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Hardcore gamers everywhere rejoice!PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit(1-4 players, 800 Wii Points)is available on WiiWare today! It’s a board game, set in a pop-up picture book! Will be great fun alongsideFamily Slot Car Racing(1-2 players, 500 Wii Points), which is also available on WiiWare. Yes. So we kid, but this is no joke —The Revenge of Shinobi(1 player, 800 Wii Points)is your virtual console game of the week. It doesn’t get much more hardcore than playing this Sega Genesis classic....

If you’ve been itching for additionalStreet Fighter IVcharacters to master, take a number and find a comfortable chair. Character downloadable content isn’t going to happen anytime soon. Capcom’s Seth Killian recently delivered the bad news toGaming Union. According to Killian, Capcom doesn’t have any plans for character DLC and wouldn’t release it anyway because functions as a community wedge. “No plans for additional DLC right now,” Killian said. “We want the core game to be a completely functional package, and character DLC could split the user-base....

The first game I played at this year’s Tokyo Game Show was the PlayStation 3 demo of Konami’sMetal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. It’s a good demo, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Unfortunately, most of you won’t get a chance to experience it. In thelatest Kojima Productions podcast, Konami’s Michael Shelling made it pretty clear — E For All will be the only chance non-press gamers will have the chance to play the game before its release next year....

Last night and this morning, we’ve heard plenty of buzz on a PS3 redesign to be unveiled at E3, set to kick off in a couple of weeks. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of a redesign, and you’d almost have to believe that they have one in the works, but the timing definitely wouldn’t be right if they’re also going to talk abouta new PSPat E3. Not that that’s confirmed or anything....

Yesterday we told you aboutthe mindbogglingly bad slideshow calledVideo Games and Children: Virtual Playground vs. Danger Zonecreated by the New York Department of Justice to “educate” non-gaming parents on the dangers of gaming. TodayGamePolitics follows up, and points out that the slideshow’s listing of a well-known hoax site has caused a bit of a stir among political types in Albany. Because of this, now it looks like thestate-produced video will recieve an editto remove the hoax site,Mothers Against Videogame Addiction and Violence, from its references listing....

If Mohammed will not go to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed. It is with this trusty proverb in mind that US marshals seem to be approaching the capture of criminals in Texas, as they have used the promise ofan Xbox 360 as baitto lure over one hundred lawbreakers out of hiding. What? Yes, that’s right. The Marshals and El Paso police worked together to trick a large number of criminals into thinking they had won a free Xbox 360....

A trailer for the freshly announcedNierhas just appeared on Youtube and I really, really,reallybloody want it, thanks! The name appeared as part of Square Enix’s lineup yesterday and we had no idea what it could be, outside of a possible tribute to our very own site founder. Now we know what it is — a brutal, bloody, hack n’ slash action game that makes my little acorn winkie turn hard and dribble out a little bit of stuff....

Best Buy is running apromotionthat should make Xbox Live users save a little in the pocket. I’m guessing this is for a limited time but the deal is as follows: If you pre-orderHalo 3now, then you’ll be able to purchase 1,600 Microsoft points for just $4.99 (the usual price is $19.99). [ViaEvil Avatar]

A bit late to the game, MTV Games and Harmonix shot us an email today detailing the contents of the $249.99The Beatles: Rock BandLimited Edition Bundle. After shouting“OLD!”at our monitors, we realized there was a bit more to their announcement. It seems that if you pre-order any version ofThe Beatles: Rock Band, you’ll get into a special “Pre-Order Club.” What does that mean? Well, starting in May and leading up to the game’s release, you’ll receiving breaking news, access to exclusive art and behind-the-scenes footage....

As you might have read, Namco Bandai’s been murmuring a lot aboutDark Soulslately. In the past few days, there have been a bunch ofscreenshotsand a newtrailer. In addition to the news coming from their annual Level Up press event, they also invited me, Max Scoville, star Destructoid reporter, to see some gameplay. Okay, I’m not really a star reporter, but Hamza was busy that day, so I went instead. Dark Souls(Xbox 360, Playstation 3 [Previewed])Developer: From SoftwarePublisher: Namco Bandai GamesTo Be Released: October 2011...

Oh, you’re not ready forTwisted Metal. You think you are, but you’re not. You may think that you’re prepared, being a fan of this PlayStation and PS2 predecessors, but you’re not even close to being prepared. This game is insane. There’s a million things happening at once, a million bullets flying your way, and million ways to die. It’s pure chaos, but it works. It works beautifully. David Jaffe and his people at Eat Sleep Play have been crafting a game so wild that no existing genre type fits it....

Whooo-weeee! AnotherRayman Raving Rabbidsgameplay video! This game is starting to look like a crack-whielding homeless man’s best friend. Some of these minigames remind me of the kind of minigames that one would see in theMario Partyseries, but in aRaymangame? I wanted to see Rayman shooting his special glowy balls at other limbless creatures in a 3D platformer! I’m not so sure the “assassinate the infidels” call of the rabbids is for me, but by all means go ahead, toke up and spray some coked up rabbids with orange soda....

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has recently justified the 3DS for anybody who reckons we shouldn’t be thinking about a new handheld so soon after the release of the DSi XL. According to Reggie, Nintendo just has too many ideas for its future handheld, thus necessitating a brand new system. “We have ideas of what we want to bring to the consumer that we can’t do with the current DS model,” says Reggie....