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Perhaps trying to steal the show from one Mr. Duke Nukem, Sony has announced a release date for Guerilla’s Killzone 3. It’ll be on shelves February 22 in North America.

If the wait between Killzone and its sequel seemed a bit longer than you had to wait for Killzone 3, you’re not imagining things. Guerilla’s Herman Hulst admitted that the development cycle for Killzone 3 was much shorter than Killzone 2. He points to a more experienced development, having learned many lessons from bringing Killzone 2 to life. But he’s clear that doesn’t mean Killzone 3 is a copy-paste of Killzone 2.

“There’s nothing really in Killzone 3 that’s straight from Killzone 2,” he told me, “everything’s been improved.”

The game’s multiplayer is playable to the public for the first time at PAX this week. If you’re there, check it out, and stop reading stories on the Internet.

Killzone 3 Coming to PS3 February 22, 2011 [PlayStation Blog]

At the conclusion of his keynote at the Penny Arcade Expo today, Junction Point’s Warren Spector revealed the second half of Epic Mickey’s opening cinematic. In it, Mickey finds himself trapped by the Mad Doctor, where he encounters an old foe — Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. You can see the first half of the intro here.

If you weren’t there, you missed the reveal. Sorry about that. But lucky for you, it’s right here. We’ve even got some fancy new screenshots to sweeten the deal a bit. Aren’t you glad you stayed home?

Epic Mickey is out this holiday, and you’ll probably want to spend some extra cash to get the “epic” collector’s edition.

Military personnel looking to pick up Medal of Honor this October will have to do so off-site. The Army and Air Force Exchange Services has announced that the game will not be stocked in any on-base GameStop or other post exchange in U.S. military bases worldwide. The reason is because of the inclusion of Taliban fighters in the game’s multiplayer, naturally.

The commanding general of the Army and Air Force Exchange Services explained that this is done out of respect for the men and women who have fought against Taliban insurgents. I don’t particularly oppose the move, especially since there are still other means for soldiers to purchase the game. Nonetheless, I find it curious that the top brass would think soldiers who live day in and day out through so much would be unable to handle some this. Kind of selling them short, don’t you think?

Video Game Pulled Globally From Military Stores Over Taliban Inclusion [Kotaku]

Seven45 Studios has revealed the full soundtrack for its upcoming music title, Power Gig: Rise of the Six String, and I hope you like Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews Band, and Kid Rock.

Those particular artists have exclusively licensed their music for use in Power Gig, and Seven45 studios is taking advantage of the agreements by putting multiple songs from the artists on the disc. Clapton fans can play along with “Layla,” “Lay Down Sally,” and “Let It Rain.” Dave Matthews scores “Tripping Billies,” “Why I Am,” and “Funny the Way It Is.” Kid Rock (who, according to a Seven45 rep during a pre-E3 event, “no one is more authentic than”) gets “Rock N’ Roll Jesus,” “Son of Detroit,” and “All Summer Long” on the disc.

The disc will feature 70 tracks, and they are admittedly pretty diverse, with bands ranging from Queens of the Stone Age to Black Sabbath, The Black Keys to A Perfect Circle. John Mayer also makes his debut in a music game, and he gets a few tracks on the disc, too. Seven45 also promises more tracks to come, with downloadable content already being planned.

How do you think Power Gig’s selections compare to the Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and Rock Band 3 tracks?

• Eric Clapton – Layla
• Eric Clapton – Lay Down Sally
• Eric Clapton – Let It Rain
• Dave Matthews Band – Funny The Way It Is
• Dave Matthews Band – Tripping Billies
• Dave Matthews Band – Why I Am
• Kid Rock – All Summer Long
• Kid Rock – Rock ‘N’ Roll Jesus
• Kid Rock – Son of Detroit
• John Mayer – No Such Thing
• Jane’s Addiction – Been Caught Stealing
• No Doubt – Platinum Blonde Life   
• Ozzy Osbourne – A.V.H.
• Queens of the Stone Age – You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
• Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock
• Disturbed – The Night        
• Rage Against the Machine – Bombtrack
• Stevie Ray Vaughan – Couldn’t Stand The Weather
• Black Sabbath – The Devil Cried
• Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
• Living Colour – Cult of Personality
• John Mayer – Who Do You Think I Was
• Snow Patrol – Hands Open
• Three Days Grace – Break
• Paramore – Ignorance
• Silversun Pickups – Substitution
• The Offspring – You’re Gonna Go Far Kid
• The Black Label Society – Retribution
• Breaking Benjamin – Breath
• The Tragically Hip – New Orleans Is Sinking
• The Used – Blood on My Hands
• Mastodon – Crack the Skye
• A Perfect Circle – The Hollow
• Buckcherry – Tired of You   
• Firewind – Head Up High
• The Black Keys – Strange Times
• Flyleaf – Again
• Godsmack – Awake
• Incubus – Wish You Were Here
• Jet – She’s A Genius
• The Hives – Tick Tick Boom
• John Mayer – Crossroads
• Bad Religion – I Want to Conquer the World
• Korn – Hold On
• The Academy Is… – His Girl Friday
• Lacuna Coil – Spellbound
• MuteMath – Chaos
• New Found Glory – Listen to Your Friends
• P.O.D. – Alive
• Puddle of Mudd – Blurry
• Rise Against – Paper Wings
• Sick Puppies – You’re Going Down
• The Donnas – Fall Behind Me
• The Get Up Kids – Martyr Me
• Idlewild – Reader and Writers
• Surfer Blood – Swim
• Channels – Chivaree
• Superdrag – Aspartame
• Envy on the Coast – Headfirst in the River
• Damiera – Silvertongue
• A Cursive Memory – Everything
• The Hounds Below – She’s Alchemy
• A Love Like PI – Innocent Man
• The Willowz – I Know
• I See Stars – Comfortably Confused
• The Paris Riots – Hotel of Infidels
• School Boy Humor – Camera Shy
• So Many Dynamos – Artifacts of Sound
• Taxpayer – When You When Young
• The Fatal Flaw – Don’t Start Believing

Criterion’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit looks gorgeous and super fast. That was expected. It’s the amount of trash-talking that you’re going to end up doing with your friends that’s going to take you by surprise.

