If you’re not a fan of Bioshock memorabilia you can eat, maybe a Little Sister figurine would be more to your liking.

Now available at the Take-Two Store, for the sum of $10.00, you can get a 3” tall, ceramic, hand-painted Little Sister figurine. The figurine is also thoughtfully designed to-scale with the Big Daddy figurine that was made available with the Limited Edition version of Bioshock. The Little Sister figurine is just as limited, as it is a one-time production run, only available to purchase through the Take-Two store… and E-Bay when the time is right.

If you want one, you had better order now!

A member of Capcom, John Diamonon, has revealed via his blog that Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix has sold over 250 000 units since its debut on the PlayStation Store and Xbox LIVE Marketplace last month.

The game has apparently also broken downloadable content records, surpassing both day one and week one sales records, and is on its way to becoming the highest grossing digital title ever. Diamonon thanked the fans for the game’s success:

“Last but not least, I want to give a big shout out to the hard core Street Fighter community who kept this game relevant for the past 15 years and spread the word to the entire gaming industry that Street Fighter is still the “best around”!”

After reports that Free Radical employees arrived at work one day, only to find the locks changed and security guards keeping them out of the office, rumours spread wildly that the company behind games such as Time Splitters, Second Sight and Haze, had shut down.

It’s now been revealed, however, that Free Radical have instead been placed in to administration, a process by which a third-party attempts to resolve their client’s debts. A member of Resolve Partners, an administration group in the UK, Cameron Gunn said:

“We will be spending the next three or four days assessing the financial position of the company but it’s business as usual, although we have asked that almost all of the employees apart from a skeleton crew remain at home.”

“All employees have been paid up until the end of December and we hope to make another announcement before Christmas or very soon thereafter, but we must stress at this stage that it’s business as usual.”

Of concern to Free Radical fans, however, is the fact that co-founder David Doak, as well as other key senior Free Radical members, have left the company to form a new development outfit, Pumpkin Beach. Another worrying sign of Free Radical’s health is the reported loss of the rights to develop the third Star Wars Battlefront game, with the project going to another UK developer, Rebellion. Uneasy times, to say the least.

Nintendo pulled out the big guns this year, releasing popular titles such as Mario Kart Wii, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy and Wii Fit. If you add other cool titles including Wii Music, Boom Blox and Family Ski to the mix, you have a recipe guaranteeing party fun.

Get the party started this holiday season with our Wii Christmas Buyer’s Guide for South Africa, just remember to warm up first!

• Mario Kart Wii
• Wii Fit
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Guitar Hero: World Tour
• Wii Music
• Tomb Raider: Underworld
• Boom Blox
• Family Ski
• Samba de Amigo

The end of the year has been jam packed with numerous hugely anticipated PS3 exclusives arriving on our shelves.

In addition to the big hitters such as LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2 and MotorStorm: Pacific Rift taking over our evenings, we can also indulge in some shooting action in Call of Duty: World at War, step into the shoes of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Underworld or put the latest Prince of Persia through its paces.

Whatever you choose, have yourself a Merry Christmas and keep gaming!

Here’s a couple of our suggestions:

• LittleBigPlanet
• Resistance 2
• Call of Duty: World at War
• MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
• Guitar Hero: World Tour
• Tomb Raider: Underworld
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty
• Prince of Persia
• Mirror’s Edge
• Bioshock

Another outpouring of Resident Evil 5 media has taken place in the form of five videos, featuring gameplay in a myriad of locations and situations. What’s different about these videos is that most of them are explicitly from the PS3 version of Resident Evil 5.

The first video has the title of ‘Beheading Gameplay,’ which is actually a pretty accurate description of the following video. You’ve been warned:

The rest of the videos follow below, or you can check out even more footage here, here and here.

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There’s a couple of big(ish) game releases on both the European and US PlayStation Stores this week, including Soldner-X Himmelssturmer in Europe, the second episode of Penny Arcade Adventures in the US, while Crash Commando releases in both territories.

Then there’s the usual assortment of Rock Band and Guitar Hero downloadable content (DLC) and various add-on packs for LittleBigPlanet and other games.

The full list of content now available on both the European and US PlayStation Stores follows below:

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Gamers are really spoilt for choice this Christmas, particularly when it comes to the Xbox 360 platform.

