Five grand for the Nikes from Back to the Future 2? I’m sorry, but the only shoe from those movies I’d pay that much for is Elisabeth Shue. As an appearance fee for an eight-year-old's birthday party, of course. Not sure what you were thinking.

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Nintendo 3DS sales jump 260 percent after price cut. The latest handheld out of the Japanese manufacturer got off to a rather cool start. Without a Super Mario, Zelda, or Pokemon, the market just wasn’t prepared to spend $250 on a system and $40 more for a 3D submarine game. Nintendo responded with a price cut on August 12, and the system’s sales have greatly benefited. Still, the 3DS is going to have a lot of catching up to do if it wishes to match the original DS’s performance -- and it is doing it in a much more competitive environment. Still, I won’t count it out until Pikachu has had his say. [Joystiq]

EA and Crytek will destroy my perception of reality when they bring the original Crysis to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. Crysis is still employed by many PC-graphics nuts as the benchmark to measure their rigs. A lot of those same people -- and many in the wider gaming audience -- believed it would be impossible for the visually intensive shooter to make the transition to consoles. Time to speak to your rabbi, priest, or imam, because EA is blowing that belief to hell -- and thus, shaking your faith in all that you once knew to be true. Don’t abandon your religion just yet though. It appears that Crytek is using the witchcraft they perfected in the CryEngine 3 to make the jump from PC to console a little smoother. Gamers will be burning Crysis 1 at the stake for the holy crime of sorcery next month for $20.

Infinity Ward says no zombies in Modern Warfare 3. Since its Call of Duty debut in World at War, zombie mode has been a favorite among those who prefer cooperation over the competitiveness of team deathmatch. Up to this point in the long-running first-person-shooter series, only the Treyarch-developed titles have featured the undead. That trend will continue, as IW intends to focus on Spec Ops -- its special brand of co-op. Gaming needs to find some other enemy to replace the brain eaters as the standard guiltless cannon fodder of choice. I’m thinking either human traffickers or the band Journey. [G4TV]

Fans who attend MineCon -- the Minecraft convention in Las Vegas -- will receive Scrolls and Cobalt alpha access. Because everyone knows that beta testing is for wieners, Minecraft developer Mojang will continue offering super-early access for its unfinished products. The only catch is that you have to be one of the true believers who attend the celebration of the world-building block game. Scrolls is a collectible-card game similar to Magic: The Gathering, and Cobalt is a 2D action platformer. MineCon runs November 18-19 and tickets are available now.

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