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I’d recommend you simply skip to the dedicated sections forPlayStation 3,Wii,Xbox 360, andDS. For those feeling lazy, here are some of the better deals:DarksidersPS3($14.99),God of War III($21.99),Final Fantasy XIIIPS3($24.99),Dante’s Inferno360($19.99),BioShock 2360($14.99),Aliens vs. Predator360($14.99),WarioWare D.I.Y.($19.99),Miles Edgeworth($14.99),No More Heroes 2($14.99), andPunch-Out!! Wii($24.99). Again, there are more great deals to be had than what I could cram into a single paragraph; go reward yourself for months of patience. As for the photo, Jonathan Ross has been getting intoTwin Peakslately....

In New York, this Saturday, you’ll want to put on your boots and spurs and head on down tol the ol’ GameStop (the Union Square store) for the Rockstar Games/GameStop hosted exclusive event forRed Dead Redemption. Starting at 9 p.m., gamers can play the game a day before launch and nab a whole bunch of game-related swag. You must be 17 or over to attend. For the rest of you, you can attend your local GameStop’sRDRmidnight launch the next day....

Naturally, I don’t really have anything dramatic to put here, this game does what it says on the tin. It is a singing game that is all about the UK’s finest export (other than BritToid of course) known as Robbie Williams. For some reason totally unbeknown to me, karaoke games sell REALLY well in the UK and Europe. We take some time to watch a very pretty German girl sing her heart out to a Robbie Williams ballad while we discuss how well these games sell and what they have done to make the game feel like more than “just a game with Robbie songs in it....

Jonatan Soderstrom, aka “cactus,” stole the show at last year’s Independent Games Summit with his surreal, multimedia presentation entitled “The Four-Hour Game Design.“ (Also: if you don’t know who cactus is, I’d suggest you spend the next week playing throughevery game he’s ever made. They’re alternately wacky, fun, surreal, irritating, totally independent experiences.) This year, cactus delivered a talk about, in his words, “abusive design, and why you’d want to be mean to your players....

So I talked about this inmy full hands-on preview, but I felt this news needed a story of its own just so everyone is aware here. In case you haven’t found out yet,Saints Row: The Thirdhas a new “sex appeal” feature that’s been added to the character customization option. Basically, you may give your character a gigantic penis or gigantic breasts depending on the sex of your character. Obviously, your clothes bulge in size based on how big your sexual package is....

It’s hard to know exactly where the NBA would be today without the onslaught of game-changing superstars that shaped one of the country’s most dynamic sports. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird defined the era of the game we have come to know and love, but they too were influenced by their predecessors. With last year’sNBA 2K11, players experienced the thrill of lacing up a pair of Jordan’s Nikes, and this year’s game looks to up the experience even further....

Since release, the PC version ofGrand Theft Auto IVhas been under fire. Curiously, it isn’t because players can kill hookers or run over pedestrians. The player-side clambering is the result of a plethora of bugs present in the game. Rockstar is in the process of certifying a patch for the game and recently released the notes for it. As pointed out by1UP, it appears as though the nastier issues consumers have reported on various message boards (framerate and texture problems) have yet to be addressed by Rockstar....

It looks like those Xbox LIVE individual music stores that have been teased since the last update are finally hitting today. Microsoft has announced that stores forRock Band,Lips, andGuitar Heroshould be available for download today. The first store, Guitar Hero VIP Pass, is a standalone program that points to all available downloadable content for theHerotitles. In functionality, it looks and feels a heck of a lot like theRock Bandmusic store which already exists in-game....

WithHalf-Life 2: Episode Threeplanned to be the grand finale’ of theHalf-Life 2story arc, you may be forgiven for wondering what’s next in the parade of constant interruptions for the long suffering Gordon Freeman. Well, we can keep wondering, but at least we know there will be (half) life afterEpisode Threeas, quite unsurprisingly, a new sequel is definitely on the cards. The confirmationcame from Valve’s Dave Lombardi who simply had this to say:...

There isn’t much I can say about this trailer except that it reminds me of how badly I want to be playingMight and Magic Heroes VI.Too bad it was pushed back from September to October. There is asilver liningthough. Games like this make me sad that I’m so terrible at strategy. Maybe I should just play thedemofor now and get some practice. The newly released demo will contain hours of gameplay, including all tutorial and prologue maps....

New HAWP is up on GameTrailers —this one‘s aboutGuitar Hero. Nobody seems to like it that much, but them’s the breaks. Also, we’ve got a new schedule going: you get a new HAWP every other Thursday. The original plan was to do three HAWPs a month by posting one, every week, for three weeks in a row and then skipping a week, but that schedule is insane and makes no sense....

[Editor’s Note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware that it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now on ourcommunity blogs.] Heavy Rainreleased last week and hopefully, by now, everybody’s had plenty of time to play and complete it....

I first heard ofWarhammer 40,000: Space Marineyears ago, when test footage leaked online. I was hooked from the get-go, but things went silent and we’d heard nothing about the game until fairly recently, where it was suddenly being developed by Relic Entertainment. So, what happened to the game in that time? “Space Marinewas originally developed by one of our sister studios in Australia, at some point they decided to ship it over to Relic,” says producer Andy Lang....