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Today is a big day for Retro City Rampage. Vblank Entertainment raised the curtain on the game's soundtrack with a new ten-minute video featuring better looks at some of its parodies like Metal Gear and TMNT. The design of fake Snake is, unsurprisingly, spot on.

This video is set to ten excellent tunes from the soundtrack, which is composed by three highly talented musicians: virt (Jake Kaufman), Norrin Radd (Matt Creamer) and Freaky DNA (Leonard Paul). Best part? You can download this "mixtape," as well as RCR's theme music, for free.

Go here for everything mentioned above and more.

http://vimeo.com/16312520

As already reported, The Doors will be hitting the Rock Band Music Store as downloadable content next week. It's the first bit of content released after Rock Band 3's release, with all of the tracks featuring keyboard support and two tracks supporting Pro Guitar and Bass (for an additional 99 cents) — "Riders on the Storm" and "Touch Me."   

The whole pack, The Doors Greatest Hits Special Edition, will run you $19.99/1600 MS Points/2000 Wii Points; tracks can be purchased for $1.99/160 MS Points/200 Wii Points a piece.   

Also revealed for download next week is Rush's "Subdivisions," off of its 1982 album, Signals; it'll cost you 160 MS Points/$1.99/200 Wii Points. The track can also be expanded for Pro Guitar and Pro Bass for 99 cents (80 MS Points/100 Wii Points).   

Speaking of which, I've got one for a feature I'm working, but has anyone had any luck finding a Pro Guitar out in the wild for purchase? Last I checked, retailers weren't getting them until mid-November. I kind of need to know how long my top scores are gonna last on these barren Pro Guitar leaderboards. 

Sorry, but that's what it looks like. Konami's balls-mental horror title Neverdead seems to feature monstrous walking poop as enemies, if these new screenshots are to be believed. It's like a horror remake of Two Girls One Cup. I am aroused by this.

The game is due for Xbox 360 and PS3, and will feature both shooting and swordfighting in a world where an invincible hero fights a load of demons because of reasons. It looks absolutely stupid in a good way, and 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McD_A9Kb3oM

This week's Jimquisition is a HALLOWEEEEEEN SPECIAAAAAAL! It's not very special actually, but it does give me an opportunity to dump all over Resident Evil and Silent Hill as I explain why I think they've both become terrible. 

Also, here's a pro-tip: Never try to film an entire rant in a plastic Halloween mask. It's horrible and the red paint has a tendency to rub off and then stick to your face. I have learned this the hard way. 

Enjoy the show.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Jim, we love your free Apps that you post up all nice and sexy and you are sexy and we want to sex you, but where in the name of Blue Buggering Christ are all the fun Halloween games!?"

Don't worry, you impatient pricks, I've got you covered!

Zombie Snake (courtesy of Open Feint) is the game you need to get you in the mood for dressing up like an idiot and watching shitty films. It's like a regular Snake game, but with more brains and graveyards. It's got a cute art style and fun music and it costs not a single cent. Go get it, you bunch of bollocks!

[Found a free App? Think it's good? Hitting me up on Twitter is the fastest way to let me know about it. Please do so -- finding good iPhone games is hard!]

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has revealed the 3DS Shopping Channel at an investor briefing today, highlighting a number of key features that should drag Nintendo's online marketplace efforts into the modern world. 

The first big improvement is the bundling of product sales and promotion into one place, so you can get information on your potential purchases without having to look elsewhere. Details, movies and demos will all be available on a game's sale page. Games will be available on themed "racks" to help you find a particular genre, and titles can also be sorted by date, popularity and a search function. 

It all sounds fairly rudimentary, but even the Wii lacks some basic features that would make it a far more convenient experience. The 3DS has been designed to encourage "window shopping" and efficient browsing, something that Nintendo's online stores have desperately needed. 

There's a video demonstration of it below. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3azFRhOPsw

BOO! Just in time for Halloween, Best.Podcast.EVER! Ep. #2 is ready for downloading! You can do that by clicking right here! Or right here. OR EVEN RIGHT HERE!

This Halloween episode is so scary that I passed out several times while editing it. And, no, that is not just me making an excuse for why the audio levels are a little bit funky. I would never do that!

Here is a taste of what Colette, Stella, and I talk about:

Dracula, Halloween costumes, Persona, Professor Layton, Showgirls, Costume Quest, Super Meat Boy, balls, Bit.Trip.Fate, Diablo II, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, fighting games, Cars, embarrassing childhood Halloween stories, erections, Enslaved, Aeris, AND SO MANY MORE SCARY THINGS!

I hope you enjoy! Happy Halloween!

iTunes and an RSS Feed are coming soon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoeBuyfz7X4&feature=player_embedded

With Duke Nukem finally getting dragged out of his grave by Gearbox Software, who will finally be releasing Duke Nuke Forever next year, what of the announced Nintendo DS and PSP games? According to the developer of the portable titles, Frontline Studios, they're still in development… but no longer Duke Nukem games. 

To be called Duke Nukem Critical Mass, the games were said to be the first in a trilogy of portable games featuring the ass-kicking, bubble gum chewing Duke. Frontline will still be releasing the games, only with a different title so generic it'll knock the wind out of you — Extraction Point: Alien Shootout.

While the games will presumably see the light of day, without the Duke Nukem branding, it's likely they'll die on the shelves in obscurity. Check out the above video for the PSP Duke Nukem game that could have been. 

Duke Nukem Critical Mass for DS and PSP canned [Polygamia]

http://publishers.springboard.gorillanation.com/admin/videos/new_edit/357/212321

It's two days before Halloween (or one day if you live in Mississippi, where they decided to alter time itself so they don't miss a single minute of Church!) and you can bet that all the scary games are doing their best to get some attention. 

F.E.A.R 3 has a suitably spooky video for us, following the Dead Space 2 vid we posted earlier. If you're into the F.E.A.R series, this'll get you pretty hyped up for the story. As somebody who's followed the franchise quite a bit, I must say I'm hyped!

What about you? Anybody else going to pick it up?