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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena came out just over a year ago to generally favorable reviews. Today, Atari has announced the release date for the Macintosh port of the game, which is due to arrive this Friday, April 16th.

I played it for a while on Xbox 360 and, apart from being too dark for me to see much of the time, it was a pretty entertaining experience. I’m sure Mac users will enjoy it, especially considering how thin their options generally are.

It does seem a bit weird to me, though. I guess Atari’s options for games to put on the platform aren’t particularly broad either, but a year of wait for Riddick? It’s a bit hard to maintain enthusiasm at this point, I’d say.

Any of the Mac faithful out there going to grab this?

The Chronicles Of Riddick Coming To Macs April 16 [Inside Mac Games]

Not much is out this week, which is probably a good thing as Splinter Cell: Conviction is overshadowing every game this week anyway. The new Splinter Cell has been hotly anticipated for quite some time now and everything we’ve been hearing about the game so far has been good.

Other than that, the retro rivival of Final Fight for the XBLA and PSN is out this week. Conrad seemed to really dig it in his playthrough.

What’s looking sw33t to all of you this week? Hit the break for the full releases and trailers for most of the titles!

X360: Splinter Cell: Conviction

XBLA: Final Fight: Double Impact

PS3: Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

PSN: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Episode 1: The Penal Zone, Final Fight: Double Impact

Wii: Military Madness: Nectaris

PSP: Blood Bowl

DS: Easy Piano, AlphaBounce, 7 Card Games

PC: Rig’n'Roll, Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Episode 1: The Penal Zone, Dark Void Zero, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

Releasing 04/13:

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (PS3, PC)

Splinter Cell: Conviction (X360)

Releasing 04/14:

Final Fight: Double Impact (XBLA)

Releasing 04/15:

Final Fight: Double Impact (PSN)

Killspace Entertainment, an officially unannounced game development company consisting of former employees of Red 5, Obsidian, Pandemic and EA LA might be hard at work on a game based on Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war epic, Apocalypse Now.

The evidence? First is the knowledge that the company out of Calabasas, California has a project based on a licensed IP. But that could be anything. The real meat is in the recent registration of “apocalypsenowgame.com,” which bears the company’s name as the registering organization. The thematically similar “warisnotagame.net” has also been registered.

I can see how this classic film can be made into a game. I just can’t see the why apart from cashing in. Even now, I foresee the immensely sad irony that will come as teenagers laugh uproariously at the scene where Kilgore napalms the tree line so his men can go surfing. God willing, they’ll skip on the minigame there.

Apocalypse Now Game May Be Coming from Former Mercenaries, Saboteur Devs [1Up]

To address an ever-growing concern over online game addiction amongst children, the government of South Korea has put in place a ban on youths playing them past the witching hour. Underaged users who play in the wee hours will have their connection to the server severed for a six-hour period and gamers can choose whether it starts at midnight, 1 am or 2 am.

In addition, extended play online will result in a throttling of the user’s connection speed. This measure is currently being tested on four MMOs and will later be expanded to apply to a total of 19 online RPGs which represent 79% of the domestic market in Korea.

Kids will inevitably find a way around this, no doubt. but I can appreciate the desire to do this. If I had had people — we’ll call them “parents” — who told me to turn off my games at midnight or offered punishment for disobeying the instruction, I might have wound up with a real, grown-up job instead of this totally awesome one.

Of course, I did have people like that and I chose to ignore them. Something tells me that’s likely to happen again.

Midnight ban imposed on online games [The Korea Herald]

Ubisoft has announced that they’ll be taking ten dollars off the price of the Splinter Cell: Conviction special edition package in North America, bringing its price down from $80 to $70. The decision was made when it was discovered that, in a random sampling of units, a number of the included USB drives failed to function.

Speaking to Gamespot, a representative from Ubisoft would not say what percentage of the drives are affected. They did state that the bonus materials intended to be on the drives, including concept art and a making-of documentary, would be made available for download this coming Thursday, April 15th.

A shame that some drives are defective, but good for Ubisoft for getting right out in front of this issue and doing something about it. USB thumb drives may be a dime a dozen and I know that this news wouldn’t necessarily affect my decision to purchase, but when you promise a feature and can’t deliver on it, this is the right thing to do.

