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This week Andy takes us through Dead Rising 2: Case Zero - available on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 400MS Points now - before moving on to show off his arty side with Art Academy on the Nintendo DS. Before he wraps up he gets Sony Big Boss Michael Ephraim on camera to dish the trash talk in the Wii vs Move war, and we finish with the promise of Tokyo Games Show 2010 coverage!

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This week Andy takes us through the new DSi XL colours coming out, plays Flight Control in HD and 3D on the PS3 with Move controls (that's getting a little ridiculous), scopes out an awesome Justin Bieber game trailer and races me while playing Kinect!

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Who says games don't make you violent? A pretty amusing news clip is currently making the rounds, showing what happened when a couple of thieves try for a midnight raid on a gaming cafe.

The masked crims were caught on security camera. They enter the net cafe and belt the counter jockey a couple of times before punters wise up all is not well. At first it looks like things are going to go down per nerd stereotype - scared gamers handing over cash.

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Neil Patrick Harris will join Josh Keaton, Christopher Daniel Barnes and Dan Gilvezan as the Spider-Men of Shattered Dimensions - Amazing, Ultimate, Noir and 2099 respectively. Stan Lee is voicing the narrator of the game.

All four Spidey actors have previously played the character in animated series' before - Dan Gilvezan in 1981's Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Christopher Daniel Barnes in the 1994 Spider-Man, NPH in Spider-Man: The New Animated Series and Josh Keaton in 2008's The Spectacular Spider-Man.

It's not too often you get a software publisher making bold claims, but this one from Ubisoft promodroid Murray Pannell is too good to pass up. Pannell, who heads up Ubi's UK marketing team thinks it's likely 3D TV sets will be in most living rooms sooner than you may think:

Pannell to games site Eurogamer:

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id Software's RAGE has reaped the proceeds of scoring more nominations than any other game from E3's self appointed Game Critics organisation. The cluster of US games outlets took home three awards, more than any other title. The catch: one award it didn't win was "Best PC Game".

RAGE scored Best Console Game, Best Action Game, and a "Special Commendation for Graphics" award, which will have likely amused Crytek, whose Crysis 2 ultimately didn't win any awards:

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Easily one of the biggest WTF moments of this year's E3 show was at the end of the Ubisoft press briefing. We thought when company head Yves "Smooth Criminal" Guillemot started talking about a major talent who'd been lost in the past year, the rumours about Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Desilets leaving Ubi might have been true. But that wasn't what Guillemot was referring to. Instead, a bunch of dancers hit the stage and started dancing to a Michael Jackson song.

Apart from the obvious message that Ubi had secured the rights to the Michael Jackson name (and presumably his music) we didn't really know what to think. Now in an interview with games site VG247, Ubisoft brand manager Felicia Williams revealed more:

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Sony certainly has come a long way in recent years. From regularly bashing Nintendo about the Wii (to be fair, they weren't alone) now the consumer electronics giant wants to talk co-operation on the subject of 3D. Specifically: can Nintendo stop harping on about "Glassless" 3D?

Shuhei Yoshida from Sony Worldwide Studios spoke to IGN:

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Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has told financial outlet Forbes the full feature-set for the company's 3DS handheld could also include live video chat in 3D.

We got hands-on with the handheld at last week's E3 and came away impressed, not least with the ability of the unit to take 3D snapshots. With a decent online connection, video chat would likely be a straightforward proposition.

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The tens of millions of dollars Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and friends are pouring into marketing 3D television hits one unmistakeable wall. Those glasses. How social is it having a room full of friends wearing them? What about if you are one set short, or someone steps on them. Who gets to miss out?

While earlier this year at CES 2010 we saw a prototype TV offering 3D with glasses, it seemed largely lost amidst the massive surge of publicity for the glass option. Nintendo however were paying attention. In fact if you were to conduct an informal poll of attendees on what has stolen the E3 show - it would have to be the Nintendo 3DS in first place, with Microsoft's Kinect a probably distant second.

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