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Rock Band 3: Keyboard Trailer: The new trailer shows off Rock Band 3 keyboard gameplay from tracks by Huey Lewis and The News, Ida Maria, Tears for Fears and Them Crooked Vultures. Rock Band 3 will be released on October 26th in North America and October 29th for the rest of the world for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and Nintendo DS. The 50 Best Mario Video Games of All Time [Videos]: With (Super) Mario turning 25, here is a look back at our favorite plumber's 50 greatest adventures, with video evidence. Mario has more adventure than you'd expect. It could've been 200. Platform Wars: PC versus Consoles: The biggest dilemma for gamers all around the world is that which platforms they should consider for their games. With a ton of games going multiplatform, a video gamer is forced to think which platform he/she should pick the game for. The decision becomes even more difficult when a gamer has both: an amazing rig or an Xbox 360. PAX 2010: The Ultimate Cosplay Gallery - gamrFeed: The only PAX cosplay gallery you'll need. Nearly 150 pictures! Super Mario Collection Confirmed as a Port of SNES Version: In Japan,Amazon has started taking pre-orders for Super Mario Collection Special Pack. The company posted a product description, which appears to have been removed from the listing within minutes. However, those few minutes were long enough for somebody to copy and paste the info into a story atGame Jouhou. According to the description: - The Wii game is a port of 1993s Super Mario Collection (Super Mario All-Stars) - No graphical overhaul - Will include a booklet that recaps the 25 year history of Mario - Booklet includes unseen development materials - Will also Include a soundtrack - Soundtrack has music from the original Super Mario Bros. through Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Limited time production- The game will probably come packed in a yellow box. PAX 2010 Hands-On: Drumskulls (with World-Exclusive Screens!): Remember Evan's E3 preview of Rock of the Deadfrom a few months back? Where you could strum specific note patterns to shoot zombies? The problem with that, according to Andrew Laing, creator of the new, never-seen-before-PAX title Drumskulls, is that Rock of the Deaddidn't deviate far enough from the Rock Band/Guitar Heroformula. Despite having zombies as a backdrop, it's still very much in the "music game" genre. Drumskullsis not. It's all about shootin' some zombies... with your plastic drum set. I had a chance to try out Drumskullsat PAX, and I dug it. It's by a company that's so grassroots indie that they don't have a website yet. They don't even have a name. Andrew Laing is the man in charge, however, and you can expect some big things from him. So, the zombies marching toward you on the screen are four different colors. To shoot a zombie of a particular color, you hit that drum (it'll be compatible with any Rock Band/Guitar Herodrumset). Despite their slow zombie pace, when a dozendifferentlycolored zombies are coming toward you at the same time, it's gets really intense. Each drum hit is one shot, and each zombie takes multiple blasts to finish off. Hitting a drum pad to shoot a zombie is very visceral; it's quite a different experience than merely using a gamepad. The bass pedal will be implemented in the final product somehow, too, but it wasn't quite ready to be used in the version I tried out at PAX. The game is on-rails, but there are plenty of secrets to discover; one in particular I found was a red dumpster that you blow away to open a hidden path through the level. The game is still very early in development (they stayed up until 4 a.m. coding the last level, in fact - that's so indie!), and they don't even have a publisher or a platform to release the game on yet. It's situated to be a downloadable title, though, and it's looking good so far. Check out some gameplay footage from the show floor (and don't mind the dork on the drums - that's just me): I also got in tight with Mr. Laing and he sent me some WORLD-EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOTS that you won't see anywhere else, including this one of the never-before-seen Baron Samedi: Believe it or not, this is one of the good guys. Baron Samedi is your mentor in the game world, and the Commander of the Drumskulls. There weren't a lot of details regarding the storyline released, but Laing confirmed that the game would feature seven levels, as well as boss fights. Stay tuned here for more news on the game, and look for it on various downloadable services (XBLA? PSN? WiiWare?) if and when the game gets picked up by a publisher. Until then, enjoy some screenshots that you won't find anywhere else: This Liquid-Cooled Xbox 360 PC Hybrid Costs More Than My Car: Origin PC introduces The Big O, a gaming PC with all the bells and whistles, including a liquid-cooled Xbox 360 Slim built right in, and it can be yours today for the price of a small used car. Donkey Kong Country Returns Gets Lovely Boxart: Perhaps it is not much to the average gamer, but to any gamer who has been longing for a new Donkey Kong Country since the last installment was released back in 1996, this will certainly bring tears to your eyes. Absence of Kremlings be damned, it looks fantastic to anyone whose been missing some good old jungle hijinks. Company of Heroes designer sacrifices life for wife and unborn child: The first thing Erin Wood wants her baby to know is that Dad, Brian, died to save their lives. “. . . In his final act he did the only thing that would save us,” said Wood, 31. With an out-of-control Chevy Blazer bearing down on him, the 33-year old North Vancouver man braked and swerved his Subaru wagon so that he would take the force of the head-on collision, saving his wife of five years, pregnant with their first baby.. Princess of Persia is Gorgeous (pics): Princess of Persia makes the Prince unforgettable after you see this goddess.