Worried that you’ll never seeBeyond Good & Evil 2? Slightly concerned that you’ll never seeI Am Alive? Fear not, my friends, for Ubisoft has confirmed that these games are safe. Hackles were raised when Ubisoft announced that a number of titles had been terminated, and many assumed that the aforementioned games — both of which have gone dark — were among the dead. However, the publisher stated that all canceled games were unannounced, and confirmed thatI Am AliveandBeyond Good & Evil 2are still in development....

Do you want to get excited about id’sRage? This video will do the trick. There’s a lot of technobabble on why the game will be the best and a bit of back patting, but we’ll let that slide. The folks at id did invent the genre, you know. More importantly, what I got from this video is that the developing team has a serious desire to make a great game that goes beyond the typical shooter....

Don Ryan, the new COO at Oberon Media (AstroPop,Zuma Deluxe), has somehow come to thebizarreconclusion that women can be just as competitive as men. Maybe if they’re competing in a pot roast cook-off, amirite? “My experience at MSN and Xbox Live is that women are as competitive if not more competitive than men, except that they just don’t want to spend or have the time or learn ‘up-down-X-X-Y-Y’…They don’t want to deal with that....

Eidos and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’sBattlestations: Pacific’srelease is right around this corner. This spring, you’ll have the unique opportunity to kill people in the air, the sea, and even underwater. If you look closely at vehicles of death you’ll be steering, you may notice breasts. It’s all about realism, folks. During World War II paintings of many a lovely maiden were painted onto the side of American combat vehicles and barracks....

[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.] Somewhere around April a few years ago, my wife and I drove to a local Toys R Us to pick up a then elusive Wii, with no luck....

Last October, a story circulated around about a Wii accessory spotted at a trade show in China. Unlike most of the plastic crap made to contain a perfectly attractive controller, this peripheral resembled a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun. When I saw it, my first thought was that this would never see the light of day in the US. Well that gun, or one very much like it, actually will be available in my country of origin....

After sending countless packages containingpoutine, moose meat, andTragically HipCDs, the good people at Microsoft have finally decided to drop the prices on their Xbox 360 consoles inCanada. Sure, they didn’t drop them to the same prices as theUSmarketlike Sony didwith their PS3 consoles, but $100 is nothing to sneeze at. As ofAugust 8, 2007, the Premium Xbox 360 system will retail at only $399.99 CAN, the Elite system at $499.99, the Core system at $299....

Were you a naughty little boy who stoleHalo: ReachorCall of Duty? Microsoft knows, and it’s very disappointed in you. A new update has hit the Xbox 360 to bolster its piracy protection, and it’s mostly geared towards dirty copies ofModern Warfare 2,Black OpsandHalo: Reach. Players will no longer be able to run these copies, and their accounts will more than likely be flagged for a ban. Make one wonder why people persist with “back up” versions of Xbox 360 games....

It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoftwill be releasingthe XNA Game Studio 3.0 development tool on October 30. The tool will be made available to the US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, and Spain and hits almost three weeks ahead of the New Xbox Experience. When the XNE launches, many expect the Xbox Live Community Games Channel to be included, which has been described as “Youtube for videogames.” Users will be able to upload their own XNA-created titles and reap 70% of the revenue....

Remember us telling you about theYakuzaseries game that would come to the PSP? It wascodenamed “Project K,”and we knew very little about it. Now we know the game’s name and even have a release date. Guess what? The game keeps with the Japanese series name Ryu ga Gotoku. This new one is calledKurohyou Ryu ga Gotoku Shinshou, orBlack Leopard: Ryu ga Gotoku New Chapter. If it comes out here (please?!) then it will be called something likeBlack Leopard: New Yakuzaor something....

Brandon Crisp, the15-year-old boywho has become known in the press as the “missing gamer,” has beendiscovered deadafter a huge police search. The boy ran away from home after he was banned by his parents from playingCall of Duty. According toCP24, the body was discovered on Fifth Line in the Barrie area. The police are yet to officially state that the body is of Crisp, but Sgt. Dave Goodbrand of the Barrie Police strongly believes it to be the boy....

That headline kind of gives the whole story away — but yes, Jellyvision has gone on the record about any potential plans for spreadingYou Don’t Know Jackoutside of North America. When asked if Australia will get any love, the followingresponse was postedon the company’s Facebook page. “Our little game is shockingly expensive to customize for other countries. So there are no current plans for international releases. It makes us sad too....

Nintendo today is beaming over the online success of its DS handheld system, with two significant landmarks to boast about. Firstly, since the big N launched its handheld wi-fi service in November of 2005, over five million unique users have logged on to bitch about snakers inMario Kart. Not only that, but over 200 million online gaming sessions have now been enjoyed by DS owners globally. While Nintendo is busy grinning and doing the cabbage patch, hopefully this tells the company that the online market is something that needs to be jumped on, and that this momentum has to be followed through on the Wii....