Sinister Twisted Metal clown man, Sweet Tooth, is on his way to an all-round more playful game in ModNation Racers.

Sony will launch an official model for Sweet Tooth and his gun-equipped truck into the cartoony kart racer this week for the pocket-money price of $1.99 - in the US at least (as the US PS Blog confirms, while the EU blog is yet to awaken from its weekend slumber). See screenshots of him on this page.

Sweet Tooth will, of course, turn up again next year in his more brutal form when the new Twisted Metal game hits PS3. We played it at E3 and you can read about the carnage we witnessed right here.

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A law that threatens to classify adult video games as X-rated entertainment in the US has been slammed by bosses of major games publishers.

The US Supreme Court agreed in April to review a motion prohibiting the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.

The law would allow individual states to impose sales restrictions on violent games - effectively putting them into the same category as pornography, and preventing their sale to adult citizens.

The Supreme Court is reviewing a federal court's decision to throw out California's ban - which was originally signed by none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"It's very, very surprising that the Supreme Court is hearing the case," Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar parent Take Two told CNBC.

"I'm worried about it, and I think everybody in our business should be really worried about it."

Graham Hopper, EVP and general manager of Disney Interactive added: "It's not about having a dramatic impact on our bottom line. It's going to make our retailing abilities a nightmare."

Other games industry figures spoke of their fear that other states would push through their own version of the bill - meaning developers would have to create multiple version of games to suit each territory's individual criteria.

"One of America's great exports is entertainment," commented John Riccitiello, CEO of EA. "The implication of Schwarzenegger v. ESA (the case before the Court) is we could end up with state level bureaucracies that define what's marketable in 50 different jurisdictions across the U.S.

"I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way."

Sony's Jack Tretton was more positive about the Supreme Court's decision to hear the case.

"We believe as an industry that the primary reason the Supreme Court is hearing it is despite the fact that this law has been struck down, [the issue] has come up 12 times [previously]," said Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Jack Tretton.

"I think the Supreme Court is looking at it to potentially see if there's something to it or to put an end to it once and for all."

The court will hear arguments in this case in the autumn.

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Three years after it debuted on PS3, Sony has confirmed that it is to pull the plug on the online services connected to card battling title The Eye of Judgement.
The game works by using the PSEye to scan real-life cards that are placed on a real deck. These are then embellished with animations on-screen.
Speaking on the official EU forums, community team moderator LordRoss stated: “We at SCEE sincerely thank you for your continued support of The Eye of Judgement. The online battle service for this product will terminate on September 30th 2010. Offline play will remain available even after the conclusion of online service.
“We hope you will continue to enjoy both The Eye of Judgement., and the latest addition to the series, The Eye of Judgement: Legends, available exclusively for the PSP.”
Unsurprisingly many existing players have voiced their dissatisfaction at the move, particularly those who had invested extra cash on card packs.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/39870/The-...e-of-Judgement ...

Publisher EA Mobile is to bring classic 2D shooter R-Type to the iPhone. No date or price has been put on the port as of yet, but history suggests that the arrival of official shots on the company’s Facebook page indicates that the games release on the App Store should be very nearly upon us.
EA says the title will be 100 per cent true to the original. It will offer tilt, touch and virtual d-pad control options along with several difficulty tiers.
Though the genre has more or less died on home consoles other than in the enthusiast homeland of Japan, 2D shooters enjoy a strong following on iPhone.


Alongside popular outings such as Icarus-X, Assault Squadron, Space Deadbeef and Space Invaders Infinity Gene, cult developer Cave has received plenty of praise for its technically accomplished port of bullet-hell outing Espgaluda 2 earlier this year.

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The people who made the Pandora console have made an iPhone game, it's based on the classic adventure games like Dizzy, Day of the Tentacle etc. If you want to support the Open Pandora project you can buy this game.

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Looks an excellent game for all those who loved the Snes and Megadrive Era, those interested in buying the game for the Iphone should visit here --> http://www.spellboundgames.co.uk/index.html ...

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Hello ! Following the return made on the RC version of Caverns Of Kalte , here is version 1.5 final . Why 1.5 and not 1.0 ? Because I took the opportunity to update all other books published so far . This will allow all volumes benefit from the latest improvements (new music , better engine , increased compatibility , new icons in the menu linkers , etc. ) .

You can download all these nice files here : http://www.projectaon.org/staff/frederic/downloads.php

( As usual , thank you not host ROMs on your site, but to indicate the link , so respect the license of Project Aon )

Also, if you have a DSTwo , adrian_fahrenheit made plugins for the first 3 books , downloadable here :
http://filetrip.net/f12061-DStwo-Lon...ug-in-1-0.html
http://filetrip.net/f12062-DStwo-Lon...ug-in-1-0.html
http://filetrip.net/f12063-DStwo-Lon...ug-in-1-0.html

Good downloads and good game!
Frederick Calendini ...

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Many of you are waiting for them, so here are the results of the Nintendomax Wii Dev Competition 2010. As a bonus, I made a video for each homebrew presented through Divineo who sent us an vbox2 advanced that we will test soon.

First - Nanomech by EvilTroopa ( France )
Second - SwingBall by ThatOtherPerson ( Canada)
3rd - JellyCar Wii Drakon ( Poland )
4th - PixelPlot by Morukutsu ( France )
5th - Scape by Sheeft ( France )
6th - PixelMerge by evilynux ( Canada )
7th - Alien Puzzle Wii Gemis ( U.S.A )
Eighth - 24 Points for Skyfrog ( France)
9th - FUNNY GAMES MINI by EroXXX (Germany )

Congratulations to all participants and board members who gave of their time. I invite the first five to contact me via PM to give me their address can not send packages quickly.

This year the projects are a higher level than the previous year and our partners and Divineo Assentek have noticed, I therefore call upon you for the next year "Nintendomax Wii Dev Competition 2011. ...

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Sylux propse Version 1.0 "SheepSOS" adaptation of the famous riddle of the fold for the DS.

This is a long time since I have not proposed a new version of SheepSOS
Overall not much has changed , my game has undergone a quick relifting and you can also enjoy the background music during your session laugh Enjoy angel

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Gillian Laidlaw offers a first draft "YarrgH !", where you must prevent attacks from hackers by touching the stylus .

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