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Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day will see five yet-to-be-named games for the Nintendo DS heavily discounted, starting April 25 at 12:01 AM PST and finishing when stocks run dry (and they surely will).

All aboard the rumor train! A list of achievements supposedly from the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV has been doing the rounds, and are now available here for your perusal. They certainly look legit to me - check the full list of achievements after the jump and let us know if you agree.

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Ricky Gervais, star of the original English series of The Office, has a cameo in the so-close-yet-so-far Grand Theft Auto IV. Gervais donned a motion capture suit and recorded a three-minute routine that you’ll be able to catch during a visit to a Liberty City comedy club.

ShortList Magazine via Kotaku

The Metal Gear Online Premiere Beta is officially open for business in the UK, Europe and Australia - although we wish you luck getting in for a game.

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Canadians who spend CAN$59.99 on a DualShock 3 at any participating Best Buy store will be given a free copy of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, valued at CAN$39.99. That’s a pretty good deal for those of you who were hesitant to either pay for a demo, or replace a perfectly functional Sixaxis.

via Opposable Thumbs

Pokemon Diamond/Pearl fans in North America who want a free gift of the Darkrai Pokemon can head down to Toys R Us on May 31st and June 1st between midday and 4pm.

To find your nearest Toys R Us store, head over to http://www.toysrusinc.com/tstorelocator.

via GoNintendo

CollegeHumor has done it again. This time it’s a parody of Grand Theft Auto, set in the days we all thought Super Mario Bros. 3 was the bomb. You didn’t really think they’d let a massively hyped game hit the shelves without taking the piss out of it, did you?

Ubisoft’s massively hyped Assassin’s Creed is an interesting one - an ambitious mix of history and science-fiction, with action and stealth gameplay. Ubisoft and Jade Raymond, producer of the game, certainly had no trouble drumming up a massive buzz for the game - but did the game come through with the goods?

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Owen Good over at Kotaku, and his brother, are huge Pac-Man fans. A recent IM conversation between the two led to a fairly in-depth conversation about the size of the stool Pac-Man would produce if he went to the toilet after every board - and the pixel art to go with it. Read and see it all at Kotaku.

Saved replays are possibly the most awesome feature ever to hit console FPS games. First there was those Halo 3 plasma grenade throws, now we have this rather elaborate death by falling Warthog.