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Activision has released a new Call of Duty: Black Ops single player trailer. However, that's not the only good news, as GameStop announced that Black Ops "is tracking ahead of last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which has since gone on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide." Continue reading for the video.

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Finally, the first Resistance 3 screenshots and artwork have been released, "painting a wonderfully dark picture of the United States in the grip of the Chimeran forces." Click here for more pictures. For those who missed the Gamescom teaser, continue reading to watch.

And what of the new protagonist? The screenshots call him Capelli, which makes him Joseph Evan Capelli, Nathan Hale's squadmate and helper of sorts from Resistance 2.
[via Kotaku]

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Inspired by the original 3DO Need for Speed, the all-new Hot Pursuit "focuses on racing and cop chases rather than car customization [and] tends to return the series to the roots." Trailer after the break. Click here for more screenshots.

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Early playtesters report that BioShock: Infinite "has a turn-of-the-century, 'American aristocracy' feel to it." This game is set for release on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC platforms in 2012. Click here for more screenshots.

All the buildings are actually floating in the world and they can actually fall out of the sky with people on it! And you're fighting fifteen enemies at once.
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In James Bond 007: Blood Stone, Bond's "main tool is a smart-phone with a built-in ARG function and once activated it scans the environment for information, downloading dossiers to be scanned at leisure." Click here for more screenshots. Continue reading for the combat trailer.

The action takes place in Istanbul early on in Blood Stone's campaign, and the first thing to notice is how far Bizarre has brought the game since we last laid eyes on it.
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In addition to being reviewed, the guys over at iFixit have already torn the accessory down, finding that there's "an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a three-axis compass, and a Bluetooth transmitter under the hood." Video review after the break. Click here for more pictures of the disassembly.

There are three LEDs that make the orb glow when in use. Between those three LEDs just about any color can be reproduced.
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Sony has just released PS3 update 3.42, and according to early updaters, this "firmware kills the functionality of all the recent major PS3 exploits such as PSJailbreak, PSGroove, etc." Video preview after the break.

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Unlike its predecessors, Killzone 3 for the PlayStation 3 was designed specifically to showcase the console's 3D technology and the new Move accessory. According to IGN, "it controls a lot like a Wii FPS, with the pointer acting both as your cursor and as the means by which you turn the camera." Videos after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Additional Move specific controls include the ability to twist the Move controller to reload, and the ability to do melee attacks by holding down L2 and pushing forward with the controller. It's a little jarring to learn the control scheme, especially if you're used to playing the game with a DualShock.
[via IGN]

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Activision releases the official Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions launch trailer, giving gamers worldwide a taste of what's to come on September 7th. In this game, "four different Spider-Men must join forces, square off against their greatest foes and attempt to restore reality as we know it." Video after the break. Click here for more screenshots.

For the past several months we've brought you news and impressions of the four different dimensions you'll play through - Amazing, Noir, Ultimate and 2099. But what we haven't highlighted as much are the foes you'll be facing - until now.
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SEGA has just released a trailer showing Sonic the Hedgehog 4's all-new Lost Labyrinth level, in which "most of the action takes place in a series of twisting mazes without fear of drowning." Video after the break. Click here for more screenshots.

And the one water-heavy level in Act Two has plenty of air bubbles. Drowning won't be much of a threat, so all those old frustrations didn't occur for me even in my first playthrough.
[via IGN]

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