A short while back, Namco Bandai had teased that an RPG will be making a big comeback, and fans excitedly crossed their fingers for a new Xenosaga or other such venerable franchise. If you're a f...

It’s Monday morning. Aside from meaning that I need a lot more coffee, fat strippers, and protein to operate than on a normal day of the week, it means a whole new host of Nintendo digital ...

You know, when I posted a video of Love Plus a while back to show off its quirky dating sim charm I thought that would be the last we saw of the game here on Destructoid. After all, it wasn't com...

I have to indulge in a little narcissism right: not only did I get farther along in the second dungeon of Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks than any other journalist who previewed the game, I had al...

Along with a USB stick containing the opening of the upcoming Nintendo DS title The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Nintendo sent me a wooden train whistle. Oh, and there were also some pretty n...

Black Friday and all its horror will soon be upon us, and the Internet has gotten its talons on GameStop's list of ludicrous offers. The list is absolutely huge, some great bundles such as a PS3 ...

Jesus C*nting Christ! Despite there being roughly ten billion Sonic the Hedgehog compilations, it seems that Sega feels we can always have more, and has recently submitted Sonic Classic Collectio...

With the DSi LL set to be released in Japan this Saturday, display units have started popping up here and there to help Nintendo promote it. Anoop over at Andriasang got to peep some at the Bic C...

If the latest gossip is to be believed, Scribblenauts is going to become a franchise, and it will do so as early as next year! Warner Bros. accidentally let slip its list of 2010 games, with Scri...

The VGAs may be looked at with cynicism and contempt by a great many among the gamer community, but there's no denying that it's about as mainstream an award show as we're going to get. With that...

Right now, all sights are set on Other M, the beautiful Wii Metroid game that is set to be released next year. But what about Metroid Prime? Was it all over with Metroid Prime 3: Corruption? Mayb...

Nerdy gamers like myself want to know a bit about the electronic guts inside their gaming systems. I can still rattle off some of the specs of the last few generations of systems, in fact. And if...

Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ. Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? It's the best and probably only game featuring a sexy, busty Little Red Riding Hood as a gunner, gunning down all of histor...

What has always been completely amazing about the Ace Attorney games is their incredible quality throughout the series. Most game series start losing steam around number three, but the adventures...

Hotel Dusk really was a great little game. It took everything you loved about old school adventure games and made it all look like an A-Ha video. What wasn't to love? If you're one of those who g...

The paperwork finally went through, and the patriotic soldiers starring in the Sgt. Frog manga and anime getting the RPG-adaptation supplies that they've desperately clamored for. Entitled Keroro...

As Midway Games crumbled and was eventually gobbled up by Warner Bros., the fate of franchises and licenses hung in the balance. Games like Mortal Kombat, Spy Hunter... we were all concerned. But...

I knew that the Ninteno DS was quite useful for doing things like playing games and helping me make oyakodon, but fighting child abuse? That's wasn't on the back of the box. The Ayr Advertiser re...

Tecmo is piling on the Nintendo DS games next March, dropping not one, but two titles onto retail shelves. The publisher has announced that both AGAIN and Monster Rancher DS will be available in ...

IGN just put up an interview with the team behind Project Monster (working title), the new game from the developers of Henry Hatsworth. The game is about a young girl who takes a monster under he...

During his comments following the release of Nintendo's recent financials, company President Satoru Iwata laid out the connectivity rates for the Wii and DS in Japan. According to Nintendo's numb...

When we were figuring out who was going to cover what game at Hudson's Gamers' Day, one of the titles that we knew very little about (okay, nothing) was listed only as Rooms. Rooms, what's Rooms?...

Deca Sports has wildly been popular on the Wii for some time now. The first one sold over a million copies in North America and the sequel was released just two months ago. Now, Deca Sports is he...

Princess Zelda -- always getting herself into trouble, be it getting kidnapped by Ganon or getting kidnapped by someone who isn't Ganon who then later turns out to be Ganon. But no longer w...

A new commercial for The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is hitting the United Kingdom, showing off a little bit of new footage as well as the GAME-exclusive limited edition set. It also features...

During the third quarter, Dragon Quest IX not only managed to be the best selling DS game in the world, but the best selling game, period. When you consider the fact that the RPG has not even bee...

We've been patiently waiting for Atlus to announce the DS game Strange Journey. The next in the line of Shin Megami Tensei games looks...well, strange, and we dig that in Atlus games. It just cam...

Capcom's classic DS game, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, may possibly be heading to the Wii if Germany's recent USK rating is to be believed. The game has been listed for Nintendo's white waggle b...

There's a new Japanese website for DS game The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. There's not much going on there. Really, there's only one link to click and when you do, it shows you the above imag...

