NIS America is giving their fans a chance to customize the bonus preorder soundtrack that will be coming withDisgaea 3: Absence of Justice. NIS has setup a site containing short music clips fromDisgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, Disgaea 2: Cursed Memoriesand fromDisgaea 3. There’s a ton of music to choose from and they want you to pick your favorite five tracks from each game. The top 15 favorites will then be put in the bonus soundtrack....

Y’know, sometimes it’s just impossible to find a picture that depicts what you’re talking about in an article. In an abstract way, I guess this picture fits well. Over Spring break, I had to readMy Lai: A History with Documents. If you know anythingabout the incident, it isn’t exactly our proudest moment as a military power. It brought to mind though, thoughts about games likeBattlefield Vietnamand theRainbow Sixseries. Now, what if a game actually put you in a position where you had to make a moral choice like the soldiers at My Lai did?...

Ever since the inclusion of the NES cartridge battery, we’ve had a way to save our progress, giving ourselves a little break from the constant struggle to beat a game in one sitting. It was a truly life-changing invention, really — allowing for the creation of much longer games, and sparing us the need to resort to passcodes. Nowadays, we’ve got a myriad of saving structures, from those found in the overly sparseDead Risingto the quick-saves in most PC games —Half-Life, for example — accessible at any point in time....

Transformers just got cooler. Hasbrohas a cool new line ofTransformerstoys, called Real Gear, that transform from modern tech objects into robots. Two of the Transformers come in the form of videogame objects, a PlayStation 2 Dual Shock controller look-a-like, and a Game Boy Micro look-a-like. These toys are neato, but they’re really small; about three inches in length, and four inches in width. Toys R Usin Canada has these toys on sale for half price — $4....

Destructoid’s own Extra Life 24 hour gaming marathon is only four days away!  On October 16, Dtoid staff and community will streaming 24 hours of solid gaming. From the retro stylings of NES games, to modern games likeJust Dance 2andHalo: Reach, we have a great schedule of awesome gaming for you to check out on ourÂJustin.tv stream! You can check out a full schedule of eventsÂhere! Not only are we going to be entertaining you guys for 24 hours, but we will also be giving away some prizes!...

I’ve only been to a game store twice this week, but I’ve heard preorders for theWorld of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Packboth times. The game is not due out until November 13th, but that’s not stopping WoW gamers from getting the jump. Amazon is sold out of the Limited Edition: As you may know, theWorld of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Collector’s Editionis in great demand, and there are limited quantities of this product across the U....

If you’reSEWPER EXCITEDabout the Xbox 360’s fall update and incoming Xbox Experience features, then you’ll want to hasten toXbox.comand try it all out in virtual form. You can give the Xbox Experience a test drive right now to demo all the upcoming features and see firsthand how it looks. The demonstration will show off everything you need — including dashboard themes, avatars and the redesigned guides and save options. I’ve been trying to load the bugger for a while now, so I can’t tell you whether or not it’s all rubbish....

Square Enix has announced some of the talent which will be lending their voices to the localization of newParasite Evesequel,The 3rd Birthday. Yvonne Strahovski, star of NBC’s geek-favoriteChuckand voice of Miranda Lawson inMass Effect 2will be providing the voice for Aya Brea. Jensen Ackles, from the seriesSupernatural, will be playing Kyle Madigan. I don’t typically approve of the practice of hiring voice talent from a pool of visual arts performers. There’s a wealth of very talented people who work very, very hard solely as voice actors who might be less marketable but offer so much more in terms of skill and talent due to their focus....

Inyet another steptoward becoming Nazi Germany … um … again, Germany revealed thatCrackdown, the upcoming magnum opus from some of the magicians behindGrand Theft Autois to be banned from regular sale in their country. Apparently the game is too violent for a country with such a rich history of tolerance and compassion towards all creatures great and small. To be more specific (and less offensive) the game was refused classification by Unterhaltungssoftware Selbskontrolle which, in Deutschland puts it just a notch below videos of women being sodomized by horses....

Look, I drink … Because of this fact, I’ve been invited,yet again, to be on the-always-worthyEpileptic Gamingtonight. What are we doing, you ask? Well my little darling, we will be giving ourtop five gamesthat cause us to want to murder cute bunnies andburn down orphanages. Basically, all the good stuffJack Thompson cries about. Tune in at 7 p.m Eastern/4 p.m. Pacific,right here, to catch the pure awesomeness.

The “Gamers Heart Japan” special we told you about last week has now gone live across the web. Pulled together byElectric Playground‘s Victor Lucas, it’s an hour-long video special featuring interviews with game developers and journalists, all of whom have come together to raise awareness in support of relief efforts for Japan. For more information, visit theofficial “Gamers Heart Japan” website, and help spread the word for this great cause....

Didn’t make it into Microsoft’s New Xbox Experience preview program and can’t seem to hold your horses until the November 19 launch? Here’s a bad idea — pirate it! Yup, the install files for the New Xbox Experience have made their way to the Internet, and it certainly works to update your console. But asPlatform Nation(who went ahead updated their system with these files) puts it, “you may not connect online with it till November 19th....

In arecent article inNintendo PowerShigeru Miyamoto got to talking about 3D games versus 2D and voiced his opinion that going 3D isn’t always the best thing. It’s an age old argument, and considering Miyamoto has delivered unto us some of the greatest games in both styles in one franchise (New Super Mario Bros. Wii, FTW) his opinion on the matter should probably be respected. “I don’t think everything needs to be 3D, or that just because we’re seeing more 2D games now, that everything’s going to shift back to 2D....