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Madness spreads to Playstation Network, Military style One of the not so well known retro secrets is that the TurboGrafix-16 was once home to some of the best console strategy games of its time. Well, at least that's how I remember it. Regardle...
Preview: Rooms: The Main Building 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?...
Hudson's bringing back the Bonk Most gamers can remember the so-called console wars of the 16-bit generation. At the time, each of the console competitors used every advantage they could to show how their system was the right s...
Dark Void producer: That nauseous feeling is intentional As of a few days ago, the only things that people seemed to know for certain about Capcom's new IP, Dark Void, is that is has a guy with a jet pack, vertical platforming, and something to do with...
Hands-on Dark Void: Imagine greater than Syfy The other day, Capcom had an event to help spread the word about Dark Void. While you may have heard about the contest that was announced, the event didn't really lend itself to getting a good id...
E3 09: Video coverage of Sony's motion controller demo As reported earlier this week, Sony announced and demonstrated their motion controlling technology for the PS3. While the news, by Internet standards, is now eight billion years old, we still hav...
E3 09: Bethesda and Splash Damage's Brink is the hotness We clued you in the other day with information about Brink, the FPS heading to systems next year (PS3, 360, PC). What we learned when we saw the demo, though, is that looks freaking awesome.The w...
E3 09: WET hands-on impressions Although Joseph may not like the title of WET, his article did you give the basics of what the title is about. How does the title look and play, though, is what's important.The demo had three dif...
E3 09: Shatter for PSN will make Geometry Wars fans happy It's not that the upcoming title from Sidhe production studio is just like Geometry Wars or its sequel, but it shares many of the same qualities that that make the aforementioned title so enjoyab...
E3 09: Woman's Murder Club debut trailer So there's this game called Woman's Murder Club. Aside from this title being based on a James Patterson something or other that I've never ever heard of, the trailer is now ready for watchi...
E3 09: Tekken 6 will have single player Scenario Campaign When Hamza and I went to the Konami event a ways back, I did a very brief preview of Tekken 6. The reason it was so brief is because at that time there was very little to report on. While that's ...
E3 09: Sony shows off new motion controller, not SIXAXIS 2 When Sony showed off their SIXAXIS back in the day, it was pretty lame. Still is, actually. But, as Sony is announcing right now at their press conference, Sony has bigger plans for PS3 motion co...
E3 09: Sony announces Resident Evil for PSP and PSP Go Sony has been rolling out the announcements this morning, and most of them so far are all about portable stuff. Along with the new Metal Gear and Gran Turismo, Sony also announced that the Reside...
E3 09: Shadow Complex footage from the Microsoft conference A lot of amazing things were shown yesterday at the Microsoft conference, and adding to that long list of snazzy new things is footage for the Xbox Live title: Shadow Complex. Made by Epic Games,...
Preview: Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! Actually, due to our post character limit I couldn't write the game's entire name up there in the title. The complete name of NIS America's upcoming PlayStation Portable title is: Holy Invasion o...
Namco shows off Magnacarta 2 for the Xbox 360 While Namco Bandai was regaling the gaming press with their line up of titles yesterday, the announcer said, "What kind of Japanese gaming developer would we be if we didn't have an RPG in d...
Preview: Munchables, kinda like Pac-Man meets Katamari So this game totally slipped past my radar when it was announced last year. At least, I was told that it was announced last year when I was asking about it. It's not terribly surprising that I di...
Preview: Food Network: Cooked or Be Cooked In a perfect world, either Dale North or Johnathan Ross would have been on hand to preview this game. Not because I didn't think it was cool, but because all they ever talk about when we're all t...
Preview: Tekken 6 is ... well, Tekken I'm not really much of a Tekken player, but I've always seen the series as Namco's Lamborghini or Ferrari line of cars. With every iteration, nothing much really changes except for the style, and...
Preview: Katamari Forever I tried to put something in the title about the upcoming Katamari Forever being a PlayStation 3 exclusive, and that in in being an exclusive it is making me slooowly come around to considering ge...
Preview: The Strike. HOT BASS FISHING ACTION! Honestly, the "HOT BASS FISHING ACTION" in the title of this preview has nothing to do with the way that the makers of The Strike are marketing their title. It would also do a disservic...
