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[For one of her Monthly Musings, Elsa shares how gaming helped her get through some difficult surgeries, and how recent research is showing that gaming may actually be a valid medical treatment.Want to post your own article onthis month’s topic? Publish it now on ourcommunity blogs. – JRo] I was a first year University student when they first found the cancer. An operation removed the tumor but I was informed that it would likely recur and that my chances for having children diminished each year....

[The Jimquisition is a weekly unscripted rant from Jim Sterling, aka some fat twat with a microphone. He swears and complains and occasionally makes some sort of interesting point.] This episode is about the noble game review, that most wonderful of subjects which never fails to bring the morons out of the woodwork. Two reviews in particular brought out some intensely idiotic comments concerning the nature of “bias” and “objectivity.” I tackle these subjects in what is definitely the most vitriolic episode to date....

Drew Brees may have been pretty enough for fans to make himthe cover athlete ofMadden 11, but he and his team didn’t put on a big enough show in the Superbowl for the Saints to be chosen to be represented in the game’s demo. On theofficialMadden 11website, EA Sports polled fans on what late playoff game should be represented in the game’s oft-popular demo. The fans spoke: it’ll be Colts vs....

[Editor’s note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now onour community blogs.] [Flower spoilers incoming. Also, sentimentality.] When thinking back to the sheer number of times that I’ve progressed through an epic journey and saved the world, it’s rare that I find myself thinking back fondly upon that world, that journey, or that triumph....

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Did you hear?Soulcaliburis coming to the PSP!Soulcalibur: Broken Destinyis a new entry to theSoulcaliburfranchise due out this Summer. It’s set to have over 20 characters (both old and new), an expanded character creation feature and a single-player mode crafted for the PSP. It’s great seeing so many developers starting to really support the PSP again. Sadly, it’s starting to happen just as Sony is possibly about to abandon the UMD formatdue to the PSP Go!...

What are Nintendo doing to me? I’ve been stressed out all morning, eagerly anticipating the press release announcing this week’s Virtual Console releases. It’s nearly noon over here on the East Coast — my heart can’t handle it. Finally, it has arrived and the good news is that there’s no garbage coming to the Wii Shop Channel today.Kirby’s Dream Course(Super NES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points),Devil’s Crush(TurboGrafx-16, 1-2 players, 600 Wii Points), andShining Force(Sega Genesis, 1 player, 800 Wii Points) should all be available for download as I’m writing this....

French games company Ubisoft has been kicking ass and taking names lately, and they show no signs of stopping with upcoming titles like Shaun White Snowboarding, I Am Alive, and the pants-bustingly beautiful newPrince of Persia. In fact, they’re doing well enough to be considering a stock split, according toEdge. The publisher is set to propose a two-for-one split at it’s September 22nd stockholder meeting, which would bring them up to about 93 million shares....

Wellthisputs a smile on my face. After suffering endless crap from the likes ofThe TimesandThe Daily Mailin their war on videogames,one UK newspaper has actually made goodand stood up for our favorite hobby on the mainstream media stage. Naomi Alderman — a self-professed gamer who grew up with the 80’s classics — applauds the Byron report as “eminently sensible” and points out how the majority of the UK press missed its message in order to promote their own anti-game agenda:...

Wii mods aren’t just forMovingmetal arms of doom.They can teach stuff, too. TheAHAcanDig it: They’ve pledged fifty grandTo see it finished. The project “could be”Completed sometime this fallAs a free download. I have to wonderHow good this training could be;Better than nothing?

Yup, I am totally one of those people who is overwhelmed with joy whenever I receiveanythingthat isn’t junk mail from my friendly neighborhood USPS delivery guy (sorry, if you don’t wear the uniform or drive the adorable truck, I’m not calling you a postman). The Best Buy pre-order forRed Faction: Guerrillawas a Heavy Walkerfigurine, but as far as I know, people are only now receiving the bonus. Oddly enough I didn’t actually reserve a copy of the game, which may indicate that being in the store’s “Gamers Club” reward program is the only requirement....

If you’re running out of soundboards to use for your juvenile calls to the old man on the corner late at night, then check out what Rockstar just sent over a link for:theBullysoundboard. Every character in the game is represented, but sadly they only have one saying per person. I tried to make Billy go gay again, but he just wouldn’t bite. Oh well, there’s always next year.

Hudson Soft, long the champion ofneanderthalic brain hemorrhaging, has recentlybecome the kind benefactorfor Japan’s Choshu Electric Railway Line. Their series,Momotaro Dentetsu(roughly translated asAlso, Trains), has been such a huge success in the Land of the Rising Sun, that Hudson has decided to apply ads for the game to the sides of real, non-fictional trains in an effort to completely blow the minds of everyone, everywhere. Looking past the intense Philip K....