Aperture Science may be mostly known for its highly advanced guns and psychopathic artificial intelligence beings, but it’s not above spreading a little Christmas joy to the good boys and girls. Heading over to the officialAperture Science Web pagewill bring you a charming festive message, complete with a yuletime instrumental rendition ofStill Alive. Go check it out and feel happy that even a cold-blooded killer computer like GLaDOS can show some love and good cheer this Christmas....

The point of posting clandestine information on the internet with the parts you don’t want people to read is lost on me entirely. When you post something like that, as David Jaffe did on his blog, you’re basically asking for someone to figure out what you’re trying to hide. After an enterprising internet userdid some photoshoppingand unblurred the words that Jaffe had covered up in an email correspondence he posted on his blog, Jaffe then went ahead and covered the words in red, and then took the whole thing down because he realized it was pointless to put up in the first place and was only asking for trouble....

That’s it. I will end my life now. I can’t playCalling All Carsonline anymore. What’s the point of living? I’m kidding. I played the demo like three times. It was fun, but I never played it again. It didn’t have enough numbers coming out of heads for me. Those that are still playing and enjoying David Jaffe’s little PSN game will be sad to hear that the servers are going to shut down early next year....

[Not sure what Mash Tactics is? I’ve included a clip from the most recent episode to show you just a glimpse of what you’ve been missing, you daft fool!You can see all of Destructoid’s previously-aired live showsin our archives.] TodayMash Tacticswill be playing the third struggle for humanity from Insomniac Games,Resistance 3. We’re giving you a chance to see for yourself if you’d like to take up arms against the Chimera....

The THQ and SyFy channel collaboration,Red Factions: Origins, has finally been outed as a two-hour live-action movie pilot scheduled to air next March. Originsfills in the blanks between last year’sGuerrillaand the upcomingArmageddon. It’s twenty-five years after the events ofGuerilla, and ten years since enemies vowing vengeance have murdered rebel leader Alex Mason’s wife and kidnapped his daughter. Alec’s son, Jake Mason, is the last hope, and in the quest to save his sister, uncovers family secrets that threaten the freedom of the Martian Colonies....

4mm Games, Terminal Reality, and Def Jam Interactive have revealed a handful of new tracks for its upcoming title,Def Jam Rapstar, and the game’s looking more and more like a mix-tape I lost when moving my stuff out of my first college dorm. That’s a good thing, by the way (although I wish I could find that tape). New tracks include: Additionally, Cool & Dre and DJ Khali have been announced to be providing instrumental beats, “Epidemic” and “The Good Doctor” respectively, for the game’s freestyle mode....

London plays host to theMCM Expotwo times a year and this year is no different with the massive convention taking place at the EXCEL center on the May 29 and May 30. The MCM Expo is “… The UK’s answer to San Diego Comic Con” as the tens of thousands of people who pass through its doors every year get to experience hands-on with some of the newest videogame titles, check out comic books and the artists, meet and great celebrities, indulge in Sci-fi, manga, movies and cosplay....

Similar to how a demo for the originalLost Planetwent out way before the game was ever released, Capcom is hoping to achieve the same result withLost Planet 2later this year,according to Eurogamer. “We are working hard right now to make sure there is a playable version of this game at E3 for anybody who’s going to be in attendance there,” explained producer Jun Takeuchi during Captivate 09. “And we’re also hoping to have a downloadable demo....

It’s interesting what people see when they look at ordinary household objects. I look at a table and I see a place to eat dinner; Eric Gradman sees an opportunity. He decided to modify his Ikea MAME table (It’s actually the Ikea style name. See what he did there?) into a fully functioning arcade table. On hisFlickrhe posts more pics and details, including my favorite tidbit: The table slides open and closed to reveal the dorkery within....

That’s a big maybe. For 50 bones, you’re able to frag, strafe, and try not to suck with ease!Enter the Steelseries SXmousepad, designed specifically for fast-paced P.C. shooters. The SX’s shtick is that it is not only quiet, but virtually frictionless due to the fiber polished aluminum and the anodized oxide surface treatment. I don’t know what most of those words mean, but there’s no denying that this mousepad isslick. Y’know … for a mousepad....

Freedom of life is a freedom we all are given when we are freed from the confines of our mother’s wombs. To take away our freedom is take away that which what makes us free. Mega64 is againstcensorship, which is good because that’s against freedomness.Mass Effect 2unfortunately is against freedom and censors itself when sexy things happen on the screen. When I play a game set in the future, I want to see it all....

Brendon Small, the creator ofMetalocalypse, the hit cartoon show on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, revealed to theWall Street Journalthat a game based on the crazy show is in the works.We’ve known a gamewas in the development, but now it’s, like, all official and stuff. It’s going to be published by Konami and will be out for XBLA and PSN. The game is calledMetalocalypse: Dethgame, follows a band of roadies fighting in the service of Dethklok and Dethklok’s music will of course be featured in the game....

Microsoft wants an experienced developer for what will probably end up as either the biggest flop in videogame multiplayer history or the best thing ever — an Xbox 360 game that will allow 300,000 players simultaneously. Seriously. The plans for this mysterious title were extracted from a job posting by Microsoft (spotted byDevelop) which reads, “We are building an extremely high performance system to extend console games to the server in new was; creating a completely new set of web services to support dynamic programming information of games and scheduling data....