Destructoid exclusive: Bionic Commando concept art There comes a time in every person's life where they get the inclination to lop off an arm, replace it with a kick-ass bionic one, and save the world. Luckily for the mothers of arm owners everyw...
Preview: Dead Space Extraction When Electronic Arts said it was going to bring Dead Space to the Wii, a lot of people thought that they were joking. As it turns out, they weren't, but the confirmation only brought about the us...
Hamza Bullets! Death Tank super tank 'shoop and haiku of death contest winners! Oh, Hamza Bullets, what can't they do? I know that they can help to pick out the winners of the Death Tank super 'shoop and haiku of death contest that recently ended. Sadly, the Hamza Bullets di...
Contest: Death Tank super tank 'shoop and haiku of death XBLA giveaway! [UPDATE] This creepy old man on the bus was saying to me that there is nothing more awesome in life than death and tanks. Since he was wearing a shoe for a hat and smelled of old fish, I told him to take ...
Preview: BattleForge's multiplayer The other day, I had a chance to spend some time on EA and Phenomic's upcoming real time strategy game, BattleForge for the PC. If you haven't heard of it before, shame on you -- go eat some glas...
Hamza almost died so I could get you these Ride to Hell videos Earlier today you may have heard about Hamza's life and death experience in the utter wastleland that is the California desert. Seriously, those ATVs are death traps, but it'll take more than th...
Ride to Hell Event: Deep Silver shows us how to be in a biker gang Not too long ago, the fine folks at Deep Silver (the development house that is comprised of ex-Rockstar Vienna folks who are also working on the Wii title Cursed Mountain) decided to take myself ...
Developer Q&A: Deep Silver talks about their upcoming Wii title, Cursed Mountain About a zillion years ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Martin Filipp, Developer at Deep Silver, and discuss with him the company's upcoming survival-horror title: Cursed Mountain. Deep...
Destructoid review: Legendary I'm pretty sure that everyone and their mother is playing a certain other game right now (rhymes with beers at four - poo), but, surprise, there are other releases that have come out that may be ...
[UPDATE] The Awesome Apocalypse now to support bewbs! Not prepared for the impending Awesome Apocalypse? Find yourself lacking in 100% cotton garments of WIN and AWESOME? Fret not, my dear fans of RetroforceGO! The combined powers of retro, Splitrea...
Destructoid Discusses! iPod touch vs DS, also DSi In the "news" that the iPod touch will somehow trump the Nintendo DS Lite as the portable handheld of choice, we decided to discuss the merits of both of the systems and how they would ...
Destructoid review: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 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 ...
Destructoid Discusses! PAX 2008 In case you missed CTZ's post collecting all the community members' PAX stories, we thought we'd throw out one more "I <3 PAX" piece to cap off the glory that was PAX '08. Although t...
Destructoid Discusses! On the matter of videogame taste Remember the Space Invaders vs The World Trade Center game that came out recently? We do, and it became the impetus for this week's installment of Destructoid Discusses! The gang takes the releas...
Hands-on with Fracture multiplayer [video]100593:217[/video] Not too long ago, myself and other journalists were invited down to the LucasArts studios for some hands-on time with their newest IP: Fracture. Sequestered in the ...
Destructoid review: Bionic Commando Rearmed The NES version of Bionic Commando isn't exactly the first title that comes to mind when people think of their favorite NES games. While it still holds a warm place in the memories of many retro ...
Destructoid Discusses! Everyone loves Jonathan Holmes Time again for this week's installment of the only conversation blog I know of: Destructoid Discusses! This week we started off with no topic, but then we were suddenly steered into the wonderful...
Destructoid Discusses! Braid It's time again for another late night posting of Destructoid's (semi) weekly conversation blog. Last week I suggested that we talk about review backlash, but we just ended up talking about Etern...
Destructoid Discusses! Lazy reviewers? Or, maybe your game just sucks You may have heard Jim report the other week, that the AIAS prez says that "game reviewers are lazy." I can certainly see how the whole world of game reviewing is not an exact science, ...
Street Fighter fans, your time is now Think you're good at fighting games? If so, you should already have your bags packed and ready to go to the EVO 2008 World Finals. That's where all the really good Street Fighter and other fight...
