So you need a little help with Rage. It happens. When there are lots of fetch quests, card games and crafting possibilities, it’s easy to get a bit flumoxed. That’s why Prima and Random House Digital decided a Rage Strategy and Interactive Map Pack was a good idea. It’s a full digital strategy guide that can help you get through the game, no matter what kind of problem you’re having. The thing is, the kind of help you need is probably going to come at a price. What, you thought it would help you for free…

During Namco Bandai’s Level Up in Dubai press conference yesterday, we learned that From Software’s Dark Souls, the Demon’s Souls follow up, would be out in October 2011 and have some kind of pre-order incentive. Namco Bandai has followed up with more information and I think a lot of people are going to want to pre-order Dark Souls for the PS3 or Xbox 360. After all, it’s not every day that you get a limited edition for a standard edition price.

Yes, that’s the incentive this time around…

Fallout 3 was huge even before all its expansions. Obsidian promises Fallout: New Vegas will be bigger than Fallout 3 in just about every way imaginable. I would expect to hear that from them, but having a third-party opinion is even better. According to the official strategy guide for Fallout: New Vegas, there will be hundreds of locations to discover

Valve and Prima have teamed up to bring digital strategy guides to Steam. The guides can be viewed while in the game or outside the game. You still have to be connected to Steam in order to view the guides. Strategy guides usually sell for $20 at retail but Valve is willing to deal. Digital strategy guides for select games will be get a 50% discount. Now you only have to pay $10 as opposed to $20 for information you could easily find for free.

Paradox Interactive has announced a new service called GameGadgets, that allows gamers to purchase strategy guides for Paradox games. Online print on-demand service Lulu.com will handle the order processing and printing . First up is a guide to Europa Universalis III: Heir to the Throne.

Good news! Atlus has begun it’s Demon’s Souls deluxe edition strategy guide replacement program. As mentioned earlier on Gamertell, some of the Demon’s Souls Official Strategy Guides had faulty covers. The ink was wearing off and smearing for no reason. Not all guides were effected, only some. But Atlus immediately stepped up and announced it would start a trade in program so customers would get exactly what they paid for. And now, that program has begun.

Step by step instructions, with images, are provided at the Demon’s Souls Official Strategy Guide Replacement Program website. You just fill out a Strategy Guide Replacement Form, rip off the damaged cover and first page of your strategy guide, stick everything in an envelope and mail it out to Atlus. To make things even easier, Atlus included a return address slip with the replacement form, so you can just tape that to the front of your envelope to ensure it arrives safely at Atlus headquarters.

After that, you just have to be patient and wait…

Atlus has recently discovered that some owners of the Demon’s Souls deluxe edition are experiencing a problem with their purchases. Apparently, some of the strategy guides that came with said edition aren’t in pristine condition. The covers are fading and wearing away, even when carefully and properly used and taken care of. Atlus has decided that it will not stand by idly while its fans are troubled, and is going to begin a strategy guide replacement program.

Atlus isn’t sure why some of the strategy guides’ covers are fading, and not all the strategy guides are showing the wear. If yours is one of the damaged ones, you’ll want to keep an eye on the Atlus U.S.A. Forums. Next week the company will post instructions for filing for a replacement strategy guide…