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Because yesterday was Tuesday, I didn't play any games. I decided to shelve "Fallout 3" until its third expansion (coming in March) because a Bethesda rep couldn't confirm for me yet whether any adventuring I do before that expansion arrives will count toward the third expansion's raised level cap. So next from the 2008 stack is "Far Cry 2," which I'll return to as soon as I blitz through "Killzone 2," a game I need to play so I can cover it for the site next week. That's the plan for now.

There aren't just new missions in "Operation Anchorage," Bethesda Softworks' first downloadable expansion for "Fallout 3;" after just one hour in Alaska, I saw a concentrated effort to push "Fallout 3" players to rethink how they play. Read more...

It's supposed to be cheesy. I'm sure of it. How else to explain EA's continuing efforts to cast extraordinarily unexpected people to star in the live action segments of "Command & Conquer" games. Today brings news that EA has signed longtime WWE/WCW/NWA wrestling champion Ric Flair and MTV Real World veteran Jamie Chung and others to star in the download-only "Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising" for PC this March. Check out our "Red Alert 3: Uprising" cast photo gallery.

In our new round of box art reviews, we've got baseball, weddings and samurai (and, of course, the obligatory set of ninjas!). See which game's covers meet our expectations this week, and which ones didn't make the cut. Read more...

You can tell that someone who loves Internet memes helped program the mobile version of Konami’s “Rock Revolution.” While playing through “Dance Dance” by Fall Out Boy and fumbling with the controls, the game kicked me out on account of 21-straight “Epic Fails.” Read more...

There is a place on earth called Penistone, but it's not pronounced the way you think. Just as my infatuation with games made me think of "Fallout 3" when Barack Obama was inaugurated last week, I couldn't help but think of the bawdy, scatological "Fable" series when I saw a certain story in the New York Times a few days ago. The map included in the story might as well be the map for "Fable 3." Agree?

See for yourself in the NYT: No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else

This year's Game Developers Conference, held March 23-27 in San Francisco, will kick off with a bang; event organizers have announced Nintendo president Satoru Iwata will keynote the festivities with an address entitled "Discovering New Development Opportunities," his first GDC keynote since 2006. Read more...

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"Guitar Hero III" downloadable content might have been shaky, but Activision and Neversoft worked out the kinks for "Guitar Hero World Tour," allowing them to deliver content on a weekly basis; next month, we'll see more Paul McCartney, the debut of Bob Seger and an acoustic pack. Read more...

Last night an Xbox 360 exclusive "Resident Evil 5" demo was made available for paying Gold Xbox Live members. MTV.com intern Sal Basile played it with a friend and shares his impressions. Read more...