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A hi-res, hand-drawn, downloadable game in which cute characters are imprisoned by maniacal cats who force them to act in lethal plays for their amusement. Sounds like a game from The Behemoth to me! I playedBattleblock Theaterat PAX this weekend and was so impressed I made sure it got a Destructoid Game of the Show nomination. It was just that much silly, outrageous, beautifully violent fun! In case you don’t know the basics,Battleblock Theateris a co-op platformer in which up to four players help each other to collect gems and find their way to each stage’s exit....

These are the sort of funky game culture stories I like to read about late into the night. Someone has recreated one of the most memorable areas fromBioShock, the level known as Arcadia, inDoom IIusing the SLADE map editor. The end result is pretty damn neat, if I do say so myself. What makes the project even cooler is that this wasn’t just “someone,” it was actuallyBioShock(andBioShock 2) level designer Jean-Paul LeBreton — who better to design a minimalistic map than the guy who painstakingly created the modern-day one?...

We know thatBit.Trip Sagafor 3DS is going to hit store shelves in September. What of its disc-based Wii counterpart, though? Publisher Aksys Games saysBit.Trip Completeis also on for — you probably guessed it — the same day: September 13. When these compilations were announced, I was curious if Gaijin Games and Aksys expected us to buy both titles, since the content between the two isn’t drastically different from your average retail shopper’s point of view....

[When we’re looking for blogs on a specific topic, we’ll put out a Bloggers Wanted call. Check out the blog prompt, write your own response in the Community Blogs and tag it with the “Bloggers Wanted Essay Response” tag, and you may see your blog promoted to the front page.— JRo] This week’s Bloggers Wanted is going to be different than normal, and was requested by Niero at the Destructoid Live panel this year....

Speculation over Bungie Aerospace has been happening forover a year now. We know what it is, finally, and I don’t think I could have ever seen this coming — certainly not from Bungie, of all studios. It’s a venture to “help independent developers create brilliant mobile and social games.” “Now that we’ve returned to our roots as an independent studio, we are in a position to launch Bungie Aerospace to support, foster, and elevate like-minded, independent developers,” says Bungie COO Pete Parsons....

Kotaku hasan articleup about a recent trip to Best Buy where they found that the entireity of the people camping out in front for the PlayStation 3 launch had left! Of course, we all know that it would take something more drastic than weather and lack of a social life to get those kinds of hardcore fanboys to give up their spot, and after a bit of digging, it looks like the cops were called in to disperse the crowd after the Best Buy higher-ups decided they didn’t want a long line of smelly post-teens living La Vida Hobo outside of their store....

Treyarch has revealed the first details on the multiplayer modes forCall of Duty: Black Ops, including a series of “adrenaline junkie” game modes it’s calling “Wager Matches.” These four free-for-all game modes have players wagering their in-game currency, called “COD Points,” gambling that they will come in within the top three in any given match. Players who are in that top three are said to be “in the money,” and will get paid out at the match’s end; those who aren’t will lose it all....

PlayStation 3 fans rejoice; thewaitis over.Calling All Carsis upon us. In a recent press release, Sony confirmed that it will indeed be released this Thursday (which was a few hours ago). Read on, and release thosepent uptears of joy! Play cops ‘n’ robbers on your PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) system this Thursday as Sony Computer Entertainment America will offer the much-anticipated PS3 exclusive, Calling All Cars™, on the PLAYSTATION®Store. Developed by Incognito Entertainment and overseen by the Spike TV Video Game Awards – 2005 Designer of the Year, David Jaffe,Calling All Carswas built specifically to take advantage of PS3 hardware, running at 1080p High Definition* at 60frames per second for both offline and online gameplay, in either single-player or four-player split-screen....

The Leipzig Games Convention, or GamesCom, is right around the corner, set to kick off on August 19th in Cologne, Germany. Europe’s major videogames trade show is already big, but two major names are on the invite list for this year to make it even bigger. Metal Gear daddy Hideo Kojima will be there with his buddies from Konami. He’ll be showing offMetal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, along with other Konami titles likeSilent Hill: Shattered Memoriesand some soccer crap, saysCVG....

Destructoid is celebrating the release ofKick-AssonPlayStation®Storethis week with a kick-ass prize pack! We’re giving away a standard definition, digital download of the film plus a limited editionKick-Assskinned PSP® with Red Mist’s face. One randomly selected winner will receive the Kick-Ass skinned PSP® and a digital download of theKick-Assfilm fromPlayStation®Store. Contest is open to US residents only and you have until August 6 at 11:59AM CDT to enter. Good luck! KICK-ASSis also available for digital download and movies on demand....

If you’re a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 owner, no doubt you’ve played theMirror’s Edgedemo. If not, go download it — it contains two playable single-player areas, and it’s free! What’s not included is an unlocked “Time Trial” mode; to get that, you may pre-order the game from your favorite retailer. Better yet, why not just win one at Destructoid? Electronic Arts has given us 15 codes to unlock “Time Trial” (works for 360 or PS3sorry, only for 360), in addition to 10Mirror’s Edgesoundtrack CDs....

As the creative director of Ubisoft Montreal, andAssassin’s CreedandPrince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Patrice Désilets is a big deal for the company. Or, he at leastwasa big deal, as announcing today, courtesy ofGame Informer, Patrice Désilets will be leaving the company to pursue a “creative break from the industry”. It looks like he’s gone from the company, gone fromAssassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, and pretty much gone from the industry, by the sounds of it....

The hot new thing in this industry appears to be live video streams in which members of a development studio goof off, answer questions from fans, and give a demonstration of the game in question. Yes sir,Dante’s Infernois getting one of these things! To be more specific, the poem-turned-action-fueled-killfest will be doing these live streams on a weekly basis, the first of which starts tomorrow at 4:00 PM EST. You’ll be able to join executive producer Jonathan Knight and senior producer Justin Lambros as they partake in the aforementioned fun....