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It’s minimalist to a fault right now with missing features Sony has been rolling out theredesigned PlayStation Store for web browsersthis week on a regional basis, and earlier today, the changeover happened in the United States. So far, it’s a vastly different-looking site – and the functionality we’ve gotten used to over many years hasn’t carried over beat for beat. The new storefront is an upgrade in some ways and an undeniable downgrade in others....

G4recently travelled to Activision HQ to playPrototypeand came back with fresh and hot video (viewable after the break) from the game. It might not make youcome rainbows, but it’s damn sexy nonetheless. The footage only has a sliver of coherent story. It starts with a scene where Alex — the hooded protagonist — is told that a chick at GenTek knows something about his history. Then it abruptly cuts to action shots of Alex running around New York City like a madman, battling army dudes and weird creepy crawlies....

So here we are back again for another Monday episode ofRetroforceGO!,Destructoid’s number one retro podcast. (And we’re gunning for the number one spot on the site, too. So watch your back Linde … /maniacal laughter!) Sadly, our ambassador fromChadlantiscouldn’t be with us this episode to discuss the import gaming market, but I think that the special guest we have tonight will more than make up for it. Highlights! So sit back and relax, turn on your iTunes, and letRFGO!...

Blast some big ass monsters TERAmanaged to accomplish a feat that’s still rare in the MMO industry — create an experience crafted around action. Whether it’s adherence to old standards or technical limitations MMOs mostly adhere to slower systems, generally with lengthier global cooldowns (preventing quick ability spam) or a lack of aiming mechanics. Naturally, building an entire game around a fun and active combat system forces some other shortcomings to rise to the top, butTERA‘s move to consoles has been rather smooth....

[This weekend Destructoid is reporting live fromRTXin Austin, Texas, the community based gaming expo for Rooster Teeth fans and everyone else.] Yes, that’s Team Rocket cosplayers hanging out with a stormtrooper. Do you now see what you are missing out on!?! Though RTX isn’t the biggest convention or most populated (thankfully), it brought a good size crowd of game enthusiasts, cosplayers, and weirdos I was afraid to make eye contact with....

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to attend the Massuchsetts leg of Nintendo and Best Buy’s NationalSuper Smash Bros. Brawltournament. With over 500 people in attendance and 256 competitors in all, there was nary a dull moment during the seven hour event. It was a full day of awkward social interactions, first hand impressions ofBrawl, and that certain sense of community that can only be found at a video game tournament of this scale....

And he might have actually been serious Shaquille O’Neal is at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, which makes me happy. What makes me even happier, however, is that when jokingly asked by GamerFitNation if we’d ever get to see a sequel to 1994’sShaq Fu, he said yes. And that it’s “coming soon.” Even though I’d love for this to be true — to be able to witness what a modern-dayShaq Fuwould look like — it’s unclear if Shaq was being genuine in the interview....

90 Minutes European Prime Goalwas the final piece of the puzzle This incredible SNES manuals project is finally complete, having secured the last English SNES instruction book they needed.The project recently announced on Twitterthat they had acquired a scan for the English manual for90 Minutes European Prime Goal, which, while not a marquee SNES release, was the last manual! As project purveyor Peebs points out, this started as a grassroots effort roughly two years ago to get that number up to 100% from the previous figure of 52%....

When Sony feels it has something to aggrandize, it won’t be shy about aggrandizing. In this case, it might well be justifies, as the officialPlayStation Blogboasts not one, not two, but twenty PS3 exclusives, all slated for 2011. That’s a lot of software. Here’s the full list of games due out this year, with their release dates where appropriate: Fair play to Sony, that is a beastly list, and some of it looks like it’ll be pretty rad....

Square Enix has officially announced the“accidentally” teased3DS game,Heroes of Ruin. It’s a dungeon-crawling roleplayer from n-Space, with a heavy focus on loot and co-op. Unfortunately, itseemsthat co-op won’t be online, as only SpotPass and StreetPass have been mentioned. This is a shame, since the multiplayer is described as “extensive” and Square Enix plans to create a whole community based around the game. StreetPass and SpotPass will also be used to acquire all sorts of powerful items and weapons, with 3DS systems trading gear automatically and Wi-Fi hotspots dishing out rarities and new challenges....

Get to know the people that make great videogames This week on Sup Holmes we’ll be graced the the presents ofCristina Vee, singer and voice actress. Cristina’s past roles include Alisa Bosconovitch (Tekken: Blood Vengence), Noel, Nu-13, Mu-12, Lambda-11 (BlazBlue), Riven (League of Legends), Lian Shi (Dynasty Warriors 7), Carmen Sandiego, and many, many others. She’s the lead performer on the original songs forAdventure Time: Hey Ice King Why’d You Steal Our Garbage,Shantae: Half-Genie Heroand multiple othervideogame soundtrack covers....

How well do youreallyknow your retro games? Sure, you may know that Mario needs to collect100coins for a 1UP and Link wields theMaster Sword, but sometimes even the most basic of game-related trivia questions may be harder to answer than you think. Enter, The Great Retro Quiz!: a result of my love of the old school combined with a strange obsession with pointless trivia games. Hey, this kind of stuff makes me happy, okay?...

Still due this month One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knowsis nearly out, and Bandai Namco is just now giving us a full rundown of the roster, filing out the four final additions. We have Puri-Puri Prisoner (a jailbird fighter), “Snakebite” Snek (a super speedy dude who wears a snake suit – hey, just likeMega Man‘s Snake Man), Crablante (a man who turned into a crab after eating too much of it – he’s evil and barely in the manga/anime but this guy rules) and Boros (the edgy pirate “Dominator of the Universe”)....