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The Eurovision Song Contest is in full effect, so this SingStore Update features another bunch of this year’s entries as well as a few randoms. Here’s what you’ll be able to add to your SingStar DLC library this week:

“Believe In Me” by Bonnie Tyler *
“Call My Name” by Cheryl Cole
“Champion” by Chipmunk feat. Chris Brown
“What If” by Dina Garipova *
“Only Teardrops” by Emmelie de Forest *
“Marry Me” by Krista Siegfrids *
“You” by Robin Stjernberg *
“Oops Upside Your Head” by The Gap Band
“River Deep, Mountain High” by The Supremes and The Four Tops

The Eurovision entries (those marked above with asterisks) are a hard sell. They’re so new that I don’t know them well enough to want to buy them or be able to sing them particularly well. To be fair, Finland’s entry, “Marry Me” is kind of fun, and I love that Bonnie Tyler resurfaced to represent the UK. (And her song is amazing. Cheesy and awful yet totally catchy.) And I appreciate once again throwing in some old R&B, but I wish they’d have thrown in Nicola Roberts instead of Cheryl Cole if they were going to offer up a solo Girls Aloud member! (Her album is fantastic!)

All rise! Capcom announced today that Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies will be available as a digital download on the Nintendo 3DS across Europe and North America this fall! I’ve got details,and a gallery of character art and screenshots after the jump!
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GamerPrint has always done some beautiful work, creating gamer-inspired designs for prints, posters, shirts and hoodies. They apparently reached out to their Facebook and Twitter followers to see what game they most wanted a design for, and apparently Shadow of the Colossus was the clear winner. How they’ve never done a Shadow of the Colossus design before now is beyond me, but what they’ve come up with is right up there with some of their best.

You can get it on a T-shirt, hoodie or iPhone case by clicking here to buy (and peruse their other designs). They might seem a little pricey, but this is a UK-based company, so you’re paying import prices in the US. Still, their designs are great, so when they’ve got one for one of your favorite games (like perhaps Shadow of the Colossus), it’s worth it!

Gay gaming documentary Gaming In Color has officially reached its Kickstarter goal, meaning that the project is fully funded and can begin production! It was a close race to the finish line, but this past Friday the film managed to reach its $50,000 funding goal during the last 48 hours of its campaign.

Via the Gaming In Color Kickstarter page:

“With the minutes ticking on the remainder of the Kickstarter, we want to give everyone a change to get those upgrades in the last minute! Fancy a shirt? Perhaps you want to try out that new game?

We also wanted to say “Thank You”. Not only because you helped make this film a reality but because this is your story. Even if you aren’t marginalized, even if you don’t consider yourself much of a gamer this is the story of people who want to make a safer space for themselves and others. It is people like you wanting to share their stories and have them be heard and it is thanks to you that those stories WILL be heard.

So from the start of Gaminig In Color and gamers everywhere,

Thank you!

And we can’t wait to show you just what we can do!”

While the project initially gained a lot of buzz, and nearly $30,000 in its first day online, progress halted for nearly a month before jump starting again during the final stretch. Over the last week gay gamers of all kinds sent their videos to Gaming In Color, putting their faces to the cause and making sure that this film becomes a reality.

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Shadow of the Eternals, the episodic spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness, is coming from Canadian developer Precursor Studios through a crowdfunding campaign that has raised over $100 000 in one day for the title.  Precursor recently released a nine-minute in-game preview of an early scene – one which should be familiar to fans of Eternal Darkness (this writer included) as it appears to be a re-creation (or a re-imagining, perhaps?) of a sliver of the Charlemagne-era Anthony mission from the original game, now bracketed by vaguely sapphic cutscenes about a handmaiden and her lady.

So why is Shadow a “spiritual successor” and not a direct sequel?  Why isn’t this on Kickstarter?  What, if any, involvement is there from Eternal Darkness developer Silicon Knights and producer Nintendo?  Hit the jump to find out.

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So many people are using Kickstarter nowadays that it can be easy to get lost in the shuffle. But gaymer Ricardo Valenzuela is part of the international team from Still Alive Studios working on a game called Son Of Nor that is only a third of the way to its goal with a couple of weeks to go.

Son Of Nor is a third-person action/adventure game set on a desert world where humans are being driven to extinction by a reptilian race called the Sarahul. The unique aspect of this title is the usage of powers that include telekinesis, magic spells and terraforming in both combat and puzzle-solving. You can rip chunks of rock out of canyon walls to throw at enemies or use as platforms to traverse gaps, or use terraforming to create dunes that hide you from enemies or allow you to reach previously-unaccessible levels, or just create a giant pit that swallows your enemies whole. It allows you to mix and match your powers to play the game in a way that suits your style, from stealthy to action-oriented.

There is also a co-op multiplayer mode where up to four players can join forces, and that mode will include many different puzzles and situations that will require more than one person to complete.

Son Of Nor is being developed for PC, Mac and Linux, and a pledge of $20 or more will get you a digital copy of the game. Higher pledges naturally include more swag, like a collector’s edition, your name on the Wall of Heroes in a city in the game, or the ability to design and name one of the NPCs in the game or even become a playable character yourself! For full details including extensive video diaries, you can visit their Kickstarter page here. And donate, if you’d like to support a fellow gaymer’s project!

It looks as if Telltale Games has done it again. They impressively recreated the look of the source material for The Walking Dead, and based on these screenshots for The Wolf Among Us, they’ve managed to recreate the comic book look brilliantly once more!

Based on the Vertigo comic series FABLES, the story is set in a New York City where fairy tale characters are living among humans. Releasing this summer on PC, Mac and consoles, The Wolf Among Us is a prequel to the comic, and has you playing Bigby Wolf and dealing with folks like a chain-smoking Little Pig and a Mr. Toad who steals cars for his wild rides. They’ve got the look down pat, so the only question remains is whether or not they’ve got the story to go with it. (I have faith, though!)