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The PlayStation Blog has announced in The Drop that various goodies are heading to PlayStation Network this week.

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A sequel to the 1994 adventure game Inherit the Earth, from The Wyrmkeep Entertainment Co., is currently seeking funding through its Kickstarter campaign.
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Masthead Studios’ has announced its online free-to-play shooter Guns and Robots is now available to players in its open beta.
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Bungie has kicked off its Community Theater with Act One, in which host Deej addresses a complaint from the owner of a faulty copy of Halo 4.
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Xbox Live Gold cards are now available from Amazon for $35 in a bid to match Best Buy‘s offer at the same price.

The offer applies to physical Gold cards, with Amazon digital codes going for $40 and Best Buy having already sold out, reports Joystiq. Three-month Gold memberships are going for $21 on Amazon but stay at the full price of $25 at Best Buy, which is offering physical Halo 4 and Black Ops 2 12-month Gold membership cards for the $35 sale price, evening it out for some.

The Nintendo 3DS Facebook Page has a chain of posts revealing character profiles and artwork for the upcoming release of Fire Emblem: Awakening.
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Montreal based indie-game incubator and go-to-market accelerator, Execution Labs, has announced the first five development teams it will be assisting merely eight weeks after opening its doors to applications.
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An update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 has been released by Treyarch for Xbox 360 and is said to be hitting PlayStation 3 “soon”.

The patch features a long list of updates, most notably perhaps is the addition of the Live Streaming feature to Public Match playlists. Thanks to ComputerAndVideoGames, who have the full patch notes of the improvements and new features.

The update comes in preparation for the Black Ops 2 Revolution DLC which drops January 29 on Xbox Live and includes the addition of four new multiplayer maps, a Zombie arena and the Peacekeeper weapon.

The latest update from Team Meat for their upcoming Mew-Genics game goes into what you can expect from the mail system in the game.

Courtesy of GameInformer, mail in the game is vital, keeping players abreast of their friends and enemies movements as well as upcoming contests. It’s also somewhat random and unpredictable what may arrive, it could be a Cat Fight invitation, violation notices, money from your children or an SSI check reminder.

Check out the update here.

The puzzle platformer Escape Goat, that sees players solve single-screen room puzzles as a goat with a mouse sidekick, will see a sequel sometime later this year, MagicalTimeBean’s Ian Stocker has revealed.
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The NHL season finally started last week after months of feuding between players and team owner. Now that it’s kicked off, EA has released a new trailer to help get things moving along.

NHL 13 was released on the 11th September 2012 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, courtesy of Strategy Informer, who have the trailer available to watch.

The Drop has announced the new releases for PlayStation for this week. PlayStation 3 sees Devil May Cry, which is also on PSN, as well as Bioshock: Ultimate Rapture Edition, which includes both games and all additional content.

The PlayStation Network gets the Angry Birds trilogy and Corpse Party: Book of Shardow, on PS Vita and PSP. Meanwhile Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and Siren round it out as the PlayStation 2 classics.

Check The Drop on the PlayStation Blog for more details.

Blizzard have detailed how the duelling will work in the upcoming Diablo III 1.0.7 patch as well as class updates, crafting additions, monster power changes, monster affix changes and quality of life improvements.

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HighlifeTTU and lazertester, Minecraft modders, have created a Central Lobby System. The full 3-D server browser lobby lets you walk around and explore when choosing a server to join, taking the game even closer to becoming a full MMO.

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Amazon has the Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition for close to half price on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for its daily deal.

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Hiroshi Sakamoto, a Sony executive from another division, said in an interview with a Chilean news site that a reveal announcement for the next PlayStation console, codenamed PlayStation Orbis, could take place at E3 or even earlier, in May.

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The Milestone developed MUD – FIM Motocross World Championship will be published by Namco Bandai in the U.S. and will be released on PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 as well as PlayStation Vita.

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L. Rafael Reif, MIT president, has issued a statement regarding the apparent suicide death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz.

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Crysis 3 producer Mike Read talks about the game, what may follow, current consoles and pushing PC capabilities.
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A news post on the Carmageddon site has stated that the team will most likely be working on Carmageddon: Reincarnation for most of 2013 due to the increased budget aquired from the successful Kickstarter campaign.

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