In order to make amends for theOkamiWiibox art fiasco, Capcom is sending out replacement slipcovers to those who purchased the game. There are 3 covers tochoose from, one being the box art you have right now (sans IGN watermark), while the other two are completely new. To register with Capcom to recieve a new cover sent to your house, all you have to do isgo hereand enter your address. Oh, and if you aren’t in the U....

Castle Crashersturns one-years-old today and The Behemoth is giving back to their fans! They’ve given a bunch of things away today but it’s pretty much too late to talk about all that as this post is going up pretty late. However, you should definitely follow The Behemothon Twitterand on theirFacebook pageas they’ll be giving away a couple thousand codes of theNecromantic DLCin the next week or so. They’ll be giving away codes at random so keep a close eye on those social networking groups!...

Even though we’re still a month or so away from its launch,de Blob 2could be found on two places here on the CES show floor. I was enjoying it at a kisok at NBC Universal’s booth, and it was there I heard that it could be seen running in 3D at Mitsubishi’s booth. At Mitsubishi, they had the game on one of their 73″ displays, and it looked really nice. There are other platformers out there that underwhelm in 3D, butde Blob 2really pops, with particle effects and interface graphics that really pull you in....

The second set ofBioShockfigures from NECA isn’t merely the company’s newest; it’s also the most disturbing yet. The Big Daddy Bouncer and Subject Delta figures have acertain rad charmto them, but the Splicer and Little Sister two-pack shown above? Eww! I guess if you’re really that deeply into the mythos of Rapture, you can make the figures work. We now know that each set — the disfigured female Splicer and the dual Little Sisters — will go for $16....

Holy boobs and butt, fapman!!! Today we take on the role of titular heroine Bayonetta, a seductive witch with an English accent who destroys angels for a living. She uses hair attacks, she’s hot, and it’s a SEGA game Jim Sterling gave a good score to. What else could you want from a game? How about us playing it for you? So follow us onJustin.TV/Destructoid

“Did anyone write thatFable: The Journeylooks like it’s on rails?” This is Peter Molyneux’s first question that he poses to us during a behind-closed-doors demo of Lionhead’s upcoming Kinect game, which was revealed earlier this week. There are only two other writers in the room, so I bite the bullet and raise my hand. “Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ve said that,” I tell him. He’s not surprised; the expression of his face indicates he knew he’d be explaining himself all week....

AnotherOtomedius Excellenttrailer, and this time it’s a bona fide American one. That is, it’s the Japanese trailer from a month or so ago with added English subtitles. So if you didn’t know what was going on before, now you may finally make sense of what the characters are saying. An all-important aspect of being able to grasp the story-heavy genre of shmups! The game will be a retail disc title with 9 characters “on-disc,” 8 stages, up to three player local and online multiplayer, a gallery mode to peek at under-age girls for extended periods of time, and “loads of appealing downloadable content....

Electronic Arts has the dubious honor of introducing online passes to the world, a scheme whereby those who purchase used games have to pay $10 to unlock the title’s online mode. THQ has jumped on the idea, while Ubisoft and Sony are getting hot for it. Now, after starting the fire, EA is defending it. “… digital delivery, maintaining servers able to support that volume of people every 24 hours, a solid billing infrastructure and customer support — it all takes time, effort and money and we’re at the cutting edge of that,” says cat-like EA Sports chief Peter Moore....

So the folks atEurogamerhave taken it upon themselves to do the entire gaming community and the world at large a favor, and have conducted detailed framerate tests on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions ofGrand Theft Auto IV. But Eurogamer took it one step further, conducting the tests not once, but twice. The details of the tests can be found here, but the general results are shocking and conclusive:...

Some gamers have chosen to call it “creepy” and “disgusting.” Media outlets, those even belonging to the videogame press itself, have misrepresented it as “Holocaust DS” or a “Nazi torture game.” The truth of the matter is that Luc Bernard’s proposed DS game,Imagination Is The Only Escape, is none of these things. In fact, the DS game that may never be represents something that many gamers have wanted for years — the evolution of gaming, and the chance for videogames to tackle sensitive issues, subjects deeper than “here are some aliens, shoot them please....

Pay no attention to your clock. It is currently Friday.Congrats to the winner oflast week’s Fake Game Fridaycontest, Lark Ohiya. All of the other entries we got were very good, and will more than likely become FGF articles at some point in the future.For this week, though, we turn to one of the single coolest comic book characters ever created: The Goon.He’s a bucktoothed, zombie-hating tough guy who speaks with his fists and inhabits one of the most hilariously awesome comic books in recent memory....

Fck it, then. Cancel my airfare and refund my hotel. I’m not going. Ha! I’m kidding. I don’t give that much of a sht aboutFinal Fantasy Versus XIII. It’s going to be another few major game events of smelling the vapor from this game before we see anything solid. We know for sure it’s not going to be at next month’s TGS, though. Tetsuya Nomura talked to Dengeki PlayStation magazine in Japan and told them that the game will not be shown or playable at the September 15-18 event, but that he does already have the first showing planned for later....

The recent talk of Pandemic has made me realize something: I haven’t played a truly crazy action game sinceMercenaries 2: World in Flames. And no,Modern Warfare 2doesn’t count. Can you fall hundreds of feet from a helicopter and still survive the landing? Exactly. Just Cause 2, or as I like to call it sometimes,Just ‘Cause 2,looks to bethe next decent void-filler. Between the grappling hook improvements and the increased options for base jumping with a more vertical game world, I cannot wait for March 23 to get here....