Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Is Different, I Swear!

November is almost here and that means it’s time to get taken for a ride, all over again. Twelve new characters, eight new stages, and a multitude of salty mechanical changes are approaching fast in Capcom’s newest *ahem* edition into the fighting game fray. In the video above, our pal and fighting game aficionado Maximilian takes us uhh… for a ride through a visual breakdown of some of the important changes coming to Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, this November.

Don’t have a few minutes? Luckily, Capcom has lovingly broke down a few of the announced changes for us simpler folks, which you can go for a ride pour over after the break.

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Golgotron’s Guide to Gamer Gifts

With the holidays already in full swing, the heat is on to grab the perfect last-minute gifts for all the gamer dudes and dudettes in your life. So we at Golgotron compiled a collection of the greatest gamer gadgets on the market, sure to please even the pickiest video game enthusiast.

From training programs to exercise devices to controller and keyboard mods, each one of these amazing items is Golgotron Guaranteed to revolutionize your game. So to make your shopping list a little bit simpler, and your favorite gamer a lot happier this Chrismahanukwanzakah, here’s the roundup of the best gamer gifts for the 2010 Holiday Season, in no particular order.

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Raptr iPhone App Lets You Cyber-Stalk Your Friends Across PS3, Xbox 360 and PC

Recently, Raptr, a free social networking site and computer program aimed at gamers, announced a completely free iPhone App that aims to bring you everything its website counterpart provides, but in a much more convenient form. Gamers can use the app to track what games their friends are playing on PC (Steam, social games), Xbox LIVE, and PlayStation Network, as well as manage their buddy lists and send/receive messages to friends on 360 and Raptr in one unified box. Players can also publish gameplay and achievement info to their Raptr profile, and to make things easier, it automatically imports friend lists from existing Xbox LIVE, PSN, and Steam accounts. Of course, there is a handy section connected to Raptr’s blog that keeps you up-to-date with all the gaming goings-on, and a feature that can be used to access the iPhone’s address book to harass your friends and invite them join Raptr.

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Gaming, Porn, & Synergy: Playboy does Bayonetta (poorly)

Just as American Idol attracts a subset of “singers” who have no business performing in public, Playboy is inundated with audition photos from women who simply shouldn’t be seen in public. Those are the girls Playboy puts in gaming shoots.

But there’s a more important question to be asked. Push yourself past the apparent fact that the girls used for Playboy’s Bayonetta lookalike contest are straight out of the trailer park (I know it’s hard, but try). Instead, ask yourself this: Did Sega pay to have this content produced as a means of disguised advertising, or is this collaboration between Sega and Playboy a pro bono job? Comment away.

As my gift to you, I’ve embedded the B-movie video clips of each Bayonetta below. I hope you like lollipops.
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