Only two weeks after the game’s release, the first user-created content forUnreal Tournament 3for the PlayStation 3 has hit the Internet. By way ofFileFront, users can now download the map, “DM-Shrine,” created by an English 23-year-old graphic designer, Thomas Browett. The small, close-quarters combat map is designed for deathmatch with up to six players Installation looks like it should be a snap — simply unzip the map file to the root directory of any memory card that is readable by the PS3 (a USB stick should do the trick)....

Those beautiful people at SEGA kindly invited Destructoid to visit their office. Being the good will Ambassador that I am, I decided to visit on Dtoid’s behalf. Why would SEGA want us to come to visit? They threw us a party to celebratesomething really specialthat happened on Destructoid! Seriously, look at everything we have done for them in the past. As the most trusted man in gaming I am really honored that I was able to help forge a stronger bond between Destructoid and SEGA....

Activision, the company that vomits forth a new Tony Hawk game in your direction every time Brandon DiCamillo gets kicked in the crotch,recently conducted a surveyof a large group of parents regarding their views towards the ESRB rating system (y’know, that“Your Mom is E for Everyone”thing), and the results are somewhat surprising. To hear Jack Thompson and the other politicians who make their careers on gaming controversy tell it, the rating system is not only inadequate in informing otherwise good parents that the games will turn their children into church-burning, town-pillaging rapists, it’s also almost completely hidden from the parents who are tricked by evil teenage sales clerks at their local Gamestop into buyingGrand Theft Pornofor their sweet, innocent child....

[Editor’s note: DanlHaas talks about the competive side of gaming for his Playing With OthersMonthly Musing. — CTZ] For this month’s theme, I thought I’d spend some time discussing a form of gaming that isn’t heavily covered on blogs like this: the hardcore competitive scene. Now, I know what you’re thinking. We allcompetein videogames. You probably compete to exert your superiority over legions of racist 12-year-olds every day on Xbox Live....

After a long hiatus, thePodtoidis back. The original Podtoid was shot down over Germany two months ago, and while the Germans deny involvement (and that the War has been over for sixty years), our investigation into his wherabouts continue. We refuse to leave any stein unturned, or any clock un-wound in our search, but realistically, Podtoid has already been melted down and sold as scrap. Thankfully, Niero had a backup Podtoid sitting in his closet, so as of later tonight, Podtoid Volume 2: The Repoddening begins!...

It’s July 22, 2025. Seajay AirFlight 6401 is doomed. As the jet makes its way over Oklahoma, the passengers — including one U.S. marshall Killian Samuels, Prey 2’s protagonist — have no idea what’s in store for them. Aliens are doing what they do best, and that’s invading our world. Flight 6401 and its passengers are a casualty. The extraterrestrials abduct the ship and the people on it, smashing it into their alien space craft....

WithPrince of Persiabecoming a major motion picture the toy lines are coming out of the woodwork. We got a peek at theLegos coming out, but now it’s time for the action figures to shine.ToyWizhas pre-orders up for the action figure line, which is being made by McFarlane Toys. There are a whole bunch of the Prince himself in different outfits, a few enemies and a few playsets. The toys ship in May so you can play along with the movie’s plot all you want....

It seems the Internet may have jumped the gun on PS3 system software version 2.53 — wetold you about itlast week, since it appeared that Sony had preemptively (and presumably, inadvertently) revealed the details on the update on theirofficial Web site. Now, we feel completely safe to report on the firmware; we’ve gotconfirmation over at the PlayStation.Blogfrom Eric Lempel, Director of PSN Operations, that v2.53 is “coming soon.” Here’s what we’re getting:...

If youbelieved the rumors, congratulations! Harmonix has confirmed via itsRock Band‘zine that a Queen track pack — ten damned songs! — will be coming toRock Bandin the fourth week of October. You probably want to know what songs they are, and we’re happy to tell you: Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, One Vision, Fat Bottomed Girls, I Want It All, I Want to Break Free, Killer Queen, Somebody to Love, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure...

Hey kids! Did you getStreet Fighter IVyet? Did ya, huh? Isn’t itmagnificent? Isn’t it the greatest thing to happen to mankind in eight years? The answer is yes, and we will hear no arguments on the matter. Street Fighter is awesome. In fact, it’s been awesome for about 20 years now. It’s the series that spawned “I got next,” the series that made our SNES D-pads feel like cheese graters after countless Hadokens and Spinning Bird Kicks....

How can you review a “game” that you pretty much know everything about within five minutes of “playing”? In fact, how can you review a “game” that you need to use quotation marks for every time you call it a game? How can you have the need to factor in such considerations while simultaneously convincing people that said “game” is actually quite good? Ladies and gentlemen, this isTreasure World. Read on as we attempt to give it a full and thorough review....

Playing a real guitar is complicated, at least more so than picking up a five-button plastic one. Teaching someone to play guitar, even more so. Doing it with a videogame using and expanding on an existing “gameplay vocabulary”? Harmonix is going to give it a shot withRock Band 3′s “Pro Guitar” mode. We’ve talked about it before in very broad terms, but now the game’s senior designerSylvain Dubrofsky is breaking it down piece by piece....

According toKotaku’s source, the long-rumoredGears of WarKinecttitle is more than just Internet fabrication. “Sources claiming to be familiar with the project” are saying that an early demo of the game used game assets and events fromGears of War 2. Oh, and surprise — it was set on-rails. Epic Games was set to reveal a surprisingGears of War-related something-or-other at the Spike VGAs last December. The reveal was eventually canceled, but rumors pointed to it being a new, Kinect-related Gears of War title....