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Microsoft’s holding its big media event X10 today in San Francisco, and we’ll be there to bring you all of the coverage and announcements starting at 1:30 Pacific today.

But what can you expect? Here are the games we’re told to expect: Alan Wake; Crackdown 2; Fable III; Halo: Reach; Splinter Cell: Conviction; Final Fantasy XIII; Dead Rising 2; Lost Planet 2; Ghost Recon; Perfect Dark XBLA; Game Room on Xbox LIVE; and more.

We’re expecting to get “super pissed” by Fable III, and word around town is we’ll finally get a solid release date for Alan Wake. Of course, that won’t be all — we expect some surprises, too.

Coverage starts at 1:30 Pacific. Hope you wore comfortable pants today.

Red Dead Redemption’s many, many pre-order bonuses are now detailed on the game’s official website, and we can’t imagine anyone will be prepared for the barrage of options listed when you click that link. No less than eight different pre-order bonuses, split between ten different US and UK retailers have been dreamed up by marketing. In typical Rockstar fashion, the practice of “exclusive” bonus content has become excessive bonus content.

Among the options listed are the “Golden Guns Weapon Pack” (more “Fame” per kill), from Amazon, which also comes with a $10 Amazon gift card; the “War Horse,” a steed that Rockstar claims can’t be bested by any other horse in the game, only available from Best Buy and HMV; and the “Deadly Assassin Outfit” from UK retailer Game (and maybe GameStop, if the getup wins the vote — uh-huh, there’s a pre-order vote). So yeah, we’re going with the Amazon option, too.

Red Dead Redemption pre-order bonuses announced originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Most of you have commented that you weren’t a huge fan of Playlogic’s Fairytale Fights. That’s fine, but maybe it’s because it was missing Puss in Boots.

Playlogic has announced that “Treasure Pack 1″ DLC will be hitting PlayStation Network on February 11. The pack includes new characters playable in story mode (Bones, Princess Afia, Grandma Red, Puss in Boots), as well as new player-vs-player arenas — “Time to Die,” “Rooftop Rumble” and “Cannon Ball Bay.”

Xbox 360 Fairytale Fights players (fairytale fighters?), don’t worry — Playlogic says this DLC pack is coming to Xbox LIVE Marketplace “at a later date.”

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It might only have been a few hours since we last told you about EA’s latest Dante’s Inferno promotional stunt, but I couldn’t help wanting to post this commercial they put up for the “Circle Cycle,” which is apparently that “big wheels like cycle” product the viral marketing “tips” hinted at this afternoon.

It looks just like a legitimate toy commercial, including the overenthusiastic narrator and children looking hopped-up on something more potent than sugar. Plus, that kid’s Dante costume looks like the in-game character model. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Circle Cycle made an appearance in the actual game.

For my part I almost hope this would make it to market. Then someone could buy it an use it in this year’s Big Wheel Rally.

Check out the video below.

As seen on Weekend D: Dtoider NukaCola does a drum cover of some Gradius III music.

Conrad and Dale bring us a ton of CES stuff, Game Informer’s February issue is on Halo: Reach, Mark Hamill has never been asked to play Luke Skywalker, Aliens vs. Predator demo is happening and more happened over the weekend.

CES 2010:
Razer’s first Xbox 360 controller is slick
This guy made it all worth it for me
If you buy Wii weights, you’re the dumbell
Ion Audio making more gaming hardware
Peregrine glove still excites me, coming Q1
Heavy Rain ‘blows Uncharted 2 away’
Sixense system bringing motion to PCs
Why do I let Dale convince me to look stupid?
A backhanded compliment for the PSPgo
Ron Jeremy says games are worse than porn
I want a moustache ride from Haggar
You dirty R.A.T.
Rock out with your stage monitor speaker out
The kid MMO you’ll want to try: Lego Universe

Destructoid Originals:
Best of the Network this week
Borderlands DLC Roundup: the word on Dr. Ned & Mad Moxxi
Weekend Destructainment: Who wants some Adrenaline?

Community:
Community blogs of 01/09/10 & 01/10/10
Forum of the day: The Official Destructoid Writers thread

News:
Steam Hardware Survey says: Average PCs are the average
Rumor: Battlefield Bad Company 2 axing player-run servers
Industry thinks Halo: Reach will be 2010’s biggest game
Game Informer’s February issue is all about Halo: Reach
Capcom: Harder to make money on Wii than on PS3/360
Project Needlemouse shrouded in total mystery
Survey: 15% of gamers actually buy DLC
Fable III will be unveiling next month
THQ says Darksiders benefitted from post-holiday release
Crayon Physics lets you choose its price (Update)
Sonic Spinball rollercoaster coming to UK theme park
Rumor: Blizzard working on a first person MMO
Aliens vs. Predator demo will be happening
Chicago Public Transit forced to allow M-rated game ads
A lot of Halo work going on at Microsoft
EA: FIFA all up in the domination of PES
Nintendo ceases to publish and ship Metroid Prime Trilogy
Microsoft justifies its early exclusivity of DLC
EA releasing three new scores in the next few weeks
Final Fantasy XIII ‘the biggest swindle in history’
Mark Hamill has never been asked to play Luke Skywalker

Offbeat:
Playboy Playmates attempt to be Bayonetta
Peter Molyneux falls into ice, revolutionizes ice-falling
Welcome to CES 1979, why not try a caaassette
NES are built tough, here’s video proof

Media:
Pssst … there’s another glitch in Modern Warfare 2

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer gave the keynote address at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, speaking a bit about the future of the Xbox 360.

