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Pop open the champagne, hopeless WoW addicts: Blizzard is celebrating their fourth year of global domination. Four years ago today -- November 23, 2004 -- World of Warcraft was released to the unsuspecting masses. And to celebrate, Blizzard is giving all WoW players who login today their own baby polar bear vanity pet (via Kotaku). Because as everyone knows, the fourth anniversary is the "baby polar bear" year.

If there is one certainty in life, it's this: Anything humans can do, a robot can be built to do it better. Now humanity takes another dangerous step closer to obsolescence, as Cyth Systems has built what they call the "Cythbot," a robot that can automatically play Guitar Hero -- and play it well.

Tomb Raider: Underworld hit stores this week, and in an effort to craft a high early ranking on Metacritic, Eidos has tasked a PR firm to try and convince publications to hold off on their reviews if the scores are below a certain threshold (via Shacknews).

Bethesda doesn't exactly have the best track record when it comes to releasing bug-free games. Game-breaking accounts spanning throughout the Elder Scrolls series have been regaled by gamers like horror stories around a camp fire, and Fallout 3, alas, so far doesn't seem to be much different. But the good news is Bethesda has now announced that they're working on a patch for the game that'll (hopefully) fix all the problems gamers have complained about.

Long before there was the Nintendo DS, there was the Game & Watch -- the original duel screen handheld. In Japan, old met new when Nintendo released the Game & Watch Collection for the DS as a free bonus for Club Nintendo members. Now, according to a recent ESRB rating (via Kotaku), it seems U.S. gamers may soon be able to get their hands on it too.