When BioShock launched in 2007, it felt like a breath of fresh air to many gamers. A brand-new IP with a fantastic story and an interesting sandbox-style approach to combat within a linear format...

Strip away marketing and PR controversy, and forget for a moment that Dante's Inferno is a videogame interpretation of a literary classic (albeit loosely). Sure, Visceral Games -- the talented te...

Right off the bat, I'm just going to say it: Chime is an utterly compelling, aesthetically minimalistic puzzle game that rides the cusp of being entirely fantastic, faltering only at its lack of ...

Sparing intergalactic civilization from annihilation isn't a new narrative construct -- all budding sci-fi game writers and novelists must have soggy dreams about weaving this sort of epic -- but...

When Capcom publishes a game, there are very few people who don't know about it, but it has to be said that Dark Void's marketing and hype has been somewhat minimal. Sure, quite a few people know...

Army of Two didn't exactly set the gaming world aflame when it released back in 2008. In fact, the only remarkable thing about EA Montreal's co-op shooter was its sheer tastelessness, as dar...

It started life as an unknown game from an untested studio, but as we drew closer and closer to Darksiders' release date, people started to take notice. The incredible art design, the promise of ...

I am a huge fan of Matt Hazard's universe. I love the ridiculous characters, set pieces and humor found in Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard and knew as soon as it was over that I would ne...

How can one accurately describe Bayonetta? The truth is, one can't, and that makes starting a review very difficult indeed. You could list any number of adjectives that partially describe the exp...

In the current economic climate, with studios suffering layoffs every other day, many publishers have stated a preference for sticking with established IPs that are almost guaranteed to sell well...

Videogames made solely to coincide with the release of a major movie tend to be terrible -- rushed, lazy, and made with little to no care by studios who are just doing the bare minimum required t...

World War II games are a penny a dozen, having earned a reputation as one of the most overused settings in videogame history. Likewise, the open world genre has been exploited so often and so sha...

Ever wanted to actually get on a skateboard, but simply couldn't find the time to leave your living room?  Having lost a lot of market- and mind-share to its competition, Activision went bac...

A year ago, the music game genre was at its peak. Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour had recently launched to rave reviews, and looking back, it appears that the developers of those games -- ...

Screw Duke Nukem. Sam "Serious" Stone is the real king of first-person-shooter meatheads and if anybody deserved to make a triumphant comeback, it was him. Sure, Sam may not be quite as high prof...

Assassin's Creed is generally considered to be a solid, if somewhat flawed, videogame. Despite earning praise for its visuals, concept and unique story, the 2007 title was criticized for its repe...

New friends, more zombies, better apocalypse. That's what Valve has promised, and that's what fans will come to expect when they finally pick up the sequel to one of the best zombie games ever m...

The biggest game of the year is finally here. Infinity Ward created one of the most popular, well-crafted and subsequently imitated first-person-shooter games in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare a...

Borderlands is almost here, and judging from the constant messages, insults, and death threats I've gotten in the last few weeks as I've been playing it on Steam, I would consider it eagerly anti...

Racing games are not for everybody. Well, the old ones were, but time went by, we slowly got away from the simplicity of just getting over the finish line first. Now we're at a point where we're ...

Despite having only developed one game prior, there were a lot of expectations for Double Fine Productions' follow-up, Brütal Legend. With founder Tim Schafer behind the wheel, this heavy me...

Revealed September 10th on an episode of GTTV after weeks of rumors, Lucidity is developer LucasArts’ new downloadable title. Unlike their last few releases like Secret of Monkey Island: Sp...

I'll be as forthcoming as I can: I didn't finish, nor will I probably ever finish JUMP!, the first of several XBL Indie Game from Arkedo (the guys behind Big Bang Mini, if you're keeping track) p...

The Warriors is the sort of film which should lend itself almost perfectly to a gaming experience. Its simplistic plot centered around eight gang members trying to cross New York City with every ...

If you're over the whole “zombies in videogames” streak the industry has been on the past few years, you're not alone. What once was a rare and genuinely exciting occurrence (Zombies ...

