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God, it feels like years ago now that I posted the first video where Husky and myself chat aboutTron: Evolutionon the Wii. Before that though, we got a crack at the PS3/360 build of the game. Due to technological difficulties, we couldn’t post the video until now, but here it is now, in all its outdated glory. The game was pretty fun, like a glow stick love-child ofPrince of PersiaandGod of War, with a side-order ofMiranda’s assthrown for good measure....

Remember3 on 3 NHL Arcade, the $10 PSN/XBLA hockey game that hearkened back to arcade sports classics likeNBA JamandNFL Blitz? Well, it seems thatNHL Arcadesold well enough for EA Sports to do something similar with its biggest franchise — in a conference call today, Peter Moore announced thatMadden Arcadeis currently in the works. It’s set to launch during the holiday season. No further details were provided, though it’s probably safe to assume that the game will be released on PSN and XBLA....

The news thatActivision and Vivendi had teamed upto form the almighty Activision Blizzard came as quite a headspinner this weekend, but Activision’s chief rival Electronic Arts is keeping its collective cranium level. The publishing gianttold Eurogamerthat it was looking forward to the competition that ActiBlizzard will bring. EA’s UK boss Keith Ramsdale wished Activision Blizzard good luck and shared his belief that EA still had “the industry’s strongest portfolio of game franchises,” before adding that EA was at its best when facing competition....

In anarticlehe has written onEdge, the General Manager and Vice President of the Hasbro Studios division at EA, Chip Lange, has stated that board games will never be replaced by digital entertainment and his group has no intention of trying. Instead, they’re focused on using the electronic games medium to represent classic games from the Hasbro library in ways that boards, pawns and dice can’t replicate on their own. He claims that his company is approaching the development of these adaptations in fundamentally different ways....

Sony Japan has announced a pretty major upgrade for the PlayStation 3 version ofEchochrome, one that’s so big, we’re considering moving. The patch adds a new public area where user created stages can be uploaded and shared; currently users must send levels to Sony who would then select some to release in packs. PlayStation Eye support is also being added, which will allow users to film themselves while rotating a maze....

After the Kinect came out, I never thought I’d go back to the Wii for my exercise needs until I tried outExerBeat. The Wii exclusive is fun and the onscreen prompts showing you exactly how to do the moves you need to do are very helpful. I only tried out the Karate section where I had to do actual karate moves with my arms. I was sweating within the first two-minutes of the routine!...

It’s getting to the point where most games — regardless of genre — have downloadable content of some fashion. The real news is A) when the additional off-the-disc content was created alongside regular development, instead of after the fact, and B) when developers flat-out say no to add-ons altogether. So yeah, this post about Bizarre Creations’ arcade racerBlurgetting post-launch DLC should not come as much of a surprise. MTV Multiplayer got the confirmation from lead designer Ged Talbot who says, “We do have plans for DLC....

Each week, Fanboy Friday takes a look at some of the most ridiculous, asinine, and unintentionally hilarious comments made by fanboys from a variety of gaming sites. The votes from last week are in! We’ve tallied them all up, and the clear winner was ELPRESADOR! StegosaurusFace managed to pull a very, very distant second place, and everyone else lost to the original Chad Warden. Congratulations guys! Normally we would ask you to come up and give an acceptance speech, but I don’t think we want to hear any more of the crap that spews out of your mouths....

Whenever news about Atlus’ new action-adventureCatherineis posted, the comments are set alight with equal parts giddy excitement and exasperated confusion. That latter half mostly consists of lines to the effect of “Oh come on, just tell us what the game is like already!” And I’ll admit, my own curiosity was beginning to get the better of me. But, after what seems like an eternity of drooling anticipation, Atlus has finally started throwing bones about what sort of gameCatherineis....

Friday Night Fights has been a weekly event here at Destructoid for a while now, but as of late, it has gone unnoticed by everyone but a small group of faithful Dtoiders. We’re hoping that will all change tonight though, with the help of this post and everyone else who has done their part in the community blogs. If you’re unfamiliar with Friday Night Fights, it’s exactly what it sounds like — a bunch of us get together over Xbox Live, PSN, etc....

Harmonix and MTV Games have announced the full track list forRock Band Unplugged, the upcoming PlayStation Portable title set to hit stores on June 9. The 41-song set list will be a mix of tracks that have previously appeared in the series, along with nine tracks — including The Jackson 5’s “ABC” and Tenacious D’s “Rock Your Socks” — exclusive to the portable for a limited time. Rock Band Unpluggedwill also feature an in-game music store, through which new content will be pushed out on a regular basis....

First off I should probably tell you who Chris Deering is as you’ve most likely not heard of him since his namedoesn’t come up that often. He is the chairman of the Edinburgh Interactive Festival and former Sony Europe president and he believes that AAA games need to start costing a whole lot more in order to remain feasible. How much more? Oh,about £70 ($117). A bit steep, right? Not according to Deering....

We decided to watch that fun family classic,American Psycho, last night. For your viewing pleasure, I present a classic scene, and one of the greatest scenes in movie history, where well-to-do businessman Patrick Bateman introduces Paul Allen to Huey Lewis and the News … and an axe. Great film. (Video may not be suitable for babies and puppies.) In other important doings, there were videogames and we played those suckers like you wouldn’t believe....