Pokémon Black and White introduces 150 new critters -- that should bring the grand total up to about 3,500 now, correct?

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• WIth Pokémon Black and White's triple battles, the possibilities are endless! I'm going to stage a Westside Story fight and have a team of shark-type Pokémon go up against a team of jet-types.

Continue after the break for a brief tour of the new Call of Duty: Black Ops maps, a developer diary on Dead Space 2's lighting, and the debut trailer of Oozi: Earth Adventure - Episode 1 for Xbox Live Indie Games.

• When sightseeing the various Eurasian cities in the First Strike map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, make sure to watch out for those zombie monkeys. They're genetically very similar to zombie humans -- give or take a chromosome.

• The lighting designers for Dead Space 2 put a lot of effort into the game's eerie, creepy atmosphere. Then you have people like me who undermine all of that by playing with the brightness setting cranked up.

• Watching the debut trailer for Oozi: Earth Adventure - Episode 1 gave me the sudden urge to bust out my Super Nintendo. It also made me wonder if the kids of today will one day be nostalgic for shooters the way I'm a sucker for platformers. Hmmm....