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Mr. Destructoid is super fit and can do a lot of push-ups as seen in this video from E3. It should be noted thatthis little womanis under that helmet. Thanks Dorian for rocking it!

After our meeting, the fine folks at Telltale handed me this, telling me it contained a flash drive with all the press assets for their upcoming games. A can of shaving cream. Get it? Telltale.Jurassic Park. Nedry. Shaving cream can hesteals the embryos in.

Ten years. Kind of a long time, isn’t it? Enough for entire generations of videogames to come and go. Even still, Electronic Arts CFO Eric Brown was quoted at the UBS Annual Media and Communications Conference in New York as sayingStar Wars: The Old Republicwill be around for that long. Or, that’s the plan, anyway. I’m glad someone has faith in the project. While ten years might be overselling it, I suppose as far as non-World of WarcraftMMOs go,The Old Republichas a relatively good chance to stick it out for the long haul....

Believe it or note, three iterations and 643 expansion packs in, Electronic Art’sThe Simsfranchise is still holding on strong. According to EA,The Sims 3was the best selling PC game worldwide in 2009. In 2000, the originalThe Simswas the best selling PC game worldwide. Ditto for 2001, 2002, and 2003. Then, in 2004, that title went toThe Sims 2. So basically what I’m trying to say here is thatThe Simsis still popular....

This may be of interest to a few of you, so here it is. The powers that be at eBay just sent me some interesting facts about both the PlayStation 3 and Wii pre-sales. They also sent some info on the Xbox 360. Check them out: PlayStation 3 numbers Wii numbers eBay also had this to say about the Xbox 360: Currently being pre-sold before its November 17 launch, thePS3is this week’s hot item....

We’re all about love here atDestructoid, so we must say that we embrace this “love” that Lionhead is trying to bring across withFable 2. The first in what should be a series of diaries leading up to the release ofFable 2, this video in particular deals with that human emotion that many of us feel as we see a robot glide into an empty room. Enjoy!

This week’s Fake Game Friday comes from the mind of Ocelot, and is based on the movie Equilibrium. Wanna have your own fake game article? Post your idea in theforumsor email RevAnthony, at[email protected].Equilibrium the Game.Equilibrium is an MMORPG where you choose to be a Grammaton Cleric or The Resistance. Each side can spy for the other side and the resistance would have many different bases players would have to create themselves....

While Nintendo and Sony have been pretty proactive on 3D stereoscopic gaming, Microsoft has been a little quiet on the homefront. Sure, some rumors have popped up, but there has not been any real solid confirmation that the company is working on 3D gaming with any seriousness. However, at last week’s Kinect event in San Francisco, we had the opportunity to talk to Shannon Loftis, the head of Good Science Studio....

The United States educational system has just been dealt a devastating blow today — DK Publishing has announced that it’s collaborated with Microsoft to publish TheHalo Encyclopediathis November. The reasons for going to class to learn anything are diminishing… The comprehensiveHaloguide will cover all of the games characters, weapons, vehicles, equipment, and locations from the series’ universe. That includes, of course, all three properHalogames,Halo Wars, and the upcomingHalo 3: ODST. That’s 352 pages of full-colorHalononsense that will consume portions of your brain that should be reserved for things like math, social skills, and the ability to balance a check book....

WithFinal Fantasy XIIIand (to a less degree)Resonance of Fatetaking the JRPG spotlight on HD consoles, it would be very easy to overlook a far more humble, but seemingly more provocative, little title on the Wii.Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moonis a haunting, sad little roleplayer from Tri-Crescendo, and it looks incredibly beautiful. This seems to be a game that aims to provide Wii owners with a real, down-to-earth JRPG experience....

If arcade style top-down flight shooters are your thing, then today’s freebie is most definitely for you.Blue Skies: Air Force Academyis a retro-flavored chopper game in which blimps and tanks surrender to your mighty missiles and tilt-controlled aerial maneuvers. More importantly, it’s OpenFeint’sfree game of the day. For the cost of absolutely nothing, you’ll get a pretty decent arcade shooter that may not score points for precision, but is still pretty fun....

You gotta hand it to Google Images — the system really knows how to find the most hilarious results that are just barely relevant enough to show up. After an extended holiday break, Friday Night Fights is back and ready to rock some faces. Not only that, but we’ve got a really strong line-up of games this week as well as a few new hosts. On the “what’s new” front, FNF is once again supporting the DS!...

If you happen to have a Wii and want to be connected to the Dtoid family, then head on overto the forumsand exchange your Wii code with us so we can infect your daily life at every moment of the day. A few of us have already exchanged dirty notes back and forth and I got someone’s Mii to make out with mine and … well … let’s just say what we did wouldn’t be allowed in most countries....