When it was first revealed in July, Mega Man Universe was said to "break the mold and challenge conventional wisdom of what a Mega Man game can be." Imagine our surprise when the first three gameplay trailers, released today on IGN, Gamespot and 1up, revealed the same classic 2D gameplay we've enjoyed for decades.

Three trailers inside!

We've had our first hands-on time with Black Ops, the Cold War-spanning opus that finds Treyarch mining new eras for face-blasting inspiration. While this is the developer's most Modern Warfare-esque offering to date, Black Ops manages to distinguish itself, most notably with the introduction of Wager Modes, in which players can put their money where their trash talking mouths are. From the rampant customization options to the unique new Killstreaks, Black Ops is shaping up to be a worthy entry in the Call of Duty canon.

While we were hoping to get a taste of the rumored Commie Zombies, there was more than enough competitive multiplayer to keep us occupied for a few drunken hours. Here's what we managed to write afterwards...

Duke Nukem Forever has solidly become the most appropriate use of the word "forever" ever. Why doesn't it die?! Yes, believe it or not, there's a new tease on the internets that suggests, again, that the game may actually exist and be due for release.

DNF was first announced in 1996 as a proposed sequel to Duke Nukem 3D. There have been promotional hints all the way up into the late 2000s. There was even a legal battle as to who owned the rights to the never-released game's name, which dragged on into 2010...

We’re hoping that even if the words Bangai-O are unfamiliar, the other words in the title, Missile Fury, spark interest in the reptilian part of the brain. It’s an apt, concise description of what Bangai-O specializes in – lots and lots of missiles, all aiming for you. The Bangai-O series has been around since the Dreamcast days, but it served up some missile lovin’ most recently on the Nintendo DS with Bangai-O Spirits. It has never had a proper HD version, so we’re happy to see this latest installment coming along, although we also wish it was on PSN as well, and not XBLA exclusive...

In an interview with Spanish website 3D Juegos, Capcom exec Keiji Inafune revealed that Resident Evil 6 is on its way post-haste, and that we'll have an announcement from Capcom shortly. We'll give the legendary designer the benefit of the doubt and assume that he isn't implying a game-compromising rush, but rather that RE6 is simply high- priority at Capcom: 

"Given the great success that supposed for us Resident Evil 5, we want that Resident Evil 6 leaves as rapidly as possible to the market. In fact, you will shortly have the news of Capcom about this," he said...

VIDEO: We’re old and can't tell if it's offensively cornball or the greatest thing we've ever seen...

We're kicking off Episode 11 of GamesRadar's Trailer Trash Theatre with a few more awful trailers from last week's GamesCom conference. We didn't get any multi-racial-pseudo-family-acting-like-morons-in-the-living-room trailers in this episode, but there are still many more ways to make a trailer... trashy.

Click on over and watch the video!

Excellent news for Nintendo fans, Mario completists, video game historians, and casual Wii owners desperately in the need of some proper games. The Wii is getting a special edition of Super Mario All-Stars (ie. the SNES compilation of Super Mario Bros. 1 - 3, including both the Japanese and US versions of SMB2. ie. a gift from God), and yikes, does it sound a lot more special than the average special edition.

Full details are inside. Click and lust.

It's almost been a year since I claimed the fastest recorded time on Act 1 of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. So I figured it's time to reveal the secrets and let you have a go at getting your own Guinness World Record. So here, in video form, is exactly what you need to do to if you wanna be a record breaker (ooh). You've got dedication already, right?