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In an interview with Official Nintendo Magazine , WayForward’s Sean Velasco said that he’d be up for making a sequel to the developer’s Wii update of A Boy and His Blob . While it’s not official confirmation of such a project in the works, the fact that Velasco thinks that ” Another A Boy And His Blob game would also be amazing as the first one was such a great experience” is a positive sign for those interested in the continued adventures of a kid and his jelly-bean-crazed monster. In the meantime, however, Velasco is looking to ” make a few small and crazy titles next. Maybe some downloadable games?” WayForward has Shantae: Risky’s Revenge on the way to DSiWare, and has expressed interest in more downloadable games in the past. Gallery: A Boy and His Blob (Wii) WayForward considering ’small and crazy’ games before possible Boy and His Blob sequel originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

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WayForward considering ’small and crazy’ games before possible Boy and His Blob sequel

Valve has officially announced that 2K Games’ BioShock 2 will be available for purchase on Steam — you can pre-purchase the game right now , and it’ll be unlocked for play on February 9, 2010, day and date with the rest of the world. The current price is $44.99, a slight discount from the boxed version, and that includes a Steam copy of the original BioShock as well, which you can “kindly” give to a friend if you happen to already have it. Or you can nab four licenses for you and three friends for $134.97, with each of you getting to play the original also.

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BioShock 2 now available for prepurchase on Steam

We’ve just received a press release revealing which titles will be vying for top honors at the 10th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, held in conjunction with GDC 2010 on March 11. If you’re not familiar with the show, picture the Kids Choice Awards, only … with video game developers choosing the winners instead of teenagers. Or, alternatively, imagine the VGAs, only without all the half-naked women, pot references and awards named after highly caffeinated soft drinks

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GDC Awards nominees announced, Drake leads the pack

click to enlarge Clearly sensing our need to come up with more Wild West headline puns, Rockstar has released four (count ‘em, four) new screens of the gun-slinging sequel, Red Dead Redemption . The shots cover a fairly broad cross section of subjects, from dilapidated riverboat gunfights to exploding carriages and, of course, some nice, arid backdrops. We still don’t know much about Redemption ’s gameplay, but we can safely say one thing: It sure is purdy . On a more substantial front, Rockstar promises more info “in the next couple of weeks,” notably the entry in the series of gameplay videos that began in December.

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Round up some new Red Dead Redemption screens

After scans from Famitsu all but confirmed it, Capcom today revealed that the crescendo of humanity vs. his own creations – car bashing – will return in Super Street Fighter IV . Though the image of Juri above is all we’re offered by Capcom-Unity for now, various Capcom staff Twitter accounts lead us to believe we’ll be hearing more about this bonus stage next week.

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Confirmed: Car-bashing bonus stage returns in Super Street Fighter IV

If you have a PS3 and Guitar Hero 5 , you might have noticed that, well, you don’t have your free copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen . While copies of the freebie are shipping out for the other systems, all PS3 owners are getting right now is an apologetic email. “Unfortunately, we made a printing error on the package of Guitar Hero Van Halen ,” the email explains.

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Runnin’ Late with the Devil: Guitar Hero Van Halen delayed on PS3

Following Atomic Games’ unfortunate news yesterday, an inside source has told IndustryGamers that the situation is much more dire than we were lead to believe. “Out of 75 people, less than a dozen are left and about a third of that isn’t even developers,” the source commented.

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Rumor: Atomic Games is ‘pretty much dead’

Gearbox Software is apparently still working on Aliens: Colonial Marines . This update seems necessary to convey after Sega did its best Sigourney Weaver impression and told Obsidian to “get away from the Alien RPG , you [censored].” Gearbox head Randy Pitchford tells CVG that the company is definitely working on the first-person title and, when the time is right for publisher Sega, it will share more details. We’re not expecting to hear too much more about Aliens: Colonial Marines until Sega gets Aliens vs

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Gearbox assures it’s hard at work on Aliens: Colonial Marines

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