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Posted on Monday, August 04 @ 11:06:02 PDT The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft is an adventure game that remains true to the original stories and characters with varied environments, challenging and thought ...

The combat in Hellboy gets repetitive before the first level ends and never presents a challenge. This is a boring, bland game.

A picture from the SKU system of an unknown retail store shows the xbox 360 Arcade getting a price cut to $199.99 next month.

Sure, the company isn't really going to bother to much with any more Wii peripherals (hello, third parties); and certainly, the Wii Motion Plus (which makes the Wii Remote do what developers thought it could do to start with) hasn't been priced for retail - but "we can make it very affordable"; cripes, even the DS could take on mobile phone-like capabilities. Aside from all that, Nintendo is not going to compete with either Sony or Microsoft in a plethora of online services. Ninty is, after all, "still an entertainment company first and foremost".

PixelJunk Eden is beautiful and serene, until an impatient clock mixes far too much stress into this otherwise leisurely game.

Scuttlebutt from anonymous sources suggests that Microsoft's will be the first console to reach the magic mass market number with a September price cut.

A friendly retail tipster sends us word that Rock Band 2 has suddenly popped up in their computer system. Better still the listings for the Playstation 3, Wii and xbox 360 versions are all dated:

Devil May Cry 4 (PC)Company's Corporate Officer attributes piracy as a problem, and plans to focus on digital distribution.

Microsoft is widely expected to slash the price of its xbox 360 console next month, will Sony and Nintendo follow suit? Here's a prediction of how the console war could shape up this holiday season.

VGChartz writes: "Lots of news this week. Rhythm Heaven Gold, DQV, and Phantasy Star Portable were the big DS/PSP sellers. Soul Calibur 4 and Fatal Frame IV were the top console sellers. Overall, sales for the top 20 games are up nearly 400,000 units from last week. On the strength of new PSP and DS releases this week, software sales in the preliminary data total over 940,000 units. Phantasy Star Portable for PSP and Rhythm Heaven Gold for DS accounted for nearly 500,000 units alone, while the other 18 titles accounted for the remainder. On the consoles, Fatal Frame IV debuted to sales of roughly 30,000 units. Soul Calibur 4 debuted to slightly better numbers on xbox 360, about 39,000 units sold. On PS3 Soul Calibur 4 sold about 67,000 units. Key Points: -PSP had the biggest release of the week, pushing its software total in the preliminary top twenty to over 300,000 units. DS software was still more represented in the top twenty though, 380,000 to 330,000 units.