If your idea of the perfect version ofStreet Fighterinvolves playing with nothing more than a mouse, thenDalettohas something up their sleeve that should interest you —Street Fighter Online: MouseGeneration. Announced today and tipped off byIGN, thisfreePC fighter is going feature a system based off ofStreet Fighter Alpha, and contain the familiar names that have inspired millions of fans. The control scheme, as you probably guessed, is going to be quite simplistic, involving little more than sliding the mouse left and right to move, upwards to jump, and using a few mouse clicks to unleash attacks....

Wii-a-phobia continues to run rampant amongst the hardcore gaming community. There is a new hate-rant about the Wii writtenalmost every day, and not just by random members of the Internet, but often bypaid journalistsas well. Despite all of this bad press, the Wii continues to be the darling of the mainstream gaming world (and cockroaches). More than a year after launch, the thingstill sells outof stores faster that you’re able to say “It’s a fad....

Nintendo continues its one-two combo this week with its Wii Shop releases. That is to say there’s one Virtual Console release, and two original WiiWare titles on the service today. POW! Sega’sSonic Chaos(Sega Master System, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)makes it Virtual Console debut, and yay! A 2D Sonic the Hedgehog game! Remember when Sonic games used to be “good”? Yeah, I miss that to.Sonic Chaosain’t bad, either; in fact, I’d say it’s one of the better 2D Sonic games....

A nice surprise to start off the day, a demo for Starbreeze Studios’Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athenahas hit Xbox LIVE today. The 639 MB demo lets you play the Athena Main Decks level, which takes place during the first portion of the game. You’ll get the opportunity to control a drone (seen above), which Riddick can pull in close to use its gun to take out enemies, and its body for cover....

Hold your horses, guys (image courtesy ofthis place)! Sign-ups for the November Xbox 360 update preview program should be closed by the time you read this, which, according toMajor Nelson, means emails will be sent out with invites on Friday for those who got in. While we patiently wait for that day to come, you ought to watch Nick’svideo demonstrationsof the new features — support for Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, news, and more....

Retailers like GameStop have been listing it for awhile now, but Harmonix and MTV Games have just revealed the retail-basedRock Band Country Track Packfor a July 21 release for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 2. TheRock Band Country Track Packwill retail for $29.99. The pack will contain, as you would suspect, country songs. Twenty-one of them to be exact, featuring all sorts of country superstar Kennys like Kenny Chesney and Kenny Rogers....

As many of you already know, a healthy portion of the Destructoid clan headed to New York late last year forBlipfest, a celebration of music created with the involvement of various retro consoles. The culture is especially into creating mad and wonderful hybrids of console and music, which explains a lot of what you see here.Chiptune artist 6955created this Casio keyboard with a Famicom cartridge slot, which is not only fully functional, but may result in the creator selling a kit to make your own in the future....

One of the best things about creating things using in-game editors is the ability to share what you’ve created with the world. One of the biggest selling points of3D Dot Game Heroesis the character creator. So, it stands to reason that there should be a way for you to show off your characters. Coinciding with today’s launch of the game, Atlus has made such a way available. “The Hall of Heroes”is a website where you’re able to upload your designs and download those created by others....

CVG has learned fromDeus Ex: Human Revolutionart director Jonathan Jacques-Belletête that Ubisoft was working on reimaginingPrince of Persiawith a more modern twist. Jacques-Belletête, who used to work for Ubisoft, said the studio wanted aPoPspinoff. Work had already begun on 2008’sPrince of Persia,“but they wanted really something completely out of the left field,” he explained. “So I had this little team, and [ourPoP] was actually in the contemporary world. Think a bitDay After Tomorrow, but replace the snow with sand and everything....

RememberAmerican McGee’s Alice? It had two major flaws. The first was that its gameplay was only so-so and the second was that only Sid Meier gets to put his name before his games. American McGee does not deserve that nor will he ever. Half of that might be taken care of in the game’s sequel asEA as trademarkedAlice: Madness Returns, and American McGee’s name is nowhere in site. Of course this sequel wassupposed to come out last yearand after the game was announced we heard nothing about it....

Despite rumors that since the employment of ex-RealTime World Community Manager Ben Bateman, Codemasters were supposedly number one in the line to buy the currently defunct company, despite them denying all rumors. However, a report from GamesIndustry.biz claims that a buyer for the online gameAll Points Bulletinhas indeed been found. The company in hand is K2 Network, a California based firm who specializes in MMO gaming. Currently the company has games such asKnight Online, War RockandSword 2....

Amazon.com is doing theirGold Boxgames sale thing today. Kicking things off isAssassin’s Creed II, on sale for only $39.78. Supplies are limited, and here’s proof of that: The day’s first deal was onGrand Theft Auto IV, for $19.78, but that’s all gone now. Ass Creed 2for $40. That sounds like a deal for anyone, except for maybeJim Sterling. 790 comments. Jesus. As you probably already know, Gold Box unlocks new deals throughout the day....

Chatting it up with Dallas radio station 105.3 KLLI, actor Dan Aykroyd confirmed (viaKotaku) rumors that Terminal Reality’sGhostbusterstitle has been picked up for publishing by Atari. Aykroyd also mentioned that the highly-anticipated title is no less than “a year away” from being released. This jives with multiple sources of our own, all of which have confirmed the Atari publishing deal. Additionally, we’ve heard that the title will be given more love, and that Terminal Reality has been given the green light to continue work on the title, adding polish up to as late as May of 2009....