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Even though I’m a huge fan of 80s music (as many of us who grew up on the NES rightly should be) I’m instantly wary of this latest release from dtp young entertainment. The last time I reviewed a Just Sing! karaoke game they’d brought to DSiWare it was Just Sing! National Anthems, which I thought was absolutely terrible.

A karaoke game that only featured five songs total, and some of them weren’t even in English? Youch. Very, very bad…

Last week, I posted my impressions of Resistance 3’s first seven chapters. But since I already have this build of Resistance 3 in the office, I figured why not show you the game in action for a full, uninterrupted tour of the game’s opening sequences?

On Friday, Greg, Naomi and I played through the first 35 minutes or so of Resistance 3, live streaming it to the Internet masses. We went ahead and recorded the live stream, and the videos are embedded below in case you missed the action…

New release slate led by Ubisoft’s modern shooter, Supergiant’s downloadable game for XBLA; Captain America: Super Soldier, Fallout: New Vegas DLC, Just Dance Summer Party also out.

This week in new releases sees a host of new titles hit store shelves, ranging from Ubisoft’s Mexican drug war game to Supergiant’s downloadable role-playing title.

Leading the pack this week is Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez: The Cartel for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Unlike its predecessors, which were set during the Wild West, Call of Juarez: The Cartel takes place during modern times.

The cartel comes to town this Tuesday.

As the name implies, the game chronicles a drug war along the Mexican border, casting players as a female FBI agent, a Wild West sheriff type, and an undercover drug agent. Polish developer Techland said it chose the setting to capture a “relevant plot” that would connect with today’s gamers.

Also debuting this week is Supergiant Games’ downloadable action role-playing title Bastion. The release kicks off Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promotion, which includes From Dust, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Fruit Ninja Kinect, and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.

As for the title in question, Bastion relies heavily on storytelling, offering more than 40 hand-painted environments that gamers explore to uncover the origins of Calamity, a civilization-destroying event.

Gamers looking to pick up a film tie-in title this week can grab Captain America: Super Soldier this week. The game arrives before its theatrical counterpart on Friday, and it will hit the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS, with a 3DS version following at some point later on.

Bastion kicks off Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade this Wednesday.

Super Soldier will offer an original storyline based on the Captain America film, which stars Chris Evans (Fantastic Four), Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men), and Samuel L. Jackson (Iron Man 2). Harking back to the comic franchise’s roots, Nazis will be the target of Captain America’s ire, as the shield-wielding hero squares off against his nemesis, Red Skull, in an effort to stop the evil machinations of the scientist Arnim Zola.

Also out this week on downloadable channels is the Old World Blues add-on for Fallout: New Vegas, as well as the PS3 iteration of Candygun’s zombie survival game Dead Block.

Lastly, gamers looking to boogie to a new tune in Ubisoft’s popular Just Dance franchise can pick up Just Dance Summer Party this Tuesday on the Wii. The game will include 20 new songs stemming from the ’80s, ’90s, and today, including Katy Perry’s “Firework,” Rihanna’s “Pon De Replay,” and Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of Monika).”

For further details on the week’s games, visit GameSpot’s New Releases page. The full list of downloadable games on the PlayStation Store, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Wii Shop Channel will be revealed later this week. Release dates are based on retailer listings and subject to change

TUESDAY, JULY 19
Call of Juarez: The Cartel–X360, PS3–Ubisoft
Captain America: Super Solider–X360, PS3, Wii, DS, 3DS–Sega
Fallout: New Vegas – Old World Blues–X360, PS3, PC–Bethesda Softworks
Just Dance Summer Party–Wii–Ubisoft
The Smurfs–DS–Ubisoft
The Smurfs: Dance Party–Wii–Ubisoft

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
Bastion–X360–Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Dead Block–PS3–Candygun Games

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Another of Nintendo’s earliest releases for the original Game Boy, Baseball is a simple conversion of the classic American sport. A really simple conversion. A really simple and slow conversion…

I’m going to kick things off by mentioning a 21-year-old Game Boy game that I expect about 1% of you all will remember Daedalian Opus. It was a puzzler that gave you a set of Tetris-like shapes in each stage and tasked you to piece them all together to fit perfectly inside larger target boxes. I mention it because Puzzle Fever uses the same idea, updated and modernized a bit from when we first saw it back in 1990…

Let’s be blunt. Japanese developers have been struggling for relevance during this generation of consoles. They’ve been caught behind as the rest of the world has moved on. The reasons why are complicated, but can largely be summed up by looking at the severe market fragmentation that’s occurred ove…

Let’s be blunt. Japanese developers have been struggling for relevance during this generation of consoles. They’ve been caught behind as the rest of the world has moved on. The reasons why are complicated, but can largely be summed up by looking at the severe market fragmentation that’s occurred ove…

Let’s be blunt. Japanese developers have been struggling for relevance during this generation of consoles. They’ve been caught behind as the rest of the world has moved on. The reasons why are complicated, but can largely be summed up by looking at the severe market fragmentation that’s occurred ove…

Call of Duty publisher seeks transfer in ownership of unaffiliated site after it redirects visitors to official Battlefield 3 page; US Modern Warfare marketing spend surpasses $24 million.

Modern Warfare 3 isn’t supposed to kick off until November, but a dispute over a website devoted to the game is already flaring up. According to a report on domain-tracking blog Fusible, Activision is looking to seize ownership of ModernWarfare3.com through a complaint filed with the National Arbitration Forum.

Activision was not amused when ModernWarfare3.com sent visitors to the official Battlefield 3 site.

Originally registered in March 2009, ModernWarfare3.com bills itself both as “a 100 percent unofficial fan site dedicated to the Modern Warfare series,” as well as “a parody of Modern Warfare 3.” While the site has for some time openly criticized the Activision shooter as a retread of the series, it drew particular attention recently when it temporarily forwarded all ModernWarfare3.com traffic to the official website of Electronic Arts’ competing military shooter Battlefield 3. In its complaint, Activision described the forwarding as retaliation for a takedown notice it sent related to copyrighted content that had previously appeared on the site.

For Activision to win ownership of the site, it would have to show that ModernWarfare3.com is “identical or confusingly similar to” its own trademarks related to the series, that the operator of the site has no legitimate interests for use of the domain name, and it was registered and used in bad faith. The complaint indicates the ModernWarfare3.com owner would be able to retain the name if “making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or tarnish the trademark.”

However, Activision is arguing that ModernWarfare3.com ran ads for GameStop and Best Buy, making it a commercial venture, and that the forwarding to a direct competitor’s website is sufficient to show the site was run in bad faith. At the moment, the site no longer directs to Battlefield 3’s site and appears to be free of advertising.

In establishing its own claim to the brand, Activision’s complaint noted that the publisher has spent more than $24 million in the US alone on marketing the Modern Warfare installments of the Call of Duty series. As of press time, neither Activision nor the admin of ModernWarfare3.com had returned GameSpot’s request for comment.

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So many games get released for the App Store every day that it’s impossible to keep track of them all. Nor would you want to. After all, for every Tiny Wings there are fifty utter failures…