I’ve been a DDR player for around 8 or 9 years now. I’m not one of those professional plays-on-two-arcade-machines-at-once kind of gals, but I’m certainly decent. If you’ve read my E3 hands-and-feet-on preview of the Wii version of the upcoming DDR game – you know my dilemma with how the series has changed over time. It’s gone from a tracklist of Eurobeat, hardcore, and Japanese-inspired songs to Britney Spears and Sean Paul songs slowly but surely. That’s when I left the scene… And waited ever so patiently for a return of the music that devoted DanceDanceRevolution players have been waiting for on current-gen consoles and arcades. We’re tired of tap dancing around on the PS2 if we want good music! Luckily I had a chance to try out the upcoming PS3 version of DDR at a Konami preview event in NYC this week which also utilizes the PlayStation Move hardware.

Sneak Preview: The music is back!

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This news is going to be a short one – as BioWare is being cheap on the details, but they are going to be giving away downloadable codes for an “epic in-game weapon” in Dragon Age 2 this month. They will be giving away 50,000 codes randomly to those who hit the Like button for Dragon Age on Facebook via the official site as well as sign their name in blood and drink a good ol’ goblet of darkspawn blood. Well, maybe it’s a little easier than that. Just sign up for the Dragon Age newsletter after you do that whole Facebook thing. And if you’ve already done both then consider yourself already entered. According to the news update from BioWare, codes will be delivered via e-mail by the end of September.

[Source: BioWare Newsletter]

BioWare recently snuck in five new Dragon Age 2 apparel  additions to the BioWare Store. They’ve been shopping around ideas for new shirts that fans would like on their Facebook page for a while now and have finally listed up a few of the main designs. The new shirts are mostly logo-style designs on a few new t-shirts and hoodies. I’m always in season for a new hoodie so I’m being slightly drawn in by the charcoal hoodie with the “II” on front and the blood spatter dragon on the back… But where are those Alistair shirts that were going down on the Facebook page? What gives!? More Alistair! You can check out all of the new designs front and back as well as a close-up of the dragons in the gallery below.

The team behind Persona 4 from Atlus Japan is working on their very first HD game, and sadly, it’s not Persona 5. They’re working on something a little more… spicy. It’s a much, much more adult game (see the Famitsu scans below if you want to see for yourself), but tagged with a horror action/adventure genre.  The main character might be little familiar to recent adopters of Persona 3 Portable, as he was one of the social links if you played as a female protagonist in the game. (more…)

The Spawn Kill crew has gotten together and mulled over the firey question, “What is your favorite PSN game?” and come to some unique and surprising results. We each selected our favorite PSN game that is available and put it together to form Spawn Kill’s PSN editor’s choice list. Some are critical favorites, some are unstoppable addictions we’ve held inside of us, but all of them are our loves. Check out our list of PSN favorites and let us know what your favorite is!

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I know just from talking to a lot of people that eBay is intimidating and a hassle at times, and some people may shy away from it. eBay is also quick to snatch a pocketful of pennies from your sale, and then Paypal steps in as the second shark to grab another portion of your sale. Sure, it leaves you with more than GameStop would, but it’d be nicer to gain the full sale price of your actual auction. So in looking for some alternatives to selling your games, I’ve come across Gladriel which is a mix of a community-fueled news, reviews, walkthroughs, etc. gaming site – combined with a strong auction marketplace.

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This week’s Xbox Live updates and Deal of the Week include a bit of juiciness. In order to get you ramped up for next week’s newest DLC The Golems of Amgarrak for Dragon Age: Origins, the prices have been slashed for Warden’s Keep putting it at 400 MSP this week (definitely worth it!), Return to Ostagar is stripped down to only 240 MSP, which wasn’t amazing content but certainly not bad either (crucifixions!), especially for $3, and lastly the expansion Awakening is downloadable for $30 (instead of the original $40). Read on for the rest of the updates and additions being added to the Xbox Live marketplace! Plus, Shark Week.

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Today Disney Sing It: Family Hits hits retail stores, the one singing game I’ve been looking out for for a while now, my one chance to sing “A Whole New World” and “The Bear Necessities” in an arena outside of my humble shower. Loaded up with 30 songs from Disney (and Disney/Pixar) movies a lot of us have grown up with, it launches today on both the PS3 and Wii. (more…)

A lot of us have subscriptions to at least one magazine, some of us even multiple. Personally, I receive GameInformer, Official Xbox Magazine, and EGM right now. It creates quite the stackage in my room month by month. Sometimes I tear out some of the ads that look really appealing and save them in a folder (I’m an ad nerd if you don’t know me) but mostly they just take up space.

