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Level 5 developing PS3 and Wii titles Ah, Level 5. I like those guys. I'd like them to make more games. Less portable ones would be nice. Oh, and U.S. releases would be fantastic. You know. Just whatever. If you're listening. They ar...
Hudson brings Dream Chronicles to PSN, XBLA Dream Chronicles started out as a PC game, but now it's coming to Xbox's Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network by way of Hudson. It's a surreal mystery dreamscape adventure game. That make any ...
Silent Hill composer speaking at GDC 2010 Akira Yamaoka has been all over the news lately. We first told you that he was leaving Konami after many years of working on horror game series Silent Hill. Last week we found out that he's the n...
Nintendo awarded $1.5m over New Super Mario Bros piracy A person in Australia fudged with the wrong game maker. He ripped and uploaded New Super Mario Bros. Wii a week before it was even available in that country. Naturally, he was busted and was take...
Why not? Cloud Strife hacked into Smash Bros. Brawl The two games that won't ever die come together through a little hackery. Cloud Strife, the spiky haired hero of Square Enix RPG Final Fantasy VII, has been inserted into Nintendo's Super Smash ...
Nobuo Uematsu is coming to Anime Boston Famed videogame composer Nobuo Uematsu is an awesome guy to talk to and hang out with. Seriously, meeting with him was one of the highlights of my writing/blogging career. The guy that made Final...
2K on BioShock 2 ending leak: It 'won't make much sense' You might have heard that the BioShock 2 ending is up on YouTube. No, I'm not going to link to it. That's a dick thing to do, and is almost as bad as putting it up in the first place. I did...
Destructoid interview: The music of BioShock 2 I'm not used to a first-person shooter's soundtrack rocking my world. Role-playing games, platformers and others? Sure. But FPS? You hardly ever see that. And when you do, people sit up to take n...
Dood, Nippon Ichi isn't looking too hot This is just about as bad as a Prinny accidentally exploding right in the middle of your party. Nippon Ichi's financial earnings were released, and it looks that the Japanese game company is runn...
Pharrell Williams rocks some Mario-themed bling Hip-Hop star, producer, entrepreneur and self-professed nerd Pharrell Williams shows off his latest bling acquisition. Normally we wouldn't care. We really don't this time either, but I'll admit ...
Ten things I didn't love about Final Fantasy XIII It's only fair, right? While my list of ten things I loved about the import version of Final Fantasy XIII was quite easy to make, this counterpoint was a bit more difficult. I didn't want to nitp...
Mario Land: Steve says, 'One coin? Facke you.' "Oh, it's monster. Nyah! Oh, yeah!" Oh, Steve. I've been having a pretty crap day up until "Steve" came along (thanks to our beloved Aaron Linde). I'm behind schedule, stressed out, and getting ...
BioShock 2 soundtrack digital release: February 9th We heard that the BioShock 2 soundtrack was coming earlier, but now we have an official date and tracklist. A press release confirms that the return to Rapture again features jazz and pop classic...
Game music and rap mash-up Vinyl Fantasy 7 shut down Just as quick as game music and rap mash-up collection Vinyl Fantasy 7 came, it went. It was beat down by the man. Team Teamwork followed up their last, Ocarina of Rhyme, with this new Final Fant...
Int'l Xbox 360 Hard Drive Watch 2010: EU cuts 120GB price We've been watching the Xbox 360 Hard Drive situation. After that Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle came out, we were sure a 205GB separate drive would be released. But it didn't come. Later, Aaro...
The Sims turns 10 today Yeah, sorry about that, EA. I just tried to sing "Happy Birthday" in Simlish, but it came out horribly. It's the thought that counts, right? The Sims franchise turns 10 years old today. The origi...
Metroid man Yoshio Sakamoto speaking at GDC 2010 Yoshio Sakamoto's job title at Nintendo is Group Manager of the Software Planning and Development Department. I have no idea what that means. I do know that he has been at Nintendo since 1982, wh...
Silent Hill composer now working at Grasshopper What a move! Not too long ago we told you that Akira Yamaoka, composer and (later) director of Silent Hill games, left Konami after 16 years. Where did he end up? Grasshopper Manufacture. Wait, w...
THQ's earnings call reveals sequelmania for 2011/2012 "What are you selling?" asked the hooded guy in Resident Evil 4. Me? Nothing really. I got this Sony netbook up for grabs. THQ, on the other hand, has a whole bunch of sequels for you, stashed aw...
3D Dot Game Heroes: Natural Sword Enhancement Coming up short? Lacking in confidence? [great big smile, thumbs up] Shrugging off any potential risk of their PR blast being scooped up by spam blockers, Atlus shows off this 3D Dot Game Heroes...
