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And what better way to say it than in a one-man band covering the windwaker theme in a christmas setting!

The acoustic cover, which is posted after the break, was performed by YouTube composer Fredrik Larsson -- and only YouTube composer Fredrik Larsson. Through the magic of non-linear editing, Freddy pools his musical talents to piece together an incredible tribute to one of Nintendo's unsung themes. We suggest having Link's oceanic adventure on-hand should you decide to check the video out -- trust us, you'll feel compelled to revisit it.

This week we have 3 episodes on the frontpage at the same time, due to our ongoing connectivity issues at the office. We decided to not delay episode 15 and 16, but just put all online at once!
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Roubaix, France – 18th December 2008 – ANKAMA group, creator of internationally renowned MMORPG, DOFUS, is teaming up with Microsoft to develop its 1st console-based video game.

ANKAMA group has announced its partnership with Microsoft for the development of Islands of Wakfu, its 1st offering for the latest generation of game consoles. Islands of Wakfu, which is the most recent addition to Ankama’s crossmedia universe, retains DOFUS and Wakfu’s graphic touch, but adds the feel of an animated cartoon. This adventure/beat'em all style game can be played by two players in team mode and will reveal never seen before background content from the world of DOFUS and Wakfu.

Ankama Play, ANKAMA group’s newly created, independent next gen video game development studio, have recently finalised a deal with the software giant Microsoft.

Islands of Wakfu is planned for release in late 2009 on the Xbox Live Arcade.

Today we got news of security guards posted outside Free Radical to stop employees from getting in. Apparently fount its self in sutsh a big problem that they had to use this kind of dramatic masures. We shure hope that this wont mee the closure of the studio, who have developed TimeSplitters, Second Sight & Haze. but our guess is that this does meen that a big part of the Free Radical office.

more news wil folow as news breaks.

"UPDATE" source kotaku: Free Radical Shuts Down

UK developer Free Radical Design have closed their doors, apparently permanently, according to a number of inside sources. The meeting held later in the day ending with the closure of the independent developer, sources say.

While the shut down was a surprise to some within the company, it sounds like it wasn't to all. We've heard that some Free Radical Design employees were jumping ship in the week or two leading to today's news.

Free Radical's last game, Haze, was widely received as a mediocre game, but the company was working on a follow up for their popular TimeSplitters franchise and rumored to be working on a Star Wars: Battlefront game for LucasArts.

Sources say that the company recently lost the development deal for the LucasArts project, something that could have led to this end of year shut down.