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Factor 5, developers ofLairfor the PlayStation 3, are, in addition to finishing the game, currently in the process of preparing two downloadable games for the PS3’s online service. Speaking in an interview withGamasutra, Factor 5 co-founder and president, Julian Eggebrecht said he felt downloadable PS3 games have huge potential. Upon being asked what aspects of the gaming business he was looking forward to in 2007, here’s what he said: “Actually I’m really looking forward to 2007, because we’re going to finishLair, which is my biggest concern right now, but also, I’m really looking forward to working on a couple of smaller projects [for PlayStation 3], with the so-called EDI [E-Distribution Initiative] from Sony, which I think has huge potential, and personally as a director, I think it’s one of these things that we in the creative community need a little bit....

It’s been a while since we’ve heard aboutFat Princess: Fistful of Cake, the PSP version of the PSN downloadable announced during E3 2009. But we’ll be hearing and more importantly, seeing much more of it soon. Developer SuperVillian Studios has revealed that the title has gone gold and says a firm release date is coming. More than just a portFistful of Cakeadds six levels and five fresh character classes on top of the old stuff, and is said to expand the single-player campaign and the MP component....

As part of the Distant Worlds: music from Final Fantasy world tour, the game music concert will be stopping in Sydney in April of 2011. There’s going to be two performances starting on the 15th, and concert tickets for the event go on sale early for fans next month, starting on October 15th. This could really be the ultimate Distant Worlds concert. Get this: It’s taking place at the Sydney Opera House, it’s played by the Sydney Symphony, and composer Nobuo Uematsu will be in attendance....

Why the exclamation point, Chad? Is this news reallythatexciting? Simple answer: YES! Anything involving Wallace & Gromit is the most amazing thing ever. And anyone that doesn’t think so can kindly run into oncoming traffic (<3). Telltale Games just sent us over a handful of first official screens from itsrecently announcedgameWallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures. And they look great! Well, they look great just for the fact that they remind me exactly of the classic animated shorts (and feature film)....

Normally we do “Ten Minute Tastes” here at Destructoid, but I ran into a little problem with0 Day Attack on Earth, which hits Xbox LIVE Arcade today. I died at the five-minute mark. As our own Jonathan Ross put it, “You are terrible at this game.” Yes. Yes I am. 0 Day Attack on Earthis a dual-stick shooter that has players defending cities torn up by an alien invasion. Shown here is my battle to protect what’s left of New York City, but later in the game you’ll unlock Tokyo and Paris alien-invasion venues....

To celeberate its 1 year anniversary,Bumpy Roadcreator Simogo has madeKosmo Spin(iOS, universal app) free for a limited time. You have to rotate a planet to make a little guy collect space breakfast bits that are alive, and deflect incoming soccer balls and other things that a UFO will throw at the planet you’re on. But if the UFO decides to suck things up, you better not be under it or it’s game over....

There’s a bunch of free games for both Android and iOS today.Icarus-Xnow has a free ad-supported version on Android. I’ve heard some good things about this mobile shmup and while ad-supported free versions are not really great, now you can at least try it out if you didn’t know whether or not you wanted it. For theGeometry Warsfans, iOS twin-stick shooterOccurro!is now free forever. The controls are not as tight as the popular console shooter, but it’s still awesome....

[The final promoted Freedom blog is from Noir, who analyzes moral “choice” in games. Use the weekend to finish up yourDigital Distribution blogs— on Monday, a new topic will be posted, and Digital Distribution blogs will be promoted throughout the week.— JRo] “Moral choice” has been a popular feature in video games these days. To let the player make choices to shape their experience gives freedom and will verify that no one experience is the same as another....

Normally we wouldn’t run a video featuring an editor of another games Web site, but this one is worth showing. 1UP EiC James “Milkman” Mielke pops on over to Japan to askFinal Fantasycomposer Nobuo Uematsu andFinal Fantasyartist Yoshitaka Amano for help with his wedding proposal. First he goes to Uematsu’s house, with its musical note railings and all. Check out Uematsu’s music collection in the background. Wow. And his sound system....

I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1N IT!!!1is easily the best dollar I have ever spent. It’s available on the Indie Games Channel of Xbox Live right now and if you haven’t played it yet, you are missing out on a genuinely funny experience that mocks the current oversaturation of zombie games. Please give Ska Studios money for this genius. It’s a mere dollar. You can’t go wrong! Speaking of dollars, we played videogames this week....

Game|Life — Wired’s foray into talk of gaming as more than an obscure art movement on par with Dadaism orPogs— has just postedan interviewwith Gail Simone, writer of GameTap’s new animated look at the young life of Ms. Lara Croft. Topics covered include non-mammarial character traits, removing the “lolita” from the “loli”, and future expansion of the franchise in the one direction that Eidos has yet to monetarily sodomize. Of course, reimagining Ms....

If you’re looking for a game on the Winter Olympic withoutthe furry factor, then Sega has your back.Vancouver 2010is the official videogame for Winter Olympic Games set to come out on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Not much is known at the moment, but it’s safe to assume there will be games based on Winter activities that take place during the Winter Olympic Games. Such as Bobsledding! Two guys, huddled close together, shaking from the cold, racing down sharp turns....

While at Gearbox Community Day last week, I was given the opportunity to interview company president and CEO Randy Pitchford and co-founder/producer Brian Martel. Like a rockstar, Pitchford had a constant swarm of fans hovering around him, but thankfully he was kind enough to give me some time. We talked about the surprisingly large turnout of people who came to party with Gearbox staff at the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas, Texas, and what Pitchford and Martel have in mind for the future....