Splinter Cell: Conviction CE cheapened by defective USB drives [Gamespot AU via GamesIndustry]

Oh, hey! Man, this is embarrassing. You catching me without my pants on as I look at these scans of a 100-page Zelda art book that was recently bundled with the February 2010 issue of the Japanese gaming magazine Nintendo Dream. See I spilled on my pants and had to take them off, it’s not that this art book is so cool that I become sexually aroused. Not. At. All.

The art runs the gamut of Zelda games, from the very beginning all the way up to the one piece of art they’ve shown us for the next Zelda. It really gives you an idea of how Link, Zelda and Gannondorf have evolved over the years. I’m a bit upset that they gloss so easily over the early games, but I guess they didn’t do quite as much artwork for them in the first place.

Now go away. It’s Matt time.

Nintendo Dream Zelda Art Book [ZeldaPower]

[Thanks, Chris]

What’s up SlowBro? Let’s pop some collars and play drinking games, bro! FIST BUMP!

Jonathan reviewed the Mega Man 10 DLC, check out what Pokemon Black and White look like, Activision and Infinity Ward need a time out in the corner, The Last Story gets a tiger and more happened over the weekend.

Destructoid Originals:
Weekend Destructoid: I’ve got rainbows out of my arms
Games of the week for 04/11/10: More Ray Peacock edition

Community:
Win Just Cause 2 for the Xbox 360 and some swag!
Community blogs of 04/10/10 & 04/11/10
Forum of the day: Desbrotoid

Reviews:
Mega Man 10 DLC: Bass and Special Stage 1

News:
Square Enix bringing The 4 Heroes of Light overseas
Microsoft refused to publish Machinarium XBLA
Xenoblade co-developed with Nintendo, gets new screens
EA zings Activision over Infinity Ward lawsuit
First look at Bulletstorm on May cover of Game Informer
The Last Story gets a motherf*cking tiger!
Deadly Premonition tops US sales chart!
The Conduit 2 is called Conduit 2
Florida gives a tax cut to game developers
GameStop open at midnight for Splinter Cell: Conviction
First images of Pokemon Black and White appear
Activision: West, Zampella wanted to steal Infinity Ward
Blockbuster thinking about mailing games, Netflix is not
Batman Arkham Asylum action figures swoop in
The Whispered World has a demo you can play
Modern Warfare 3 being held up by legal craziness
Confirmed: NCAA Football 2011 isn’t coming to PSP

Offbeat:
Ep. 4 of The Journalism Show once again lacks journalism
Tee Fury continues the Mushroom Kingdom delicacies

Media:
Hop, hop, splat: Frogger Returns on DSiWare

For those looking forward to college football on their PSP this year, you are going to be disappointed. IGN has confirmed that NCAA Football 11 will not be landing on Sony’s portable gaming machine. EA doesn’t really cite any reasons for this, but why don’t we just guess that it has something to do with poor sales of NCAA Football 10 on the system.

If you want to jump into the helmet of your favorite college football player while riding the bus any time soon then you’ve only got one option now. The iPhone and iPod Touch are having the game released on them as Madden was last year.

It’s just sad that Tim Tebow has one less box case to show up on now. Unlucky in box art, lucky in finding an NFL team that really wants to draft you?

NCAA Football 11 not coming to PSP [IGN, via Kotaku]

Hey, Florida! Way to be. Your House just unanimously passed tax breaks for videogame developers. If the bill is passed into law, and most signs point to that happening, entertainment companies will get a 20 percent tax credit as opposed to the previous 15 percent one if they work in Florida.

There’s even more credits if you’re making a family friendly piece of entertainment or if production occurs during the off season of June to November. Obviously that latter rule is geared more towards films as is most of the bill, but could be an awesome boon to any game company as game production can take place year round and still look the same.

Will Florida become a new mecca for gaming with these even more aggressive tax cuts? If so will Destructoid HQ have to move back to Miami after just trecking across the country to San Francisco? Will Sergio leave leave Laquisha for Marco? The answers to these and all your other questions next week!

Florida House Unanimously Passes Game Tax Breaks [Gamasutra]

(Note: Answers not actually coming next week.)