As part of the Nintendo Direct event, Nintendo has announced the surprise release of Dillon’s Rolling Western , a new download for the 3DS eShop (first revealed at Nintendo Direct last year ). The game stars the armadillo cowboy — a cowboy who is also an armadillo, not an armadillo herder — named Dillon, who defends poor towns in traditional gunslinger style

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Dillon’s Rolling Western rolls onto the 3DS eShop

Nintendo has been criticized for not getting edgy with some of its franchises.

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Brain Age returns with devilishly difficult training

Borderlands 2 will be out in North America on September 18, and internationally on September 21. That date might be enough incentive for you to pre-order — it’s so far away, and you might forget! — but 2K offered initial incentive, in the form of the ” Premiere Club .” Premiere Club members will get a unique “Gearbox Gun Pack,” a “Golden Key” item to unlock something in the Golden Sanctuary Loot Chest, and the “Vault Hunter’s Relic.” These are all in-game items, by the way. 2K didn’t really build a “Golden Sanctuary” and send out keys to it

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Borderlands 2 out September 18 in North America, September 21 elsewhere

Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We at Joystiq believe no one deserves to starve, and many indie developers are entitled to a fridge full of tasty, fulfilling media coverage, right here.

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The Starhawk public beta went live last night in North America and is available today across Europe. No more caveats or purchases required to get into the sci-fi shooter’s beta.

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PSA: Starhawk Beta open to all

Sony’s Senior VP of its Worldwide Studios organization, Scott Rohde, tells Gamasutra that long software droughts, as experienced by the PSP, won’t be the case with Vita. “This time around, we started planning for development of [Vita] about three years ago, in terms of developing for the software, and how we were going to be able to transition,” Rohde says. “I think that there were too many droughts of killer titles [for PSP]

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Sony’s Rohde: proprietary Vita cards ‘completely necessary’ to combat piracy

You’re not going to find a better custom PS2 arcade stick with a better picture of a better Doobie Brother. Michael McDonald arcade stick, for takin’ it to the Street Fighters originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:45:00 EST

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Michael McDonald arcade stick, for takin’ it to the Street Fighters

Activision is dropping the next Call of Duty Elite content pack for Modern Warfare 3 in Overwatch, a rooftop map for the game’s multiplayer component.

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PSA: Modern Warfare 3 ‘Overwatch’ out today [update]

In 2007, while Infinity Ward was building the first Modern Warfare , Underground Development began working on a top-secret, third-person shooter in the Call of Duty franchise, titled Devil’s Brigade , Vox Games reports . Based on a real-life group of ruthless, almost superhuman American and Canadian soldiers in World War II, Devil’s Brigade was Activision’s fallback if fans didn’t get the switch to a contemporary setting with Modern Warfare . Devil’s Brigade focused on tactical strategy, stealth missions and super-athletic Special Forces combat

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Canned Call of Duty: Devil’s Brigade was like Inglourious Basterds on steroids

Anait Games published correspondence from an anonymous former employee of GRIN’s Barcelona studio, which closed unceremoniously before the main studio did in 2009 . The anonymous party went on to identify two projects that were in the works before the closure: an update of Capcom’s Strider and a Streets of Rage game.

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Rumor: Grin Barcelona worked on Strider, Streets of Rage games