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Ubisoft has revealedYour Shape: Fitness Evolvedexclusively for the Xbox 360’s Kinect thing. Ubisoft claims it will “change the way you think about fitness.” The game scans your body and shapes the game based upon your own features. The game’s menus are tuned in to your own unique physical dimensions for a fully customized experience. You can take a variety of fitness classes, and even participate in FUN GYM ACTIVITIES. There will be competitive multiplayer elements and combat-oriented fitness programs....

Eden Eternal— a free-to-play MMORPG offered byAeria Games— just received a patch that brings along a significant addition: a second playable race, the Zumi. The Zumi are a mouse-like race that favor creation, invention, and commerce. They are not restricted on any of the classes they can use, though the bonus received for using a specific class will be different than what a human character gets. With this race comes a new continent and starting area, The Fegeral Valley of the Southwestern Continent, which is home to the Zumi....

I’m sick and tired of teaser sites, so it gives me unsettling amounts of pleasure to see a teaser site’s surprise get spoiled, as has happened once again withEnd of Eternity.Famitsumagazine hasspilled the beans, revealing an online countdown to be leading to this new RPG. The most interesting thing aboutEnd of Eternityis that it marks the first time tri-Ace has worked with a publisher other than Square Enix, as the dubious RPG studio will instead be working with Sega this time around....

Here’s the biggest bombshell of E3 2008 and it doesn’t even have a thing to do with E3! Thelatest issue of Famitsureveals thatDead Risingis coming out for the Nintendo Wii. Lots of people (especially Dale North) were expecting Capcom to revealDead Rising 2today attheir press conference, but instead got nothing butLost Planetmovie news. I have no idea what the scans are saying, but there is one screenshot where Frank West is being grabbed by a zombie....

For M. Bison, it will just be Tuesday, but for the rest of us, it will be an awesome day. That’s becauseFinal Fantasy IXisheading to the US PlayStation Networkfor enjoyment on your PS3 and PSP. Final Fantasy IX, like its predecessor, is a game that enjoys a split reception among fans. Some love it, some hate it. I am personally in the “love” category, and often name it as my favorite game in the series....

Square’s newFabula Nova Crystallisproject has been getting a fair bit of attention lately. The trailers ofFFXIIIandVersusfrom E3 wowed everyone. I found theFFtrailer in particular to be pretty mindblowing. It looks like the new set of games is going to take the series in a different direction and I’m excited to see what the final products will look and play like. Alas, we still haven’t managed to acquire theFFXIIItrailer that played at the Jump Fiesta in December....

Before the holidays, Imageepoochrevealed the first fruitsof its publishing endeavor, withFinal Promise Storychief among them. This original PSP RPG is one of several games that the company hopes to use in order to revitalize the ailing Japanese roleplaying genre. We don’t yet know ifFinal Promise Storyhas what it takes to do it, but one thing is certain — it sure as hell looks like a JRPG. Big eyes, floppy hair, and impractical swords pretty much give this game all the visual qualifications....

While theFoldschool Heroesproject is not “hot breaking news,” as people sometimes like to shriek around the Dtoid offices when a big story breaks, the work ofMarshall Alexanderhas been making people smile for some time now. In his most recent papercraft series, he offers up his childhood memories in foldable form, as evidenced above. Check outhis siteto download the free templates for these — they’re easy to make, unlikesome of the papercraft creations out there, and they can bring a little bit of cheer to your desk, especially if you were a child of the ’80s like me....

Imagine my disappointment when I realized that the e-mail Geoff Keighly sent me this evening wasnota love letter to me, telling me how awesome Destructoid is. I was in fact, simply just one of the thousand names on an e-mail blast announcing the nominees for this year’sGame Critics Awards. While everyone at Destructoid has been relying on prescriptions meds to get through the day since learning they were not part of the awards committee (which consists of critics from Electronic Gaming Monthly, Newsweek, Kotaku, and more), wedidcoverthe Spike TV videogame awards....

Last weekI think we killed a game series. No one checked to see if it was breathing, we just all ran in fear and guilt. Could we have done anything to save the series? We might have to make a pact to never tell anyone about that night, ever. Not even that hot girl you want to confide in to get into her pants. What we did waswrong: It was so bad that several of the votes forGuitar Herowere from first time posters ....

Sony has just announced that the PlayStation Network downloadable classic,Gauntlet II, will be available on May 3 for $4.99 — no silly points scheme, you actually know how much you’re paying. Here are the details on this oldie but goodie: WHAT: Play as the Warrior, Valkyrie, Elf, or the Wizard in Gauntlet II™! Enter a dungeon with several hundred levels as players defeat monster generators that churn out wave after wave of enemies....

Artistic display pieces used to be so pretty and refined, once. Now, you can have a 1:1 scalebust of a Locust Dronein your living room, looking like a baby on a burns ward. Art doesn’t always have to be beautiful, I suppose. Ugly this boy may be, but that’s obviously the intent and one can’t argue with Project Triforce’s faithful rendering of your most common foe on theGears of Warbattlefield. Just in time for the release ofGears of War 2, Triforce has revealed this new ornament, which is due to ship in the first quarter of 2009....

TheGears of Warfilm hit a bump in the road earlier this year when it was reported that director Len Wiseman skipped out on the project. Does that mean its dead in the water? Nah — in Hollywood, nothing ever really dies, and according to Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski, it’s still in the works. Speaking withThe Movie Poolat Comic-Con this year, the designer said they’re currently taking a look at the script and likely to start from scratch....