Spore creator, Will Wright educates us on the little known facts of Russia short-lived space station, equipped with anti-aircraft weaponry.

Watch Ben Croshaw, aka Yahtzee, verbally slice and dice Ninja Gaiden II in this weeks Zero Punctuation.

“We borrow the most infamous rides from the past and present GTA cities.”

Watch this retrospective Gametrailers produced covering the history of some of the most recognizable autos (there are over 100 vehicles) found around Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Rockstar Games San Diego is nearing the September 9th release of Midnight Club: Los Angeles for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The just released a new trailer, here it is:

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I guess it isn’t very clear. On SDA (Speed Demos Archive) the Timer starts when you start moving the character in the first level and stops when you can’t move the character after killing the final boss.

I couldn’t stop playing the game and improved my record a bit. I had to do about 120-130 attempts and this was nr. 17 of my finished attempts. Thanks to Stanski I didn’t stop that much in Snow field and thanks to Verberos at youtube and his speedrun Im very close to pass the waterfall level without a stop.

Its not the first time Im surprised over realising how fast you can beat this game. When I saw Tmonts 11:25 I thought an improvement with 15 seconds where possible but when I practiced like Crazy I realised that even sub 11 minutes where possible and I did 10:55. When I got 10:55 I had a theory that 15-20 seconds fast should not be impossible for me.

And When I got the 10:40 I belived my potentials limit should be somewhere around 10:25. And now I’m here at 10:24! And I belive that in the theory its possible to beat the game under 10 minutes but I’m pretty sure that a sub 10 will never ever happend. Its though to beat the game under 11 minutes. And you got to be a fast shooting bastard if you want to came close to this record.

I think I will keep trying to be even faster. though. Im not sure If I will ever improve the run even if a multi segment probably is 15 seconds faster. Where you can save most time is killing the waterfall boss and the base 2 boss faster.

Today I rank these Contra speedrun as one of my very best runs. Togheter with, I guess, Mario 3, Mega Man 3, X, X2. though. Mario 3 took a lot more time to accomplish.

The run where in general very smooth. Except for the first two room in Base 1 my spread rythm where good. I did what I can tell two small details that I can call mistakes. My position on the waterfall level where a bit off and a random enemies pop up and shot exactly when I did a jump in snow field. I had to dodge those bullets. I knew a random enemie pop up here in about 1 out of 50. Other than that everything is about getting luck and better spread rhythm. Freddy Andersson

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Need For Speed: Undercover will be in stores November 18th but EA still hasn’t officially announced the release, thanks to the internet the trailer was leaked and you can watch it here.

UPDATE: I’ve had two different people email me to confirm this is in fact the trailer for Need For Speed: Undercover. One’s a tester, the other was involved in its production. The trailer says it’s coming out Nov. 18.

Also in the trailer, you can see the lovely Christina Milian, who has been rumored to be the latest NFS babe for some time. The trailer also points you to a website — Which Road to Take — which features a video screen of a police interrogation gone to the dogs. Click on the video’s hotspots and you can see other teases about the game’s story. Many readers have pointed out that the timestamp on the video always reads 08.20.08 — could that be the “official” reveal date? If so, someone seriously broke their NDA by getting this trailer out.Owen Good, Kotaku - July 27, 2008

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A lonely Final Fantasy fan attempts to impress a female friend with his knowledge of Square Enix titles.

Grand Theft Auto has finally succeeded in converting the masses into mindless murdering machines and it’s up to one man to save the day: Jack Thompson.

Here is a game to go along with your $300 drum kit - with features like mini-campaigns, custom set lists, online world tour and a drum trainer, plus it’s compatible with the  DLC songs you already purchased for the original Rock Band.  Watch the latest trailer from Harmonix featuring gameplay for Rock Band 2 which is coming to the Xbox 360 this September with the PS2, PS3 and Wii versions to follow.

In this week’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam goes over some of the games that haven’t gotten the attention they deserve going into E3.