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THQ’s ditching theWWE Smackdown vs. Rawname in favor ofWWE ’12, a game which will make its debut at E3 next week. This “reboot” of the franchise takes advantage of what THQ is calling “Predator Technology,” which is the best name for tech, well, ever. With it they’re promising a dynamic and fluid animation system, along with a new submission system its calling “Breaking Point.” “What we are doing is taking the basic essence of what is good in the past games and making a new experience that feels fresh, fun, responsive, faster, smoother and is of higher quality,” said creative director Corey Ledesma in anonline Q&A for THQ....

Daft Punk’s music is all overTRON: Legacyso it’s no surprise that the duo’s music will be appearing in the game as well. Only two of Daft Punk’s tracks — “Derezzed” and “The Grid” — will be part of the soundtrack. The rest ofEvolution’smusic will be filled by composers Sascha Dikiciyan, Cris Velasco and Kevin Manthei. I have no idea who these three guys are either. Speaking ofTRON: Evolution, we’re going to be giving away a copy of the game along with a PlayStation 3....

According to Codemasters, a demo for their upcoming first-person shooterTurning Point: Fall of Libertyhas hit Xbox LIVE. At 1.4 GB, the demo puts players in the shoes of Dan Carson, a New York City construction engineer who is thrust into battle when an undefeated Third Reich launches an attack on the city. Alternate 1953 history sucks. Xbox LIVE has also decided to suck, as well. This Spark Unlimited developed shooter sounds promising, and I’d love to check it out this morning....

You know what is confusing? Having all these different ratings floating around like some sort of rating harem. Which rating system are you supposed to trust? According to the U.S. government we shouldn’t trust any of them (except film).Bloombergis reporting that U.S. regulators will be considering a single rating system for television, videogames and wireless telephones after an Aug. 31 report by the FCC is delivered to Congress. The government believes this is necessary to help protect the children from all the new and horrifying ways that they can watch inappropriate television and play inappropriate games....

Seriously, enough with the iPhone clones already. Only last weekend we wrote about theblatant ripping-offof IronHide’s flash gameClash of the Olympiansby iPhone gameAchilles’ Defense, and the latter game hassince been removedfrom the App Store. But now, after theCanabaltdevs released their source code under an MIT open source license late last year, another Thai company called PLD Soft has released aclonecalledFree Runningthat just got approved by Apple. It was free about an hour ago, and has since been raised to $0....

The backwards compatibility-challenged PS3we’ve all been talking aboutmay be available in the US by November 2nd, ifHollywood Reporteris to be believed. Of course, our hero Capitan Obvious has to make a quick fly-by. Sure, HR their unnamed “industry source”, and a buyer from a major retailer was willing to say the same thing, but Destructoid has beenalloverthisfor months, and thereal credit goes to Ars Technicafor throwing this out there in early September....

FEEL THE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE! THE RAGE OF VAMPIIIIIIIIIIIIIRES! Oh, and it’s on Xbox Live’s Indie Games channel if you want to play it.

Viacom’s quarterly revenues were down 14 percent. When sales are down, you’ve gotta blame someone or something, right? Rock Bandgets the blame this time around. Profit dropped 26 percent, and they’re saying that lower sales ofRock Bandare at fault. Viacom calls out a “soft retail environment” for this. I don’t care about the money and the success of Viacom as much as I do Destructoid Editor-in-Chief Nick Chester, who will probably cry tonight because of this....

In a press release today, Warner Premiere confirmedreportsthat a live-action series of web videos based onMortal Kombatand directed by Kevin Tancharoen is in production. The press release confirms that the series will begin shooting this February in Vancouver with plans for a spring release. Hey, doesn’t the newMortal Kombatgame come out in April. What a startling coincidence! Warner Premiere has described the series as “an anthology of multiple live action shorts, each providing never-before-revealed insights into characters featured in the upcoming videogame as well as the game’s universe....

[Weekend Destructainment is a collection of funny videos brought together from all across the Internet to bring you entertainment on these slow and boring weekends.] Videogames wouldn’t be fun if they were realistic. Well, they’d still be fun, but in their own special way. Thanks, Anthony! Weekend D is short but sweet this weekend. Up after the break is a Trololol invasion at PAX East. Then it’s some fun times inJust Cause 2....

I had the pleasure of meetingHandsome Tom and Stuttering Craig from ScrewAttackat E3 last week. We were at the Bethesda party and we got to talking about their videos. They brought up their E3 special they made before heading out to E3 2007 and I told them I would love to use it. I was a little hammered though and didn’t think that when I finally could get a chance to use it, everyone would stop caring about anything E3 related....

players are scary. And pathetic. Spotted onVolcanon’s CBlog. Mr. Destructoid, Colette Bennett,Chris FurnissandFlynn DeMarcoplayRock Bandat PAX. Spotted onLarkOhiya’s Cblog.

If you’ve been thinking “We certainly haven’t seen enough Sonya Blade in the past 17 years,” you’re not alone. On October 26, Warner Bros. Entertainment filed for trademark for the words “Sonya Blade,”Mortal Kombat‘s tough-but-sexy Special Forces fighter. The trademark has it identified for all matter of things, from films to batteries, cordless phones to decorative magnets. Oh, and videogames. Film is listed first, so one could assume that perhaps aMortal Kombatfilm revival revolving around Sonya may be in the cards....