This day, nine years ago, Sony launched what would become the best selling console of all time, the PlayStation 2. On the 9th anniversary of the launch, Sony revealed the staggering sales numbers: 140 million units sold worldwide, beating out the DS and GameBoy, with 120 million and 108 million units sold, respectively.

What’s even more amazing, is that some 10,000 (yes, ten thousand) games have been released for the PS2, developed by over 450 different developers, and there have been sold over half a billion PS2 games in the US alone. Wow.

Gearbox has released the launch trailer for Borderlands to… Well, to celebrate the launch of the game! Enjoy the stylish video, we’ll have our Borderlands review up in the upcoming days.

If you want to get your hands on the God of War III demo, you now have another way of doing so. Of course, you’re going to have to buy the District 9 Blu-ray as it was bundled with that but who cares, it’s a kickass movie.

Alternatively you cold purchase the God of War Collection and get a code for a PSN demo download, but what fun is that?

God of War III will be out exclusively for the PS3 sometime in March of 2010.

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Looking for a part-time job this holiday season and like video games? Well then, you should head over to your local GameStop and get an application as it was recently announced that the retailer will be hiring 15,000 part-time employees for this year’s holiday season rush.

Of course, since this is a seasonal job don’t except to hold onto the position for more than a few months if you are chosen. However, while you are an employee you will be given normal benefits like game borrowing and a discount.

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If you’ve signed into Xbox Live today you may have noticed that a mandatory system update has been pushed out. But don’t get too excited, this is not the update thatincludes Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm. That update will hit next month.

Instead, the update adds WPA2 for the 360′s Wireless Network Adapter.

Exciting? Nope. Necessary? You betcha.

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Windows 7 is out, and with it is the latest version with DirectX — DirectX 11. The new graphics API is an evolution from DirectX 10, but it doesn’t only include more features, it’s faster than the previous version (unlike the DX9 to DX10 transition). Among the new features is Tessellation, which increases the amount of visible polygons, and multi-threaded rendering, which takes advantage of multicore CPUs a lot better than previous DX versions.

While only ATI’s 5000 series of graphics cards support DX11, Nvidia will join the club later this year, when new games which support the standard will emerge as well. We’ve picked top 10 games that are confirmed to include DirectX 11 support when released.

10: Battleforge (EA Games, out now)

Battleforge is the only game that’s currently available that supports DirectX 11. While it’s a card-based RTS with out much action to fully shocase the new visual features, the game was patched with DX 11 goodies, which provided smoother gameplay and better visuals. While it’s still not a Crysis-caliber game, it’s officially the first game to support the new API.

9: The Lord of The Rings Online (January 2010)

While LOTR: Online was released a few years ago, the game has received visual overhauls over the years, and it’s no different with DX 11 — the upcoming LOTR: Online patch will include DX 11 features, and will be developed in cooperation with AMD.

8: DIRT 2 (Codemasters, December 2009)

DIRT 2 was released on the Xbox 360 and PS3 a few months ago, but the PC version was delayed until December so Codemasters could implement DirectX 11 features into the game, with an added investment into the game by AMD (makers of the only DX11 available graphics cards on the market). And it appears the wait will be worth it for PC gamers, as DIRT 2 for PC will support tessellation, delivering more fluid crowd, particle and water animations.

7: F1 2010 (March 2010)

Codemasters not only have a rally game with DX11 support, the developer/publisher is also working on a new F1 racing game, which will used an enhanced version of the DIRT 2 engine, and will include even more DX11 features. Look for F1 2010 when the new F1 season starts next March.
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Ubisoft released the first installment of Assassin’s Creed Linegae, a short film series created by Hybride Technologies, the visual effects studio which worked on 300 and Sin City, and which was acquired by Ubisoft last year.

Game analyst Micheal Pachter predicts the Netflix movie streaming service to hit Nintendo’s Wii console withing a year, after being announced on the PS3 a year after hitting the Xbox 360.

However, he notes that Netflix might not be an integrated part of the Wii and PS3, because of the exclusive deal with Microsoft, meaning that a Netflix software DVD/Blu-ray drive will have to be present in the systems in order to stream movies.

Xbox 360s Xbox Live Games On Demand just got expanded with Dirt and Dead Space. Dirt was released two years ago, while the sequel, Dirt 2 was released only a few months ago (read our Dirt 2 review). While Dirt will retail for $30, Dead Space, the horror game released last year, will retail for only $20, a great deal which definitely rivals the price if should you buy it used on eBay or at GameStop.

If you’ve yet to pick up one or more of the Call of Duty: World at War map packs and just so happen to own an Xbox 360, now is the perfect time to do so.

Major Nelson has just let us know that all 3 of the game’s map packs will be getting a 50% price cut which means Map Pack 1, 2 and 3 will be going for 400 Microsoft Points until November 1st.

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