In a follow up to a story we brought you last month, Rage will be shipping on three discs for the Xbox 360.  This comes as no surprise, since the game requires 22 GB of memory if you want to install it on the hard drive.  The Xbox 360's DVD format can only hold a little over 8 GB, so with some simple math... carry the one... adjust for wind... yep.  Three DVD's are required for a 22 GB game.  Remember, the install is completely optional, but it really sounds like you're going to want to install this bad boy.  Time to delete some games!

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North has new trailer out.  It concentrates on the new fellowship of the three, and the whole "sum is greater than the parts" thing.  Basically, when you get a dude, a dwarf, and a female elf together, things get awesome.  Like we didn't already know that.  Still, the trailer is pretty cool.  It uses opera singers, spinning camera angles, and buckets of blood to great effect. 

Hi folks!  This week we have some niche games hitting the store shelves, along with a great downloadable co-op re-imaging of the Castlevania franchise.  It's a rather slow week for co-op launch titles.  This will let you catch up on the early glut of September games.  Consider this the eye of the fall gaming storm because October is almost here.

De-makes (2D or retro-style conversions of more recent games) are nothing terribly new, but adding elements of your favorite current-gen games to a classic platformer can turn up similarly awesome results.

Last Friday, Nick wrote up his overall impressions of the Diablo 3 Beta - which several of the staff members have been putting through its paces over the weekend. This week, we’ll be running through each class and how it feels to play, starting with the Wizard.

Arcen Games has sent word today that A Valley Without Wind has entered beta for those that pre-order the game.  Along with that, Arcen is running a promotion right now -  if you pre-order the game, you can do so at a 50% discount making the price just $10.

A Kinect game that lets one or two players direct mindless creatures to safety with their bodies... What could go wrong? Oh, we’ll tell you what went wrong.

PC gamers might remember the Jane's series of flight simulator games.  Started in 1996 and published by Electronic Arts with Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters, the realistic flight simulators had each game focusing on an interesting aircraft or type of aircraft.  My personal favorite was Jane's Longbow 2 which focused on the aircraft of the same name.  The name of the series may seem odd to some, but it comes from the Jane's Information Group, a group founded in the 19th century focused on sketching realistic models of ships. 

This year's Eurogamer Expo was packed to the gills with co-op titles.  Part 1 of the Roundup looks at some of the more 'mature' titles; RAGE, Binary Domain and Lord of the Rings: War in the North.

We reported back in May that preorders of Dark Souls would receive free upgrades to the Collector’s Edition of the game. Originally, the Collector’s Edition was set to include a metal case, art book, mini strategy guide, behind-scenes-videos disc, and download code for the game’s soundtrack. The Collector’s Edition is still coming, but the contents of the box have been given a slight downgrade.

Welcome to Beyond Co-Op, a weekly piece that talks about industry stories that may or may not be related to co-op gaming.

Kinect games have great potential for wackiness. Nowhere is this more clear than Diabolical Pitch, a recently-announced XBLA title from Grasshopper Manufacture. How many other games cast players as baseball pitchers who use super-powered throws against armies of monsters in a carnival setting?