Prior to my illustrious career as a games blogger, in my younger years,  I had the pleasure of working in the food service industry. Wait, "food service industry" is how I'm putting it? More...

I don't know what this guy Travis Barker's problem is, man.  During the recent filming of one of those Risky Business spoof promo spots for Activision's Band Hero, the drummer can bare...

There isn’t a nice package to wrap the Nintendo downloads in this week, unlike the previous two which had Halloween or Domo themes. Still, games came out and the point of this is to tell yo...

Sometimes a picture says a 1,000 words. This is one of those cases. Look above. You want it. I don't even need to write anymore, do I? Professor Layton toys would be the bomb and now they exist o...

There's no escaping the fact that, despite the DS being a brilliant platform for games, its technical prowess leaves a little to be desired. According to Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata, the next iter...

Little Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ has been released for DSiWare in Europe this past week. The game is going for 800 Nintendo Points and it's unknown if this is actually the full retail ga...

It's happened. I now know Scribblenauts more for its cute art than the actual DS game itself. In anticipation of tomorrow's festivities, developer 5th Cell sent over an awesome Halloween wallpape...

I won't lie, I've done my fair share of interviews in strange places, however this one takes the cake. In the basement of the Bright Dawn Treatment Center, I had the opportunity to speak with Aub...

Since this is important information to know, Kotaku has learned that Shigeru Miyamoto is now the proud owner of a cat. No details on the cat's breed, color, size of stool, or name are known at th...

The debut trailer for Dementium II is upon us and it will creep you out. The video begins with scenes from the first game and then jumps over to the sequel. The Doctor, main bad guy of Dementium...

Space Invaders Extreme is regarded by many as among the greatest DS games of all time, and an essential component of any portable gaming repertoire. It was undoubtedly a brilliant game, and so a ...

Hot off the heels of announcing the DSi LL, Nintendo has rubbed its vast profits in our faces by announcing that the DS as an overall product has shifted 113 million units worldwide since its lau...

Early adopter burning FTW! Nintendo has announced that, less than a year after the launch of the DSi, a brand new, bigger, better DSi is on the way. We had already heard that a DSi with a bigger ...

Band Hero ships on November 3 for a wide variety of platforms, including your home consoles like the Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. But when it comes to the Nintendo DS this fall, it brings al...

Nintendo has released five Star Fox games since the series was introduced in 1993, along with Super Nintendo "Super FX" chip like it was the second coming. Problem is, it just hasn't be...

Dementium: The Ward was the first game by the folks at Renegade Kid. It was an impressive first outing for the company -- they were able to make a great first-person shooter and survival horror g...

Remember that "augmented reality" Nintendo DSi title Ghostwire? No, well Majesco has snatched up the publishing rights for the game, which is set for release in late 2010. Now let'...

And by "horrifying," I of course mean "awesome."The poster attached below could be yours, assuming reserving Renegade Kid's DS game Dementium II is something you wouldn't be o...

For those of you straining your eyes to see the Nintendo DSi's 3.25" screen, Nintendo hears your cries. According to Japan's Nikkei post, Nintendo will be releasing a Nintendo DSi with a 4&q...

Another week, another set of Nintendo downloads. No Domo is coming our way, but there are a few treats among the Halloween-themed downloadable offerings across Nintendo’s three digital plat...

Renegade Kid are the guys behind the second best FPS on the Nintendo DS, Dementium: The Ward (the first being Metroid). For some reason a system that seems tailor made for some really great FPS g...

Wii Speak is regarded by our very own Jonathan Holmes as the greatest invention of modern man. Before the Wii came along, who could imagine that people might one day be able to talk to each other...

XSEED Games has announced that they'll be bringing over KORG DS-10 Plus over to America in early 2010. KORG DS-10, in case you're an idiot and haven't been following, is a music-creation program ...

No, its not Bidoof, though I could see why some may worship that cute/ugly little mongrel. It's the other guy, Arceus; he's the God of all Pokemon. I still think he looks more like a bad cross be...

Yesterday, the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification rated the mostly-unannounced Ubisoft title, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Predator for a multiplatform release. While not mu...

While Need for Speed: Shift may be seemingly pushed to the wayside by Forza Motorsport 3, EA's next attempt at finding a NFS game that will stick, Need for Speed: Nitro, may find more success. It...

Those hot for Domo are in for a surprise this week as Nintendo is unleashing not one, not two, not even three Domo downloads on DSi -- but four complete, absolutely thrilling and satisfying Domo ...

It's not just console games that get extravagant collector's editions. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is hurtling ever closer to its December 7 release date, and a special edition has been re...