The Nintendo Gamecube is 10 years young today, and in celebration, we've added a little music player to Fourside. If you've been a fan of the GC, you'll understand why it's playing what it's playing.

So who else will be dusting off their cube tonight for a little bit of gaming nostalgia?

Looks like Nintendo is responding to slow 3DS sales in a BIG way. From August 12 onward the glasses-free 3D portable will be eighty bucks cheaper, selling for $169.99. (To be honest it won't matter to me what it costs once Animal Crossing is released.)

Early adopters who paid the original price will be rewarded with tons of free and somewhat exclusive NES and GBA games for the Virtual Console.

Lots more information at Tiny Cartridge.

For the first time ever, Rabbit Jumping is available for public download!

This side-scrolling adventure is the result of me having a bit too much free time last Summer, combined with a long-standing goal to learn how to program video games.

It was created using C++ and the Allegro video-game library, but all of the game engines like tiling, scrolling and hit-detection are hand-coded. You may notice some frame rate issues as you play. That's something I'd love to fix, but I'm not really sure how. (Game timers are new to me, and I'm not sure how accurate the one included with Allegro is.)

You'll likely also notice there's no music in the game. It originally contained sweet midi files of NES music (including the Battletoads pause theme), but I didn't feel right releasing it as my own creation when it contained other people's work. (Not counting the sound effects, those are legit.)

So anyway please give this game a shot and let me know what you think! I'd really like to keep going with this indie-game creation thing, but I need some inspiration to get me going on a newer, more advanced project. (Likely using Flash or SDL instead of Allegro for the next one.)

Oh and if anyone manages to actually complete all five stages, definitely let me know. And grab a screenshot of your final time as you'll likely be the first person to make it all the way through.

So, for the past several years there has always been an e3 thread, so I thought, why not? Let's keep this trend going...

and as always, my favorite live conference stream comes from Gametrailers.

I'll go first -Serious Sam 3? Aw Yea!

How did we miss this!? Apparently a brand new Death Rally game comes out THIS MONTH. The only problem is it's exclusively for iPad and iPhone so Noel and Mike might be the only people to get to play it. (That and the controls will suck.)

A great side-effect is that Remedy has released an updated Windows 7 compatible version of the original Death Rally for FREE! Grab it at the official site.

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If you own Borderlands on Steam, you may want to run it right now... because my non-GOTY version just gave me an access code to play the demo of Duke Nukem Forever! (When it comes out...)