With every new month comes a new Monthly Musings topic, and another opportunity foryou— the average Destructoid reader — to get your thoughts featured on the front page. For better or worse — worse, probably — roughly 99% of videogames force the player to kill or destroy or otherwise defeat enemies to progress. Throughout all that time and all those quadrillions of deaths, gamers must havesomethingto show for it. We must have favorite enemies to fight, or fantastic stories of entire armies felled by our hands....

Yet another Xbox 360 video from the Tokyo Game Show, only this time one showing how their HD-DVD add-on will work. The interface looks pretty slick and considering it will be released somewhere around $200 or less in the U.S., I wouldn’t mind having this thing make its way into the living room.

I was twelve years old whenMortal Kombatfirst appeared in arcades. At that age, my parents probably were not being over-protective in forbidding me to cross the busy intersection which bordered our suburban housing development. Once the pizza parlor on the far side acquired one of these bloody, fighting machines, the consequences of breaking this rule seemed insignificant. The compulsion to play became so great that any punishment would be preferable to denying myself its pleasures....

As if I wasn’t already having enough fun running aroundBomberman Livehurling bombs at my fellow Dtoiders while dressed asour savvy mascot, thanks to Hudson now I can also represent Dtoid all over Live with my own Destructoid user icon. It’s one of five in a new pack that also includes Bomb of Doom, Debbie Downer (goth extraordinaire), Bomb the Fool (jester/court hack) and the simple bomb logo. They launch October 24th and will cost you a meager 100 Microsoft points....

You can forget the birth of the World Wide Web or the creation of the .com. You might as well throw the rise of the blogs or the invention of Youtube in the trash can.According toMicrosoft’s Aaron Greenberg, being able to buy a pair of sunglasses for a bobble-headed cartoon character trumpsallthose Internet hallmarks. The Xbox Live product management director has suggested that the launch of the New Xbox Experience could be the biggest moment in Internet history....

Yeah, I have no idea either. Then again, trying to decipher the subtext in an EA video game is akin to debating postmodern minimalist architecture after reading the back of a copy ofMaximmagazine.The teaser looks quite nice, though, I have to give them that. From the split second cuts of cars in motion, the graphics look to be top notch, but assuming they’re anything other than cinematics would be akin to assuming you could discuss postmodern minimalist architecture after reading some post on the Internet comparing the relative cultural values of such andMaximmagazine....

OurNeed for Speed: Hot Pursuitcontest has come to a close today. We’ve checked the leaderboards for the event, “First Offence,” and the top five are: Congratulations to everyone who placed, you’ll be receiving an Xbox Live message requesting your address for your prize — an Electronic Arts game of your choice! Thanks to everyone who participated, and to those who didn’t place, we hope you had fun trying!

We only got a quick look at the newly announced PS Vita gameEscape Plan, but it looks fantastic. The game also looks to be a ball-busting platformer. It stars what looks to be a big, shiny, fat bag of ink with a head named Laarg, as well as his little, thinner friend, Lil. They both have one simple goal: to escape by any means possible. Too bad there’s obstacles everywhere. The trailer at gamescom showed that if they fall, trip, touch something sharp or come in contact with sparks they splatter black ink everywhere....

Capcom has released a bevy of new screens forMarvel vs. Capcom 3focused on the lovely Jill Valentine and that creature from beyond the stars, Shuma-Gorath. Now, I’ve never been much of a fighting game player and I gravitated towards Shuma-Gorath simply because of his appearance. I kept using him because by the time I was done looking at him, I had a pretty good idea how he played. He looks really shiny here....

There’s new Capcom Arcade Classics coming our way, which is always good news in my book. I have and treasure some of the Japan-only, multi-disc Sega Saturn Capcom classics set (they also released these for the PlayStation), but these new classics releases are even handier as they’ll be Wii Virtual Arcade games. This means I can use a wireless controller and see them in a less blurry fashion. A small sign on the New York Comic-Con show floor says that these classics are coming in 2011:...

Just in time for New York Comic-Con, Sega is revealingCaptain America: Super Soldierfor the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, and Nintendo DS. The game will hit shelves in 2011. The third-personSuper Soldierwill have Captain America facing off against Red Skull, engaging in a “free flow combat” system while tossing his iconic shield at foes from afar. The game is said to feature a “highly athletic combat system with fluid platforming and a highly tuned suit of shield attacks....

Can’t get enough of the upcoming show-stopper,BioShock? Then get your fix by checking out theofficial sitefor the game. While most of the features are “coming soon”, the creepy music and high-res pictures definitely make it worth a look. The developers ofBioShockare aiming for it to be a “First-person shooter 2.0”. Will they ultimately accomplish what they are setting out to achieve? Possibly. These are the same guys who brought usSystem Shock 2after all....

Ladies and Gents, I have a very special announcement to make for fans of theBIT.TRIPseries. You see, while the games are oodles of fun, there’s a special element of the whole series that just makes it sparkle. I’m talking of course, about the music of the series. Take a look at how things come together musically, and you practically can guarantee that something special will come from these guys. So what’s the big news?...