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Throughout your busy days, I’m sure you forget things. Birthdays and anniversaries, appointments and deadlines, these things all slip by. But I wanted to remind you of something: Rei Cho Aniki is coming out for PSP soon. Just recently, the titlehas been announcedfor a March 19th release date, coming in at 6,090 yen ($68), or 7,140 ($80) yen for the special edition — although there’s no word as to what is contained within the limited edition....

Microsoft just sent me word that they will be running a contest in conjunction with Old Spice for peeps who increase their Xbox 360 gamerscore between Feb. 12 and April 12. What do you win in this contest? Take a look: Reward Package QualificationsLevel 1 (Gamers who have an annual gamerscore between 0-4,999 at time of entry): Game Picture, Dashboard theme, Contra for Xbox LIVE ArcadeLevel 2 (5,000-9,999 annual gamerscore): Level 1 Package, 100 Microsoft Points and a contest T-shirtLevel 3 (10,000+ annual gamerscore): Level 1 Package, 200 Microsoft Points, contest T-shirt and Fusion Frenzy 2In addition, Old Spice will give Level 1 and 2 the gift of experience by upgrading their Rewards Level for 2007....

You may know Anthony Perri from his position as Resident Person Named Anthony Who Isn’t Anthony Burch in theDestructoid community.* But did you also know that he makes artgames, as well? Surprisingly good, minimalist artgames? Well, he does. Inthiszip file, you can find three such games he’s made:Jump,Hold, andHow Does My Garden Grow. All the games were technically made for an art museum environment, butJumpandHoldare still pretty damn effective even when played by one’s lonesome....

Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time. In the interest of wringing every last drop of milk from Tim Burton’s remake ofAlice in Wonderland, Disney Interactive announced today that — you guessed it — there’s a videogame on the way. I’m not sure how to spell the sound I’m making right now, but it’s somewhere between a sigh and the one dogs make after they’ve been eating grass....

If there’s one good thing about all thislegal mumbo jumbobetween Bethesda and Interplay regarding theFalloutMMO, it’s that we now get to see what Interplay is actuallydoingwith the property. Recently, Interplay’s Chris Taylor released four bits of concept art from the MMO on thestudio’s official message board, which requires a membership to access the proper sub-forum. Dated 2008, the images, we’re reminded by Taylor, are not final — just concepts being used for the development of the title....

Interstellar Marines, the indie AAA shooter by Zero Point Software, has been in development for a long time now. But they want you to keep the faith and support them in realizing their dream of creating a AAA indie game without a corporate publisher to tell them otherwise! The good Reverend Anthony had a minor quibble about the space marine thinga year ago. But as long as the game is good and the shooting mechanics are solid, I couldn’t care less whether you are a space marine, a scientist with a gun or some amnesiac special forces person....

Maybe? Kinda? Earlier today, the guys over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun reported that some of their forum users had done digging and found an option to redeem a Steam user key forProject Zomboid. Is this proof the zombie sandbox game is coming to Steam? Not quite. In a forum post, one of the game’s developers commented on the speculation. “Valve have done us a massive favour in allowingProject Zomboidto use their servers and auto-updating and whatnot,” posted Chris Simpson (aka lemmy101)....

Killzone 3doesn’t just promise death, it promises cinematic death. In these new videos, Guerrilla Games is showing off some of the over-the-top murder that players can inflict. The two short bits of footage reveal a Dropship going down, and a Helghast jetpack soldier going out in a blaze of glory. Killzone 3looks like it’ll be pretty damn exciting, and I can’t wait for it.Killzone 2was far and away my favorite PS3 game of last year, and from what I played ofKZ3, it looks like this one may be even better....

Bobby “Slightly Worse Than Satan” Kotick, CEO of evil publisher Actvision, believes that videogames have the potential to eclipse movies and television to become the ultimate form of entertainment, and he won’t even have to sacrifice a hundred babies to the Blackened Grimwizards in order to make it happen. He’ll still sacrifice them though, for fun. “I view the medium as having the potential to eclipse film and television,”states The Dark One....

The rumors ofLeft 4 Deadhitting the PlayStation 3 is very much like one of the infected’s Tanks — incredibly hard to kill, and increasingly annoying. Thelatest rumorcomes courtesy of UK retailer HMV, which has a listing for the PS3 version and scheduled it to release on June 5 of this year. Valve mocked the latest rumors, with a rep simply saying of HMV’s PS3 version:“Fantastic. I can’t wait to see it....

Before we even go into what the additions are, let me point out that this is only planned for the PC version ofLeft 4 Dead; sorry, I hit the character limit in the headline, and didn’t mean to get anyone’s hopes up. TheLeft 4 DeadBloginforms us that sometime after theSurvival Pack(coming in a few weeks) is released, Valve will be tweaking the matchmaking system to include third-party campaigns. This means that you will be able to find dedicated servers for any custom campaigns you have installed, and also see which of your friends are playing third-party campaigns....

[Not sure what Mash Tactics is? I’ve included a clip from the most recent episode to show you just a glimpse of what you’ve been missing, you daft fool! You can see all of Destructoid’s previously aired live showsin our archives.] Today,Mash Tacticsis playingThe Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection, a graphically upscaled release of the original PlayStation 2 games for the PlayStation 3, available in stores now. If these revered classics have slipped past you, here’s a chance to get an in-depth look....

Frontier and Nintendo of America have announced that the sequel toLostWindswill be available on WiiWare in North America this Monday. Rejoice! LostWinds: Winter of Melodiashas already made its way to Europe, and has garnered some impressive scores from them there videogame critics we keep hearing about. This isn’t surprising — weloved the first game. Jonathan Holmes said “LostWindsis the best $10 I’ve ever spent on a videogame.” We have hopes that the follow-up — which will also cost 1000 Wii Points — will have us saying the same thing....