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When David and I went to previewTurning Point: Fall of LibertyandClive Barker’s Jerichoat a special Codemasters event, I offered the company’s very own David Brickley and his associates oral love behind the back of the Churchill Museum for the ruthless masterpiece that wasOverlord. So touched were the Codemasters fellows at my shameless token of appreciation, they promised to secure me five copies ofOverlordon PC to give away to you lucky readers in one of our famous Destructoid contests....

As you might have gathered, we’re all big fans ofRenegade Opsat Destructoid. It’s a really fun top-down vehicular shooter from the fine folk who brought youJust Cause 2. With a storyline ripped from Saturday morning cartoons and a focus on crazy shooting action, it’s going to be a great little game. Unfortunately,as we’ve noted before, the nameRenegade Opsis utterly terrible. Hence, I have decided that we need to put our heads together and come up with a list of superior names....

According tothis threadat NeoGAF, an issue ofPlay Magazineset to be released a week from now has an exclusive story on the upcomingGolden Axe:Beast Rider. While it had been previously announced a year or so ago, news on the game completely vanished and many people assumed it had been canceled. With the upcoming piece inPlay, at least our worries should be quelled. Now of course, we all get to wonder how horribly butchered the title will be....

This teaser trailer forBizarre Creation’sBlurmakes one thing pretty clearly —Bluris not the next Project Gotham Racing. Sorry, guys. The first 22 seconds of the trailer could be for the nextProject Gothamgame, with a single gorgeous-looking sports car speeding down an empty, sunlit city street. Then things kind of go to s**t for the racer’s casual, lazy Sunday drive. UnlikeProject Gotham,Blurfeatures power-ups that can knock your car right off the road. We hope seatbelts are also prominently featured; safety is important....

It is good professional practice that when you first meet a developer to exchange business cards, then follow up with a friendly handshake. However, during one recent gaming opportunity, checking out an MMO coming late next year, we went to exchange business cards. Oddly, instead of a card I received a couple of plastic LEGO Mini-figs with contact information printed across the chest. It’s a good thing I was checking outLEGO Universe, otherwise that would be just plain weird....

When we reported that Capcom was marketingResident Evil 5in the UK by making fans hunt for severed limbs and wave them around on Westminster bridge, we predicted it would end in tears. What we didn’t predict, however, was that the tears would be ones of depression. The gimmicky stunt turned out to be a disaster, but not the kind of controversial and ridiculous disaster we’d hoped for. It all just went a bit rubbish....

The3D Dot Game Heroescharacter creation tools may be stylistically limited, but gamers have demonstrated that a little imagination can go far. Cloud Strife, Hatsune Miku, theHoly Invasion of Privacy Badman!demon and more have all been recreated. Check them out. This game is looking like it’ll be one of my top games of 2010, if indeed it does manage to come out in North America next year.Demon’s Soulsis easily the best RPG of 2009 in my opinion, so I’ve little doubt that From Software can knock it out of the park again for3D Dot Game Heroes....

We all know that Activision is the bad guy now and Electronic Arts is all awesome and cool these days, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t be whoring out a popular franchise as much as it can. Never doubt that EA is a business, and its next move in franchise spreading is evidently going to be an RPG based in theSporeuniverse. The reveal slipped out viaComic-Con’s show schedulewhere this description popped up:...

Remember those awesomecustomLeft 4 Deadhealth packs? Well Steve and sindeegee have the packs backin stock over on their Etsyand you can grab some right now before they sell out again. OR you can enter our contest to win the packs right now! sindeegee gave us four of the health packs to give out and all you need to do to enter this contest is have a Twitter account! We’re going to be giving out one health pack away every day until Tuesday....

In recent times, there have only been a few occasions when I truly needed a demo to convince me of a game’s worth or lack thereof.BayonettaandHalf-Minute Heroare two such examples, althoughDark Voidis definitely bound to be in the running as well. Capcom says a demo for Xbox 360 will be ready for download tomorrow, while the PlayStation 3 demo will predictably be waiting until Thursday to show itself. Let it be known that there was no mention of PC anything (yes, there’s a PC version ofDark Voidtoo)....

Like other Destructoid editors, I get a lot of messages from readers. Some of them agree with my gaming opinions, some of them disagree. Some of them are so world-changing that they totally tear apart my view of the world and make me completely change my stance on a subject. Meet “Saria’s Song,” a Destructoid user who messaged me to express his dismay at a recent article I published calledHowDarksidersis blatantly better thanZelda....

Ten years of talk, constant controversy. A messy lawsuit, multiple generations, several consoles and endless media coverage have all gone intoToo Human, and with Silicon Knights’ child having finally survived a difficult birth to be released in North America and Europe, we finally got to see what all the fuss was about. With so much hype and expectation, it would take no less than something spectacular to make Too Human worth the time and the effort....

[Update:I’ve been informed that the ads weren’t “patched in” via any new update. The functionality was always there and it just seems that it’s recently started throwing the ads out there.] In a move that can be filed under “Kind Of Sleazy,” a new update forDeus Ex: Human Revolutionhassnuck in commercialsfor the upcomingStar WarsBlu-ray release. Loading screens now promote Lucas’ latest attempt to ruin his life’s work, which is charming....