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While it’s common knowledge that LucasArts has been working on a next-generation Indiana Jones game for quite some time now, we haven’t heard anything about an Indy game coming to the PSP and DS - until now. A rating has shown up on European game rating organization PEGI for Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, a title for the two major handheld systems. While it may be news to us, folks in the know seem to have known about the title for quite some time. While we have absolutely no information on the title other than the name, I think it is safe to assume it involves Indiana Jones, some sort of staff, and possibly some kings, either present or implied. Thanks Pan European Gaming Information! You’ve been informative as always.

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings [PEGI via Siliconera]

Disney’s upcoming four-wheeler PURE is going to be packed to the brim with house, electronic and hip-hop music it looks like.

The upcoming racer’s soundtrack will include music from DJ Hyper, The Answer, Tapework and Blindside to name a few. Here’s a partial track list for the game, due out on the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 later this year:

The Answer - “Into the Gutter”
Fred Baker -”Genius Touch”
Jeff Beck -”Grease Monkey”
Calyx & Teebee -”Dual Processed” Featuring MC Verse
The Datsuns -” Maximum Heartbreak’ and ‘Sittin’ Pretty”
Diet Kong -”With Magic”
Adam Freeland -” Spin Machine”
The Futureheads -” Beginning of the Twist”
DJ Hyper -”We Control”
Midfield General -”On the Road”
The Music -”Strength in Numbers”
My Luminaries - “The Sound of Music”
Noise Control -”Cities of Dreams’ and ‘Mud Bath”
Pendulum -”Granite’ and ‘Showdown”
Pop Levi -”Wannamama”
Qemists -”Drop Audio’ and ‘Stomp Box”
The Radishes -”Good Machine”
Silvertone -”Try”
The Subways -”Rock and Roll Queen”
Tapeworm -”Getting Through”
The Whigs -”Need You Need You”
Zero DB -”Late in the Day’ and ‘Redline”
Wolfmother -” Woman”
We Are Scientists -”Inaction”
Blindside - “For the Nation”

“Music plays an integral part in action sports games and we wanted to provide the right background to complement the nonstop spectacular tricks and massive jumps in the game,” said Jason Avent, game director at Black Rock Studio. “We feel that the songs we’ve included on the soundtrack are ideal to round out the adrenaline rush players will get while playing PURE.”

I’ve only been able to play around with a single map in the game, but so far I really like what I’ve seen. And I’m not the only one.

Empire Interactive’s 1970’s New York crime drama Unsolved Crimes is one step closer to being solved, as the company announces the game has gone gold and is heading our way next month. Having only just been officially announced last month, the game should be hitting store shelves on or around September 23rd.

This is exactly the sort of development cycle I want to see more of. Tell us about the game one month, release it two months later. Makes me long for the good old days before I had the internet and those pesky video game bloggers didn’t tell us about games years before they were coming out. Jerks.

Pittsburgh police were looking for four people who beat and kicked a teen to the ground during an argument over a Playstation 3.

Police say the 18-year-old walked up to a group of 30 or so people Friday night in Greensburgh and when he started to talk to them, four attacked him.

One of the men punched the teen in the face with brass knuckles, breaking a bone near his eye. When the teen fell to the ground the men started kicking him.

Police say the attack was the result of an argument over ownership of a Playstation 3.

Victim says assault in Greensburg was over PlayStation 3 [Tribune Review]

Here’s a video and some screens that highlight the player housing system in the upcoming MMORPG Runes of Magic. I talked at length about the housing features in my impressions of the title from the Games Convention last week, but I forgot to touch on several key points, such as everyone getting their own French maid who facilitates entering and leaving their home, or the fact that you can invite friends into your home, which certainly explains the very comfy bed seen in the clip. No more cybering in the subway tunnel between Ironforge and Stormwind for me people inclined to do such a thing! galleryPost(’romhousing’, 3, ”);

Did you realize that the television show Survivor was a going concern among television viewers? I certainly didn’t, having completely given up on network television after those bastards decided to cancel Journeyman after one partial season, which is why I had no idea that the one of the cast members for the latest season of Survivor is professional gamer Ken Hoang, the current international champion of Nintendo’s Super Smash Brothers Melee. Survivor: Gabon premiers on September 25th, when we’ll get to see Ken put his gaming skills to the test in the very physical competition.

My prediction? Ken gets ironically eaten by several wild animals who have never before appeared together hunting the same game.

Ken’s Bio Page For Survivor: Gabon [CBS.com - Thanks RLJohn!]