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Who on Earth would release a game during E3? Quite a few people, it seems, as next week will see inFamous 2, Operation Flashpoint: Red River, and Red Faction: Armageddon launching in the middle of the busiest video game news flurry of the year.

We'll also get the first round of Nintendo 3DS eShop releases following the digital marketplace's launch on Monday. Sony has teased "some special publishes," whatever that means, on the PlayStation Network over the week too.

Here's the list of next week's new releases:

PC

• Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony (downloadable)

• Operation Flashpoint: Red River

• Pride of Nations

• Red Faction: Armageddon

Xbox 360

• Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters

• Operation Flashpoint: Red River

• Red Faction: Armageddon

PlayStation 3

• Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters

• inFamous 2

• Kevin Van Dam's Big Bass Challenge

• Operation Flashpoint: Red River

• Red Faction: Armageddon

Wii

• Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters

• Ubongo (Wiiware download)

3DS

• Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion

• 3D Classics Excitebike (eShop download - free until July 7)

• Pokedex 3D (eShop download - free)

• Alleyway (Virtual Console download)

• Radar Mission (Virtual Console download)

• Super Mario Land (Virtual Console download)

DS

• Crazy Cheebo: Puzzle Party (DSiWare download - $2)

• Dreamwalker (DSiWare download - $5)

• GO Series Picdun (DSiWare download - $5)

• Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters