Error Macro: Newspost for 12-31-07

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New media: Street Fighter IV gameplay footage, Devil May Cry 4 opening cinematic, Tiberium screenshots

Gamasutra names 10 New Year's resolutions for aspiring game developers.
Bit-tech lists the best PC games you've never played.
Even Goddamn Playboy has a list of the best games of 2007. Including, naturally, a category for "jiggle factor."
The final collection total for this year's Child's Play charity exceeded $1.1 million.
Racketboy lists the best old-school games of 2007.
Nearly a dozen elected officials in Chile have initiated a motion to regulate the sale of excessively violent games.
Surfer Girl provides some screenshots of games that never came to be.
Jack Thompson is trying to force the police chief of Omaha to make records available pertaining to the Westroads Mall shooter. Game Politics kindly points out that investigation records are specifically mentioned as not subject to public release according to Nebraska law.
Plushies just aren't enough for some people, and at least one man has made weighted companion cubes out of aluminum.
The Hollywood Reporter talks about how video games could see a boost from the writer's strike.
CVG lists the best and worst box art of the year.
The Orange Box soundtrack is now on sale online and in stores. Of course, there are also tools to rip the soundtrack yourself if you own the game.
Drumshh are pre-cut, self-adhesive, foam-backed felt pads that you apply to your Rock Band drums to quiet them. Unfortunately, the store is sold out at the moment. But remember that you can always make them yourself.

New content: The Great Tree demo, Project Revolution demo (play Starcraft in 3D, sort of)

The beta client for Fistful of Frags has been released. It's a spaghetti western multiplayer mod for Half-Life 2.
The full client for Zombie Panic: Source has been released.
Stropp's World recalls which MMOs fell into the deadpool during 2007.
Linux-gamers has a comparison of freeware FPS games..
A review of Crysis, in comic form. And not like crappy Keenspot MS Paint comics form.
If you're going to specialize, do it right: Here is a site that does nothing but review Japanese PC benchmark programs. The best one is for the hentai game that just keeps adding naked girls to a train car.
Amazon's deal of the day is Timeshift for $29.99. They also have Call of Duty 4 for $39.99.

A Wired blogger was instructed by Nintendo's official support line to smack his Wii Remote to fix it. And it worked.
The DS has surpassed the PS2 in lifetime sales in Japan.
Someone is selling an SNES-CD development controller on Ebay. Buy it now for only three grand!
Apparently some people are having their nunchucks turn pink. I had that problem once, but it turned out I just needed more iron in my diet.
The creator of Electroplankton has created a "digital musical instrument" with Yamaha called the Tenori-On.
Populous is coming to the DS, at least in Japan.

New media: Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Final Fantasy Dissidia screenshots

The pre-order bonus for Haze is a drug-filled syringe. Actually it's a pen, but your mom won't realize that until after she's sent you away to boot camp.
Sony reminds you that they fully support upgrading the PS3 hard drive yourself.
You can get a free PS3 if you buy a Bravia TV with a Sony Visa card.
It's looking increasingly likely that Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters is coming to the PS2.
Time Crisis 4 has received an 18 meg patch and no one's quite sure what it's for.
A fan translation of the PSX version of Tales of Phantasia has been released.
Amazon has Assassin's Creed for $44.99, and the Logitech Cordless Precision Controller for $9.99 after rebate.

Xbox Live has had issues over the last few days, apparently because Live is having trouble handling the load from all the new 360s coming online after Christmas.
Jade Empire 2 is in development.
A pro gamer who was awarded the rare Recon Armor in Halo 3 has been the subject of repeated attempts to steal his account by jackasses pulling the same social engineering tricks with customer support that Microsoft claimed they were going to fix months ago.
Some German gaming magazine is claiming that Unreal Tournament is coming to the 360, so take it as a rumor until there's a more official report.
A New Year's Bash Tournament for Bomberman Live has been announced, and registration is open now.
A New York man has been arrested for stalking and threatening to rape two Spokane girls over Live.
Microsoft's Russian arm has been giving out giant Master Chief chocolate coins to its partners. Seriously, this thing is huge.

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