Samuel L. Jackson has once again been tapped to host this year’s Spike “Video Game Awards” show, and we couldn’t be more excited. Just the very idea that we might get a chance to hear Jackson use words like “motherf**ker” and “b**ch” in person are enough to get us all hot and bothered.
That’s right, team Destruction will be on hand next week, when the awards tape on December 7 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Riding on our coattails will be the likes of Criss Angel, Tia Carrere, Tony Hawk, and Dave Navarro. The show will air Sunday night, December 9 (9:00 - 11:00 PM, ET/PT).
Oh, so what does this have to do with videogames? Right, I thought you wouldn’t ask. Spike are promising world premieres of trailers for Borderlands, Grand Turismo 5 Prologue, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2, and TNA iMPACT!

Actor Charles Martinet, the man behind the voice of Mario, has revealed that he’s working on an autobiography. The book, which Marninet hopes to have ready for a 2008 release, will focus on his time working with Nintendo.
“I’ve actually started workign a little bit on a book,” he tells CVG, “but it’s about finding the discipline to keep going. But I will be inspired [to finish it] by the fans.”
As the voice of the one of the most iconic characters of our time (next to Mr. Destructoid, of course), an autobiography could provide a good deal of insight on what it’s like to work for the videogames giant. We would also like to request that Martinet explain why Mario has an Italian accent, when we’ve all been given the impression that he was a plumber from Brooklyn.

As expected, Super Mario Galaxy was a pretty great game. We’re pretty sure it could have been an epic disaster, and still sold a ton, so we’re not surprised when Nintendo’s George Harrison brags about its success.
“Super Mario Galaxy had the strongest one-week debut of any Wii game to date and has also become the best-selling Mario title ever in its first week, with U.S. sales of more than 500,000, based on internal sales figures,” he says in a press release issued today.
It’s not over yet — consumers are still tearing apart retail outlets in Wii rages, looking for the elusive console. It would be criminal is the game didn’t sell one-to-one with every installed unit, and when the smoke clears, that will likely be the case.

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By looking at Soundscan’s sales figures for various songs included in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock before and after the rhythm game was released, Ars Technica has discovered that “increased sales for labels and bands” is just one of the benefits of having your music featured in the immensely popular franchise.
“It doesn’t appear to matter if you’re in the main game or are a bonus song; huge gains are seen everywhere. As long as your song ships with the game and you offer the track to be downloaded digitally, you see an increase,” the source explained.

I’ve learned to love new songs with the help of Guitar Hero, and according to this research, many of you have too. No word on whether or not Rock Band will have a similar effect on digital music sales, but it’s safe to assume that it will.
Does this news mean that Activision will load […]

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If you are still looking for a halloween costume this Mii characterization might give you some ideas. Now if you excuse me i will go to return my costume to the store. The original poster of this was pandaposse on flickr.

This game just keeps getting more and more awesome every day. One of my all-time favourite characters, King Dedede has been officially announced as a playable character for SSBM. He will have the ability to use and charge his hammer as well as sending some of his minions
to fight for him wich suits him very well.

You can check some King De pictures at the dojo.

Here´s one of the first tv ads for Mario and Sonic at the olympic games. Looks like Nintendo is taking a viral approach with the campaign. It´s pretty cool but i would have liked to hear Mario say “I´m gonna kick your ass you damn hedgehog” instead of “i´m going to get you”.

You have to think in the kids i guess.

Gametrailers published today some new SSBB gameplay footage. Most of the stuff is certainly not so new but you can see Sonic in action as well as his special move wich looks deadly.

There are some other cool videos at GT, one with Peach and Kirby and one showing some Icarus gameplay Enjoy them!

I really hope this turns out to be true and confirms SSBB as the best game ever. I was talking via IM with a source very close to a Capcom developer and got som interesting news, here´s the excerpt. (N is Me)

N: so…any news on the capcom front?
Y: i did hear something interesting last week
Y: can´t confirm it yet tough
N: really? what is it?
N: please say RE5 for the Wii
Y: lol, sorry, it´s not RE news
Y: but it´s pretty cool
Y: ****** told me they ended negotiating a deal with ninty last month
Y: to have megaman at ssbb
N: O_O
Y: i know!
N: That´s awesome
N: when are they announcing it?
Y: dunno. soon i guess.
Y: but since it took them a really long time to negotiate they might have to push the realease date even more.

Ok, before you start the flaming in the comments, you should know by now i don´t like to publish rumors and that this is the same source that gave me the RE5 details i published on my other blog before the first trailer was shown and who also told me about umbrella chronicles a few days before the game was officially announced, so i have no reason not to trust him.

According to the good old wikipedia, this is not the first time Capcom licenses the megaman character rights to other companies wich apparently is what they will be doing this time.

Remember those days where we all tought: “It would be really cool if we could kick Sonic´s butt in Smash Bros”. Well, stop dreaming cuz the battle is on baby!.

The dojo updated just a few hours ago officially announcing Sonic as a newcomer to Brawl. Here´s the official word right from the site:

The one whose Smash appearance has been most desired dashes in from far away at supersonic speed.

Sonic the Hedgehog crashes headlong into battle!