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For Valentine’s Day, gaming’s top ten eligible bachelorettes →  February 14, 2010

So fellas, you're at home alone on the most saccharine day of the year again, are you? Don't worry, we understand you. But just because you're alone doesn't mean you have to be lonely! That's why we here at the VU have put together a list of gaming's top available vixens who'll always make time for you. Grab a pen and your little black book, because we've got some listing to do.

Free Red Faction: Guerilla for Darksiders owners →  February 13, 2010

Rounding out what has apparently become free game Saturday, we have the recent Red Faction: Guerilla. This one is a little bit less free, in that you had to buy another game to get it, but two games for the price of one is still a pretty good deal. As it happens, the first folks to [...]

Fl0w for free today →  February 13, 2010

Also on the free game front, folks with a North American PlayStation Network account can grab the PS3 version of the 2007 downloadable hit, Fl0w for free, today only. Reports are coming in however, that seem to prevent folks in other regions from downloading the game, regardless of what kind of PSN account they have, [...]

Command & Conquer 1, 2, Red Alert 1 now free →  February 13, 2010

In a gesture of goodwill, as well as promotion for the upcoming Command and Conquer 4, Electronic Arts has been making earlier games in the series available as a free download for PC gamers. Previously only the first game in the series, retroactively titled Tiberium Dawn, was available. But in the last few days, they’ve also [...]

eBay NES auction nets $13,000 →  February 13, 2010

Last week, a North Carolina mom placed an original NES and five cartridges on eBay for ten dollars. The final bid? $13,105. Turns out one of those cartridges was a copy of the extremely rare Stadium Events, still in its original box, and added loads of value to the auction. For those who DIDN’T get copies of [...]

Mega Man 10 beams down in March →  February 12, 2010

Mega Man 10 from good old Capcom is about to drop: The second in Capcom’s retro-styled games arrives in March, on a staggered release schedule. Wii owners get the game first, on March 1, with the PlayStation Network release ten days later on March 11. Finally, Xbox users can get the game on Xbox Live Arcade [...]

Review: Chime →  February 9, 2010

Executive summary: We give Chime a ‘buy‘. The story behind the recent Xbox Live Arcade puzzler Chime is a pretty good one. OneBigGame, its publisher, is a new non-profit that releases games for charity. The goal is to get well-known developers to produce games for free and then pass the proceeds on various children’s charities around [...]

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars – Fall 2010 →  February 8, 2010

Traveler’s Tales and LucasArts have once again teamed up to bring the universe of Star Wars to videogame consoles in the form of those lovable swedish building blocks – Legos. After 3 highly successful entries – Lego Star Wars, Lego Star Wars 2 and Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga, gamers will be able to [...]

Peter Molyneux Prepares To Eat Foot Again →  February 8, 2010

Peter Molyneux and his development team over at Lionhead have made some pretty amazing games in their tenure, but perhaps they are more famous for promising things in their games that never actually come to fruition. It was from this level of pre-release hype that some people believed the original Fable didn’t deliver. Mr. Molyneux [...]

Blaster Master: Overdrive announced for this week →  February 8, 2010

Did anybody know Sunsoft was still around? Maybe it’s not common knowledge, but in any event, they’re still at it – y’know, the whole games development business. Over the weekend, they announced the impending release of Blaster Master: Overdrive, a re-imagining of the original Blaster Master released for the Nintendo Entertainment System all those years [...]