So I’m curious, what do you all do with your magazines after you read them? Toilet paper? Recycle? Donate to a local laundromat? Or some intense arts and crafts project (I did this once for a contest…) that you can tell us about? Or maybe you’re just stacking them up until you can be a participant on the TV show Hoarders. Let us know in this week’s Community Voice!

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What would you do to win a free Slimline Limited Edition 250 GB Halo Reach Xbox 360? Well rack your brains because now is your time to shine. Spawn Kill is teaming up with Gladriel, the game marketplace, to give away one of those sweet, delicious, shiny $400 bundles to one of our lucky readers. To enter – well, what would you do? Stretch the corners of your heart to show us that you want this more than the rest in the way you know best – either via a Halo love poem (a Spawn Kill love poem?), a video confession, a piece of art or just plain and simply TELL US in simple terms. We want to know you want it, because we want to give it! Be creative if you’ve got it, if not just show your desire and it will show through in however means you want to tell us (and hit up those bonus chances!).

Rules & Bonus Entries

• This contest will run from today, 8/2/2010, until the first day of September (9/1/2010) at 12:00 AM EST
• Make sure you use your real email address when commenting with your entry (which can include a link to your entry if it is art/video/etc. hosted elsewhere)
• You can earn a bonus entry if you sign up at Gladriel.com and leave a comment on this page with your new Gladriel username
• You can earn additional bonus entries by tweeting the following message: “Want to win a Halo Reach Xbox 360 Slim from @SpawnKillTweets and @GladrielGames? Find out how here! http://bit.ly/SKReach“
• This contest is open to North American entrants only, as the prize will be an NTSC console shipped to you directly through Amazon
• You must be 18 or older to enter

The more interesting and creative your entry, the more points you’ll have to win – and everyone has a chance to win so go for those bonus entries to boost your chances!

At San Diego Comic Con, Tom Waltz of the recently announced Silent Hill 8 team let everyone know that a Silent Hill comic is heading our way! (Luckily the game name Silent Hill 8 is till a tentative title, yugh to out of sequence numerical titles.) It’s going to be a crossover with the upcoming game, but there’s something kind of strange going on here… See, the comic takes place in 1867, because they wanted to go for a more historical story-telling of the Silent Hill universe. Fine and dandy, but they’re planning a crossover character to be in the story where someone from Silent Hill 8 will also be in the comic, Silent Hill: Past Life — even though the game takes place in a modern setting. I love the craziness of the Silent Hill universe so I’m interested to see what kind of mind-destruction they have planned with this story. (more…)

Perusing the list of summer game releases coming up, I sighed at the thin crowd lined up until September. I noticed a few singing games coming out over the summer from Disney like Disney Sing It: Family Hits and Disney Sing It: Party Hits. Family Hits got me nostalgic for the old Disney songs and I broke it down all shower tune-esque to Aladdin and Jasmine’s A Whole New World. I’m taking a break from The Little Mermaid’s Under the Sea though, Kingdom Hearts kind of burned that song into the ground for me over time…

So it got me wondering, do you all like to sing in games? Are you the lead singer of a plastic band when your friends get together? Let us know what your favorite game to sing in is! SingStar? Lips? Karaoke Revolution? Desperately awaiting Glee? Or will you be joining me on some PS3 Aladdin reminiscing? Let us know!

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DLC in games is hit or miss with a lot of people. If it attempts to expand the story and lore of the game, it more often than not succeeds at drawing in those who were face-to-screen for hours with the game the first time around. Alan Wake’s upcoming DLC release (July 27) “The Signal” is something I can easily label right now a “hit.” It successfully expands the story past the ending of the game, provides solid gameplay time, and actually intensifies any feeling of craving that light for shelter or just wondering if you will ever escape Bright Falls. In The Signal, Bright Falls manages to up the ante and gets a whole lot crazier. This place has been doomed from the start.

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I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming amount of entries we received for the DeathSpank contest! We’ve selected two winners, one will receive an Xbox Live Arcade code to redeem for DeathSpank and the other will receive a code for the PlayStation network (as you chose in your entries). The two winners are Death by Hoochie (PSN) and Krhuntley (XBLA). Congratulations and check your email in a bit for your codes! You can peep their entries below.

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If there was one major plot concern that wasn’t addressed in Mass Effect 2, it was why the hell the Shadow Broker was so interested in Commander Shepard’s body. The Mass Effect comic mini-series, Redemption, lightly explored the struggle my ex-girlfriend Liara went through to recover Shepard’s body. In the latest DLC that BioWare has announced today titled “Lair of the Shadow Broker,” you, your crew and Liara T’Soni will join ranks to seek out the Shadow Broker and hopefully find out the secret behind his plans. It could be just plain greed with the intent to profit off the body of a strong Commander of the galaxy, Saren’s killer, but it has to be more than that.

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