Ten things I loved about Final Fantasy XIII After three weeks of off and on play, I'm finished. I logged 60 hours and 13 minutes as of yesterday. I'm finally finished with Final Fantasy XIII, the Japanese version. Rather than give you stra...
Crack a femur: Trauma Team's orthopedics walkthrough I was going to use a drill pun, but Atlus already took care of that. Hell, they took care of all the bone-related puns. Look: "Until watching this new video, a lot of Trauma Team fans may have ...
The Last Guardian team aims for realism Realism? How realistic can a monstrously huge dog-bird fantasy beast be? The most real thing to come out of this upcoming game was how I teared up like a little bitch in front of my peers and fri...
Pretty in Pink: Jill Stuart 'Sweet Limited' PSP bundle All the ladies! That's not to say that a pink PSP would be limited to only female owners. It's just that this new Jill Stuart Sweet Limited Package PSP bundle comes with a freakin' PSP-shaped pur...
Walmart, Best Buy's used game kiosks to cease operations You may have come across a Best Buy or Walmart location that had a game trading/renting/selling automated kiosk recently. Now they're leaving just as quick as they came. It turns out that these m...
Nintendo's Iwata denies DS2 motion sensing comment Nintendo's Satoru Iwata on the Nintendo DS successor having motion sensing capabilities: "What? No way. That's stupid." I'm kidding. He didn't really say that. But it was said before that Iwata m...
After Burner Climax console version: Just like arcade That's good to see. Remember the old days when they'd call a game an "arcade-perfect port" or some related nonsense? Bullsh*t, every time. The PS1 and Sega Saturn days had the worst offenders. I...
Living the Dream: Work in a virtual convenience store At Destructoid we're always talking about "Living the Dream." The phrase refers to a lot of different things for us. In its most general form, it's about how we love that we do this for a living...
Wild Arms devs teams with Square Enix for iPhone RPG What a team? Media Vision made Wild Arms. Square Enix made every other RPG. Why not team up and make a huge console game. Nah, they're doing an iPhone one instead. Media Vision's website is askin...
Japan gets standalone 250GB Xbox 360 hard drive Aaron Greenberg. You knew, didn't you? It's coming, isn't it? I asked Microsoft's Director of Product Management for Xbox 360, Aaron Greenberg, if we'd ever see the 250GB hard drive from the Xbox...
Monster Hunter Tri bundle: Wii Speak, Classic Pro What comes in the Nintnendo Wii bundle for Capcom's Monster Hunter Tri? First off, it's a black Wii. That's nice. Another nice perk: a black Classic Controller Pro. And to facilitate chat in onli...
Nintendo DLC: Alex Kidd in Shinobi World and more Usually when we pull together these weekly round-ups of Nintendo's digital releases, we pick the most notable game in the group for our headline. This week I'm picking Alex Kidd in Shinobi World....
Knights in the Nightmare PSP screens are lovely Not too long ago we told you that DS RPG game Knights in the Nightmare was coming to the PSP. Along with the bump up in screen size, we heard that a few new features, like a character database an...
Lovely new Metroid: Other M official website up Just like all other game teaser website launches, this new Japanese site for Metroid: Other M gives you little in the way of new information. But it's certainly peaceful to look at, with its pret...
iPhone Review Round-up: January January 2010's review line-up brings some pretty likable titles to the App Store, and we've rounded up some of them for you in a group review. Two of this month's titles from Square Enix, but the...
Sega: Interested in Shenmue, scared of poor sales I hear this often, and it's starting to bug me. Yes, we know that Shenmue and the sequel did sell that well. But even more than that, I think Sega's still hurting from how much they spent to prod...
Do Want: Wii RPG Xenoblade also named Monado Who cares what it's called? I still want it. If you saw our story about Nintendo's 2010 release schedule, you would have come across a Japanese listing for Xenoblade. Yep, that Xeno. This is a Wi...
Nintendo's 2010 release chart: Metroid:OM coming soon! This Nintendo release schedule from their investor relations media is always interesting. There's always stuff that you already know. There's also always a few things that are new and juicy. Asid...
That Nintendo/Mistwalker Wii RPG: The Last Story Mistwalker's Hironobu Sakaguchi has recently teased a couple of projects. One in particular was touted as a "blockbuster" project. He said that he and his team put his all into this. We were inte...
Persona 4: Teddie's head came off! Oh no! Zipper-necked blue teddy bear Teddie deserves a real zipper and not some fake crap. He's kind of the unsung hero of Atlus' Persona 4, so if he wants to have a detachable head, well, then h...
