We’ve received a whole lotta Mirror’s Edge-related goodies straight from the halls of EA and being the nice people we are we figured we’d share it all with you. We’ve got stacks of hi-res screenshots, a couple of trailers and a hefty load of facts all lined up in this whopper of a news post.

Chocks away then. Your Mirror’s Edge info blowout awaits after the jump.

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It happens to the best of us, I guess. What you see above is my PS3 trying to turn on, overheating (that’d be the yellow light) before turning itself off and handily letting me know that it’s gone and f**ked itself with the flashing red light at the end. Sadface, nay, super sadface. In fact, this needs an emoticon, so here you go.

Replacement is coming a week today at the prime cost of “nothing”, which is nice but on the bad side, as I’m missing out on the bikes in Paradise City and Life With PlayStation. Hurrr.

Fanboys, have your flamethrowers at the ready. I can take it.

Not much of a newspost, but I had to put this up after spotting it elsewhere. In a promotion for the new Metal Gear Acid Mobile game for cellphones, Konami created a viral video with the tagline “Save The World With Your Fingers” and ran with it, re-enacting the opening scenes of Metal Gear Solid 4, Octocamo and all, with the fingers and thumbs of various people dressed up as Snake, PMC troopers and even an unmanned Gekko.

Opposable thumbs and hilarity, after the jump.

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I’m gonna admit I was pretty stumped at first as to what PixelJunk Eden was actually about. There were descriptions flying all over the place - “artsy schmaltz”, “a bit like Mario” but it wasn’t really until I played it that I began to understand what was going on. To help fellow PS3 owners (and those who’re just plain curious) I’ve used Eden’s YouTube upload feature to create a video walkthrough describing what’s actually going on. No terrible voicework though; YouTube’s annotations are dead handy for this sort of thing.

Hit the jump for the video! Sort of, anyway…

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UPDATE: We’ll, I’ve been had. It’s Fragmaster, a SomethingAwful contributor, who’s kindly gotten in touch (following my request, to be fair) to congratulate me on looking like a right royal doofus. Still, I think he fooled a few of us, so hats off to you. I’ve left the original post intact so you can have a giggle at my expense. Yamster out.

Wow, and I thought our very own community’s fanboys were terrible. YouTube is already alight with anger over Square’s decision to release Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 at the same time as the PlayStation 3. Square fanboys are deriding the company for ‘betraying its fanbase’ and PlayStation fanboys are full of rage at the fact that they’ve lost an exclusive. Oddly, as far as I can see, Microsoft’s fanboys have been quite restrained, which is astonishing.

Still, there’s just one (pictured above) that just takes the biscuit. Hit the jump to see the (foul-mouthed) video and enjoy a mid-E3 breather before we launch into yet more conference coverage.

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Forgive the total lack of any video game relevance, but I just watched the coolest prank video I’ve ever seen.  207 people came together to pull off a very creative prank in what appears to be a big train station.  On cue, all 207 people freeze in place, and remain totally motionless for 5 minutes, while onlookers wonder what the hell has happened.

My favorite quote from one bystander:

I thought it was just me that was seeing it at first.

There’s a bunch of articles popping up in the gaming blogosphere regarding Project Abraham, the apparent viral campaign for Resistance 2, on the PS3. As far as I can see, the video that appears on the website seems to involve a patient who’s infected with the Chimera (the aliens of the series) virus and is slowly mutating, with armed guards standing by just in case the medical procedure to save their life goes horribly wrong.

Eagle-eyed gamers will have already noticed the logo on the mildly-terrifying blondie’s t-shirt is the same as you see while waiting for menus to load in the original Resistance: Fall of Man, with this logo presumably being that of the titular resistance. Oh yeah, and she’s Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica…

What the hell is going on?  Find out, after the jump.

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Far Cry 2 is my Metal Gear, Halo and Call of Duty combined.  Today Lono threw me a link to about 20 minutes of gameplay footage, and now I know why R6V2 was so dull.  They must have moved the creative team to the Far Cry 2 project.  Awesome video, and juicy details after the jump! (more…)

Saw most of this on Gametrailers TV, previously known as Gamehead, on Spike TV on Friday. Gametrailers has finally put all of the video from the show into one montage of squad-based, Halo rip-off goodness for the world to see.

Check the Gamertrailers video, after the jump.

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