If you're over the whole “zombies in videogames” streak the industry has been on the past few years, you're not alone. What once was a rare and genuinely exciting occurrence (Zombies ...

When Codemasters announced DiRT 2, I was very happy to see that it still had Colin McRae's name on it. I found the first game to be "okay," and after playing the demo for this second in...

The Halo series is one of gaming’s biggest franchises to date. From videogames, books, comics, toys, to clothes -- Halo was even almost turned into (and could very well still be) a Hollywoo...

While I was sold on the concept of WET -- a chick shoots and slices up thugs in a grindhouse-inspired action game -- I wasn't exactly sold on what's arguably a game's most important aspect: How i...

EA Sports’ NHL franchise has a distinguished pedigree -- the past two games in the series have earned 19 “sports game of the year” awards from various videogame publications and...

Darkest of Days is the worst first-person shooter of this generation.There it is. This attempt to be a clever, interesting FPS experience is, without a shadow of a doubt, the single worst first-p...

As the ending credits rolled on The Beatles: Rock Band -- set to the sounds of actual, archived studio chatter from the Fab Four -- our Xbox 360 controller went into sleep mode. Yes, the credits ...

The medium of interactive entertainment is full of good ideas that, for some reason or another, never realized their full potential. Either the required budget just wasn't there, pressure from pu...

What's the point in making a multiplayer game for consoles if nobody is going to play it on consoles? How exactly do you review a game you can hardly play because barely anybody else is playing i...

While there's a fat “five” tagged to the name of this game, by no stretch of the imagination is this only the fifth Guitar Hero game to hit the market. Ignoring the mobile and handhel...

Finding a licensed superhero game which stays true to the source material while still managing to be fun is ridiculously hard. Just ask a fan of Superman how they feel about the assorted att...

Nobody likes Nazis. Apart from German people, obviously. That's why it's always so much fun to shoot them, and why you can't keep the Wolfenstein franchise down. id Software, Raven Software, Pi S...

Chair Entertainment's Shadow Complex is out today on Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1200 MS Points, or 15 American dollars. It's a "Metroidvania"-style side-scroller, heavily influenced by Super ...

After a short run against the Washington Redskins, the dreaded notice came up: “B. [Brandon] Jacobs is going to be evaluated by team doctors.” The New York Giants subbed in their sma...

At first glance, Trials HD didn't look like my type of game. It's sort of a hybrid racing game/physics puzzler with a heavy emphasis on demanding perfection. Skill-based games like this aren't ex...

It wasn’t hard to fall in love with Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time when you were eight years old. The brawler allowed you to pick your bipedal turtle of choice...

There’s a growing trend on Xbox LIVE Community Games. Developers are creating silly applications and clunky tools for entertainment purposes instead of games. I won’t pretend to know ...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The old Dickens passage might never have applied so well to a videogame as it does the release of SNK Playmore and Ignition Entertainment's KO...

Licensed retail games are bad enough, but nothing exemplifies "cheap crap" quite like Xbox Live Arcade. With lower expectations come far lower standards, and it's so very easy to churn ...

When I read the "word" BlazBlue, I immediately hear Bill Cosby in my head babbling a "Blazem Blazblue Blippity BLOP". Did Bill Cosby ever actually say anything like that, or i...

Twisted Pixel pushed its way onto the Xbox LIVE Arcade scene earlier this year with The Maw. An original title based on an original IP, we thought it was pretty damned impressive for the studio's...

Let’s rewind to E3 2009. I’m inside LucasArts’ conference room. I’m a few minutes early for the Star Wars: The Old Republic presentation. They have food and drink in both ...

After being involved in the creative process of a few indie games, I've acquired quite a taste for game making. I now feel that I won't be completely satiated until I make a game all on my own. T...

Electronic Arts Digital Illusion CE’s Battlefield 1943 is a bite-sized downloadable title based upon the foundation of the Battlefield series. In the game, two teams compete for flags with ...

