The date is finally confirmed: you will be able to playStrong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive Peoplestarting this August 11th on your Wii or PC. The first episode of the series is called “Homestar Ruiner” and debuts in North and South America simultaneously, with Europe, New Zealand and Australia releases coming up shortly. Each episode will be 1000 Wii points and they will be released on a monthly basis. I’m feeling really burned after my recent experience withSiren: Blood Curse‘s episodic content (can you say FIFTEEN MINUTES of gameplay, people?...

Thisnewsis going to make you crazy retro gamers spunk up a treat, but Capcom has announced that it will be putting graphical glitches inMega Man 9to help you relive the glory days. Yes, deliberate (OPTIONAL) sprite flickers are yours to enjoy as the game pretends it cannot process all the information on the screen. Jesus, I bet some of you haveerectionsright now after reading that, don’t you? You retro gamers areweird....

Here’s a (pretty much) direct transcript of the final moments of my recent conversation with Capcom’s Seth Killian- Me-“There arerumorsgoing around that March’s Mega Man 10 will have a co-op mode, and that Bass will be the third playable character. Wouldn’t that be cool? Huh? Wouldn’t it?“ Seth-“Um, yes. Sounds fun to me. I have to go now.“ Me- “…and with Mega Man 10 coming out in less than 90 days, must you continue the madness surrounding the elusiveMega Man 9 secret....

Atlus has unleashed a brand new trailer to mark the announcement ofCatherine‘s US launch. If you were already hyped for the game (and a stunning amount of you are), you’ll be kicked into overdrive by this one. There are a bunch of new screenshots too, so grab a look at those while you’re here. I’m still wary of getting too excited for this one, but on the strength of its eccentricity alone, there’s no way I’m not going to be buying it....

Need your CES fix? Well, while you wait for more gaming stuff to hit here at Destructoid, feel free to mozy on down toNextLustto see what we got going on. We’re just now catching up on a few things, so you may be overjoyed to see what we got. Forgive our slightlyunpolished look, however, we’re still a work in progress.

Any idiot would know that these are the ViewSonic birds. Oh, and it looks likesomeone(cough R&B recording artist Tank cough) doesn’t know how to play “Axel F” correctly. What the hell is happening here? As a bonus, hit the jump to see the most epic (and annoying) soundcheck ever.

It’s the final week of Destructoid’s25 days of givingcontest series! MX vs ATV Reflexhit stores earlier this month and looks to be one of the betterMX/ATVgames in a long time based on what I saw from Rey’svideo preview forthe game. I also noticed that Rey needed a damn haircut. So that’s what we’re doing for this contest today. Yup. to winMX vs ATV Reflex(Xbox 360), you need to take one of the pictures from the gallery below and give Rey Gutierrez a haircut....

The trailer forCounter-Strike: Global Offensivehas a few expected bullet points: new visuals, more maps and weapons, support for ranked matchmaking, and … cross-platform play? Huh? Won’t that be laughably unbalanced? The PlayStation 3 version of the game will allow you to not only use a standard gamepad, but PlayStation Move and a mouse and keyboard as well. As a result, PS3, Mac, and PC players will be lumped together in matchmaking, sorted by skill level....

At a recentGuitar Hero 5launch even in Italy, 594 people showed up to participate in a non-stop 24-hour long jam session. Utilizing the game’s hop-in/hop-out feature, Italy bested competition from competitors in other European countries, including Paris and Stockholm. This 594 plastic instrument love-fest is a world record, as documented by the Guiness Book of World Records, who has been documenting all kinds ofrandom videogame crap as of late. Full disclosure: The largest group of people I had playingGuitar Hero 5for our reviewwas… four....

A great atmosphere is something all video games should strive for, and by the look of it,BioShockwill capture the decrepit underwater city look quite nicely. This is all possible thanks to some fancy looking water effects and the power of the Unreal Engine 3 as seen in the above video (alsoviewable in HD).Believe it or not,The Cult of Raptureeven hasa whole interviewdevoted entirely toBioShock‘s in-game water. It’s an interesting read if you want to learn more about the technical side of the game, but the best piece of info to come out of the Q&A, bar none, is:Will bodies float?...

“Oh, look, we’ve got a 91 Metacritic,” beginsDragon Age IIlead designer Mike Laidlaw. “But it’s not 100, so there’s got to be room to improve.” Over the life ofDragon Age: Origins, Laidlaw’s BioWare Edmonton team attempted to do just that using DLC as a proving ground for new ideas and fixes. The DLC packages forDragon Ageboast a litany of improvements — they introduced stamina draughts, a much-needed weapons locker, the ability to redistribute skill points, and Shale — but they were also a way to explore new narrative structures in standalone campaigns, not all of which were successful....

In an ancient interview withIGN,Dragon Age: Originsonline producer Fernando Melo revealed that an error was to blame for the delay ofOriginsDLC“Return to Ostagar.”Unfortunate as it is, it’s no matter now for Xbox LIVE owners. The DLC is available via Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Don’t expect a decorated tab that paves the way to purchase — potential owners will have to battle through “Add-on” menus to have a peek at the download option....

Nintendo is the king of silly names (calm down, fanboys). Wii? C’mon.Nintendo 64? I’m still pissed about that. The name for their bigger-screened DSi, the DSi LL, fits. It’s not elegant, but it works, and it let’s you know you’re getting something large and in charge. But what about the names they passed on? Crap. All of them. Here are some of the turds: The DSi XL was almost a go for the whole world....