If you like the Lego (popular entertainment property) series of games, great news: developer TT Games and Lego will be held together like some kind of interlocking toy until 2016 — by which time, the kid for whom you pretend to buy these games will no longer be a kid. In the announcement of the renewed deal, WBIE notes that the Lego series, including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Batman games ( Lego Rock Band isn’t mentioned for some reason), has sold “close to 50 million units worldwide.” Next up for the Lego/ TT Games collaboration are Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 this May, and Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars this fall.

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Lego and TT Games sticking together through 2016
Beta sign-ups are now underway for NetDevil’s LEGO Universe, potentially the largest mass computer bricking of all time. The LEGO Universe is entering its final phase of development, and NetDevil needs builders to help put the pieces all together.

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Sign-Up For The LEGO Universe Beta [Beta Watch]
Kids’ games don’t need to suck. There’s always seemed to be an unfortunate mentality on the part of the creators of games for younger children that the game doesn’t need to be especially good, because parents are just looking for the license on the box and kids will play anything
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Impressions: Lego Harry Potter a Perfect Fit
We know we’ve built a permanent establishment in our cheek in which to house our tongues, but we’re being completely sincere when we say that the above trailer for Lego Universe is one of the coolest trailers we’ve seen in a long time. Who knew that a kid-friendly MMO in which colorful, stackable bricks are collected could cause our adrenaline to rise in a way we only thought really intense episodes of 24 were capable of? We certainly did not know that

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Lego Universe trailer looks unexpectedly thrilling
Left 4 Dead 2 on PC has just received a massive update , with both authoring tools for custom campaigns and a support package for those who just want to play custom games coming down the internet’s chimney. That second part might not be so exciting if it weren’t for the glorious detail that it “allows running ANY map [their emphasis], including custom maps made for the original Left 4 Dead .” All your old favorites like the Mushroom Kingdom (with zombies) and Lego (with zombies) — totally playable in Left 4 Dead 2

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Valve releases Left 4 Dead 2 PC SDK just in time for the holidays
A month or so after its release, a demo for LEGO Indiana Jones: The Adventure Continues has hit Xbox LIVE Marketplace . The demo for Traveller’s Tales’ latest LEGO adventure takes up about 425 megs of space, and gives players the opportunity to control Indy or Mac as they do some crap from that Crystal Skull movie most of us are trying to forget

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LEGO Indiana Jones 2 demo hits Xbox LIVE Marketplace
The LEGO video game craftsmen at Traveller’s Tale set their sights on an entirely new genre with LEGO Rock Band , the ultimate block party for the whole family.

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LEGO Rock Band Review: Redefining The Rock Block [Review]
Here are the 15 characters you can play once Lego Indiana Jones 2 releases on Nov. 17

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This Is Not Lego G. Gordon Liddy; it’s ‘Enemy Mechanic’ [Lego]
More than that actually — the NES has two LEGO controllers, a LEGO Tetris game cartridge and a LEGO TV. “So why did I decide to build an NES?,” writes Dave Sterling. “I think mainly just to see if I could.

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Life-Sized NES Made From LEGO [Lego]
“omg they’re selling out. they are humpin’ the cash cow like activision has been till shes dried up

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‘About 50%’ of Lego Rock Band team was against the game concept