This cat can hover! It’s an adorable video, and if you are thinking about getting a pet you should reallylook into adoption. Things are starting to slow down a little bit now that E3 is over, but there are still plenty of interesting things going on. Today we learned that Lara Croft is going to have to fight off potential rape,and Jim did an interesting opinion piece about that. Podtoid might actually talk about video games this week, we have some more interviews from E3, there’s a new episode of The DTOID Show, you can buy your way intoDOTA 2, EA might not have lied aboutMass Effect3’s ending, and all kinds of other fun stuff....

Ok… I won’t lie. I kinda procrastinated setting this post up. So I don’t have anything clever or cool to show you. But, this past winter I met a corgi. It was amazing. I’d never seen one in person before. It was so hyper and happy and full of positive…ness. It was the greatest thing ever. Now, like Dale, I know the secrets of the Universe. Love the Corgi. Live the Corgi....

We’re your shoulder to cry on What we’re trying to say is that we’ll help you navigate life’s tricky waters. What’s going on in that big brain of yours? Are you wondering the merits of different sandwich breads? (Steven will rant about ciabatta.) Curious what some good places to hide bodies are? (Don’t hide them at the police station.) Maybe you just want to tell us how your day was. (Hope you didn’t get hit by a car....

Definitely doesn’t affect any of you Now, I know this won’t be of any importance to any of Destructoid’s super well-behaved readership, but let’s say for argument’s sake some of you pirate games on PC. Well, you might want to be aware of some info in the Microsoft Services EULA. Obviously, none of you will be inconvenienced by the disabling of pirated software, right? Initially noticed by siteAlphr, the Microsoft Services EULA gives Microsoft permission to scan your Windows 10 machine for pirated software and remove it from your system....

Well good The big story of the day is how Microsoft will beselling the Xbox One without the Kinectstarting this June. Good! But what about the user interface? The Xbox One’s UI was designed to be “best” used with Kinect, and thankfully Microsoft will be addressing this matter. “We do want to find ways to give you some of those shortcuts and make some of the things that we have with Kinect easier with the controller,” Xbox’s marketing lead Yusuf Mehdi toldEngadget....

Server? I hardly even know her! Ubisoft’s upcoming “MMO RPG of racers” holds up to that comparison. If you lose your internet connection, even if you’re playing solo, you’ll be booted out to the title screen, creative director Julian Gerighty toldVideoGamer. “It’s one of those things that the game needs to work with an internet connection so I think you’re going to lose the race you’re in,” he explained. “It’s not the most elegant of solutions....

In February, Adam WarRock released his freeMass Effect 3 EPexclusively on Destructoid in celebration of the release of the game. Now, as part of his annual donation drive, he’s released a follow-up track, “Garrus Got My Back.” To download the track, go tohttp://adamwarrock.comand consider donating! Any donation amount gets you two albums worth of music, including the new ME3 song and a bunch more exclusive content. Adam WarRock releases tons of free music and content year round, and once a year does a weeklong donation drive to keep the site free and running....

In a not so surprising turn of events, it seems people are really excited about id’sopen-world FPSRage. So excited, in fact, that a set of Xbox Live avatar items has been released to the wilds of the Marketplace. Now your avatar can reflect that excitement. For 80 points, you can outfit your digital self with your choice of a blackRageshirt, red Wingstick shirt, black id Software hat, or a blackRagehat. If that doesn’t quite show the true extent of your anticipation, you can equip your avatar with a Wingstick prop for 240 points....

[Not sure what Mash Tactics is? I’ve included a clip from the most recent episode to show you just a glimpse of what you’ve been missing, you daft fool!You can see all of Destructoid’s previously-aired live showsin our archives.] Today,Mash Tacticsis joined by representatives from Sega to play the new Kinect thriller,Rise of Nightmares. Here’s your chance to see if Sega’s new gore fest is hardcore enough to make you want to use your Kinect....

Namco Bandai isn’t what one thinks of as a company with a soul, butFragile Dreamsproducer Kentaro Kawashima has expressed his hope that its latest Wii game will leave players with at least a shred of an emotional reaction. According to him, if gamers are affected even a little bit, he will be “ecstatic beyond measurement.” “I believe that if the game leaves even a shred of something emotional in your heart when you walk away from it, then we’ve succeeded, and that would make me ecstatic beyond measurement,” confesses the producer....

Still ‘coming soon’ The saga ofPokemon Goon the Apple Watch has been messy. Earlier this year, Niantic showed off the Watch port during Apple’s iPhone 7 keynote, eventually stating that it would be out before the end of the year. Well, they have two weeks left, and we haven’t heard much about it at all for months on end. Recently a rumor even started up that Niantic had canned the port, leading people to believe that they showed a mock-up of a project that had no intention of seeing a wide release just to help boost Apple’s cachet....

During the last console generation,Sniper Elitecame out of nowhere and wowed everyone that got their hands on it. It was the most realistic sniping experience on the market at the time but it was extremely hard to find a copy of the game. Seriously,Sniper Elitewas called the “Gran Turismoof war games” last-gen. Sniper Eliteis getting revived and will be giving Wii owners the chance to be a sniper in World War II....

I have earned myself a reputation as a “Sony basher” and a “PS3 hater” by people who clearly do not know the difference between the two. Contrary to popular belief, I donothate the PlayStation 3. In fact, I love it, and at the time of writing, it is my favorite current-generation console. This could change in the future, as my favorite system is decided by what games are appealing to me at any given moment, not by which one my Mommy and Daddy just happened to get me for Christmas....