The Daily Hotness: Grumpy

Contributing editor Andrew Kauz brought us a good look at what’s going on with music based games. What’s the future hold? Get a glimpse in his interview!

Brad talks more about Facebook gaming, the new Monthly Musing topic is up, Chad looks at the history of Cid, Heavy Rain has lowered the bar for game narrative, Jim reviewed Age of Zombies,

Destructoid Originals:
Facebook: publishers pushing boundaries
Monthly Musings: write something about sex
Once Upon a Pixel: Chu Chu Rocket
The grumpy history of Cid
The convergent futures of music games and higher education
Promoted Community blogs round-up for February
How Heavy Rain has lowered the bar for game narrative
Game SERIES Debate to the Death! Breath of Fire series

Community:
Community blogs of 03/02/10
Forum of the day: Game scenes that make you ROFLMAO

Review:
Age of Zombies

Previews:
Going onto the field with Backbreaker

Contests:
Win an-all-expense-paid trip to PAX East thanks to Two Worlds II
Win limited edition Resident Evil 5 shirts
God of War III contest series — Week 2
We’re giving away 1,000 Blur beta codes for the Xbox 360!

News:
Some Trophies missing after ApocalyPS3
Activision ends King’s Quest fan game
Infinity Ward invaded by Activision security (Update)
Aliens vs. Predator on PC gets dedicated servers
GameStop lists standalone 250 GB 360 hard drive (Update)
Forza 3 VIP content to benefit Haiti relief efforts
Sony Japan files ‘PlayStation Arc’ trademark
Gravity Bone creator releases Flotilla, a strategy game
GameStop lists White Wii Classic Pro controller
Oh no! God of War III almost didn’t have a sex mini-game
Sledgehammer Games taking a shot at Call of Duty
Crystal Dynamics has two projects in the works
Amazon lists Dragon Quest VI DS for pre-order
Tecmo confirms and announces Tecmo Bowl remake
Sony buys up Media Molecule
200k people bought I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1
Keighley: ‘Rumblings’ of new Tomb Raider at GDC
Despair, for Sakura Wars is pushed back a week

Offbeat:
Run for the 8-bit border: Taco Bell offering Atari classics
Derby road officially named Lara Croft Way

Media:
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow gets screens, art
Portal shenanigans get deeper, could Portal 2 be coming?
Ignition reveals ‘AAA quality’ FPS for XBLA/PSN
Splinter Cell Conviction Xbox 360 bundle sneaks out
Just Cause 2 PC will support 3D, NVIDIA GPUs