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This week’s forgotten game is admittedly averyrecent one — it’s less than a year old, in fact — but it’s nonetheless a fair bet that you haven’t played it, and most likely wouldn’t without a bit of prodding. The reasons for this are numerous: it’s an adventure game, it’s a sequel to yet another forgotten game, and, above all, it’s made by theFrench. Since it’s a fair bet that many gamers aren’t French (I’ve been told that French people do not actuallyusethe Internet), and given that adventure games tend to gain very little publicity in this day and age,Evidence: The Last Ritual(known in france asIn Memoriam 2) is an alternate-reality slice of gaming that is definitely worth a look....

Each year, Gamma entrants are asked to make games under certain constraints. This year, all Gamma4 entries must be controlled with a single button. I plan to write up my impressions of all six Gamma4 games. “Think of a color,” the game says. “Tell it to no one.” “Take five steps back.” We do. After a brief countdown, we run toward the buttons. “Everyone loses except the fourth person to press their button,” the game says....

“Looks beautiful” is the first thing that popped into my head when I sawRisen 2being played in front of me. Deep Silver put up screens of the firstRisen 1,side by side, next to the upcoming sequel — the difference is basically night and day. A lot of work has gone into the character design, environment, and animation. Everything is significantly more detailed and realistic this time around. Deep Silver also learned from their mistake with the last game in terms of the bad console port that wasRisen....

A brand new shirt from the creative mind behind the best Web comic on the Internets,Dr. McNinja, has recently released a new shirt that has nothing to do with the wonderful comic series. The new shirt is called the La Disputa del Cyborgio and spoofs a famous Christian painting that I have no idea what it’s called but it looks like the shirt but with less cyborgs and robots. Stephen Hawking is Jesus, the Terminators are all Angels or whatever and that’s Mega Man as God … I think....

[Editor’s note:I’m having way more fun searching for a picture to slap onto all of your guys and gals posts for the front page than I should be. Anyway, today’sMonthly MusingCommunity Blog takes a look at the Ninja aspects in gaming with the stealth levels. — CTZ] Just had all your weapons snatched from you? Gone from being a balls-to-the-wall action hero to a balls-to-the-floor wimp as you crawl past the enemy?...

Don’t get your hopes up yet, though. The game won’t ship with some motorcycles crammed in with the hundreds of cars, but Gran Turismo 5 could see some bikes later. “The environment we have right now allows us to drive motorcycles, but we need to get Gran Turismo 5 done first,” Polyphony boss Kazunori Yamauchi PSM3. “Once that’s out of the way, if there’s a strong demand for bikes, that’s something we’d consider....

Earlier this year I was at the very meeting where Polyphony Digital’s Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that we would be able to play Gran Turismo 5’s B-spec racing mode on our PCs, through web browsers. If you haven’t seen it yet, this is the mode where you guide a racer through his turns in races as a manager. Better guidance brings you a better racer, which gets you more money and more cars....

Well, as we all know by now,Grand Theft Auto IV, arguably the biggest release of the year and a truly cultural event, was released today. You can hardly move online for discussion about this notorious sequel, but Destructoid would be wrong to ignore that discussion and simply not provide its views on the current-gen revitalization of Rockstar’s flagship. For me, it wasn’t the so much the violent content of the game that proved the most controversial, but the actual gameplay mechanics themselves....

This is how you celebrate the holidays kids! Yes, the crazy team at People Can Fly celebrate Christmas by decking the halls with boughs of bodies. Lead protagonist fromBulletstorm,Grayson Hunt, lights up a Christmas tree all the while showing off the multiple ways you can eviscerate enemies. Speaking of People Can Fly, you should really checkout their dev blog. They have a bunch of inside looks at the development ofBulletstormalong with videos of the game I’m only just now seeing....

Rockstar Games is doing some weird PR and marketing for its upcoming shooter,Max Payne 3. For starters, we’ve heard hide nor hair about the game in quite some time, the last major press push being anEdgecover story some time ago. We didn’t see it at E3 this year, it certainly wasn’t mentioned at gamescom, and Rockstar had no presence at PAX Prime. Now today, Monday, August 29, Rockstar is breaking the silence… with twoMax Payne 3screenshots....

Paris-based developerLoad Inc.need your help. They’ve nearly completed work on their upcoming Xbox LIVE Arcade R.C. racing title,Things on Wheels. They’ve included 20 tracks (including a disco and a mini-movie theater!), 12 cars, and the power-ups. But now it’s time for the important stuff — the achievements.Destructoid is teaming up with Load Inc. to give you the opportunity to help choose two achievements that will appear inThings on Wheels. The two winners will not only have their achievements unlockable in the final game, but their names will appear in the game’s credits, which will help them win friends and dates....

The people at Sony must think that Europe is still into Playstation Portable, even with the PS Vita on the horizon. A new model, the E-1000, is a Europe-only product. It was announced at Sony’s press conference yesterday, and now we have some better images to share with you to make up for that ass-y screengrab. This model has Wifi cut, so you’ll need to use a PC to get stuf off the PSN....

The holidays and Twisted Pixel’s upcoming Xbox LIVE Arcade gameThe Mawhave something in common — I get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside when I think of them. When this holiday card arrived in the mail featuring the purple, big-mouth Maw and his alien buddy Frank all dressed up for the holidays, we nearly died. The Mawpicked up an “audience choice” award at the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo, where the game was playable for anyone with hands, eyes, and ears....