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Purchasing entire family-friendly lineup of Raskulls, Ilomilo, A World of Keflings to unlock new characters in each game; early releases available for two of three titles.

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Purchasing entire family friendly lineup of Raskulls, ilomilo, A World of Keflings to unlock new characters in each game; early releases available for two of three titles.

Get the full article at GameSpot

Okay, maybe not enough. I do get paid to do this, after all.

Basically, the first trailer for Telltale’s Back to the Future adventure game series has hit, and it’s a stunner. It’s not just the uber-authentic voice acting, by Christopher Lloyd and a Marty McFly sound-a-like so accurate that Michael J. Fox might as well sign over the rights to his own identity. It’s not just the opening plot details, which could have been lifted straight out of the original trilogy. As much as all that, in fact probably moreso, it’s the way the tight pacing and brilliantly authentic use of the original soundtrack’s cues immediately make this feel like a 100% genuine piece of the trilogy.

Come! Come join me after the jump, where I will show you what I mean. …

Is the gaming world big enough for another high-profile MMO? That’s what Ubisoft and Trion Worlds are banking on as they ramp up promotion for their 2011 release of Rift: Planes of Telara with a new, hyperbole-filled beta trailer… …

Even if you don’t play World of Warcraft, you’ve probably heard of Cataclysm. The latest expansion for the MMO is aiming to change the game from the ground up. Instead of just adding new areas to the existing world, Cataclysm aims to destroy and change many of the game’s most familiar and iconic areas. With less than a week until World of Warcraft: Cataclysm releases on December 7, Blizzard has released a brand new video, which takes you on a whirlwind tour through some of the areas that will be changed forever as well as a bunch of new areas in the expansion. Check it out… …

DICE has put a little something extra into the new Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam add-on, but you’ll only be able to get it if everyone else wants it as much as you. The “Operations Hastings” map, which has been revived from the classic Battlefield: Vietnam from 2004, is hidden in the new DLC pack, but won’t be available until 69 million online “team actions” are recorded. That’s a lot of actions… …

Above: Playing peek-a-boo with a invisibility hack for Kinect

Although researchers at the University of Berkeley have managed to develop material that can bend light to cloak objects a few years ago, the sorts of invisibility body cloaks you’ve seen in Predator or Harry Potter remain in the world of fiction. But one man has managed to re-create the effect of an invisibility cloak with a Kinect hack… …

Super Meat Boy developer Team Meat has just updated the Steam version of the platformer to include Tofu Boy as a playable character. If you haven’t been following the juicy drama, a rivalry between Team Meat and PETA blew up after the animal rights organization released Super Tofu Boy, a scathing Flash game parody of the original, which encourages a meat-free diet.

It turns out that PETA played right into Team Meat’s hands. “First off I want to thank Peta for helping us turn Super Meat Boy into a house hold name and of course for making themselves look quite foolish in the process,” said Team Meat’s Edmund McMillen in an official response concerning PETA’s release of the game parody. You can read McMillen’s entire response and find out how to play as Tofu Boy inside… …

The US Army takes pride in the precision of its Special Operators. For these elite warriors, training never ends and the enemy is never far. They are coordinated, disciplined, and conditioned to accomplish their missions no matter what adversity lies in wait. Surely three idiots yammering insensitive slurs at them over Xbox Live wouldn’t break their composure… surely… …

If you’re not familiar with the Deus Ex series, it was all about augmentations, high-tech body modifications that allowed you to tweak your character to perfection. In the new Deus Ex game developed by Eidos, Sarif Industries is the leading manufacturer of these body augmentations.

Interestingly enough an official website for the fictional futuristic tech company has surfaced. Head to www.sarifindustries.com, and you’ll be able to browse through a bunch of the upgrades you’ll be able to modify your character with in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Keep clicking around, and you’ll also get to sample a hidden hacking game… …