It’s been fairly obvious that a number of media outlets, including our old friends FOX News andThe Daily Mail, have something of a vendetta against violent videogames. For example, theMailcan’t claim impartiality when it once ran the headline, “BAN THIS SICK FILTH.” While most people view these reports as harmless stupidity, Capcom is more concerned, believing that these smear campaigns could affect business. “Some of our popular software titles have provocative graphics and text, such as violent and grotesque scenes,” Capcom told investors while outlining business concerns for 2010....

Even the Illusive Man thinks Commander Shepard is building a dazzling team for hislittlesuicide missioninMass Effect 2. But all the same, Illusive believes Shepard is doomed if he can’t score trust from his new squad of intergalactic badasses. If you were thinking, “Hey, I’d like to watch 90 seconds of footage from the next Mass Effect” this afternoon, then consider us mind readers. Above is a full, beautiful 90 seconds ofME2, featuring bits of radical dialogue from Martin Sheen’s pipes and some decent origins-related action (big worm, ftw)....

For those looking forward to college football on their PSP this year, you are going to be disappointed.IGNhas confirmed thatNCAA Football 11will not be landing on Sony’s portable gaming machine. EA doesn’t really cite any reasons for this, but why don’t we just guess that it has something to do with poor sales ofNCAA Football 10on the system. If you want to jump into the helmet of your favorite college football player while riding the bus any time soon then you’ve only got one option now....

Have an iPhone? LikeSpore? Like free stuff? Sweet. So listen up: we’ve got 10 “copies” ofEA Mobile’sSpore: Originsto giveaway. By copies, we meanSpore: Originsgift cards featuring codes redeemable on iTunes for one copy of the game.Spore: Originsis the mobile spin-off of Will Wright’s “evolutionary” PC game where you’ll focus on the “cell phase” of your created creature. While I don’t own an iPhone or an iPod Touch, I had a chance to check the game out at an event not too long ago and was surprised at how fun it actually was....

[Update]Contest closed! Winners have been notified. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Dtoiders! It’s the final week of 2010 and we have just one last contest thanks to Croteam! Yes, we’re giving away Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter again, this time the retail PC version. You have untilDecember 31 at 11:59PM CSTto enter and contest is open toUS residents only. No limit to entry, but you must space out your answers so that at least three other people have entered before you can comment again....

Not content to merely report news, Brian “Apparently Old Enough To Be My Dad” Crecente opted to wag the dog earlier by postinga videoover at Kotaku in which he plays a record sent to him as a promotion for Tim Schafer’s upcoming très mysterious titleBrütal Legend. Aside from rocking hard enough to resurrect really sexy zombie women — possibly with nefarious intentions — the Jack-Black-led track sets the tone for the title as reveling in everything butt rock....

The release of Codemasters’ “vertical shooter”Damnationcreeps ever nearer, and to celebrate we have a new video and some screenshots for you all to look at before saying, “Yawn, this doesn’t look very good. Slow news day? Next,” or some other hilariously apathetic thing. The new video is, like Captain Falcon, all about the moves. The Darkwing Duck-style character is shown flipping around, zipping down wires, jumping from walls, and doing pretty much all you’d expect from your average acrobatic action hero....

Last year’sSpectrobeswas a marked success: Disney shipped over 700,000 copies of the game, and it was the highest-selling third-party game for March 2007. Not bad for Disney’s first original IP, developed by the then-unknown Jupiter (their earmark title,The World Ends with Youwasn’t published until 2008). Of course, that isn’t to say that Disney didn’t hype the holy hell out of the title, or that part of its success is due to its striking similarity to another popular franchise about battling creatures against other creatures....

The Mawis a game that I have been looking forward to for some time now. One of the PAX 10, ten independent games selected for showing at last year’s Penny Arcade Expo, it won the hearts of those in attendance and was given the Audience Choice award. The developer, Twisted Pixel, is trying to fill a niche on Xbox Live Arcade by delivering a platformer with high production values to a service which frequently lacks both....

I’ve come to really love my iPhone for the bouts of quick and easy gaming it can provide, which comes in especially handy for impatient moments such as waiting in line at the bank. I have a modest handful of favorites for that purpose, but I’m always open to discover a new one. EnterTrixel, a puzzle title from Adept Games that starts off deceptively simple and grows more challenging as you progress....

A few months back we heard a rumor that said that Sony had lowered the WiFi Vita model’s RAM, cutting it in half, from 512MB to 256MB.Reality Fightersdeveloper Novarama latest comment substantiates that rumor. “It’s actually good for developers to work under constraint,” Novarama CEO Dani Sánchez-Crespo toldDevelop. “Generally for Vita, we still have a whole lot of headroom in terms of GPU power, CPU power and, indeed, RAM.” The developer reminds us that the original PSP only had 32MB of RAM....

TheProfessor Laytonseries is finally getting its second English entry withProfessor Layton and the Diabolical Box. This entry of the series will center around the mysterious box mentioned in the title, which seems to cause death to whomever opens it. The gameplay takes place in several different towns, as the Professor and Luke travel around by train to do their interrogating and puzzle solving. While the release date for the game has yet to be announced, there is a whole mess of screenshots and art for you to chew on in the meantime, not to mention the above trailer....

Hey, remember those posts I put up earlier today? The 3DS one with Hollie, and the one where I act drunk (even though I’m totally not drunk)? Yeah, because of my obsessive need to get those videos up as soon as possible, I missed my flight home from E3. Luckily, I got another flight, but now I wont be home until tomorrow. Blogging ain’t easy. You’d think I’d have learned to not let my compulsive need to post videos get the best of me again, but I haven’t....