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Sony has a history ofdisturbing ads, but this most recent one may even have the power to usurp the infamous PS3 baby commercial for shock value. An ad agency in Vienna for some reason thought that they would take the shadowed image of a man with an attractive body and add something a little bit…opposable. Should you be brave, hit the jump to see the full picture. (NSFW!) This is your usual “LOL” material as far as the Internet is concerned, but what Thumbcock and the PlayStation 3 have to do with each other definitely eludes me....

At Anime Boston a couple of weeks ago, some folks performed a littleDuck Huntskit. Since this was an anime convention, they threw in some really annoying anime characters into the mix. The results are extremely hysterical and you just knew what was going to happen at the very end. Spotted onVGCats. I’m still in Cancun but that won’t stop me from Destructainmenting your weekend. After the jump, the Destructainment starts off with community members Toneman and Cutie Honey’s spoof of thePokémoncartoon....

InXfire’stracking of the gameplay statistics of over 8 million users, they noticed thatWorld of Warcraftplaying users’ average game time for September dropped 18 percent from the August numbers. That doesn’t seem right, does it? WoW isn’t alone — all of the tracked MMOs’ average gameplay hours have dropped. The second placeGuild Warsshowed a 13 percent drop, andSilkroad Onlinefell 27 percent. Shooters are down as well, with top ranked gamesCall of Duty 2 MultiplayerandCounter-Strikedropping 12 and 18 percent respectively....

On thelatest episode of RetroforceGO!, Dyson got to talking about a game on the Xbox Indie channel calledIMAED A GAM3 WITH ZOMBIES IN 1T!!!1. Dyson praised the Hell out of the game so I decided I would go check it out. Like most things in my life however, I got distracted by something shiny and forgot all about it. Thankfully,Dtoider brotrollerjust discovered the game himself and posted about it over on his Community Blog....

On the subject ofMedal of Honorgetting a playable demo, executive producer Greg Goodrich told GameTrailers, “We’ll have something out there for people to try and play.” Always nice to hear, but in the case ofMoH, it’s even better; many of us have long forgotten about the series. While modern-day first-person shooters are obviously the hot new thing for the genre these days, Goodrich had a choice quote about why the team at EA Los Angeles wanted to make this type of game:...

I recently interviewed Nexon’s Min Kim forWorlds in Motion, where I’m editor when not here at Destructoid. I cover bizness news related to online worlds, social networking, and MMOs that work on the free-to-play, pay-for-goods model. Nexon is, as you know, like, a ridiculously successful company in this space, and one of the more amazing things is that in this crazy 3D world in which we all live, one of its most successful longstanding games,MapleStory, is a 2D sidescroller....

It pays to read the internet, kids. Or at least it did for Tanner Sandlin of Austin. He was reading a CNN article on rare videogames and saw that he actually owned one:Air Raid, for the Atari 2600. Sandlin bought this game when he was about 12 years old at an overstock goods store for somewhere between $5 and $10. He sold it last sunday for $31,600! CNN says this is the second-highest price ever paid for a videogame, after Nintendo’sStadium Events, which sold for $43,300....

It’s got the “Hero” name and is being backed by the Activision marketing machine, but analyst Doug Creutz of Cowan and Company believesDJ Heroisnot setting the world afireas one might expect. The latest addition to the plastic toy instrument genre is said to be suffering from an alleged slowdown in music game sales, something that not even Daft Punk can counteract. “OnDJ Hero, despite some recent positive comments from company management about pre-orders, we remain very cautious about the title’s prospects at launch,” Creutz tells investors....

The Perry Bible Fellowshipis one of the most random, sexually demented, and insane comics on the Internets. So you know it’s easily one of my favorites. PBF rarely has a gaming comic like the latest one seen above. When they do have one though, it’salwaysgreat. The main focus of PBF is usually thesexuallyperverseand thedownrightinsane. The creator, Nicholas Gurewitch, varies in different art styles in his comics. Most of it is hand drawn, painted and colored....

Atlantica Onlineis an MMO created by NDOORS Interactive. While not exactly Blizzard or Mythic Entertainment, the game appears to be fairly original by MMO standards. We recently got our hands on a few new screenshots of the game in action. The setting is the Taj Mahal and a ragtag group of players are fighting a really huge chick and some kind of lion. The game revolves around finding the magical city of Atlantis....

Ah,Killzone, how I weep for thee.Killzoneis one of hype’s most tragic victims, a game so built up as a “Halokiller” and so expected to be the next big thing in first person shooting, that it was never going to be looked upon kindly by history. As developer Guerilla showed off its baby to the world, many people believed that this would be a rich and deep gameplay experience against a new and terrifying enemy, the Helghast....

Hot on the heels of Warner Bros. Interactiverevealing the official artforBatman: Arkham Asylumcomes word of a $99.99 collector’s edition being listed by speciality-retailerGameStop. The pricey package includes a copy of the game, a 12″ Batarang, a DC Encyclopedia, “DLC Pack 1,” and a bonus DVD that contains a behind-the-scenes feature and the game’s soundtrack. The GameStop doesn’t list what the DLC pack contains, but our money’s on it being additional “challenge rooms” that can be accessed and played outside of the main game....

Go back and look at some screenshots forBatman: Arkham Asylum. Now compare those images to these ofArkham City. If nothing else, the variety in the Caped Crusader’s enemies is a nice improvement. Before we more or less just had a bunch of muscle-y dirtbags who were inexplicably shirtless, and while the bad dudes in this sequel are equally fit, now they look like actual members of the Joker’s posse. One of them is even mustachioed!...