What? Morning again? I’ve been trapped in a dark fugue where time has no meaning but I have been led to understand that it’s time for anotherSaturday Morning Hangover. Today, as ever, Jordan and I will play through the latest Xbox Live Indie Games demos. Following this, we’ll either play a littleRock of the Deadbecause it’s the best first-person zombie music shooter released this year. Honest, the game has a tremendous amount of heart and a pretty good sense of humor....

By now you should all be well aware thatOkamiden, a sequel to the critically acclaimed PS2 gameOkami, is heading to the Nintendo DS. Now there’s a wholewad of informationfor you to gorge yourselves upon like the greedsome parasites you know you are. Okamidentakes place several months after the events ofOkami, and places you in the furry shoes of wolf pup Chibiterasu. Issun, the guide from the original game, takes Chibiterasu to visit Sakuya, who needs the help of the young baby wolf....

Love video games, but think they aren’t violent enough? You’ll be happy to know that Rockstar just released some new images and atrailerforManhunt 2.The trailer basically shows nothing, so check it out at the site really quickly, then come back and check out the images. Evidently, the entire game takes place in a research facility/insane asylum, and will pretty much follow the same gameplay style as the original (namely, that of sneaking up behind people and killing them in the most violent way imaginable)....

When we said that thePlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 in January, Destructoid’s readership was not surprised. Now Microsoft gives us a heads-up on the February NPD numbers, and they think that the PS3 will beat them out again. Are you surprised? Ah, but Microsoft is not taking it like a man (men?). Again, they’re playing the “console shortage” card, even though an analyst recently said that there is an“ample supply” of Xbox 360 consoles now available....

International “Talk Like a Pirate Day” is a real thing and its happening September 19th. There’s no need to understand why the day is celebrated or how it even got started. It’s best to just sit back and enjoy the videogame-related deals associated with it. And, oh, are there deals. As we pointed out earlier, the PC version ofTales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: “Launch of the Screaming Narwhal” will be offered free forthe entirety of Saturday— from midnight to midnight....

I may feel a little dejected about the recent news ofMuramasa‘s release delay(we won’t see it until 2009), but it’s sincerely difficult to get too blue when you see art and screenshots like the ones in the gallery. It also helps to get press releases that XSEED and Marvelous Entertainment have brewed in regards to the title, and hey, will you look at it — it’s going to be exclusive to the Wii in North America....

I’m not actually sure if anyone cares about this release but me, but that’s not going to keep me from rambling about it like a maniac every chance I get.While we already knewtheMyst DSwould utilize both screens and offer a new set of tools to solve the game’s intricate puzzles, news emerged recently that the game would include a new Age not in the original, the Rime Age. Rime has been seen before (it was accessible inReal Myst, hidden in a puzzle on Myst island....

 This week is going to be dominated by everything Xbox 360 and Kinect. The new motion device uses your entire body in place of the controller and has been a hit or miss for the most part as far as fan responses go. You have to try out Kinect before you can complete dismiss it. I’m all for it, in fact. Other biggies this week include two newJames Bondgames and there’s that creepyBabysitting Mamagame with the fake doll that you stuff your Wiimotes into it … That’s what she said....

My theory that Nintendo R&D opens up random pages of the dictionary to come up with product ideas is starting to sound more and more likely. Siliconeraunearthed a slew of DS- and DSi-related trademarks, just made publicly available on theJapanese trademark databaseearly today. Among them are things like “DSiMovie,” “DSArcade,” and “DSTime.” The list goes on, and you may have your puny-human mind blown after the jump. As Siliconera points out, most of these are likely to be protective trademarks, most likely never to amount to actual services....

Breaking down its own performance during last week — November 22 through Nov. 28 — Nintendo says it sold 1.5 million gaming systems during the craziest of crazy shopping periods. That’s estimated to be 550,000+ Wii consoles and 1,000,000+ DS and DSi handhelds. Or in mind-boggling, we-effin’-print-money lingo, Nintendo soldmore than 2.5 videogame systemsevery secondduring Thanksgiving week. Go ahead, blink. While you were wasting your tragic life doing that, hundreds of dollars were spent on Nintendo systems....

Nintendo can’t properly estimate its profits. Wah. It’s not their fault, though. The problem is the global financial markets and their fluctuations in currency. This makes things hard for everyone, even those massive Japanese companies that always seem to do well. “If the Yen, or any currency, changes over one, two or three years, then that is something that we corporations have to deal with,” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said to BBC....

Let’s addTetristo the “list of things that will survive a nuclear war” alongside Cher’s face, Twinkies, and cockroaches. EA has tinkered with the puzzle game’s classic formula and twisting it to allow social integration. The end result is “The Human Tetris Project,”a Facebook Appthat allows FB account holders to upload their pictures into a constantly moving game ofTetris. If you’ve stopped to wonderwhyyou should upload your picture onto an App that recreates aTetrisgame, well, you’re ahead of the curve in this wonderful Internet age....

You know, I’m all for criticizing those who attack videogames. Anti-game lobbyists are one of the core subjects I write about here at Destructoid. However, that doesn’t mean thatevery single personwho briefly mentions gaming as part of an overall point is somehow “the enemy. Quite honestly, these constant stories about Barack Obama’s passing references to gaming really are silly. Obama has mentioned videogames maybe two or three times so far during his career, and each time the blogs and gamer communities whip themselves into an uproar, acting like Obama has made some baseless and terrible accusation at the hobby we love....