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Have a new Dragon Ball DS 2: Assault! Red Ribbon Army trailer I'm sure I'll seem like a Philistine to my cohorts over at Japanator, but I have to admit that Dragon Ball is really the only manga I'm familiar with. I spent a year living with my Dad in France...
All-white Sengoku Basara/Devil Kings Revoltechs available Perhaps in anticipation of the (upcoming?) release of Samurai Basara: Samurai Heroes, for the PlayStation 3 and, oddly enough the Wii, or Battle Heroes, a PSP game in the same vein, Kaiyodo is pr...
This new Nier trailer is ... well, it's just new I don't know much about Nier except that it's got a hermaphroditic character that cusses like a sailor and that Square Enix is doing something silly with its distribution. It's being released as...
Samurai Pizza Cats, Speed Racer almost in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom In the same online chat in which Tatsunoko vs. Capcom producer Ryota Niitsuma spilled the beans about the potential for another Versus game being announced later this year, he spoke out about so...
New Shiren 3 trailer Wanders out, featuring some bosses There's a nasty cliche making the rounds in gaming circles when it comes to the Wii: that so-called hardcore games don't do well on it. I'm not going to get into sales numbers or profit margins ...
Hideki Kamiya: 'Nothing wrong with Bayonetta 2' One of the interesting things about blogging about videogames is that, in a lot of ways, people in the industry make my job relatively easy. For example, while I was playing Borderlands today, Hi...
Depending on sales, a new Capcom Vs. might be possible If there's one thing fighting fans love to do, it's telling Capcom how to run their business. Personally, I think R. Mika should make a Super Street Fighter IV comeback, but that's neither here n...
Look!: the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP bundle Yesterday, as the new issue of Weekly Famitsu hit Japanese news stands, details about two upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP bundles began to leak out. Sony is selling a Metal Gear Solid...
Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid DLC sales donated to Haiti You know what's better than accusing Haitian earthquake victims of signing a secret pact with the devil? Buying DLC for Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid HD. Not only are Castle Crashers and Alie...
Final Fantasy I and II coming to iPhone, iPod Touch A few weeks ago Hironobu Sakaguchi, famous for his hand in creating Square's Final Fantasy in 1987, remarked that his new company, Mistwalker, was working on a "project for iPhone." I'm not sure ...
Sadly scrapped: Arkedo's Natal game, 2-Finger Heroes Last night, I was lamenting to the rest of the Podtoid crew that I've never found a sufficient answer to the Natal Question. It eventually gets compared to World War II, but that's neither here n...
SOTA offering Lightning Blanka and Juri resin statues For those of you who have listened to Topher's sage words about the best way to approach the up-coming (but recently-delayed) release of Super Street Fighter IV, you'll be happy to know that ther...
Rock Band DLC: Phoenix and a live Tom Petty track pack Another week, another bunch of Rock Band DLC. If had any ideals, I'd refuse to post about DLC since it's obviously just a ploy by the Man to squeeze you for your precious banana dollars; but, ap...
So baller: Professor Layton Revoltech coming in March Ok, let's be perfectly honest here: this Professor Layton Revoltech figure is on-fire hot. If I had a saltier lexicon, one surely unbefitting of a gentleman like Professor Layton, I'd say it was ...
Ubi: Splinter Cell: Conviction and R.U.S.E. delayed If you think Ubisoft's recent financial report -- you know, the one that announced online multiplayer functionality in the next Assassin's Creed -- was all good news, think again: Splinter Cell: ...
Borderlands DLC Roundup: the word on Dr. Ned & Mad Moxxi As I was dying for the umpteenth time against Mad Moxxi's round 4 Badass Wave in the Angelic Ruins, it occurred to me that reviews of "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned" and "Mad Moxxi's Underdome Rio...
Dr Pepper and EA: free DLC for Mass Effect 2, others Mountain Dew has long been the stereotypical gamer drink of choice (besides Bawls, I guess), but Electronic Arts has cooked up a marketing scheme to drive gamers away from Mountain Dew towards so...
CES 2010: 39 million Xbox 360s sold (and counting) If you're just dying for the latest numbers coming out of Microsoft's CES press conference, I've got you covered. Armchair market analysis was never as sexy as it is now. Speaking to what I'm sur...
Make room on your shelf for Battle Kid, a new NES game Confession time: I spent my holiday weekend playing Final Fantasy II. So I understand if, even in this age of bump mapping, lens flares, and bloom lighting, you feel the need to play games lacki...
Happy Holidays from Brink, with 100% more tapir charity Holidays are a great time for gaming news. Not because there's something industry-shaking going on (there's not), but because videogame companies like sending out Christmas cards. They also somet...
Like puzzles? Spaceships? Bob Came in Pieces is only $10 You know what's cool? Instant gratification, that's what. If, for example, you get really jazzed over indie puzzle titles that combine the look and feel of Little Big Planet with core conceit of...
