Whoa. Mirror’s Edge just climbed up a few spots on the holiday must-have list. Footage of the time trial mode would’ve been enough by itself, but seeing Sebastien Foucan fly around Stockholm adds that extra little flair. Astute viewers will recognize Sebastien from the free-running chase at the beginning of Casino Royale, which I blame for any bone I may break in the future whilst trying to be a ninja.

Ahem…anyway, Mirror’s Edge comes out November 13th for the 360 and PS3.

Holy crap, I think I just poo’d my pants a little. I’ve been jealous of Japan’s Club Nintendo for years, and it’s finally coming to the States!

For those of you unfamiliar with Club Nintendo, the basic premise is that consumers register their Nintendo products for neat prizes. When I say neat prizes, I don’t mean cheap crap like a kazoo or a pack of cards, I mean crap like full DS games, game racks, carrying cases and exclusively designed controllers.

Also, I guess that we’re also getting a WiiSpeak channel, too. Whoop-de-doo.

[via Infendo, which, by the way, is an awesome site]

So now that I’ve seen the new DSi, I’m pretty pumped to shell out another good chunk of money and abandon my 2-year-old DS Lite. Hell, I might even sell my iPod to help cover the cost, since having a DSi would mean that I would be carrying around a total of 4 MP3 players, and that just seems unnecessary.

Anyway, I’m not going to talk about the specs of this new machine since I’m sure you’ve already read about them at other news sites. Mostly I just want to pose a question: is the DSi a big enough improvement over the DS Lite to get the average gamer to make the upgrade?

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Let me tell you something: this game kicks ass. I picked it up on PSN last week (reason: better D-pad than 360, more storage space than Wii) and I’m effing loving it. To be fair, I still haven’t quite beaten the last set of levels in Wily’s castle, but the robot masters alone have been worth their weight in money, Microsoft points or Wii points. Here are my thoughts on of each of the stages:
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Joystick Jockies is a radio show where me and two of my best buddies chat about our all-time favorite subject: video games! I’ll warn you that the show is perforated with local advertisements and weather updates (since it’s hosted by my college radio station), so there will be a few times when, if you aren’t from the Midwestern plains area, you’ll be a little left out. Anyway, I just wanted to let all you internet people know that you can listen in to the show live from 12:00-2:00 PM Central either by clicking here or simply plugging 146.57.73.100:8502 into your favorite media player. This week we’ll be detailing how YOU can win a brand spankin’ new download for The Behemoth’s thoroughly kick-ass game, Castle Crashers!

If you can’t listen to the show (or you read about this post after it was over), then shame on you! However, I will be updating this post with details on how to enter. We’ll be announcing the winners on next week’s show, so at least be sure to tune in then!

UPDATE: You have until this Friday at 11:59 PM to submit your best Video Game Haiku to JoystickJockeys@gmail.com. Be sure to give us a way to contact you to give you your prize! A winner will be chosen based entirely on our opinions of how creative and hilarious his/her haiku is. Even if you don’t win, there’s a good chance we’ll read your submission on the show. Get on it!

John Diamonon of Capcom just threw up a blog post that’s, well, totally tubular. If you’ll look above you’ll see a hard copy mock up of Mega Man 9. Unfortunately, this is apparently fanfare that’s limited to the press. Says Diamonon:
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Check it out, bitches; it’s Monday, which means that Nintendo is once again going to try to entice you to spend your rent money, grocery money, and tuition on downloadable content. This week brings us a whopping two WiiWare titles and one thoroughly kick-ass NES game. Hit the jump to see what they are instead of just checking the Wii Shop channel yourself (which, if my Wii is any indication of everybody else’s, would probably take several hours of loading time.)
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Only by one week, though. Still, the promise of battling some of the coolest AI ever seen makes the push all the sweeter. The new release date is October 14th, and for those of you who, like me, are planning on just going without food for the month of October, this is both exciting and depressing news. The friendly PR fellas at EA would also like you guys to check out this kick-ass website, too. No, really, it’s awesome. EA didn’t even pay me to say that.

All I can say is that it’s about damn time.

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The PlayStation family got a little bigger today as Sony announced the PSP 3000 and a 160gig PS3 bundle.

The PSP 3000 features an improved screen and a built-in microphone for Skype and Go Messenger. The screen is said to reduce glare when outside and display colors more vibrantly. The PSP 3000 will be included in two different packages:

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters Entertainment Pack
Updated Mystic Silver PSP 3000
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets UMD
Echochrome PSN download voucher
1GT Memory Stick PRO Duo
Available Oct 14 ($199.99)

PSP 4GB Memory Entertainment Pack
Updated Piano Black PSP 3000
4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo
Everyday Shooter PSN download voucher
Available November ($199.99)

Of course, the system will also be available in a core package which just includes a Piano Black system for $169.99

Also announced today was an Uncharted entertainment pack, which includes a 160gig PS3 system, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and a PSN voucher for Pain, all for the reasonable price of $499.99.

Now that that’s out of the way, let me take some time to have a little heart-to-heart with the developers. That multiplayer chatter? Never going to happen. What you gave us was a bunch of game-centric chatter coming from the mouths of level-headed, mature gamers having a great time just playing Killzone 2. The thing is, that never happens! Where are all of the squeaky-voiced pre-teens yelling into their headsets about my mom, their penis, and “a good time last night”, huh? There isn’t even a single random act of teabagging in that whole video! Guerilla, I can see that you’ve got what could be a fantastic game on your hands, but don’t tease us with some kind of FPS utopia that the rest of the internet won’t ever be able to find and destroy, one shred of decency at a time.

As a gamer, my mind often trails off into a dream world populated with my favorite video game characters. Sometimes I’m brushing blades against Ganondorf on the fields of Hyrule; sometimes I’m barreling through loop-the-loops in pursuit of Dr. Robotnik; sometimes I’m just spending some quality time with Sheena from Tales of Symphonia (and who could blame me?)

There are times, though, that my fantasies become more elaborate. Any time that I’m forced to spend several hours in a car, or when I have to mow the lawn, or if I had to perform open-heart surgery. It’s times like these that have made me speculate on many occasions, “if aliens were to attack my beloved Earth, what video game characters would I assemble to combat them?” These are the musings that bring you this article. Hit the jump to find out which characters made the cut and what weapons they’ll be issued in the battle against the extra-terrestrial menace!
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Yep, it’s that time again! As you can probably tell by my header image, the Blue Bomber is amongst those being slapped onto Nintendo’s download service today. Who’s joined him, though? Hit the jump to see!
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Earlier today, Dan Paladin of the Castle Crashers development blog announced that the much anticipated upcoming Xbox Live Arcade behemoth would cost 1200 Microsoft Points ($15 USD). This price is being met with cries of joy and admiration from many forum folk who had initially thought that the game would cost a staggering 1800 Microsoft Points ($22 USD).

Hit the jump for the full blog post!

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Mondays are always good days for Wii owners. That is, those of us that still have room on the measly half-gig of storage space. Anyway, today brings 3 new games available for download. Hit the jump to find out what they are.
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