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In 2002, Infogrames and Ratbag Games releasedWorld of Outlaws: Sprint Cars 2002. It was a limited run game that was widely requested and it had a huge cult-like following. I was working videogame retail during the time the game came out and nearly every week I would get people asking about it. For whatever reason, a sequel was never made and the franchise just disappeared. THQ has decided to change all that and are bringing the world of sprint cars to consoles once again....

Of the twenty free games current 3DSowners are gettingin exchange for having bought the system at full price, ten are NES titles, and the rest are Game Boy Advance games. Nintendo hasn’t said what each individual “Ambassador program” game will be yet, but we have two more to add to the confirmation list. Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3(I really do hate this naming scheme, even years later) andKirby & the Amazing Mirrorare both set on the GBA side....

The mystery projectcoming out of the Ubisoft/Tom Clancy camp has been revealed asTom Clancy’s EndWar. The surprise — it’s a strategy game! While not much is known about the game, all will be revealed in the June issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. What we do know, however, is that the game will take place on the battlefields of World War III. The game is being built from the ground up for next-generation consoles; while it’s not specified in the press release (which you may read after the jump), one can only assume they mean PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360....

There’s a new studio in Toronto for Ubisoft. Jade Raymond, now the studio’s general manager, took her team from Montreal and relocated recently. According toGamasutra, this is set to be a triple-A only studio, meaning that the team there is not messing with the small stuff and portable titles. Raymond says that she hopes to grow the staff in their new studio to over 800 people in ten years, and that she’s already plowing through over 2,000 resumes....

Perhaps you’ve heard, but THQ’sUFC Undisputedsold like gangbusters. Hot on the heels of its success, EA Sports announced that it would be headed into the mixed martial arts territory with a game schedule for 2010. But according to outspoken UFC president Dana White “EA doesn’t give a [expletive] about mixed martial arts. They made that very clear.” Speaking withMMA Junkie, White say he’d approached the publishing giant in the past, with the hopes of joining games like Madden NFL and NASCAR under the EA Sports label....

I enjoyPrototype, but I never expected it to do as well as it’s been doing. For some reason, the completely original IP that hasn’t been given a huge push by Activision has actually made its way to number one in the UK Charts. It debuted at number two last week and I expected it to drop a few places. This is surprising news indeed. Ghostbustersdebuts at number four, but otherwise it’s the same old story, withWii Fit,World at Warand other UK Chart mainstays putting in their regular appearances....

Weekend Destructainment’s presentation is changing, but only for a couple of weeks. Don’t be afraid! Just hit the jump and all the random videos that I find during the week are all still here, starting off with 32 songs performed in eight minutes. ThenKill Bill‘sGoGo gets really intoResident Evil 5. Next up is the Scream mask violinist jamming toYs II. Next, it’s Half Life: Hero Beggining. Then a pornstar reviewsRumble Massage....

Deals deals deals! In the spirit of Easter — obviously a time of fasting on your expenses — a lot of EA mobile games have dropped in price for the weekend. Yes, even Android games. Other than hot deals, there are some interesting and crazy games this week, so let’s stop wasting time on this introduction. Weekend deals: EA has a ton of deals across iOS and Android platforms. The titles on sale (listed below) are all $0....

A few of us here at Destructoid love to have the crap scared out of us. I know for a fact that Jim, Dale, Colette and I all have periodic competitons to see whose erection forSilent Hillis larger. The competition is usually so close, we need to call in one of the other staffers to judge. So naturally, I was excited to see .tiff cover Konami’s Gamer’s Night andput up some coverageonSilent Hill V....

This week’s content on the PlayStation store is a bit short on the downloadable games front, but there is plenty of Add-on content if you happen to be a rabidLittleBigPlanetfan or one of those music game fans. Namco Bandai is publishing the only downloadable game this week. It’s calledPowerUp Forever($9.99) and capitalizes on the fact that gamers enjoy flying, shooting things and then collecting the stuff that newly destroyed things have dropped....

Activision sent over a Prototype 2 image in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. I don’t exactly know why, but here it is. The image reveals next to nothing about the game, although it’s nice to know that Kratos is still getting work after Sony closed the book on theGod of Wartrilogy. Prototype 2is scheduled for release in 2012, and here’s hoping we get an image for every single holiday between now and then....

Ever since 2007’sThe King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, we’ve collectively become entranced by this overblown Billy Mitchell vs. Steve Wiebe(vs. Hank Chien) conflict. I guess we all love a good fight. The majority of you will be pleased to hear that Wiebehas reclaimed the top spotinDonkey Kongwith his latest Twin Galaxies-approved score of 1,064,500 points. For the sake of context, Mitchell’s highest is 1,062,800, and Chien’s is 1,061,700....

As 2008 enters its final few days, the upstanding journalistic folks of the Associated Press have decided to takea huge ceremonial dumpon what it believes are five of the very worst games of the year. Most of them are truly crap, but surprisingly the Wii’s big E3 2008 showstopperWii Musicmakes for quite a high profile target. “In the age ofRock Band, using the Wiimote to mime playing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” or “Yankee Doodle” just doesn’t cut it,” states the scathing article....