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While fun with friends, this addition to the Scene It? franchise lacks the substance to make a lasting impression.

Scene It? has been around for a while now and there have been more than a few video game adaptations of the popular DVD/film based trivia game.  Now the game based on the premise of useless cinematic know-how has wound up on the PSN and XBLA as a downloadable game. The move to a digital format makes perfect sense for this type of game, but this stripped down version fails to capture the more fleshed out experience we've come to expect from the franchise.

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Why Mario Kart 7 has me down.

Well, it's official, snaking is officially gone from the Mario Kart series. After Mario Kart Wii, it was up in the air if future iterations would provide players with such ability, but it appears Mario Kart 7 solidifies the permanent omission. As an advocate of snaking, this is a sad day.

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The creator of the hottest indie game around names a new lead developer.

It’s been a big year for indie PC darling Minecraft and Mojang, the developer. The game is getting a console port to the 360 with Kinect support. Mojang won an interim injunction against Zenimax over the name of their next project, Scrolls. Oh, and Minecraft actually came out recently. Yes, for Markus “Notch” Persson, things are going well. With Minecraft already a multimillion seller, it’s only natural that Notch would step aside and put someone else in charge of the runaway hit that already has its own convention. Wait, what?

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Operation Rainfall can now be considered 1/3 complete!

In a recent interview President of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Amie said that he believed that “there certainly will be more games launched for the Wii.” Adding, “We believe there are still millions more systems to be sold.” While most gamers and journalist blew this comment off as pandering PR speak it seems that there was some truth to those words as we can now confirm that Nintendo will be bringing the long awaited Xenoblade Chronicles to North America this upcoming April.

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