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Yes, that’s right, someone is offering their achievement whoring services on eBay. Lucky patrons of this amazing deal will get to pay a total stranger to play games instead ofthemdoing all that hard work. What a bargain! eBay seller “gamertagz” isoffering the full 1000 gamerpointsinLeft 4 Dead,Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & BoltsandThe Orange Box. You will of course have to give this total stranger access to your Gamertag and Windows Live ID. He will then unlock all achievements within an hour, he claims....

What is all this talk about Nintendonot making adult games? The video above clearly shows thatWarioWare D.I.Y. is heavily gunning for “Most Violent Game of the Year,” and at the moment seems to have a healthy lead in the “Nailing Someone to a Cross” category. It’s not clear who the wonderfully demented person that came up with all of these is, but it is clear that you can pretty much do whatever the hell you want inD....

[Editor’s Note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware that it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now on ourcommunity blogs.] If you’re like me, you probably saw James Cameron’sAvatarover the weekend. If you’re really,reallylike me, you didn’t find it particularly impressive....

We know there’s a lot of ideas out there for custom creations using the Wiimote and nunchuk, but this one might be one of the weirdest of all. How about a Nunchuk controller furry tail that you may wear and even make swish from side to side? Controlled by RFID “mood cards”, you can use them to control which way the tail wags, or you can also use the Nunchuk to do so....

With the stunning success of the Wii, it was only a matter of time before the guys atIn2Gamesstarted asking “What about us?” Speaking toMCV, the UK firm wants it to be known that they are getting ready to launch their own motion sensing hardware for the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 — and interest, as well assupport, couldn’t be higher. “We are putting out ourselves we are getting support from a lot of other companies....

According to the NDP, North American estimates put the Xbox 360 on top for the holiday season, beating out the next-gen offerings of the Wii and PlayStation 3. Though, to be fair, neither the Wii nor PS3 had enough units out there to really compete. Still, it’s a good sign that some people are aware that the 360 is the only real next-gen choice right now … or we can say current gen now, right?...

To me,Super Smash Bros Brawlis what is going to finally make me buy a Wii. I have literally spent thousands of hours playing Melee and the original so I am a very hardcore fan of this series. For the most part,Smash Bros. DOJOhas just been slowly teasing us with items,the battle stagesand lots of random nonsense. So to for them to finally reveal a new character is very exciting. Sure, Zelda isn’t exactly new since she was in Melee, but none the less it is big news....

While much has been made ofGhostbusters,Brutal Legendand evenWET, an Xbox Live Arcade game fromFrozen Codebasealso suffered at the hands of Sierra/Activision merger, ending up as the one of the evil publisher’s lesser known victims. However,Zombie Wranglersis back, anddue to hit XBLAon May 6. The cel-shaded zombie blasting game was all set for release back in September 2008 before having the plug pulled. Now everything’s straight and the game will appear next month....

Zynga Games could probably buy an office on Jupiter with the money it rakes in from the success ofFarmVille, but the Facebook developer doesn’t rely solely on the product for its revenue — the social games gurus have a large stable of games that people of all ages are digging. The latest of those might just be “FrontierVille.” Recently, tech blogTech Crunchlogged into a Facebook developer test account and discovered images of the previously unannounced game, as well as a description that unveils it as a frontier living simulation....

There are some things that I have to do in the world. Usually, it’s limited to preventing peoplefrom buyingEscape from Bug Islandand the like, but one thing that I absolutely must do is prevent theRetroForceGO! crewfrom ever entering the above “Retro TV Game Revival.” The ensuing explosion from the retro-goodness would cause untold damage to the city of Osaka. Was it that good? They had a Virtual Boy stand. And it was running....

In a small demo room at MTV Games’ New York City offices, I step up in front of Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 and fumble breathlessly through a dance routine. I’m playingDance Central, Harmonix’s upcoming launch title for Microsoft’s motion controlled camera, and the song is Dirty Vegas’ “Days Go By.†In a small demo room at MTV Games’ New York City offices, I step up in front of Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 and fumble breathlessly through a dance routine....

I’ve yet to test a third-party console communicator that I’ve liked. The audio and voice quality never measures up to the two products Microsofts makes available for its platform at a premium price. Mad Catz’Modern Warfare 2-branded Throat Communicator is no exception to this. While cute on the design-side, it doesn’t offer comparable quality. And I’m guessing it isn’t up to snuff because it picks up voicefrom your throat. Most communication devices have a microphone that extends from an audio earpiece....

Rare has been hinting at downloadable content forBanjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Boltsfor some time now, but it wasn’t until today that we had any real idea of what the DLC would entail. Thanks to the add-on’s Achievements being put up onXbox.com, we can start to paint a mental picture of what the content will look like. You’ll need to be logged into your Gamertag to view that page, or, alternatively, you may just hit the jump for a screen cap I took....