The Daily Hotness: REVENGE…ance

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As if Conrad’s glowing review of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance wasn’t enticing enough. Earlier today, over at dtoid.tv, streamer and documented hat-wearer Philanthr0py was playing the latest effort from Platinum Games. With Raiden in a sombrero. And mariachi music instead of the game’s soundtrack. Welp, there’s $60 gone.

We’ve got a smorgasbord of content for you today, this, the day before the day of Sony’s presumed PlayStation 4-bis reveal. Hamza brought us some neat looks at the rad indie FPS/RTS Natural Selection II, Kyle MacGregor previewed Bit.Trip Runner2, Daniel Starkey continued his look at generational trends with “gamification,” Jim reviewed the bow-laden Crysis 3, and more!

Destructoid Original:
Developer: Gearbox lied to SEGA, 2K over Colonial Marines
Natural Selection team on the pressure to go free-to-play
How the community helped build Natural Selection II
Natural Selection II has sold ‘well over 300,000’ copies
Pitting Crysis 3 against the GeForce GTX Titan
Trends of this Generation: Gamification
Ranked: The five best Clover and Platinum games
Down the rabbit hole of fake PlayStation 4 crap

Community:
Community blogs of 2/19
Forum thread of the day: A question of morality?
Game Debate to the Death! Favorite Assassin’s Creed game?

Contests:
Get your Dtoid weapon tag for Blacklight: Retribution!

Reviews:
Review: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Review: Capcom Arcade Cabinet
Review: Crysis 3
Review: Urban Trial Freestyle
Reviews Elsewhere: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Previews:
The first DLC for Natural Selection II is Gorgeous
Runner2: Still very much the Bit.Trip you know and love

Events:
Watch Wednesday’s PlayStation conference right here

News:
Randy Pitchford has only time for Colonial Marines praise
AC III DLC now available, but not for season pass holders
Various retailers list Watch Dogs for Wii U
Pachter talks more about Nintendo’s Wii U ‘mistake’
To the Moon is now on sale on Steam
Hotline Miami coming to PS3 and PS Vita this spring
Gearbox ‘looking at’ an explanation for Colonial Marines
Disgaea ditches the Item World for the Item Sea in D2
Release date and pricing announced for Star Wars Pinball
Get Dead Space 3 for $39.99 on Amazon, and Groupon
New game from Katamari creator debuts in March
New registered domains point to ‘PlayStation Cloud’
Skyrim ‘Hearthfire’ DLC finally available for PS3
The Room gets Android port, sequel in the fall
Report: PS4 in November, ‘most’ online features will cost
Ubisoft now selling games from other publishers on Uplay
Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs slated for summer release

Offbeat:
Finally! Here’s Final Fantasy Versus XIII… the perfume!
These Monster Hunter 4 toys are adorable
You want Lucio Baldomero’s Chun Li remix
Pokemon that wear hats and die

Media:
See Halo 4’s new Majestic maps in these new videos
BioShock Infinite gets a new Lamb of Columbia trailer
This new Shinovi Versus gameplay trailer is ridiculous
EVE Online: Retribution 1.1 roundup
Halo 4’s Majestic Map Pack details released
Bumblebee Baird takes us through Judgment’s multiplayer
Blade Symphony looks like Chivalry with elegance
This new Metal Gear Rising trailer was cut by Kojima
Solve your own murder in this new Square Enix game
Iwata and Miyamoto star as the Luigi brothers
NVIDIA announces Tegra 4i with built-in i500 LTE modem
Latest Sony retrospective video is all about the games
This mobile game makes an estimated $2M a day
First trailer reveal for Heavy Gear Assault