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Playing games on the Classic Controller for the N64 on your Wii is fantastically wrong. If you’ve ever tried to play throughSin & Punishmentwith that thing you know there are some games that require the unique design of the N64 controller. Hell, Even though holding the Wii Remote sideways to playSuper Mario Bros.on your Wii is functional there’s just a certain je ne sais quoi missing from the affair. If only every Nintendo controller ever (barring the Virtual Boy) could hook up to the Wii....

It’s been so damn long since I’ve actually hosted an episode of Podtoid, I forgot what frigging time we start. Hence the late post. But anyway, yeah: the regular cast will discussAssassin’s Creed II, the newly announcedPrince of Persiagame, and pretty much whatever questions managed to get asked between now and the time we record.

Gamepolitics hasa storyup relaying the depressing tale of a North Carolina woman who may have been been responsible for the death of her 11-month-old daughter, and the confusing tale of how police are attempting to connect it to her gaming habits. Here’s the scoop: Police in North Carolina are looking into a woman’s online gaming habits as they investigate the death of her 11-month-old daughter. According to WRAL-5, Johni Michelle Heuser has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of baby Harmony, who had been reported missing last Friday, leading to a statewide Amber Alert....

I have a confession to make: on a recent trip to the West Coast, I spent the entirety of my flight playing PopCap’sBejewled Twist. We’re talking somewhere in the vicinity of five hours. Oh, and then I also played it on my way home. Last night, I played the cooperative zombie survival ofLeft 4 Deadfor as many hours. Now, PopCap may have found a way to monopolize every second of my time....

Metro: Last Lightis a direct sequel toMetro 2033, a game that developer 4A Games likes to refer to as a “flawed masterpiece.” The original game tended to be polarizing: people either raved about it, or couldn’t get past its glaring faults. The sequel looks to keep everything that fans loved aboutMetro 2033and also improve on some of the well known complaints. 4A Games told us what they’re doing to make the experience better, and showed us an action-focused sequence from the upcoming post-apocalyptic survival shooter....

Last week, Samit Sarkar brought you adetailed preview ofResistance: Retribution’ssingle-player campaign for the PlayStation Portable. Earlier this week, Sony invited me out to a fancy bar in San Francisco to try out the mulitplayer mode ofRetribution. It’s really hard to get a first-person shooter or any kind of a shooter to work right on the PSP or DS. It’s just way more fun to play these types of games with a controller....

Unreal Engine 3. Is there anything it can’t do? Apparently not. Remember the Project Natal tech demos from E3? Of course you do! But since I cannot seem to locate our original coverage of the Microsoft press conference, go back andwatch Jimmy Fallonplay with the device again if your memory is a little fuzzy. Talking to OXM UK, Epic Games VP Mark Rein revealed something I would have never guessed: two of the Project Natal games were created using the company’s uber popular game engine....

It seems like just yesterdaythat we were telling you about the PSP-3000, Sony’s latest upgrade to their PlayStation Portable. Its built-in microphone and shiny new brighter anti-glare screen don’t sound that sexy on paper, butseeing them in persongets you kind of hot. After eyeballing them on the TGS show floor, I really wanted one. A few days later, I was shopping in one of Japan’s mega-electronics stores, and I came across a huge display of PSP-3000 boxes....

Capcom has joined the big iPad bandwagon with something that shouldn’t be surprising in the least. After all, the Japanese publisher will takeanyexcuse to port one of itsResident Evilgames for a quick buck. That’s right folks, not content to just releaseResi 4on iPhone and iPod Touch, Capcom has prepared another Apple-flavored outing withResident Evil 4: iPad Edition. Yeah, it’s basically just the iPhone version but with slightly better graphics. Oh, and of course it costs more, too....

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t demos used to exist for the purpose of helping consumers make purchasing decisions? When did they become, instead, these things that publishers could hold to ransom in order to make people who already decided to buy the game jump through hoops and spend more money? Seems to undermine exactly what a demo is supposed to be, but then, that’s why I’m not in marketing....

On up? To the East Side? To a deluxe apartment in the sky? No, my fellow sprite loving friends, to Sundays! That’s right; starting this week,RetroforceGO!(tied for first as the best podcast on Destructoid) will be recording each and every episode onSundaynights (instead of the usual Wednesday) and will be available to download on Mondays (moving from Thursday). Before anybody worries about the time change, we figured that recording the podcast on the day of the Lord will onlybenefitthe overall quality....

If I were looking to bump my street cred, now would be a good time to do so. Ostensibly, this postshouldbe about introducing you to the fifth of Robotube’sBit Museumvideos, a fascinating and charming look at Nintendo’s Game & Watch line of handhelds. But Icoulduse this opportunity to spout off about how I’ve forgotten way more about videogame history than that shlub Jason Cirillo will ever know. But, let’s be real....

Sony and Harmonix are showing their generous sides (or cleaning out their closets) and have donated prototypes for the EyeToy camera andRock Bandinstruments to theNational Videogames Archive. Sorry, we don’t have any pictures, and there’s currently no NVA standing exhibit. But if you were interested, you might want to scour the campus of Nottingham Trent University, home of the NVA project. Let us know how that works out for you....