While the core services of Activision’s Call of Duty Elite will be free, players who invest in a “Premium” membership will be a bit more elite than your usual elite. Priced at $49.99 a year, Premium members will get access to every piece of downloadable content available forModern Warfare 3through the year. Activision has already confirmed that this will consist of 20 new pieces of content, although it didn’t go into any more detail....

It’s been a little over a year sinceResident Evil 5was first released. Can we get anotherResident Evilalready? Damn, Capcom… what is the hold up here?!?! Okay, so maybe that’s going a little overboard. We can wait; it can take its time, as long as it turns out great. But in a recent interview with Spanish gaming site3D Juegos, Capcom’s Keiji Inafune hints that the publisher is as eager to get it out as we are to get our hands on it....

Capcom has made a rather strange statementconcerning the revelationthat you can’t delete save data inResident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. Without clarifying exactly what the inability to delete saves actually means, it has said that the game’s value as a used title won’t diminish. “The game’s value at second-hand in the UK is not affected by whether or not the game can have its data reset,” said the company. “Customers in the UK will not experience a reduced second-hand value should they wish to trade in their purchase....

As a rule, I don’t like to post links to hugely popular, hugely corporate sites like 1up. It’s a great site and all, but I just don’t think they need the extra exposure. I make exceptions for interviews like this one, where Keiji Inafune calls out theDead Risingfor being “incomplete” and its development team for doing “a decent job (at) making an American-style hamburger, but it still remained somewhat a Japanese-tasting hamburger”....

I know what you’re thinking — that I probably would playCatz DS, because as the Destructoid Official Cute Ambassador, such things delight and enthrall me. Well, I have a surprise for you. I would not play this game. I wouldn’t even have really registered it on the radar — not, at least, until I noticed that you can dress your kitten in a SOMBRERO IN THE GAME. Check the video at 1:11 and you’ll see what I mean....

I once attended an interesting talk from game designer Ernest Adams who suggested that until game designers get the same level of recognition and respect as movie directors, then games still have a way to go before they can be considered art.Gears of War 2designer Cliff Bleszinski might agree with that, given hisrecent commentson gaming visionaries. “I don’t think the industry values visionaries as much as it could. I really don’t....

[Update]Contest closed! Winners are mi6bomb and poiplepunisher!] The groovy folks over at 5th Cell have given us two limited edition Maxwell vinyl dolls fromSuper Scribblenautsto giveaway this weekend! All you have to do for a chance to win one of these vinyls is simply at reply the@Dtoid Twitter accounttelling us what you like aboutSuper ScribblenautsANDyou must include the #SuperScribblenauts hashtag in the Tweet too. You have untilSunday at 11:59PM CDTto enter and contest is open toUS residents only....

Dante’s Inferno, Visceral’sGod of War-esque action game that is blatantly better than reading boring books, has decided to sit on the console war fence, with producer Jonathan Knight claiming that there isno lead development platform. “We’re developing for Xbox 360, PSP and PS3 simultaneously, and the two console versions should have parity with each other,” he says. “We don’t have a lead platform, per se. “… We’ve shipped a number of titles simultaneously on the major consoles platforms as well as handhelds and Wii and so forth, but just specifically talking about PS3 and Xbox, our tech is pretty well suited to shipping simultaneously....

If you’ve playedDead Rising 2, don’t erase that save data to make room for yourFantastic Petssaves. When you boot upDead Rising 2: Off the Record, the game will look for that older saved data and give you a nice bonus: a Chuck Greene jacket for Frank West. Also revealed is a “Cosplay Warrior” outfit pack that you may get if you pre-orderOff the RecordwithGameStop. That pack comes with a cardboard helmet, monster face paint, cardboard armor, and cardboard boots....

Yes, if you couldn’t tell we’re pushingDC Universe Onlinepretty hard today, but for good reason! The beta ends tomorrow and we have a bunch of beta codes to give out. So on today’s episode of Destructoid Live, we will be playing through the MMO superhero game on the PlayStation 3. Plus we will be giving out 25 codes for the PS3 and 25 codes for the PC beta. You’ll have to tune in and watch the show to see how we’ll be giving out the codes so head on over right now toJustin....

Look, I don’t mean to call Codemasters out, or say thatDiRT 2isn’tattractive visually, but when it comes to these latest screenshots for the off-road racer, there appears to be more than meets the eye. No, I’m not talking aboutTransformers, unfortunately; I mean the images look modified (I’ve seen a few ‘shops in my day), and not indicative of the actual game. Which, let’s face it, isn’t anything new for the videogame industry....

Here’s Anjali. She’s kind of like Phoenix fromX-Men, I think. I don’t know. I don’t even readX-Men, I just saw a cartoon with her in it. I have no reason ordamn rightto talk aboutX-Men. I’m sorry. In any case, Anjali fights with spears and is able to turn herself into a powerful fire Goddess-thing. So, there’s that! Dungeon Siege IIIis out on June 17 in Europe and June 21 in North America, for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC....

I’m not in the business of comparing Xbox 360 graphics to PS3 graphics, but I think we can all agree thatBioShocklooks gorgeous, no matter the platform. After the jump, feel free to feast your eyes on the first properBioShockgameplay footage running on the PS3. Even though it’s been months since I explored Rapture, in the back of my mind, I secretly hope that my roommate ponies up the dough for this new version....