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Wii-kly Update: Two New Classic Games Added to Wii Shop Channel Helping out your friends is often as easy as a ride to the airport or a kind word of advice. But when they fall victim to dastardly kidnappers, things get a little more complicated. Step up and find out what it takes to rescue your imperiled pals in the latest additions to the Wii™Shop Channel. Both of these classic titles feature distinctive rescue-driven storylines and villain-busting action to help bring out your inner hero....

There’s anIron Mansequel hitting theaters soon, and that only means one thing — anotherIron Mangame. While Sega’s firstIron Mantitle didn’t exactly thrill, that’s not going to stop them from pumping out another. In theory, this one’s supposed to be “better.” What that means, I don’t know, as Sega hasn’t shown us the game in action yet, and this trailer doesn’t provide answers beyond “Iron Man’s in it and stuff gets blown up....

[Weekend Destructainment is a collection of funny videos brought together from all across the Internet to bring you entertainment on these slow and boring weekends.] If you’re like me, then you think everything is about penises and sex jokes. EVERYTHING! After the break is the best item ever. Then it’s a collection of fireballs! Next up is an extreme sports mashup with some videogames. Then the Old Spice guy answers a question from Captain of the Universe....

[Weekend Destructainment is a collection of funny videos brought together from all across the Internet to bring you entertainment on these slow and boring weekends.] Spoofs, music, mods, murder mysteries and more await you in this edition of Weekend Destructainment. First after the break is aPokemonradio drama done in the style of hit TV show24. Then it’s a new jam by Hyadain called “Ultros Boogie.” Next up is a sickCall of Dutymod made to look likeStar Wars....

Holy crap. Codemasters must be swimming in money! Recently they bought upSega Racing Studios, and now they’re giving away cars? We’ve been keeping our eye out forCodemaster’sRace Driver: GRIDafter seeing how amazing it looks. Now we’ll be keeping our eye out on our time trial lap times in the demo, as the best times have the chance to win a new Ford Mustang GT-R. The top 5 times (US only) will be whisked away to theGRIDlaunch party in San Francisco to participate in “The eBay Motors Muscle Series Time Trial” to determine the winner of the eBay Motors Mustang....

Later this year, Electronic Arts will be releasingArmy of Two: The 40th Day, the sequel to its popular third-person buddy shooter. Today, they’ve released a trailer, all of which EA claims is in-game footage. In it we see a war-torn Shanghai, complete with explosions, gunfire, and bodies. We’re introduced to the 40th Day initiative. It’s all very serious. Until the end, when a one-liner which blows the solemn tone of the trailer....

Funcom Project Manager, Erling Ellingsen, recently spoke toEurogamerabout the Xbox 360 version ofAge of Conan. Ellingsen was fairly forward about the developer’s plans to continue to move forward with the title on the console, although reluctant to divulge any substantial details regarding its release. The Xbox 360 version is still very much set to happen and we are working on it. However, there are no dates set, even though we aim for a 2009 release....

Despite being announced, it looks likeTrineon the Xbox 360 won’t be happening. In a post via Frozenbye Interactive’sofficial message board, the studio’s Joel Kinnunen wrote that the project is “out of our hands but most likely won’t happen.” He added that the Frozenbyte collective might not comment on this matter “any further,” a comment that has us scratching our heads a bit. The good news is that you’re reading this post on a PC, and if you bought this thing within the century, you should be able to handleTrine....

Big thanks to DtoiderQalamari. He answeredthe calland sent in plenty of good YTMNDs. My favorite this week is easily theSuper Fresh Prince of Brawl-Air. The music remix is great and the gif of Will Smith is always hysterical. And you all know I just loved theCosbymonone too. What are your favorites YTMNDs this week? Random Man Now Dogs:Hurley does a cannonball(I was waiting for this as soon as I saw this part inLOST....

Last week, I had some hands-on time with Zipper Interactive’sSOCOM 4, the studio’s firstSOCOMgame in four and a half years (the last entry in the franchise that the developer worked on was the 2006 PSP gameSOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 2). This isn’t the first iteration of the series on the PS3 — Slant Six Games developed the online-onlySOCOM: Confrontation, which launched in October 2008 tomiddling reviews. I brought upConfrontationin a conversation withSOCOM 4designer Ben Jones, and he was diplomatic about it — while he didn’t openly bad-mouth Slant Six’s poorly received effort, he did offer a not-so-subtle jab:...

The Japanese software and hardware chart went live today, and it revealed that the 3DS managed to squeak into first place — but not without resistance from Sony. In fact, while the 3DS got into first place with 40,649 units shifted, the over-a-damn-decade-old PSP sat threateningly in second with 31,741 sales. Nintendo itselfhas admittedthat the 3DS’ performance has been sluggish, but that’s what happens when you release a system almost two months before it’s ready....

Yesterday,IGN posted a storyabout a Wii game that was pitched by developer n-space back in 2007. The game is calledWinter, and it never found a publisher. Twenty Four hours after this news hits the internet and you have both a petition begging for us to support the game’s publication andtonsofgamingsitesbackingsaid petition 100%. Notone, buttwoof our community members have posted their own heartfelt blogs on the topic as well. After watching the video, I can see why some are already so gung-ho to see this game published....

A source from within the seedy depths of the Internet has implicated Amazon’s cloud servers inthe PlayStation Network breachthat saw millions of consumer data stolen and the downtime of Sony’s online services. According to the allegation, hackers created a legitimate account (with fake details, obviously) to rent a server through Amazon’s EC2 service and stage its attack on the PSN from there. The account has been shut down, which is obviously a great comfort to know at this stage....