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Razer is one of those companies I wouldn’t expect to make announcements at Tokyo Game Show, but this industry is always full of surprises. A new Xbox 360 arcade stick isbeing prototyped now. The ultimate goal is to incorporate community feedback into crafting the production model. “Up to 200+ specially selected top-seedStreet Fighter IVpro-gamers, influential modders, and members of the arcade enthusiast community will each be given a Razer arcade stick to test and provide feedback to further improve it to perfection, whereupon the final design will then proceed to production....

It was a confusing first few moments, receiving this tip and trying to make sense of what I was seeing. I think the problem was that I was looking for a price tag or a story, and sadly neither was to be found. What you are seeing above only exists as a figment of the imagination ofJavier Segovia, a Spanish artist who works mostly in the digital realm. This is his take on a reimagined NES, called “reNESED”....

We’re back fromE3— those of us who got to go, anyway — and the surprising amount of retro-flavored hotness on display this year has left us with quite a bit to talk about. So that’s what we’re gonna do. We’ll be taking a look at what appealed to us, what got us excited, and most important of all, what we thought was stupid. Oh, there’s plenty of that. It’s good to be back....

There are a lot of games out there which I have played and not completed. The list seems to be ever-growing, in fact, as I have less time for the practice than I once did. It’s far less common that I play a game and never get anywhere at all. One such game isDr. Chaos.It became something of a mild obsession of mine, with its distinctive cover art and absolutely mystifying gameplay....

I’m making progress with these, I think, because every week I make new mistakes. First the chroma keying was bad, then the camera was too close, and this week I’ve put my torso on the wrong side of the frame so my left side keeps disappearing into nothingness. Anyway, this week I recorded a Rev Rant about game difficulty. It is, like the others, highly unresearched. Why doesMetal Gear Solid 3suck on every difficulty level but extreme?...

The thing about old school RPGs is that, no matter how bad they are, so long as they contain plenty of grinding, a high encounter rate and the exact same tropes we’ve seen in the genre for the past twenty years, there willalwaysbe some group of nerds willing to lap it all up. That’s clearly the mentality behind the release ofBlack Sigil: Blade of the Exiled. It contains nothing we haven’t seen before a hundred times by now, but it is so bargain basement in its presentation, so dull in its execution and so pointless in its existence, that it struggles to even stand on the crutches it’s fashioned out of stolen ideas from other, better, RPGs....

Discovering thePink Godzilla storein Seattle duringPAXalmost resulted in an orgasmic version of my death. Being the game and toy obsessee that I am, the sheer selection of awesomeness they have avaliable put me in a state of paralysed bliss, which thankfully wore off after ten minutes or so. After recovering, I managed to buy some things and lick the Super Famicom selection a little. If you live in Seattle, there is an event hosted by Pink Godzilla tonight that you shouldn’t miss....

[“Real talk” update: As we suspected, this information is inaccurate. Speaking with Microsoft, Destructoid was told there are no plans for a new console in 2010.More details here.] Rumorsare flying andanalysts are speculating: is Microsoft’s motion-sensing Natal tech coming alongside a new console? We are actually still not totally clear on whether a new console is coming or just a new SKU. One outlet says a new console actually is coming, but we’re not so sure....

Say what you will about Twitter, but you’re able to’t beat it when it comes to instant gratification. For example, this morning, BioWare updated theirTwitterwith this interesting message: Getting the feeling some news about the next ME1 DLC may be coming this week. Keep your eyes peeled. I post this for your eyes as a rumor, but that seems pretty suggestive to me. In other words, while you wait forMass Effect 2, some more good play time with the first game may be coming your way sooner than you think....

They say they aren’t. Actually, Nintendo says that recent rumors are “purely rumour and speculation,” according to Edge. Tech-Onin Japan heard differently: Nintendo has been evaluating samples obtained from a number of acceleration sensor manufacturers other than ST and ADI, according to sources. Kionix Inc, a US-based venture firm, once attracted attention as a strong candidate. Of course, these could just be samples of motion-sensing tech that does the same thing as the current ones Nintendo uses....

As the GM of a baseball team in 2K Sports’MLB Front Office Manager, whichreleased yesterday, you’ll be responsible for myriad tasks, and scouting is a major one. In the second of three developer diaries for the game, 2K talks about searching for talent — at home and around the globe — by investing money in scouting up-and-coming players.As you put more money in a particular location, the likelihood of good players being found increases....

Silent Hill: Homecomingwillnot be releasedin Japan, Konami’sofficial Web sitehas announced. TheSilent Hillsequel, developed by American studio Double Helix and released in North America on August 02, 2025. Now, a year later, Konami has quietly announced that the expected Japanese version has been “suspended.” “Please look forward to future titles in the series,” is all Konami can say in lieu of an actual explanation. This is the first update to the Japanese Homecoming site since November of 2008....

I don’t care how nostalgic it makes people feel —Altered Beastis bloody terrible. It’s possibly one of the worst beat ’em ups ever conceived, and as if to rub that in the faces of those who don’t know any better, Sega expects you to unlock it inSonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection. That’s just cruel. There are a number of unlockable games in Sega’s latest Genesis compilation, none of which are actually Genesis titles....