With the latest film mired in production limbo, James Bond won't be infiltrating the big screen any time soon.

Instead, this week he's sneaking into your game console. Two of him, to be precise. One, GoldenEye 007, is a Wii remake of a beloved Nintendo 64 classic, while the other, Blood
Stone, is a big-budget original tale which releases on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and pits the renowned star against a shadowy, bioweapons-packing terrorist group.

Click to watch James Bond 007: Blood Stone Video The former may be more familiar to gamers, but fear not: the latter is as legitimate a new entry
in the Bond canon as you're likely to see for some time. After all, Blood Stone
is penned by long time Bond screenwriter Bruce Feirstein (GoldenEye,

Mass Effect 3

The music industry has the Grammys, Hollywood has the Oscars, and the
video game world has, for better or worse, the Spike TV Video Game Awards. Packing the Los
Angeles Convention Center with celebs, legendary game developers and eager press, this year's award ceremony is over and
done with -- and we've got the complete list of winners (and losers).

The night's undisputed champion was Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption,
winning "Game of the Year" in addition to "Best Original Score," "Best
DLC," and "Best Song." Musician José González put in an appearance to
celebrate the latter, performing his work "Far Away," well known to fans
as the memorable song playing as Red Dead's protagonist first

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"Black Ops" brought some black ink for the video game industry in November.

Retail software sales posted impressive growth over 2009 numbers, marking the first time the industry has posted back-to-back gains this year.

Software sales climbed 4 percent last month to $2.95 billion, led by Activision’s blockbuster “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” according to the NPD Group, which tracks video game sales. That’s the best month on record for retail.

Even better for the industry, unlike October’s retail sales numbers, which were something of a mixed bag overall, the increases were across the board in November. Hardware sales were up a surprising 2 percent—while consumers snatched up new motion control

Download Bejeweled 3 - Popcap

It's been lauded as the most popular puzzle game of the century, but as Bejeweled 3 debuts on an unsuspecting public, is there really anything
left to do with its enduringly popular match-three gameplay?

Actually, yes. Lots.

Rather than make major changes to Bejeweled's formula (a path trodden by 2008's
Bejeweled Twist, with limited success), developer Popcap opted to heap on a
variety-packed selection of new play modes. Four are available immediately, and
a further four await you; you'll unlock them during your first few hours' play.
Check out a few of our favorites.

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Zen
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Ever Bejeweled your way to a higher state of consciousness? While achieving true

Looking good, Nathan - Sony Computer Entertainment Call it Nathan of Arabia. And call us excited.

In advance of Saturday's VGA Awards on Spike, Entertainment Weekly got the lowdown on what will surely rise to the top of countless
'most anticipated games' lists: Sony and Naughty Dog's Uncharted 3: Drake's
Deception.

Details are a bit light at the moment, though EW confirms that
the new adventure will focus on the relationship between Drake and his mentor,
Victor "Sully" Sullivan and will take place in the Arabian Peninsula;
specifically, the mysterious Rub' al Khali desert, which Drake believes is
home to a "legendary lost city."

"We're a bunch of nerds," Naughty Dog co-president
Evan Wells told EW. "We just look for something that will be

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According to a new survey released by market research firm Interpret, one-time fans of portable gaming systems like the DS and PSP are ditching them in favor of smartphones like Apple's iPhone.

The news comes amid heightened rumors that Sony, and its joint mobile phone venture Sony Ericcson, is about to unveil an Android-based smartphone that'll integrate PSP game functionality.

"Gamers appear to be defecting from their handheld gaming devices to phones to
get their gaming kicks," says Interpret's report, which polled 9,000
U.S. consumers. "A full 27.2% of consumers who indicate that they play
games on their phones only (and not on the DS/PSP) actually own a DS or PSP, but do not actively

In this photo taken Dec. 7, 2010, Kelly Rummelhart and her son, Sawyer, 4, who unwittingly racked up nearly $70 in purchases on 'The Smurf's Village' game he played on her IPad, are seen in their home in Gridley, Calif.… Read more » - (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) NEW YORK - "The Smurfs' Village," a game for the iPhone and other Apple gadgets, was released a month ago and quickly became the highest-grossing application in the iTunes store. Yet it's free to download.

So where does the money come from? Kelly Rummelhart of Gridley, Calif., has part of the answer. Her 4-year-old son was using her iPad to play the game and racked up $66.88 in charges on her credit card without knowing what he was doing.

Rummelhart had no idea that it was possible to buy things - buy them with real money - inside the game. In this case, her son bought one bushel and 11 buckets of "Smurfberries," tokens that speed up gameplay.

"Really, my biggest concern was them