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You're browsing in compact mode. Expand all stories Level 1-1 done in Reggie!, a New Super Mario Bros. editor 20 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 11 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! 4 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 55 [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 15 [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 23 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) 23 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 29 [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 40 [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 30 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 10 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 8 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 13 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 23 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 35 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 96 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 7 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 9 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 8 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 16 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 4 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 26 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 14 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 13 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 48 [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 12 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 6 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 4 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' 8 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... Letting the Dust settle: impressions of An Elysian Tail 15 Of all the upcoming indie games created with Microsoft's XNA tools, Dean Dodoril's Dust: An Elysian Tail is perhaps the best known. This is because a.) it's beautiful and b.) Dodoril's lupine pro... Grue renewed: Fallout 3's Reign of Grelock is playable 7 Sadly, this article isn't about a Zork remake (not that a text-only game would benefit from bump mapping or bloom lighting) -- I just needed a catchy headline that would attract text adventure en... Bit.Trip.Void announced, detailed, and trailered 13 While Jonathan Holmes was busy experiencing some sort of erotic fever dream, Bit.Trip series creators Gaijin Games were getting sh*t done. Holmes' predictions were right: explorethevoid.com is in... Art from the canceled 2003 Earthworm Jim game re-surface 18 Here's your second dose of canceled game esoterica for the night, again courtesy of Unseen64: concept art and details about the ill-fated Earthworm Jim prototype for the Xbox and and PlayStation ... Flashbang's Time Donkey is now available on Blurst 7 Flashbang Studios, purveyors of weird and creators of Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and Jetpack Brontosaurus, have released a new game. It's called Time Donkey, it was made in eight weeks, and you... Marvelous announces Sakura Note, an 'everyday fantasy' 12 A few days ago, 1Up revealed that Marvelous Entertainment (famous for its Harvest Moon and, more recently, for publishing Grasshopper's No More Heroes) have announced a new DS game called Sakura ... Pour one out for Star Wars: Battlefront IV concept art 13 Two of my favorite things about videogames are, oddly enough, concept art and unreleased or cancelled games. I like thinking about how games get made, and it's fascinating to sort through the one... Russian priest designs an MMOrthodox RPG 9 My friend Matthew recently joined the Eastern Orthodox Church, and being the worst kind of lazy pseudo-intellectual, I usually prefer asking him questions about it rather than doing any of my own... GC 09: Folklore dev announces Majin: The Fallen Realm 17 Given how hard it is to launch a new IP, it's really no surprise that most people seem to have completely overlooked Game Republic's Folklore, even though it was a very strong addition to the Pla... GC 09: Raskulls developer bringing four games to PSP Minis 3 Halfbrick has making quite a stir on the Xbox Live Arcade with Raskulls (which is already getting some preemptive comparisons to The Behemoth's Castle Crashers). Well, the Australia-based develop... First footage of CCP's Dust 514, console companion to EVE 26 I've always been academically fascinated by EVE Online -- any game with an economy robust enough to have its own crises is worth noting -- but its mechanics have always seemed remote, obtuse, and... 'New' Earthworm Jim game actually the 15-year-old original 21 Well, we all know that Earthworm Jim 4 is being developed -- Shiny Entertainment founder David Perry has been dropping hints about it since 2007 and Interplay has been doing its best  to sta... Espgaluda II headed to the Xbox 360 19 Admittedly, I'm not the shmup guy on the Destructoid staff -- there aren't enough numbers coming out of heads for my tastes. I do, however, know enough to know that Cave means quality when it com... JRPGs, narrative conflict, and gameplay lyricism 102 I really need you guys to do me a favor. The next time someone tells you that they like a Japanese-style role-playing game because of its "story," I want you to kick them in the teeth. ... Presenting DJ Malloc's 'Paradigm Collection' 20 In seems that reworking old videogame covers in styles popularized by artsy fartsy books and movies is the new cool thing to do. For the cynical, it might seem like internet hivemind, but I can s... Here's to twenty more years, Sega Genesis! 33 Twenty years ago today, the Sega Genesis blast processed its way onto North American shores, ushering in one of the few times that Nintendo's console dominance has ever been legitimately challeng... Paper route: ddi714d's moveable papercraft machines 9 If I wanted to post all the great videogame-related papercraft out there, I would just post links to Cubeecraft everyday and close up shop. Every once in a while, however, truly amazing papercraf... Go down, Moses: for the love of God, play Tower of Heaven 37 If you're in college (or a particularly rambunctious teen) you've probably played a drinking game called King's Cup. Well, substitute the Shlitz for a three-color platformer with an aboslutely ki... New game for an old console: Zaku coming to the Atari Lynx 20 In case you've never heard of Super Fighter Team, it's a Califonia-based company that specializes in releasing "new" games on retro consoles. I have to put "new" in quotes bec... Remember Blue Dragon? Here's a video of the new game 20 A few days ago, I caught myself wondering about Mistwalker -- I was (and still am) a big fan of 2007's Lost Odyssey, but the company has been relatively quiet recently. ASH looked promising, but ... Check out the edible prototype for Jason Rohrer's new game 7 That picture above all these words? That's a prototype board for Jason Rohrer's recently-announced, Majesco-published DS game "about diamond trading in Angola on the eve of the passage of th... DoubleBear's ZRPG, a psychological zombie RPG 21 So, raise your hands if you're tired of zombies. No? No one? Good.With the exception of perhaps Dead Head Fred, the thing about most zombie games is that you spend most of your time slaughtering ... Oldie but goodie? Cancelled X-Men game for the 32X 27 Here's a bit of late night gaming esoterica for you: a Spanish Sega fansite, Sega Saturno, has unearthed an unreleased copy of a cancelled 32X game called X-Men: Mind Games, a 3D action/maze... Street Fighter IV concept art is a.) sexy and b.) pencil-y 11 In a surprising twist, newly revealed concept art definitively proves that Street Fighter IV was originally planned as a homoerotic H-game. I'm going to assume that the game was hastily re-imagin... THQ to buy Midway San Diego for $200,000, TNA not included 5 I don't tend to get interested in the "business" end of gaming -- stock prices, mergers, hostlie takeovers, etc. I don't know a lot about business or economics and I'd rather be talking... Want Dragon Quest IX over here? Maybe in April, says Wada 15 Now, I'm no analyst but I bet Square Enix is tickled pink that Dragon Quest IX is selling oodles of copies in its native Japan, a few dismissed Amazon complaints aside. Given that Square loves ma... Canadian government funding indie games development 19 You and I both know that every person that has ever said, "If [so and so] gets elected, I'm moving to Canada!" is lying. Well, it seems that Canada is starting to call our bluff, doing ... Eyes crossed: Japanese vid for NIS, Gust's Trinity Universe 22 I'm not sure exactly when the crossover craze got started -- perhaps in 1996 with Capcom's X-Men vs. Street Figther -- but it seems like they're popping up everywhere; Super Smash Brothers, Capco... Ex-Midway Newcastle artist spills on studio's last weeks 6 In an attempt to stave off impending closure, Midway Newcastle spent its last month working on and, more importantly, pitching Necessary Force to potential buyers. Unfortunately, they were unsucc... New project by Knytt creator being published by Nicalis 15 Publisher Nicalis has been quite busy snapping up PC indie titles and bringing them over to WiiWare: Pixel's excellent Cave Story most famously and, most recently, La-Mulana. Even though none of ... SDCC: EA to prostitute its booth babes for you, the customer 36 Oooh Lord. Where to even start with this one? Let's get right to it: Electronic Arts and Visceral Games have cooked up another awful PR campaign for Dante's Inferno called "Sin to Win."... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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