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Fun easter egg fromThe Witcher 2, as spotted by Felix. Tara gave us an update onDead Island, as did Nick withGotham City Impostors; voting is open for the next Backlog game, so you should get up on that; Bob Sagat inStreet Fighter X Tekkenis going to be a meme for a while to come; and more went down on 5/17/11. Destructoid Originals:Interview: Inversion game director on gravity & gameplayLive show: Mash Tactics plays LA Noir…maybeVote in Backlog Series 14: Wanna B UR Fantasy...

Last week, Husky Hog and I got our paintball on and shot up members of the gaming press and pro paintball players. It was my first time playing paintball and I had a lot of fun putting the hurt on others. Well, until I got nailed in the head with five paintball blasts in a row. That sucked. After we were finished experiencing real world paintball, it was time to play the virtual kind....

Jim takes a stance on the eSports controversy, Nintendo is feeling the pressure to develop for the mobile platform, Google+ will be getting games and more exciting things happened on 8/11/11. Destructoid Original:eSports defenders: The reason why eSports can’t be sportsThe Memory Card .100: Where it all began …Live show: Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet with creatorsLive Show: Backlog begins 3D Dot Game Heroes Community:eSports: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Swarm...

The rumor mill has been kicking some ass these past few weeks! We have yet another confirmation, this time validating thespeculationthat famed Japanese director Takashi Miike’s new film would be a live-action version of the zany DS courtroom gamePhoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Story bits are currently nonexistent, but we do know that it will be produced by Nippon Television and distributed by Toho, and that it scheduled to be released in Spring 2012....

Tons of 3DS news came out this weekend. Like a crazy buttload. Some good, some bad and the battery is probably going to be bad. Oh noes! And now,Amenisais pretty damn scary. CES 2011:CES: Yep, Torchlight on a consoleCES: Bejeweled Blitz Live is insanely competitiveCES: Mad Catz has 3DS accessories, mini Wii controllersCES: Let’s see you get a quick start in this thingCES: Can’t catch a good hand in Full House PokerCES: See?...

In an effort to perhaps distract gamers from the fact that its competition releases this week (Electronic Art’sSkate), Activision has announced that a demo forTony Hawk’s Proving Groundwill be available on Xbox Live tomorrow. As shown above, the demo will show off some of the game’s new features, like modifying the environment, nail the trick, the in-game video editor, and more. No word yet on a demo for the PlayStation 3 version of the title, but there’s a chance we’ll see it later this month....

You’ll all be thrilled to know that, after a few weeks of being beaten out byrealvideogames, Ubisoft’sJust Danceis back where it belongs at the top of the UK Charts! It manages to squash downJust Cause 2, which debuted this week at number two and narrowly lost the battle of the games with “just” in the title. A noble battle indeed. Bad Company 2is still doing pretty well at number three, while bothPokemonremakes are also hanging in there....

Despite its heavily pirated status, it would appear thatThe Sims 3has dominated the UK charts this week. EA’s latest in the life and/or torture simulator is said to be very good indeed, with some great new features and, of course, a brand new(un)official nudity patch. Its huge mainstream success made it a shoe-in for the top slot, really. Meanwhile, Sony exclusiveinFAMOUSslips down from five to six, having had perhaps not the best of runs....

It appears we will no longer need to have sleepless nights writing angry things on the Internet over theUnchartedmovie, for now at least, as itsnew writer/director Neil Burgersays he is going back to the game for his script. In fact, he didn’t even read David O. Russell’s version about how Drake and his family will have merry adventures around the world. AsThe Illusionist‘s writer/director tells Crave Online: “It’s really one of the most cinematic videogames, and one that has really developed characters....

That Freddie Wong, HE SO CRAZY! He’s also a dirty camper, and that’s perfectly fine. YO WE GOT SOME VIDEOS FOR YOU! Sonic still sucks,Haloola, it’s the first episode of theMortal Kombatweb series, see someMortal Kombatcharacter tryouts, check out theFinal Fantasy XIIIcover with lyrics, it’s something withMarvel Vs Capcom 3, then it’s a trombone cover theLegend of Zelda, followed by controllers as gun, then it’sFamily GuydoingStreet Fighterand oh my f**king god this is the longest run-on sentence ever but you don’t read this sh*t so just go watch the videos to kill some time on your weekend....

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroesis a role playing RTS puzzle hybrid DS title that is just simply awesome. It was actually the fourth highest rated DS game of 2009! Now, Capybara is bringingClash of Heroesto Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network later this year. Don’t you dare call this a port! Seriously, Capybara people barf whenClash HDis referred to as a port. The biggest obvious change withClash HDis the 2D HD visuals....

A small, unmarked package arrived at the offices of Destructoid East today. Inside was a small USB stick, which contained a text document and an audio file. The text document contained this text: Ember Rebirth The audio file can be heard in the above video. It’s some crazy stuff. Can you crack the code? Well, before I had even had the package delivered,Joystiq already hadit figure it out. You can check their findings, or allow me to spoil it for you: the code, once cracked, reveals the message “APRIL WEEK TWO....

The moment is finally here: the results of ourEtrian Odyssey IIMEGA-Contest! We here at Destructoid, along with the folks fromAtlus, searched through the entries and it certainly wasn’t easy. But in the end, we all agreed on one thing:Evila rocked it. From her awesome illustrations to her compellingEtrian-related tale, she’s well deserving of this hardcore grand prize. Once again, drool over what she won: Grand Prize winner:One female protector figurine; one signed 3-disc soundtrack (signed by composer Yuzo Koshiro); one copy of rare preorder-only-in-japan piano arrangement soundtrack; one copy of orchestrated arrangement soundtrack; one signed copy ofEtrian Odyssey II(signed by director Shigeo Komori)...