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If you’re looking forward to something other thanQuake,DoomorRagefrom id Software, then you’ll be waiting for about a decade according to John Carmack. It seems that the studio is content to stick with its stock of monosyllabic first-person-shooters and Carmack doesn’t feel the need to create something new for the next ten years. “We do already have more IPs than we can exploit,” he tellsOfficial PlayStation Magazine. “I doubt we’re going to do another IP....

I knewSpelunker HDwould be difficult, but I didn’t expect that the difficulty would keep me coming back. Originally released in 1983,Spelunkerwas known for its difficulty. You play as a miner that works through mines that no one else made it out of alive, looking for treasure that no one else managed to haul out. And you’ll see why no one else made it out alive within the first few minutes of gameplay....

At irregular intervals, “Indie Nation” highlights interesting games from the independent scene. I’m tempted to call Matt Thorson the king ofindie platfomers, which may sound weird considering I’ve never highlighted any of his games before.JumperandFLailmay well be two of my favorite minimalist platformers of all time; though all of Matt’s games eventually get ridiculously hard, they remain enjoyable thanks to the sheer imaginativeness of the level design and the purity of the platforming....

Electronic Arts and Double Fine are still using Jack Black to promoteBrutal Legend, a totally-not-an-RTS released earlier this October. In fact, this afternoon, another Brutal Thoughts commentary starring the rubber-faced musician hit the wire. We have no problem with either of these parties utilizing Black’s star power, or even pushing the product after its fall release, but this particular video reeks of old: in it, Black tells the game owner how to cope with multiplayer jerks and predicts thatBrutal Legendwill have a “massive” (x5) online following....

I love getting PS3 game son the cheap. I always feel like I’m gwetting away with something. According toKotaku, I will be able to get that feeling again very soon as a nice handful of PS3 titles will be going to budget prices this September in Japan. Well, if I feel like importing, that is. Here’s the list that’s getting reduced: AfrikaUnchartedLittleBigPlanetGundam: Target in SightRidge Racer 7Eternal Sonata These will all be reduced to ¥2,980 (roughly $31) with the exception ofEternal Sonata, which would be about $39....

Aiming to prove that a swollen marketing budget will conquer the market every time, Microsoft is spending at least $500 million on advertising its EyeToy-thing to the general public. Expect to see Kinect absolutelyeverywherethis holiday season, as Microsoft aims to plaster it on breakfast cereals, fast food wrappers and drinks. Kellogs, Pepsi and Burger King are all aboard the bandwagon, and Microsoft has also signed deals with the digital wings of Nickelodeon and Disney, as well as Youtube....

Just about everything has been ported to iOS. The newest game to get the iPhone treatment is SNK’s King of Fighters, now calledKing of Fighters-i. As you’d expect, this is KoF with touchscreen virtual controls. These controls are fully customizable, letting you move the position, change the size and even tweak the transparency. KOF-i features four game modes: “Team Battle” for 3-on-3 battles, “Single Battle” for 1-on-1, “Endless” mode for an endurance challenge with just one life, and “Training” mode where players can practice....

There is no news onKirby’s Epic Yarn. I don’t have a preview for you. I don’t have an interview, or a review, or a trailer or screenshots. However, I haven’t talked aboutKirby’s Epic Yarnsince E3 and that pisses me off, so this blog post serves absolutely no purpose other than to mentionKirby’s Epic Yarn. What is it aboutKirby’s Epic Yarnthat would compel an otherwise totally professional videogame journalist of videogames to squander hisabundant credibilityon a frivolous post?...

Considering Koei is a throbbing hub of expansions, add-ons and updates (all of which I end up buying), and Xbox Live is a perfect medium through which to milk customers dry, the marriage between both of these money magnets should be considered quite perfect. Koei has not let such potential go untapped, and is going tooffer its latest expansionforSamurai Warriors 2as a fully downloadable title on Xbox Live. Costing 2400 points,Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legendswill follow in the footsteps ofOblivion‘sShivering Islesexpansion pack, though if otherLegendstitles are any indication, you shouldn’t need the original disc to run it....

Valve has announced their full plans for theLeft 4 Dead 2demo today. The demo will be set in “The Parish” campaign and up to four players can play it either online or through local play. You can expect the new boss infected zombies plus all of the new melee weapons in the demo. Left 4 Dead 2will be out on November 17 and I’ll be having zombie nightmares all over again on November 18....

[Backlogis the ongoing quest to ridConrad Zimmerman’scollection of unfinished games. As voted on by the Destructoid community, Conrad plays each game from start to finish live onDestructoid’s Justin.tv channelevery weeknight at 8pm Pacific] Tonight,Backlogbegins a whole new game. For our nineteenth series we’ll be playing one of the most divisive games of 2010, Quantic Dream’sHeavy Rain. It’s a title I was thrilled at the potential of. The approach they were taking to adventure gameplay was pretty fascinating....

Music4Games continues their list ofstellar interviewswith the people behind great game music with this new interview with the composers ofNiGHTS: Journey of Dreams. They talk withTomoko Sasaki and Naofumi Hatayaabout the Wii title’s musical score, and touch on how the quality of it has been upgraded from the originalNiGHTStitle for the Sega Saturn. Luckily, you don’t have to take their word on it, as Music4Games has a couple of samples from the score availble within the interview....

It looks as though the only console to ever weigh over forty pounds will be receiving theMaddengift this August. A writer atEastBayRInoticed, on the bottom of a press release pertaining toMadden 2009, that the game was mentioned for the original Xbox. Perplexed, he contacted Electronic Arts product manager, Anthony Stevenson for confirmation. Our consumers play a big role in deciding what platforms to release games on. Last generation consoles, e.g. Xbox and PS2, proved to still be viable platforms last year, so as long as enough people are playing on them, there’s a chance we’ll release a game for it....