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Excellent news for Nintendo fans, Mario completists, video game historians, and casual Wii owners desperately in the need of some proper games. The Wii is getting a special edition of Super Mario All-Stars (ie. the SNES compilation of Super Mario Bros. 1 - 3, including both the Japanese and US versions of SMB2. ie. a gift from God), and yikes, does it sound a lot more special than the average special edition.

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Why so black?

Still no official word on zombie mode yet (seriously guys, what the hell's going on?), but this new video from this week's CoD: Black Ops multiplayer event in L.A. reveals a a whole new online angle set to bring ecstatic joy and elegiac, murderous despair in equal measure.

Wager Mode allows players to bet in-game currency (COD Points, no doubt named after a high-level creative strategy meeting between a bunch of high-level creative execs, who rewarded themselves with yachts) on their final ranking, over four different match types of varying harshness. How harsh? Why, that particular knowledge is held within the fortified keep of a dark citadel, deep amongst the dread mountains of a faraway mystical kingdom. In order to attain it you must journey...

Oh alright, just click through the link then. Jesus, I try to spice things up...

If there's one piece of advice that's always stuck with us, it's 'don't suck someone else's socks'. Kirby clearly didn't heed this advice and it's landed him in no end of trouble. Yup - this sock sucked him in instead. That'll learn 'im. At least... that's the meaning we've taken from this brand new Japanese trailer for Kirby's Epic Yarn, headed to Wii this autumn.

Still can't get enough Mass Effect 2? There's a rather meaty addition coming this Tuesday, which looks to explain why Liara was all pissy and preoccupied when you bumped into her on Illium. We've actually had a go at this DLC already, we just can't say too much about it until later this week. Until then, here's the trailer, which arrives just in time to remind you to buy it on Tuesday.

Futuristic car chases inside!

Why aren't there more rodeo games out there? Probably because they would suck. But throw in realistic motion controls and strong visuals, and developer Perpetual FX Creative thinks it has a winner.

In a post on the official PlayStation Blog, Perpetual FX said it wanted to create "the full experience of professional rodeo to anyone and everyone as realistically as possible." And, of course, the only way to do that is to swing a lit wand in front of a motion-tracking webcam...

Disturbed provides the track for this tantalizing, but kind of YouTube-tribute-esque new trailer for next year's Mortal Kombat reboot. At least the song, “Another Way to Die,” is fitting for a game about making people die (in multiple ways).

The trailer, dubbed 'Shadows,' features serveral of the series' iconic silhouettes doing horrible things to each other. Check it out...

We've PAXed our bags, called a PAXidriver, and we're ready to down several six-PAX of boozey drinks! So... what we're trying to say is... WE'RE GOING TO PAX THIS WEEKEND. And know what we want to do the most? Meet YOU, of course, both at our panel, and during a live, boozey recording of our stupid podcast, TalkRadar. So if you plan to be at gaming's foremost celebratory celebration, then cure our crippling loneliness and come hang out with us...

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At a media event in Berlin, Sony has announced a new music service which will allow users to download and play songs directly from their PS3 and PSPs. This comes a couple years after Sony completely crashed and burned with its previous service, Connect, which also encouraged PSP connectivity. Did it learn from its mistakes?

It's been 20 years since Christopher Lloyd has touched a flux capacitor, but that hasn't discouraged developer Telltale Games from hiring the original Doc Brown to voice his digital counterpart in its upcoming Back to the Future adventure games...