Captured live on Capcom's Twitch.tv stream earlier this afternoon at PAX East, seven minutes of gorgeous HD DuckTales remake footage is about all the average human can withstand without exploding, so Capcom trimmed it down to six and three-quarters.

My favorite NES game of all time in the hands of WayForward, the 2D sprite artists in the industry? It's a dream come true, that's what this is. So many hours I spent cursing at my tiny tube television in the basement of my high school sweetheart's parent's house, making up my own demented lyrics to the endlessly-looping music for each level. It was a big DuckTales family — we called the cartoon and game by their proper name — DuckTales Woo-oo.

It was an entire summer of this game and Tiny Toon Adventures; blowing on the bottom of cartridges even though they worked fine, simply out of habit

Maybe I'll be able to share this with my kids this time around. Maybe they'll just eat the controller. As long as they can say "Woo-oo" we'll be good.

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Back when I was in high school, we had the same DJ at every school dance. His name was Ben Skirvin, and as he was a DJ at a local radio station, he went by the handle "Swervin' Ben Skirvin."

Not exactly the coolest DJ name of all time, but hey, it was southern Indiana in the 90s, none of us were that cool.

My primary memory of those dances, aside from a more general recollection of vague mortification broken up by infrequent sunbursts of exhilaration, was the fact that Swervin' Ben Skirvin would end every single dance by playing Don McLean's 1971 classic "American Pie."

Any song that starts out slow but then gets fast is a bit dangerous for a high school dance—if you're not careful, you can pull a Sam Weir, grabbing a girl for a slow dance only to wind up awkwardly fast-dancing halfway through.

But it really is an amazing song for ending things. "The day the music died," and all that. And so it's fitting that "American Pie" will be the final downloadable song for Rock Band.

The song will mark the end of almost six years' worth of downloadable Rock Band tracks, a service that Rock Band developer Harmonix recently announced would stop adding new music. Over those years, players downloaded more than 100 million songs across a half-dozen Rock Band sequels, independent bands were given the opportunity to upload their own music via the Rock Band Network, and Jason managed to convince Harmonix to add Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" to the catalog. All in all, a pretty good run.

Now, all that ends. The grand finale tune was first outed by Polygon from Harmonix's PAX East party last night, and today, a Harmonix spokesperson confirmed that McLean's opus will indeed be Rock Band's swan song. It'll be the full, 8-minute version, too—none of this half-length single malarkey—and it'll be available April 2nd.

I haven't played Rock Band in ages, but I might have to dust off my drums and put the band back together for this one.

Let's all remember: we haven't seen the PlayStation 4 yet. Along with games that were purportedly running on the system specs, Sony's event last month only showed viewers the controller.

So it's still up for grabs as to what the actual console will look like. That means that renders like the one above are still fair game. This vision of a would-be PS4… it's boxy. Can we get some curves up in there, Sony?

Capcom announced today at their PAX East panel that they're resurrecting the beloved DuckTales platformer.

Developed by Wayforward and Capcom, DuckTales: Remastered is something of a remake based on the original Nintendo version of DuckTales. It'll be out this summer for Xbox Live, PSN, and Wii U.

DuckTales, originally released for the NES way back in 1989 (and later for the Game Boy), has become something of a cult classic over the years. Remembered for its solid platforming gameplay and some killer music—the Moon theme song is often brought up as one of the best game tracks of all time—DuckTales has been the object of much nostalgia.

Gameloft has gotten so good at making mobile clones of popular games it's now cloning games from the future. This morning, Blizzard announced Hearthfire: Heroes of Warcraft, a digital collectible card game based on characters from World of Warcraft. Yesterday, Gameloft released Order & Chaos Duels, a digital collectible card game based on characters based on World of Warcraft characters.

Let me clarify. Order & Chaos Online is Gameloft's mobile MMO, an obvious copy of World of Warcraft, right down to the character art. Order & Chaos Duels is a free-to-play collectible card game for iPhone, iPad and Android, with mechanics quite similar to the physical World of Warcraft card game. It's a rather solid little title, with an expansive campaign and plenty of opportunities for online domination.

And it's from the future.

I don't know how you did this Gameloft, but the Time Variance Authority has been notified.

What does six minutes' worth of a hands-off PAX East demo of the new Saints Row get you? Not much, but it's worth sharing simply because of the expected, and utterly ridiculous weapons that were shown. Though, if you have a quick eye for details, you'll likely have noticed most of this in the first trailer released for Saints Row IV (above).

Let's break down what I saw, and what you may have seen a small fragment of in the trailer:

Super-Powers

• Speed-running: you can demolish and burst through cars and people as you run long distances at high speeds.
• High jumps: the Volition dev on the controller ended his long run with a high jump to land on top of a tall skyscraper. He then soared through the air, invoking memories of Infamous, to switch from building landing to building landing.
• Freeze Blast: basically how it sounds. You can freeze people and punch them into bits. Or even freeze vehicles.
• Telekinesis: telepathically pick something up and throw it at someone to hurt them. Well, likely kill them. They showed off combinations of super-powers, like freeze-blasting a car and using telekinesis to throw it at an alien.

