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A studio not named Valve believes the PlayStation 3 is a “complicated” platform. In an interview withThat Video Games Blog, Spider Games CEO Jehanne Rousseau said the lead platform for the upcoming role-playing gameMarsis the PlayStation 3, however, it’s not because they’re in love with the shiny black box. According to Spider brass, the choice was made because “the PS3 is a very complicated platform.” “[If] we concentrate now on all the difficulties and strong points of this console and if we can go over them, the other platforms should be simple to approach....

From the outside looking in, I’m not exactly sure why an artist wouldn’t want his or her music in a popular music game, but singer-songwriter Matthew Sweet isn’t all that thrilled. Speaking withNorth County Times, Sweet says he was unaware that his song “Girlfriend” would be included in 2006’sGuitar Hero II. “I’ve been trying to see if I can get a lawsuit against them ’cause they never asked to use the song,” Sweet said right after noting that “a lot of kids have gotten into” his music because of the inclusion of the song in the title....

Welcome to the land of the rising hotness in apparel, the land of the robotic games bloggers armed with road-worn laptops and rented cell phones and funny money with holes in it. They’re strapped into their figurative fighter planes, ready to collide with the world’s gaming capital, Tokyo, for God and Country and Internet. That’s what I’m going to imagine when I rock my new Destructoid Kamikaze T-shirt, now available onSplitReason....

After many long days and a bunch of angry Tweets, theMedal of Honorbeta has graced the Xbox 360 with its presence. If you happen to have a key for the beta,you can go hereto trade it for a redeemable Xbox LIVE Marketplace download code. Itdoesn’t look likeDICE is citing a reason for the delays, although this is a beta we’re talking about here. These things tend to happen on occasion, you know?...

In between all the awful(ly amazing) Solid Snake impressions onPodtoid’s 50th episode, Tiff Chow and I got into a very brief, very nonspecific conversation about the possible presence of the Holy Trinity in theMetal Gear Solidseries. I thought, to kick off our Official Countdown toMGS4(each day this week, an editor — probably Chad, since he came up the idea in the first place — will present a feature discussing a different aspect of the series), I’d go full tilt with the whole Bible analogy thing and find out just how manyMGScharacters have counterparts in the Bible....

Midway has announced that its third-person action titleWheelmanfor Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC will be available on March 20. For those not sold on the Vin Diesel action-film packed into a game concept, there’s always plans for a pre-launch demo that will available on the PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE. A date for the demo hasn’t been set in stone, but Midway has over a month to figure it out — that’s what pre-launch means!...

It’s an odd thing. While I listen almost exclusivelypretentioushipstermusic, I’ve been pretty lucky in checking out DJ music games this year. I’ve had hands-on (and off) time withScratch: The Ultimate DJ, so I was dead interested in checking out what big boy Activision has in store for DJ fans this year. I have to say,DJ Herois wildly different than what I expected. That’s not bad! What I mean is,DJ Herois a very different sort of music game....

I love it when games that aren’t hyped at all still manage to get a ridiculous amount of coverage.X-Blades’article swamp is mostly my fault, since I’ve taken almostevery opportunityI can to make jokes about main character Ayumi’s lack of clothing. I also have a thing for underprivileged action games. This is coming from one of the five Westerners who playedBujingai, after all. Anyway, here are some more pictures from this game that hardly any of you care about....

MotorStorm Apocalypsehas been updated with a mode editor, the ability to share custom vehicles designs, further controller options with new PlayStation Move and racing wheel support and enhancements to online play based on user feedback. It’s free, because who needs money in the apocalyptic future when there areraces to be had? To elaborate, the mode editor lets you tweak the rules ofMotorStormfor on- and offline use. As for the vehicle customization, you may upload your designs to the game’s official site, browse through community creations, and download them right then and there toApocalypse....

Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has come out with a huge brag, and what PS3 fans may consider a crushing blow. According to the latest NPD results, Halo 3 has managed to outsell every single major PS3 exclusive combined, including heavy hitters likeUncharted 2andGod of War III. Ouch. “Just in from research team (NPD):Halo 3has outsoldResistance 1+2,Uncharted 1+2,Killzone 2andGod of War IIICOMBINED … wow,” boasts the Microsoft demagogue. Wow is the right word....

Right about now, Capcom is patting themselves on the back for following through with the tough decision to takeDevil May Cry 4multiplatform. Their press release boasts that not only didDMC4reach the 2-million shipped mark, but it did so in record time — surpassing the other three games in the series in the process. I’ve just about finished the game myself, and I can see why. Even though I’m still questioning their decision toforce an installon some of us in the process,DMC4plays like a hack-and-slash dream....

Seems like the early morning analyst wasn’t too far off the mark regardingCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’sday-one sales. Activision internal estimates have pegged worldwide launch day sales at a cool $310 million. According to Activision, this little estimate nugget makesMW2’slaunch the “biggest launch in the history across all forms of entertainment” with around 4.7 million units sold. Roll that around in your head for a second. So,thisis the reason why my GameStop’s midnight release line was wrapped around the abandoned plaza the boutique sits in....

Hey guys, here’s your daily fix– Er. Here’s Monday’s episode ofThe Destructoid Show. Today, we talk about how Sony and Geohothave finally stopped their fussin’ and a-feudin’and how the biggest injustice in the Playstation world is thatAngry Birdsis PSN’s top seller. Good lord. Capcom saysMega Man Legends 3is still in the works, which doesn’t faze me as much as the news that Hideo Kojimamight be resurrecting his old gameSnatcher.No offense to the Blue Bomber, butMetal Gear: Blade Runnersounds way cooler....