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People often hurl accusations of console bias towards Destructoid. However, I also want to prevent any of you fine folks from thinking that we’re prejudiced towards a specific publisher. Last week, I put upmy impressionsof theMLB 08: The ShowPSN demo. This week, I’m reporting on its competition, 2K Sports’Major League Baseball 2K8. In case you’re confused, here’s the skinny: 2K Sports’ exclusivity deal with Major League Baseball only applies to third-party games, so Sony is free to produce their own baseball videogame....

[Our final promotion for our Digital Distribution Bloggers Wanted topic is from meteorscrap. He likes digital distribution, but has some issues with the way certain publishers are going about it. Don’t forget, you still have all weekend to work on yourDownloadables blogs. Once Monday comes, a new topic will be posted and late Downloadables blogs won’t be eligible for promotion. — JRo] Let me state something before I launch into this: In theory, I have nothing against digital distribution as opposed to physical media....

Wolfensteinis out,Modern Warfare 2is preparing for the hype campaign of a lifetime. Buried in between these games isSingularity, Activision’s third FPS that hasn’t been getting quite as much press. Now thatWolfensteinisfinished and reviewed, I can give this game a bit more attention, which is good because the screenshots are making it look quite freaky indeed. Some of these screens may befamiliarto you, some are new. You probably won’t be able to tell the difference anyway....

I’ve never really been all that in to the Warhammer 40K universe — maybe because of the expensive miniature army building side of the franchise. All this new media THQ sent in fromWarhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IIis really making me want to rectify that situation, though. Aside from the great looking screens in the gallery, there are also two new trailers after the jump. The first is a cinematic trailer that shows members of the Space Marines and Eldar beating the stuffing out of each other....

Leave it to me to be all about seeing a fairly obscure title when I headed to this year’s E3. One of the ones high on my list that fits this description wasJu-On: The Grudge, a game based on the Japanese horror film of the same name. Since it was described as a “haunted house simulator” rather than a straightforward horror game, I was especially curious to see how it played....

Yes, the video looks amazing, and yes, the PS3 is getting some amazing titles coming to it, but after watching this whole thing I’m left with a hankering to playPanzer Dragoon. I guess there’s just a certain part of me that thinks things were better in the old days before dragons looked like dragons. Back then we had to kickstart our Sega Saturns and only had twenty minutes of play time before the electricity in our sector had to be shut down to avoid detection by the roving bands of robotic squid high above....

Skylanders Spyro’s Adventuresees the return of the lovable purple dragon and he’s joined by a wide variety of heroes. All 32 of the playable heroes will also come in actual toy form. The figures are important here as you have to have them in order to playSkylanders. Every copy of of the game will come packed with a “Portal of Power” device, a round external adapter which plugs into your console....

Electronic Artswill be bringinga game based on the popularFor Dummiesself-help books to the Nintendo DS.Poker For Dummiesis the first in a series and is already on PC, but the first DS venture will be … amazingly …Travel Games For Dummies. If you’re so utterlystupidthat you need a tutorial to learn how to use a frigging crossword, you shouldn’t have been able to master breathing in and out, but nevertheless,Travel Games For Dummieswill provide such a tutorial, as well as lessons in Sudoku and Solitaire, a game I learned the basics of when I was six years old....

Last weekReverend Anthony pumped out another fake game idea that will surely come true along with hisL.A. NoireandFirefly MMOpredictions that he made long ago. This week we bring you another reader submission that unfortunately sounds too damn fun for the industry to handle. Wewelcomeall the serious and wacky ideas your gamer heads can compose, but combining two already existing games seems to have the most intriguing outcomes. This week Dtoid reader Crackhippo has managed to combine the fighting gameBushido Blade 2with the music simulation gameGuitar Heroto create a murderous musical that I’d play in a dying heartbeat....

TheCuldceptseries rules. If you like board games, card games and screwing over your friends, there are few games which can compare. But, apart from a PS2 release andCuldcept Sagafor the Xbox 360, predominately English-speakingCuldceptfans like the attractive and popular people pictured above have been left out in the cold. Thankfully, some stalwart heroes over at GBATempcame to the rescueand have been working on an open translation of last year’sCuldcept DS. While things look to have stalled out a bit on the project, all of the cards have had their mechanics translated....

Some Internet sleuths have discovered that Square Enix uploaded bothFinal Fantasy VIIandFinal Fantasy VIIIto Steam, although it seems highly unlikely the publisher will ever release them. The games are based on the PC ports of each game, developed by Eidos in 1998 and 2000. According to the Intel, Square Enix went so far as to make some edits to the programs in order to make them run better on modern PCs....

[Editor’s note: unangbangkay takes a deep hard look at theFinal Fantasyseries and talks about whether the series should change the formula or keep things as they are. — CTZ] In a sentence, I thinkFinal Fantasyis a brand that still floats. She may not ride as high on the waves of innovation as we might want, but that’s no reason to sink her. The Escapistrecently posted an article entitled“The BattleshipFinal Fantasy“....

Ah,Persona 4: amazing new title, or complete rehash of the sublimePersona 3? It’s hard to say for sure, but since the recenttrailersurfaced on the nets fans have been atwitter about this upcoming Atlus release. Skeptical or not, I can tell you that the dayP4comes out I’m going to rush and buy it and then tear it open in the car like a 5 year old. It might be the equivalent ofPersona 3....