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They’re going pre-order crazy withChampions Onlinethis summer, offering four different incentives with four different retailers. Your choices, the usual suspects: GameStop, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Amazon. Depending on where you decide to drop your cash, you’ll get everything from special packaging to in-game items or powers. The complete list of what you may get and where, you can find after the jump. But regardless of where you pre-order the game, you’ll get accesss to the open beta test, which begins on August 17....

Check out this video. It’s packed full offeatures. These aren’t your daddy’s features. No, these are the kind of features you can only get from a Facebook experience likeThe Sims Social. Kidding aside, the game certainly gives the appearance that people put real thought into development, though I haven’t taken the time yet to giveThe Sims Sociala shot. What strikes me about the trailer is how much emphasis they place on the events that happen in the game when you’re not playing it....

The Spirereleased a trailer last month, but us blogs are only now paying attention because we’re ignorant. Nevertheless, this indie PC game is well worth checking out, so it would be wrong of us to not follow the rest of the blogocube and talk about it, despite being “old” news by now. You may have heard ofThe Spirealready. It’s gathered many comparisons toPortal, despite the fact that it has nothing to do with portals whatsoever, and doesn’t even look very much like it....

Oxygen games has today announcedCID the Dummyfor PC, PSP and Wii, an action platformer with a slightly satirical bent. Set in a world where people have become so unwilling to accept responsibility for anything that all products need to be safety-tested in triplicate,CIDtells the story of the Crash Impact Dummy, a device that has become crucial in the new age of avoiding lawsuits. It sounds ridiculous, and the screens evoke memories of original PlayStation platformers, so maybe it’ll be a fun little platformer....

If you’re aCoD 4-obsessed PS3 owner, like I am, then you’ve been waiting with bated breath for the Variety Map Pack. It wasfirst announceda while back as coming to Xbox Live on April 3rd and to the PSN two weeks later, onceSony updated the PlayStation Store’s interface. However, the certification process took a bit longer than expected, so instead of releasing with the new store last Thursday, the map pack will be out this Thursday, April 24th....

man walks into Nintendo office “Okay, I have a great concept for a game. Hear me out. It’s an adventure game. You know, kind of likeZack & Wiki. But, no, you don’t play as a pirate. You actually play as a cat. A cat with realistic-looking graphics. And that cat really wants to work at a company called Cat Queen Inc., which is entirely run by other realistic-looking cats. You following me so far?...

Turning off twitter is the only thing I can do to avoid hearing everyone talk about the great time they’ve been having at PAX. Well, watching through the entirety of the first season ofBlack Lagoonin one sitting helped too. See? I managed to work in the weeaboo stuff easily! One of our top stories today was clearlyReady to FridayBioWaretalking abouthow they deal with piracy. I’d have to agree, incentives like limited editions are probably one of the best ways to get people to buy their stuff....

I was looking forward to WayForward’s remake ofA Boy And His Blobthe moment I heard itannounced, but I had no idea what I was really going to see until I actually witnessed the game in action. During our recent visit to the WayForward offices during E3, Director Sean Velasco took the time to walk us through all four of the levels in the E3 demo, including the Forest, Swamp, Cave and Gearworks levels....

Let’s face it: theGuitar Herocontroller is not the ideal item for the game. It’d be nice to hold a full-sized guitar in your hands. We’ve seen people build custom controllers and put them on eBay, but those were one-off deals, and usually rather expensive. So, in this pre-E3 rush, I got a call to head up to Newark to check out something special: Rock Axe, a mass-market wireless guitar controller forGuitar HeroandRock Bandthat has a full-wood body....

WTF is Destructoid? Destructoid is the home of the gamer, a community like no other!

If there is one thing that I have learned in my existence on this planet, it’s that large robots can crush things. Furthermore, crushing objects, places, and people is a relatively enjoyable experience for the person driving, operating, or controlling the large robot. That’s why I was drawn toArmored Core: For Answer. Of course, being drawn to something doesn’t always necessitate enjoying it — and that is perhaps the largest drawback of the latestACtitle....

You guys should be well aware of why I’m leading the Guilty Gear 2 review. I love the series with a passion ofa thousand blazing suns, and I’m eternallygay for Bridget. So, when Daisuke Ishiwataridecided to takethe series in a new direction and try something out, I’ll admit that I was a little worried by this prospect. But hey, you never know. This could turn out likeSilent Hill: Homecomingdid — it could be a reinterpretation of theGuilty Gearuniverse, and even usurp the popularity of the oriignal....

When I was 19, my two favorite comic books wereSin CityandHellboy, and my three favorite movies wereEvil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn,Dolemite(link NSFW), andEscape from New York. Knowing that, just imagine how amazed I was last year when I heard that Platinum Games was making a game that looks exactly likeSin City; stars a guy who looks like aperfect crossbetweenSin City‘s Marv,Hellboy‘s Hellboy, andEvil Dead‘s Ash; and has a story that is almost exactly likeEscape from New York....