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Recently,Eurogamerhad a chance to speak with Microsoft’s community manager, Frank O’Connor after theHaloWarspanel at Comic-Con. O’Connor is most notorious for his work with Bungie as the content manager, which he left in May to take up his new role at Microsoft. During the interview, O’Connor floated up the idea thatHalomay just be big enough to have it’s own event, much like BlizzCon. You can do a HaloCon. Nothing on [the scale of Comic Con], but you could bring a few hundred people just to see a Halo thing....

Update:It’s over! Congrats to Soy Bob, Fisty Dollars, Echtzeit, COM 01 and Scotty G! Check your e-mails for the code! Another contest goes live tomorrow morning! Original story:No doubt you’ve read ourreview ofLimboby now, a game which Destructoid absolutely loves. It’s as beautiful as it is dark and is easily a must own title of 2010. We have five codes ofLimboto give away today and it will give five lucky people a chance to play the game before it’s released this Wednesday!...

Ever questioned who was cool and who wasn’t in gaming? For instance:Kratos= cool; Tingle = not cool. Ourgood friendsover atScrewAttackput together their own little list of cool. Agree with them or did they leave out some uber peeps? Let us know.

If you’ll think back to whenTekken 5was released, there was a Ultimate Collectors Edition that came with the game, a case, and an arcade stick. And by looking at an early page at GameStop, it seems like something similar is in the works again for the nextTekkenrelease. Check out this pre-order pageforTekken 6. It says it comes with an arcade stick, and is priced at $149.99. That would have to be a pretty slick stick to make the total price that high....

This is a move I didn’t expect to see. NIS is usually known for sticking firmly with the PlayStation brand (occassionally venturing into DS territory) but its fan service crossover game,Cross Edge,is gearing upfor an Xbox 360 release. It’ll be released in Japan asCross Edge Dashthis coming October, almost a year after the original game launched. Cross Edgecombines characters from NIS, Gust, Idea Factory Namco Bandai and Capcom to create one big roleplaying mash up and was released to moderate reviews (ours is still coming, promise!...

I saw a message in my coffee today, clear as a crisp spring morning.Deadly Premonition, the budget horror/comedy game that only a fool doesn’t love, is going to have a presence at PAX, and Destructoid LIVE will be one of the conduits. If you want to leave PAX Prime with some coolDeadly Premonitionstuff, then you won’t want to miss us! Exactlyhowyou could lay your hands on theDeadly Premonitionstuff is being kept a mystery, but we’re working on making sure you’ll have to do something incredibly silly in exchange for the material goods....

This might be a bit silly if you are not a giant fan ofDeus Exwho still thinks it’s the best game ever made, but I loved it. Eidos Montreal art director Jonathan “Pretty Face” Jacques-Belletêtetweetedtoday: “Btw, my flight number to Seattle is 0451.Deus Exfans will know what this means.” And we do! It’s a code for a keypad that opens up an armory on Liberty Island in the originalDeus Ex. And it’s not just a number or a reference toFahrenheit 451....

Xbox Live Arcade was once the place to be for new digital titles hoping to get noticed. However, as Microsoft’s allegedlypoor treatmentandexclusivity requirementscontinue in the face of stiff competition,World of Goodeveloper 2D Boy believes the platform’s dominance is over. 2D Boy polled over 200 indie developers and discovered that people just aren’t as enamored with XBLA as they used to be. While only half of the studios responded, they were companies said to hold higher Metacritic scores and superior sales than average companies — in other words, some of the XBLA’s heaviest hitters provided their thoughts, and the results seem to show that devs are moving away from Microsoft and embracing rival platforms on PS3 and PC....

As of this morning, racing game fans cravingDiRT 2have two distinct options to pick from: play the off-road racer in September on either an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, DS, or PSP, or wait until December to get the more visually appealing PC version of the game. Codemasters says DirectX 11 was “too compelling to ignore,” and that it will bring gamers “the most realistic, immersive and exhilarating racing experiences in the business” through “hardware tessellation, multi-threading and Shader Model 5....

As recently discovered by GamerBytes,DOOMhas been dropped from Xbox LIVE Arcade. Yeah, remember how XBLA titles will sort of just vanish without the slightest warning? It’s happened yet again. Although this time, the removal presumably had to do with the licensing side of things, as Activision was the one who published this port. If that is the case, thenDOOM IIshould be fine.Double D Dodgeball, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have an apparent reason for its removal....

The official siteforDeus Ex: Human Revolutionreleased the theme music from the gorgeous reveal trailer. Best of all, it’s free! It was released last week, but we missed it due to the E3 2010 crazyness. Anyway, go blow up Eidos’s servers and snag this wonderful song. As for the game itself, I got a chance to see the E3 demo last week and holy taco trucks did it just blow my mind....

If you watch The Destructoid Show (and you should), you likely saw the Plants vs. Zombies contest we ran last week giving away a few hats and figurines that the guys at PopCap Games were nice enough to send our way. Like with most activities, what began as a simple, fun contest quickly turned into something much bigger than either Max or I expected. When we asked our viewers to draw what we would look like as either plants or zombies, I immediately noticed two things....

Most videogames are built to let us do things we could never do in real life — that is, they’re designed to make us feel like badasses.Just Cause 2is that kind of videogame. The sequel to Swedish developer Avalanche Studios’ 2006 open-world action title,Just Cause 2finds our hero, CIA black ops agent Rico Rodriguez, on the fictional tropical island of Panau in southeast Asia. He’s trying to overthrow Baby Panay, an evil dictator, but he’s got no official support from the CIA....