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Anything Drake can do Lara can do better!

When it was announced that Tomb Raider was getting the reboot treatment a few years ago, plenty of people – yours truly included – made it clear that Lara should pay close attention to that other tomb raiding franchise headlined by Nolan North – errr - Nathan Drake.  The point is many people looked at Uncharted as Tomb Raider for the current generation.  The guys at Crystal Dynamics had their work cut out for them if they didn’t want to be square in the middle of Naughty Dogs giant shadow.

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NPD officially reveals the sales results in October and Nintendo reclaims the top spot.

This month's NPD results reveal that the Wii is once again the top selling console in North America, selling over half a million consoles. The Wii price drop was first introduced in late September, and the results after a month of sales reveals that Wii console numbers are healthier than ever. In fact the Wii was the only console to actually sell more in October than September.

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Games and movies are on a crash course, but when will they collide? Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is one of the first titles to successfully fuse these mediums.

In many regards, games have attempted to mimic movies over time. As graphical power has increased, game stories have become more grand, the characters have become more real, and the overall experience has become more and more engaging.

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Nathan Drake is back for his second adventure in this stunning PlayStation 3 title.

It's impressive to finally see gaming approach a level of complexity in character and story development that parallels what we see in most modern movies. After viewing the very first cutscene in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves I was immediately impressed. Never before had I seen character interaction, dialog, and nuanced expression executed so well in a video game. Uncharted 2 does a spectacular job engaging players in what amounts to be a ten hour interactive movie.

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While Europe receives two options, the UK gets five of their own.

Late last week Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe confirmed that Europe would be getting their own PS3 slim bundles just in time for the holiday season.

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