The developer has create a unique game hub which it’s calling “Autolog.” This hub not only keeps track of what you’re doing, but what your friends are doing, and how they’re progressing. The game is designed to constantly keep you up to date on player progress — game progression, records being set — and then shove it in your face. The idea is to get you to keep playing, the incentive to always be number one among your friends.

The idea is rather brilliant, and it looks like it’s really well-implemented in Hot Pursuit, but it’s not a new one. I always think of Bizarre’s Geometry Wars as the gold standard for how leaderboards and score-keeping should be done — it’s a game that (unless you look for it) doesn’t shove world leaderboards in your face, instead presenting the scores of people you care about: those on your friends list. It’s making these rivalries and high score goals immediate, tangible, and unavoidable that always kept me wanting to play “just one more game.”

If Hot Pursuit can do for racing what Geometry Wars did for me, I’m expecting some long, long nights ahead of me when the game ships in November. Cue “Eye of the Tiger.”

Telltale Games has announced what it’s calling “the Citizen Kane of poker games,” and it might be right — Poker Night at The Inventory sounds like the best thing ever.

The game will star Penny Arcade’s Tycho, Max of Sam & Max, they Heavy from Team Fortress, and Homestar Runner’s Strong Bad. They’re going to — get this — play poker. The game features fully-voiced characters, and will used Telltale’s dynamic dialogue system as the character trash talk each other, tell stories, and react to the game in progress.

Poker Night at The Inventory will be available on Steam this fall for both PC and Mac, and will cost $4.99.

PAX Prime 10 is less than two hours away, and the show floor is filled to the brim with doodads and whatchits for your sick, sick pleasure. To get you further pumped, the Piki: Geek blog has posted two sets of photos of exhibitor hall booths in various stages of construction. For some of us (i.e. me), this will be the closest we get to living the dream. For the rest of you, enjoy the show, bastards.

Next year, developer Just Add Water will be bringing an updated port of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath to the PlayStation Network.

The quirky first- and third-person shooter was originally released in 2005, and had players taking the role of the bounty hunter known as the Stranger. The game had a quirky feel that you’d expect from an Oddworld game, with players using “live” ammo (read: animals and bugs) to take out enemies.

The updated version of the game will boast updated visuals at 720p, along with updated graphical bells and whistles that you’d expect from a current-gen game. The title’s dialogue is also being remastered, and Just Add Water is shoving PlayStation Move support into the thing for good measure.

The Stranger’s Wrath remake is slated for an Easter release, with even more “bonus material still to be revealed.”

PAX Prime 2010 starts this Friday! This will be the fourth year in a row that Destructoid has attended the nerd mecca and in Seattle, Washington and we have some awesome things in store for you during the entire weekend!

We’re doing another panel on Saturday at 10:30AM in the Unicorn Theatre! Niero, Chad Concelmo, Jonathan Holmes, and Jim Sterling will be hosting Destructoid LIVE! where we will be discussing all sorts of things, giving out fabulous prizes, and we’ll even have a world-exclusive game reveal at the panel!

Of course, we’ll have our nightly plans for our huge community to keep themselves occupied with during the weekend all detailed below. Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun times!

Thursday:

Meetup at Game Works @ 9PM. Game Works is located on 1511 7th Avenue, near the Convention Center.

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Friday:

Former Features Editor, Anthony Burch, and current editor of all things cute, Ashley Davis, will be guests on the GameTrailers.com Presents: Entertaining the Gamer: What Does it Take? panel in the Pegasus Theatre at 5:30PM.

Reviews Editor, Jim Sterling, will be a guest on the Do You Have A Chance Against IGN, 1UP, & GameSpot? panel in the Raven Theatre at 6:00PM.

Meetup at The Elephant & Castle Pub @ 8PM. Located right underneath the Red Lion Hotel on 1415 5th Avenue.

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Saturday:

Destructoid LIVE! panel in the Unicorn Theatre at 10:30AM. Make sure you wear a Destructoid shirt as we’ll be taking the annual big group photo immediately after the panel.

Meetup at The Chapel @ 8PM on 1600 Melrose Avenue. Wear a fancy outfit for Suiterday!

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Sunday:

Meetup at Rock Bottom @ 8PM on 1333 5th Avenue.

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Monday:

Everyone cries, says their goodbyes and starts planning for next PAX in Boston and Seattle next year. 

Plans can change at any moment so it would be a good idea to follow some of the staff and community of Destructoid on Twitter as we’ll be updating everyone if plans change: Hamza CTZ Aziz, Niero, Samit Sarkar, Dale North, Jordan Devore, Conrad Zimmerman, Jonathan Ross, Jim Sterling, Hollie Bennett, Tactix and power-glove. Also, be sure to check out this app for phones called Conventionist, which is a perfect pocket guide to the expo!