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The yearly Jump Festa convention in Japan is a celebration all things nerd culture, with anime, gaming, and manga taking the spotlight. Surprisingly, Nintendo's Pokemon have never made a showing, despite fitting nicely into all three of those categories. This year, however, Nintendo will be bringing their pocket monsters to to the show. While we don't know what the reasoning, there's been a promise of "surprising information" that has us exceptionally excited...

West Coast Customs, the auto shop made famous for building dream machines in the show 'Pimp My Ride,' recently joined Nintendo at the LA Auto Show to roll out two life sized and fully operational racing karts based the cartoony vehicles featured in the upcoming Mart Kart 7 for the 3DS. No word yet on how many big-screen TVs and turntables can be found in the trunk, or if they put a copy of Mario Kart 7 inside the kart so you could play Mario Kart inside of your Mario Kart...

Dan Houser, vice-president of creativity for Rockstar Games, says the company “adores” cult 2006 title Bully and is waiting for the right time to begin developing a sequel. Houser says it's a matter of scheduling, telling Gamasutra that “we will see what we can do with Bully” after Bully developer Rockstar Vancouver has finished work on Max Payne 3...

New Line Cinema is developing a movie based on Midway's retro arcade title Rampage. John Rickard, co-producer of Final Destination 5 and the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, is meeting with writers to develop a story around the game's conceit of “ordinary people become monsters and smash everything.” The movie's intended as a tentpole blockbuster release, which is Hollywood-talk for “this thing needs to make a lot of money, and we're going to make sure it does by putting Bradley Cooper in it...”

Arcade icon and Atari alumnus Ed Logg has been pegged to receive The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) 2012 Pioneer Award during the organization's 15^th Annual Interactive Awards next February.

Logg is widely regarded as one of founder fathers of video gaming, having co-developed well known coin-op games for Atari such as Asteroids, Super Breakout, Centipede, and Gauntlet back in late '70s and early '80s. Logg also dabbled in the home console field, writing code for Tengen's version of Tetris for the NES, and later working on Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey and San Francisco Rush for the N64...

Videogame consumers are buckling under the pressure of keeping up with the latest releases on shrinking budgets, says GameStop. Reporting lower-than-anticipated revenues in its latest fiscal quarter, the retail giant told Gamasutra it believes the industry has suffered from a case of too many options and too little cash.

"The quarter presented some challenges in topline, due to a cash-strapped consumer that could not afford all of the good titles released during the quarter," said GameStop CEO Paul Raines in an earnings call...

It's been quite the eventful week in gaming, so why not check out what our sister sites and publications thought of the biggest happenings? There's loads to choose from, from cringe-worthy chat-up lines readers of ONM would aim at Zelda Williams to Hideo Kojima revealing that Snake really should have kicked the bucket in MGS4. So here's our pick of the best from around the GamesRadar network:

Street Fighter X Tekken is still a ways off, it's scheduled for a March 6th release, but that's not stopping Capcom from trying to get people hyped. Their latest reveal is pretty crazy, showing off new costumes for the game, most of which are other characters. Chun-Li as Panda, Ryu as Ogre and Kuma as R. Mika are just the icing on the iceberg! Check out the pics after the jump!

Activision is full of praise for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, saying the title's first five days broke records across all forms of entertainment media. In that time, the title's global earnings were $775 million, which is more than $100 million up on previous records (also held by Call of Duty). It's so much money that you could stack it in hundred dollar bills and hide behind it and no one could shoot you, even with Deep Impact equipped...

Spike TV has revealed its list of 2011 Video Game Awards (VGA) nominees, as well as the announcement it will be naming the Legend of Zelda franchise as its very first Hall of Fame inductee...