News: Ratchet & Clank Special Edition detailed

Features special 3D cover, artbook and access to exclusive game content. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that a Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Collector’s Edition will be available in the UK exclusively from GAME.The Collector’s Edition will come in a special foldout digipack containing the following:

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“PSPgo will fail miserably,” says major UK retailer

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Happy Birthday…Manaka Takane

You remember all those reports that came out of Japan a year or so ago, claiming Monster Hunter on the PSP was a “social phenomenon?” I think Love Plus just took its place.

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Aion To Retain Huge Numbers, Says Poll

According to a poll on an Aion website, over 86% of players intend to renew their subscriptions after the first free month of game play has ended.

Over 1,000 readers on aionsource have voted so far to say whether they will continue to pay NCsoft to play the recently-released Aion after the free period has ended. However, from the 86% that said they will continue playing, almost 13% said they will only give the game another month unless the queue issue is resolved.

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Live Test of Facebook on the Xbox 360

Browsing through Facebook on the Xbox 360 is much like browsing through the community portal on your computer – with one exception.

Sitting on a couch in a hotel suite opposite the Tokyo Game Show last month, Microsoft’s Scott Austin, director of digital games at Live, ran me through a quick demonstration of the service on an Xbox 360 he had set up on the room’s flat screen.

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Joyswag: Direct2Drive’s 50+ $5 games for you, dear reader

We’ve got quite the prize pack up for grabs, as Direct2Drive is hooking us up with 53 games (full list after the break) to unload on one lucky reader. If you’ve been keeping up with the weekly deals that are part of Direct2Drive’s fifth anniversary, then you know the service has been offering some pretty sweet titles. Well, we’ve got all of them, and one of you will be lucky enough to win them!