still-unannounced DS sequel to Assassin’s Creed: Altair’s Chronicles , has been revealed, and the game announced officially for the first time. At Apple’s iPod event. The last Gameloft-developed Assassin’s Creed DS game was eventually ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch platform, well after the DS release. This time, it’s the iPhone version of the game that was shown first, to be released at the same time as the console games, November 17

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Assassin’s Creed DS sequel discovered on iPhone