St. Nifflas drops indie platformer Saira under the tree I'm about a week late with the news on this one, but Nifflas has released another game, titled Saira. Why should you care? Because Nifflas' games -- particularly Knytt Stories -- are among the mo...
8-bit Dark Void Zero announced for DSiWare I have to admit that I wasn't very excited for Dark Void when it was first announced—there's something about Airtight Games' vertical cover system that makes my head spin, kind of like the...
Bit.Tonik: the game Robotube and Gaijin made in 24 hours Earlier this month, Gaijin Games (of Bit.Trip fame) announced that they'd be teaming up with Jason Cirillo's Robotube Games for a 24-hour jam session at this year's Blip Festival. The idea was to...
Final Fantasy band nixes name in fear of Square banhammer If you've ever listened to the Arcade Fire, Beirut, Stars, or any number of alternative Canadian bands, you've heard Final Fantasy's work. At least, you heard what used to be Final Fantasy: violi...
2D zombeat-'em-up Twin Blades hitting Xbox Indie channel I'm becoming increasingly impressed with the French indie scene, and not only because my last name is Leray. Joining Meckensleep (Soul Bubbles) and Golgoth Studios (awesome-looking Toki and Joe ...
Splinter Cell: Conviction has co-op and trailer to match Ok, confession time: I don't know much about the Splinter Cell franchise. Stealth-y tactical shooters aren't really, y'know, my thing. But I was really intrigued by Conviction's visual style and...
Finally! An English trailer for gorgeous Wii RPG Fragile I have to admit that Namco's Fragile has somewhat fallen off my radar. There were a few screenshots and a May announcement that XSEED would be publishing the title in the United States, but the ...
Meow Attack! Zoom into Arkedo Series 03 -- Pixel! If you guys happened to miss my review for Swap!, you might not be familiar with Arkedo, an indie studio who have taken it upon themselves to develop and release one new game per month. (They al...
Mad Moxxi DLC for Borderlands offers 'entirely new modes' "Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot", the second batch of Borderlands DLC after "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned", was announced just today, but it's already turning into a rather shaky enterprise. After a ...
Revisited: Gears of War 2, Pinocchio, and masculinity [Whenever possible, Destructoid critiques overlooked design aspects of games both old and recent for our "Revisited" series.]There exists in the gaming community a particularly virulent strain of...
Level 1-1 done in Reggie!, a New Super Mario Bros. editor New Super Mario Brothers Wii has been out for, oh, about 48 hours, but the Wii homebrew scene is already on the case: GBAtemp user Tanks has recreated Level 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bro...
Nintendo DLC Update: WiiWare demo, Pokemon, Indiana Jones Another week, another batch of downloadable games on the little console that could (and did, and continues to do). If you jump onto the Wii Shop Channel, you'll see the usual addition of Virtual ...
Review: Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! A few weeks ago, indie game developer Arkedo sent me an e-mail titled "An Easy Game from Arkedo to Dtoid, with Love": "Do you think it would be possible to have your mad skillz colleague try and ...
Revisited: the ending of Prince of Persia is broken [Whenever possible, Destructoid critiques overlooked design aspects of games both old and recent for our "Revisited" series.] The end of a game, in an ideal world, is the apex of its presentation...
Art Attack Friday: Andy Helms' Dude-A-Day project [Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist.] Back in February (which, if you'll recall, was the internet Stone Age), Hamza featured Andy Helms' Dude-...
New Stonesense visualizer makes Dwarf Fortress playable Forget Silent Hill or Fatal Frame. You know a game that's terrifying? Bay12's Slaves to Armok: God of Blood: Dwarf Fortress II, colloquially shortened to simply Dwarf Fortress. If being one of A...
Super SFIV's Juri used to be cute and fat (like a baby) I thought it was pretty interesting that Abel started off as a girl/trap (don't we all), and while Juri's original design didn't feature any gender-bending functionality, her creation process was...
dTunes editor's week, day 9: Joseph Leray [dTunes is a community-organized blog showcasing the musical tastes of Destructoid's users. For two weeks, the editorial team is commandeering the series because, hey, we like music too. To furt...
Nothing is sacred: killing God atop the Tower of Heaven [Editor's Note: We're not just a (rad) news site -- we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive the opinions of Destructo...
Monster Hunter giving Wii friend codes the chop in the US If I were going to be crass, I guess I could describe Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise as "Pokémon for grownups." That's not quite right, but Monster Hunter is reaching pocket m...
It's an Alientrap: XBLA shooter Capsized debut trailer The trailer for Alientrap Software's physics-based action-shooter Capsized has been making the rounds for about a week now. I'd made a mental note to post it already, but I got distracted by some...
In case you've forgotten: 20+ new La-Mulana screenshots I'll be the first to admit that I'm not familiar with Nigoro's action-adventure Metroidvania La-Mulana or the MSX games (like Maze of Galious) to which it pays homage. (In brief, you have to guid...
