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Entertainment
12:29PM Nick Broughall | One of the best films of 2009, District 9, is coming to Blu-ray, and if you happen to pick up the US version (and your PS3 is US as well), you’ll get the added bonus of being able to play a demo of the upcoming game God of War 3 for PS3. More »
US District 9 Blu-ray Will Have God Of War 3 Demo On The Same Disc
12:29PM Nick Broughall | One of the best films of 2009, District 9, is coming to Blu-ray, and if you happen to pick up the US version (and your PS3 is US as well), you’ll get the added bonus of being able to play a demo of the upcoming game God of War 3 for PS3. More » 
Software
Palm Pre Tetris Mania Demo Is Pointless, Just 30 Seconds Long
12:00PM Rosa Golijan | Electronic Arts knows that we can’t wait to get our Tetris fix on the Palm Pre, so instead of making us wait until the October release of Tetris Mania, they’ve released a thirty second demo. A thirty-freakin’-second demo. More »
Weapons
Rocket Grenade Smashed to Bits In Flight By Quick Kill Defence System
9:37PM Kit Eaton | We’ve written about the sci-fi sounding Army’s Future Combat System before, but the Army’s just demonstrated a successful test of one of its components: the Quick Kill vehicle defence system. Check it out: the Raytheon system uses an electronically-scanned radar array to detect an incoming anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade, then vertically launches a countermeasure missile that blows the round to smithereens in mid-flight, saving the RPG’s intended target. It’s a very simple test setup, and, of course the real system will have to deal with complications like vehicles in motion, but it’s an important first step. And it goes boom. [Danger Room] More »
Games
Nintendo Wii’s Nintendo Channel Screenshot Tour and Hands-on
8:34AM Jason Chen | The Wii’s “Nintendo Channel” just went live, giving you a way to both watch trailers of current and upcoming Nintendo games, and feed Nintendo information on what games you play. What’s the latter for? So Nintendo can better customise the trailers of games to recommend to you, thus making you buy more games and completing the cycle by feeding THOSE stats back to them. How good is it? Okay, I suppose. The other stuff, like downloading DS demos and finding game information (how many players, whether the Nunchuck is supported) is more useful. Hit the jump for a huge gallery tour. More »
Games
Rumour Smashed: Nintendo DS Not Getting Downloadable Full Version Games
5:09AM Gizmodo US Edition | Nintendo’s just dropped the hammer on the NYT story saying the Nintendo DS will get full versions of downloadable games. Turns out that it’s not true, and they were just thinking of the old DS getting demos via the Wii. The Ninty says these demos will be playable just like a normal game (but won’t have all the content, of course) after you download it, but will be erased once the DS is turned off! [NYT] More »
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