Remember whenwe reportedthat Konami’s digital download version of the classicX-Men Arcadewould hit Xbox Live Arcade a few weeks before PlayStation Network? Nix that — it’s actually coming to PlayStation 3 first, Konami hasclarified. Don’t get all bent out of shape, Xbox 360 owners, because it’s only by a day. X-Men Arcade will hit PSN next Tuesday, December 14; 360 owners can spend their MS points on Wednesday, December 15. X-Men Arcadewill feature drop-in online multiplayer for up to six players online, and will include two versions of the game ROM — the North American release and the Japanese release....

Explosive Gasis aBomberman-esque Xbox Live Indie game that does a good job of feeling like the older installments in that series while also throwing in some modern design concepts. We had enough fun playing it on our showSaturday Morning Hangoverthat Conrad featured it inhis recap post. There were a few things aboutExplosive Gasthat I had missed, and I wanted to mention those here. One of the guys who worked on the game, Mike Keogh, kindly alerted me to the fact that you can get a full eight-person session going offline by putting two players on each controller....

Don’t ask me how it happened, but this YTMND Thursday has turned into a veryOrange Boxthemed YTMND Thursday. Not that is a bad thing at all. My personal favorite from this week’s collection is the Spy sapping my sentry one. TheTeam Fortress 2crew having a wonderful time is also pretty hilarious. What are your favorites this week Dtoiders? (Special thanks to CannibleCalvin for being awesome.)

On October 18, Japanese game site 4Gamer conducted aninterviewwith the then-still-employed Keiji Inafune. He shocked the interviewer right at the start with the announcement of hisdeparture from Capcomby month’s end, steering the conversation into a wildly different direction than planned. The transcript was posted on October 29, and three days later, it received anEnglish translationfrom NeoGAF user Cheesemeister. The result is a whopping 10,000-word epic that delivers one of the most candid, most insightful snapshots of the Japanese gaming industry that I’ve ever read....

Rockstar just sent us this image and the announcement that the firstGrand Theft Auto IVtrailer would be hitting on March 29. Are your pants wet? Mine are, excuse my while I go change.

You know those stupid 69,000-in-one consoles you see at flea markets and street vendors? They’re the ones that look like a Nintendo 64 controller and have several dozen NES games tucked away on some memory chip. Yeah, those pieces of crap. The guys selling those seem to be everywhere you go, don’t they? Well, if the FBI has their way, they won’t be for long. One Oakland, Florida reseller was hawking wired and wireless models, both with over 70 games built-in, of the Power Player Super Joy III system for $24 and $48 dollars respectively....

If there’s one game to be nervously excited about, it’sBatman: Arkham Asylum 2. For every negative from the original game Rocksteadycan potentially addressin the sequel, there’s the lingering fear that what made the first so special won’t necessarily work a second time. It’s been awfully quiet on this front for a while now, so to make up for the silence, Mark Hamill has got your back with some thought-provoking statements. Talking with IGN at the Cannes Film Festival, he spoke of his hesitance to voice The Joker inArkham Asylum 2....

Now thatShadows of the Damnedis on store shelves and we’ve writtenour review, perhaps you have more questions you need answered. I can’t imagine why you would. You had Jim Sterling give his professional opinion on the game already, after all. But, just as an emergency precaution, Electronic Arts is having a live Q&A event for the game this afternoon. Starting at 4pm Pacific,Shadows of the Damnedproducer Joel Wade will be on EA....

Last weekwe finished the NES debates with a monster of a matchup betweenPunch-Out!!andBubble Bobble. As soon as the bell rang,NihonTiger90started off swinging with a vote forP.O.!!I Bubbed, Bobbed, and weaved, throwing a counter punch forB.B., and that set the pace for the rest of the fight. Whenever one side got in a punch, the other side almost always countered with one of their own. It’s been a long time since tallying the votes of a debate has been so much fun....

According to retail publicationTwice, over 110,000 balding, overweight, blue-jacket-with-brown-slacks-wearing douchebags waddled the floors of the Las Vegas Convention Center this week to check out the new wares at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. Of course, they called them “attendees,” but we have better names for them. This isn’t a final number; that will come in a couple of months. It looks like attendance is down last year, just as we pointed out in ourCES impressionsyesterday....

The Rock Band 3 Midi Pro Adapter technically came out at the end of 2010, but they’re still pretty hard to find out in the wild. Best Buy had a few at launch, but that was about it. Those musicians that wanted to try connecting their MIDI drums, keyboards and guitars up to RB3 were up a creek. That will change says Mad Catz VP of Marketing, Michael Greco. He told Destructoid yesterday that we can expect the product to be hitting store shelves “full force” any day now....

Wait, what? This totally came out of nowhere, but it really is a thing. Nintendo Everything (by way of Nintendo Power) has info on the newClay Fightergame. Well, it’s not exactly new asClay Fighter: Call of Puttyis going to be an updated version ofClay Fighter 63 1/3from the Nintendo 64. Cool? There will be 16 fighters including Bad Mr. Frosty, Lady Liberty, Sumo Santa and Earthworm Jim. Boogerman will also be in the game....

In Disney movies, longevity guarantees you a nice gold watch, a beautiful, yet matronly wife and a retirement bungalow in the hills overlooking Malibu; sadly, the real world was not part of Walt Disney’s fever dream of how thingsshouldbe.Computer Games Magazine, the second longest-running PC gaming magazine in existence, isbeing shuttered(along with sister magazineMassive) by publisher, TheGlobe.com. Lacking the biting niche hipsterism ofViceor the up-to-the-bleeding-edge-of-the-minute coverage the Internet offers,Computer Games Magazinehad been showing falling profits in recent years, and if there’s one thing I know about TheGlobe....