I never really anticipated ever writing the name “N-Gage” again, but that’s how unpredictable life is. Nokia’s much maligned mobile gaming brand is still lurching forward in a sick parody of life, as the companyhas announcedthe addition of Konami games to the service’s library. Exciting news for all seven N-Gage users. One of the confirmed games for the new N-Gage isMetal Gear Solida Mobile, an Ideaworks3D collaboration that uses backdrops created from samples of images taken with the system’s camera....

What is better than an anniversary show? Dinosaurs, cakes and blowjobs, but apart from that holy trinity, what is better? NOTHING! Yes, The Podcastle, Destructoid’s Britpop podcast, has turned one year old and we are celebrating by … well … basically doing what we did a couple of months ago. Don’t worry though, you’ll like it, probably. Back by quasi-popular demand, we shall be holding yet another controversial episode! Popular games will get the kicking they deserve, and people who shouldn’t be listening are sure to be offended....

A few months ago I did astoryon theMiss Video Gamepageant, and at the time I backed the competition and even entered as a contestant. After three months of being a part of the contest, exchanging e-mails with the people running it, and even reading information about the contest from other sources, I’ve decided to remove myself from the competition completely. I admit that in the beginning I liked the idea of the contest: female gamers from all over the world competing in an online gaming tournament and pageant to become a representative of the female gaming community....

Sister site Tomopop has some badass pictures of this Figma Black Gold Saw figure. I’m not going to lie, I have no idea what this figure is from. I just know it’s pretty sexy looking. Check outmore pics over on the Tomo. P.A.D. goes to Mexico, we reviewedRock of the Dead,Activision plays nice with pirates and more happened on 10/24/10. {{page_break}}

Watch as theStreet FighterPianist performs a bunch ofStreet Fighter IIsongs for ten minutes straight. The intro music always gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. 7-Eleven is making game sales permanent, pre-purchaseGrand Theft Auto IVon Steam and getGTA: Vice Cityfor free, GameTrailers gives us the first look atArkham Asylum, and a few others things happened over the weekend. Weekend Regulars:Weekend Destructainment: The real Bike HeroBest of the Network this weekDiscountoid: We’ll call this the “pre-game show”This Week in the Community: The Miami and Baltimore NARPs were epicGames of the week for 11/23/08: Jim Sterling is now a Yank edition...

Friday, my only day at San Diego Comic-Con. I contracted necrotizing fasciitis from the Slave Labor Graphics booth during that evening, and so had to be airlifted out that night, but adventures were plentiful during my short stay. Embarrassing, deeply wounding adventures. My first foray into the seething morass led me to to the LucasArts booth, situated on a appropriately-raised dais and crammed with Wii. I’ve said it before: of all the game industry people with whom I’ve come into contact, the Lucasians are the most friendly, sociable, and generally pleasant....

Oregon-based ResponDesignhas filed a lawsuitagainst French publisher Ubisoft over a deal to produceMy Fitness Coach, a game designed to capitalize on the launch ofWii Fit. ResponDesign claims it was looking at a millions of dollars in potential royalties, but because no game surfaced, the company has missed out. It now wants those royalties in form of delicious, court-won blood money. No less than $26 million of it. My Fitness Coachwas scheduled to hit the Wii and PS2 earlier this year, and was supposed to use assets from ResponDesign, who produced their own fitness game,Yourself!...

British software organization UKIE has claimed that for every game legitimately purchased at a retailer, another four copieshave been stolen. The group states that in Britain alone, the industry lost at least £1.45 billion to software pirates in 2010. “Based on information received from a number of publishers, we have estimates of games piracy running at between 4:1 against legitimate sales,” claimed UKIE GD Michael Rawlinson. “We took a conservative position of saying if this is only 1:1 across all titles it would have a retail equivalent value of £1....

Yesterday, CEO of Warner Brothers Jeffrey Bewkes revealed that the company has over 75 games planned for the next seven years. That’s a serious amount of Bugs Bunny and party titles. The statement was made in an earnings call, where Bewkes goal was to illustrate the partnerships Warner maintains and the validity of their own original IPs. We have a small interest in something called Brash Entertainment, which is a video games publisher, and I mentioned we have the arrangement with our strategic partner in Abu Dhabi who is funding up to $250 million to co-finance the development of up to 75 games over the next seven years....

Thelast time I got my hands on Level-5’s PS3 RPGWhite Knight Story, I was really impressed. I couldn’t get enough. But I couldn’t shake the feeling that it would be a very long time before I would be able to enjoy this title in the comfort of my own home, and in my first language. Maybe the wait won’t be as long as I thought. According toNext Gen,White Knight Storywill see a release sometime before June 02, 2025....

CNet has a thought provoking (yeah, no nudie pics in this one)articleup regarding the sudden increase in popularity of online worlds, and how, with more and more people spending large amounts of their lives in them, various people have begun to wonder just who governs these realms. Sure, the developers have the omniscient Hand Of God angle covered, but what happens when people break real-world laws in game or the government decides it wants to be able to tax virtual items that suddenly have actual cash money value?...

If you listen to my WiiWare reviews onRetroforceGo!, you know that I am less than enthused about the steady flow of casual titles that has choked the service since it’s inception (World of Goobeing a lovely surprise amidst all this). Of course, there is a way to do casual right. Take, for instance, taking Whack-a-Mole and making all the moles vampires. Bam, I’m interested. The game is calledTataite! Mogupon, and sends you thrugh a variety of utterly ridiculous levels such as moles swinging through the jungle on vines and flying around on little spaceships with helmets on....

Iconic game designer Will Wright loves his Nintendo DS. In fact, it’s one of his favorite systems and if he doesn’t have it with him, he confesses to waking up groggy in the morning. That’s actually a little weird and creepy, but let’s see whathe has to sayregardless: “I play with my DS a lot, especially Advance Wars. It’s one of my favorite platforms actually. The thing I love about the DS is I can turn it on, play a game for a few minutes, save and turn it back off....