It has wings and can fly?! I seriously don’t understand Microsoft’s angle leading up to the launch of the Xbone. At this point in the game (PUNS) I feel like we should have a pretty good handle on what the system is and where it’s going. Microsoft seems to disagree so we’ll be running through all of their newest announcements today on the Core! Don’t know what the Core is? The Core is Dtoid’s brand new news/editorial show that is live every Tuesday and Thursday at 3pm pst onDtoid....

Music by On Being Human One of the reasons I love videogames is because of how passionate the entire community is. There’s an insane amount of respect payed to retro games that paved the way for the modern era, and this soothing SNESKiller Instinctmusic cover by On Being Human is no exception. If you’re interested in hearing a piece of gaming history, you’re able to either watch the video above, ordownload the track here....

Choose the alternate cover If you’re growing tired of the recent talk about box art, we’re almost done discussing the topic as it relates toBioShock Infinite— well, until the ensuing “here’s who won” post. While the cover that comes packaged with the game will remain as is, its backside will contain art as well, and what exactly it ends up being is up to folks like you. Developer Irrational Games haswhipped up a pollfeaturing six different potential designs that can be voted on....

First of all, let’s get theDarksiderssword out of the way. We charged readers with the task of proving their manliness in order to win the awesome Chaos Eater sword, pictured above. Many of you entered and demonstrated your might, but after careful consideration and a few staff debates, we believe Crunshii’s masculinity won out, thanks tothis CBlog. Well done you! Please use the Dtoid PM system to give me a shipping address....

Haha, PSN and Xbox Live According to a statementfrom Valve’s Erik Johnson, the company has no plans to introduce ads to Steam anytime soon. Johnson notes that they’d rather focus on “long-term relationships,” and that ad programs just cost money and create a negative value for consumers. He goes on to say, “It would be a bad business decision, let alone just dumb.” As of now Valve is servicing 125 million users and doesn’t charge them to play online, so they’re doing something right....

Woz the Tetris wiz Steve Wozniak is an oddity. Though many know Wozniak for his work at Apple, in his earlier days he was known for his work with videogames, both as a designer (creating Atari’sBreakout) and player. This video shot byGame Informergives a glimpse at Wozniak’s awesomeTetrisskills that made him the best player in the country according toNintendo Power‘s high scores listing. Wozniak says he was obsessed with the Game Boy version of the game, going as far as to playing it at music concerts instead of watching the band....

This game looks beautiful Battlefield 4was shown off at Microsoft’s E3 press conference today, in full 60 frames per second goodness. The live demo opened up inside a battleship with some of the best shadow and lighting effects I have ever seen. The ship then ripped in half while the player was still inside of it, rivaling the set pieces seen inUncharted. The action moved to the partially sunken half of the ship, and then into the sea where the player had to swim to a boat to take the fight on the sea....

This can’t be cheap Finally, a solution for the lazy and/or untalented among us! Capcom will soon open pre-orders for a wearable Mega Man helmet “made of high quality ABS plastic with a high polish finish, authentic proportions, and details, plus working LED lights.” These will be on display at San Diego Comic-Con ahead of a “limited-time pre-order opportunity” onshop.capcom.com. Pricing? We’ll see, but I’m guessing the helmets won’t come cheap....

Should be a hit with the Temple Run crowd After seeing what Ubisoft and pastagames were able to do withRayman Jungle Run, I foolishly got my hopes up forSonic Dash. This new endless runner, developed by Hardlight for iOS, should be up on the App Store in most regions by the time you read this. Before buying, become an informed consumer by arming yourself with a video demonstration. The description given in the announcement was not inaccurate, but the end result is also not what I was picturing....

Uh…no Once again Bungie has flip-flopped on how it’s handlingDestinygoing forward. In the past, it was rumored the developer was giving up on large-scale DLC packs, which was shot down, noting that it was going to focus on both. Now it sounds like the big DLCs are outagain, as Bungie’s Derek Carroll has stated to Eurogamer that they are “moving to a more event-based model.” When asked about DLC packs, Carroll noted that “Rather than doing these giant, monolithic DLC packs [we’re moving to events], this way everybody who’s an owner of Taken King can enjoy these things....

When you were a child, your parents tried time and time again to explain to you where babies come from, but you were simply too dense to comprehend it at such a young age. To that end, your mother has plied most of the staff of Destructoid with variousfavors(well, all of us except Sheir who was busy playing on the swings outside)in the hope that we would explain it to you in words you’re able to understand....

Disney Interactive has today shared first details on an upcoming Facebook game calledMarvel: Avengers Alliancewhich is being developed by Playdom. The game has a sort ofPokemonfeel to it with players having to collect Marvel heroes and villains, and thentrainsaid characters in order for them to gain new abilities and attacks. Players will also be able to use something called “ISO-8” to further upgrade their pet super-humans and while no mention of what ISO-8 actually is was made, I have a feeling that acquiring the stuff may require credit cards....

New hero, level, mount, and skins [Update:Blizzard has releaseda piece of key artfor the event, and it looks like it teases a number of different skins, and even a potential new character, the skeleton king Leoric. Like The Butcher, he was also featured in both the originalDiabloandDiablo III. Diablo himself might also get an angelic skin, and Nova seems to be wearing Amazon armor fromDiablo II.] Heroes of the Stormjust launched with new character Johanna, but Blizzard isn’t resting on their laurels just yet....