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[Backlogis the ongoing quest to ridConrad Zimmerman’scollection of unfinished games. As voted on by the Destructoid community, Conrad plays each game from start to finish live onDestructoid’s Justin.tv channelevery weeknight at 8pm Pacific] At the end of our previous installment ofBackloglast week, we successfully passed the gameplay torch from Nero to Dante inDevil May Cry 4. That means remembering how to play as Dante and forgetting all about that fantastic Devil Arm that I’ve become so enamored of using....

Now, I’m sure you’re all busy working onAaron’s BBL contestorNiero’s pirate contest, but I thought it’d be fun to give you all some more stuff. So, here’s the idea: make your own Destructoid robot, and you can win one of fiveAlso Cocks shirts. What do you mean, “make my own Destructoid robot?” You’ve got stuff around your house, like air conditioning parts, LEGO bricks, ground beef, and a variety of other things....

Devil May CryonXbox?Ninja GaidenonPlaystation? A giant Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man? Alone these things are not so bad, but together, coupled with todays shocking announcement, and surely this is the end of the world. That’s right:MarioandSonicare finally teaming up to fight the ultimate evil in the form of… the Beijing Olympics? According to Reuters, who I realized while visiting the site is actually NOT a plumbing company,NintendoandSegaannounced today that they were completely out of ideas, but also thatMario and Sonic at the Olympic Gameswould be coming exclusively to the Wii and DS by the end of the year....

MDK2, one of BioWare’s lesser known titles, recentlygot a WiiWare portwhich is great if you have a Wii, not so much for the rest of us. Good news is that some BioWare vets (now with Overhaul Games) are reworking the old title for a HD re-release that will contain gameplay tweaks, a complete graphics overhaul and higher quality audio. They are also asking for input from fans, viatheir facebook page, on ways they can make the game better....

In the past few days Hideo Kojimahas been tweeting abouta 10 part series of commercials he will be releasing forMetal Gear Solid: Peacewalker. He was concerned that he wouldn’t be able to show off the game correctly and that the PSP’s limited graphical powers (compared to a console) would turn people away. On Friday the first ad popped up onKojima Production’s blog. If you check it out above I would say they did a pretty good job....

Thank goodness for modders, Without them we wouldn’t be able to take one awkwardly shaped gaming system and cram it into another one to make it portable. Case in point is this mod from Evil Nod where he has placed a Nintendo 64 inside a Game Gear. Years ago I would have made a Sega/Nintendo wars joke here, but with Sonic all over the Wii and DS the time for jokes like that has clearly passed....

One of the major issues concerning the subject of downloadable content is the “It should have been on the disc argument,” a common complaint for DLC that has been developed at the same time as the actual game. Fortunately forModern Warfare 2fans, no such complaints can be levied, as Infinity Ward will be making sure the full game is finished before bringing any extra content out. “We haven’t even begun thinking about what our DLC will be, Let alone finish any,” said community manager Robert Bowling, addressing fan concerns on theofficial forums....

Hey dudes. We’re back, and this time… We have a show. Another one. I mean, a new episode. Um. Today, we talk about how Wii game developmenthas been back-burneredin favor ofPokemonandZelda, AKA my favorite video games, high five. Then, happiness is aWarm Gun, since wacky sci-fi old west shooters make everyone happy. Activision is makingDance Heroand a couple of Hollywood dudes are making a newTomb Raidermovie. Also, say what I might about Epic Games, I can’t deny that the newUnreal 3 enginelooks totally epic....

When I posted aboutTokyo Jungleyesterday, I noted that the game promised something called “hunting action.” Many of you took this to mean thatTokyo Junglewas yet another contender forMonster Hunter‘s dominance of the monster-hunting game space, except this time involving real-life endangered species. However, now that our available information level has upgraded from “blurryFamitsuscans” to “low-resFamitsuscreens”, you might be happy (or disappointed) to know thatTokyo Jungleis noMonster Hunterclone. Instead, it looks like a weird sort of side-scrolling action-adventure, where you play as ananimalroaming the apparently depopulated city of Tokyo in the year 20XX....

Some newElder Scrolls V: Skyrimscreens have shown up, and these ones actually show something besides mountains andiTunes-inspired menu systems. The French video game site Jeux Video Network uncovered a nice haul of them. Some new, some old.Go look for yourself. No, seriously. You need to see these. There’s the guy about to fight the Squidbear, as shown above, but also some castles, a fair maiden in a tight-fitting bodice, and what appears to be a friggin’ Wampa....

Courtesy ofJeux-France, enjoy this new video showing off three of the available mini-games inRayman Raving Rabbids 2.Bright, colorful, loud and extremely insane, the sequel to the original comedic Wii launch title looks set to be at once both charming and irritating at once. Also, it will perhaps cement theRaving Rabbidsseries as the cream of the crop of Wii mini-game compilations. I overlooked the original but the allure of the Rabbids is proving too strong to resist....

Another month, anotherFinal Fantasytitle with the latest beingFinal Fantasy IVfor the Nintendo DS. Eventually, SquareEnix is going to run out of games to re-release so it’s only a matter of time beforeFinal Fantasy VIIis remade. Unless SquareEnix decides to remake the remakes.It’s another slow week in the release schedule. I’ve had my eye onIzuna 2for a while now, but in a perverted way and not in a “I actually want to play the game” way … yep....

It’s finally time to relax, everybody. The crazy rush of videogames has finally slowed down. At last, we will all have time to play through all the games that have been pilling up. Plus, it won’t take me nearly two hours to write and format this release schedule anymore! The big release, or rather re-releases, of the week areChrono TriggerandSuper Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.SSFIITHDRis a no-brainer for me; I’ll definitely be picking that one up....