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Your gaming hardware is expensive, used often, and there is no easy way to crack it open if something goes wrong. “The game console industry is hostile to consumers: goliath manufacturers have shipped hundreds of millions of units to consumers with no information on how to maintain or repair them,” the folks behind the website iFixit claim. “Console owners are left with few options when their warranties expire, causing many to throw away broken units.”

Is Vice City still great 8 years after the hype died down?

DS - 107,743 (-1%)
360 - 94,919 (+15%)
Wii - 57,754 (-1%)
PS3 - 52,915 (+2%)
PSP - 28,321 (-4%)
PS2 - 19,450 (-2%)

SOFTWARE:

1 PS3 Mafia II - 96,112
2 360 Mafia II - 85,016
3 Wii Wii Sports Resort - 57,517
4 Wii Wii Sports - 57,316
5 Wii Super Mario Galaxy 2 - 42,257
6 PS3 Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days - 39,419
7 360 Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days - 36,385
8 PC StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - 32,873
9 DS New Super Mario Bros. - 28,646
10 DS Pokémon Heart Gold / Soul Silv… - 28,532

GOS writes “Today GameFly has announced that they will be having a special giveaway going on. GameFly is doing a Year-a-Day-Giveaway Sweepstakes which starts today.”

We all may complain after receiving a horrible haircut, but can you imagine what a videogame character must feel like after suffering the same misfortune? Once a game designer puts the pen to the digital canvas in the initial stages of game development, certain videogame characters are stuck with their terrible haircuts for the rest of existence. That’s pretty rough. (If that was the case in real-life, I would still look like this. Whew! Thank God for being human.)

Sadly, there are a ton of videogame characters out there with pretty bad haircuts, but which ones are the worst?

This is the newest trailer for Cabela’s North American Adventures, including a peek at the multiplayer mode.

Apparently Sangam Gupta, head honcho of Trine pitched the idea of the game to Khan by showing him Uncharted 2, a game that supposedly shares the same theme as the movie “a secret service agent” looking for lost treasure (I dont think Gupta got the memo that Nathan Drake was no secret service agent).

Nintendo and Team Ninja’s first collaborative project hits Aussie store shelves; latest rugby league game arrives just in time for the season finals.

CrushCast brings you episode 1 live from the allgames network. Your hosts Kitsune and Phoenix have a very special announcement for their listeners along with gaming news, Playboy’s new MMO, TigerClaw news, Song of the week and so much more… This weeks topic: Medal of Honor, You Can Be The Taliban, Controversy. Join us for Crush Night every Thursday 7:30pm on allgames.com

Sony PS2 new and future release dates for this and next month.