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After interviewing three-man development team Gaijin Games atE3 09, I’ve been lucky enough to get periodic emails from the guys about their projects, their thoughts on various stuff, and whatever. It sometimes blows my mind that I get to treat people who I consider to be some of the most talented, interesting artists going today, like they are “just some guys I email funny cat pictures to,” but there you go; being a game blogger is totally awesome....

Activision and Treyarch are really taking this zombie thing seriously, with an all-zombie map pack coming to Xbox 360 forCall of Duty: Black Opsnext week. The pack will contain five maps — swamp, night, asylum, factory, and Moon. Wait, what… Moon? Yeah, they’re taking zombies to the Moon. If you haven’t heard, there’s a space theme going on here. It appears that the next level of zombie research involves taking the undead into space....

Way back in January, ActivisionannouncedIndiana Jones and the Staff of Kingsfor the Wii, DS, and PlayStation Portable via YouTube. Since then, news on theIndytitle has slowed considerably. Hell, I forgot it existed until today, when Activision released a bunch of screenshots for Fates of Atlantis — a bonus addition to the Wii version of the game. The good news is thatFate of Atlantislooks beautiful. It seems like LucasArts are handling the SCUMM title’s conversion to Wii hardware well....

We thought this was too cool not to pass on: Terminal Reality gifted Major Nelson with an audio delight this afternoon. The studio behindGhostbusters: The Video Gamehanded over four master audio files taken directly from their latest title. The sounds include: the PKE Meter, the capturing sequence, and a couple of Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man sound bytes. To download them, head overto Major Nelson’s blog. He’s hosting two .ZIP files. One is uncompressed, the other ....

I hate a videogame name that demands to be 70% of your article’s headline. Nevertheless,Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remixis looking sexy and to celebrate that, we have three of the game’s hottest looking love idols — Chun Li, Vega and … uh … Balrog. Feel free to check out the gallery where there are both screenshots and artwork showing off the characters in their hi-def glory. While you do that, I’ll be taking some of the Chun Li ones to my study for … videogames journalism reasons....

First of all, you need towatch this teaser video. It’s nearly time for the Engineer to get aTeam Fortress 2update of his very own, and the video tells us exactly that. Nothing more, nothing less. Actually, this was Valve’s doing, so you know there’s a bunch of hidden goodies just asking to be discovered. Steam forum member sentinel21 has alovely roundup postlisting plenty of juicy speculation. For example, there’s a blueprint of a robot’s arm in the background....

So, yesterday we talked about howEntertainment WeeklyvotedKirby’s Epic Yarnthesingle worst game of 2010. While a bizarre choice in a year that saw games full of real technical, design and visual flaws,EWis entitled to its opinion. Its bizarre logic that the game was “too cute” was the really stupid thing, however, and it seems that things have gotten stupider. See,Entertainment WeeklyactuallyreviewedKirby’s Epic Yarnwhen it came out, and it seems that the “overwhelming” adorability wasn’t a problem back then....

Thefantastic documentaryI reviewed two days ago is nowavailable for streamingon ARTE’s official Web site. The only problem is that ARTE evidently block their videos behind a region gate; if you’re not from Germany or France, you’ll have to find a way to make that linkbelieveyou’re from Germany or France. Web sites exist that can help you to these ends. If you can’t get past the region lock, however, it should also be known that I have seen the documentary uploaded to at least one popular torrenting site....

As with any previous PC exclusive that goes multiplatform,Crysis 2has come under fire from the PC elitist crowd who bemoan the “dumbing down” of the game and declare — without evidence — that the game was made for console kiddies and ported to PC. Developer Crytek, however, challenges the claims. “Fundamentally, we’re starting from our PC roots and then … wrangling the consoles to our will to create that kind of gameplay and gameplay experience on consoles, not the other way around....

Cthulhu Saves The Worlddeveloper Zeboyd has criticized Microsoft’s half-hearted exposure of its Indie Games channel, saying it must do more to promote games. This remonstration comes after news thatCthulhu‘s PC versionoutsold the 360 versionto a humiliating degree in just six days. “XBLIG is a great solution for new developers,” said Robert Boyd. “It’s cheap, easy to learn, and has a great community of people that are willing to help each other....

Yesterday wereviewedDeadly Premonitionand gave it a score of 10. This comes just weeks after wereviewedHeavy Rainand gave it a score of 7. Obviously, this means one thing. We love the Xbox 360 and want to have sex with it. This conclusion can be drawn thanks tologic, which is a thing the Internet uses to make decisions based on ideas a thirteen-year-old had. Some people were upset by the two reviews. Yesterday, the Destructoid tips line received an email from somebody called Tan with the subject, “JIM STERLING, I HOPE YOUR FAMILY BURNS IN HELL....

It’s been about eight years since Capcom has released a new game in their patented “Superhero Rave” sub-genre of fighters. Though they’ve been involved with other “Vs” fighting games since then, likeCapcom Vs SNKand… uh…SNK Vs Capcom, the last bonafide, jump-ten-times-your-characters-height, holy-crap-Ryu’s-shooting-lasers-out-of-his-goddamn-hands, the last 2D fighter Capcom released of this nature wasMarvel Vs Capcom 2, back when the Dreamcast was still cutting edge technology. At the time of their conception, the Superhero Rave genre was thought by many to be the next evolution of 2D fighting games, so when the genre died off in the year 2000, a lot 2D fighting game fans practically pooped their pants with sorrow....

Con-SARs is the usual topic of discussion whenever we roll out for an event. But no matter what diseases or bugs we pick up from our fellow nerds, we’ll never consider headingDiablo III’sfemale Witch Doctor’soffice. She doesn’t appear to have the bedside manners that our precious souls need, no less the curative or restorative tools that we often require after handling grimy controllers all afternoon. Good thing event comfort wasn’t the point of Blizzard’s latest reveal — it was, we gather, to show off the female version of the Witch Doctor class for the first time....