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The gang over atGoNintendohave come across some newSuper Smash Brawldetails. According to the Web page of (the really hot) voice actressAlesia Glidewell, she is voicing Krystal from theStarfoxseries inBrawl. She has voiced Krystal in the past and she is also voicing Knuckle Joe and Zero Suit Samus inBrawlas well. (Taking a quick look at her previous work, it seems that Alesia is getting some great jobs in the gaming world. She’s going to be inCondemned 2,Left 4 Deadand Chell fromPortalis completely modeled after Alesia....

Details are few and far between (aren’t they always) butStar Ocean: The Last Hopewas announced yesterday at a Japan-only Xbox 360 press conference. World War III has ruined Earth, and humanity has jumped ship in search of a new place to live, literally planet hopping through “a star ocean.” I c wut u did thar, Square Enix.This is a prequelto the previousStar Oceangames and will feature Edge and Remi as hero and heroine, respectively....

The last time there was talk of Warren Spector’sEpic Mickeyon any other console than Wii, that talk was mercilessly put down. Because of the motion controls, the Wii was the only system considered forMickey‘s painting chicanery. However, with Natal and the Sony Wiimote hovering on the horizon, plans may change. “The key mechanic is an ink and paint mechanic,” says Disney’s Graham Hopper. “We have a very large audience base that has Wiis in their home … that’s not to say that we won’t go to other platforms....

Eric Hittinger is a PhD student and researcher in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s also a gamer and Destructoid reader. His feeling was that the Wii isn’t necessarily ‘greener’ than any other of the game consoles when it came to power consumption. This all led to his latest paper, “Power Consumption of Video Game Consoles Under Realistic Usage Patterns.” In this he found that the Wii really isn’t a lightweight when it comes to power consumption....

Hey, remember whenStreet Fighter IVproducer Yoshinori Ono informed gamers thatthere won’t be an arcade version ofSuper Street Fighter IV? Well, there may still be some hope for arcade fans. I spoke with Seth Killian, Senior Manager at Capcom andStreet Fighterguru, at a press event on Wednesday, and when I asked him about the possibility ofSSFIVin arcades, the first thing out of his mouth was, “That’s a complicated football of a question....

Videogames are a constantly and rapidly evolving medium. While this means that amazing advances in gameplay and graphics consistently surprise us, it also means that those very same advances are destined to look rustic, quaint or simply atrocious in the short space of a few years. Just take the PlayStation era. The move from sprite-based gaming to 3D was hailed as a masterpiece, yet most of the PSOne “classics” of the day are regarded as rather sub-par now....

[Update:According tothis interview with IGN, the game is influenced by the originalLegend of Zelda, Satanism scares of the 1980s, and a passage from the bible about Abraham nearly sacrificing his son in order to show his dedication to God. You play as a “kid whose mum wants to kill him, and he escapes into the basement to get away from her and eventually – maybe – conquer her.” Awesome.] Almost immediately after completingSuper Meat Boy, Tommy Refenes andEdmund McMillen(otherwise known as Team Meat, the two man development team behind the game) were begot with questions about what their next project would be....

A bunch of community members rocked it as Mr. Destructoid (that’s pheonix-blood above), Zen Albatross showed us a Chiptune concert, a bunch of pictures from PAX were posted and ScottyG showed off his epic gift to Niero and Colette. Don’t expect the PAX posts to stop anytime soon as more stuff is on the way throughout the week! Jim talked , the PSP is blatantly better than the DS, help fly Gabe Newell to Australia, Toys ‘R’ Us starts doing videogame trade-ins and more awesomesauce happened over the weekend....

In case you didn’t know (like me up until the other night), Saban Brands bought back the rights to thePower Rangerlicense. Saban wants to make thePower Rangersa household name once again, and it’s starting off with the newPower Rangers Samuraiseries premiering on Nickelodeon next week. What’s that have to do with videogames? Well Namco Bandai will be working on newPower Rangersgames for “all major consoles and handheld home console videogame platforms....

They were going to take HaloWars.com down. December 15th was the kill date. Mean ol’ Microsoft. But fans complained. They wouldn’t be able to check their stats and leaderboards as easily. They made noise. That noise was heard. “After seeing the reaction and passion fromHalo Warsfans as well as Halo FPS fans who were concerned about the future of other Halo titles, we determined that the previously stated plan of action was not in line with our intended plan of loyal support for Halo games,” Microsoft said in a statement to IGN....

It’s Monday morning, and many of us have returned to the daily grind of nine to five. Working hard for the money to pay your bills. Working hard, no doubt, to earn the opportunity to spend $21 dollars on today’s fine selection of Virtual Console releases:Lode Runner(NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points),Sonic the Hedgehog 2(Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points), andGolden Axe II(Sega Genesis, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)....

Madballs in Babo Invasionis an upcoming XBLA title where you’ll be playing as murderous disgusting looking ball demon things. I brought youa preview of forMadballsyesterday and it’s actually a pretty fun game. It’s promising to be one of the deepest experiences on XBLA thanks to all the features that developer Playbrains has put into it. While previews are nice, videos are always better and we have three videos forMadballsfor you all to check out....

Electronic Arts has officially thrown in its lot with the Sony Wiimote, announcing thatTiger Woods PGA Tour 11will support the PS3 motion controller. This is where we’d somehow tie motion control in with Woods’ sex scandal, but we’re too sleepy to come up with a good joke. You figure it out. EA says that the new controller will give gamers an “authentic swing experience.” Of course, anything involving Tiger would be an authenticswingexperience OH YES I MANAGED TO MAKE A JOKE ABOUT IT!...