In a recent television interview id big man Todd Hollenshead revealed their next big game Rage, an uberviolent action race game isn't going to appear in 2009. Probably for the best really, didn't want to get it mixed up with Borderlands!

The Conduit is the hot ticket game for Wii Fans itching for a decent dose of FPS action. Unfortunately the addition of Wii Motion Plus has been dropped with the developer stating plainly that it added nothing to the mechanics of their game. It's worth noting that this news comes pretty close after the announcement that Wii Motion Plus has been pushed back from its mid year release.

Capcom 'might' announce Resident Evil: Code Veronica for the Wii sometime this week. Just a rumor at this point but a likely one, with RE5 appearing Friday the timing is right. You might not remember Code Veronica, it was the not so good one featuring Claire Redfield that was completely eclipsed by Resident Evil 4. Read about it here.

Japanese language skills? You might want to look into a recent job posting on Konami's Japanese site that mentions a few open positions to work on forth coming Metal Gear Solid titles to appear on consoles (!) and hand held devices. While the hand held devices bit isn't surprising with MGS Touch on the way for iPhone the consoles bit is news to us. At least this debunks the rumor that MGS4 would be the last one, not that anyone really believed that right? Read more here.

Games have appeared in the real world media quite a bit the last few days. Most recently a number of developers have hit back at the UK Change 4 Life campaign that shows a poster of a young boy holding a PS3 controller with the headline 'Risk an early death, do nothing'. Sega in particular are unleashing the lawyers on the campaigns ass. Fingers crossed for common sense prevailing. Across the pond in the US an anti drugs campaign is targeing teens who play World of Warcraft, among other games, highlighting that smoking pot will make them, well, bad at raids. Yes the ad campaign is as stupid as it sounds and the several million dollars it cost has been well spent, of course kids who PC game are a high risk group for drug use. Read about drugs and gaming here and read Sega's mad on over another brainless government health campaign here.

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Welcome to ‘Spare Change?’ A weekly column focused on those too frequent times in every gamers humble existence when they find themselves standing quietly in their retailer of choice, gazing at the new release titles and feeling the light weight of the crumpled notes in their pocket they lifted from the busker outside. Or worse still, a Centrelink error has left them flush with cash but when they get there the shelves are bare. The dreaded ‘quiet release period’ has reared its head offering them only Open Season 2 the game or Imagine: Window Cleaner as a new release pick up.

Fret not! A quick perusal of the bargain bin may contain a forgotten gem, an unhyped prize or a mistakenly traded in masterpiece. Each week I will thoughtfully provide a suggestions for the next time you find you need to feed your gaming addiction. Read on to learn of our first forgotten relic, lost to that dark well of games, the bargain bin.

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