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Some good ideas get the abbreviated movie treatment in Ubisoft's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Despite wanting to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs for the past few months, I still haven't seen the movie. So I got the DS game and was excited to add to my knowledge of the movie: there's a guy with brown hair who makes gadgets and gizmos, there's a blonde news reporter, and there are giant meatballs. I began to play the game as the guy with the gizmos and brown hair, who is named Flint. He's joined on his journey by the support and direction of other townspeople, who interact with him from the top screen as he runs through the streets on the touch screen.

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Wolfenstein for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC is currently the Deal of the Day with a variety of other games going on sale throughout the day.

Today, Amazon is offering a variety of gaming Lightning Deals, with Wolfenstein as the Deal of the Day.

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Sackboy will sadly journey through new levels all by his lonesome this time around.

LittleBigPlanet for PSP is a stripped-down portable version of last year's PlayStation 3 release. While it still features the physics-based platforming, level creation, and cute aesthetic, this fall release is lacking multiplayer, and removes foreground and background movement.

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Layton and his apprentice strike again.

When playing the first installment of the Professor Layton series, I was intrigued by the twists and turns of the storyline, characters, and even the puzzles. Its recently released sequel, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, had me wondering what intriguing story line they could possibly come up with. At every turn of the plot, I found myself remembering the first game and expecting those surprises to come through, but they didn't. In fact, even more interesting story lines emerged, retaining some much loved characters but adding in some others, such as Sammy. Long story short, Diabolical Box is everything Curious Village was and more.

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