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I’ll say I was torn when listening to the originalCastlevania: Lords of Shadowsoundtrack. On one hand, I missed the Gothic rock influences that defined the series musically for me as a child, but on the the other, as a series reboot, Oscar Araujo’s powerful orchestral score was perfectly appropriate for the game. We’ve now received word from David Cox, producer of the originalLords of Shadowas well as the two newCastlevaniaentries that Araujo will reprise his role, making him the de factoCastlevaniaseries composer and successor to Michiru Yamane who left the company some years back....

Poor old golfing millionaire Tigers Woods can’t seem to catch a break; plummeting to number 46 in golf’s world rankings and now there’s the news that EA seems to have botched the PC version ofTiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Mastersso badly that they’re offering refunds for disgruntled golf fans. Athread appeared on Redditslamming the PC version’s “awful graphics” and the “non-existent” single-player. The thread author says the online multiplayer is only available through EA’s paid subscription model, which merely offers a free trial for three months....

To give people a taste of what the Digital Edition ofGame Informeris all about, the June issue has been made available for free until May 30th. More importantly, it gives you theAssassin’s Creed: Revelations(or:AssRevs) cover story. There is a ton of info about the game, like being able to craft and use different types of bombs, Ezio’s new hookblade that helps him in combat and navigation through the city, the city’s areas, how taking control of a city segment is more complex than taking out a Borgia tower, and more....

[Not sure what Mash Tactics is? I’ve included a clip from a recent episode show you just a glimpse of what you’ve been missing, you daft fool! you’re able to see all of Destructoid’s previously aired live showsin our archives.] Today,Mash Tacticsis being visited by Swedish developer Fatshark to play its PSN/PC action puzzlerHamilton’s Great Adventure.The minds behindLead and Goldwill be giving us some info on their current projects, as well as subjecting Jon and Wesley to strange Swedish candies....

Last week, we posted the news that Maxis co-founder Jeff Braunhad confirmeda newOddworldgame, and there was much rejoicing. Now the head of Oddworld Inhabitants, Lorne Lanning, has addedhis own confirmation. “I can confirm that we’re working with Jeff onOddworldstuff,” stated Lanning. “That’s all I can say at this time. [Braun] was giving a talk to a school, but there hasn’t been a formal announcement, yet.” For me,Oddworld Inhabitantswas a tragic creative failure....

DeNA Japanese mobile studio DeNA recently made headlines after five years of spurned advances finally led to apartnership with Nintendoso the former could make mobile games using Nintendo’s characters. DeNA also just released the somewhat empty, but inoffensiveFinal Fantasy: Record Keeper, which has been downloaded over a million times. Despite this success, a large group of workers was just laid off at its Vancouver-based development studio along with “dozens,” according to a VentureBeat source, laid off from the company’s San Francisco office....

Sony thanks devs for their accomplishments Sony wants us to know they haven’t forgotten the commitments they’ve made to independent developers, and in fact want to share the sentiment that they still “<3 their devs.” They love them so much that they’ve amassed 1,000 developers who are all licensed to self-publish on PlayStation. Ever since November’s PS4 launch, we’ve been patiently waiting for that steady stream of releases that’s been poised to come down the pipeline, especially when it comes to the indie games that pop up out of nowhere and take the industry by storm....

No sh*t,Tetrisguy. You knew that the silly physics flinger was on the way out when you started seeing too much branded merchandise at the checkout stand at the grocery store. I saw a senior citizen with anAngry Birdsshirt on the other day. When I saw that I did that Jackie Chan hands-open-at-sides-of-head thing, and then walked it off, reminding myself that this is something that won’t last.Angry Birdswill never become a timeless game likeTetrishas....

Some readers have made us aware that AT&T customers are having download issues when pulling down some types of content on Sony’s PlayStation Network. From what we hear, the problems started a couple of weeks ago. It seems that videos and patches are near impossible to pull down, with downloads either slowing to a crawl or completely stopping. The issue is the same for wired and wireless connections, and over several different types of network configurations....

A few weeks back, I sat down and literally spent an entire Saturday playingCivilization IV. It’s not like I set out to do a marathon session, either — it just happened. Anyone familiar with the series has likely experienced this strange occurrence at one time or another. Civilization Vhas been dated — September 21 for North America and the 24th for everyone else — and I’m both terrified out of my mind and desperately awaiting Sid Meier’s latest like an addict....

Undoubtedly one of the biggest recent releases in the PC gaming arena has been this little game. No, it wasn’t a Triple-A, hotly anticipated, big budget game.Alien Swarmgenerated headlines because it was free despite being a rather substantial game, which is more than enough to be considered a big release. Is it enough to just be free, though? IsAlien Swarma good game with an absolute bargain of an offer, or is there a good reason why this title costs nothing?...

Dear fellow writers of videogame things, The whole “Wii has failed this year” and “Is the Wii in trouble?” stuff has to stop, because you are sounding incredibly stupid and making us all look terrible. The Wii, in case you didn’t know (which is apparently likely), was released in 2006. It has since sold millions, without any hardware reiterations, to the point where pretty much everybody who wanted one already has one....