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In today's Lunchtime Video, I'm giving you a whole lot more about "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars" to supplement today's earlier "Chinatown Wars" write-up. Using the DS as a prop, I try my best to show you how the DS screens and unique controls are used to manipulate the most unusual "GTA" I've seen in a long time.

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A morning full of announcements from Ubisoft, as the company revealed new "Assassin's Creed," "Splinter Cell," "Red Steel" and "Ghost Recon" games releasing by the end of March 2010, in addition to introducing a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fighter from some of the "Super Smash Bros." team. Read more...

I played the March 2009 "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars" for an hour at Rockstar Games' New York City headquarters and walked out with a notebook full of details for the most radically different "GTA" game I've played in years. Read more...

From a Washington Post story today about the state of technology in the White House, which includes outdated computer software and restrictions against instant messaging, Facebook and remote e-mail log-ins:

"It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said of his new digs.

Source: Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages (password required)

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The excitement around Community Games on Xbox Live, an avenue for indie developers to make money off their games, has softened in recent weeks, causing indie studios working on XBL Arcade to question the program's viability.

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While waiting for "Lost" to begin I finally played a game released in 2009, "The Maw." It only took me 21 days to get a taste of '09 gaming -- I wonder how long it's taking everyone else. Read more...

In just a few hours, the fifth season of "Lost" kicks off on ABC, but if you haven't played the Ubisoft game, "Lost: Via Domus," from last year, there's good reason to quickly read up on the plot and watch the game's ending, which was penned by the show's creators and has potentially startling implications. Read more...

We're kicking off a new series of posts checking back in on notable releases of one year ago, starting with the 1/21/08 oddball Wii game "Endless Ocean." One year later, why do I still recommend this game to people? Read more...

There is still much left to play from 2008, and while the games industry no longer has a complete lull in the early months of the new year, just because there are new high-profile games arriving doesn't mean we have time to play them. Read more...

Forget the four-toed statue or the secret to Hurley's never-slimming physique. There are other, more important mysteries of ABC's hit drama "Lost" we want answered in season five, which premieres tonight (at 9 p.m.ET). Instead of Stephen and I messaging our thoughts to each other, here's our questions to you.

Spoiler Warning: While we know nothing about season five, the rest of this post will gleefully spoil events from previous seasons. Read more...