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Microsoft went on the record to refute an assertion that Kinect would require about 13 feet between its user and their unit, but Amazon.com wants to buyers to allow for at least six feet of play space when they hook up their new devices later this year. As Destructoid points out, the official "Kinect Checklist" doesn't include such a demand, but an FAQ-style write-up on the site does.

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The verdict is still out on whether or not Capcom will be adding new challengers to "Super Street Fighter 4," but "Marvel vs. Capcom 3" received a shipment of new faces in time for Comic-Con International in San Diego this week. Marvel and Capcom contributed two characters apiece, and a group shot of silhouettes indicates that still more reveals await.

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In the grand tradition of giving you free stuff, we're going to give you free stuff. For today's free stuff, we have five download codes for "Limbo," the excellent platforming adventure game for XBLA.

Getting one these codes is surprisingly easy. All you need to do is re-tweet this post when it appears in the @Multiplayers Twitter account. We'll select five re-tweeters at random, each of whom will receive one of the codes.

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You may have already developed strong feelings about "Gears of War 3" since the first trailer debuted and details about the game's Beast Mode and Ice-T's involvement surfaced. If any of those feelings relate in any way to the survival of rookie Carmine brother Clayton Carmine, Epic Games and Microsoft have created a couple of opportunities for you to weigh in on whether he lives or dies in the game. Expressing your opinion will also help benefit Child's Play.

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Tags child's play, epic games, gears of war, gears of war 3, microsoft, neca

The "Street Fighter 4" series may end with "Super Street Fighter 4," but that doesn't necessarily mean that Capcom is done adding new warriors to the their latest SF title. In fact, a new Japanese advertisement for the "Super Street Fighter 4" arcade machine contains a cryptic tease that may leave the door open for new challengers.

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Sony was in town yesterday, basically showing off its E3 line-up. Nothing tremendously new, but I did get to spend some more in-depth time with the PlayStation Move. Sony had Anton Mikhailov, one of the software engineers working in R&D, showing off some scrappy developer-only minigames. They're never designed to be released to the public. Instead, their purpose is to show developers what sorts of possibilities the PlayStation Move offers. One of the minigames was a very raw representation of how an RTS might work with the PlayStation Move. You can watch Anton walk me through the demo in the video above. Maybe this is enough to show Blizzard that "StarCraft 2" could work on the PS3?

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The final issue of the epic "Scott Pilgrim" series hit stores yesterday. The comic has always had a ton of video game references, and it takes just five pages for the first one in "Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour." Scott is seen, on his couch, playing a PSP Go. For a series that's always been extremely savvy about video games, it's a bit shocking that one of the more maligned hardware releases in recently years would be played by its hero. Are we starting to see the influence Sony has over "Scott Pilgrim" creator Bryan Lee O'Malley? After all, the "Scott Pilgrim" downloadable game is exclusive to PSN for two weeks before it comes to XBLA.

Ah, but if we read on, there's clearly no love lost between O'Malley and the PSP Go:

So basically Young Neil dumped the PSP Go on Scott...at a loss of $50. Not exactly resounding support for the device. Congrats O'Malley, your gamer rep comes through unstained.

(By the way, you should read "Scott Pilgrim." It's awesome. And the upcoming downloadable game doesn't appear too much bad in it, either.)

Tags psp go, scott pilgrim, scott pilgrim vs. the world

If the "Terminator Salvation" game left you wanting some more post-apocalyptic robot blasting, look no further than an unofficial project put together using the Unreal Engine 3.

"Set in the year 2029 you are placed in the boots a of soldier serving for humankind against the ruthless army of machines," the game's profile explains on ModDB.com. "The final campaign will feature nine chapters of a roller coaster ride, inspired by James Cameron's masterpiece franchise. Confront the many killing machines at skynet's disposal including the HK aerial, the HK tank, the mini HK, and the legendary T800 with an arsenal of futuristic plasma weapons."

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Tags epic games, fps terminator, terminator, the original studios, unreal engine 3

American McGee unveiled his return to Wonderland today, as he's in the midst of development on "Alice: Madness Returns," a sequel to the popular PC adventure game from a decade ago. The sequel is set 11 years after the events of the first game, with Alice being released from a metal asylum. Unfortunately the horrors she experienced in Wonderland don't seem to be behind her quite yet.

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Microsoft confirmed $199.99 this morning as the Kinect price we're all going to see when the device launches later this year. They also unveiled a $299.99 console bundle that will include Kinect and "Kinect Adventures." Before both of those are commercially available, however, Microsoft is going to roll out a $199.99 4GB Xbox on August 3. The 4GB will come in the form of internal flash memory, but it will also have an empty slot for a new hard drive and the ability to use USB memory sticks for extra storage.

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