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The cuddly little teddy bears over at Insomniac Games have released the second trailer for their upcoming PlayStation 3 title,Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction. The trailer is available for download in glorious high-definition on the PlayStation Network, or you can just click “play” above and view it right here, courtesy of GameTrailers.While the trailer does show off more footage of the same environment we saw in the E3 demo, some new enemies, areas, and story points are revealed, as well....

Yeah, we know this is an incremental update (.01, baby!), so we shouldn’t expect much from PlayStation Portable software update v4.01. But it goes live in the next few hours, and we figured that we should let you know so you don’t start yelling “OMG! What duz it dooz?” Prepare yourself for this excitement: Not sure what kind of video content playback has been improved, but if you’re not experiencing problems, we wouldn’t worry too much about it....

Praise Talos Whenever an update comes along for just about anything on PC, it breaks shit. It can be as minor as a small graphical upgrade forWorld of Warcraftmaking certain add-ons obselete, or as big as say,Skyrim: Special Editioncompletely overhauling the game and making hundreds, if not thousands of mods inoperable. But naturally modders work tirelessly to get their stuff up to date to counter the publisher’s code, and that’s just what the Script Extender team is doing now....

The legend better not die Has it been 20 years? The originalSoul Edgereleased in Japanese arcades back in 1995, making this the 21st anniversary. It came to PlayStation in Japan in 1996, which is probably where they are counting from, but not until the following year in America and Europe. If we adjust our glasses and get anal about it, the firstSoulcaliburgame (apparently not supposed to be spaced which is the weirdest thing) didn’t release until 1999....

These worries come after Nintendo reduced its forecast for profit. KBC Financial Products analyst Hiroshi Kamide fears that Nintendo’s Wii may be running out of steam. Kamide thinks that this forecast reduction “suggests that the roaring pace of Wii growth that we’ve seen until now may be over” “The numbers also imply that we are going to see a sudden collapse in the fourth quarter from record margins to some of the thinnest margins Nintendo has experienced for three years....

Dead Rising 2: Case Zerosold extremely well because the content was great and the price was greater. Whereas that pre-launch standalone game was $5,Case Westwill be $10 when it releases for Xbox LIVE on Tuesday, December 27. Are people willing to pony up for Frank West? We’ll see.Case Zerowas perfect for those who liked the idea ofDead Risingbut wanted a lower-risk environment where restarting didn’t hold the same weight. In theory,Case Westshould offer something similar....

Watch this video. It’sMax Paynefor PC played using the Kinect sensor and a Wii Remote/nunchuk combination. UsingFAAST, a tookit used to map gestures to keystrokes developed at USC for use with PrimeSense systems (Kinect’s camera included), motions are used to control most aspects of gameplay. Bullet time is activated by leg motion while movement can be controlled with leaning or the nunchuk’s analog. The effect, as you can see, is a physical implementation of the bullet time mechanic used inMax Paynein a way that’s natural and doesn’t sacrifice much in the way of accuracy....

Remember the good old days of videogame cutscenes, where static images and text combined with plinky-plonky music to tell the epic stories of the day? Well it’s time to relive those days, asMega Man 9continues its quest to make retro gamers squirt their bollock cheese ten times a day for the next year.The above video is the opening “cinematic” for Capcom’s WiiWare/PSN/XBLA 8-Bit revival. For obvious reasons, don’t watch it if you’re not after “zomg spoilers....

The world finally has a winner in the battle for European videogame convention supremacy. The organizers of the annual Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, conceded defeat today to the new kid on the block:gamescomin Cologne, Germany. Leipziger Messe, the company behind GC, dropped the massive event in favor of a new one that will take place from July 31st to August 2nd, Games Convention Online; it will focus solely on mobile, browser-based, and client games....

If you playedStar Wars: The Force Unleashed, you probably know that there were good things and, well, bad things with the game. However, that has not stopped the game from selling well enough (six million copies) for there to be a special edition for the game to be released,Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition. This version includes the just released Tatooine DLC, as well as an exclusive non-canon Empire Strikes Back-themed level....

The third dimension is all the rage right now. Hollywood is hoping that it will save the theater industry despite the fact that it has always fizzled out in the past, and now,thanks to NVIDIA andResident Evil 5, it looks like 3D PC gaming is going to be racking up another big name game. It’s been confirmed that whenRE5hits on the PC this July it will feature support forNVIDIA’s GeForce 3D Vision technology....

Awhile back, weshowed you a timeron developer Cryptic’s official page that was a bit suspicious in origin. The natural conjecture that this timer would count down to an official announcement ofStar Trek Onlinenow appears to be true.WarCryrecently found two different announcements of the game, which go quite a way to validate the revival of the onceill-fated game. The first piece of evidence comes from the Star Trek Conventionsite. The announcement is painfully blunt, but if you look at the schedule for August 10 at 1:30 P....

A few weeks ago,Professor Pewmade thishilarious Community Blogwhere he discovered the ring leader of the notorious CBM. I got in touch with Pew, obtained the program he used to create his mosaic and got the very talentedtehuberoneto make the Destructoid mosaic you see above. 500 avatars were collected to form our beloved robot, Mr. Destructoid. Yes, there are a few that repeat around the mosaic, but there are 500 unique avatars that were put into this....