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Yeah, you read that correctly. The Dtoid team are a mess of gooey affection andinappropriate fluidson Valentine’s Day, thanks to the constant flow of great comments, amazing support androbot themed edible itemsthat our readers give us every day. In fact, if you send us anything today, it may just come back sticky. Just warning you, although I have a feeling some of you won’t mind. In honor of thepassionI feel for our little community, I present you with some old school style Nintendo themed Valentines for those of you who want to pass some love to a fellow gamer....

… or we all get swine flu. WhenOrmagoden demandssomething, everyone has to listen. With a name like that, he means business. Thankfully, Double Fine will be doing its part to lessen the possibility of widespread torment. On Rocktober 1st (aka next Thursday), the team will be partaking in a live Dem-o-Thon starting at 12:00 PM PDT. Hijinks are bound to ensue, so don’t forget to check back on the officialBrutal Legendsitefor the live stream....

Howe wood u like 2 own yore vaire own Mister Destructoid rowbot? Mister Destructoid is baced on an old 50s toy rowbot called the Smoeking Space Man. eBay has several of theesrowbotsavaleabul fore purrchase fore the lowe lowe price of $60 plus shiping and handeling. Herrie up and grab one of thees priceless treasures twoday before tha disappear. Thair rcheaper onesfor $7.95 plus shiping and handeling butt tha r not in the calar green....

Patchwork Heroes, a new download-only game for PlayStation Portable, looks as adorable as it does confusing. The basic idea behind it makes perfect sense — as a little dude, you climb up warships, dismantling parts along the way before your town is destroyed — but there’s no telling how it, uh, plays. The announcement came with a few screenshots, which didn’t help much in the way of visualization. Then it finally hit me (I’ve still got the headache to prove it) — I know this game from somewhere!...

While some of the staff is off in LA meetin’ important people and playin’ lots of games, the rest of us are here holding the fort, left home because we’re justnot pretty enoughto represent Destructoid publicly. So us fugliesNick Chester,Anthony Burchand special (non-fugly) guestChris Furnissare going to find ways to entertain ourselves in the absence of, say, a playableMetal Gear Solid 4. So we were thinking, let’s get together and curse like sailors while we talk about games!...

In tonight’s Podtoid, myself, Aaron Linde andthat womanare joined by … nobody. There is no host this episode, because Rev Anthony’s sister is a bitch. I don’t think that sheds anyactuallight on why he’s not going to be in this episode, but it’s the only reason Anthony gave us. So, it’s just we three stalwarts unless I can find some sucker at short notice, and we will be talking about all sorts of general news such asDiablo IIIandChrono Trigger....

The current Xbox 360 dashboard is kind of a clusterf*ck. Netflix, Hulu, and ESPN integration are great (as I use them pretty much daily), but a redesign is clearly needed. You can point the finger at Microsoft for its state of disarray, but really the madness can be attributed simply to the rules of Chaos Theory: the belief that everything constantly moves from order to disorder. When the last Xbox 360 dashboard makeover (NXE) arrived, everything was peaches n’ cream....

THQ core games emperor Danny Bilson has confirmed that Relic Entertainment is working on the next major stage of theWarhammer 40,000: Dawn of Warseries, and that it’s looking pretty sweet. “We’re working on the next-generation of that franchise right now,” he said. “I feel like an ass saying it’s fantastic, but it is. And we’re going to do something with it you haven’t seen before. Preserving some things that have always been great about the first two generations of it, going back to 1 on some things, 2 on some things, and 3 will bring us some new things....

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Guybrush Threepwood is dead; long live Guybrush Threepwood. Thrown into the underworld and seemingly powerless to stop the forces of piratey evil , the fifthTales of Monkey Islandchapter, entitledRise of the Pirate God, sees our bumbling hero tasked with sealing a rift in time and space, saving his beloved Elaine, and defeating an all-too-familiar evil. But is it anygood? Telltale season finales have been somewhat unpredictable, historically speaking.Sam and Max‘s second season had a pretty good ending, as didWallace and Gromit, but theStrong Badfinale was undeniably subpar, and evenSam and Max‘s season two finale couldn’t match the brilliance of its penultimate episode....

Analyst Michael Pachter talked toShacknews todayand told them that Rockstar North may decide to break away from Take-Two Interactive when their contracts expire February 2009. Patcher believes that after EA paid over $800 million for thePandemic and BioWare deal, Rockstar North wants to see what would happen to them if they split off from Take-Two. So if this goes down, how much do you think companies would pay to get Rockstar?...

A lot of aspects of this story are shaky. For one, the artist reportedly behind this artwork (Kevin Sharpe) has not been officially announced to be the artist for the forthcomingMarvel Vs. Capcom 3comic book tie-in. For all we know, this is just extremely well do fan art. Secondly, even if this art if “for real”, that doesn’t mean that every character in the comic will be a playable character in the game....

Well will you look at this. Someone has grabbeda screenshotthat clearly showsJet Set Radioas a game that is on Xbox LIVE Arcade. If this is real it’s a great boon for those who haven’t playedJet Set Radio. Getting the game would not only let you play one of the best games on the Dreamcast in HD, but also could show SEGA that the gaming community would support anotherJet Setgame. How do I know we would?...