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It’s easy to bump intofamous people you don’t know at E3, but it’s even easier to bump into famous people you do know. While getting ready to help Husky with an interview with the producer ofFinal Fantasy XIV, we spotted the illustrious Dale North as he was playing Square-Enix’s new WiiWare game. This video might be more fun as an audio-only experience, because then you may be able to imagine that Dale is playing a game that involved throwing life-sized, realistic grizzly bears at other life-sized, realistic grizzly bears....

Out of all the Kinect demos shown during the Microsoft press conference, we here at Destructoid were the most impressed by Harmonix’sDance Central. Not only was it by far the most entertaining (seriously, you are not ready for the video we will have up later), it was easily the most technologically impressive. By standing in the middle of the room,Dance Centraluses Kinect to follow your dance moves as you dance to a a variety of pop and hip-hop music....

All this week I am going to be giving ridiculously quick hands-on impressions of all the games I see on the E3 show floor. Since I think everything is a little amazing, they will be rated, from least to most favorite:1(A Little Amazing!),2(Kind of Amazing!),3(Pretty Amazing!),4(AMAZING!), and5(The Most Amazing Thing I Have Ever Seen!). Earlier, I covered thesingle-player part ofAssassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, but now it’s time to focus on the game’s multiplayer, something that Ubisoft has been really hyping....

Madfinger Games’Shadowgun(that’sgun, notrun) looks mighty fine, especially when you consider that the Unity powered game is meant to run on tablets and smartphones.Shadowgunshould run at 30 frames per second on an iPad, 60 fps on an iPad 2, and it will also run on an iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and Android devices that have a NVIDIA Tegra chip. It looks stunning, and Unity might give Unreal a run for its money as a cheap alternative for mobile gaming....

Wargaming.net, the team behind the world’s most popular free-to-play World War II tank MMO, has announced a new free-to-play game:World of Warplanes. WoWWorld of Warplaneswill be another free-to-play game and will be standalone. The game will be set in the period between the 1930s through the 1950s, and it will feature warplanes.World of Tankshas proven to have its audience, so let’s see of they can repeat the success withWorld of Warplanesor if they can engage those who didn’t care about tanks....

In a rarely explored area of the EA Showcase sat four iPhones. Each held one of EA’s upcoming iPhone offerings, and I’m here to tell you all about them. Well, actually, I’m just going to talk aboutSpore. If you honestly need me to tell you about Scrabble, Sudoku,andTetris,then just GTFO. InSpore, you will tilt the iPhone to move your little Spore creation. You need to eat the weak and avoid creatures that can eat you in order to survive and become the best Spore creature....

You know it, I know it, everyone knows that Arnold “violent games are evil but please keep watching Terminator films” Schwarzenegger is a ridiculous hypocrite. Despite it being common knowledge, however, videogame industry members rarely call him on his bullsh*t in the terms that he deserves. Fortunately, Jeff Green has stepped in to take the slack. “Here’s the thing, though. As bloody as this movie may be, it’s not actually illegal for a theater to sell a minor a ticket to this movie, nor is it illegal for a parent to let his or her kid in with them,” said the EA....

I’m really, really excited forEnslaved: Odyssey to the West. I love the futuristic adaptation of the classic Chinese novelJourney to the West, I love Ninja Theory’s potential as a standout studio, and I love what I’ve heard about the gameplay. I also love this new trailer, and I love that I’ll get to check the game out at E3 next week! Anyway, this new footage is the big E3 trailer, and it sets out the story quite nicely, along with a smattering of gameplay imagery....

Typically, the special edition food chain goes something like this: Japan > America > Europe. This time however, Europe will be seeing the best special edition forDead Rising 2called the “The Outbreak Pack.” How so? Well it’s coming with a 12″ zombie figurine with accessories such as a Servbot head. So. Awesome. The special edition set will also come with a download token for a bonus theme pack as well as extra content for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360....

Converted to US Dollar, the Xperia Play game downloads should range anywhere from about $2 to $15 or more. This information comes from UK Sony Ericsson marketing boss David Hilton who told MCV: “The smaller, lower-tier games will be around £1 to £2 and a more complex game could be up to £10.” The PlayStation-equipped phone comes pre-installed games BruceLee Dragon Warriors, Tetris, Star Battalion, FIFA 10, The Sims 3andCrash Bandicoot....

I wish I hadn’t done that post yesterday that features less than a minute of off-screen footageResident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. Now I have more than ten times that much off-screen footage to show you. Hope you’re not getting sick of this game yet. I know I’m not. The more I see ofResident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, the more I’m warming up to it. Though the third person/first person shooting still scares me a bit, I think I can get over it....

Portugal-based Moonberry Studios wrote in to tell us about its new logic-based browser game,Picma Squared. I know we have somePicrossfans in attendance, so if that accurately describes you, this one might be up your alley. You’re presented with a fairly blank slate, which you can color in. Preset numbers are used to clue you into where, exactly, you need to fill in the boxes. Yeah, my head hurts; thankfully, Moonberry provided us with some screenshots, so I didn’t have to completely embarrass myself with a terrible screen cap....

Some people just hate the internet. There’s plenty not to like: viruses, trolls, immature homophobes, etc. The problem is if you hate the internet then you’re able to’t hook up your 360 to it and thus you can’t get DLC… or can you? It hasbeen revealedthatcome May 29 in EuropeandMay 26 in the USboth ofFallout 3‘s current DLC downloads, The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage, will be released in retail form for all those internet haters to enjoy....