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From today, at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play the Slick Entertainment game Scrap Metal on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. Scrap Metal will be available worldwide for 1200 Microsoft Points (that’s US$15 / €14.40 / £10.20 / CAN$18.60 / AU$19.80).

Drift around corners with guns blazing and take out legendary competitors in the fast-paced, top-down racing game Scrap Metal. Fight your way through explosive, action-packed missions and defeat cunning bosses to add their vehicles to your garage. Customize your newly-acquired cars and then return to the track to blast through more enemies. Jump online with Xbox LIVE to race against your friends and crush their cars with the wheels of your monster truck in pulse-pounding online multiplayer matches.

Game features include:

Watch the Scrap Metal launch trailer:

The new Xbox 360 Games on Demand title is: Condemned.

Content: Condemned
Price: Check pricing for your region
Availability: All Xbox LIVE Regions except Australia, India, Japan and New Zealand
Text: A First Person Psychological Thriller. Download the manual for this game by locating the game on http://marketplace.xbox.com and selecting “See Game Manual”.

The Deal of the Week is: CoD:WaW Map Pack Bundle

“This week, Xbox LIVE Gold members can the Call of Duty: World at War – Map Pack bundle for 1600 points. Normally 2000 points, it will be on sale until until March 15th.”

The first gameplay footage has been released for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

The upcoming newest entry in the long-running franchise that takes the series back to it’s “The Sands of Time” roots while corresponding to the release of the upcoming film.

As you can see in the developer diary below, the game maintains the look and feel that players loved about Sands of Time, while offering a new visual fidelity that takes full advantage of the current-gen systems. While also offering epic battles against over 50 enemies at once, and giving the Prince a range of new elemental powers that allow him to manipulate the environment in new ways.

Fans of the previous games or the original trilogy will definitely want to check this new game out.

It releases on May 18, 2010 for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii, DS and PSP.

Welcome to our giveaway for a $200 GameStop gift card and $100 worth of Playstation Network cards or 8,000 Xbox Live points (winner’s choice)! Sponsored by the “50% Extra Trade-In Offer Presented by GameStop”.

What do you need to do to win?: To celebrate GameStop’s biggest trade-in event ever, you get a chance to win loads of free games. To win, tell us in in one comment per person:
“What games for your favorite game system are you looking forward to playing the most?”

The details: To help people clean up their game rooms and beef up their video game collection with the hottest new titles, GameStop is launching the biggest trade-in event in the company’s history.

Until March 14, 2010, GameStop will offer a 50-percent bonus on every game trade brought into the store. This provides trade-in customers the opportunity to get great value from the new games they’ve already beaten as well as the older ones that just aren’t getting the play time they once received. It also allows them to make room for some of the highly anticipated new games hitting store shelves this spring.

In addition, GameStop EDGE card holders will receive their normal 10-percent bonus on top of the 50-percent bonus, raising the trade bonus for them to 60-percent. The offer applies to games for the Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation3, Playstation2, PSP, Gamecube, Nintendo DS and Gameboy Advance.

Bunnyzilla finds out what it’s like to score when you get more for your game.

We will announce the winner of the GameStop gift cards giveaway on this page early next week, you have until March 14 to answer the question. Be sure to comment here by filling out a working email address (only visible to site staff) so we can reach you. Good luck!