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Seemingly tired of ancient China and Japan, Koei now moves to the epic conflict between England and France forBladestorm: The Hundred Years War. When I first heard about this game, I’d assumed that it wasDynasty Warriorsfor Eurotrash, but this brand new trailer almost leads me to believe we will instead be seeing a spiritual successor to theKessenseries — and that’s not a bad thing, that’s a very, very good thing. If you’ve never played any of theKessengames, I seriously suggest you try them out....

You thought Sega and Creative Assembly’s sequel toShogun: Total Warwas about samurai? Hah! You thought wrong. It’s actually about an amnesiac boy with great hair that happens upon a weapon with great power, and embarks on an epic journey to save the world from a mysterious evil. Naw, I’m kidding, it’s about samurai. Just not theSengoku BASARAorSamurai Warriorssamurai, just plain-old historical samurai, roughly from the 15th century onwards. Why not start at the 10th century, around the time when the word “samurai” was actually coined, you ask?...

“The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the beast of man.” What’s this? A trailer for an id Software game that starts off with a quote from the Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown”? Aren’t I supposed to be able to turn off my brain off when firing up an id title? Sure, the first minute and a half of this latest trailer is pretty convincing in letting us know that yes, there’s more toRagethan just action....

Today onMash Tacticswe will be playingKnights Contract. Carnage will attempt to find a knight willing to work for us. You could be the lucky one to get the contract. Join us now in this epic hack and slash title for thePlayStation 3onJustin.Tv. [Join us for Mash Tactics every weekday at 4PM PST onJustin.Tv/Destructoidto watch live streams of new game releases and crazy antics with industry guests. Come join us on the chat and see what all the fuss is about!...

Fans have wanted it (mostly the ones with suspiciouscreasesin the center of their pants) and Capcomhas delivered it— yes folks, Cammy is heading toStreet Fighter IV. She topped a poll from Capcom that asked which character gamers wanted to see most inSF IV, so now that she is said to be “definitely in the game,” the Internet may rejoice. Cammy is a firm favorite (emphasis on firm) withStreet Fighterfans, and the British agent in a glorified swimsuit is one of the series’ most memorable characters....

Following astrong initial release, Paradox Interactive has given an update onMagicka‘s sales to Big Download: 200,000 copies sold in its first 17 days. Remarkable for a small-scale launch, even if the game was budget priced. Word travels quickly, I suppose. Paradox producer Mattias Lilja says the team at Arrowhead Studios is “close” in terms of fixing technical issues, “but not there yet. The basic tech design ofMagickasets some limits to what we can realistically do, but there’s still stuff we can and definitely will improve upon....

Masaya Matsuura may not be a household name even in most gaming households, but when you say that he’s the man behindPaRappa the Rapperthen most people’s ears pick up as they know the man has some serious cred in the music game business. While his most recent title,Major Minor’s Majestic March, may not have been the groundbreaking music game of this generation likePaRappawas, it still clearly showed that the man has some very creative ideas of where rhythm games can go....

I think it’s completely reasonable to have some doubts about howMetroid: Other Mmight turn out. Sure, it’s Team Ninja at the helm, but third-person combined with 3D hasn’t been attempted with this franchise before and lots of things could go very wrong. This new gameplay trailer gives me a little more confidence. I love the way this game uses a combination of 2D and 3D. The run and gun of the corridor sections and the arena-style combat are an interesting juxtaposition....

Iconic game designer and happy-go-lucky scamp Shigeru Miyamoto doesn’t care much about online gaming, despite the fact that Sony and Microsoft fall over themselves to conquer the Internet. For the Nintendo vassal, the focus is on entertainment first, whether it’s online or off. “It is often said that Nintendo was rather late in advancing into the network world,” states Miyamoto. “Actually we simply wanted to take sufficient time to make it a proper business, and make it as comfortable an environment as possible for consumers....

Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto recently told investors during the Q&A portion of an earnings briefing that the company will indeed be putting out 2D and 3D — not to be confused withstereoscopic3D —Mariogames for the upcoming 3DS. “They both have their own appeal,” he says. The classic example given when the handheld was first announced was how jumping on a Goomba would be easier with an added sense of depth. It sounds as if that sentiment is still a major part of the design philosophy....

Is it June already? That time of year when…screw it. I hate doing intros. Suffice to say, you guys came up with some great stuff for the “if you love it, change it” theme. It was a prompt that required creativity and the ability to critique, and many of you rose to the challenge admirably. This month’s theme,the start of the affair, is a lot easier: it’s just aboutyou. Which videogame(s) got you into gaming in the first place?...

Thanks to a post on theJapanese Xbox site, it’s confirmed thatMr. Driller Onlineis coming out this Wednesday in Japan for Xbox Live. Of course, the majority of the Destructoid staff will be inplanes to Cancunby then, so it wouldn’t have mattered even if it was the US release. A few of ourexpert community blog matlockershad already uncovered it as rumor, but now we can only assume that a US release should soon follow....

Muscle-bound rabbits slipping on glowing banana peels while crazed green afro guy runs away? What the hell is this? This is Square Enix’sGun Loco, a third-person shooter game that is currently in development for the Xbox 360. They call the game play “sprint-action shooter,” which is basically running and gunning, but with crazy characters. Sorry —Lococharacters. At the farthest reaches of the solar system, a collection of the craziest criminals in the universe are incarcerated on a remote prison planet with no walls and forgotten by society....