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It’s a little weird to write a story that contains the terms, “Fox News,” “videogame” and “sex” yet isn’t actually negative. Well, not in the traditional sense, anyway. Fox News Orlando reports that the University of Central Florida is hard at work developing a videogame geared towards female middle school students intended to teach them skills for handling peer pressure relating to sex. The game places them in social situations and they make choices and score points for demonstrating appropriate responses to offers of sexual activity and innuendo from onscreen avatars....

Yesterday, the ever-alluring Colette Bennettshared with younews of a new PC/360 RPG,Venetica. With only a press release and a few bad screenshots to go off, anticipation hasn’t been high, but maybe this new trailer will see a few converts. Probably not, but we’ll see.Personally, I dig it. It has a veryFable/Beyond Good & Evilartistic quality that might be lacking in graphical oomph, but is part of this (hopefully continuing) trend of games bringing some color back into consoles, so I approve....

Rooster Teeth is famous for their Red vs. Blue series and various other Machinima shows. The boys are now dabbling with real life stuff in their new show called “Immersion.” Basically, it’s Myth Busters but with a videogame spin to it. In the debut episode, Rooster Teeth experiments with real third person driving. We do it all the time in videogames such as theGrand Theft Autoseries, but will it work in real life?...

It’s Monday, and in America that means it’s time for Nintendo to serve up some Virtual Console games you haven’t necessarily been waiting for. Again. This week bringsR-Type III: The Third Lightning(SNES, 800 points),Xevious(NES, 500 points), andMotoRoader(TurboGrafx16, 600 points). That’s right, two more side-scrolling shooters and anotherTurboGrafxgame you’ve probably never heard of. Now don’t get me wrong — the side-scrolling shooter genre has been languishing for years, and it’s always a treat to have the opportunity to play a classic....

Time again to vote in a new game forBacklog.If my calculations are correct, we’re just finishing upSplatterhousenow and I’ve put together a list of titles that you can join me in playing for our next run. The theme this time is one of fantasy, which is nowhere near my preferred setting. But that doesn’t mean that I’m just going to pass up a good game just because it has dungeons and/or dragons in it....

After thedeath of a motherrecently because of an idiotic morning DJ contest called “Hold Your Wee for a Wii,” the radio station that employed these jackasses has decided to can 10 employees of KDND. Three jockeys and two morning hosts were among those whotook the axe: Ten employees of radio station KDND, who ran the “Hold Your Wee For a Wii” contest that resulted in the water-intoxication death of mom Jennifer Strange (right), were fired today as a result of the incident....

Yesterday, we told you about how the Mac version ofTeam Fortress 2would be releasing today. In fact, every other gaming website told you this too. Surprise! Todayistoday, andTeam Fortress 2is now up for purchase on Steam. How do I know this? Because approximately five billion of you guys cared enough to email us about it. Thanks, dudes! The game is currently half off, which ends up being $9.99. If the servers aren’t too overloaded,here’s the linkto download it....

TheHomepublic beta starts later this month, even though the full version should have been out by now. If you want to know how people were chosen to participate in the long-delayed PS3 feature, then let Sonyexplain it to you. “We had a couple of plans on how that was going to be done,” said a Sony rep on thecompany’s forum.“Both were broadly based on the concept of loyalty.” That is quite cryptic, and our very own Joe Burling believes that you had to log in to MetaCritic and giveGears of War 2a low scorein order to be considered....

I liked how some of you last week were complaining how I don’t use your YTMNDs. Well you know what would help?E-mail them to me. Also, I can easily say that Drop it like it’s WRONG! is in my top 3 favorite YTMNDs of this year. Which ones did you like this week? Random Man Now Dog:Agent Smith is in love with Morpheus. Super bonus Random Man Dog:He look, it’s World Famous blaaaarrrrgggg(Made by CannibalCalvin, pointed out by C Bear)....

Business before pleasure. 2K has a bunch of games lined up for their showing at E3 this year. To me the most notable areMafia IIandCivilization V. I had the pleasure of getting a peek atCiv Va bit back, and I can tell you they’ve made a lot of changes. It looks fantastic. More on that later. Here’s 2K’s full E3 line-up: Now, the pleasure: the E3 2K booth will be hosting photo ops with Playboy magazine’s Playmates to promote their tie-in withMafia II, which features more than 50 vintage Playboy mag covers....

BioShockaccomplished a lot in the year 2007, garnering praise and high scores from countless print and online sources. So when 2K’s Chris Kline mentioned in his GDC session in Paris that the game should have failed, it surely sent a quizzical expression across many faces (as it probably is doing to many of you reading this now). Why should this amazing game have failed? InGamasutra’s articleon the topic, Kline’s point is expanded upon as he revisits where the concept for the game started (inspiration fromSystem Shock 2was major), how the focus on the title evolved from functioning in a fully interacting world to one that engages the player directly, and the concept of selling a “sequel” to an unsuccessful game, which was cleverly addressed:...

Evil publisher Activision has very little to worry about when it comes to dominating the videogame market. It has a knack for owning pretty much every genre it sets its sights on conquering, and with the last twoCall of Dutygames still selling a buggering flickload of copies,it’s no surprisethat the company expectsModern Warfare 2to crush the competition this year. “We have goals for all of our titles. … We fully expectModern Warfare 2to be one of, if not THE largest, title in the industry this year,” explains Activision’s publishing CEO Mike Griffith....

It’s spring, everyone, and if you haven’t been floating through the fragrant scent of cherry blossoms or frolicking through the sun-soaked streets of New York City in eager anticipation of Karaoke-fest 2008 with NY Comic Con Destructoid attendees, then you’ll appreciate this week’s candy-colored assemblage of art to get your spring fever going! This week’s Art Attack Friday artist,Minus 8, reveals a dimension of his favorite Nintendo characters where it looks like the grass is green and the girls are pretty....