Let's not beat about the bush: Revenge of the Fallen is a typically rushed licensed game intended to coincide with an awful movie that shamelessly rapes your fondest childhood memories. It does t...

The original Call of Juarez had to be played to be believed. An alternately awful and incredible mixture of poorly designed levels with an incredible attention to pacing, narrative, and character...

You may remember the Mad Catz Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition FightStick. It was released in limited quantities when the fighting game debuted in February. Hungry players pre-ordered the joy...

Overlord was one of my favorite games of 2007. Its unique gameplay, evil-minded focus and silly sense of humor outshone the technical issues and awkward controls to create a fun and memorable tit...

I'm a bit of an addict when it comes to puzzle games and have a nasty habit of simply buying whatever titles within the genre crop up on the download services. So it was that I picked up Yosumin ...

Late last summer, we received official word that a Magic: The Gathering Xbox LIVE Arcade title was slated for release. At the time of the announcement, I was learning the game. Figuring out how t...

Dynasty Warriors games aren't exactly known for their critical acclaim, but at least one subset of the series has always managed to win favor with the press. Empires is a strategic expansion to t...

What do you get if you marry Gears of War shooting action and Prince of Persia acrobatics, wrapping the whole creation up in a post-apocalyptic steampunk aesthetic? You should get something absol...

When Codemasters publishes a racing game, I usually head for the hills. Not because Codemasters publishes bad racing games, but because I'm bad at Codemasters' racing games. GRID practically requ...

Clover is one of those games that would immediately catch the eye of a certain type of gamer -- that is, the gamer always on the lookout for something slightly different than the rest of what's o...

In 1991, had we been given the opportunity to join the Ghostbusters as an “Experimental Equipment Technician,” we probably would have jumped at the chance. It’s a job that would...

Radical Entertainment's Prototype has been a long time coming. The promise of shape-shifting slaughter in an open world was met with an equal mix of excitement and trepidation from gamers, but th...

With so many recent open-world games -- inFAMOUS, Prototype, and Red Faction: Guerrilla -- I can feel myself beginning to grow tired of the genre. Not because any of them are bad, but because the...

With Criterion Games constantly providing such a steady stream of add-ons, Burnout Paradise seems to have more in common with a platform than an actual videogame.The core experience has evolved t...

Zoomaroom generated a decent amount of critical buzz when it was released for Xbox LIVE Community Games. Since then, we’ve learned what to expect from the platform and perhaps raised our co...

It's been a long time since a home console saw a true-blue Diablo-style RPG. While there have been plenty of Japanese RPGs, and Western open-world role-players such as the Elder Scrolls games, a ...

Over three billion years ago (Standard Internet Time), I was hopelessly addicted to Lumines. After burning out -- it took a few weeks -- I put down the genre for a good clip. I regret that decisi...

Shame. It’s what I feel whenever someone asks me what I think about the new Star Trek movie. Before you jump to conclusions, let me just say, I haven’t seen it yet. My shame is purely...

This review does not have a score attached to it. After playing up to the fourth chapter, I had enough of what has been among the most miserable gameplay experiences of my life. Apparently we are...

I don't know, but I've been toldBanjo-Tooie is kind of oldBut now it's back on XBLAShould you go out and get it today?Read on for the answer!

I recently had the opportunity to play through Lionhead Studios’ second expansion for Fable II, “See the Future.” It’s a brutally short bit of downloadable content that I ...

I have a few gaming regrets. One of those is my neglect of space shooters. I didn’t really get into the genre until I was much older, when the multidirectional dual-stick shooter became the...

What do you get if you combined Ninjas, hardcore combat sensibilities, wall-running and Quick-Time-Events? It sounds pretty much like an amalgamation of every action game to have been released in...

The Xbox Live Community Games channel empowers budding game developers to create their own blockbuster titles in the hopes of attracting attention and one day becoming the next Shigeru Miyamoto. ...

It has been over a year since gamers were given the opportunity to check out the XNA Community Games demo and I think it's safe to say that one game clearly outshined all of the competition. The ...