Ridiculous Guns and a Mech Suit

• Inflato Ray: you saw this one in the trailer, too, but it'll basically swell a dude's head until his eyeballs pop out and burst.
• Dubstep gun: no one can help themselves. It's like the attack of The Mask and his samba dancing, except it actually pixelates and kills people. Even cars malfunction if you use the deadly power of dubstep on them.
• Mech Suit: once you unlock it, you can trample around the open-world as you please. It looks like it shoots two weapons, a primary machine gun of sorts and a secondary rocket launcher from what my eyes tell me. It also flies. You also saw a bit of this in the trailer.

Ridiculous Gun Skins

• Sure, your RPG/rocket launcher/whatever is pretty cool, but what if you dressed it up in the El Fugitivo skin? Then you're walking around carrying an RPG that looks like a worn-down guitar case.

Boss Battles

• I saw a total of one (1) boss for a total of maybe 30 seconds. He growled and charged the super-powered player and then BAM a flash to a white screen. What a bunch of teasers. Although, I can tell you that he was a "warden" of the alien invasion, and he looked kind of like Bane from Batman: Arkham Asylum in that hulky yet small-headed way, but with lava embedded into his skin.

Saints Row has always been about ridiculous, over-the-top shenanigans and decorative wear. The very, very few details this six-minute demo showed me feel like Volition will hold to that dedication. And why shouldn't they? It's what makes the series great.

As revealed last week, two of video games' biggest zombie-centric franchises will be bumping uglies when crossover content for the PC versions of Resident Evil 6 and Left 4 Dead 2 hits in in two weeks. This video shows what it looks like when Coach, Nick, Ellis and Rochelle take on the BOWs of Capcom's global apocalypse, with Special Infected enemies from L4D2 popping in to mix things up. Remember this undead mash-up won't cost anything so look for it as an added option on April 5th.

Blizzard revealed its new World of Warcraft-themed collectible card game at PAX East this morning, wrapping up the announcement with a match played in front of a live ballroom audience. Here is that match, in all its glory.

It's actually a pretty standard CCG from the looks of it, enhanced by Blizzard's signature spit and polish. It certainly looks and sounds better than any other digital card game I've played. Looks aren't everything, of course — there's a balance that has to be achieved that'll likely work itself out during beta testing, but it's off to a lovely start.

Square Enix has just announced that both Final Fantasy X and X-2 are getting the HD treatment not just in Japan, but here as well. The PS3 will receive a one-disc bundle of both games, while the Vita will receive each game separately. Here's Square Enix:

Square Enix Inc., the publisher of Square Enix interactive entertainment products in the Americas, today announced that it will be releasing the HD remastered editions of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 in 2013 for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment and PlayStation Vita handheld entertainment systems.

"These games are classic fan-favorites, and we hope that new and old Final Fantasy fans can experience the world of Spira and the story of Tidus and Yuna in a brand-new light with these remastered editions," said Yoshinori Kitase, producer of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2.

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster is a single disc bundle that will be available on the PlayStation 3 system. Final Fantasy X HD Remaster and Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster will be available for the PlayStation Vita system.

The remakes are landing this year, and there's also a trailer coming next Monday, March 25. Meanwhile, have a few screenshots.

Blizzard has just announced Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, a free-to-play collectible card game set in the universe of Warcraft.

You can play as one of nine World of Warcraft classes, collect cards, and battle people online. No release date yet, but the game will be out for PC and Mac, with an iPad version coming "shortly thereafter."

The game is coming out soon, Blizzard said—"Not Blizzard soon, but IRL soon." You can sign up for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft on Blizzard's website right now, and the beta will launch this summer.

This game was developed by a small team of 15 people, Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo said while announcing the game during a PAX East panel this morning. The goal: create a simple, competitive game with a more mobile team than they've used for bigger beasts like StarCraft II and Diablo III. They want it to be "small in scope, but epic in gameplay," Pardo said.

During the panel today, Blizzard brought out an announcer to describe a 1v1 game as it happened. It looks a lot like Magic: The Gathering with Warcraft characters and abilities: we saw Warlocks and Druids facing off, summoning monsters, and attacking one another in turn-based combat.

The characters and beasts chat and comment as they fight, sometimes saying hilarious things in traditional Blizzard style. There are a ton of Warcraft-themed cards, from ghouls and demons to Ragnaros, the fire god. This looks very cool.

Here's the trailer:

And here's a demo video:

Here's a look at the deck-building process:

Here's the official "Building the Fire" video: