I know many of you guys are from the great state of Texas, so if you are interested in blowing money on lottery tickets, at least look at there. Yes, Texas has a Pac-Man themed instant lotto. One of the prizes is a classic cocktail table machine. That sure beats my old Pac-Man scratch games that came with a stick of gum back in the day. They didn’t win me jack!

Buy a ticket for old Joe, will ya’? And then I’ll send you the address for the game machine.

[url=http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/pacman-lotto-gobbles-up-your-money-188801.php]Pac-Man Lotto Gobbles Up Your Money[/url] (Kotaku)

Test Drive Unlimited for 360 will apparently be only forty bucks. Is Atari banking on Merketplace downloads? Was it just a cheap game developmentwise? Are they just trying to make everyone else look like jerks? Only time will tell.

I haven’t played a Test Drive game since the original nearly 20 years ago (Accolade, remember that?), but I had gotten the impression that the series was in decline. With Ridge Racer, Need For Speed, and so many others, it still manages to stick around, so maybe I should keep an eye out at that price.

[url=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152341]Atari Prices Test Drive 360 at $39.99[/url]

1up has some news from Comic-con on a few new games. I know you DS folks will be excited about the new info for Phoenix Wright and the new Castlevania (Who wouldn’t?). For 360 owners, we find that the guys behind Alien Hominid are bringing not only that title, but a new one to Xbox Live Arcade. The new title looks like a swords & sorcery beat-em-up with Alien Hominid-style graphics and is called Castle Crashers.

Really all of these games are great because they push classic gameplay types that I don’t want to see left behind in the flood of fancy 3D FPS/RTS/ETC games that come out all the time. A good healthy balance keeps me from getting bored.

[url=http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3152340]Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice For All[/url]
[url=http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3152339]Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin[/url]
[url=http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3152338]Alien Hominid[/url]
[url=http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3152336]Castle Crashers[/url]

Yeah, I’ve been sitting this for a day, because, what?!

There is an Animal Crossing movie in the works. It will be animated, and there’s already a trailer. I’m no Animal Crossing person to begin with, but even if I was I don’t think I’d be able to guess what this will be about. It’s probably a detail film on the subject of being nice and sharing.

Is it so wrong that I’m curious about what Uwe Boll could make with this license?

[url=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152277]Animal Crossing Movie Trailer Debuts[/url] (1up)