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We might have been down a man this week for the Game|Life, but call us Humphrey Slocombe, because we’re still armed with CRAZY SCOOPS. (Seriously, WTF kind of flavor is Strawberry Candied Jalapeno?)

It’s true, Chris Kohler was down at pre-E3 Judges’ Week, subsisting solely on sliders and bitter tears, but we still held it down in the sweltering podcast booth. On the review front, managing editor Marty Cortinas gave his his first impressions of Diablo ..read the full article

Jane Jensen at home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.Image: Pinkerton Road

When she launched her new game studio, Jane Jensen had to look no further for inspiration than her own doorstep.

“My husband and I have been into organics for a few years,” she said to Wired earlier this month. “When we lived in California, we belonged to a CSA,” community-supported agriculture. “You subscribe to a small organic farm and get a basket of their latest produce every week.” CSAs cut out ..read the full article

Here’s a glance at the box art for Microsoft Studios’ upcoming racing video game ‘Forza Horizon’. Just a bit of info, the game will hit Xbox 360 in Q4 2012. [Gematsu]

E.X. Troopers emulates Japanese comic books right down to the onomatopoeia.Image courtesy Capcom

Capcom announced E.X. Troopers, a cartoon-styled spin-off of its Lost Planet third-person shooting franchise for PlayStation 3 and Nintendo 3DS, this week.

E.X. Troopers will occupy the same universe as the Lost Planet games, but it will drop the hard sci-fi look in favor of the comic book approach. Characters look hand-drawn rather than sculpted from polygons, and the action seen in the game’s first trailer is punctuated ..read the full article

2K Games has announced two special editions of Borderlands 2. The “Deluxe Vault Hunter’s Collector’s Edition” consists of Borderlands 2 video game, a Marcus Kincaid bobblehead, art book, stickers, a digital comic and several unspecified DLC. The “Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition” includes all those items, plus a collectable scaled replica of the red loot chests, a steel book case, Creatures of Pandora wide-format ID chart, a lithograph postcard set, field notes from Sir Hammerlock, a cloth map of Pandora ..read the full article

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It’s been just a little over a day since Blizzard performed one of the old rituals, releasing Diablo upon the world for the third time, and I’ve been doing my best to play all the hell out of it.

There’s a lot of hell in there, though. Wired will have a full review of Blizzard’s long-anticipated action role-playing game in due time, but first, here are some early thoughts about the experience I’ve had so far. Not ..read the full article

A Sony booth worker holds up a PlayStation Vita at Tokyo Game Show last September. Interest in Vita has since cooled.Photo: Robert Gilhooly/Wired.com

Fewer than 8 percent of Japanese consumers want to buy a PlayStation Vita or a Wii U, according to a recent survey conducted by online firm Goo Research. This is the third such survey in a row to report a decline in interest.

Among the 1083 people surveyed, 701 (64.7%) said they owned at least one video game ..read the full article

Here’s the latest trailer from Codemasters’ upcoming racing video game ‘DiRT: Showdown. You could check it out after the break. For your info, the game will be out at the end of the month for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC platforms.

[Hooked Gamers]

Players can leap into the lava of Bowser's Castle 1, shown here, and end up ahead in the race.Photo: Wired

A mandatory update will remove three extreme shortcuts from Mario Kart 7 online matches, Nintendo said Tuesday.

A glitch in the popular Nintendo 3DS racing game that allowed players to leap from the track and respawn in advantageous positions in the Wuhu Island Loop, Wuhu Mountain Loop and Bowser’s Castle 1 racetracks will no longer work once the patch is ..read the full article

The Diablo III Starter Edition enables you to try Blizzard’s Diablo 3 without having to buy it. The starter edition is currently available for downloadable from Battle.net. In the Diablo III Starter Edition, you are able to play Act 1 up to the Skeleton King, up to a character level of 13 and Matchmaking with other Starter Edition players. Too bad, demo gamers will not be able to use the Real Money Auction House. [Eurogamer]

Tomb Raider has been delayed until 2013, but here's a new screenshot to make up for it.Image: Square Enix

First it was BioShock Infinite. Now Square Enix’s reboot of Tomb Raider has been delayed from the fall of 2012 into the first quarter of 2013.

Unlike Infinite, however, Lara Croft’s new adventure will still be shown at this year’s E3 Expo in June.

Two high-profile delays and it’s not even E3 yet. Who wants to place some bets on the next game ..read the full article

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The arcade classic Xevious is now playable online at no cost, thanks to a Japanese campaign for Sprite.

As part of a retro-themed campaign for the citrusy soft drink, which features Sprite’s classic logo and other nostalgic imagery, you can now play a slightly tweaked version of the 1982 aerial shooter called Sprite x Xevious. It’s got online leaderboards and can be controlled with either the keyboard or mouse. Oh, and many of the enemies have been replaced with ..read the full article