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After watching Game Informer’s recent documentaryabout Volition, I was all jazzed up aboutDescent.Descent! What more needs to be said? These feelings quickly changed into those of sadness, but all is well. GameTrailers has put up a new walkthrough-style video ofRed Faction: Armageddon. Level designer Jameson Durall narrates — his first words are “So we have something a little special for all theDescentfans out there …” We then learn that, hey,Red Faction‘s tech is a pretty nice match for that type of game....

Today is August 13, and you know what that means: it’s Super HappyRed Faction: GuerrillaAdd-on Day! Whip out those party hats, people. “Demons of the Badlands,” the first of a few planned downloadable content packs forGuerrilla, is all about the Marauders, and gives you control of Samanya. Rather than having you replay parts of the game from a different perspective, this add-on is actually a prequel and takes place in an entirely new section of Mars....

A few days ago, I caught myself wondering about Mistwalker — I was (and still am)a big fan of 2007’sLost Odyssey, but the company has been relatively quiet recently.ASHlooked promising, but was never released outside of Japan.Blue Dragon Plus, a DS sequel to the ok-but-not-that-greatBlue Dragon,was quietly released in FebruaryandBlue Dragon 2(Xbox 360) andBlue Dragon: Ikai no Kyojuu(DS) were both announced to very little fanfare. Well, here’s an update:ASHstill hasn’t gotten a Western announcement,Blue Dragon 2doesn’t have a release date at all, andIkai no Kyojuuwill be released in Japan in October....

In news that is sure topleaseResident Evilfans of the mobile phone variety, Capcom has just released the sequel to the 2006 game,Resident Evil: The Missions. Titled Biohazard: Operationsin Japan, the new game’s objective is a simple one — navigate Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine through each room and clear it in under a minute or less. Your hard work will be rewarded with better weapons, like the flamethrower and shotgun. Let’s hope the always crowd pleasing rocket launcher will also make an appearance....

Happy Friday, listeners! Tomorrow is Valentine’s day, so we thought we’d talk a little about unrequited love in retro games. Heaven knows we all understand what it feels like. Highlights:

In our never ending battle against mediocrity,RFGO!fires another salvo of podcasting awesomeness across the bow of the Internets. Hoping to strike a direct hit, we invite Rich Grillotti fromPixeljam Gamesto sit down with the rest of us and discuss his company’s neo retro games. Highlights! As always, you’re able to check out our show over at thepodcast page, or just jump into a full time commitment by subscribing to us via iTunes (it’s okay baby, we’ll be there for you)....

Well … never thought I’d be typing this, butRiver City Ransom 2is coming to PC and home consoles. The console version will hit Japan this year, with an online PC version arriving in 2012. Releasing asDowntown Nekketsu Monogatari 2in Japan, there are not yet details on a Western release or …anything, really. All we know is that it’s an official followup to the cult 1989 Famicom game. The original game wasn’t a huge success in the West, but it did gain a following over the years for its sense of humor and unique gameplay....

The 2011 Rugby World Cup is just around the corner (September 9, to be exact) and as we all know, no sporting event would be complete without an official videogame tie-in. While the game itself isn’t due out until August 26, fans can get their hands on the demo now via Xbox Live and tomorrow on PSN. Rugby World Cup 2011will feature the 20 teams participating in the Cup as they compete in their phase of the tournament and eventually the finals....

Ubisoft may be a mute when it comes toBeyond Good & Evil 2, but at least we have an HD version of the original classic to keep us amused. Here’s a teaser trailer for the upcoming remaster, which is due out on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in 2011. As you can see, it doesn’t show much, but Jade’s looking rather lovely in all her hi-def finery, and Pey’j is sexier than ever....

With over 25 years in the game industry, when Firaxis Games’ Sid Meier talks people listen. And he’ll be talking at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this March. Sure, a lot of people will be speaking at GDC this year, but only Meier will lead the conference’s keynote address. In a presentation entitled “The Psychology of Game Design (Everything You Know Is Wrong),” Meier will discuss how the driving force of game design should be the psychology of the player, rather than “laws of logic, physics, and algebra....

The saga ofToo Human, Silicon Knights’ Norse-mythology-meets-sci-fi RPG which spent ten years in development hell only to receive a cool reception upon release, may not be over. In a recent interview with IndustryGamers, CEO Denis Dyack has stated that Silicon Knights, “intend to finish the trilogy but no comment beyond that.” Which isn’t entirely true, because he also mentions the “very public litigation” surrounding the title. That would likely be referring tothe suitSilicon Knights brought against Epic Gamesin 2007, claiming that Epic failed to provide support for the Unreal Engine which caused delays in the development ofToo Human....

We already knew that the PlayStation 3 network would allow users to download games and media, but what we didn’t know was that it will offer original PlayStation games for download as well. At this very moment,ten PS1 games are ready to be downloaded and they each cost JPY2000 in Japan, which is roughly $17 USD. But, because pricing in the U.S is generally different from the pricing in Japan, don’t expect these games to cost $17 if they make it to the states....

[BulletMagnet talks about Soul Bubbles and how it made him remember his childhood. — CTZ] A little while back, I wrotea pieceabout my experience with the then-recently-releasedLocoRoco 2, and how it made me feel like the world’s biggest jerk. You probably didn’t read it, so in a nutshell, while I bought both the game and its predecessor based almost exclusively on my well-documented affinity for so-called “quirky” titles, a second helping of the series’ formula made me realize, to my horror, not only just how little I actually enjoyed it, but how easily I’d duped myself intothinkingthat Iwashaving fun the first time around, simply because a Gamer Like Me wassupposed toclick with a Game Like That....