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While it will still be a Japanese-language demo, you can still download the new Yakuza PSP trial thans to Japanese gaming website 4Gamer. They’ve hosted the 192MB demo on their site, so you don’t have to do that whole Japanese PlayStation Store log-in bit to grab and play it. What are you waiting for?Get it now. Drop it onto your MemoryStick and go. The demo takes you into Kamurocho where you’ll fight punks and get a taste of the story, saysAndria Sang....

Okay, maybe you didn’t know. Now you do. Ignition Entertainment sends us a press release today to say thatTheKing of Fighters XII is coming to North America and Europe some time in 2009. The 3-on-3 fighter has been made extra pretty, with 100% hand drawn characters and backgrounds. They dumped the sprites they’ve been reusing for over a decade and replaced them with high-definition 2D hand-drawn new sprites. “Dreams never die!...

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Swordis somewhere over halfway done, according to Miyamoto, which means that if IO Interactive were making it, it’d be released already. The downside, however, is that the original “early 2011” release date is no longer going to be met. Skyward Swordis being designed to feature “very dense” gameplay that encourages players to “go back and replay the game once they finish it.” The game has gone back to a broad 2011 release, so you can expect it to drop any time next year, unless we get any severe delays....

Zombies!!!is among my favorite board games. With its modular board design and lots of little zombie figurines, I have hotly anticipated the arrival of the game on Xbox Live Arcade for a couple of years now, but the project’s future was thrown into doubt when the game’s license holder found itself without a developer. A version of the game was recently released on Windows Phone 7, so it would stand to reason that it wouldn’t take too terribly much to port that over, right?...

Despite having a considerable share of bad apples in the crop,Aliensmust be one of the most consistent movie-to-game licenses in terms of quality. It is very rare that a movie series can be remembered fondly for its videogame adaptations, but the vast number of console and arcade classics have cemented the license’s place in history. Perhaps it’s because the Hollywood classic Aliens — said be some to be of the few sequels even better than its predecessor — is just so suited to a videogame environment....

You know, it has been twenty years since the Soviet Union fell, and the cold war ended. In the meantime, something has been lost to the general populace. Without the disembodied “Red Scare” to keep us in check, America has lost an ultimate foreign centralized “evil” that we can blame all ills. This hasn’t stopped videogames from making games with a Russian set of bad guys.Modern Warfare 2is a solid example of this....

You might wonder why we’re giving so much coverage to the recently teased Tingle game, but the answer is fairly simple. It’s because Tingle is even creepier than Noby Noby Boy and we’re afraid that if we don’t give him attention, he’ll consume all of humanity’s children yet unborn to this world. Also, talking about Tingle is really fun, as isthis new adfeatured in the latestFamitsu. The translation of the ad is simple “Ah,” and as you can see, it features our green-clad pervert floating away with a suitcase....

Animal Crossingis such an addictive series of games that I’ve made a concerted effort to avoid the Wii installment. It’s better for my health, which would really suffer from me obsessing over collecting fossils and paying that bastard Nook. Now thatAmazon has offered the game for $20today, it may be too enticing to resist any longer. It’s a Deal of the Day, so make sure you hop on over and grab it now if you’re interested....

Amazon.com kicks off a new feature today with theirCasual Games Store, which offers a large selection of downloadable games all priced at $9.99 or less. Gamasutra chatted with Greg Hart, Amazon’s vice-president of videogames and software, to find out more about their plans for the new store. Here’s what Greg had to say: “We’re very excited to be entering this space … the intent of that [Reflexive.com] purchase is what you’re going to see… to take their catalog of games… from companies across the casual game space, and offer them to our customers....

Come on, you knew it was coming. I am working hard make myself the Offical DestructoidAmbassador of Cute Things, so you know if it’s sickeningly sweet, I’m already working hard to bring it to you fine folks for your praise or ridicule.Angel Love Onlineis releasing in December as the PS3’s first free MMO, already having found popularity as afree PC download. It seems ideal for anime enthusiasts, as the story places you in the role of an angel protector....

I was one of those crazy people who did everything there was to do inBatman: Arkham Asylum; or so I thought. Game Informer has rocked my world by posting about the secret room of Warden Quincy Sharp. It’s so secret, you literally have to take out a wall with exploding gel to access it. The room itself isn’t so special — it’s what you’ll find inside. Get this: there are blueprints for Arkham City....

Apparently, a considerable number of Facehuggers in theAliens vs. Predator Hunter Editionare shipping with their tails broken. This is, of course, wonderful news when you consider that the thing costs a hundred dollars. Our very own staffer Adam Dork was affected, buying his special edition only to discover that the spiderial mouth rapist was in poor condition. Fortunately, Sega has offered a replacement program for the ruined Huggers. Simply go tothis page hereand fill in your details....

As you know, a few members of the Destructoid family are going to be live blogging from the floor of CES this weekend (assuming they can drag themselves away from the hookers, booze and adorable desert lizards), and I caught wind ofan interesting articletheNew York Timesrecently ran regarding the show itself. They go deeply into the math behind the event and just how ridiculously risky it is to put up a booth....