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Did you survive eating lots of food on Thursday? If so did you manage to get through shopping on Black Friday with all of your limbs intact? Personally we like shopping online although there is something to be said about going out on the mall battlefield all alone against the night ... We have to stop watching war movies.

• The Dragon Age II web site has a new character profile of Aveline Vallen.
• The official web site for Star Wars: The Old Republic has revealed some new character inhabitants info.
• The Capcom online store has some Thanksgiving sales deals on games and merchandise with savings up to 50 percent.
• As promised Steam has added the PC port of MX Vs ATV Reflex to its lineup.
• Steam also has a bug update for The Polynomial music game.

While Bionic Commando (the reboot) may have been a minor disappointment, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 is still on the way. It's shaping up to be a beauty of a game, especially if this trailer is any indication. Cheesy dialogue, excellent electronic music, and the hallmark Bionic Commando style are in full force here. The target is the Megacopter, a gigantic armor helicopter that looks quite nasty. The trailer shows most of the strategy for defeating it, although it leaves the actual destruction of the thing for the game proper. It may just be a gameplay video of a boss, but it sure does have us excited.

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Lost Planet 2 is a spectacular looking game that's a wreck in almost every other respect. For starters, if you're looking for a satisfying single player experience, then go ahead and skip this game completely. Lackluster story aside, the game simply isn't designed for single player. Then again, the multiplayer is barely passable since, despite having plenty of features, a number of design flaws drain away practically all enjoyment. It's really too bad, because the PC version of Lost Planet 2 includes a number of improvements over its console release. However, being more playable than its counterpart isn't a lot to be proud of.

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Dead Rising was an Xbox 360-exclusive title that aimed to capture the hearts of zombie fans everywhere. It did just that, and despite some major flaws, it was a surprisingly solid game with plenty of replayability. Now it's time for the sequel, and things have changed. New protagonist, new location, new story, and new development team have guaranteed that Dead Rising 2 will be different. Only it's not so much different, but rather an improvement. There's a sense of deja vu all throughout Blue Castle's endeavors to provide Capcom with a worthy addition to the franchise, and funnily enough, it ended up as the better game out of the two. Blue Castle has learned from the mistakes Capcom made, and while Dead Rising 2 certainly has issues, they are far less notable and important issues than the first game's problems.

Dead Rising 2 is one of the few Capcom-published titles to be released for the PC alongside its console counterparts. Now comes word that the zombie action game will be getting some paid downloadable content packs for the next several weeks for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. Eurogamer reports that the DLC packs will also be released for the PC version but there's no word on any release dates.

Each DLC pack will allow gamers to dress up the game's hero character Chuck in a variety of outfits along with new weapons and even some boosts to Chuck's skills. There are four DLC packs that have been announced and you can check out the details on each of them after the jump:

We're incredibly pumped for Dead Rising 2, and this trailer only gets us more excited. Everyone loves some zombie slaughter, after all, and being able to create your own weapons just adds icing to the cake. Chuck Greene's fight to save his daughter hits shelves next Tuesday, so there's still about a week to go before the killing can begin. If you want to satiate your hunger for carnage, this trailer will definitely tide you over until the 28th. There's not really much else we can say.

PC gamers were extremely happy that Capcom decided to port Street Fighter IV to the PC in 2009. So naturally some folks thought that Capcom would do the same for Super Street Fighter IV which adds 10 new characters to the 25 that come from the original. However, if a Japanese web site is to be believed, a PC port is not coming anytime soon.

In a chat with 4gamer.net (and translated by Gamasutra) the game's producer producer Yoshinori Ono stated that while a port of the game would be easy Capcom doesn't want to release the game on the PC due to the high degree of piracy. He also indicated that Capcom could change its mind if it could find a DRM solution for the title. What about using Steam? Oddly, Ono said that's not an option either since Capcom feels it would be unfair for people who can't purchase games via Steam. Ummmm ... Capcom does know that Steam is pretty much the biggest PC game download service there is, right?

The development studio behind Capcom's upcoming zombie action sequel Dead Rising 2 is now fully in Capcom's hands. Reporting from the Tokyo Game Show our sister site Joystiq reports that Vancouver-based Blue Castle Games has now been acquired by Capcom. Financial specifics are not yet known.

Dead Rising 2 is due out for the PC and other platforms on September 28 so we should know very soon if this business deal will be worth it for Capcom. VG247.com also reports that the name of the developer will also change as a result of this acquisition. It will now be known as Capcom Games Studio Vancouver. It's not the most original name but that's what you get when a studio gets bought by a major publisher.

The Resident Evil movie series, while only loosely based on the Capcom survival horror series, have been pretty successful for its studio Sony Pictures. This weekend's release of the fourth movie in the series, Resident Evil Afterlife, has been no exception. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the film easily won the box office crown this weekend with a total of $27.7 million in ticket sales.

The amount was boosted by the movie's 3D release which raises the ticket prices for those who want to see zombies coming out of the screen. The movie reportedly cost just $60 million to produce and with this weekend's box office success it's likely that a fifth movie in the series will be made. Indeed (spoiler alert) Afterlife ends with a cliffhanger that would strongly suggest a new film is already planned.

The non-interactive benchmark for Lost Planet 2 tests graphical performance under a variety of different settings, including DirectX 11 and Nvidia 3D Vision. There are two modes: Test A gives an indication of general gameplay and movement will perform while Test B is much more demanding and will push the PC to its limits. More information from the Readme file can be found after the jump.

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