Nintendo’s new, extra large DS, called DSi XL (or LL, in Japan), has sold 103,000 units during its first two days in Japan, which is less than the original DSi sold, but still better than the recently launched PSP Go. The original DSi sold 170,000 units when it launched, and the PSP Go, its main competitor, sold only 28,000 units on launch a month ago.

Gearbox has released a trailer for the upcoming DLC for Borderlands, titled “The Zombie Island of Dr. Zed”, which is scheduled for release tomorrow.

If you still haven’t gotten into the MAG beta and have been dying to do so you now have one more way of snagging an invite — G4TV apparantly has 1,000 beta invites that they are giving away between now and 11:59 PM tomorrow night.

All you have to do is head here, enter in things such as your name, date of birth and street address and then sit tight and hope you get an email with a beta invite code.

As for those of you who don’t get accepted into the beta, well, you’ll just be stuck waiting for the next round of invites or January 26th, 2010 when the game makes its way onto store shelves.

The Nintendo DSi XL isn’t even out in North America yet and already the guys over at PC Watch have taken the time to completely break down the device giving us a closer look at its internals. To be fair, the handheld is out in Japan as the Nintendo DSi LL, which is the device these guys are actually breaking down.

The sites completely in Japanese but you’re going ot have to head over there if you want to check out the new extra large DSi in all of its broken down glory.

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Cheaters are never welcomed, no matter what. Especially in MMOs, where players are paying for the experience to play. NCsoft has announced that over 16,000 players from North America and Europe have been banned for not only using exploits, but for spamming other players with advertisements and, of course, gold farming, which is the thorn in the eye of every MMO.

Valve has always had some cool stuff in their official store (like headcrabs!), now they’ve updated, timely enough, with holiday cards with both Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and even Left 4 Dead as well. They’re priced at $16 for 10 cards. Check them out at the Valve store.

The all-conquering MMORPG World of Warcraft was released on this day, five years ago. Since then, the game has sold a whopping 15 million units world wide, and has an active subscriber count of 12 million. Oh, and it generates Blizzard a good $1 billion in revenues a year. Talk about huge numbers…

As we reported a while ago, Microsoft’s latest Xbox 360 update blocks access to all third party media storage devices which are not certified by Microsoft. Datel, which sits on a hefty market share of Xbox 360 accessories, are suing Microsoft for said actions, and had this to say regarding the lawsuit.

“Microsoft has taken steps to render inoperable the competing Datel memory card for no visible purpose other than to have that market entirely to themselves. They accomplished their recent update by making a system change that will not recognize or allow operation of a memory card with greater capacity than their own. We believe that with the power Microsoft enjoys in the market for Xbox accessories this conduct is unlawful.”

Datel hopes the lawsuit will end in their favor and “restore competition” on the market, as they put it.

If you didn’t know, Tony Hawk Ride hit store shelves just about a week ago with little to no media coverage (probably considering the fact that it wasn’t, well, very good). The title’s biggest selling point is the skateboard peripheral that it uses exclusively but the fact that  the board only works with one game had gamers a bit unsure as to whether or not they will purchase it.

Luckily, Mr. Hawk himself has come forth today in an interview with GameSpot UK to let us know that not only is a sequel to the game in the works, but that the board will be utilized for future surfing and snowboarding titles.

There’s no telling on when these new titles will be hitting the shelves but we’ll be sure to keep you posted as more information is made known.

It seems that Nintendo did a good thing by offering a black edition of the Wii in Europe (in addition to Japan), so well that it’s almost out of stock, as MCV reports that sales have increased almost 60% since the black Wii was introduced last week. Nintendo plans only on having the black Wii available for this holiday season, and is in limited supply only.