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This week, Destineer ships Magellan Interactive’sWord Jong Partyfor the Wii to retail. A follow up to the successfulWord Jongon the Nintendo DS,Word Jong Partyadds new multiplayer modes, power-ups that take advantage of the Wii motion controls, and updated visuals. We lovedWord Jongon the DS, its simple and addictive design came highly recommended when we ran ourreview for the game last year. So when we heard there was an updated version coming to the Wii, we hunted down the game’s designer Scott Balaban to see what it was all about....

Destructoid is like a giant sponge thateasilyattractsthebestartiststhathavegracedtheInternets. It’s amazing to see all the stuff everyone does and contributes to the site. This past week, Dtoider Ceark has made a couple of amazing pieces based on the lovely Colette Bennet and myself. With Colette, Ceark threw her into the world ofContra. With me, he made it clear how much of a shark I really am. Ceark, I speak for Colette and myself when I say that we truly love these pieces and thank you so much!...

Animal Crossing: City Folkmay be the most unfortunately named videogame I’ve ever played. TheAnimalandCrossingparts don’t really bother me, but thatCity Folksuffix really gets me down. With a name like that, people are bound to assume that the game takes place in a city. That just ain’t right. The closest thing this game has to a city is tiny commercial area that features a big old clock tower, an ATM, and a few random stores....

Dale North and I tried our best to try to convince you that you needed to import a copy ofRhythm Tengoku Goldfor the Nintendo DS back in September of last year, and you know, if you didn’t buy it, goddammit, you should have. The only acceptable excuse for not having bought it, I suppose, is that we have known since E3 2008 thatan English language version was on the way, and I can imagine some of you wanted to wait for a copy you could read if you’re not so sharp when it comes to Nihongo....

Now that the NFL has decided to finally work itself out, it’s that time again… football! Are you ready for it? If you’ve got a PlayStation 3 and are willing to pay up, you can be REALLY ready for it. Sony has announced that it’s partnered with DIRECTV to bring its popular “NFL Sunday Ticket” to the PS3. Not being a football fan, I’ve got a few questions for those of you who are....

So, Ninja Theory is making a newDevil May Cry, people are bitching, and all I have to say is … what’s the problem, again? I’ve just watched this pretty damn epic trailer for the upcoming game and it looks pretty freakin’ fantastic to me. It’s not likeDevil May Cryhas ever been a sacred series. It’s an absurd franchise about a ludicrous man with a big sword and guns, and that’s it!...

I can’t say I’ve ever heard of this before, but if you have, speak up. A PlayStation 3 owner found something very interesting in his slideshow mode: The PS3 knows where the faces are. Creepy? Kinda. But imagine the possibilities if such a capability exists.

Final Fantasycharacter designer Tetsuya Nomura has told fans not to look forward to aFinal Fantasy VIIremake any time in the near future, but stated instead that main character Cloud Strife has plenty of cameos and whoring left in him. “Fans are looking forward to an oft-rumored remake ofFFVII, but I don’t believe this will happen for the time being,” admits Nomura. “However, it’s possible that he will appear in other titles as a guest character....

Hard to imagine coming from a franchise whose traditional product offerings are rooted in the concept of telling stories, but there’s an epic tale of good and evil being told inDungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale. Okay, maybe “epic” isn’t the right word for a story about a couple of dudes climbing a tower to beat up a green (allegedly evil) guy. But it’s the story we’ve got, dag nabbit. If you’ll pardon me for geeking out a second, I was never terribly interested inForgotten Realmsas a setting forDungeons & Dragons....

Tonight at Activision’s “not E3” press conference, id Software’s Todd Hollenshead officially revealed the Raven Software developedWolfenstein. While the game doesn’t have a fancy name yet (we doubt it’ll simply be calledWolfensteinwhen it ships), we do know that the series’ protagonist William “B.J.” Blazkowicz is back and ready for action. The game once against involves Nazis and the occult, with a focus on an inter-dimensional portal known as the “Shroud.” B....

Taking a different approach to the voice chat solution for the Wii, Nintendo announced the WiiSpeak peripheral that will ship along with the forthcomingAnimal Crossing: City Folkthis holiday. The small microphone that sits on top of the Wii sensor bar will pick up anyone’s voice in the room, relaying the audio through your television’s speakers. This, according to Nintendo, is to encourage a more inclusive experience. Whether or not that will be the case — or if it’ll just be a general annoyance to everyone in your household — remains to be seen....

Nintendo has already announced several really promising titles in this morning’s press conference (the liveblog is still going on here), and in the excitement of the announcement forMetroid: Other Mthis will probably be forgotten, but I have to say it anyway: Nintendo couldn’t resist. They can thrill us, alright, but they still have to keep trying to please that new demographic. Hence, the Wii Vitality Sensor. You stick your finger in this thing and it measures how relaxed you are....

You may have written offEA Sports Activeas that Wii game that makes you move your body when you don’t want to. It was that, and it still is, but now the series has branched off onto the PS3, and it’s bringing along some new technologies to make you a fit gamer. When I first saw this new game,EA Sports Active 2, two things struck me. The first is that the guy playing the game was ripped, and had arms that were thicker than my legs....