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Pan’s Labyrinth writer/director tells MTV News announcement is coming “soon enough;” likely not a Hobbit tie-in.

You know, they say that just putting “Tim Tebow” in the headline will guarantee traffic to your Web page. I suppose Electronic Arts was thinking the same thing when they placed Jacksonville’s favorite son on the cover of “NCAA Football 11.” What they’re selling: From EA Sports — “NCAA football fans are some of the most devoted fans out there, and that’s why the NCAA Football 11 team has made …

SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY By Gary Shteyngart Random House. 334 pp. $26 Gary Shteyngart - Video game - Arts - Sad True Love Story - Online Writing

(27 Jul 2010) iPhone first step?

There isn’t a single game in the top 10 chart this week that’s in the same place it was last week. Mostly notably, the rather good Toy Story 3 has risen from #5 to #1, Dragon Quest IX enters at #10 while Crackdown 2 drops all the way from #1 to #10.

Spyborgs (Wii) Unlockable: Vampire Mode

PokéPark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure (Wii) Hint: Starting Boost

In 2010 most kids have at least one video game system. Whether it’s a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP, a Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360, video games seem to dominate a considerable amount of a kid’s leisure time.

We revealed last year that the upcoming Thor movie would be receiving its own videogame, and Sega has today detailed the game will be coming to Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP in 2011, but rather than follow the plot of the movie the game is to feature an original story. To be a “spectacular, epic-scale original third-person adventure,” the Thor game featured Matt Fraction (Eisner Award …