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The PSVita is certainly shaping up to be the console for music fans. Launching on February 14th (a perfect Valentines gift, perhaps?) Lumines Electronic Symphony features 33 licensed tracks, including some amazing tracks like Aphex Twin's Windowlicker and Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.'s Bang Bang Bang.

If you’re a regular visitor of Futureshop.ca as I am, you may have noticed a massive assortment of brand-name luggage pieces offered for sale online. No need to blink twice, the assortment and sale offers you’re seeing are true.

There have been a lot of titles released for the iOS platforms that, you know, should make us feel like it's a "serious" games platform. Something that's absolutely on the level with the DS, the PSP... maybe even the 3DS and the upcoming Vita. Titles like Infinity Blade, let's say. But for some reason I can't ever quite buy the narrative, and you know, I play tons of games on my iPod touch! Maybe it's that lack of buttons thing. I just can't see it. But... you know... Capcom releasing Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, really not that long after it was released on Nintendo DS, well, there's something to be said for that.

Yep, you read that right. Kinect! For Windows! Except... well, not quite yet for consumers, but there's a lot of promise in today's announcement that "any business" can now develop applications for Kinect in Windows. I mean... it could revolutionize human-computer interaction, right?

After the release of the incredibly fun co-op platformer Rayman Origins, Ubisoft has now announced yet another Rayman game: Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc HD.  While technically not a "new release" the re-release of this 2003 fan favourite (doesn't time just fly?) will come as a pleasant surprise with totally revamped hi-def graphics.  Look for it on Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network on March 21, 2012!

One of those very long headlines there that seems to tell the whole story, eh? Well! Capcom has just announced that Dragon's Dogma, it's open world action combat game, will be released for Xbox 360 and PS3 on May 22nd, and both systems will get Resident Evil 6 demo download tokens included: but much, much earlier on Xbox 360.

Earlier this week we posted about Prototype 2's April 24 release date; however it seems PC users will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on this much-anticipated game. According to the official Prototype Facebook page, the PC version won't arrive until July 24.

Just before the most romantic day of the year, Nintendo is launching an eye-catching 'Pearl Pink' coloured 3DS on Friday, February 10, 2012. 

Video game... news! Here is some more of it! Including such stuff as dates for Ghost Recon and versus modes for Raccoon City, that sort of thing.

Hello hello chaps,

Now Erika did a wee write-up of some prevously-announced Street Fighter X Tekken characters recently, and I promise we're not going to block your feed up with the likely constant and piecemeal reveals of each new character that comes, but gotta say that the characters they've just announced as Sony-exclusives are pretty... weird? Maybe even offensive, really? Yeah...

Do you own a Windows Phone and are looking for a few new games to snuggle up to this winter?  Microsoft has just announced that starting February 1, they will be releasing five "must-have" games each week via the Games Marketplace.  Whether you're into arcade shooters, car-racing, action-stealth or even chicken experimenting, there's something for everyone. 

So last weekend I went to see popular chip-band Anamanaguchi (it was great) and then afterwards, for whatever reason, we went back to a friend's apartment and listened to old bits from The Best Show on WFMU. It's... well it's the best show, and we listened to this episode with "The Gorch" a character who claims he is who the Fonz was based on, and who sings this song (here ably covered by Ted Leo). For some reason on reading these Xbox Live House Party dates, I started singing...

"There's gonna be a house party tonight! Everyone's gonna feel alright! You've got Xbox by your side, polishing my chain, you know I'm going to do it right, tonight."

Hmm that bit about polishing my chain doesn't make any sense.

That Resident Evil 6 announcement came out of nowhere, eh? Or was I just not paying attention? But still... man. It's coming so soon too! But let's say you can't wait till November. Well, Resident Evil: Revelations hits for Nintendo 3DS on February 7th. But let's say you can't wait for that! Well there's a demo of it on the 3DS eShop right now.

Canada is definitely a country that can be proud of its game developers, and in fact, there are so many that it's sort of hard to keep up and be proud of everyone. For example, it's entirely possible that you've overlooked a little Toronto studio, DrinkBox studios, who recently put out Tales from Space: About a Blob on PlayStation Network. Well, they're working on a follow up, Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, and it'll be hitting--or at least they're planning on it hitting--on the PS Vita's launch.

There's something so alluring about the WipEout series - juxtaposing vehicles flying at hyperspeed to the beat of electrified electronica tunes is no small feat.  Sometimes it seems a little too good to believe, especially when you're like me and listen to all of the WipEout OSTs religiously.  Wipeout revolutionized the racing genre and has always been a very stimulating and aesthetically pleasing experience.  Where did those moments begin?  Where else but in WipEout 2048, the prequel to the series?