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Hey everybody! It’s Saturday! Better yet, lets make itStaturday! LETS GO CRAZY FOR STATS! GoNintendo has a crapload of stats from Nintendo’s recent fiscal report, and there are a few surprises there worth checking out. First off,over 70% of 3DS owners in Japan and the U.S. have connected their console to the internet. That’s around the same percentage of online-connected, Wii, 360 and PS3’s owners (at least as of 2010). That number is lower in Europe and Australia (closer to 50%)....

Also, Adventure Island Are you in the mood for some ports and old games this week? No? Too bad! This week sees the release ofTeslagradon the Wii U, as well asAdventure Island,KickBeat Special Edition. You’ll also find aWooden Sen’SeYdemo. On the 3DS we haveThe Keep,Hideaways: Foggy Valley,Top Model 3D, and a demo forParking Star 3D. Nintendo has been giving us more information on sales lately, and a few are still going on currently....

Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast discusses the latest Nintendo Direct! Welcome back! It is a new Tuesday, which means tonight there will be a new episode of Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast exclusively on Destructoid.Topics: Tonight, we’re discussing all the recent announcements from the Nintendo Direct this morning. Breath of the Wild 2finally has arealname withThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. To many gamers’ surprise,Pikmin 4was revealed....

As you may remember, Radical’s upcoming shape-shifterPrototypewas due to be released last year before getting slapped with a delay. According to Radical, however, the extra time has been important, as it’s helped the teamlive up moreto the game’s original vision, which apparently was too big. “The extra dev time from last year really was a chance for us to polish, tweak and refine the missions and gameplay mechanics,” explains Radical’s Tim Bennison....

Oh man oh man It’s no secret that I’m excited as hell aboutResident Evil 7. I was already gushing with enthusiasm by what I saw at E3, but the small teasers that Capcom has been releasing in this last month have me quivering like a huge goofball. It seems like the developer may have read my self-described “brilliant” article aboutkeeping secrets in horror games— please read it and affirm me, I need this — as the game is releasing in two months and we still hardly know anything about it....

Atomic Games’ downloadable titleBreachisn’t restricted to an Xbox LIVE Arcade summer release. It’s also slated for PC. But when will that version hit? It appears as if the usual console-to-PC delay is in the cards. While on the PAX East floor this afternoon,Joystiqhas learned via an Atomic representative thatBreachPC is planned to hit six weeks after the title launches on XBLA over an undecided distribution platform. (Psst: we heard Steam was popular, Atomic; pick that one!...

Who says political games can’t be adorable? Fans of narrative point-and-clicks have had a pretty good run of things recently. We had the gem that wasNORCOearlier this year,Monkey Islandis coming back, and now another beautiful-looking adventure game has been announced and subsequently landed on my Steam wishlist. It’s calledPhonopolis, a political narrative title developed by Czech indie collective Amanita Design, best known forMachinarium,Botanicula, andSamorost. InPhonopolis,players will take on the role of Felix, a young man living in a dystopian city that is threatened by the imminent rule of an authoritarian ruler....

A Japanese government agency investigating claims thatPlayStation Vitaunits are burning up while being charged. Sony admits 31 cases of this happening, though the manufacturer has claimed that such incidents are the fault of improper user behavior. The National Institute of Technology and Evaluation received Sony’s findings on July 12, with the problem identified as affecting the slot between the Vita and the charging unit. Nobody has been hurt as a result of the incidents — 23 of which have been in Japan, with the rest occurring in America, Britain, and Australia....

Reminder: PlayStation Vue closes on July 29, 2025 Sony’s live television streaming service PlayStation Vue isshutting down on January 30. In a bid to fill that void, one of the competing live TV services,YouTube TV, is now available on PlayStation 4. For $50 per month, YouTube TV includes networks like CBS, NBC, ESPN, HGTV, and AMC along with local sports and news. The YouTube TV app can already be found on a range of TV, mobile, and streaming devices, but certain older models lack support, so a native PlayStation 4 app will have its place....

‘Assuming the fighter escapes, he will go on to explore the dungeon…’ “We believe these expansion disks should be priced at around $4.95 with the hope that they would be placed near cash registers as point-of-purchase items. Players would buy these packs as an afterthought, or maybe in an attempt to collect them all. A ‘collector’-type art card, representing the rare item in a pack, could enhance this sense of collectability....

YATTA! Sega has made a lot of strides with porting over Japanese made games to PC. Just this year we’ve seen ports ofBayonettaandVanquish, so it looks like the sky is the limit when it comes to series. In an interview with PC Gamer, John Clark (Sega’s senior VP of commercial publishing) said, “If I asked you to write me a list of ten games you want Sega to bring out on PC, it probably isn’t any different from the list [we have]....

The adventure genre has been seeing a resurgence as of late through a number ofindieandiOStitles. SkyGoblin has put a lot of time and effort into bringing out the full HD version of their point-and-click adventureThe Journey Down: Chapter Onefor PC, Mac, and Linux. The story focuses on Bwana and Kito, two gas station employees having a hard time just trying to keep the power company, let alone other creditors, off of their backs....

In this modern gaming era, we kind of just accept that new releases need a lot of tinkering post-launch, andSTALKER 2: Heart of Chornobylis no different. Having spent a decade and a half in development, the long-awaited sequel to the cult survival horror FPS series is doing pretty well so far, with a currentmeta score of 73. But it evidently still needs work (as most modern games do). Within the past week, we’ve already had two patches being sent out for both the console and PC versions ofSTALKER 2, and now a third one has started rolling out....