The Daily Hotness: Back to reality

After what seems like forever, I’m finally back home. I have a lot to catch up on and nowhere near enough time to do it seems. Still, it’s worth every minute doing all of this. Happy birthday to Niero and Destructoid. It’s been an amazing three years!

A few birthday related posts went up today, Ben checked out Army of Two: The 40th Day, a great Mirror’s Edge contest is underway, House of the Dead wins an award, and plenty more happened on 03/16/09.

Destructoid Originals:
The Destructoid children’s alphabet book
Happy Birthday, Destructoid: The Rhythm Tengoku cake
Destructoid turns three
A birthday message from Sonic the Hedgehog
Best of the Network: We worked hard this week
Tonight, Podtoid will something something something
Monday Mind Teasers: Welcome to Miami

Community:
Community Blogs of 03/16/09
Forum of the day: Resident Evil 5 was Awesome! (RE5 Thread)

Reviews:
Gradius Rebirth

Previews:
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Burn Zombie Burn!

Contest:
Win a Mirror’s Edge Qosmio notebook, Nvidia GTX-260, and more

News:
Patapon 2 US demo given for pre-orders only
Four million copies of Resident Evil 5 have been shipped
Solid Snake starts film production company
Wii Shop Update: BIT.TRIP BEAT, Summer Games II
Brooker: Games must ‘exploit our humblest fantasies’
Guitar Hero World Tour is Amazon’s Deal of the Day
Sony getting sick of PS3 price cut talk
Hudson’s Karaoke JOYSOUND Wii looks like some weird sex toy
House of the Dead Overkill gets a f*cking record for profanity
New Final Fantasy XI scenario playable in April, buyable in March
Three new DLC packs revealed for Valkyria Chronicles
Capcom thinks RE5 DLC complaints are ‘BS’
Rumor confirmed: Secret Agent Clank coming to the PlayStation 2
Retailer lists Guitar Hero Van Halen for August release

Offbeat:
Weta rocks out the Blizzard offices with huge WoW statue

Galleries:
Name change alert: Glacier2 changes to Glacier 2: Hell on Ice
New skills and emblems coming with MGO ‘SCENE’ expansion
Jango my Fett: BioWare confirms Bounty Hunter class in SW:TOR

Videos:
Japanese commercial shows new PSP colors in motion
Velvet Assassin trailer does its best Churchill impression
Alpha Protocol has choices, we prefer the violent ones
Activision announces Little League World Series Baseball 2009
EA Sports knows sweat: Fight Night Round 4 trailer proves it
Dexter speaks darkly in latest iPhone trailer
Say Cheese! Wallace and Gromit trailer and demo are here