With so much variety out there, it was tough to select just ten games for our Top 10 wish list. But then again variety is the spice of life so whether you are looking for some shooting action in Gears of War 2, a spot of adventure in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts or putting together a band in Guitar Hero: World Tour, there really is something to suit everyone’s tastes.

So, without further ado, here is our Xbox 360 Christmas Buyer’s Guide for South Africa. Have fun!

1. Gears of War 2
2. Guitar Hero: World Tour
3. Call of Duty: World at War
4. Fable II
5. Left 4 Dead
6. Dead Space
7. Prince of Persia
8. Mirror’s Edge
9. Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
10. Fallout 3

We have two Thrustmaster DS carry cases up for grabs and because we believe in equal opportunity we have one for girl gamers (pink and blue) and one for boy gamers(khaki green). Each carry case comes complete with cool accessories for your DS Lite.

For a chance to win these awesome prizes, head over to our Thrustmaster competition page and answer an easy question. As easy as pie.

Thanks to MobileG for sponsoring the great prizes. Head over to www.mobileg.co.za to sign up for their newsletter if you want to keep in the loop about other cool accessories for your consoles.

Our TNA Impact! competition has come to a close so you can stop spamming us now :-) As expected almost all of you voted Kurt Angle as your favourite wrestler making our judges sweat over the task of choosing a winner.

Without further delay, the winners of the two copies are Rudolph Keown and Michael Lu.

Check out our TNA Impact! competition page for more details.

Thanks to everyone for entering and to Ster Kinekor for sponsoring the prizes.

We have wrapped up our Devil May Cry 4 competition - it looks like Dante is a firm favourite among gamers, although Nero was also a popular choice.

The winners of the two cool hampers are Thys van Zyl and Craig Gordon. You each win an Xbox 360 copy of DMC4 along with other awesome gaming goodies including a Metal Gear Solid 4 keyring.

Check out our DMC4 competition page for more details.

Thanks to everyone for entering and to Ster Kinekor for bringing us more gaming goodness!

Enter our Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe competition and you could win a hamper containing a T-shirt, limited edition poster and a copy of the game.

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe sees Midway pitting the likes of Scorpion, Sub Zero or Liu Kang against the famous characters from the DC Universe. See what happens when two worlds collide in our review of the game. We quite enjoyed the story mode and the new Rage meter and grappling moves.

Head over to our MK vs DC Universe competition page to enter. Thanks to Ster-Kinekor for the awesome prize.

Hot on the heels of Capcom revealing the US box art for upcoming survival horror Resident Evil 5, the UK box art for the game has also surfaced.

The box art features a large red Africa in the background with the words ‘Kijuju’ and ‘They are in Kijuju’ scrawled across it. If you take a closer look at the tip of Africa you will see the shadows of numerous zombies but unlike the American version Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar do not appear on the cover.

Another thing you can tell from the box art is that Resident Evil 5 has been slapped with an 18 age restriction in the UK.

Resident Evil 5 is coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3 on the 13th of March 2009.

Capcom has just taken the wraps off the official US box art for Resident Evil 5.

According to the press release, “The new box art imagery gives players a sneak peak into the nightmarish world of Resident Evil 5 as the art shows off the most thrilling new features in the game including the action-packed new 2-player co-op, the setting of Kijuju where light and darkness bring new horror and mysterious scribbling that represent a fear that no fan will forget….”

The UK box art is quite a bit different so make sure you check it out as well.

Resident Evil 5 is coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3 on the 13th of March 2009. Check out our preview of the game to whet your RES5 appetite further.

It’s been officially announced that the new Batman game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, will feature at least two of the voices that have come to be associated with the franchise - Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill.

Conroy would be known to fans of the animated Batman series as playing the voice of The Batman himself, while Mark Hamill has been associated with the voice of The Joker for just as long a period (also notable for being in those Star Wars flicks…).

Both actors are very involved in the voice acting gig, contributing to legions of animated features, Hamill in particular performing roles in dozens of TV and videogame projects. It is also believed that Conroy has played the role of Batman for longer than all of his live-action counterparts combined. That’s a long time!

You can check out a teaser trailer for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum over here. With an ‘original voice cast,’ this is definitely one for fans to look forward to!