Beautiful Critter Crunch concepts, courtesy of Capybara Nick found Capybara Games' PlayStation Network debut Critter Crunch, a colorful food-chaining puzzler, to be "one of the best values in puzzle gaming you'll find this year," but, so far...
Grassroots effort to localize President Cat Rena begins While social networking and Web 2.0 have caused many a misanthropic headache (see Jonathon's weekly Fanboy Friday posts, for example), Twitter and Facebook can certainly be useful. On the rather ...
Golgoth remaking gorgeous arcade monkey-shmup Toki Up until yesterday, if you were to ask me about monkeys in videogames, I'd start off with Donkey Kong and then mention Super Monkey Ball, Samba de Amigo, and maybe those enemies in the Green Hill...
Infinity Ward details matchmaking for Modern Warfare 2 Discussion about Infinity Ward's upcoming kill-brown-people simulator Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been, well ... less than positive recently. Old World and PC gamers are feeling slighted b...
Take a photo tour of Blizzard's awesome offices Even though Jonathan visited Blizzard HQ twice over the summer and brought back a few photos, Blizzard has always been a rather secretive company. In an industry full of leaks and rumors, Blizzar...
Custom delights: seven of the Net's best custom Munnys In case you've never visited sister site Tomopop.com, here's a brief rundown of the concept of a Munny: they're small (usually about 3") toys made out of vinyl, vaguely shaped like a monkey,...
Sega Taikan Collection: tiny arcades for Lilliputians In the golden years of arcade gaming, Sega ruled the school with their sit down coin-op arcade machines. Now, any tiny people living in your walls can relive the glory days with Kaiyodo's Taikan ...
Bayonetta art competition ranges from erotic to horrific I don't read a lot of comics, so I'd never heard of Wizard (a comics magazine) until today. But anytime someone hosts a Bayonetta art competition with results like whatever the hell is going on u...
Run, jump, shoot: check out Sparky's Star Guard I don't know about you guys, but it's a slow day here at work. It's raining and cold here and, to be honest, I'd rather be at home with a mug of hot chocolate and a controller in my hand. A First...
Scribblenaut artist does Final Fantasy VI, Darkstalkers When we last left Edison Yan, artist for 5th Cell's Scribblenauts, he was drawing the casts of the Street Fighter franchise and Final Fantasy VII. Observant readers noticed that Yan had skipped S...
Shank impressions to live by: kill or be killed If you didn't listen to Podtoid 114, you might've never heard of Klei Entertainment's Shank. Since it doesn't have a publisher or a platform (although I did demo it with an Xbox 360 controller) a...
Crouching Tiger, Indie Brawler: HurricaneX2 impressions When it comes to videogames and China, most people think of free-to-play MMOs, shady gold farming, and a definite lack of World of Warcraft. But maybe China gets a bad rap; maybe people oug...
TGS 09: Fight skeletons on motorcycles in Final Fantasy: The Crystal Bearers [Surprise, a Destructoid Exclusive -- you saw it here first!]Given that 87% of Square Enix' total sales come from the Land of the Rising Sun, it's no surprise that they would try to promote one o...
Deadly zeppelins and Doctor Who: Nivel21's Rotor'scope With the success of Level-5's Professor Layton series (thanks, Lisa Kudrow!) it's not altogether surprising that other puzzle games, like Nivel21's upcoming Rotor'scope: The Secret of Endless Ene...
When less is more: impressions of Morsel's Kaleidoscope It was one of two games not to win an award at the competition but, given the fact that it's only been in development for two months, its selection as one of six finalists is impressive neverthel...
Max Blastronaut impressions from Dream.Build.Play Coin App's Max Blastronaut seems to have something of an identity crisis. Creator and lead designer Panya Inversin describes his game as "a classic four-player beat-'em-up with some extra be...
Sol Survivor impressions: making turret defense 'twitchy' One of the best things about going to conventions like PAX, and covering competitions like Microsoft's Dream.Build.Play, is that I get the opportunity to play games that I would've avoided like t... |
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Analyzing No More Heroes 2, part 2: The bosses, part 2
Destructoid interview: The music of BioShock 2
Indie games don't have to act like indie games
The art of The Journalism Show: Episode 03
Analyzing No More Heroes 2, part 1: The bosses
Ten things I didn't love about Final Fantasy XIII
Wah wah wah Sonic the Hedgehog 4!
Ten things I loved about Final Fantasy XIII
Rev Rant: Paragon/Renegade
Counterpoint: Mass Effect 2
The ugly truth: I may not be good at videogames
Is Heavy Rain doing videogames a disservice?
iPad: Likely to change gaming, just not yours
Rev Rant: the Wrex Paradox
The best indie games of '09 (that I forgot to mention)
Beyond Dead Space: Sledgehammer Games
How Darksiders is blatantly better than Zelda
The making of The Journalism Show: Episode 02
The simple math of review scores
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