Rememberechochrome? You should, because we did areviewof it and let you know that it totally rocked. Did you go out and buy it? If not, shame on you.You have a chance to make up for your errant ways, though, as the sequel is due to hit the PSP this November in Japan, with localized versions to follow. We got the chance to play it for a bit at TGS and also talk to the producer, Mr Wataru Kato....

You so aren’t ready for the new Pokemon designs inBlackandWhite. As essentially everyone expected, TGS has been quite good to us in terms of going insane with the reveals. Serebii.net has been keeping track of anything and everything, so I’ll kindly point you in that general direction. They even have some of the base stats already! Madness. The three-headed dragon, dog with a giant flowing mustache, and karate brothers are among my personal favorites....

The First Templarhas a brand new trailer and a release date of May 10. You probably don’t remember this game at all. I can’t think of anything outstanding that will jog your memory. The game takes the form of a standard-looking action title, and comes courtesy of Kalypso. It’ll be heading to the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. That’s about all there is to know.

[Editor’s Note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now on ourcommunity blogs.] Back in April, I was lazing about at a friend’s house in Orange County....

Does anybody actually playLips? Even when it was new on the market, the only person I knew to actually have spent any significant time with the game was Anthony Burch. Here’show that turned outin case you missed it. Microsoft has apparently not given up on their karaoke franchise quite yet. While the game is predominately composed of popular musics, they’re branching out a bit with two sets of songs from musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber....

Last week, we asked you all take a picture of yourself doingsomething semi-heroicfor a chance to winChampions Online. There were a decent amount of entries but only five could win a copy of the game. Here’s who won: Congratulations! We’ll be getting in touch with the winners shortly based on the e-mail address we have on file for you. For more contests, be sure to check out ourAudition contestwhere you can win a netbook and iPods and ourZombie Apocalypsecontest where we want you to become a zombie!...

The Rock Band Network has been up and running fora few weeks now, and by all accounts it has been a pretty solid success. Music has been uploaded, downloaded and played. However, that isn’t how success is really measured by the big gaming companies. They measure success through cash money. In terms of cold, hard cash we have no idea how well RBN is doing — officially. Unofficially the folks over atRockBandAidedid some maths and some calculations and some guess work and probably some sort of ancient ritual to the gods of money....

There’s been a lot of talk ofsexismin the videogame industry, as is inevitable in a male-dominated arena. It has come to my attention that sexism is abadthing, and as such, it falls to leaders of social progress such as myself to right the course of this little boat we call civilization. Recently, Gamer Limit wrote adisgustingly objectifying articleon female videogame characters, implying with 100% seriousness that the only thing females have to offer the world are their firm, supple breasts andmagnificentvaginal crevices....

Forget the fact thatGrand Theft Auto IVandSaints Row 2are two completely different takes on a shared genre. The gameslooksimilar, therefore we’reobligatedto pit them against one another in order to see which is superior. ReleasingSaints Row 2long after people had forgotten aboutGTA IVwasn’t good enough; no, THQ needed something that would grab our attention, andGary Buseywas not going to cut it. CVG has gotten wordthat porn star Tera Patrick has joined Volition to lend her “one-of-a-kind special touch” toSaints Row 2, whatever that means....

The latest update forDungeons and Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimitedjust went live. It boosts the crafting level to 150, allowing players to make Draconic Runestunes, a new magical weapon for all classes. Also included are several new areas, two high-level raids, three new dungeons, and the home of the Artificers, House Cannith, as an end-game quest hub. The mini-expansion,Secrets of the Artificers, focuses on the titular class, and Turbine has released several screens showing it off....

JeuxFrance posteda confusingly multicultural videoofVirtua Tennis 3earlier today. In it, Kazuki Nogushi, a Japanese woman and one of Sega’s people behind the creation ofVirtua Tennis 3, is shown playing the French version of the game while an American interprets what she says for what is presumably, the French audience of the website. Wrapping my mind around the logistics of that statement was causing a bit of hemorrhaging, so instead I’ll just talk about the pretty moving pictures and themuchrefined neck rendering techniquesin this version of the game....

UTV Ignition has confirmed that its London studio is now closed for good, as the company ceases development of games and plans to only publish them. The studio was working onProject Kane, originally known as the ill-fated WarDevil. “We can confirm that a small console team, which was working on pre-production of an unannounced title, was laid off,” Ignition told Gamasutra. “The PC team was unaffected.” WarDevilhas had a long and unfortunate history....

Weekends are becoming increasingly fraught for me, with Good Old Games joining Steam in some PC digital download price drops. Considering I get paid on a Friday means I could learn to fear the weekend. This weekend sees the arrival ofDigital Game Factory at 50% off on GoGand the world’s biggest FPS franchise gets a price drop on Steam. Digital Game Factory might not be a familiar name but some of their titles are: there’s the tough-as-nailsCommando 2 & 3bundle, the city-building sims ofConstructorandMob Rule, and the RTS titlesImperial GloryandPraetoriansall available for download....