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Zack Snyder, director of the muscle-bound movie300and the upcomingWatchmanadaptation has signed with Electronic Arts. The contract is for Snyder to make three games with all of the rights of going straight to EA. Hopefully, anything Snyder creates is better than thePSP version of300. Which, I believe, is almost terrible enough to make any decent videogame enthusiast sick to their stomach. Snyder will be working with EA Los Angeles, which is the same team that worked with Steven Spielberg onBoom Bloxand are in the process ofbringing more of Spielburg’s imaginationto consoles....

Amidst rumors of an upcomingDJ Hero 2, Activision is still pumping out the downloadable content for the original title. On April 29, three mashups will be available for download, packaged as “The Domination Mix Pack”: The entire package will cost you $7.99/640 MS Points on the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360; no, you can’t buy individual mixes. If you own a Wii, you can — they’re 300 points a track. Of course, buying all three means you’ll have to spend one more dollar than your PS3 and 360 buddies....

There’s no doubt that the upcomingCondemned 2: Bloodshotlooks hot. I think that its predecessor,Condemned, was a bit underappreicated. It was short, and it had its flaws, but in the end it was the only game with that much hobo-bashY goodness. In a few days, both the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions ofCondemned 2launch in the US, and Circuit City has a nice deal for those who missed the first game. According to theirweekly flyer, with the purchase of either version, you will also recieve (while supplies last) a copy of the Xbox 360 predecessor....

If plans held together, the same morning we were posting fake crap aboutRTS spin-offs of oft-delayed gamesandfaux special edition packages, we’d be telling you thatDuke Nukem Foreverwent gold. No April Fools. Over Twitter this afternoon,DNFproducer Jason Bergman revealed that theDNFdevelopment schedule had July 24, 2025, marked as the day the game went to the presses and started on its journey to our homes. “By the 3DR/TTWO development schedule, April 1st, 2010 was supposed to be the dayDuke Nukem Foreverwent gold,” he saidover Twitter....

Voice actor Jon St. John set the universe straight during the Music and Video Game Festival by not commenting on his role as Duke Nukem in 3D Realms’Duke Nukem Forever. The key here is what the blank space implies. “I’m not allowed to speak on that subject, sir,” St. John replied when asked aboutDNF. He added, “Let me go ahead and tell you right now: I’m not allowed to speak aboutDuke Nukem Forever....

During theEA press conferenceyesterday, Gabe Newell from Valve came on stage to show offLeft 4 Dead. Daletouched on theDirector AI after the presentation and we now have video of that segment of just how the Director AI will work after the break. During the presentation, we also got to see the debut of the redesigned four main characters.Shacknews talkedwith Chet Faliszek from Valve who explained why the characters were redesigned:...

Alright, let’s clear the air here. With all the hubub of E3, it’s easy to get confused. There aretwonewMonkey Islandgamescoming out soon. One of them,Tales of Monkey Islandis an episodic game for the Wii and PC that’s being handled by Telltale Games — the only company thus far to have had any success with the episodic business model. The other isMonkey Island: Special Edition, which is a full 3D remake of the original for PC, Wii, and Xbox Live Arcade....

Our own Chad Concelmo got some hands-on time with Nintendo’s new console, theWii U, at E3. He can barely contain his excitement about it, so Destructoid Show co-host Max Scoville stands there and lets the Wii U love flow, for the most part. It’s pretty much impossible to watch this video andnotsmile, so check it out if you need a quick pick-me-up… and even if you don’t!

[Update:We’ve finally got an official shot of the package, thanks to thePlayStation Blog’s Flickr account.] Resistance 3is going to have PlayStation Move support, and Sony is pushing that functionality with a special package, the “Doomsday Edition” of the game. It will sell for $149.99, but you’ll get a damn good value at that price. Here’s the full rundown: We’ll update this post with images once we have them. This bundle will launch in North America on the same day as the standalone game: September 6th....

In a financial call with investors and press this afternoon, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello went through a strong slate of games for the mega-publisher’s fiscal year 2011, which runs from July 27, 2025, through June 04, 2025. Among the list was a curious mention of “an innovative and new take onMadden.” What exactly that means — whether Ricitiello was talking about this year’sMadden NFL 11, a possible successor toMadden NFL Arcade, or a new product altogether — is unclear at this point....

Electronic Arts CEO, John Riccitiello,has statedthat his investors really don’t care about quality when it comes to software, explaining that higher review scores don’t translate into stock sales. “I don’t think the investors give a sh*t about our quality. They care about our earnings per share. They wait for it to happen. We had three years where we didn’t make our expectations. If I were an investor, I would wait and see....

Fable IIIhas a limited edition controller and Major Nelson has been showing it off via YouTube. As you can see above it is a controller and it has buttons that you press. It isn’t confirmed, but one would assume that when the buttons are pressed while playing a game they will make things happen in the game. The controller also looks different because it has aFable IIIdesign on it. Looking at the controller it could really be for any game — not very much unique about it at all....

We got a tip today from an outraged gamer calling Bethesda liars for their use of SecuROM in the newly releasedFallout 3. In case you forgot, Bethesda’s Pete Hines mentioned a while ago that theydidn’t use DRMin their games — or at the very least used the mildest form possible: [Fallout 3will be] pretty similar to what we did forOblivion, which was — we basically don’t do any — we do the mildest form possible....