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Microsoft has announced eight new titles for the Xbox 360 Platinum Hits collection.

Each of the following games will arrive in retail for as low as $19.99, complete with repackaging.

• Army of Two
• Battlefield Bad Company
• Burnout Paradise
• EA Sports Fight Night Round 3
• Forza Motorsport 2
• Gears of War
• Mass Effect (includes Bring Down the Sky)
• Viva Pinata

Check your local retail stores for availability.

Rare’s posted up some Killer Instinct Piñata Vision cards on its site, a move likely to make portions of the internet have small fits about what the developer’s going to start working niow Trouble in Paradise is out the door.

See here, here and here. All you need to do is print these off, show them up to your 360 camera and you too can have Fulgore stomping around your garden.

Cute. Take a look.

YouTube, the giver of all things daft. Another Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise Halo Believe parody just popped up on there, this time ripping off the Museum promo.

Hot fact: the Leafos VO in that video is from the voice actor in the game itself.

Want to play it. After the break. Here’s the first one, in case you missed it.

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Rare just confirmed worldwide release dates for Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise to VG247.

The DS game hits the US on September 2, UK and EMEA on September 5 and the rest of the world beginning September 11.

THQ is publishing the title.

According to this article on its official site, Rare can now boast 100 million software sales since the company launched in 1985.

“The result of releasing more than 100 titles across systems ranging from NES to Xbox 360 does seem like something worth mentioning, even if a couple of those titles were Taboo and Sesame Street 123 (everyone has to eat, you know),” says the article.

“Recent assistance in achieving the 100 million figure has come from the likes of Perfect Dark Zero (over 1.5m units to date), Kameo: Elements of Power and Viva Piñata (approaching 1m apiece).

“With Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and two new Viva Piñata titles on Xbox 360 and DS set to launch in the coming months, plus of course all the other intriguing projects further down the line that we’re too wicked and calculating to tell you about, we don’t anticipate a dramatic sales downturn any time soon. Does that sound a bit pompous? Sorry, us Brits struggle to ‘do’ PR sometimes.

Congratulations to Rare from all of us at VG247!

You haven’t got a fiver we could borrow, have you?

By Mike Bowden

We really should read things properly. As well as the Banjo details posted on Rare’s site this morning was confirmation that the Viva Piñata is going to release a mystery game before the end of the year.

“The Viva Piñata team is working on a new title that we hope to be able to tell you about soon, and should be in the shops before the end of the year (it’s not Banjo),” said the site.

Your guess is as good as ours. Probably Jet Force Gemini for XBLA, or something.