Destructoid Network: This week’s finest 09/16/07

Well, I was going to make some big old speech about Chad and how it’s his birthday today, but I guess I got beat. Not only that, but Topher’s little speech outshines mine by like 4 billion percent. But yeah, anyway, Happy Birthday again to you Mr. Amazing!

Also, among the many stories we’ve covered this past week, we’ve gone under a new face lift! Community Blogs and the Forums all match with the main page and are super pretty now. What were your highlights for this week?

• Christian Bale in the running to play Solid Snake?
• Game Debate to the Death! Pyramid Head VS Big Daddy
• Wrench murder: It’s not just for BioShock anymore!
• Take Two says BioShock will be a franchise: Is this a bad idea?
• Xbox Live Originals contest ends on a puppy-chokingly unfunny note

• Fall 2007 Anime: The Reckoning, Part I
• Fall 2007 Anime: The Reckoning, Part II (Bonus Part III!)
• Automatic Mario Level Set To Hare Hare Yukai
• Huge Engrish graffiti on spot of rich national heritage? What’s not to like?
• Weekend Japanatainment, anime cover song edition!

• IT’S CHAD CONCELMO’S BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! — Chad Concelmo
• Co-op Story Modes – a long discussion — CronosBlade
• Destructoid Drawn to Life Creation. Electro Lemon did one too! — LostCrichton and Electro Lemon
• Music in games: Where we are now — Cowzilla3
• From a Sony Fanboi: Sony is pissing me off. — balth

• Why I dislike playing games online
• new forum layout is sw33t
• Fantasy Football, DESTRUCTOID style
• DESTRUCTOID Trivia Questions! Please help Ogu out gang!
• OH HAI!: Resonance, pedrovay2003, balth and Mach

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