Racing into stores...sometimeOnce upon a time, eagerly awaited Playstation 3 racer Gran Turismo 5 was due to release this week.

As fans will doubtless have noticed, it didn't. In fact, three weeks ago it was delayed until some vague point "later this holiday season"
-- and Sony Europe later clarified gamers could expect the game "before Christmas." Typically, release dates need to be nailed down several weeks in advance to allow publishers time for advertising,
manufacturing, and distribution, meaning a November release looks
increasingly unlikely.

Or does it? GT creator Kazunori Yamauchi,  speaking at the SEMA car show
in Las Vegas this week, told auto enthusiast blog Jalopnik that not only
is Gran Turismo 5 finished,

So you've got a Kinect (and in case you don't, check out our 101 guide to find out if it's right for you), but no games. That just won't do. Here's a rundown of six of the system's initial launch titles. Get moving!

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Fed up with slaving away in the kitchen? This list of cooking games will give you all the action and thrills of a career in the culinary arts without, you know, all that boring training, long hours, poor wages, oppressive working environments, snooty customers, and, most of all, work.

BURGER SHOP 2

Burger Shop 2 Can you rebuild your burger empire with the help of the high-tech
BurgerTron2000? It'll make the food for you, but you'll still have to
keep up with the breathless pace of customer demands. Are you up to the
challenge?

COOKING ACADEMY

Cooking Academy Egg rolls. Pancakes. Creme brulee. Ravioli. All of these tasty dishes
will be within your skills after playing a few hours of Cooking Academy
-- perhaps. One

They might be more photogenic than the rest of us, but that doesn't mean celebrities are above taking questionable jobs from time to time.  And it doesn't get more questionable than appearing in live-action video games.  Grab some popcorn -- these cheesy celeb game videos are almost as fun as a night at the theater.

Trivia time: Walken's relationship with the Blue Oyster Cult's classic "Don't Fear the Reaper" didn't begin with his hysterical turn as a cowbell-obsessed producer in a famous SNL skit. It actually began in Ripper, a star-studded, live-action murder mystery game dating back to 1996. Don't fear the video clip!

Darth Vader himself shed the black mask and opted for the more

Master Chief: homewrecker I've been a fan of Halo games since Halo: CE, but when Halo 2 was launched, my gaming addiction hit an all-time high - and brought my marriage to an all-time low. The following is how my Halo gaming addiction almost put an end to my marriage.

My
wife and I started dating at the age of 14, and we were the best of
friends before then. After dating for six years we finally got our own
place during college -- and it wasn't until then that my gaming
addiction became a noticeable problem for my wife.

When you move in with someone, regardless of how long you've been dating,
you're bound to find out new things about that person. Unfortunately for
my wife, she found out that I was a gaming addict.

All you'll be seeing of NBA Elite this year The video game industry is a big business. Make that a huge business. Millions of dollars are spent developing games, and millions more are spent marketing them to the masses. NBA Elite 11, a basketball game from EA Sports, is unusual in that it's been developed and marketed, but it will never see the inside of a console. Although EA initially simply delayed its October 5 release, they've now officially canceled the game.

The announcement sent off a shockwave of searches on the Web. Online lookups on "nba elite canceled," "nba elite 2011," and "why nba elite 2011 canceled" all soared far above the rim on Yahoo!.

[Another major cancellation: They've got asbestos in the rafters at Madison

Fender's new axe

If you've ever wondered, when playing your favorite guitar-based music game, whether you could have learned to play the real thing with all the time you've been spending playing games, this one's for you.

Fender -- yes, the people who make real guitars -- has finally coughed up pricing and availability details for its Squier Stratocaster controller, a thing of great wonder that'll double as both Rock Band 3 controller and, when plugged into an amp, a genuine electric guitar. On sale March 1, 2011, it'll cost you $280. Big bucks for a video game controller, but not such big bucks for a real guitar.

Fender's controller-guitar hybrid works its magic with a position-sensing fingerboard that

Just the facts, man. After getting shown
up by a super fan who pointed out a flaw in their game's continuity,
World of Warcraft developer Blizzard could have taken their lumps in stride,
chalking up their fiction foible as a simple oversight, and moved on with no
further mention of the incident.

Instead, the ace game makers proved why they enjoy such a rabid following by paying their newly famous critic the highest honor imaginable: he's now a character in the game.

The new character, cleverly named "Wildhammer Fact Checker," can be found standing right next to none other than Falstad Wildhammer -- the very hero whose health status
flummoxed the game's designers at the recent BlizzCon expo. Clothed in a red