As anyone with a single functioning brain cell could have already told you, Project Natal, Microsoft’s new camera-based motion controller, will be released during the 2010 holiday season.

During the keynote, another one of those funny little sentences popped up again: Engadget reported that executive Robbie Bach said that Natal will “work with your existing console.” We heard the same weird phrasing at E3, and that was quickly followed up with a story from 1up that spelled out their take on why Microsoft would be saying such strange things: A new Xbox may be in the works.

Game Room for the Xbox 360 will let you build your own virtual arcade by buying classic games like Atari’s Tempest.
Image courtesy Microsoft

One more big announcement: Microsoft will debut a new service called Game Room. Like Nintendo’s Virtual Console for Wii and Sony’s PlayStation Archives, it’ll let you download classic games. Unlike those services, you can access those games through a 3-D virtual world interface, using your Xbox 360 Avatar.

You can buy games for $5 each, which will let you play them on your Xbox 360 and Windows PC. Or you can pay $3 to play the game on a single platform. $3 per game, every game? That’s a pretty awesome deal, considering that classic arcade games on Wii cost anywhere from $5 to $10.

There’s also a pay-per-play option in which you can pay 50 cents to demo a game once. Microsoft says you can invite your Xbox friends over to check out the games in your Game Room, although the press release doesn’t quite make it clear exactly how much access they’ll have to your virtual goods.

Here’s the best part. Although the service will launch this spring with 30 games from the arcade, Atari 2600, and Intellivision, Microsoft says that within three years the number of games will be up to 1,000. That’s thousand. That’s awesome.

The beta for United Front Games ModNation Racers has only been going on for a few days, but those invited to the already have their creative juices flowing.

Using the game’s extensive character customization (or “Mods,” as they’re called in the game), creators do what they tend to do when handed such tools — re-create their favorite gaming icons. I found everything from creations of Old Snake from Metal Gear Solid 4 to God of War’s Kratos, from Nintendo’s Luigi to a Mega Man with ears.

While the authenticity of the Mods vary in quality, the ingenuity to bring them to life should be commended. To imagine, these are only creations made with the limited parts United Front Games has made available in the beta. I can’t wait to see what people come up with when the game launches next year.

Hit the jump to check out a sampling of some of the creations I found; all images were taken using the in-game photo mode.

Master Chief, created by maxrad99

Blanka, created by norsemen1337

Chun Li, created by norsemen1337

Akuma, created by norsemen1337

Ryu, created by harlemkidz

Luigi, created by scooby97

Link, created by Arryl01

Ganondorf, created by Ganondorf

Mega Man, created by PacMan4000

Clank, created by Endlessillusion

Kratos, created by RobynnDarcy

Old Snake, created by ExGhost888

Sonic the Hedgehog, created by TheForeverMan

Coco Bandicoot, created by Endlessillusion

Demon’s Souls is an awesome game, and we’ve got awesome prizes for fans of the sexy PS3 RPG. Your very own Jim Sterling received three Demon’s Souls posters a couple of weeks ago, and pledged to donate two of them to Destructoid’s 25 days of giving. 

The posters are officially signed by … a guy … and feature the cover art for the standard edition of the game. They look pretty swanky and any Demon’s Souls fan would be proud to have one emblazoned on their bathroom wall. I’ll be sending these out personally, so this contest will unfortunately (like the game) be for US readers only. Sorry, but f*ck me paying shipping out of my own pocket for a worldwide address. 

So, you want to win one of these saucesome posters? Entry is simple. In order to receive your signed Demon’s Souls poster, all you have to do is win it! That’s right! Simply win a signed Demon’s Souls poster, and you will receive a signed Demon’s Souls poster. How awesome is that? 

So, what are you waiting for? Start trying to win it! You have until 11:59 PM CST tonight to win at winning!

In case you were wondering what Dante’s Inferno would be like if it were made into a book, EA has just announced that the first issue of the Wildstorm comic book based on Visceral’s upcoming action game has shipped to retailers. The first installment of the six-issue miniseries, for which the full cover art can be seen after the break, provides the background for Dante’s demon-slayin’: the murder of Beatrice, and Dante’s subsequent trip into the abyss to rescue her soul.

If the concept is something you’re into, and if the cover art captures your attention, why not swing by your local comic shop on the way to Hell?

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Dante’s Inferno comic descends into retail originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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