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Nintendo of America’s sales and marketing boss Cammie “That Woman” Dunaway hasexpressed her disappointmentin Nintendo’s E3 performance. You might remember it — it’s the one where Reggie insists thatAnimal Crossingis a game we should all blow our load over and a man is invited on stage to have a seizure in front of an imaginary drum kit that plays itself. No ideawhythey’d show remorse for that little exhibition. “I would say the message is we were disappointed with our performance at E3,” statedThat Woman....

If you’re thinking of picking up a new graphics card anytime in the near future and you also have a hankering to get down and dirty in the halls of Arkham Asylum, freeze: it may be you’re able to get one of these things for free. If what you’re thinking of falls under the GeForce GTX 260, the GTX 275 or GTX 285, buying them means you can getArkham Asylumfor free by way of a coupon that allows you to download it directly....

In a recent op-ed that is spreading like wildfire across the Internet, the New York Times’ Seth Schiesel bashes the PlayStation 3 up, down, left, right, sideways and all ways in between. The Times’ four-eyed embargo-breaker hadthis to say: Sony blithely insisted that the PS3 would leapfrog all competition to deliver an unsurpassed level of fun. … Put bluntly, Sony has failed to deliver on that promise. Really Seth? Are we going to judge a console just a few days into its life cycle?...

For a while, Nintendo crown jewelSuper Mario Galaxyhad become thehighest ranked game of all time, beating outThe Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Timeand breaking a nine year streak for the N64 classic. Well, a new review ofGalaxyhas come along and, like a fiendish pooper of parties, reducedGalaxy‘s overall score down by a mere few percent onGame Rankings, just enough to allow Link a leg back up to the top....

You may have heard some rumblings: Yes, as a promotion for Visceral Games’ forthcoming multi-platformDante’s Inferno, Electronic Arts sent out $200.00 checks to select members of the media. Why? The idea, we’re told, is to educate people about Dante Alighieri’s poem. More specifically, the fourth circle of Hell, Greed. Ours arrived yesterday, after a slight layover in the tenth circle of Hell — my previous mailing address. (Hint to aspiring gaming writers: Don’t ever move or change your address....

Industry analyst and 1,000-year-old shaman Michael Pachter has commented on the Infinity Ward situation and the forming of rival studio Respawn. While he believes the majority of consumers won’t care about the recent restructuring, hedoesthink that Zampella and West’s new outfit, Respawn Entertainment, will provide brutal competition. “I think that it is likely that future games will sell fewer units than in the past, primarily due to increased competition from Respawn, DICE and EA games that will likely be in the same or similar genres,” he claims....

The zestful and occasionally loose-lipped Peter Molyneux secretly became Microsoft Game Studio’s European creative director in March.Whoa. The former Lionhead Studios executive will now, according toDevelop, directPerfect Darkand Avatar developer Rare as well as “other European external projects.” Whatever those will turn out to be. Molyneux won’t have to hire moving vans or buy cardboard boxes in the near future. Apparently, he will continue to work out of his home base at Lionhead HQ from a throne made of gold, children’s tears, and emptyFablepromises....

Last year, the consensus held thatMadden NFL 09was a huge step forward for a franchise that had grown stale. In a surprising and welcome change, EA Tiburon has been very transparent with the development process forMadden NFL 10, keeping gamers updated with weekly posts on theInside EA Sports blog. The blogs have focused on all kinds of improvements to the game — such asnew technologyandupdated ratings— with the constant refrain being that the developers are aiming to deliver the most realistic football videogame ever made....

Podtoid is Destructoid.com’s official weekly podcast, full of gaming news and opinions on gaming news. And also dirty language. I’m convinced we’re never gonna get a full cast forResident Evil-toid. Still, that’s no reason we can’t have a good time. I know for sure that we’re going to talk aboutBrutal Legendand its not-an-RTS-but-it-is-but-it-isn’t gameplay, and probably all the goddamndoubling downthat’s going on. Beyond that, I am typically clueless about what we will discuss....

If you only listen to one Podtoid episode ever,make it this one. We put slightly more work into it than usual. You’ll have to listen to the actual episode to find out what’s special about it, but let’s just say that if you were in the pre-show post requesting that Jim Sterling do more impressions of Solid Snake, your wish has been granted. And then some. This week,Tiff “Gargantuan Rattlesnake” Chow, Jim “Artificial Donkey” Sterling, Aaron “Energizing Salamander” Lindeand myself, Genius Grasshopper, talk about our favoritest videogame series involving bipedal robots and eyepatch-wearing badasses,Metal Gear Solid....

Believe it or not,Pokémon Black/Whitecomes out this month. Naturally, this means that Japanese television is being assaulted with enough commercials to ensure that every last citizen goes out and buys ten copies of each color. Above is the oddest of the five new ads currently making the rounds. For the first ten seconds, I wasn’t even sure this wasPokémon. I got excited thinking it wasGolden Sunor something! They’re really testing the waters with this generation....

Dead Rising 2is likely to be among the hottest third party titles at this year’s E3, and a trailer for the game has staggered onto the Internet ahead of the show for our own sick and twisted amusement. If you like zombies, you’ll like this video. Since only idiots and rapistsdislikezombies, you should all like the video. It doesn’t show off anything about the game itself, but the video doesn’t really need to....

Why wait until September 17 to playBrütal Legendwhen you can do so a little in advance? Aswe guessed earlier, one of the pre-order bonuses for the rocktacular game will indeed be a chance to get the demo early — reserve your copyat GameStopin-store, and you’ll get a redeemable code as early as September 11. Oh, and in case you forgot, pre-ordering will also net you a slickTenacious D guitarfor use in multiplayer....