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Starting on November 22 and lasting until December 19, Nintendo will be bringing Mario, Donkey Kong and other games to various malls around the country. The Nintendo “Holiday Mall Experience” will let consumers play various Wii and DSi titles, otherwise known as that place parents can drop their kids off and force the Nintendo employees to babysit. Stupid lazy parents.

The games on offer will include Wii Party, Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Dragon Quest IX, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Metroid: Other M, NBA JAM, uDraw, Disney Epic Mickey, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and a handful of older Wii and DS titles.

You can see what cities Nintendo will be setting up shop at after the break.

* Garden State Plaza (Paramus, N.J.)
* Topanga (Canoga Park, Calif.)
* Parks at Arlington (Arlington, Texas)
* King of Prussia Mall (King of Prussia, Penn.)
* Houston Galleria (Houston)
* Southcenter (Seattle)
* Fox Valley (Aurora, Ill.)
* Roosevelt Field (Garden City, N.Y.)
* Beverly Center (Los Angeles)
* The Shops at Willow Bend (Plano, Texas)
* Mall of Georgia (Buford, Ga.)
* Pembroke Lakes Mall (Pembroke Pines, Fla.)
* Annapolis Shopping Center (Annapolis, Md.)
* Northshore Mall (Peabody, Mass.)
* Arizona Mills (Tempe, Ariz.)
* Valley Fair (Santa Clara, Calif.)
* Southdale Center (Edina, Minn.)
* North County (Escondido, Calif.)
* Castleton Square Mall (Indianapolis)
* Lloyd Center (Portland, Ore.)
* FlatIron Crossing (Broomfield, Colo.)
* Tyrone Square (St. Petersburg, Fla.)

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Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is looking pretty slick in the above video. If this video is displaying the truth than we'll all be pulling off some awesome combos while kicking each others ass. What I mean by that is that you'll be pulling off awesome combos and I'll be mashing button frantically until something happens.

As for the character confirmations we've got Paul, Law, King, and Armor King all in action for the first time in this video taken from MLG Dallas.

Game looking good to everyone?

Tekken Tag 2 Sneak Peek [Original Gamer]

Back when the Nintendo DS launched no one had any clue it was going to be such a big hit and start printing all that money. As such you couldn’t blame developers for being a bit tepid about jumping into the development pool for the system. Once everyone saw that Nintendo’s handheld was raking in the dough, however — well, we’ve all seen what the DS section of our local Best Buy looks like.

It appears its a bit of a different story for the 3DS. All those developers who were too scared to jump into the DS aren’t planning on missing the money boat this time according to Nintendo CEO Saturo Iwata. ““I often travel abroad, so I have many opportunities to ask people in our subsidiaries about what our overseas software publishers think about Nintendo 3DS, and I know they have much stronger interest in it than when Nintendo DS was about to be launched,” he said recently.

He went on to say that it wasn’t just game developers showing this greater early interest, but Hollywood as well. “When it comes to the opportunity for them to be able to show 3D movies, however, people in Hollywood currently do not believe that 3D television sets will be able to spread into ordinary households with rapid speed. I have the impression that they see Nintendo 3DS as a strong candidate to become the very first 3D device to be able to spread into the mass market in massive volumes,” he said.

Captain Obvious signing out.

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I bet you thought that the best part about getting PlayStation Move was getting motion controls like the ones on the Wii. You were so totally wrong! The best part about the PlayStation Move is that now you can buy cheap plastic crap like the ones for the Wii. One of the more awkward looking ones is this plastic wheel from plastic crap maker CTA Digital.

The plastic wheel not only holds a Move controller in a very awkward manner, but will also allow for a DualShock 3 controller to be clipped into it. As an added bonus you can detach the wheel from the stand. This thing has so many options it's practically worth buying even if don't have a PS3.

Not really. Just watch the ad. You'll laugh.

PlayStation Move Racing Wheel adds mass to your motion [Joystiq]

So, in case you missed it, we did a charity live stream of Super Meat Boy today on Public Access Destructoid's channel on Justin.tv. We planned on doing it for just a few hours, but then we ended up going all day and into the night. We helped raise $2,000, and we're all incredibly grateful to everyone who contributed.

