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Sex sells, but is it enough to sell crosswords? Ataricertainly hopes so, as it is using a pair of Page 3 models to promote the tabloid-based DS gameThe Sun Crossword Challengeat London’s Victoria Station. This may be simultaneously the best and worst thing I have written about. From Friday, April 18th, starting at 8am, lucky passers-by can take part in a “giant interactive crossword” with models Sam Cooke and Vikki Blows, the latter name you’d know if you remember our story about Dante fromDevil May Crybeingportrayed as a half naked slut....

Atomic Game’s Xbox LIVE Arcade and PC military shooter,Breach, has been delayed. That’s the bad news. The good news? It’s getting new features! According to Atomic’s president, Peter Tamte, work onBreachwas already complete. Problem is, it had missed the cut-off date to get the game on Xbox LIVE in late June as originally planned. “Luckily, there had been features we had been thinking of adding to the title,” he says, “and now we have the opportunity to do just that....

If you play a lot of videogames, then chances are that you play a lot oftrashyvideogames. Let’s face it: in a market as saturated as this one, the crap-to-gold ratio is very unbalanced, and no matter how discerning your eye may be, some garbage is bound to end up in your disc tray at regular intervals. Is that always a bad thing, though? Perhaps not, when you look at how some games are able to transcend their own awfulness and become truly enjoyable....

[Editor’s note: This is the final promotion for the Birthday-versary of awesomeness. Thanks again to everyone that made something for today, you all are amazing. — CTZ] Hello Destructoid, and Happy second Anniversary. I wasn’t originally intending to do this comic for any apparent reason. I had briefly mentioned this plan in a C-Blog post, which many missed because it was only up for a few hours. Hamza contacted me after seeing it and informed me of an epic community thing he was epically orchestrating....

Black Friday and all its horror will soon be upon us, and the Internet hasgotten its talonson GameStop’s list of ludicrous offers. The list is absolutely huge, some great bundles such as a PS3 withGod of War: CollectionandLittleBigPlanetfor $299, and tens of dollars to be saved on all sorts of games. While we’re here, how many of you are planning to venture out and brave the crowds of braying imbeciles next week?...

Videogames are largely thought of as a medium exclusively used for power fantasies. Be it the power to commit any crime you want with few repercussions (Grand Theft Autoseries), the power to cleave off the wings of giant eagles before partaking in very different kind of cleavage (God of Warseries), or the power to kill your friends and call them names (Haloseries), today’s videogames are undeniably adept at providing us with the illusion that we’ve “gots da power”....

Rock Bandand MTV exec Paul DeGooyer sees the combination of games and music working out. I can see his dollar sign eyes now; over 60 million tracks have been downloaded to date. At a gaming panel at Midem, which also brought Ubisoft music director Didier Lord and Activision music exec Tim Riley to the table, DeGooyer pushed the idea of games and music together. He stressed “building content” and said that “these games could become a permanent piece of the puzzle for artists....

We met with Microsoft’s Xbox Director of Product Management, Aaron Greenberg, during the 2010 CES, and it was there that I threw him some nifty game ideas for their upcoming body-sensing control scheme that they call Natal. I don’t think he dug any of them, but it got us chatting about how Natal will work in today’s games. I said that the full-body sensing tech could be really cool in something like the upcoming thrillerAlan Wake....

Here’s something I’d never thought we would see again. Square Enix is developing a new Chocobo Racing game for the 3DS. Tenatively titledChocobo Racing 3D, I assume it will consist largely of riding on the backs of chocobos in some sort of speed-oriented competition. But then there’s that screenshot of the girl who looks like she’s whacking a crystal with a hammer. Lord only knows what that could mean. Chocobo Racingis one of my all-time favorite PlayStation One titles....

The prospect of Golgoth StudioupdatingJoe & Macfor the high-def era when work on the gorgeous-lookingTokiremakeis finished excited me greatly, and it definitely excited you guys a lot too. Data East’s 16-bit co-op platformer about beating up dinosaurs until they wept worked in the early 90s, and it sure as hell works today. As fate would have it, my guess aboutJoe & Macperfectly fitting the developer’s tease was right —it’s been announced....

Comments 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 will each winArmored Core 3 Portable. You can comment as many times as you’d like but you can’t use the same robot twice. The contest is open to everyone and will last until we get 500 comments. Go go go! [Update! aeqe, ran24, ThunderHeartXI, Alexander Berlingieri and Aaron St Croix have each won a code forArmored Core 3 Portable.]

[Update:Contest closed! Winners ofVanquishare: Fear No Darkness and genxsis83. Winners ofSonic Free Ridersare Dave Fitch and Purplehedgey. Winners ofFull Autoare shadow1w2 and Adam Ruining. Winner ofBayonettais KGator. Thanks to everyone that entered and thanks again to Sega!] Contest time! We have several codes for an assortment of Sega games available on the Games on Demand channel for the Xbox 360. Up for grabs aretwoSonic Free Riderscodes,twoVanquishcodes,twoFull Autocodesonecode forBayonetta.

Earlier this week, YUKE’s PlayStation Portable titleNeverland Card Battlesshipped to stores nationwide. Now, Destructoid and YUKE’s are partnering up to giveaway four copies of the game to members of the Dtoid community. To sweeten the deal, all four copies will be signed by lead-producer Yoshiteru Sato, one of the founding membersIdea Factory, the original developer of the game. Sato-san is also the head ofCompile Heart, the developer behind the recent Wii puzzle gameOctomaniaand the JRPG title,X-Edge....