You’re probably wondering why we haven’t reviewed The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena until now. Well, wonder no more. Blame our lack of coverage on germs, man.Late last...

While Electronic Arts’ Godfather II shares a name with the 1974 film, it’s a bit unfair to compare the two. Francis Ford Coppola's sequel is widely considered one of the greatest film...

Midway Studios Newcastle's/Tigon Studios’ Wheelman is an open-world action title. In it, you control a digital Vin Diesel named Milo. He’s good at driving and doesn’t mind killi...

It's not often that you can play a full-length videogame that exists as nothing more than one big self-referential in-joke. At the very least, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard deserves attenti...

At last, Resident Evil 5 has hit store shelves. The follow-up to the incredibly well-received Resident Evil 4, the hype and expectations around the title have been out of control.You've read the ...

Ah, another day, another RPG. It's easy to feel that way with all the genre's releases as of late (and it makes me a bit nostalgic for the days in which I would patiently wait through the months ...

Sega has an amazing legacy and a library of fantastic, cherished franchises that remain among the most memorable experiences in gaming history. Then we get something like Shadow the Hedgehog, and...

X-Blades and I have had a deeply personal journey in the months leading up to its release. Publisher Southpeak loves sending me screenshots of the game as some sort of celestial punishment for a ...

Can you smell it? That's Watchmen fever -- it's in the air! Or maybe it's money. Because with the Zack Snyder's Watchmen film adapation hitting the theaters this week, there sure is a lot of mark...

I feel like a kid whenever I get my hands on a racing title. I enjoy the wind in my hair, the thrill of high speed, and the blast of an engine. Racing games tend to give me back that indiscretion...

My formative years were in the golden era of arcade sports games. You didn’t have to give a damn about sports to enjoy the endless fun of early-90s classics like Super Baseball 2020 and Mut...

[Editor's note: The original Halo Wars review was written before I had completed the campaign. This is common in our industry, where reviewers have to make a judgment call as to whether or not th...

What was probably the most hyped game of 2008 has unleashed what may be the most hyped DLC of 2009. Now, The Lost and Damned is available on Xbox Live and I've taken time to really put it through...

If the members of KISS can have their faces on a lunchbox, and Aerosmith has its name attached to multiple games, why not 50 Cent? Say what you will about his music, but Curtis "50 Cent"...

After the release of the original F.E.A.R., developer Monolith had to watch as its creation was farmed out to other studios thanks to Vivendi owning the rights and abusing them with extreme pre...

Eight years. That’s a mighty long time, and it’s the last time Capcom delivered a “proper” entry into the Street Fighter series. But it’s not as if the 2D fighter ha...

On paper, Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad is the perfect videogame. It has zombies, blood and boobs, a veritable Holy Trinity of things that get gamers hot. Of course, what works on paper doe...

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[Editors's note -- I have new recording equipment so all video reviews after today will sound much sexier. Keep helping us to improve our videos by providing feedback though!] Most XNA develop...

Before I brewed my cup of coffee this morning, I listened to the sounds of my two cats playing with their toys, my girlfriend grumbling about having to go to work, and rain drops. My cats’ ...

The Afro Samurai anime has its charms. The bent characters, copious amounts of stylized violence and decent narrative kept me moving from episode to episode. I usually don’t enjoy watching ...

Weapon of Choice has been held aloft for a while now as an example of what Community Games can be with some development know-how and a lot of effort. It is one of the most professional looking ...

The first bit of Fallout 3's DLC became available today. In the unlikely event that you have managed to forget what this installment consists of, this is Operation: Anchorage, in which players ha...

There is no shortage of twin-stick shooters wherever you go, especially when it comes to downloadable titles. Their relatively undemanding specifications make them easy candidates for quick dow...

Music influenced by gameplay is a popular little sub genre, with puzzle games like Lumines and revamped shooters such as Space Invaders Extreme using the player's own in-game actions to create ...

