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Metal Gear online (PS3)The latest shots from Kojima and crew.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)Straight from Konami's Tokyo press conference.

Frontier Developments already underway with the follow-up to one of WiiWare's best games.

Family Trainer coming to EU in Autumn.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Cell)Indy on your phone.

Hudson's 10-sport Wii-exclusive is now in stores for $30.

This one's a turn-based strategy game, not a side-scrolling shooter.

Wii Fit (Wii)Wii Fit tops two million.

roice writes "The crazy hypercubists who created the 4D and 5D Rubik's cubes (here are previous Slashdot posts on the 4-D one and the 5-D one) have now developed a free working 4-dimensional software analogue of the Megaminx puzzle. Composed of 120 dodecahedral cells, the underlying structure is arguably the most beautiful of 4D geometrical shapes, with amazing symmetries and no analogue in dimensions higher than 4. Though some have already begun working on solutions for this "Hyperminx", it has yet to be solved by anyone. Also, when it comes to number of positions, it dwarfs the previous puzzles by many thousands of orders of magnitude!"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Several readers sent in links on the earthquake that hit 10 hours ago near the Sichuan city of Chengdu in China. The Telegraph focuses on the citizen journalism that got word on the quake out on the Net instantly (the first report was via Twitter). Science magazine speculates that deaths from this event could exceed the 240,000 killed in the Tangshan quake in 1976, though the estimated death toll is below 10,000 at this writing. Hundreds of videos are up on YouTube, including this footage from a security camera — keep your eye on the goldfish.Read more of this story at Slashdot.