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Destructoid operates within an industry that prescribes scores, usually a one-through-ten kind of affair, to the games we play. But as folks who live and breathe the stuff, it’s safe to say that our response to games goes a lot farther than a simple numerical value. Some games we’d bronze and pass to our grandchildren, and some others we’d melt into kibble to hurl at our most hated enemies. There are good games, bad games, absolutely horrific games, and legendary games....

Speaking with Swedish outletAftonbladet, Ubisoft’s chairman and CEO Yves Guillemot has confirmed that the announcedAssassin’s Creedfor Wii U will be an all new title. The game wasannounced at E3earlier this year with little details to back it up. Some speculated the game (like many third-party titles already announced for the Wii U) would be a port, possibly of the upcomingRevelations. That won’t be the case, says Guillemot. “No, [it’s] notRevelations,” Guillemot said, according to a translation of the interview with Aftonbladet....

It’s really no surprise, when you think about it, that people are already hard at work onBioShock 2cosplay before the game itself is even released. After all, the games in the series tend to boast some cool design, and the new Big Sister fromBioShock 2is no exception. Flickr userDeficientatlifeuploaded these pics from a recent con calledFanime 2009, where she attended in her full Big Sister cosplay. You can see more pics and even a short video in the complete set, which can be foundhere....

For those of you out there who are looking forward toBlurand all its real racing/kart racing action there’s something to look forward to now. Dan Amrich, Activision writing news guru guy, has finally cleared up when the beta will be starting. There seemed to be some confusion so here it is. “Several websites will be launching contests and giving away beta tokens starting on Tuesday, March 2. The gameplay sessions that those tokens unlock does not begin until Monday, March 8....

If you’re anything like me, you’ll love console themes, but can’t stand the fact that Microsoft charges stupid amounts of moon money for the privilege of downloading. Jonathan Blow would like you to know that, although he has aBraidtheme available on the Xbox Live Marketplace, he’scharging for it under duress. I’ve got to love Blow’s subversive swipes, especially considering what an arsehole Microsoft likes to be about indie developers and XBLA games....

The US market will finally get the beautiful PSOne RPGBreath of Fire IVon August 16. Capcom Corporate Officer and SVP Christian Svensson confirmed that we’ll see this 2000 classic on the PlayStation Network in a couple of weeks in aforum post at Capcom-Unity. To celebrate, Svensson also says that Breath of Fire PSN avatars will be available on the same day. BOF IVis a fine game that I would be glad to add to my growing PSOne digital collection....

What do you think of when you hear the name Brett Ratner? TheRush Hourmovies?X-Men 3? Me? I think of his groundbreaking work on Mariah Carey’s “Heartbreaker” music video. Okay, not really. But I definitely don’t think of him as a successful videogame movie maker. He wants to be, according toVariety. He’s just finished up shooting a couple of spots for Activision forGuitar Hero, his first client for his new venture, Brett Ratner Brands....

John Carmack, the man behindDoom,is a fan of homebrew, and wishes that the DS’s platform holders would embrace it rather than hinder it. Carmack believes that homebrew on the DS is perfect for budding programmers, helping them get to grips with game design: “It is a shame that homebrew development can’t be officially sanctioned and supported, because it would be a wonderful platform for a modern generation of programmers to be able to get a real feel for low level design work, to be contrasted with the high level web and application work that so many entry level people start with....

Sony announced a new streaming music service at their CES press conference yesterday for many of their product lines, including televisions, computers and game systems. Today they had Qriocity Music Unlimited running on PS3s and other devices on the show floor, giving us a first taste of what the service will be like when it launches later this year. This service will stream music from the ‘cloud’ to your devices, from one library that will be shared across all of them....

China’s state-run TV station China Central Television isairing a new show for kidsthat manages to plagiarizePokémon,DigimonandNarutoin one big shameless faux-anime package. The cartoon is all about dinosaurs and it “borrows” its plot and character designs from established Japanese creations. This isn’t the first time that China has stolen Japanese ideas. Two notable animations,Crayon Shin-chanand5 Centimeters Per Second, have been reworked for China with no permission given by the original creators. This is just something that happens in a country that ironically will sueotherpeople for stealing its text fonts....

People hooked on their hero’s exploits inChampions Onlinenow have a more creative place and a better medium to chronicle them outside of fan fiction message boards. Browser-based comics have arrived, courtesy of Cryptic Studios. The tool for creating these comics is called MashON — a flash-based thingamajigavailable on theChampionsWeb site. With it, players have the power to upload in-game screenshots and place them into individual panes before adding text boxes and other comic book-related stuff....

Relic squashed bugs and tweaked elements inDawn of War IIearlier today with therelease of patch 1.3.2. A monster, the patch is not — only minor fan quibbles were silenced — but it does serve as a decent band-aid while Relic finishes planning and implementation of patch 1.4. Here are the notes for 1.3.2: Unprompted, Relicteasedbig change in patch 1.4. “We are already hard at work on an official Patch 1.4,” Relic said in an update via the official Dawn of War II Web site....

Anyone up for a double shot of Xbox LIVE Arcade this week? Well, we’re getting one either way. This Wednesday will see the release of two lesser known downloadable games,Yo-Ho KablammoandDefense Grid: The Awakening. Both games have an asking price of 800 Microsoft Points. I don’t recall ever hearing aboutYo-Ho Kablammobefore, and trust me, with a name like that, I certainly would. Having no actual first-hand experience with the title, I want to say it reminds me of Capcom’sAge of Booty, but that could just be a generalization on my part....