Not that Sony wants to try and influence the market or anything, but the platform holder has recently stated that PlayStation 3 shortages my happen in the near future. If that’s not a call for panic purchases, I don’t know what is. Following the recent NPD results, corporate communications chief Patrick Seybold said that Sony was working hard to ensure demands are met, but that the Black Box o’ Blu-ray is very much the “in” thing....

ZEN Studios has revealed a new table on its way to ZEN Pinball on PlayStation Network. The Sorcerer’s Lair puts in your hands the fate of a brother and sister trapped in the citadel of an evil Sorcerer. As you can see in the above trailer there are ramps, bumpers, targets and all the other pinball accoutrement. The Sorcerer’s Lair will be arriving on the PlayStation Store the week of April 25th....

You’d think we’reTomopopwith all of our toy news today! Our latest bit of toy news comes from Capcom-Unity with an early look atSOTA toy’s 10th anniversary Ryu statue. The statue is 18-inches and it’s promising to be the best statue SOTA has ever made. SOTA will be incorporating more electronics and effects than they have ever done and will be “a culmination of 10 years of experience.” Pretty bold words but the early preview of the Ryu figure seems to back up their claim....

Black Rock Studio, the Brighton, England-based developer ofSplit/Second, is currently working on an unannounced racer. Shocking news, I know, coming out of a studio who has (since its inception in the late-90s) has worked on nothing but racing titles. I mean, that’s kind of its thing — it pumped out a few ATV titles and twoMotoGPtitles for THQ before developing the excellentPureand (more recently)Split/Second. A job listingshows the studio is looking for a Technical Art Director to work on “an unannounced dame on Xbox 360 & PS3....

Rumor has it that the upcoming Wii titleThe Legend of Zelda: Skyward Swordtakes place beforeOcarina of Timein the long-debated, maybe non-existentZeldatime line. I’m sure that particular fans will take this little Easter Egg as evidence of that.Skyward SwordLink painted a self portrait of himself and stuck it on a wall in the past, and years later,OcarinaLink checks it out and thinks it’s awesome. Continuity is so great, isn’t it? That’s probably what some of you are thinking, while still others are probably incredibly angry that I just revealed that little half-fiction spoiler....

Square Enix announced today that they might soon begin buying stock in its competitors.Speaking with Reuters, SE president Yoichi Wada mentioned that the company “face[s] competition not only from Japanese videogame companies but from game companies worldwide. We also see some new players from outside the videogame industry coming in.” Given Square Enix’s forays into feature movies and their partnership with Disney as well as their booming soundtrack business, it comes as no surprise that the scope of their business model extends beyond the videogames industry....

Form a line, folks. No pushing. Lo and behold, now you can pre-orderStarCraft: Ghostfrom Best Buyand have it shipped to you on June 15. Or, for you masochistic types, you can snag itfrom Toys R Usand get it in August. What gives? Maybe the fact thatStarCraft: Ghostis Blizzard’s vaporware extraordinaire and has beenindefinitely postponedsince March of last year. Furthermore, it’s nowhere to be found on Blizzard’sofficial list o’ games. So, is Blizzard just going to covertly release a sequel to (arguably) the most cherished RTS franchises ever created?...

You might have seen “STFUAJPG” before, but what does it mean? It’s a secret. Drama is an inevitable part of life, especially in gaming. In an industry that revolves around setting goals and boasting about accomplishments, it’s not rare for debates and opinions to get out of hand and ruin the simplest of calm conversations. Long ago, before Destructoid had assembled its robot army of gamers to take over the world, I wrote down ten Dtoid commandments....

I miss living in or near New York City. The culture, the people, the cheap hot dogs, and the night life are unmatched almost anywhere in the world. And nowthere’s this. Looks like some clever street artists are at it in the City that Never Sleeps, using tile-mosaics to put tiny little Marios under street-level water hookups. Now that I’m living in Baltimore, the closest thing I get to this is finding dead rats in the street and pretending its RPG-dungeon street art....

[Check out what community member eisley did in the bathroom! Poop jokes are funny! Want to see your own writing on the front page? Write something awesome andput it in the C Blogs. — Kauza] I’ve spent the past few days straining and sweating in the bathroom. No, not like that, let me explain. At some point the idea to turn our guest bathroom into aSuper Mariowonderland was formulated and it stuck....

While its direct open-world rivalGrand Theft Autohas made the portable rounds, THQ and Volition’sSaints Rowhas not. But that may be changing soon, as according to the Swedish metal band Opeth, a PlayStation Portable version is on the way. Wait… Opeth is doing PR for THQ now? “We may not like playing videogames,” the bandwrote on its Web site, collectively hunched over a computer, hunting and pecking letters, “but we do like it when our music is featured in them!...

Kingdom Hearts IIIis not officially a thing yet.According to series director Tetsuya Nomurait is comingsomeday… but any word of its actual existence is shrouded in secrecy behind the mysterious Chocobo-guarded doors of Square Enix. And while a lot of people are starting tolose interestin the once fresh, once revolutionary series, I can’t help but be excited by how awesome a new, properKingdom Heartssequel could potentially be. (Forget all those crazy,insanely-namedspinoffs!)...

Space Arkis a puzzle game in the style of the classicBreakoutseries. Instead of a ball, however, you have cute little animals bouncing up and down on a bounce pad collecting jewels and fruits. They’re not doing this just for fun though. These animals are Arkonauts who have been tasked with terraforming five planets that were laid to waste by a wandering black hole. Pretty dark back-story for such a cute and colorful game, eh?...