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Last month, Harmonix unveiledRock Band Network, an upcoming service that will allow musicians to get their songs intoRock Bandand actually make cold, hard cash by doing so. It’s a groundbreaking project that has the potential to change the face of the music industry. In fact, indie labelSub Pop is already convinced— A&R executive Tony Kiewel recently said that the company is looking into releasing some of its back catalog (including artists like Nirvana and The Shins), as well as future music, on Rock Band Network; he imagines such a digital release as just “another format alongside vinyl and CD....

In a continual baby step effort toward mainstream attention, and ultimately success, pro gaming plops into the major network light today when CBS airs today at 3 p.m. Eastern the Video Game Super Stars program.The showwill feature players of the World Series of Video Games and of course Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel. Here are the deets: Video Game Super Stars, presented by Intel reveals the compelling personal stories of five rising stars of the competitive video gaming world....

Phosphor Games’Dark Meadowreleased last night for iOS, and I’d like to remind you all of that. I played it extensively last night and was thoroughly absorbed. It has melee combat similar toInfinity Blade, but spices things up with ranged combat, giving you a chance to heavily damage enemies with a crossbow as they shuffle down corridors toward you. It’s not quite as polished as ChAIR’s game, but it’s got an excellent atmosphere and a streak of genuinely amusing dark humor....

A friendly reminder — we’re trying to give stuff away! You see all that crap up there? Boy, do we want to keep it. Hell, some of us don’t evenhaveour own copies ofUncharted… or any clothes. So how do you win it? It’s simple. We’re looking for someone to make a custom Destructoid XcrossMediaBar for the PlayStation 3. Sony was kind enough to give us a slew of cool stuff to give away:...

So today,Chad “Amazing” Concelmowas debating out loud: which was his favorite cereal of all time, Fruity Pebbles or Cookie Crisp? This, like most things, sparked a 60-email thread about cereal.TopherandSamit, on one hand, prefer Cookie Crisp because of how it keeps in milk. They hated how quickly the “Pebbles” line of cereals would get soggy when sitting in a bowl.“Once the milk hits the cereal, you’ve got a window of optimum milk soakage in which to enjoy your cereal....

Not too long ago, Capcomasked you to decidebetween having theResident Evil 5Alternate Editioncontent as a new retail package, or getting it as a downloadable add-on. You voted, and more importantly, you voted correctly. Rather than making us all buy a new copy ofRE5this spring, based on your feedback, Capcom is making theAlternate Editioncontentavailable as a download for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in North America, Europe, and Australia. In the announcement over onCapcom-Unity, Chris Kramer mentioned a little something about there being more stuff on the way that we don’t know about yet....

Happy Fr … oh wait, it’s Wednesday. Well that sucks. How about a new episode of RetroforceGO! to cheer you up? We had Jim Sterling join us to talk about Sonic the Hedgehog. It was grand. Highlights include: Check us out on iTunes to get an early dose, or be lame and get the new episoderight here. We’ll catch you next week, when we’ll be recording early again so you can spend your Thursday stuffing yourself with turkey....

With the release ofLEGO Rock Band, this week marks the firstRock BandDLC announcement where Harmonix/MTV has to go out of its way to specify what and what is not going to be available for the “family-friendly” title. This week, everything is appropriate for the little ones, except for The White Stripes “Icky Thump,” a song that deals with the somewhat-sensitive topic of immigration… and opens up with a line about getting drunk....

In this video you’ll get to see a first look at stage 7 of the upcoming Wii gameDead Space: Extraction, called Life and Death. We spoke with Senior Producer Steve “Dead Space Guy” Papoutsis on this new level and what to expect in the game, but he mostly made fun of my shooting style. The stage opens with botanist Lexine talking to herself, doing the v-blogging thing. Honestly, she’s not looking too good — she’s stumbling around with some kind of sickness all while fighting off long-limbed peksy Necromorphs....

Great news for Aliens fans and Jim Sterling: Sega has finally officially announcedAliens: Infestationfor the Nintendo DS. The side-scrolling action game, as we already knew, is being developed by the 2D, side-scrolling masters at WayForward. The title has players recruiting and playing as up to 19 different marines and exploring movie set pieces like the Sulaco, the Derelict ship, and LV-426. Sega is callingInfestationa “side-scrolling exploration game” that has an upgrade and collectibles system....

Yes! NeoGeo everywhere! Bring it on. This isn’t Wii hate, but the thing I was most excited about at Wii launch was getting the Virtual Console NeoGeo games in my library. I still get excited about the releases, as anyone that reads this website would know. Speaking of excited, now the NeoGeo game library is coming to the PS3’s PlayStation Network. SNK and Sony are calling it the NEOGEO Station....

Browsing through the new trademarks like we do, we see thatSega’sSonic Shufflepops up. If you remember, this was Sega’s four-player party game answer to Nintendo’sMario Party, originally released for the Dreamcast. It wasn’t the greatest game ever, but I was a Sega whore back in the day, so I bought it. Maybe I’ll be buying it again? Or, remembering how boring it was, maybe not. Could this re-trademarking of the title be for protection, or is it plans for a re-release?...

Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley has laid out the company’s desire to push MMOs in the console space. He specified the PS3 but also had choice words for their upcoming portable: “Sony’s announced the NGP, and if that isn’t a perfect machine for doing MMOs on, then I don’t know what is.” The focus is not just on any ol’ MMOs but rather free-to-play MMOs. In fact, Sony was able toreleasethe popularFree Realmson the PS3 last week....