I wish there was a strong way to associate Robocop and TikGames’ recent Xbox Live Arcade release, Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos. The simple route would consist of me telling you that Int...

Today marks a most eventful day, for today is the day I try and write more than a single paragraph on Snake. That is what this game basically is. It's Snake. It has the number 360 after the title...

Puzzle games often challenge our ability to think quickly and work on our instincts, but funnily enough, they rarely challenge our intellect. Certainly, kicking arse at Tetris or Lumines takes sk...

Golf is a game played primarily by psychopaths. I have no frame of reference for this, nor do I have proof, but just looking at the dress code is enough to convince me that these people have no r...

Blitz Arcade’s PowerUp Forever is an arcade shooter that requires decent reflexes and a healthy desire to decimate foes. The most important feature of the game (as Blitz would have you beli...

There's something inherently satisfying about watching a chain reaction. From the ancient simplicity of Dominos to modern day videogame classics like Peggle, setting something in motion and watch...

Metacritic might have made headlines this year for the ridiculous fanboy turf wars that have gone on with user reviews, but I find the site to be a generally useful resource when charting how wel...

In our Totem review, we discussed how prolific puzzle games are on the Xbox 360's Community Games channel, but if there's one thing even more popular among budding indie developers, it's the shoo...

A little while ago, I wrote a rather damning appraisal of the Xbox 360's Community Games channel, sharing my belief that nearly every game on offer was garbage. I know that there are a few actual...

Before you read this review, know this -- I am a huge fan of Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.  And if you're a fan of that game as well, you and I are probably a lot alike. I w...

Sonic Unleashed is a bizarre paradox of a game, because never before have I played a game that is at once both jawdroppingly exhilarating and unbelievably frustrating. On the one hand, Sonic Unle...

It is the first videogame designed from the ground up to work with the New Xbox Experience's avatars, and as such, I was expecting it to be total rubbish. You'd imagine that a game designed aroun...

Rare is a developer that I desperately want to see flourish again. I know they have it in them to make great games, but these days, they always seem to get something wrong. When they announced th...

You may have noticed that we've been talking about Left 4 Dead an awful lot lately. While we petty Destructoid editors jumped around, hurriedly calling dibs on our favorite characters, you may h...

If you’ve already judged Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe based solely on the fact that it’s a Mortal Kombat title -- or that it isn’t technically as rich or deep as other fighters...

Today marks what Microsoft is calling the most significant event in entertainment since the birth of color television. Most of us just call it "that thing MS is doing so it can be like Ninte...

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is easily my most played game of 2007. It was, in fact, the title that made me truly care about online gaming, thanks to its fast-paced "meat grinder" sty...

If you want to play a first-person shooter this holiday, take your pick. There's a handful of them, so take your time making your selection. Go on. We'll wait. But first-person platform acti...

It is among the hottest properties in gaming, and one of Xbox Live's most popular titles. The original Gears of War was a worldwide success, even breaking barriers in Japan. It has garnered award...

In 1984, Stevie Wonder wrote the classic ballad "I Just Called To Say I Love You" for the film The Woman in Red. In the song, Wonder sings of a world void of life's little joys, with ly...

The original Far Cry came out around four years ago. The box art featured an intense Alec Baldwin, swimming in a body of water. Aside from how sexy that sounds, the game itself was far from that ...

I'm an action game obsessive and nothing gets me going more than a solid, brainless, gory hack n' slash. Part of the blame for this love of action can be traced back to the good old days of the s...

Only girls and poofters have emotions, that's what my drunk Uncle Horatio Himmler always used to say. He'd hate Peter Molyneux, who has confessed to being "incredibly emotional" over re...

When the most recent NHL lockout led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 hockey season, the popularity of the sport in America -- which was already not that high to begin with when co...

Last year, Koei decided that having two different franchises based around the same engine and premise wasn't enough. It needed a third, and thus it was that Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors ...

When a console has Viva Piñata as part of its library, you can't accuse a system of not at leasty trying to provide something unique and diverse. Amidst the drab and "gritty" sho...

