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Konami has been keeping Gradius series fans happy these past few years with releases like Gradius 5, the PSP Gradius Collection, and the recent Japanese WiiWare title, Gradius ReBirth. But things have gotten a little...bubblier in the new, currently Japan-only Xbox 360 shoot-em-up Otomedius Gorgeous! ("Otome" being the Japanese word for "young woman," and "-dius" being the suffix for any Gradius-inspired game.) Although the series is a spiritual sequel to Gradius, the Otomedius games are more in line with the Parodius series, which took the Gradius brand of shooting and put it in a world of complete cartoon wackiness.

Open-world action titles have come a long way since the last console generation, with many offering massive "living" settings and sharp online integration. But you wouldn't know it from Destroy All Humans!: Path of the Furon, a game that feels both woefully dated and curiously incomplete, consistently displaying distracting presentational hitches.

With the biggest shopping day of the year in the books, Microsoft is doing its best to make sure everyone knows that the Xbox 360 did extremely well -- and a whole lot better than the PlayStation 3, thank-you-very-much. Microsoft estimates that there was a 25% increase over Xbox 360 sales during last year's Black Friday and claims they outsold the PlayStation 3 by a three-to-one ratio.