Image: Courtesy PlayStation The Sony PlayStation Vita officially launches today, bringing with it over two dozen games and a host of promises. Without a new version of the PlayStation console announced, Sony is clearly counting on the PS Vita to restore some of the prestige lost in the gaming world with the troubles dogging its PlayStation Network. Whether that will happen remains to be seen, of course, but I can say that the Vita is a remarkable achievement in handheld gaming devices

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PlayStation Vita Review: Finally, Console-Level Gaming in a Handheld Device (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)

Somehow I missed Brixton Brothers Book 3 when it came out last October (my own detective skills need some brushing up), but my favorite kid detective Steve Brixton is at it again in It Happened on a Train . For reasons you may guess if you read Book 2 , Steve is disillusioned and has given up on detective work.

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Geekly Reader: Brixton Brothers 3: It Happened on a Train

Kinect Rush ( $49.99 on Amazon ) is the next big game for the Xbox 360′s Kinect controller. We had some hands-on time with the game and spoke to Jay Ward from Pixar about the development.

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Rush Extends Kinect’s Reach

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses.

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 25

As if tracking down the Mass Effect 3 weather balloon wasn’t difficult enough, it happened to land 150 feet up in a tree. Images: BioWare One of the “Space Edition” copies of the new game Mass Effect 3 , which are currently being ballooned up into space by publisher Electronic Arts from San Francisco and other cities, has landed 150 feet up in a tree in the woods north of Santa Cruz.

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Mass Effect 3 Space Disc Lands in Earth Tree

Image courtesy Electronic Arts Electronic Arts studio Danger Close is currently developing Medal of Honor Warfighter , the sequel to 2010′s military-themed first-person shooter, the company said on Thursday .

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EA to Release Medal of Honor Warfighter in October

You’d think that since all of these people are colored pink, they’d get along.

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Game|Life Podcast: Adventures in the Guild Wars 2 Beta

The parenting bloggers and Betty White. Guess which one is me.

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Betty White: A 90-year-old Action Hero

I grew up with the stop-motion animation of Aardman Animations and always thought of it as something that would be beyond me to create. After watching some old episodes, my kids were asking me how these films make their characters move — they were surprised to find it wasn’t done with computers like Pixar films. Their next question was inevitably, “Can we do something like this, dad?” This led to some hurried investigation and trial runs on my part, but before long I got to the point where it seemed totally doable to create these animations with them.

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How to Do Stop-Motion Animation on a Budget

We’re back again, faithful readers, with another Free Code Friday sponsored by our friends at Nintendo of America. Last week we wowed you by giving away five free download codes for eShop exclusive Pushmo , and this time around we’re treating five more lucky winners to complementary copies of another phenomenal 3DS title. Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! takes the concept of user-generated content to its (il)logical conclusion

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Free Code Friday: Win Freakyforms for the Nintendo 3DS