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Nov 2 is the day for Americans to make their voices heard, and in the cold of a Washington D.C. morning hundreds of people gathered of the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States in anticipation of the oral arguments heard today regarding the Schwarzenegger v. EMA suit, and the much-reviled California Video Game Law...

Hands up if you thought Resident Evil 5's decidedly unscary slide into a two player co-op action game was as awesome as a zombified gibbon smoking a stogie. Well, all fourteen of you may be excited to know that the next entry in Capcom's undead 'em up could well be a SOCOM-esque online multiplayer title called Resident Evil: Racoon City.  Mainly because it's rumoured Slant Six Games (who made Sony's online shooter) has been handed the keys to Capcom's rotting kingdom. Head inside to fill your tasty braaaaiiinnnnssss full of speculation.

Admittedly this story is only loosely video game related, but I wasn't about to pass on the chance of writing a headline that contained the words 'kangaroo crash nightmare'.

News to warm the hearts of all fans of samurai, gravelly-voiced Frenchmen and hulking great dinosaurs. Capcom has revealed that even in this combo and zombo-obsessed period, the company hasn't forgotten its non-Street Fighter, non-Resi, non-Dead Rising franchises. And with a bit of luck (okay, a lot of luck in Dino Crisis' case), we might see the return of a couple of them. At some point. Cross everything you have!

It's hard to make a survey sound sexy. That is because they are inherently not sexy. However, they are incredibly useful and assist in the long-term mission of making things better. Which is something that everyone wants. So would you kindly take part in this GamesRadar user survey.

In the United States, Redbox kiosks are a fairly common sight outside of grocery stores and pharmacies. The company boasts that they have over 24,000 kiosks spread out throughout the country. After testing videogame rentals through its vending machines in Austin, Wilmington, and Reno, Redbox is ready to expand its selection of DVD and Blu-Ray movies  to include videogames...

According to Yakuza series head honcho, Toshihiro Nagoshi, the newly released (in Japan) Yakuza New Chapter: Black Panther for PSP is targeted squarely at Japanese youth and aims to teach them about honor, love, and various other kinds of virtues. Apparently, temperance isn’t one of those virtues...

Art critics, move over. Pac-Man is invading Tokyo’s 3331 Arts Chiyoda gallery to celebrate his 30th birthday, with an exhibition appropriately titled, “Exhibition Pac-Man 80’s to 10’s Gaming Culture...”

Guillermo Del Toro, director of such popular and conspicuously arty movies as Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, has weighed in on the debate that will never, ever be settled to everyone's satisfaction, proclaiming that of freaking course games are art and anybody who thinks otherwise is a freaking moron. More or less...

Above: An artist at work

We’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of Uwe Boll’s films here at GR, so much so that it almost feels like beating a dead horse to bring up the lucky hack’s name. Though every person who mocks him should at least see one of his films to really understand what a horrible artist he is, Boll’s film adaptations of videogames are infamous to every gamer online whether they’ve seen the films or not. But haven’t you always wanted to get inside the process of how he craps out his turds? Well soon you will in the recently announced documentary Raging Boll...