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Dozens of fans, prizes and beers meet up at the PAX East Convention Center for a LIVE and loud chatdown

Yesterday we showed you the showfloor, today we bring you sexy, silly cosplay. Hot women, ninjas in bifocals, and slightly chubby Storm Troopers await your judgmental gaze...

Chrono Trigger was one of our favorite JRPGs of all time. So today, we are very pleased to offer you the chance to take home this magnificent collection of figurines. Based on the original game art by Akira Toriyama, creator of the Dragon Ball series, these Formation Arts trading figurines will look great no matter where you decide to put them up for display. Come on in for a closer look at the still figures in action and find out how to enter for a chance to win them all…

Call of Duty: Black Ops has passed Wii Play to become the best-selling game in US history. This is according to the retail number crunchers at NPD who reported that the hugely popular FPS had once again taken top spot in February, carving itself a notch in videogame history in the process...

Now here's a video to warm the geekier corners of your heart. We all know that the multi-sensory excitement of opening a new game is one of the very best facets of the entire spread of human experience, but what if that game is 14 years old and still sealed up and fractory fresh? Then my friends, you have your hands on a sexy digital time-warp.

Adverts. Posters. Flyers. All preserved like technicolour, Sega-branded fossils from way back in the primordial mists of 1997. And fresh manual smell, contained and matured for nearly a decade and a half! A gleaming shiny disc, finally released from its plastic prison after many long years in the darkness! And all of this occured completely out of the blue, when a man was randomly lent a sealed copy of Sonic R at the PAX East retro game room. It's a beautiful, gleeful moment, and you really need to watch it now.

This week on NintendoTV we bring you footage from some of the exclusive 3DS events that Nintendo have been holding all over the UK. Nintendo took the 3DS on the road and we've been there by their sides getting the public opinion about this brand new console.

So, a slice of good news, and a slice of potentially good news from Capcom today. It's no secret that the House 'o Wiley has had some mixed results from its initiative to branch out into western development, scoring winners ("Hello, Dead Rising 2") and absolute clunkers ("Screw you, Bionic Commando") in equal measure. The current plan? Don't trust the west with new IP. Sounds like a bit of a harsh reaction, admittedly, but then you remember that Dark Void exists and all becomes clear.

Silver linings are (potentially) two-fold though. With the focus taken away from the west, it now transpires that Capcom Japan might finally be about to drop some more original ideas on us. Remember them? I used to like Capcom's original ideas, and I miss seeing new ones. Also, the way in which the west is to treat old IP could turn out to be pretty damn exciting in the future. Could also be terrible, but hey, the potential is there. Click on to find out what the hell I'm babbling on about.

Come on. This is getting silly. We've had some pretty flimsy 'games are bad' stories, but the one in today's Metro is embarrassing.

An internet web-post on a GameSpot user blog has confirmed that Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime both attended high school and was photographed there. The post was written in December of last year, and reads simply, "Reggie Fils-Aime High School Photo ... IS LEGIT."

Reggie's deafening collar came to our attention today when Destructoid noticed the post and subsequently crowned the exec "King of all Badasses." There's no word on when...