That said, it's still not too late to donate. Here's how the charity works. Danny B., (the composer for Super Meat Boy), is donating the proceeds from the soundtracks that he sells this weekend to Multiple Sclerosis research. Danny's sister Christy (seen above) suffers from MS, so this whole thing is very personal, both for Danny and for us at Dtoid.

I'm so overwhelmed by the whole experience that I almost forgot to tell you the news part of this news post. Edmund McMillen (co-creator of Super Meat Boy) promised that once we got to $2,000, that he'd reveal an new character for the PC version of Super Meat Boy. Hit for the character reveal, and a little description of who they are and how they'll be implemented in the game.

It's Captain Viridian from VVVVVV!

There's no news yet on exactly how the Captain will play in the game, but I bet his gravity flipping ways will be involved in some way. If you haven't checked the game out, you should do so ASAP. There is a free demo available through the game's official site. It's incredibly clever and fun to play.

Edmund also told us that the creator of VVVVVV is making some special VVVVVV themed levels for Super Meat Boy PC. I'm 99% sure that I heard Edmund say that these levels will be made with the game's PC exclusive level editor, but don't quote me on that. I'm sure we'll be hearing more from Edmund about it soon.

Also news; it sucks to have your armpit licked by strange man.

Here you will find a video detailing the lost Atlantis level from God of War II. This is simultaneously the most awesome and most depressing thing ever. It's awesome because it looks really cool, and it's depressing because we'll never get to play it.

Senior Level Designer on God of War II Jonathan Hawkins was told to develop a level for the game based on Atlantis. From the video above it appears he poured a good chunk of his time and effort into it, and then it was cut. That has got to hurt.

Thankfully, a lot of Hawkins's designs went into the final game and there is an Atlantis level in God of War: Ghost of Sparta, but it still doesn't make you any happier that we missed out on this.

God of War Collection: Lost Atlantis Level Revealed [PlayStation Blog]

Activision has a good thing going with this Call of Duty franchise thing. And what does Activision do when it's got a good thing that makes they money? The milk it until its a hollow husk of its former self, curled up on the floor wishing someone would just kill it. In a recent conference call Activision Blizzard CFO Thomas Tippl confirmed that the company would be pretty much doing just that.

In order to help the rest of the year perform as well as the part of the year that a Call of Duty game comes out they've been rejiggering some things. "We reset some of the product development targets, particularly on the casual and licensed part of our portfolio, so we believe we can improve the margin performance on our publishing business," Tipple said. He went on to explain that this means they're pumping more development resources into Call of Duty than ever before.

The best part about this is that CVG suggests that the reason they will be doing more Call of Duty is because they rely too much on Call of Duty. It's the kind of logic you can only find in the gaming industry. 

In their quest to bring us the best in "awe-inspiring epic, level 20 masterwork role-playing games" GOG.com has just released Icewind Dale 2 Complete. Only one more Atari-Hasbro title remains to complete the collection. Based on the previous releases, anyone care to venture a guess as to what it might be?

Overview:

The worst fear of the civilized realms has come true. The Goblinoids have united into an army of outcasts and misfits and they want to claim the Ten Towns for themselves. Massive swarms of Orcs and Worg-mounted Goblins are attempting to overrun the town of Targos, and that's just the beginning! A call has gone out to all those willing to face insurmountable odds in defense of the Ten Towns. Will you heed the call to arms and face the greatest threat to the Spine of the World?

ZeniMax, the parent company of Bethesda Games, is becoming quite the little powerhouse of game developers. Not only do they own a few prominent developers, but the also recently acquired Shinji Mikami's studio Tango Gameworks a few months ago. Now add to that list one more developer, Machinegames, which is run by veterans from The Chronicles of Riddick developer Starbreeze Studios.

The deal doesn't seem to have been officially officially confirmed, but a previous tweet hinted at it and now Swedish business records are showing that Machinegames has officially filed to change its name to ZeniMax Sweden AB. Furthermore ZeniMax got an infusion of $150 million a month ago for increased growth and acquisitions. I would say buying a game developer falls into that category, wouldn't you?

Now, what do you think we'll get out of ZeniMax Sweden?

Bethesda parent acquires Riddick developer [CVG]