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As seen on Weekend Destructainment: Two cosplayers having a … stretchy leg showdown? Destructoid makes theDeadly PremonitionEuropean box art fancy, Andrew looks at the rubbing of breasts on faces inDragon Quest IX, a ton of videos from gamescom 2010 made their way from Germany, win some sweetCastle Crashersfigures and more happened over the weekend. Destructoid Originals:Deadly Premonition European box art is amazingWeekend Destructainment: Balls or GTFO!The rubbing of breasts on faces in Dragon Quest IXGC 10: Day three wrap upGC 10: Drooling because of Blood Stone 007M....

Patch 1.3 forThe Witcher 2: Assassins of Kingsis a hefty one. On top of much-needed additions (item storage, better support for aspect ratios, etc.) and fixes to the game, CD Projekt is throwing in the quest “A Sackful of Fluff” for Chapter 2. Also: “Option to fist fight woman praying at a statue in Vergen has been deactivated.” Someonefinallythought of the children. I haven’t been purposely avoidingThe Witcher 2this whole time, but I have managed to not play it yet....

In Japan, theMonster Hunterbrand can do no wrong. The series is beloved there; it can easily use its clout to sell a variety of other products, includingenergy drinks,calendars, andcats wearing Hello Kitty hats.That’s part of why its so strange to see the gang fromGatchaman(also known asBattle of the Planetsin the states) try to spread awareness forMonster Hunter Tri 3G. Its sort of like if Inspector Gadget suddenly came out retirement to let the world know that a newCall of Dutygame is coming out this winter....

The sales ofGrand Theft Auto: Chinatown Warshave caused a bit of a stir about whether or not the DS is a system that can support M-rated games. If you’ve been keeping up with the game, you’ll know that itsearly number of 88,704copies is a bit disappointing to most analysts who thought the game would sell around 200,000 copies in its first month. However, they’re just a bunch of dinosaurs judging game sales by how they used to work, not how they work on Nintendo’s systems....

If someone says “You have died of dysentery” to you and you laugh uproariously, you know exactly the significance thatOregon Trailholds in the annals of gaming’s past. If not, it may have been before your time — and therefore it is my duty to educate you in the ways of this iconic classic. Wikipedia has a finesummaryof the title, which was highly memorable due to its random events and made quite an impact back in 1985 for PC gamers....

As you may have seen by now, Destructoid and a number of outer outlets have posted their games of the year. The usual suspects were all in attendance — games likeNew Super Mario Bros. Wii,Modern Warfare 2, and of courseUncharted 2: Among Thieves. With only ten spaces on your traditional GotY nominations list, there are plenty of games that got forgotten. Fortunately, Destructoid never forgets, and while our winners have been named, we felt it only right to pay tribute to the games of 2009 that are not getting their due honors this year....

Trion Worlds, the minds behind the recent MMORPG prodigy,Rift, have long been feverishly working on their next behemoth,End of Nations, to rock the massively multiplayer world. They are certainly on their way to rock things asEnd of Nationswill be served up free of cost and with extra gravy on top. Yes, straight from the mouths of the Trion’s own Ryan Peters and Dave Luehmann,End of Nationwill from now and forever be, Free-to-Play....

Update:Congratulations to Bug42 and NVmisfit, you’re our Twitterquickest replywinners! So that’s it for this week. Next Friday we’re going to try something different — we’re going to give something away FIRST on Twitter without warning and then post the winners. What will it be? It’s a secret to most! Not into the whole Twitter thing? We hear ya.Check out our other non-tweeting contestslike the opportunity to compete for $80,000 worth of computer equipment onFriday....

Ubisoft is known, generally, for three things: Awful Wii shovelware, awful DS shovelware, andAssassin’s Creed. You don’t often see fighting games or RPGs associated with the huge European publisher, but all that’sabout to changeas the company strives to explore new genres. ChairmanYves Guillemot was at theBMO Capital Markets digital entertainment conference where he revealed the new genres, along with aMight & Magic MMOandTrackmania 2. He also said that casual games were on the way Project Natal and the Sony Wiimote....

After roughlyeverysingleoutletin the UK blaming the London Riots on videogames, I was led to believe that perhaps we would experience a few months before some more insanity was thrown about by the mainstream media. Perhaps not.The Metro, a UK newspaper owned by the same media group asThe Daily Mail,recently reportedon a university study into Games Transfer Phenomena (GTP). Instead of reporting on anything definitive from the study,The Metrodecided to lead with this: “Hardcore gamers become so immersed in virtual worlds that they turn to imaginary consoles to ‘zoom in’ to people in crowds or to pick things up from the floor, according to a study....

Remember when hackershacked into Valve? The hacker,MaddoxX, said he was just hacking to teach Valve a thing or two, and many of you said that nothing would come of it.Well, something came of it. He made his way into a file server, uncovering credit card numbers and account information for users. He claimed that“We also don’t want money from VALVe, we want a simple message on their site.” Right. Now that the 20-year-old has been caught by Dutch authorities, we know that he blew through 13 million Euros buying computers, televisions, music players, and playing online poker....

[Editor’s Note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publishopinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware that it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now on ourcommunity blogs.] We often speak of videogames in terms of the narratives they present. A game’s story is seen as a necessary extension of gameplay, like the heart that resides within the body and keeps it in motion....

So you sold your Wii three years ago for some reason I’m sure you’ll tell us about in the comments, and now you may’t playNew Super Mario Bros. Wii,No More Heroes 2,MadWorld,Silent Hill: Shattered MemoriesorWii Sports Resort(or whatever other good Wii game you want to name that I’m sure you’ll tell us about in the comments). However, you just can’t seem to bring yourself to spend $200 on the system and then another $20-$50 on one of those games....