Each week, as part of our live Saturday Morning Hangover show (Saturdays, 10am Pacific onDestructoid’s Justin.tv channel), Jordan Devore and I play through the trial modes of new releases on Xbox Live Indie Games. But what if you missed out on the show? How would you obtain our valuable insight and staggering charm? That simply wouldn’t do. Starting today, I’ll be breaking down the week’s releases with quick thoughts on each of the titles....

Attention, all players ofPokémon HeartGoldandSoulSilver! If you’re bored of walking the same old routes on your PokéWalker, a brand new one is now available for download. The Yellow Forest (which sounds racist, but isn’t) can be downloaded to your DS via Nintendo WFC. So, find a hotspot and get your forest on! The Yellow Forest is available via the “Mystery Gift” section on the main menu. Simply enter that section, and choose to receive a gift via Nintendo WFC....

Remember this thing? It sure was a thing, wasn’t it? Well a sequel to this thing is a thing that’s going to happen. For reals. Capcom’s Gerald Hom has shared some production shots ofStreet Fighter High IIover on Unity. Gerald is actually going to have a small part in the film as E. Honda, which is pretty awesome if you think about it. A Capcom employee in a fan-made movie. No one else in the videogame industry supports their community as well as Capcom does....

I wasthisclose to not posting this first episode of the RetroforceGO! spin-off. First, the name: When Colette Bennett, Stella Wong, and Irecorded this first episode, the show was calledFingerbangcast!Now —after a little drama— it is not. Since we refer to “Fingerbangcast!” the entire episode, I thought it might be best to just consider this episode a “test” and wait until the second episode to officially release the show to the public with its brand new name....

While the “Super Guide” — which you may now see for yourself in the recently releasedNew Super Mario Bros. Wii— is something many of us will never encounter accidentally, it’s going to be helpful for a lot of people. You know what crowd I’m referring to; don’t make me name names. Matchingprior sentimentaboutSuper Mario Galaxy 2being suitable for experienced gamers, as well as the more casual types, Shigeru Miyamoto wants to reassure us that the impending challenge is, well, challenging....

Way back in 2007, 2K’s Elizabeth Tobey stated that multiplayer inBioShockwould compromise the story. We never forgot that statement, so it was strange to seeBioShock 2proudly pimping multiplayer as one of its core components. Naturally, we were all “WTF,” so we asked 2K Marin creative director, Jordan Thomas, why multiplayer doesn’t compromise the single-player game anymore. “Our first decision with Multiplayer was to recruit Digital Extremes to own the experience completely, precisely so that neither component would suffer a lack of creative focus,” explains Thomas....

[meteorscrap tells us why he fell in love withFinal Fantasy II (IV)for hisMonthly Musing blog.Want to see your own work on the front page? Go ahead andwrite a blogonthis month’s topicand it might get promoted! — JRo] While I’ve previous stated that I don’t consider a game’s story to be more important than gameplay and that I can, in fact, enjoy a game without a storyline. In fact, I do place the value of a game’s story far lower than I place the gameplay....

CEO Bobby Kotick and co-chairman of the board Brian Kelly took the opportunity last week to make a few bucks by selling off some of thier Activision stock. With shares being up some 30%, Kotick broke off about 1.5 million to sell; Kelly followed with 3.6 million. That’s a combined payday of just under $60 million for the two. This follows another big selloff from Kotick in March. Why the big payday?...

He’s gaming’s baddest David Bowie impersonator and he’sa whole foot tall.Resident Evil 5‘s Albert Wesker has been impressively crafted as the third in Hot Toys’ series of figures based on Capcom’s latest horror sequel. The Hot Toys figures are renowned for their attention to detail and this appears to have been carried through to the classic videogame villain, even if he does look a little bit too much like Vanilla Ice....

Erik Estavillo, the agoraphobicResistanceplayer who keeps attemptingto sue Sonyfor banning his trolling arse, has now decided to try and get some money from Microsoft and Nintendo as well. His last case against Sony wasthrown out of court, butit seemsthat Estavillo isdesperateto leech some cash off at least one game company. Microsoft is being sued over the Red Ring of Death, which allegedly hit Estavillo’s Xbox 360 recently. The greedy whore claims he’s disabled and thus can’t afford the “well over $100” price required to fix it....

IndieDBhas announced its list of best indie games of this year. These were voted on by its community (30,877 nomination votes and 34,363 final votes) and chosen by editors and a panel of judges. Based on community votes, the Players Choice Top 10 indie games of 2010 are: Editor’s Choice and other Players Choice nominees and winners are listed below. The Editor’s Choice awards are not based on community votes, but are selected by IndieDB editors andjudgesfrom places like Joystiq and Rock Paper Shotgun....

Bit.Trip VOIDis a game that you’re able to play with your family, where you compete to see who can get fatter the fastest.Thanksgiving(link NSFW) is a holiday where families do the same thing, except with more awkward silences and passive aggressive bickering. One is a charming allegory about the dangers of selfishness, the other can give you an ulcer and case of mud-butt. The choice is clear, people; skip eating this year and playBit....

In celebration of their newvideogame art show, iam8bit has teamed up with Astro to host a contest. To participate you will need to come up with a creative speaker tag design for theAstro headsets. The contest has already started and will run until September 9th with winners being announced on September 20th. All the specifics on how to enter and what you will need can be found onAstro’s website. Since there would be no point to a contest if sweet prizes weren’t up for grabs, winning designs will be featured on the Astro headsets, with winners getting their choice of an A30 or A40 audio system and headset stand with their design on it....