The giraffe has lost its mind. Toys R Us is having a HUGE video game sale this week. All games are “Buy 2 get 1 free,” including new releases! This includes titles from the website, so you could score a great deal on some games that haven’t even been released yet. Not only are the games on the cheap, Wii accessories are also deeply discounted. You can score 40% off on all sorts of plastic crap for your waggle machine....

My fiancée and I are rarely go to bed at the same time. I usually roll in there about ten or twelve hours after she does because of our work schedules. That’s not really a problem, except that she’s taken to curling up with my good pillow at night. Which is sickeningly adorable right up until the point that I decide I want to take a nap. So, I have a completely practical reason to spend sixty dollars (5040 yen) pre-ordering this Okamiden plushie....

Tonight I went to a little pre-Digital Life event for the press. A few of the vendors who will be at the show were there including my friends at SCEA — friends as in, I’ve never actually met anyone from SCEA before despite being a gaming journalist for two years. Moving on.I played three levels ofResistance: Fall of Manfor the PlayStation 3 and oh, what a wonderful 15 minutes that was....

Gather your pixie dust and join the Chill Bros live right now onJustin.tv/Destructoidas we play the gameFaery: Legends of Avalon. Pull up your tights and sprinkle on the glitter for a chance to win your very own copy of Faery! Join us in the chat to find out how to win. We broadcast live daily from 4 PM Pacific every weekday, and 12 PM Pacific on weekends.

If you’re burnt out on Activision’s steady flow of Spider-Man titles, you might want to give a second look at Shaba Games’Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. During a video demonstration of the game at last night’s “not E3” press conference, Activision showed off some of the game’s cool looking and intense combat, which features both air battles and vertical wall fighting. Additionally, it looks like the game’s mechanic involves switching between Spider-Man’s red and black suits on the fly; the red suit will give Spider-Man quicker, more acrobatic abilities, while the black suit is for more aggressive power fighting....

You can imagine Microsoft is feeling pretty smug about yesterday’s “MEGATON ZOMG SQUARE-ENIX BE TRAITORZ” announcement thatFinal Fantasy XIIIwas heading to the Xbox 360, but in case your imagination wasn’t enough, here’s what Aaron Greenberg told reporters following the event: We have a white board that lists all of the games people said we’d never get. That list is getting smaller. At the very top of the white board, one has to guess thatMetal Gear Solid 4sits itching to be wiped off....

This might be the best box art to come out in the last twenty years. Seriously, where do I start? The awesome airbrush job? The ridiculous designs of Mega Man and Dr. Wily? The classic grid background? Hell, it actually uses the phrases “Ultrasound Graphics Synthesis” and “8-bit Fidelity Engine.” This is the best box art EVER! Capcom is getting everything right with the retro throwback that isMega Man 9. If you read my hands-onimpressionsyesterday you know I love the game....

Would it not be awesome to be rewarded for your endeavors with shiny things on the PSP platform as well? This may soon be a possibility.Gamespotrecently sat down for a presentation ofBuzz! Master Quizfor the PSP, where producer Emerson Escobar may have accidently unveiled a cross-platform Trophy system. We’ve also implemented a trophy system. Let’s say you answer a question within one second, you get a lightning finger trophy. If you answer a question within half a second, you get a supersonic trophy....

My headline makes no sense, but neither does anything else anyone says on Twitter.As you may have heard, now that senselessness now will spread to the Xbox 360, along with the Internet’s other time crunch, Facebook. This combo of timesinks are perfect for those guys who never shut their Xbox 360 off. And those people would be us. As the lovely Felicia Day explains in this video, you’ll be able to view your Facebook photos and status updates on your living room television....

Those questions include: Who would win a fight between a Kraken and a stegosaurus? Who would win in a fight between a Kraken, God, and Albert Einstein? The answer, according to 5th Cell’sScribblenauts, is always the Kraken. Scribblenautswas announced last yearand we’re finally, six months later, starting to see that it lives up to its promises. The game follows young Maxwell, who wears a rooster helmet (!), as he tries to collect little things called “Starites” by solving puzzles....

Here at Microsoft’s E3 media briefing they just showed this above live demonstration of cat pet gameKinectimals. Watch on as this girl pets her beloved tiger, Skittles. I almost needed to barf from the cuteness. Even the grown men in this audience were awwing when the saw the tiger cub run up to the television screen when the girl hid behind the podium. I…I’m not even a cat guy. But I want this....

Destructoid was very lucky to catch a rare glimpse of one of gaming’s most iconic videogame characters, Mario himself. He was also joined by some weird blue rat thing who nobody’s ever heard of. They wandered past as we waited for a meeting with Sega and, as you’re able to see from ourdamningfootage, they truly did “kiss and make up” after the notorious Nintendo/Sega war of the nineties. I guess this is the only way Sonic can get into a decent videogame alongside a character who still has some dignity, right?...

Sega’s demo for the Vita version ofVirtua Tennis 4wasn’t very long, but it did a good job of showing off two key points. The first is that it is very nice looking, with high-resolution graphics that hold up to any console version of the game. The other is that the game supports touchscreen controls. While the standard button controls can be used, you have the option of using the touchscreen at any time....