Hands-on with Skate 2 [video]98216:121[/video]Just the other day, it seemed EA Black Box came out with Skate. I remember playing it not all that long ago, and being pretty impressed by the analog only controls. I was ...
Destructoid Discusses! E3 equals meh? Maybe Once again, back is the incredible ... The thyme animal ... The incredible Dyson G! Next-gen enemy number one ... FPS said freeze! And I got numb.Okay, so my poor attempt at quoting Public Enemy ...
[UPDATE!] Overlord: Raising Hell contest winners announced! Hey everyone! Remember that contest we ran the other week? The one where you had to come up with creative headgear from items found around the house for a chance to win a PS3 copy of Overlord: Ra...
Destructoid Discusses! Is the Wii a novelty item? Once again, we'd like to bring the rest of the world into our nice little robot corner and give them a peek into our unedited internal conversations. Why would you want to read such things? Becau...
Win a copy of Overlord: Raising Hell for the PS3! Hello Dtoid people! Once again, you now have the chance to scour the depths of your creativity in the hopes of getting some swag. This contest is based upon the ingenuity that was displayed by th...
Capcom contest wants to put you on the E3 list Sad that you're not going to E3? Frustrated that over the last couple of years, it's actually become hard to sneak into the event? Yeah, me too.This year, though, Capcom will remedy the near-Her...
Hands-on with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (360/PS3) The other day, the handsome CTZ and I went over to LucasArts studios, located in the Presidio of San Francisco, to go through a comprehensive hands-on with the multiple versions of Star Wars: Th...
Destructoid Discusses! Did someone say emulation? Hey everyone, this week I'm taking a suggestion from Hamsa and throwing out the dark topic of emulation. We had some good points of view in another thread when we were talking about Chrono Trigge...
PS3 2.40 firmware FAQ: Eric loves cheese edition [Update] Previously unbeknownst to me, the guys over at the official PlayStation blog have a sense of humor. In an effort to answer some frequently asked questions about the upcoming firmware update for t...
Destructoid Discusses! We talk about SSFII Turbo HD Remix, but fail excellently Yeah, you should take that title with a huge grain of salt. Because, in an effort to create a new and vaguely recurring article here at the 'toid, I proposed to the staff that we discuss a random...
Where have all the system sellers gone? With Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots being released ever so soon, a few of us here at Dtoid started discussing what effect the game's release could have on Sony's big black console. Woul...
RetroforceGO! Episode 51: Neo-retro and you Another Monday is upon us, along with another one of Chad Concelmo's awesome MS Paint photos. The significance of these events leads to two conclusions. One, it's time for an new RetroforceGO! Tw...
RetroforceGO! Episode 50: That's half of a hundred! While the more astute listener may notice that today is, in fact, not Monday (the regular release day for RFGO!), he or she will be glad to have endured the extra day wait for this week's episode...
RetroforceGO! Epsisode 49: Castlevania Mania Hey everybody! Sorry everything is so late today. Dear ol' Dyson couldn't make the show last night, so I didn't get my usual eight hour head start on exciting sound editing! But they say better l...
RetroforceGO! Episode 48: The retro renaissance? With all the "everything old is new again" mentality floating around the gaming world, the crew of RFGO! decided to weigh in on the current state of retro. Are companies just cashing in...
RetroforceGO! Episode 47: Treasure So I missed the show yesterday. Have no fear, though, the show went on. Reverend Anthony jumped in to take the fourth place and Topher ran the task of hosting. How did things go? Well, we started...
RetroforceGO! Episode 46: Metal Gear I know I say this every Monday but, hooray Monday! Not too much has changed over that course of the last week, but then again, not much does in the world of retro. I hear that in the next-gen wor...
RetroforceGO! Episode 45: Listener questions return Welcome to another Monday! I really don't have too much to say about this particular Monday. Aside from the usual stuff that happened during the weekend, this is a pretty standard Monday so far. ...
RetroforceGO! Not Episode 44: The worst/best/worst episode ever As you may have heard yesterday, we here at the show had some serious recording issues with our Cancun episode. And while we try and maintain a level of quality that you have come to know us for,... |
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