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More reliable Xbox 360s are starting to trickle onto the market, but the fallout from the "red rings of death" remains. Now they're facing a class action lawsuit in California.

The buzzword associated with the release of the first Saints Row was "clone." It had plenty of modifiers, too: proficient clone, adequate clone, and beautiful clone. But what happens when the clone starts to look less like a copy and more legit? If you compare it to the PS2-era Grand Theft Autos, Saints Row 2 is more GTA than Grand Theft Auto 4. Heresy? Sacrilege? Grounds for public execution? Maybe. But consider that GTA4 has no gang affiliations, no airplanes (and thus, no parachutes), sometimes punishing driving mechanics, and a more "serious" tone -- and then consider that Saints 2 has an answer for all of these -- and you can begin to see my point.

Analyst Doug Creutz of Cowan and Company has looked into his crystal ball and believes that Activison will include a skateboard peripheral with the next edition of the Tony Hawk series. Expected to be released sometime next year, Creutz feels that the addition of peripherals with games will boost sales for the franchise after a year's absence from the market.

Saints Row 2 has only been available to the public for one day now, but according to a report from the New York Daily News (via Game Politics), it's already starting up controversy.

Even if you were one of the people who felt Stardock's introduction of a "Gamers Bill of Rights" back in August was nothing more than a publicity stunt, I don't think there is a single PC gamer out there who would be opposed to publishers conforming to what it outlined. Of course, the problem was that many of the rights it contained were unclear (such as what constitutes a game in a "finished state") and the fact that Stardock was the only company backing it.