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It took them awhileto get around to announcing it in English, but Nintendo has finally revealedKirby Super Star Ultrafor the Nintendo DS. A remake of the popular Super Nintendo gameKirby Super Star,Ultrare-imagines the title with new graphics and fully-rendered animated cut scenes. The original title boasted “8 games in one,” like “The Great Cave Offensive” and “Revenge of Meta Knight,” each of which stayed close to Kirby’s platforming roots. The DS title will features new modes (“Revenge of the King” and “Meta Knight Ultra”), as well as three new touch-screen multiplayer mini-games that can be shared via DS download play....

Yeah, there’s nothing after the Vs. inHell’s Kitchen Vs. in our headline. That’s how it’s supposed to look. That comes out in Nintendo’s batch this week along with 6 other titles. Crater-faced jerk Gordon Ramsay is a great cook, though I don’t know how his TV show will adapt to a DSi game (800 DSi Points). Other DSi offerings include puzzle titlesTrajectileandAnimal Puzzle Adventure,both costing 500 DSi Points. For WiiWare, there’s another puzzler:Heron: Steam Machine....

Going, going, almost gone. I hope you got a copy of the limited editionSuper Mario All-Stars. The 25th anniversary Mario game collection for Wii came out in December, and it’s been relatively hard to find since then. Nintendo now sends word that the last of the limited edition run is now shipping, and that the last of the shipments will hit retailers on March 13. If you somehow missed it, the games included in thisSuper Mario All-Starscollection areSuper Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros 2andSuper Mario Bros 3....

Well, I hope it’s not an April Fool’s Joke. There’s aNintendo Powercover to win you doubters over. ThisSilent Hillgame is not a remake or a port, but a re-imaging of the first game.Uh-oh. Maybe it’s not so bad, though.GoNintendohas some quotes from the magazine, and from what we see here, things sound pretty interesting. The characters play different roles, things don’t necessarily happen in the same order, and the story is taken in lots of new directions....

With a brand newWolfensteinon the cards, one could be forgiven for salivating at the thought of tackling the somewhat controversial Third Reich frontman, Adolf Hitler. Unfortunately, the Ron Mael lookalikewill not beputting in an appearance for id’s Nazi-themed shooter … at least this time. “No, he’s not in our game,” confirmed smirking lead artist Kevin Cloud. “We’ve got to save something for futureWolfensteins. We can’t do him in yet!” The new title (to be launched “when it’s done”) follows on from 2001’s awfulReturn To Castle Wolfenstein, with hero BJ Blazkowicz fighting occult-dabbling Nazis using a dimension rift known as The Veil....

Alpha Protocolapparently performed too poorly to receive a sequel, but developer Obsidian won’t be put down. In fact, it wants to get involved withChrono Trigger, arguably one of the most beloved RPG names of all time. Apparently, the studio was in talks with Square Enix regarding a game, so this is a thing that might happen. “We were talking to Square for quite awhile,” says CEO Feargus Urquhart. “You make RPGs, we make RPGs, it would be great to see what we could do together....

The other day, I posted about the most important, most amazing, most mind-blowing trailer for a game that has ever been made in the history of videogames. This post is not aboutthat trailer. This post is about a trailer for the same game as thetrailer which will change the way you look at videogame trailers forever. It is not as good. The new trailer, I mean, though the same could probably be said for this post too....

The boys at Penny Arcade know how to capture both our hearts and our expendable income. Afterhosting the best open-to-the-public gaming eventon the West Coast, it seems a perfect time to showcase some screens from the next installment in theirPenny Arcade Adventuresgame series. The first installment got apretty reasonable reception, I hear. While we don’t have a precise date nailed down yet, we can expect the second installment of Tycho and Gabe’s scandalous exploits to hit sometime this winter for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC....

V.A.T.S, maul and repeat. Bethesda did a lot of things right withFallout 3, but one noticeable dent in the game’s power armor was the shooting mechanic. We’d say it hovered somewhere between serviceable and poor, but Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford would place it in the more boring thanBorderlandscategory. In a conversation withOfficial Xbox Magazine, Pitchford said Borderlands was “less boring” thanFallout 3when talking aboutBorderlands’action focus and, obviously, offered up a bit of criticism forFallout 3in the process....

When I spoke with him at aFallout: New Vegasdemo last month, senior producer Jason Bergman told me that the game is much more open-ended thanFallout 3was. WhileNew Vegashas no distinct “good” and “evil,” you certainly have the option of playing it in those ways. In fact, you may go through the entire game without killinganyone, although Bergman cautioned that it’s “exceptionallydifficult.” (That sounds like a challenge for those who are willing to tackleHardcore Mode....

This week’s episode is entitled “Guybrush” not necessarily because we spend much (or, indeed, any) time discussing theMonkey Islandfranchise, but because the last ten minutes of the episode consist of an audio interview with Dominic Armato, the voice of Guybrush Threepwood. I interviewed him at PAX, where I also got him tomake fun of Destructoid. This week’s best reader question — or at least, the only one we read — came fromthomasa, who should send his shipping details to[email protected]....

By pre-orderingJust Cause 2at Amazon, GameStop, Target, or Wal-Mart — The Man would rather I say “participating retails,” but screw him — you can get a whole mess of goodies, including a hovercraft. A hovercraft! Avalanche Studios has got the full list with pictures and descriptionsright here. For the lazy (more power to you), the five items are Rico’s Signature Gun, Bull’s Eye Assault Rifle, the Chevalier Classic, a Chaos Parachute, and the Agency Hovercraft....

The Dutch indies atMonobandahave created a true digital sandbox in the most literal sense possible — one with real sand. Using manual labor, you shape and create an augmented reality landscape that is affected by, and projected on, a box with sand. Up to four players at a time can use the created world to “control a ball that can roll around, jump and glide through theMimicryworld. Tiny virtual characters roll around in the sandbox....