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After ten years, Capcom’s CPS3 arcade system board has finally been decrypted. CPS3, the board that powers some of Capcom’s best arcade hardware (Street Fighter III/2I/3S,Red Earth) has been one of the most legendary cast-iron bitches of the emulation underground; meanwhile, other emulation milestones like custom PSP firmware appear within a year or two after availability to the hack-happy public. With the decryption process complete, intrepid MAME-folk can get to the real task at hand: building an emulator to run newly-ripped CPS3 games....

Disclaimer: the screenshot above is not from Criterion Games’ latest trailer for theBurnout ParadiseCops and Robbers Pack. Why? The better question is, why not? In all seriousness, the image has more pizazz, but the video (after the break) has less blur; it’s an equal trade-off, I think. Probably the coolest thing about this DLC that you might not know is that every car, excluding the Burning Route and Carbon cars, will have a police skin....

Puzzle Questbar mitzvah, you say?Dugog-themed barbeque? Challenge of the Warlords baby shower? I’d attend them all. I’m rabid for the originalPuzzle Questin a way I am for few games, especially games that could be described as “casual” — I’m more of the 80 hour quest type (although PQ kind of has one, if you stretch it out long enough.) At any rate, any news with the wordsPuzzle Questsends me screaming to Chad’s door to beat on it (potentially scaring away the dolphins) and share the news, and this is no exception....

For all the complaining we do about the use of the undead in videogames, we collectively can’t seem to get enough. Housemarque game designer Petteri Putkonenreveals thatnew downloadable content is on the way forDead Nation, and so far, we’ve taken down 11,700,000,000 zombies in the studio’s PlayStation Network title. I knew you guys generally likedDead Nation, but damn! The “Road of Devastation” expansion sees you, a genetically modified badass, waking up in a laboratory....

Ballistic Publishing(the same people that published ‘Massive Black’, the awesome art book that was featured onArt Attack Fridaylast week) is bringing back one of their most successful art books for a very limited run. ‘The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants: The First Ten Years’ is all about the first ten years off theOddworldseries. The book contains beautiful art fromOddworldand the history behind the games. When I say limited, I really mean limited....

Man, let me tell you what I did NOT want for Christmas is a collection of holiday themed minigames, but you know, you say “minigames” and there’s someone just waiting to make a Wii game for you. I guess I should be more optimistic — if I had a kid, we could play Destineer’s newWe Wish You A Merry Christmaswith them and they could meet Santa Claus in the game, therefore taking away all his mystique and proving to them he is definitely not a real person....

Good news everyone! We’ve just completed work on the latest episode ofThe Destructoid Show. In this episode, our heroes discuss WTF the 411 on thePSP2, AKA the NGPis. OMG. If that’s not portable Sony news for you, we also have some details on the Playstation Phone. Er. TheExperia Play, whatever, and thatPS Suite frameworkwhatsit that it’s running on. Then, there’s some tidbits and titbutts aboutAnarchy ReignsandBulletstorm.I wax nostalgic aboutWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?...

The soul still burns, you’re just going to have to be patient. According to Namco Bandai’s Daishi Odashima — part of the Soul Calibur-centric Project SOUL team — we may hear some news in just a few weeks. “Hopefully, I will be able to announce something mid-May,” he says on hisTwitter. Unless Project SOUL is working on a newPac-Mantitle, the safe bet’s on details of newSoul Calibur, possibly the fifth title in the main series....

We’ve been watching ever sinceAtlus sent us hints. We thoughtwe had it figured out this morning. But it’s nice to finally get that official confirmation. A press release from Atlus confirms thatShin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddonwill be making its way to North America on March 12 for the PlayStation 2. This demon negotiating, case-solving RPG is set in the 1920’s where you’ll be able to command two demons at once in combat....

Gears of War 2hits the Xbox 360 on November 7, and we’re excited. Not because of the new campaign or the evolved multiplayer modes …we just want to hear the damned thing. Hell, we’ll probably play the game with our monitors off … or blindfolded. Good news for us! On November 26, Sumthing Else Music, Inc. will be releasingGears of War 2: The Soundtrack. Exactly what it sounds like, the disc will be the original score and soundtrack to — you guessed it —Gears of War 2....

Oh. My. God. Fallout 3may be playable as a full-on, real time, first-person shooter, but I’m starting to think that utilizing V.A.T.S. (Vault-tec Assisted Targeting System) will make for a far more enjoyable — and more importantly, bloody — experience. In the post-jump footage Bethesda’s Todd Howard shows some of the amazing kills you can get using V.A.T.S., and while the sniper rifle headshots are nothing short of beautiful, I find myself most impressed by the sequence that shows him killing someone with stuffed animals fired out of a leaf blower-turned-rocket launcher....

Ahhh — smell the fresh Eve of E3 air! While the show officially kicks off this Tuesday, July 15, members of team Destructoid have already touched down in the City of Angels in preparationfor the big week. It’s going to be a wild one, for sure. While we already have a good idea what we’ll be seeing from publishers over the next few days, we’re still expecting a few surprises. We’re sure to hear tomorrow at Microsoft’s, Electronic Art’s, and Square Enix’s respective conferences....

Eat Sleep Play’s upcoming PlayStation 3Twisted Metaltitle is sure to go down as one of the worst-kept secrets in gaming. Since the studio’s formation back in 2007, rumors have swirled that the company was hard at work on a brand-new iteration of the series for the PS3. Despite the persistent chatter, co-founder David Jaffe and company had denied its existence for years. The outspoken Jaffe took a clever approach, mastering the art of misdirection with public statements like, “I wish we were makingTwisted Metal!...