I can’t even comprehend how or why this happened, but apparently, Codemasters andFrontmagazine decided to team up and create some sexy wallpapers that are vaguely related to upcoming action RPGRise of the Argonauts. Essentially, nudey tart Alex Sim-Wise gets her norks out and pretends she can shoot fire, before her arse appears in a photoshoppedRise of the Argonautsscene. It’s pretty surreal and not very safe for work, so don’t go hitting up these pictures if you have a boss or a wife looking over your shoulder....

Have you thought about going to theScrewAttack Gaming Convention?It’s going downin Dallas, Texas, July 3-5. They call it 72 hours of gaming goodness, and we believe them.Well, who is going? I know Destructoid is. We are “on the list,” right along side The Angry Video Game Nerd, Captain S, Capcom’s Rey Jimenez,OverClocked Remix, the Dallas Ghostbusters along with the Ecto-1, and many more to be announced in the coming weeks.Also,DtoidAustinand a bunch of theSouthern Destructoid readersare coming out to the event....

Either this latest video forArmy of Two: The 40th Dayis superbly cut, or the dialog for Salem and Rios has grown up ever so slightly. As detailed after the break, the game will have “morality moments” where you are prompted to make a moral choice by hitting “A” or “B,” and then watch a cut scene unfold. Seeing as how the outcomes of these choices end up snowballing into some drastic event, EA has brought on comic artists Chris Bachalo and Jock, hence the relevance to Comic-Con....

Threespeechhas an interview up with Naughty Dog’s Evan Wells that throws up something as bemusing as it is amusing. Although there are plenty of fish in the sea, there’d be a lot less if Naughty Dog would have had its way. It wanted to allow you to shoot the aquatic gawpers inUncharted: Drake’s Fortunebut feared this would cause the game to be rated Mature instead of Teen. It’s official — killing fish is a worse crime than killing people....

Sony is already facing aclass action suit in the United States, but now Canadian lawyers have caught the whiff of blood in their nostrils and are circling the embattled company. If Sony collects a full set of suits, it can trade them in for aCaptain Planetbicycle wheel reflector! Mississauga resident Natasha Maksimovic has employed McPhadden Samac Tuovi LLP to begin the fight, which will champion the cause of one million Canadian PSN users....

“Hi, we’re Sony. We’re going to make an all-digital PSP that costs lots of money and has no reason to exist, then take a totally hands-free approach and redirect all complaints to developers and publishers when consumers find out we’ve wasted their money,” admitted Sony, in a perfect world. “We’re making a habit of not fully supporting our own technology, releasing fabulous hardware that we’ve essentially self-sabotaged out of a subconscious fear of success....

Obligatory post is obligatory, but to the surprise of no oneSuper Street Fighter IVhas shipped a million copies in its first week. With new characters, better balance and a discounted price if you didn’t see this game flying of the shelf this quickly then might I suggest procuring a guide dog for yourself. Clearly gettingSSF IVis the cool thing to do. If you don’t have it yet you probably should get it....

Yeah, I’m just as sick of all of this iPad game talk as the next guy, but here’s a good case for the device — a new way to experience point and click adventure games. Telltale Games has launched “The Penal Zone,” the first episode of the upcomingSam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouseseries, for the iPad. “Sam & Maxjust feels right on iPad,” said Kevin Bruner, CTO, Telltale Games. “The gameplay experience is incredibly intimate and tactile....

Military Madness: Nectarisis 3D turn-based downloadable strategy game. Similar to SEGA’sShining Force, except with shell-spewing tanks instead of steel-coated armadillos and dragons, I’ve found the game tickles an itch that I haven’t been bothered enough to scratch within the last five years. (It was a small itch.) Nectarishit Xbox LIVE Arcade earlier this September, but the PSN version just launched a little over a week ago. Since I didn’t know what the hell it was about, I decided to give it a spin....

We don’t think Terminal Reality could have gotten better PR than the hype surrounding word that Activision Blizzard had dropped their Ghostbusters project. While Activision Blizzard reps wouldn’t truly comment on the game’s fate, Terminal Reality’s Mark Randel is adamant: you will playGhostbusters. “Ghostbusterswill be published,” he toldvideogaming247. “That’s all I can say at the moment.” The title (which has been in development for awhile) had received a massive PR push prior its publisher woes, including a top spot on the cover ofGame Informer....

This game is rubbish… literally! Among the many PlayStation Network games Sony had lined up at TGS 2008, new titleGomibakosounded the most interesting. The screens we saw showed a cross section of a trashcan gradually being piled full of trash in a junkyard, making us wonder how a game that looked like this would even be played. The point ofGomibakois to cleanly dispose of trash by smashing and burning it. Players start with an empty trashcan in this trash yard....

During the Microsoft Keynote atTGS earlier, a few new bits aboutHalo Warsand theHalo 3expansion were revealed. First up, and something that just annoys me, the Flood will be inHalo Wars. Unless everyone ends up dying in the end, the reveal of the Flood kind of screws with theHalostoryline. It wasn’t specified if you’ll actually be able to play as the Flood, but don’t be surprised if they are.Halo Warsis still dated for early next year....

Well, notrealreal samurai. More like the empty shells of former samurai. Before games likeSamurai WarriorsandSengoku Basarawere a big deal, the samurai that inspired them were. To celebrate the history behind these games, Tokyo Game Show has teamed up with Koei and Capcom to create an exhibit featuring not only these and other samurai-based games, but real samurai artifacts. Armor and items related to the nine most popular warlords — including Uesugi Kenshin, Naoe Kanetsugu, Oda Nobunaga, and Date Masamune — will be there for us to gawk at....