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Aliens vs. Predator 360, BioShock 2 PS3 barely miss NPD’s top 10 non-PC game chart; Star Trek Online edged out by Sims 3: High-end Loft Stuff atop PC rankings. As the 2010 Game Developers Conference hit its apex last Thursday, the NPD Group released its US game sales report for the month of February. Besides showing an overall decline of 15 percent in sales of non-PC game software, hardware, and accessories, the report revealed the top 10 game products for the month. ..read more

Okay, so North America’s limited edition Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP pack doesn’t include an exclusive camo PSP, or a stand thingy, or a snakeskin-like carrying case. But it does include a “Spirited Green” PSP-3000, a color previously unavailable in America. It doesn’t include a PSP Go, so we’re guessing the “relaunch” hasn’t begun yet. Launching alongside the standalone game on May 25, the pack includes said green PSP, a copy of the game on UMD, a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, and vouchers for both an unidentified movie download (for US residents only) and exclusive in-game items in Peace ..read more

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Grow Up Australia group removed for violating social networking site’s terms of use; organisers to launch new fan page. Australian gamers angry at the fact that the country has no R18+ rating for videogames have had several avenues to vent their frustration, but one of the largest and most organised was the Grow Up Australia group created on social networking site Facebook. The group boasted more than 37,000 members, and even managed to recently collect 16,000 responses to the government public consultation into the R18+ issue in conjunction with retailer EB Games. But Grow Up Australia’s existence has been dealt a ..read more

Last week, we brought you the incredibly exciting news that a Splinter Cell: Conviction demo was confirmed for release on Xbox Live. That thrilling news just got too awesome to bear: the demo will be out this week. March 18, in fact, according to a new Inside Xbox video. If you’re not worried about spoiling the demo for yourself (which, we suppose, would lead to spoiling a very tiny portion of the game by extension), you can see some of the gameplay the demo covers in the video. Or you can wait until you get to put yourself into Sam’s goggles ..read more

In this video documentary for Transformers: War for Cybertron, the development team at High Moon Studios talk about bringing the Autobots and Decepticons back to Cybertron to tell a story never fully told. More »

[Flickr user Kossy@FINEDAYS] If you guys like mathematical equations — and, since you’re a regular reader of the Japanese hardware sales feature, we’re guessing you are — then you’re going to love this little ditty we whipped up earlier today: “A blogger flies west across three time zones at 450mph for five hours. Upon his arrival, he covers a week-long gaming convention. On his return trip, the blogger takes a red-eye with a connecting flight east across three time zones at 475mph for six hours. Daylight Saving Time goes into effect while the blogger is in the air. On the first ..read more

That Game Company’s Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago, saw their team’s game Flower nominated for several Game Developer’s Choice Awards, winning for Best Downloadable. We talked about their future, Pokemon, and, since they made motion-games for the PS3, PlayStation Move. More »

Huge week at retail also sees launches of Command & Conquer 4, Metro 2033, Dragon Age expansion, new Pokemon for DS, and Resonance of Fate. Kratos has been yelling about vengeance since he first appeared in 2005, and he’s finally on the verge of getting it. After years of anticipation, God of War III hits the PlayStation 3 this week, its arrival preceded by critical acclaim. However, the Ghost of Sparta isn’t the only draw in what is shaping up to be a huge week at retailers. ..read more