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I had no that this type of bird could be trained to sing like this. Check out all of the related videos to this video. You’ll get lost for hours just seeing these birds sing all sorts of songs. A bunch of NARPs are happening, E For All is dead, a newGears of War 2ad is out, Samit checks outRock Band 2Wii,I previewOnechanbaraand plenty more happened on 10/24/08. Friday Regulars:The Week inRock BandDLC: Souxsie, Blink-182, Psychedelic Furs, SilversunArt Attack Friday: Bento box editionRetroforceGO!...

The Wiimote motion thing isSO2007. You people need to get up to speed with the latest technology. OCZ has a new product called theNeural Impulse Activatorthat could take gaming a step further and eliminate that nasty movement issue altogether. The headband can sense electrical impulses thanks to a trio of sensors along the front. What does that mean to a gamer? Simply put, if wearing the headband you can control a character in-game with facial movements and specific thought patterns....

[Every Friday, Destructoid will pose topical a question to the community. Answer it if you want!] Before I got a decent PC, telling publishers what kind of review copy I wanted was easy. Increasingly, however, we’ve seen quite a few games optimized for PC,andI can officially run them. A hard choice has started to arise. Here’s a dilemma in a can for you:Battlefield 3. It’s going to look more gorgeous on PC, and boast 64-player online maps....

While this may only last for the next few hours or days — depending on Sony’s response time and care level — there is a hack out right now to download the Japanese-only availableTekken 5from the Sony online store. Want to knowhow to do it? Here: Firstly, you need to add a new user to your PS3. Keep in mind it cannot be a new sub user, it has to be a new user from scratch....

And it’s kind of hysterical! The concept of shouting into a microphone as the main method of input isn’t new toPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew, a recent Xbox Live Indie game release, but it’s charmed me enough to give it a quick mention here. So yeah, this is a 2D shooter in which one person yells into a microphone to enable your character’s jetpack, and a separate person (hopefully a buddy) makes noise into adifferentmicrophone to fire your character’s gun....

Excited for the firstFallout 3downloadable content pack, Operation: Anchorage? I know I certainly am, even more so after seeing these three new screenshots. For thosenot up to speed, Operation: Anchorage will be released later this month for 800 Microsoft Points ($10 for PC users), and is said to take around 4 hours or so to complete. Similar to theFallout 3quest Tranquility Lane, this DLC pack retells the battle between American and Chinese troops in Alaska using a computer simulation....

THQ and Random House Publishing Group have announced a joint team to create and develop “original” IPs across multiple media. This team expects the new IP to appear as a “collection of games and books” first, while they develop a “rich IP universe” for other media. It fits into THQ’s transmedia strategy, through which it wants toexpand the universeof itscore gamesacross books, TV series and (TV-)movies to strengthen the brands. In a nutshell, they want to use each medium’s specific strengths to expand upon an IP’s narrative....

THQ has announced a sweepstakes for UFC 131: Lesnar vs. Dos Santos andUFC Undisputed Fight Nation, the Facebook MMA game. The top winner of this sweepstakes will get a paid trip for two to UFC 131, which is set for June 11 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia. They’ll get roundtrip airfare, hotel, and money for meals and spending. To get in on this, you’ll need to check out theUFC Fight Nationgame on Facebook....

New Trailer and “official name?” ofFinal Fantasy XII: Revenant Wingfrom Tokyo Game Show. This is an incredible looking trailer, but where’s the gameplay footage? If this game sucks, there are going to be some angry FF fans out there.NewDragon Questgame for Nintendo DS,Dragon Quest Monster: Joker. It looks so good, it could almost run on the console. Hopefully they’ll make a newDragon Questgame for the consoles soon.NewSonic the Hedgehoggame trailer with crappy music....

Thelatest issue ofFamitsu has revealedValkyria Chronicles 2for the PSP. The subtitle is something along the lines of “Royal War College” and will be out this Winter in Japan. No word on an America release yet. The game will be set in 1937, two years after the firstValkyria Chroniclesand the new characters will be dealing with some kind of imperial invasion. The new city is called Ranshiel and the character design from the mag scan makes it look likeVC 2is going for more of an anime look....

Withthreeversions ofPersona 3(theoriginal, theFES expansion, and thePSP remake)already out in the wild, it’s clear that Atlus isn’t above revisiting popular territory. That’s been a good thing so far, as each iteration ofPersona 3so far has been superb (30/30 for score, people!), but a line has to be drawnsomewhere, right? Well, we might have just arrived at that line. Atlus has announced the impending release ofPersona 3 Social, a new mobile-phone game set to appear on Mobage-town....

OK, step one of this post will be to remind you whatWarDevil, a previously thought to be PS3 exclusive third person action game, is by linking to the only other post Destructoid has ever done about it waaaay back in 2006. In said post, which I am linking tohere(thus completing step one), Nick “Fearless Leader” Chester correctly predicts that this game is most likely a piece of vaporware that we’re never going to see....

Warner Bros. Entertainment hastoday announcedDC Entertainment, a brand new company formed to improve the exposure of DC Comics properties with more movies, videogames and other forms of entertainment. The move follows the critical and commercial success ofBatman: Arkham Asylum, so it’s no surprise that WB wants to keep up the momentum. “DC Entertainment will be charged with strategically integrating the DC Comics business, brand and characters deeply into Warner Bros. Entertainment and all its content and distribution businesses,” declares the company....