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The wacky Ubisoft Rabbids are popping up everywhere, fromvideogame sequelsto viral videos. Now they’re in paper clay form and attacking your toys. Fifi fromFicky’s Toy Stationhas posted pictures of what I assume to be her handmade, paper clay Rabbids onFlickr. Complete with costumes and plungers, she has them attacking her dolls and singing in a choir. I want! I want! Fifi also makes otherhandmade toyswhich she also has posted on her flickr account....

A long time ago, I posteda pieceaboutan articlefrom Armchair Arcade chronicling the evolution of the computer role playing game from the days of yore to the days of less-than-yore. Today, I bring you part two of the exhaustively detailed retrospective written by Mr. Matt Barton, and whilethis oneis hosted by Gamasutra, you can be sure it’s of the same quality, and contains the same in-depth nerdery as the previous article....

IGA Worldwide’s European publisher relations VP and co-founder Ed Bartlettwould like to inform everyonethat his company isnotevil. Speaking in defense of the ad agency, which is responsible for much of the in-game marketing that has become so popular these days, Bartlett intends to set the record straight and refute the idea that IGA is going to cause any damage. “I used to be a game developer, so I’m not a big evil corporate guy,” explained the former Sega, Acclaim and Bitmap Brothers employee....

Orcs Must Die!is looking mighty fine with its mix of tower defence and hands-on action; a lovechild stemming from a ménage à trois that involvedDungeon Defenders,Sanctum, andWarcraft IIIif you will. Because these types of games tend to confuse a fair amount of people, Robot Entertainment has created a series of videos to provide you with an interactive view of what dealing with waves of orcs will play like. Just remember to click a selection when prompted to do so, or it will be a bit of a boring video....

Last weekend I told you about the fact that Insomniacwould be showing something offat PAX, and assumed that it was a foregone conclusion that that something wasResistance 3. Well, you know what they say about assuming. It turns out that we may be seeing a newRatchet and Clankbefore we see anyResistance. Speaking withShogun GamerDavid Kaye, the voice for both Clank fromR&Cand Nathan Hale fromResistance, said, “Don’t know about Nate. There are some interesting developments always coming from Insomniac games....

After days of being asensationalizingtwitand turning the VA Tech tragedy to his advantage, it seems that Jack “Courage McSnugglebunks” Thompson is finally beginning to loosen his stranglehold on the crazy market. Does that mean he’ll be abdicating the crazythrone? Doubtful, but at the very least he won’t be making any more attempts to blockManhunt 2orGTA4from sale. Take Two and Jack Thompson have settled up, GamePolitics is reporting, not only putting to rest the series of lawsuits and countersuits between the two parties, but those contempt of court charges that Jack was facing....

Twisted Metaldirector David Jaffe upset a number of our more mental Xbox 360 fanboys yesterday when wequoted his comments on console exclusivity. After earning a torrent of vitriol from various community members for flying the Sony colors, Jaffe hit back in no uncertain terms. “Holy f**k, Destructoid Xbox-only owners out in full force against me,” Jaffe said onTwitter. “WTF? I can’t have an opinion? It’s not that we would not LOVE to have our games in every home in the world … even the ones without electricity....

I love it when some snotty punk kid gets taken down a peg or two, and the mother of one particular teenagerhas truly delivered. The boy was expected to perform chores, but he had other ideas. Rather than do something to earn his sordid keep, he decided instead to break the vacuum cleaner so he didn’t have to do any work. Well, his mother decided that an eye was worth an eye, and is nowselling his Xbox 360to pay for it:...

A little while back, weran a rumorinvolving the supposed appearance ofKiller Instinct 3’ssheet music. Since then, a few other gaming communities have tried their hand at cracking the Internet’s greatest mystery, and it appears it may have been solved, or at least, partially solved. The picture of the sheet music that we ran had a fairly identifiable table in the background, and the guys atGiantBomb(viaMusic4Games) are reporting that the sheet music fromViva Pinata: Trouble in Paradisehas been pictured sitting on the exact same table....

Guerilla Gameshas announcedthat a patch forKillzone 3— version 1.08! — is on the way. According to the developer, here’s what’s in store: It’s nothing huge, but if you’ve suffered from the above in-game ailments, this is great news. No official date for the release, but Guerilla says “it will go live at the same time world wide.”

Well it’s about time. The Xbox 360 version ofKing of Fighters XIIhas finally been patched to fix its various online troubles and stability issues. Its PS3 counterpart was issued some time ago, as it didn’t have the red tape and nonsensical certification hurdles, and this should bring the 360 version up to speed. The patch addresses everything from matchmaking and chat restrictions to response time and lag issues, so hopefully whatever was broken before will be kosher from now on....

Have you all had a chance todownload and playtheMetal Gear Solid: Peace Walkerdemo? I certainly have, and I thought it was pretty damn promising. Despite the generally positive feedback, however, Kojima Productions is listening to its fans and the studio’s looking into making some improvements to the controls. When you try and bring a console experience to the PSP, you have to compromise and do your best with the limited control interface, and the developers did well enough to provide two control methods — Action and Shooting....

[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 Twitch.tv channelevery weeknight at 8pm Pacific] Backlogis coming to you extra early today and returning to the quiet lakeside village of Silent Hill. Heather is now stumbling blindly through a creepyoffice building. Remember when I was saying yesterday that I was having trouble conceiving of a place theSilent Hillseries was incapable of making creepy?...