Newegg has a huge selection of $10 Xbox 360 games I went into a local thrift shop (game hunting) the other day and found that they had about 8 shelves full of what looked to be brand-new DVDs, Blu-ray movies and videogames in stock. They had sti...
I climaxed: After Burner Climax confirmed for US by ESRB HnnnnnNNNNGGGGGGGGAfterburner! Ah. got that out. I grew up as a Sega kid and an arcade freak (and a Yu Suzuki fanboy), so After Burner was one of those games that always...uh, got me going. The a...
Throw a perfect game in MLB 2K10, win $1,000,000 Look, I haven't played a baseball videogame since Super Baseball 2020 (remember that!?), but I may pick another one up now. 2K Sports has announced a crazy prize of $1,000,000 to the first person...
iPad: Likely to change gaming, just not yours The ground did not shake and planets did not collide when Apple finally announced their much-rumored tablet computing device, the iPad, this week. In fact, unless you were an Apple product fanati...
PSN Update: Get your Uncharted 2 demo Some here might be offended that you'd consider downloading the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves demo when it goes up on the PlayStation Network later today. After giving the game our Editor's Choice a...
Samurai Warriors 3: Gackt, 80,000 more at festival Wow, what a promotional event. To promote Wii game Samurai Warriors 3, Koei is pulling out all the stops. We already knew that Japanese superstar GACKT was involved. He ended up doing some voice ...
Monster Hunter Frontier: Details on cross-platform play We know that Capcom is bringing Monster Hunter Frontier to the Xbox 360 in Japan, but that's about it. What about us? Yeah, still no word on that. But there is some information on cross-platform ...
First-party titles: 47 percent of Wii sales in 2009 Who makes the best games for Nintendo consoles? We both know the answer to that. If you want something done right, you do it yourself, right? A whopping 27.5 million first-party games were sold f...
EA and Gameloft show off games for Apple's iPad tablet This morning, Apple announced their iPad tablet computing device. Unless you like really big iPhones that you can't fit in your pocket, you may not care. Well, wait. It looks like they're trying ...
Bizarre working on a new title, a movie license A job listing for an "Experienced/Senior Designer" lets on a few details of what the studio might be working on next. A new job listing for the Activision studio says that this designer will be w...
Apple's iPad tablet announced, reaches for gamers We've been hearing about it forever now. It's the next "worst kept secret." It's Apple's new big-assed iPhone looking thing, called the iPad, and it was just announced by Steve Jobs at Apple's co...
New Dead or Alive Paradise trailer: Panty shot paradise Wow. The message is clear on this one. This upcoming PSP title may have a lot of game play options, but you wouildn't know it from this trailer. Ass shots. Rear shots. Pulling bottoms out of...b...
Mystery: Xbox 360 brings on one more publisher But who is it? Apparently there's one more Japanese publisher out there that hasn't made an Xbox 360 game yet. This year's their year. According to this story, stemming from Famitsu EiC Munetatsu...
Japanese Bayonetta gets patch, HDD install option In Japan, PS3 Bayonetta players will see a new menu option tomorrow. This option will let them install Sega and Platinum Games' latest on their PS3 hard drive, cutting back on access/loading time...
MumboJumbo sues PopCap for $4.6 million PopCap was big pimpin' for a long time, but now they're uh...medium pimpin' after a Dallas judge awarded another casual games publisher, MumboJumbo, $4.6 million of PopCap's dough. What went down...
Delay: Plants vs. Zombies on iPhone GAWD. Hurry up. This is my most wanted iPhone title. Plants vs. Zombies would be a finger flipping delight on my Jesus Phone. Tower defense with zombies until my batteies die, I say. A tweet from...
Trauma Team's forensics play is like Phoenix Wright ...and that's a good thing. Up until now, Atlus' Trauma Center games have been mostly about hacking up bodies in surgery. Not that I have a problem with that, mind you. It's just that there's a l...
SMT: Strange Journey's free preorder poster Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is so good that it has actually interrupted my Final Fantasy XIII game play sessions. I like it that much. It's the first can't-put-it-down RPG that I've playe...
Puzzle game Squishy Tank coming in March to DS As Destructoid's resident puzzle game whore (mind you, I'm not good at them, talk to Topher or Nick about that), I'm already chomping at the bit for Squishy Tank. In this game you squish little t...
ESRB rates Quantum Theory, stresses blood and gore I remember sitting on a couch with Nick Chester, both of us half buzzed from wine and tired from the day, watching game play of Tecmo's Quantum Theory in Tokyo. I was admiring the chunky armor an... |
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Analyzing No More Heroes 2, part 2: The bosses, part 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
Wah wah wah Sonic the Hedgehog 4!
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?
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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