Little Big Planet Trailer
Here’s a nice co-op trailer for Little Big Planet, an amazing upcoming release (Q1 2008) for the Sony Playstation 3 from Media Molecule.

Looks like a lot of fun.
GDC Little Big Planet Demo
And the captivating demo from the Game Developers Conference.

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Plastic Balls is a swell Flash-based breakout game from Plastic Martians, a.k.a. Matt Folkard. It’s of the circular breakout variety. Folkard is a free-lance Flash designer based in Manchester, England.
Game Play
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Numerous headlines report that, in an interview with eWeek’s Darryl K. Taft, Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division president Robbie Bach called the Nintendo Wii no more than GameCube 1.5. And that he said even the original Xbox is better than Nintendo’s supposed next-generation console. So, some folks dug in and decided that yes, the Wii …

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Nintendo is running a contest where you can win one of six custom-painted Art of Wii consoles. The contest ends tonight, April 30th, 2007, and is limited to Canadian members of My Nintendo.
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Peggle, new from PopCap Games, is an stunning mix of Pachinko, Pinball, Breakout, and probably some other games.

Four Modes
There are four modes of play in Peggle: Adventure, Quick Play, Duel, and Challenge.
Adventure Mode
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Ken Kutaragi (久夛良木 健), the Father of the PlayStation, has resigned his position as Chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment and will instead become Honorary Chairman. The resignation is effective June 19, 2007, when he will be replaced by the currect President and COO, Kazuo Hirai.
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Zork and Imagination

Back when we occasionally had to use our brains to create the images within games, a.k.a. in the 1980s and earlier, a text-based adventure game called Zork was incredibly popular. Since most games back then were either played on a board or in the backyard, our imaginations regularly got a workout. Besides, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and other books (stories written on piles of flat sheets called “paper” and bound together) were popular back then too, so the imagery came easily.

If you were born after 1980, brace yourself; the image you see below may shock you.

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Super Paper Mario is out for the Nintendo Wii system and it looks amazing.
Mario in the Wii World
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SCEA has dropped the price of the PSP Core Pack $30 from $199.99 to $169.99 to celebrate the second birthday of the PSP. The SCEA press release also indicates that Sony has added Daxter and Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror to the Greatest Hits Collection.
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Desktop Tower Defense has been upgraded to version 1.2. This version introduces Spawn Creeps, a Bash Tower, new Fun modes, and smarter creep AI.
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