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Remember how disturbed you were when you sawears growin’ off the backs of freakish deathmutant mice?The sensation of bearing witness to such an unnatural creation — a strange, sickly curiousity oscillating in the pit of your gut — is not unlike what you might feel watching the above video, in which a man playsDoomon his iPod mounted snugly inside an NES controller. Intrepid modder f00 f00 put together this little video demonstrating his creation, complete with the vaguely eroticinterfacingof the iPod and modified NES controller, gutted and reconfigured to fit the dock connector....

Tomonobu Itagaki, gaming’s pimp and maker ofNinja Gaiden, Dead or Aliveand some other boob-filled games, is ready to show off the work he has been plowing away at since he moved to Valhalla Game Studios some time back. His efforts as an independent game studio will be unveiled at E3, he says. …this announcement will be the fifth all-new project in my lifetime. I don’t know if that number is large or small, but I know as a fact that every one of these announcements was a presentation of a new gaming paradigm from me to all of you....

Yes,anothertrailer forJust Cause 2. Avalanche sure is lucky we have a mighty appetite for destruction around these parts. I guarantee all sorts of stuff is going to explode in the most glorious of fashions. watches trailer Hey, what gives?! A video about an airplane squaring off against a firetruck and the two objects don’t even collide? Malarkey, I say! Since that was so uneventful, let us discuss a more pressing matter: the PC version ofJust Cause 2and its startling lack of Windows XP support....

I’m not going to sugar coat this:Risenlooks like a poor man’sFable. In factRisendoesn’t look like it’s going to be doing anything that earth shattering at all. However, if you’re in the mood to play a traditional Western RPG it could be just the ticket for you as this launch trailer clearly and obviously demonstrates. All the cliches are there: choose your own path, save the world, hack at enemies, cast magic spells, airy female voice narrating....

Wah, wah,Left 4 Deadis getting no support from Valve! I guess they better put away this brand new campaign, then. “Crash Course” is coming to PC and Xbox 360, a brand new two-chapter campaign geared towards Versus Play and providing a shorter, more intense multiplayer experience. I’m the first person outside of Valve to play it, and I’ve been biting my tongue all week. Crash Course is set shortly after the events of No Mercy, where it’s revealed that the helicopter pilot who rescued Bill, Zoey, Louis and Francis was actually infected....

Sure, the structures inThe Saboteurburst into chunks when RDX (remote TNT) is applied, but does one of the most common farm flesh-bags react the same way? The answer is yes. In thelatest Electronic Arts podcast, EA.com’s editor-in-chief Jeff Green aired an earlier interview he had withThe Saboteurlead designer Tom French. In it, French mentioned that the structures in the game are built from interlocking pieces much like LEGO towers. Mixing and swapping bases and roofs gives areas a unique flavor and keeps us from spotting — and being annoyed by — a stream of reused assets....

As you may already know,3D Realms is dead. With them gone, the fate ofDuke Nukem Foreveris up in the air.We’ve beenseeingsome picturesfromDuke Nukem Foreverpop up around the Internet this past week, but what everyone has really been waiting for is for some gameplay footage. Thanks toKfizz’s quick blogging, we now have some awesome footage from the game. First off, holy sht this looks great! The animation for the enemy Pigs and creatures looks great, the classic Duke humor is there (Duke freaking btch smacks the back of a giant bosses’ head) and there’s even a boss fight in a football stadium again!...

Shacknews brings uswordthat EA’s somewhat anticipated mega-RPGThe Lord of the Rings: The White Councilhas been cancelled. The game was set to combine the open-world, single-player-MMO dynamic ofOblivionwith Tolkien’s familiar and oft-copied climes, and as such, it was one of the biggest releases based on the property sinceBilbo’s Mule Adventure. While (book-to-)movie-to-game translations rarely work, theLord of the Ringsseries had donesurprisingly wellfor itself. It didn’t hurt things that Tolkien’s ideas have been the blueprint for everything fromDungeons And DragonstoWarcraft,but it was also evident that EA was putting forth more than their usual effort when translating an existing IP to a game....

Turbine has set the date forThe Lord of the Rings Online: Rise of Isengard‘s invite-only beta: Wednesday, July 27. North American and European gamers can pre-purchasethis third expansionto get preferred access to the beta, which is a little sad, but that’s how we roll in 2011. Because one option isn’t enough, there are three choices for pre-purchasers. There’s a Base Edition ($29.99), Heroic Edition ($39.99), and the suitably named Legendary Edition ($49....

I like the late night Sunday post because it means that i know one of my stories is going to be seen on Monday morning when everyone gets to work and immeadiatley starts not doing work by reading Destructoid. Thus I am wont to save something extra special for the slot on some occasions and I can’t think of a more deserving subject thanMachinarium. Above we have a brief new trailer for the beautiful point-and-click puzzle/adventure game and below we have some new concept artwork....

A few days ago,1Up revealedthatMarvelous Entertainment(famous for itsHarvest Moonand, more recently, for publishing Grasshopper’sNo More Heroes) have announced a new DS game calledSakura Note. Japanese DS games are a dime a dozen, but very few of them have quite the pedigree thatSakura Noteboasts: The game is a story-driven adventure game that takes place in two towns. Players control a young boy trying to figure out why a band of ghosts is tormenting Nanami, the pretty new girl at school....

The guys over atGameProgot to attend an invite-only gaming marathon held by Nintendo and managed to lay their hands on a playable version ofMetroid Prime: Corruption. It looks like they had a blast with the title, to say the least. Here are their impressions of the game: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Definitely stole the the show. The graphics looked amazing — better than Halo 2 on the Xbox without a doubt — and the levels showed off sparkling details, proving the Wii is far more powerful than the Gamecube....

The corporate pissing contest continues as Sony and Microsoft bicker like children some more. Last week, Sonyaccused Microsoftof “peddling add ons” with the Xbox 360, claiming that the system was too expensive if you wanted the full set of features. Naturally, Microsoft hasbitten back, continuing the world’s least fun flame war. “Our strategy from the beginning was to have multiple SKUs with a very flexible offering so the customer can choose the experience that they want,” claims MS man David Dennis....