Destructoid Network: This week’s finest 07/22/07

Howdy ya’ll! Lets just jump right into it, shall we? The Destructoid store is finally open, the Japanator team is at Otakon 2007, the Community Blogs are turning out some great posts and NextLust is … dead.

Well, not really. It’s been a slow week there because the Lust boys are working on a redesign. Editor-in-chief Adam Kovic is promising to not just be another Engadget or Gizmodo and will be something very unique for the tech world. Awesome, maybe people will start reading the site finally … What was big this week to all of you? 

• The Perfect Sequel: Crackdown 2
• Announcing our new Destructoid editors: Florian Eckhardt and Eliza Gauger
• Buy our crap! Destructoid stickers, shirts, & birth control pills now available
• PAX 2007: Be an honorary Destructoid editor for a weekend
• How to be a games industry news tipster with Joe Burling

(The Japanator team is at Otakon this weekend, so here’s five random picks!) 

• I Will Rule With My i-SOBOT Army
• Otakon 2007: FUNimation panel (OURAN LICENSED)
• Dale North is back!
• animeOnline Goes Offline … hmm, coincidence? 
• Death Note And Naruto To Hit Canada’s YTV This Fall

• We’re going to look great, I promise
• Five reasons why the future is going to suck balls (as dictated by by Hollywood) – Part One

• MaximusPaynicus went to the VGLs. It’s from last week, but it was a good write up that deserves a mention. — MaximusPaynicus.
• Video games and art: are they simply just ‘games’ or Interactive canvases? — pheonix-blood
• Recognizing Your Gaming Journalist, Part 2 — Cowzilla3
• Free touch made an awesome Destructoid custom Xbox360 Faceplate. — free touch
• Another from last week, BlueWolf72 made a cool Destructoid themed wall paper. — BlueWolf72

[Image made by somebody … probably bleep. OK, so it was actually Bhive01.]