Since playing with your friends and random nobodies is no fun, Rockstar and Microsoft will be hosting aMidnight Club: Los AngelesXbox LIVE Event on November 16 from 4-7 P.M. EST. You’ll have the chance to have a bunch of Rockstar devs leave your ass in the dust, instead of some 14-year-old who is hurling profanities at you he doesn’t understand. When you’re done getting handled by the Rockstar Crew, you’ll have the chance to “game with fame,” going head-to-head with Los Angeles-based rapper, Murs from 7-9 P....

Fire Hose Games’Slam Bolt Scrappersis coming in “early 2011” to PlayStation Network as an exclusive title. Those who attended PAX East back in March might be familiar with the game — it was on full display as part of the independent showcase. For the rest of you, well, I’ll try my best to explain how it works. Essentially, you fly around beating up on these demon critters. When you kill one, it turns into what can only be described as aTetrispiece....

“Oh, it’s you. It’s been a loooooong time. How have you been? I’ve been sooooo busy being dead.” Tomorrow, Jim Sterling, Max Scoville, Tara Long and Jonathan Holmes will be recording the first episode of an all-new Podtoid run. That’s right, folks, it’s finally come back. Who knows what will be in store? Probably some talking about videogames for a bit! As we always have since the dawn of time, we need your questions!...

I’ll admit. I’m not a huge fan of Rock Band, mainly because I just don’t do very well at rhythm games. Yet, the Rock Band franchise is just sodamn addicting. And so now we’vegot this trailerfor the game that just makes me want to pick it up and start playing again. You can see what I mean after the jump. Back whenit was announced, I think we were all confused over this turn of events....

Oh, Wizards of the Coast. How much of my childhood allowance did you end up taking after I became enamored with your tiny pieces of rectangular cardboard adorned with pretty fantasy pictures? It was quite the princely sum, to be sure (at least for a kid in elementary school), but the hours spent summoning guys whose names ended with en-Kor and casting Lighting Bolts (three damage for one mana!) seemed totally worth it at the time....

Prinnies are the adorable, explode-able little penguins from theDisgaeaseries. They were usually used as weapons by their abusive Lords, but this time, they’re the main stars inPrinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, an upcoming side-scrolling platforming game from NIS! Someone was foolish enough to steal Etna’s dessert. The Prinnies noticed the theft, but didn’t say a word for fear of destruction. Etna, of course, found out about the missing treats, but instead of killing all of the Prinnies under her command, she ordered them to get her the Ultra Dessert....

After complaining about the lack of holiday songs in music games, Harmonix and MTV Games have revealed toMTV Multiplayerthat next week’sRock Bandupdate will fill that gaping hole. The “Rockin’ the Holidays 2008” track pack will include three songs — “Hanukkah Blessings” by Barenaked Ladies, “Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You,” by Billy Squier, and The Prentenders’ cover of “Blue Christmas.” The pack will be available on December 23, just in time for Christmas; although MTV Multiplayer doesn’t mention any pricing, something tells me it’s not going to be free … although this is the season for giving, guys....

The ghost of dedicated servers continues to hauntModern Warfare 2, as the flawless IWNethas been apparently struck downwith a Trojan virus. Infinity Ward’s replacement for dedicated servers has allegedly been hacked by a nefariousMW2clan who are using a mixture of DLL files and guest clients’ open ports in order to spread the Trojan to those who log into IWNEt and play the game. There is a chance that it’s simply an Antivirus program picking up something benign....

The UK version of the PlayStation: The Official Magazine, November 2011 edition, started this rumor. They say thatSyphon Filterwill make its return on Vita, and that it’s currently in development. Sony’s Bend studio is said to be working on it — the same folks that are doingUncharted: Golden Abyss, another Vita title. SCE Bend is currently hard at work on Uncharted: Golden Abyss, but its hush-hush Vita project is a return to Syphon Filter....

There’sa rather unsettling rumorfloating around the ‘netwaves today concerning ‘new’ European Xbox 360 bundles that may be old refurbished consoles with outdated parts. The Web site Logic-Sunrise claims that the new European bundle deal consisting of two games and two wireless controllers could contain hardware that predates the Falcon motherboard, meaning they are more likely to suffer the “red rings of death.” The site says it has found Hitachi 47 DVD drives in the machines, as well as after-sales white labels in place of the common silver labels....

Small Arms , theSuper Smash Brothersclone with guns, is going to be coming to the Xbox 360 on Wednesday for Xbox Live Arcade peeps. The game will run you 800 Microsoft points for 12 characters with their own weapons, 12 achievements — including the viral achievement only attainable if you play with someone who already has it — and eight maps to play on with three of your Destructoid buddies. Good deal?...

WhenSuper Smash Bros. Brawlwas announced, the addition of Solid Snake to the roster was both a huge shock and cause forMetal Gearfanboys such as I to dance around our David Hayter effigies with naked glee. Snake has finally come to theSmash Bros. Dojowith some new screens and another ofMasahiro Sakurai’s pleasantly babyish character announcements: The legendary mercenary makes his miraculous Smash debut! This law-breaking news roared around the world. He comes fully loaded with cool and showy weapons that only he could possess....

A year ago, Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley revealed their decision to permit the eBay sales of their MMO items, and to profit off of those sales themselves. The move was a controversial decision, to say the least, and recently, SOE released a white paper detailing the results of the last year of sales for their Station Exhange program. Of course, the paper itself is insanely boring, so we’re gonna filter it through the learned lens of Gamasutra; more specifically,an interview they didwith Mr....