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Namco Bandai Associate Producer Ryan Adza was on hand to demonstrate the “The Cloud,” Monkey’s secret mode of transportation in Enslaved. Much like the famous board from Back to the Future II, it allows Monkey to move at high speeds by hovering just above the ground.

When we last saw the new action puzzler Enslaved less than a month ago, we learned about Monkey’s relationship with his companion Trip and how it affects the gameplay. Trip is essentially the brains of the group while Monkey serves as the brawn — Trip primarily hacks computers or performing tasks like guiding the pair through minefields.

On this day in 1995, Nintendo purchased a 25 percent share in British developer Rare Ltd, beginning a relationship that would produce award-winning titles like GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark and Banjo & Kazooie.

Rare’s Donkey Kong Country, released the previous Christmas, was the fastest-selling videogame in history at that point, having pushed over 7 million units in under half a year. Nintendo’s 25 percent acquisition (which eventually grew to 49 percent) ensured that the game would see three sequels.

"Dear Xbox 360,

This isn’t the easiest thing I’ve ever had to say but I think we’ve reached a critical point in our relationship and while we may not be seeing eye-to-eye right now, I feel that I at least owe you the courtesy of being direct."

A "Dear John" letter to Xbox 360.

Hard Line says "We all know Mario as the happy go-lucky, kiddy-friendly, mushroom munching plumber, but is this ‘image’ going to damage Nintendo future relationship with the now adult gamers?"

Gamasutra: At the new Art History of Games conference in Atlanta, GA, professor John Sharp references the Renaissance period to explore the relationship of games with a burgeoning art movement.

In a separate lecture, Frank Lantz, creative director and co-founder, argues that games should embrace their "wild" side, and avoid the "domestication" of more established forms of art.

Critical Gamer Writes: I’ll start this article with a disclaimer – to truly examine the relationship between gaming and mainstream media, it’d probably take a University thesis, around 756 cigarettes, twelveteen source books and an ungodly amount of coffee. Instead, this article hopes to look at how gaming has been portrayed in the media recently and hopes to draw a few conclusions as to the relationship between the two.

It’s never a good thing when you see someone on top do something that causes their image to come crashing down, this time it’s the activity of mega-golfing superstar Tiger Woods, and his extramarital affairs with multiple different women. The impact this has on his relationship with EA Sports is unknown, PlanetXbox360.com has requested an official statement from the video game publishing juggernaut (as well as Tiger’s PR camp.

As the leading platform in digital distribution, Steam is the benchmark by which all others are judged. It’s the platform all PC games want to be on, and although Valve won’t reveal official market share numbers, it’s clearly leading, growing and inspiring the online game sales market more than any other service.

Here, in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, business development director Jason Holtman throws light on how Steam has evolved over the past five years, and addresses some concerns about the size of Steam, it’s relationship with Valve’s own games and the recent boycotts of Modern Warfare 2 by rival online service.

Crackdown 2 developer Ruffian Games has said that its relationship with Microsoft and the Xbox 360 controller "is a big reason for sticking with the 360", but that it doesn’t think of itself "as exclusively 360 for the rest of time".

French police prevented on tuesday a 13-year-old French boy to murder his teachers with a shotgun. Even if no relationship was made by the police, most of the french medias pointed out the fact the teenager was a video game enthusiast. None of them asked how a teenager could easily access to a shotgun and 25 cartridges…