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Here’s somegood newsfor all of you out there who hated the fact that you couldn’t just hop into a game ofHalo 3‘s campaign through a matchmaking system.Halo: Reachwill indeed have matchmaking for its single-player. This means that instead of only being able to charge through the campaign with your friends you can charge through it with anyone. My plan? Find someone ridiculously better than me at the game by doing matchmaking on Legendary as much as possible then ride his coattails to victory and glorious Achievements I don’t actually deserve....

When motion control first came out with the Wii, one of the most relaxing activities to take part in was the golf game that came with Wii Sports. It wasn’t exactly accurate, and it didn’t always work right all the time, but it was an enjoyable and leisurely interpretation of the sport. That was a few years back, and now we’ve got games like Tiger Woods for the Wii with Motion Plus support, and things are a lot more complicated....

High Voltage is busy bringing over their engine to the 3DS and they say that the results are “very good.” Chief creative officer Eric Nofsinger toldEurogamerthat they’d have something close toConduit 2on the 3DS by the time GDC rolls around. “We’ve got environments from this already up and running around. You can shoot, you can select different weapons and you can see enemies. It runs pretty darn well with full 3D and everything....

Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayersis high on my priority list right now. It doesn’t have impressive graphics or “innovative” gameplay. It just looks incredibly stupid, perhaps evenborderline retarded… and in my book, that’s actually agoodthing. High brow, intelligent and unique games likeBraidandPortalare fine, but every now and then, you need something deliciously dumb to sink your teeth into. D3’s heady blend of zombie genocide and shameless arses should be just the thing I’m after....

The pair up may be soaked in irony, but thanks to a clever programmer by the name ofKato, those of you with iPhones, and aHalo 3fetish to boot, will be able to keep closer tabs on one another while away from the game — painful as it may be to all parties involved. As the programmer himself proclaimed, “Bungie’s site in its current form just doesn’t do the tight confines of the iPhone screen much justice....

We really know very little about Nintendo’s Vitality Sensor for Wii, outside of the fact that it made me facepalm at the the company’s E3 2009 press conference. It’s expected that Nintendo will finally reveal just what the heck this thing could be used for at this year’s E3. But what if it were to be incorporated into the upcomingLegend of Zeldatitle for the Wii? According to Nintendo’s legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto, anything’s possible....

In June 2008, two menfiled a lawsuitin California District Court alleging thatEA’s exclusive contract with the NFLfor football videogames constituted a monopoly under state and federal laws. The suit also contended that EA illegally raised the price of itsMadden NFLgame once its exclusivity agreement eliminated the competition — namely, 2K Sports’NFL 2K5, which, by launching at $19.95 in August 2004 againstMadden NFL 2005at $49.95, had forced EA to dropMadden’s price to $29....

We have had a few people send us this video today and it’s pretty damn cool. It features Dr. Oliver Kreylos of UC Davis as he shows off what seems to be the beginning of his work with Kinect to recreate physical objects in a 3D space. It’s damn neat stuff, particularly once he rotates the scene and you may see the edges of Kinect’s viewpoint clearly. All of this stiff people are doing with Kinect on their computers is hyping me up to have one of my own more than anything Microsoft has released on it to date....

L.A. Noireis still happening. In the recent Take-Two Interactive financial conference call, the publisher confirmed the game’s existence, but didn’t reveal a release window or provide an update to its progress. Hell, they didn’t even specify if Team Bondi was working on the title, instead opting to call it a Rockstar Games game. On the other hand, Take-Two did say that they would dish out more information when they were ready....

The time has come for you to pull out thatBorderlandsdisc from the shelf or start up Steam. Update 1.41 is now live for all versions: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Steam, andretail PC. What’s it do again? I’m glad you asked. Oh, and this is all entirely free. Go get your download on.

[Editor’s note: Most people can’t stand licensed games. Mxyzptlk, however, loves them! Which isn’t really surprising. After all, his name is Mxyzptlk! In this edition of his series, he talks about D&D and proves that he is the biggest nerd at Destructoid. — CTZ] Admit it, a lot of you have probably rolled a 20 sided-die to make a saving throw at least once or twice in your lives. Originally created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson using a variation of the Chainmail miniatures wargame rules,Dungeons & Dragonswas first published in 1974....

[Show’s over. If you missed it, the Mystery Game was revealed to be Tron: Evolution.] The votes have been counted and the will of the people shall be known henceforth. At the end of the day, after a valiant struggle between3D Dot Game HeroesandTrapt, the Mystery Game has won. We’ll be starting that adventure tonight, so I hope you’re all proud of yourselves. So come join me and all the goons in the chat as we play through a licensed movie game....

We picked up a game recently and from what I have seen, I am very impressed.3D Dot Game Herosis the love child ofMineCraftandZelda(D’aww, what a cute couple >.<). We are jumping into this title now on Justin.Tv. …Why are you still reading this? Go watch the show onJustin.Tv/Destructoid! 😀 [Join us for Mash Tactics every weekday at 4PM PST onJustin.Tv/Destructoidto watch live streams of new game releases and crazy antics with industry guests....