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According to an (excellent) article posted this morning onThe Guardian, Midway Newcastle has until the end of the month to find a prospective buyer. Midway has beenhemorrhaging cashfor the past six years or so and, in February, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Warner Brothersoffered a $33 million takeover bid last month, but that deal would leave Midways Newcastle and San Diego offices out in the cold. The British devs — famous for last year’sWheelman— are currently working on an unannounced, open-world game that uses a heavily customized version of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3....

Modern Warfare 2will not have a subscription fee. Infinity Ward recently excused themselves from Activision’s possible plans totack MMO-like subscription fees on to theCall of Dutymultiplayer component. In response to the supposed Activision survey we unearthed last week, Infinity Ward community manager Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling flatlytold official message board usersnot to worry about extra charges inModern Warfare 2because, well, Infinity Ward would “never introduce” them. “This rumor has absolutely nothing to do with Infinity Ward or our games, including Modern Warfare 2,” Bowling wrote....

Just yesterday we told you thatMedievilwas pulled down from the PlayStation Network due to bugs, and now it looks like two more games have joined the ‘broken downloads’ club. We mentioned yesterday thatSypro 2was also suffering a few problems, and now it has been removed along withCrash Bandicoot 2, both released on Europe’s PlayStation Store last week. We know thatMedievilcrashes during game play in the third level, and heardSypro 2has some audio glitches, but now some say thatCrash Bandicoot 2won’t properly boot on PSP systems....

Fresh from the Nintendo Media Summit comes news of a new Wii Speak Channel. This channel will pop up on your Wii on November 16th, and lets you use that handy Wii Speak devicewe told you about at E3earlier this year. Don’t have Wii Speak? Get one for $29.99. The channel lets you speak (or as Destructoid contributor Jonathan Ross suggests, fart) with up to three others that you’ve traded Friend Codes with online at no cost....

WithAlan Wakefinally dated, I’m running out of things to say about it beyond “Give it here. Now.” Yeah, these screenshots look good, but they’re nothing we haven’t seen before. Trees, a cabin, a lake, some foggy environments… a flashlight. Actually, upon a second glance… are those two bikers playing with children’s toys? I mean, your guess is as good as mine as to what’s going on here, but the biker on the right seems to be holding one of those “squeaky hammers” children play with....

Ready for some new Capcom Wii games? Good, because a bunch of them are coming up. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chroniclesis the follow-up toResident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, set to come to the Wii in North America this winter. The story is based on Resident Evil 2. It stars both Leon Kenney and Claire Redfield in a on-rails style game. It’s supposed to fill in some story holes left byUmbrella Chronicles....

Here’s a trailer forThe Darkness 2, yours to enjoy along with the game’snewly announced release date. That date, in case you’re too busy to click links or watch the above video, is October 4. I still need to play through the first one, though my local stores inexplicably lack a copy. I’m angrier than an ugly bag of snakes over this.

Warner Bros. has released a new gameplay trailer forGotham City Impostorsand… holy s**t, is that an electric bear trap!?!?! I’ve played the game before, a few months back when it was first revealed, and it was obvious that developer Monolith wasn’t afraid to get a little crazy. But there’s something about this trailer that really is selling me on the idea of this fun, completely nuts multiplayer first-person shooter. Electric bear traps and trampolines… your move Infinity Ward!...

I realize that the amount of great games landing next month is very, very high, but in all honesty I would gladly sacrifice them all to get my hands onNew Super Mario Bros. Wii. Mario fanboy? Yes, unabashedly, but I don’t really have a reason not to be as far as the main games in the series go (and the majority of his spin-off titles). However, this feeling is not just based on my love of plumbing brothers, there’s video proof that fanatical devotion is warranted....

Here are some new screens and art forDynasty Warriors 7, giving us a closer look at the playable generals currently confirmed for the game. New characters Sima Zhao, Sima Shi and Bao Sanniang are joined by familiar faces in Xiahou Dun, Zhou Tai, Zhen Ji, Zhao Yun and Lu Xun. Dynasty Warriors 7will advance the game’s story to include the Jin faction, support PS Move and 3D, boast more playable characters than any previous game, and return to the superior charge-based combo system....

In the New York Times’ “High Scores for the Games of 2007,” the usual suspects likeBioShockandMass Effectwere named triumphs of 2007, and evenRatchet & Clank: Tools of Destructionwas given some praise. But it seems they don’t think as highly of blockbustersHalo 3andSuper Mario Galaxy. Both games shared the 2007 award for “Best Unambitious Representations of State of the Art.” NYT says that both are “fun” and “refined” versions of previous titles in their respective series’, but calls them both out for being more of the same....

The other day, Nintendo of America’s president Reggie Fils-Aime stated how Nintendoisn’t very good at making mature games. The beefburger boss has since elaborated on his comments, stating that part of the reason is that Nintendo simply doesn’t enjoy creating them. “It’s a priority for us bringing a range of entertainment. It’s a priority for us to have a range of third party licensees see success on the platform,” claims the medium rare executive....

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata on the Nintendo DS successor having motion sensing capabilities: “What? No way. That’s stupid.” I’m kidding. He didn’t really say that. But it was said before that Iwata mentioned motion sensing capabilities for the DS2 or whatever the hell they’re going to call it. Turns out he was misquoted. Stupid ass journalists. Iwata claims that the Japanese newspaper Asahi said to him in an interview: “The next DS will need to have high resolution graphics and include a motion sensor, wouldn’t you say?...