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According to an “industry insider,” Bungie and Rare are allegedly set to announce new games at a Microsoft European event next week. The source fromGamer, who is said to have obtained the information “directly from Microsoft,” was unable to confirm which titles would be announced or apparently the date of this mysterious event. As for speculation, one would suppose that any unveiling done by Bungie would consist of theHaloannouncementpulled at E3 this year....

According to French siteGamekyo, Nintendo is set to announce a game “everyone is waiting for” at its upcoming press conference this Thursday. Before Nintendo’s almost disastrousE3 2008 showing, hearing something like this would send gamers into an excited tizzy. Sadly, things are a little different now. While discussing this rumor this morning in the Destructoid office, terms like “dogsh*t” and “motion controlled county fair simulator” were thrown around. Has it finally happened?...

Samuel L. Jackson has once again been tapped to host this year’s Spike “Video Game Awards” show, and we couldn’t be more excited. Just the very idea that we might get a chance to hear Jackson use words like “motherfker” and “bch” in person are enough to get us all hot and bothered. That’s right, team Destructoid will be on hand next week, when the awards tape on December 7 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas....

Psychonautsdeveloper Tim Schafer is known for putting a heavy element of humor in his games, but the cult designer wants more. He believes that games aren’t funny enough, and it’s because of studios vetting their own material. “There are a lot of funny people in the games industry, and [they seem to] think of the funny thing, and then say: ‘No, I can’t do that. Let’s cut that out because someone might be bothered by that,'” he explained....

I was recently made aware of aHalf-Life 2source mod that has been generating a huge amount of controversy for its “sick” subject matter.School Shooter: North American Tour 2012is a first-person-shooter in which the goal is to get angry, pack heat, and shoot up a school full of innocent civilians. Is it tasteless? Yes. Is it offensive? Undoubtedly. Is it a sick and twisted mockery of the industry that doesn’t have a right to exist?...

Halo: Reachis most likely going to rock all of our faces far past midnight, but there’s a small part of me that yearns to know the rest of Master Chief’s tale. Not thatHalo 3ended on a massive cliffhanger, but (SPOILERS!) Master Chief was just floating around in space at the end there. It seems that the guys behind theHalofranchise agree that Master Chief’s story isn’t dead. At the San Diego Comic-Con, Frank O’Connor, the franchise development director for 343 Industries (and basically all thingsHalo)said“At the end ofHalo 3, and cover your ears if you haven’t played it, Master Chief is in cryosleep....

We’ve known Sega’s had the license for some time, but the publisher has officially announced that it will be publishingThor: The Video Gamefor Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, and Nintendo DS in 2011. Based on the movie universe, it sounds a lot like Sega is taking the same approach with Thor that it did withIron Man 2: The Video Game. They’ve even brought the same writer on board, tapping Matt Fraction as a story consulting....

Sega has been uncharacteristically doing it right lately.Sonic Unleashedlooks hot, there are decent DS games on the way and then there are the jizzworthy Platinum Games titles. It looks like the company might have pulled one more canny move to seal the deal, asevidence points toSega publishing High Voltage’s anticipated Wii shooter,The Conduit. The evidence has been found byIGN, who noticed that Sega has a folder labeled “The Conduit” up on its public FTP site....

This is more of an “Aw, shucks” kind of thing, but it’s worth noting: Capcom isn’t going to giveSuper Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remixthe Trophy treatment. Ever. Capcom representative John Diamonon delivered the unfortunate news in a recent reply to a reader question over atPlayStation.Blog. He wrote, “trophies were never promised for SFHD and aren’t going to be implemented.” Disheartening, but succinct. We like that. If Trophies are your jam, don’t worry —Marvel vs....

While work is being done onSerious Sam 3: BFE, a few indie studios are tackling the franchisein their own unique ways. In the case of developerMommy’s Best Games, they’re putting out a downloadable PC and console title calledSerious Sam: Double D. The side-scrollingContra-like game sees Sam doing what he does best as he takes on ridiculous amounts of enemies all at once on his killing rampage. What makesDouble Dreally rad is the Gunstacker weapon, which equips all of your guns at once so you can shoot everything off at the same time....

Skate 3is a skateboarding game, and really the only way to make a skateboarding game better is more skateboarding. Thus the new Danny Way “Hawaiian Dream” DLC for the game should theoretically make it better because it’s giving you more skateboarding. The Hawaiian themed skate park was personally designed by skateboarder Danny Way, who will now be a playable character, and is going to land on Xbox Live this Tuesday for 560 MS Points and on the same day on PSN for $6....

Atari sent over a slew of new screenshots forGhostbusters: Sanctum of Slimetoday, and I figured you’d want to see them. So here they are. In case you missed the new, the publisher will be releasing this digital download only title on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC this coming spring. It’s a top down, four-player cooperative affair, developed by Wanako Games, the same folks who brought us the pretty damned good Assault Heroes titles....

Let’s get the “I’ll buy that for a dollar” quote out of the way. Right, now we can get on with theactual story. Did you know that the classic arcade gameSmash TVwas in line for a remake? It was going to be a top-down shooter, just like the old days, but given a coat of modern paint with 3D graphics. OriginalSmash TVprogrammer Mark Turmellconfirmedthat the game was in development, but then it “hit the fan” with Midway and the project had to be scrapped....