One of the many things that can tie a generation together is their shared memory of pop culture. One can easily distinguish another person from their generation by comparing such things as movie ...

It seems like just yesterday that I wrote my review of the original Rock Band. In fact, it was actually less than a year ago. Since then, gamers (myself included) have clocked hours of plastic-in...

The Japanese RPG never ceases to astound me. It is a nearly untouched genre, steeped firmly in tradition. It beckons players to grind for experience senselessly for hours on end with an overly si...

Over the past couple of years, the Xbox 360 has had a healthy supply of titles for just about every genre... except role-playing and strategy games. And then recently, all of the sudden, the RPGs...

Before my nastiest knee accident, I was a terror on clay. Opponents would quiver as my mighty backhand delivered crushing blows that needled the line and ran them to exhaustion. My serve wasn&rsq...

Up until recently, the Xbox 360 has had very little to offer in the way of role playing games. Eventually titles like Eternal Sonata, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey sort of saved the day, but tacti...

Call it what you like -- milking a franchise or delivering what the market demands -- but Activision have made no bones about exploiting their key titles. Among them is the highly successful Guit...

When I think college sports, I think of the wonderful times that I had living in Columbia, South Carolina. I happened to live fairly close to Williams-Bryce Stadium where the Gamecocks played, an...

The developer of Hail to the Chimp, Wideload Games, started out its young career with the endearing Stubbs the Zombie in “Rebel Without a Pulse.” Stubbs was a hit-or-miss game for mos...

It feels like it’s been awhile since a first-person shooter hasn’t taken itself too seriously. Constantly crawling in the dirt inside of enemy territory or navigating the gloom and do...

Those who watched Sunday’s epic five-set Wimbledon Men’s Singles final between World No. 1 Roger Federer and No. 2 Rafael Nadal saw one for the ages: a match that has already been hai...

[Welcome to Review Scraps. It's like what Nick does with the news we missed, but covers reviews that didn't quite make it at launch. Some of you might find that pointless, but screw you! Debuting...

Better late than never, it's finally here -- the Destructoid review for Grand Theft Auto IV. Wanting to give this review our fullest attention, we wanted to make sure we had played enough to feel...

Historically, ninja are known for their proclivity for stealth tactics: silently slipping into the fortresses of their enemies, dispatching them quietly, and leaving behind no trace. Evidently, T...

Let's face it -- original titles on Xbox Live Arcade tend not to be, shall we say, very good? Sure, there are a few decent entries like Pac-Man: Championship Edition and Bomberman Live, but XBLA'...

Arcade sports games have always been a strange beast. Most have been designed around multiplayer madness, with you and your friends in a room shouting at each other while performing feats that de...

I love vikings. Ever since I was a child, I had an illustrated book of Norse mythology which I would happily read with great interest. The best thing about Norse mythology is how everyone, even t...

I’m not sure what Dark Sector’s lead Hayden Tenno thought he was getting into when he signed up for the “elite black-ops agent” program, but it’s hard to feel bad fo...

The original Condemned: Criminal Origins wasn't a masterpiece or anything, but it was good at what it wanted to be: a hobo-pummeling simulator with absurdly good graphics and Greg Grunberg voici...

Why aren't there more co-op games? Why are so many modern titles focused either on only singleplayer campaigns and multiplayer deathmatches, with multiplayer co-op often acting as nothing more t...

I'll say right away that partaking in the nerdy delights of OmiyaSoft's Culdcept Saga is a real pleasure for those that are used to the complex rules of trading card games, though it's definitely...

Better late than whatever. Many weeks back, I recorded a Rev Rant wherein I touted The Club demo as a badass mix of old-school and new; the demo took the third-person shooter aspects of modern g...

It's fair to say that Koei's Dynasty Warriors series gets more coverage on Destructoid than possibly any other games media outlet. The fact is, I'm crazy about the games and I don't care who know...

Despite having a range of different genres, the Xbox 360 cannot seem to stop itself being associated with shooters. It's true that shooting games seem most at home on Microsoft's red ring machine...

