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The Vice President of Marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Scott Steinberg, is doing his job by hyping the PlayStation 3. A recent official blog entry states, "PlayStation 3 offers a value proposition that’s second-to-none". He also said that the inclusion of a Blu-ray drive, downloadable content, standard definition and high definition is the "choice consumers want."

Gamespot is hosting a screen shot of a brand new Xbox Live dashboard ad for Rock Band 2. The ad encourages users to check out the "new Xbox experience coming in November." Microsoft still maintains the dashboard refresh for the Xbox 360 will happen in Fall 2008 and no follow-up details from Microsoft have yet been released.

More details on the new Resident Evil 5 are trickling out. The Japanese language magazine, Famitsu, is reporting that the playable debut at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show will include two new characters as well as several new creatures. The magazine article described by IGN says that the new characters are Albert Wesker, a former Resident Evil character and his ally Excella Gionne.

Bungie has released a short teaser trailer for what appears to be an expansion to Halo 3, as the trailer shows the Halo 3 logo after a scene that features city streets burnout out after a meteor impact.

Bungie says that this will be available on the Xbox Live Marketplace soon.

We are just uploading the Teaser Trailer to our servers now.

Digital Games reports that a demo for Mirror's Edge will be released today on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network, although EA has told Strategy Informer that this story is a result of confusion from a press release that was sent out earlier this month.

"I am afraid this news story is result of confusion in the press release issued earlier this month. The Pre-orders will go live as of tomorrow but the demo will be going live at a later date." said the EA Spokesperson.

Shame, we were hoping this was going to be true.

Bungie's website has a splash page which features a countdown clock, ticking away the minutes until a new game is announced for presumably the Halo universe. This important announcement is going to be revealed just after 3pm UK time.

Eidos has released two new gameplay videos for Tomb Raider: Underworld, which is set to be released on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 21st November, 2008.

Diving Gameplay Trailer

Jungle Ruins Gameplay Trailer

Looking very good Underworld is, great trailers.

The new official Interplay web site is listing a new office located in Orange County, CA where they will be producing the Fallout themed MMO. While Bethesda Softworks owns the rights to the Fallout franchise, Interplay retained the right to produce a Fallout MMO. Interplay has given this project the code name "V13" perhaps based on a Vault 13 concept.

Microsoft announced today that Banjo-Kazooie, remake of the original Nintendo 64 game, is to be released on the Xbox Live Arcade on November 26th, 2008. The game will be priced at 1200 MS points and will contain graphical enhancements, along with achievements and gamerscore support.

For those of you that cannot wait until the 26th of November, Microsoft is planning to give consumers that pre-order the latest entry in the Banjo-Kazooie series, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, a free code to download the original title for free, two weeks before its release on the XBLA.

The Last Remnant image gallery has been updated with 69 new screenshots.