In case you didn’t know, you’ve been able to pick up the original DOOM for the iPhone for awhile now ($6.99 on iTunes).

If that seems too simple, however, you can now download the DOOM iPhone source code, as iD Software has just released it to the masses on their DOOM Classic website.  They’ve even included build instructions to compile the code on a Mac OS X system.

Oh, John Carmack.  You’re such a pal.

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A recent interview with Dhani Harrison (son of George, and largely responsible for The Beatles: Rock Band seeing the light of day) in the Chicago Tribune revealed something interesting: Rock Band 3 is being developed with all-new peripherals that may actually teach gamers to play real instruments.

Will it still be fun?  Is it too good to be true?  Will it finally mute the people that often complain, “Why don’t you just learn to play a real instrument?”  Because now you actually can.

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Do you like sexy girls? Do you like guns? How about a sexy girl, clad in leather, with guns attached to her boots? Do you want a chance to play the Bayonetta demo before everybody else? Sure you do!

Sega announced today that 40,000 lucky fans, who sign up for a free Sega Pass (or newsletter) and enter the contest on the official Bayonetta website, will get very early access to the highly anticipated action adventure demo.

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The Shin Megami Tensei series is perhaps the next new big thing for JRPGs in America. Almost each installment released stateside has garnered critical success ever since they began to be released at frequent rate a few years ago with Shin Megami Tensei III.

A new game in the series with the most spinoffs ever (Digital Devil Saga and Persona, to name a few) is being released in America soon. I wonder how well this one will fare? It sounds pretty cool…

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If the onslaught of buy 2 get 1 deals wasn’t enough to punch a huge hole in your wallet, then go and get the car warmed up now.

Walmart is currently offering a $100 gift card with a purchase of the Xbox 360 Arcade at $200. But this is for today only and is sure to go fast. So be sure and resist the temptation of staring at the “people of Walmart” as you go get your 360. Read more… »

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In an ideal Ayn Rand-ian world, the good guys are pretty, and the bad guys are ugly.  The internal beauty of virtue and wholesomeness manifests itself on a perfectly flawless external visage.

Conversely, the baddies have scarred, twisted features.  The rare smile of a villain is not a product of happiness but malice.  Games used to be this clear-cut.  Games used to be this black-and-white.

Now, however, game developers have the technology to make their characters actually look human, as opposed to being mere embodiments of ideals.  This helps gamers empathize with their increasingly realistic in-game avatars; but this shift away from a black-and-white game development ideology did not happen overnight.

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There are few events that are able to incite such violence, anger, and excitement as a professional wrestling bout. While it is undoubtedly a staged sport that is more theater than skill, there is no argument the game has the ability to unite legions of fans with a thirst for pain.

The WWE SmackDown series has been pumping out yearly titles for almost a decade now, and I’ve only ever had a passing fascination with them. Was WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2010 able to instill a lust for all things wrestling related? Or did it simply make me shake my head at the sheer lunacy of what we now call “entertainment”?

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Rainbow Islands is the red-headed step brother of Bubble Bobble.  It’s not as loved, nor as memorable, nor as entertaining.  Still, it hangs around the table at night, begging for scraps of your love.

Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure! is an “updated” remake of the original.  I use the quotation marks because an “update” implies an improvement.  You will find no such thing here.

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What’s the next step for Nintendo’s innovation?  Of course…  Puppets!

The new Wii game from Swedish developer Zoink Games – Wiiwaa – involves forcing a Wiimote down the throat of a puppet that looks like an Uglydoll, then shaking the puppet (and presumably doing other things to it) to make it perform on-screen actions.

Watch the video.  How could someone not say, “You know, Nintendo… this is really weird.”

Maybe because Nintendo would respond, “Yeah.  That’s what they said about motion controls.”

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While console gamers have been able to enjoy an easier difficulty of Dragon Age: Origins since release day, PC gamers have had to wait until now for a patch to fix minor bugs, difficulty issues, and character statistics problems.

Those of you who downloaded Bioware’s new title through Steam should have already received the update. Hit the jump to find out what the patch will fix.

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Howdy listeners, I know we missed the preshow discussion last week, but Josh was only able to tear himself away from his new How to be a Man handbook long enough to record last week’s show.  Hey, who could blame him?

Anyway, Josh is still doing an arbitrary number of sit ups and push ups, so I have taken it upon myself to post this week’s preshow. Read more… »

PC developers know that piracy is an issue.  So how do you take advantage of that fact?

Well, you can do what RedLynx did, and leak the PC version of Trials on torrent sites on the same day it’s put out to consumers.

The key is to leave out one important aspect of the game…

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