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You just read my preview ofDeus Ex: Human Revolutionand this latest trailer for the game is a perfect companion piece as it shows off much of what I talked about in my first fifteen minutes. You meet some of the main characters, Adam Jensen gets his ass kicked and comes back as a super augmented soldier. There’s snippets of the first real mission inHuman Revolutiontowards the end of the trailer and I’ll have more on that later this month in a follow-up preview....

By the time I realized Capcom was offering those ever-delightful Servbots in Bobble Budd form during this year’s Comic-Con, it was already too late. I’m fairly certain I even cursed the name of Giant Bomb’s own Ryan Davis fortweeting a pictureof himself nearly exploding with child-like joy while holding one of these. Anyway, that anger was more or less for nothing, since Capcom now has the goods up for pre-order at its official store....

OK, so this week was horrible! November hasn’t been the best month for videogame YTMNDs sad to say. I tried my best and I hope you all at least get a chuckle. I upped the Random Man Now Dog count to try and make up for the weaksauce. What, if any, did you find funny this week?

There’s aDairy Queengame. If you were to drive on a certain highway in Texas, you’d notice that every town you pass through has a Dairy Queen in it. Is that a good thing? I don’t know. The occasional Chicken Fingers Basket is nice now and then, but the rest is not so hot. Their soft serve is like sugar milk. One time, in honor of the famed Porkchop Sandwiches viral video (after the jump), I tried Dairy Queen’s limited time version....

By May 16, 2025, Nintendo had launched the Wii in the United States, Japan, and Europe. The console effectively ignored or destroyed every notion of what a new videogame console should be. “Progress” in the videogame world has long been about more horsepower, a controller with more buttons, and games with a more cinematic presentation. With its runaway commercial success, the Wii detonated all that, and the industry as a whole is still figuring out what to do about it....

Wow, the headline pretty much says it all. For those that didn’t hear about last year’s Amazon Customer Vote promotion, it’s a program where mega-Web store Amazon.com lets their customers vote on one of a few preset deals, and the item with the most votes officially goes on sale to selected voters for the predetermined price. The catch is that there is a limited amount of items, and voters have to “win” to be able to purchase their item....

6-year-old Mary McKenzie designed a gift card for GameStop that’s going to help raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation … and what did you do this year? The Dallas-area girl drew up an adorable little holiday scene, complete with an angel, snowman, tree, and a reindeer for the videogame mega-retailer. For each sale of the card from now until December 26, GameStop will donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation up to $300,000....

At least, I’ll have to take Nintendo and Namco Bandai’s word for it, given that the screenshots they’ve released for their upcoming 3DS jet fighter game arenotin 3D. That said, there’s a lot of stuffflying at your facein the pictures, including such things as rain, missiles, and enemy fighter jets. I’d imagine that that stuff will be rendered in 3D if you turn the slider thingie up on your 3DS....

Sorry PlayStation 3 fans, more bad news. The anticipated mystery-of-a-mystery gameAlan Wakehas just beenconfirmedto be an exclusive for the Xbox 360 and PC (Vista is being pushed here). Now go be like Justin and cry me a river: The Microsoft connection will also set limits to the Remedy games. Alan Wake will require either the Windows Vista operating system or Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming console as its platform. The game will not be translated for other consoles....

The week’s biggest mystery, by far, was whatthis teaser imagehad to do with the PlayStation Network titleZen Pinball. Ninjas and pinball, together? Not in my lifetime, buddy. Or so I thought. As it turns out,Zen Pinballis in fact getting aNinja Gaiden Sigma 2table complete with a happy recreation of Sky City Tokyo like Mr. Chester imagined it would. I jokingly suggested that ZEN Studios should change the pinballs into cute little breasts to better realize thetone ofNGS2....

Continuing the trend of silly DSgimmick games, the Japanese company Success is releasing a tracing simulator. That’s right, it is a ‘game’ about tracing. Calling itselfEnpitsu de Oku no Hosomichi DS,which translates asThe Narrow Way to the Deep North by Pencil,the objective, if you can even call it that, is to trace over the travel storyOku no Hosomichi,presumabely so we can learn Kanji. In addition to all those lovely travelling tales for you to trace, you’ll get to hear the voice of Japanese actor Tooru Nakamura, as well as get some pictures and background noises as if that somehow makes this a better purchase....

I couldn’t tell you if Destineer’s upcoming Nintendo DS titleAnimal Boxingis going to be any good. Honestly, all of my instincts tell me “No.” But my heart screams “yes,” if only for the fact thatAnimal Boxingis exactly what it advertises to be — a game where animals put on gloves and box. The trailer makes the game out to look a bit like Nintendo’sPunch-Out!!arcade title, putting players in control over disembodied boxing gloves as they pummel billy goats, alligators, zebras, and more....

Internet “hacktivist” group Anonymous has stepped up its game afterdeclaring war on Sonyyesterday, gathering information on Sony employees, its legal team, and their relatives. For those not keeping track, this is in retaliation for the “PS3 hacking” civil suits that Sony’s leveled against various individuals. An Anonymous sub-group, Sony Recon, is gathering the personal data, starting out with group executive Robert S. Wiesenthal and CEO Howard Stringer. One member is quoted on IRC as saying, “No one found ANY info on Stringer’s kids?...