You always know where you are with a franchise like Devil May Cry. The formula has remained unchanged since the original PlayStation 2 title, and the game has stubbornly refused to change. Even i...

When Criterion dropped the Burnout Paradise demo on Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network late last year, fans clamored for their first chance to try out the game's open world. It wasn't long before ...

It's understandable that the expectations for a game based on an anime license wouldn't normally be set very high, especially for gamers that aren't anime fans. In the past, there hasn't been...

The dream of being in a rock band is not one that everyone will be able to fulfill. Be it lack of talent, lack of charisma, or an overwhelming shyness, we weren't all born to be the next Steven T...

Goddamnit.Kane and Lynch could have been so good. It comes from the guys who brought us Hitman, after all, and it seeks to provide the player with a much more character-focused, story-driven expe...

The first two Call of Duty games were widely praised as the next step in the first-person shooter genre. They had bombastic action sequences, gripping storylines and enough Nazi-bashing to make G...

There's something about the Conan franchise that brings a smile to my face without fail. The sheer testosterone-fueled, immature male fantasy aspect of it all is certainly worth a chuckle. Conan ...

When Virtua Fighter 5 hit the PlayStation 3 earlier this year, everyone loved it. On a system lacking in quality software, it was hailed as the second coming of Christ (albeit, Christ with a wick...

Timeshift ...The name inspires thoughts of B-Movies starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a futuristic police officer sent back in time to do the splits and pronounce words in a hilarious fashion. He...

For those of you waiting patiently for a solid RPG to come to the 360, Eternal Sonata has long been simmering on your must-play list. After disappointing reviews of the highly anticipated Blue Dr...

If I may beat a cliché firmly into the dirt just a few inches deeper, Halo 3 is a game that needs no introduction. I mean that literally. If you’re not decked out in your homemade ...

The sub-genre of sports games devoted to skateboarding has changed drastically since its debut. Originally, titles such as Thrasher and Skate Or Die portrayed skateboarding as a cliché-r...

So, here’s the thing: The majority of gamers are already decided on whether or not they’re going to purchase Stranglehold. If anything, the question of whether or not to buy seems...

I had almost lost hope. Almost. You know what article I've had sitting in my queue for almost two months? It's called "Requiem for the Single Player Campaign", and it was gonna be good ...

Destructoid reviews games. The Darkness is a game. So we reviewed it. And, all things considered, it probably wouldn't kill you to read it. Within this hallowed post, you'll find the opin...

Greetings, greetings, one and all: it's time for yet another official Destructoid review. Today's game of choice is the new 360 racer Forza Motorsport 2, which looks to marry realistic r...

This'll be a very unconventional Destructoid review in nearly every way. Firstly, this review will only consist of one editor's views -- mine. The rest of our intrepid Destructoid editors...

Yes, if you get Crackdown, then you'll have a very good chance on getting in the Halo 3 beta. But is that the only reason to get this game? Find out what we think after the jump in the lates...

Depending on how you look at things, Capcom's Lost Planet for the Xbox 360 was Microsoft's latest killer app in the ongoing console war. It was one of the most talked about and anticipate...

I haven't seen much on the new 360 Xbox Live Arcade title Small Arms since it was released last week so I thought I'd throw my two cents out there for those who were curious as to how it ...

The SA crew have crafted single sentences that describe entire gaming experiences with amazing and pointed accuracy, thereby rendering every video game magazine on the shelf useless. However, the...

As we all (especially this dude) know, the three Burger King games came out this week. Considering all three are reasonably priced ($3.99 each with the purchase of a Value Meal, and you only have...

Now, I hate to judge a game based on the first 10 minutes or so of play, but I feel compelled to throw this warning out to potential Xbox 360 Sonic the Hedgehog buyers -- TRY BEFORE YOU BUY! Mayb...

Besides my voice track that got all frizzled for some reason, I think this video review of both Bomberman: Act Zero for the Xbox 360 and Bomberman for the PSP will give you a good idea of what...