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Triumvir will re-release its handsome Street Fighter World Warrior line of T-shirts at a gamer-friendly price, the clothier tells Wired.com.
The line was originally launched in 2009 and has since gone out of print at Triumvir’s web store. The company says the original cut and design of the shirts will be maintained, but that only the [...]

Brookyln rappers Das Racist released a new videogame to promote their single “Who’s That Brown” Thursday.
The retro-styled game finds the hipster rappers on a quest to find their hype man “Dap” when Justin Bieber and Jay-Z are waylayed by a limo accident and the duo are asked to fill in onstage.
Their journey takes the pair [...]

A gamer, a rabbity-thing, a heavy-weapons expert and a Mexican wrestler walk into a casino …
Telltale Games will release an all-star poker game built around just such an unlikely mix of videogame characters, the publisher said Thursday.
Poker Night at the Inventory will seat Tycho from Penny Arcade, Sam of Sam & Max fame, internet celebrity [...]

You can take that toe tag off Duke Nukem Forever again: The game, presumed dead after developer 3D Realms pulled the plug on it last year, is alive and kicking at Penny Arcade Expo.
Gearbox Software has taken the reins of the first-person shooter, which will supposedly be published by Take-Two Interactive next year, according to [...]

A fan of the 2001 GameCube game Wave Race: Blue Storm found a long-buried Easter egg in the racing game this week.
The code, posted to the NeoGAF message board by user “Raoul Duke,” unlocks a sardonic commentary track that insults the player at every move. “You don’t have an inferiority complex,” the announcer quips. [...]

Nintendo will re-release its 1993 Super Nintendo game Super Mario All-Stars on Wii in Japan to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series, according to reports.
A news leak from a retail event in Japan, reported by the indispensable Andriasang, says that Nintendo will release a Wii disc containing the SNES game for 2,500 yen (about [...]

Square Enix will commence open beta testing of Final Fantasy XIV at 7 p.m. Pacific time Wednesday.
The beta test of the new MMO was meant to begin on Tuesday, but was postponed when the Japanese gamemaker discovered “critical” bugs in the code.
Final Fantasy XIV, due out September 30 on PC and in March 2011 for [...]

Christopher Lloyd will reprise his role as Dr. Emmet Lathrop “Doc” Brown in the Back to the Future videogame, publisher Telltale Games said Wednesday.
This will be the first time the actor has portrayed the harried inventor of time travel since Universal Studios launched Back to the Future: The Ride in 1991.
Telltale announced its intention [...]

Let’s not mince words. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is a demo that costs five bucks. It’s still worth it.

Though Facebook games have a reputation for being addictive, they’re also seen as far too simple to satisfy the serious gamer. David Whatley, president and CEO of Simutronics, hopes that his company’s new game will live up to the rigorous standards of the hard-core.

Hudson will donate 10 cents for every Facebook user that clicks the “Like” button on its forthcoming game Lost In Shadow.
Child’s Play is a pet charity of the videogame set. The organization, founded by Penny Arcade cartoonists Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, raises cash for children’s hospitals, providing toys, games, books and movies to sick [...]

Disney Interactive Studios unveiled the collector’s edition of Tron: Evolution on Monday.
The high-end package, slated to come out on December 7 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, will include an exclusive Tron light cycle model crafted by Sideshow Collectibles.
The special edition retails for $130 and comes with a plastic display case for [...]

Microsoft will increase the price of a subscription to its Xbox Live online gaming service later this year, it said Monday.
Via the Major Nelson blog, the Xbox 360 maker announced that a one-year Xbox Live account will now cost $60 instead of $50 effective November 1.
The prices of one- and six-month subscriptions will also increase, [...]

Nintendo will lower the prices of its DSi line of portable game hardware next month, it said Monday.
The company’s Nintendo DSi will be lowered from $170 to $150 and the DSi XL will go from $190 to $170 starting on September 12, the launch day of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
The low-end DS Lite [...]

Rockstar will release the next downloadable expansion for its PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game Red Dead Redemption on September 21, the publisher said Friday.
The “Liars and Cheats Pack” will include multiplayer poker, liar’s dice and horse races. Players will also get a new rifle, seven new gang hideouts to attack, four new hunting grounds [...]

Nintendo’s new action-adventure game is a rarity for the Wii maker — a big summer-blockbuster action game with lots of cinematic scenes.