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In a game characterized by it’s utterly bizarre psuedo-plot, you’d expect things like controllable eggs, crying babies and Ken Kutaragi, but that’s not the case. The new commercial for Elite Beat Agents (DToid’s new favorite handheld game) is light on the ‘WTF?’ factor and heavy on the game-play factor. It even eschews any mention (or screens) of the bizarro plot (which would probably just confuse people anyway). Which do you guys prefer; the psuedo-intellectual, crazy-crap-every-second Sony ads or the more straightforward, gameplay-heavy Nintendo ads?...

A few minutes ago, we received a press release from Activision detailing the latest eight songs to be added to the tracklist of their 1980s-themedGuitar Heroexpansion,Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s. Here’s the rundown: · Hold On Loosely (as made famous by .38 Special)· No One Like You (as made famous by Scorpions)· Only a Lad (as made famous by Oingo Boingo)· Radar Love (as made famous by White Lion)· Ballroom Blitz (as made famous by Krokus)· The Warrior (by Scandal)· What I Like About You (as made famous by The Romantics)· Wrath Child (as made famous by Iron Maiden)...

Courtesy of the fine folks atSPOnG, Destructoid has received word that the Viennese company,Bplus, is the first to announce an original title for Nintendo’supcoming WiiWare channel. Since Austrians always say it better, you can have it from them in their own words: “The Viennese company Bplus, which celebrates its fourth birthday today on 07-07-07, is proud to announce to be, as Nintendo official developer, among the first that offer original game titles for the new Wii download service....

We had already confirmed the Firemint’sFlight Control HDwas coming to the PlayStation Network. We told you it would work with PlayStation Move. We told you that if you didn’t have PlayStation Move, you could play it with your standard DualShock 3 or SIXAXIS controller. Here’s what we didn’t tell you (because Firemint decided to tell us about it today) — you’ll also be able to play it in 3D! Yes, you’ll be able to experience the joys of flight landing direction in eye-popping stereoscopic 3D, provided you have the 3D television and 3D glasses to make it so....

Sony Online Entertainment is bringing their popular (and free) MMO to Mac later this fall. The company announced today that they’ve collaborated with TransGaming to to bring the Macintosh user base the ability to play along with the existing 14 million registered players [wow!] that already get down withFree Realmson the PC. “There is no denying the overwhelming player demand forFree Realmson the Mac platform, of which we plan to deliver very soon,” said John Smedley, president of SOE....

Last weekwe came to the conclusion of the SNES / Sega Genesis odd debate brackets, withNBA Jamheating up andDonkey Kong Countryon a banana and balloon filled rampage. Each side made their way to the semifinals by doubling their competitors’ vote totals along the way, and by keeping true to that same pattern, so did the winner of last week’s debate. Here is the one who came out on top: This week we move on to the PlayStation odd debate brackets, with four more games battling with other games they’ve rarely been compared to....

Every now and then I get into a right proper mood where all I can think about isAliens-related stuff. I shall probably write anotherAliensgame feature this week, which I’m sure three of you are looking forward to. That’s three of you including me. Anyway, I have ordered that rubbish-yet-awesomeAlien TrilogyPSX game off eBay tonight and I am really looking forward to getting it, becauseAliensstuff is good n’ that. Also, games have been played....

What do you get when you put the creators behindflOw,Everyday Shooter, and various Scandanavian reality games in the same room with no strict discussion format? What happens when, equipped with their own individual topics of interest, they bounce ideas and theories off each other? As I found out this morning, you get some pretty goddamned interesting discussion. At “Scattershots of Play: the Potential of Indie Games,” Pekko Koskinen, Jon Mak, and Kellee Santiago came together to — as the title suggests — share a few random, scattershot, but incredibly interesting thoughts on game design with not only the GDC attendees, but one another....

Gears of War 3is inevitable. So instead of worrying about “if,” we’ve been pondering “when.” We can’t predict the future — and if we could we’d be writing this blog from our outer space rocket — but it’s possible its announcement is coming soon. Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski is set to appear on Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night show on April 8th and he’ll do more than smile and laugh: accordingto a Fallon tweet, the designer will debut “his new game....

Electronic Arts is bringing backNBA Jamthis holiday, and I’ve played it, and it’s awesome. Have you playedNBA Jambefore? You know what you’re getting yourself into. But there’s been some people thumbing their noses at the fact that it’s only been announced for the Wii. Why? The game doesn’t feature any real motion control gameplay components, and there shouldn’t be anything stopping EA from bringing it to other consoles. Rumors (andquickly-altered resumes) had pointed to the game hitting the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but nothing has been set in stone....

As if theSony E3 conference footageofResistance 2wasn’t enough to excite a person, it appears that Insomniac will be holding a closed beta in September to test out all those pretty little nuances with the multiplayer. Instead of having to buy a full retail version of a crappyGTAclone, the only thing Sony is asking potential players is to view some ads. According toCVG, buying episode three of Qore from PSN will automatically give people an invitation to the beta....

Polyphony Digital’s Kazunori Yamauchi said that his super-delayed racerGran Turismo 5uses about 80 percent of the PS3’s processing power. The game creator tellsGamesBeatthat the system has a “very high peak performance.” He adds: “The better you manipulate it, the better it performs.” I guess they’ve spent all this timemanipulatingthe game, then. That’s a number that I’m sure he pulled out of his ass. I’m sure there’s no percentage gauge on the outside of his dev kits that shows how much thecarsystem is cranking....

Security researchers claim to have spotted hackers attempting to sell PlayStation Network user data, presenting perhaps the most worrying installment of theongoing PSN hack saga. Kevin Stevens, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, has been putting the word out, warning the public of the situation. The hackers even claimed that they gave Sony a chance to buy back the info, although Sony itself denied that this has occurred. Stevens says that the “merchandise” on sale includes full names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers and expiry dates....