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You're browsing in compact mode. Expand all stories Review: Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles 27 When I first heard that Capcom's next Resident Evil game was going to be a sequel to the Wii-exclusive Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, I was pretty disappointed. Umbrella Chronicles actua... Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex 34 I don't generally like wartime FPSes. In fact, I'd say that the "normal guy with guns shooting other normal guys with guns" genre is my least favorite in all of videogame-dom, starting with Golde... NSMB Wii release bash: Bucken-Berry and Ala-Gold! 35 So, I took a five-hour bus ride to New York City yesterday to do some video coverage of the New Super Mario Bros. Wii launch event at the Nintendo World Store. It was supposed to be a four-hour b... Games of the Week for 11/15/09: Yep Yep Yep Yep Edition 37 Sesame Street turned 40 last week. That show used to be pretty awesome. As for this week, we played some videogames. Some of these games were better than others. Out of everybody, I think Nick C... My sexy, nerdy, fertility boosting ReBirth wish list 54 By my definition, any time a new game in a series rejects technological advancements and changes in "mainstream" gaming trends, that's a rebirth. Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, Mega Man 9, an... SPOILERS: Entire game of Sin and Punishment 2 on Youtube 14 2D shmups are back with a vengeance these days, while 3D shmup releases are at an all time low. For my money, the last truly great game in the genre was Panzer Dragoon Orta on the original Xbox. ... Free beats: Update available for Bit.Trip Beat 5 Not playing Modern Warfare 2? Well then, chances are high that you'd like Bit.Trip Beat. The game is pretty much the anti-Call of Duty, and it's one of my all time favorites. If you haven't playe... New game from Hatsworth devs brings cookies and violence 22 IGN just put up an interview with the team behind Project Monster (working title), the new game from the developers of Henry Hatsworth. The game is about a young girl who takes a monster under he... Cave Story Wii gets closer to release, much more yellow 35 It's good news/bad news time again. Good news first- Cave Story Wii has been resubmitted to Nintendo for approval. The game was supposed to be out months ago, but for reasons unknown, Nintendo ha... Are you man enough for this PokePark Wii video? 28 Nursery-room appropriate music? Check. Japanese guy saying "Ackushun Addvenchu-aaahhh"? Check. Gamecube quality graphics. That's an affirmative. Put them all together, and you know what we've go... Art imitates life: Bit.Trip VOID in time for Thanksgiving 6 Bit.Trip VOID is a game that you can play with your family, where you compete to see who can get fatter the fastest. Thanksgiving (link NSFW) is a holiday where families do the same thing, except... Meat Boy Twitter updates: Contests, menus, and creeps 7 Time for another update from the Super Meat Boy twitter. First off are a few images from "incidental" aspects of the game. We get a look at the silhouette of a mysterious dude (Tim? LL Cool J?), ... Animal Crossing + Halloween = The best zombie game ever 19 Zombie games: some are great, some suck, but regardless of their quality, a lot of people are getting sick of them. Personally, I'm growing closer and closer to feeling that way. Becoming numb to... Top 20 Horror movies that would make great games part 2: 54 [Update: Saw this awesome image in KrazyKraut's cblog and I just had to take it. Thanks KrazyKraut!] OK, time to finish this list up right, hopefully in time for you to sneak some of these movies... Top 20 Horror movies would make great games part 1 24 Last year's list was alright I guess, but I tried to do better this time around. This year I got a lot more input from the other Dtoid editors, expanded the total film count from ten to twenty, a... Ex-Dtoid editor has the touch, makes me want Epic Mickey 22 David Houghton is one of my favorite videomgame journalists; he's got an great analytical eye, and he knows how to express his excitement without coming off as insincere. It figures that he would... Review: JU-ON: The Grudge 22 It's almost Halloween, and if you're anything like me, you're going to try to make the most of it. Playing survival horror games can be one way of doing that, but the way the genre has evolved (o... SPOILERS: Full game of Castlevania Rebirth on Youtube 33 Yesterday, the Nintendo Week showed us about 12 seconds of the new WiiWare title Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth. Now, less than 24 hours later, someone has played through the entire game and ... dtunes Editor's week day 6: Jonathan Holmes 23 [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 furth... More No More Heroes 2 heroes and secret weirdos 9 It seems that the bat-a-rang I spotted in the latest No More Heroes 2 video was just the start of the split-second weird moments. For starters, if you pause the video about one second before the ... Review: Domino Rally 20 As far as I know, Domino Rally has not yet been released in stores. It's also not available on GameStop's site, or most other online retail outlets. The game came out over a month ago, but I thin... Yep, Pokemon Park Wii is a retail game 22 Last time we posted about Pokemon Park Wii: Pikachu's Great Adventure, there was some confusion about if the game would come to retail or a be WiiWare title. If it was a WiiWare title, then the g... Too much Super Meat Boy news to fit in this headline 24 Crap, I forgot to read the Super Meat Boy twitter for a few days, and it turns out that I missed a f*ck-ton of news. First is the above video, that shows us exactly how terrifying Super Meat Boy ... More Castlevania Rebirth screens = more sexy fun for you 42 So, this is what I do with my life now. I find screenshots of videogames and sexy people, put them together, then post them on the internet. Why do I do this? Well, the technical reasons are stil... Muramasa outsells Spyborgs and Dead Space: Extraction 49 Let's start with the facts- Muramasa was released by relatively small publisher Ignition on Sept 8th and cost $50 new, Spyborgs was released by relatively big publisher Capcom on Sept 25th and co... A Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth screen (and friends) 44 Forgive the less-than-classy use of space up there. I didn't want to stretch the above screenshot to fit Destructoid's header size requirements, and other than decorating the borders with as many... New No More Heroes 2 vid: Sir Henry and the Bat-a-rangs 24 Recent pre-release footage of No More Heroes 2 has been awesome, and it seems that the Shinobu/8-bit work-games videos from a few weeks ago were just the start of it. This new trailer gives us o... God of Pokemon DLC coming next month to Toys R Us 36 No, its not Bidoof, though I could see why some may worship that cute/ugly little mongrel. It's the other guy, Arceus; he's the God of all Pokemon. I still think he looks more like a bad cross be... Visceral Games bummed about Dead Space Extraction sales 61 According to a NeoGAF post from a Visceral Games employee- "It is a shame that no one bought this (Dead Space Extraction). As much as everyone made fun of Frank Gibeau's 'experiment', it wil... Review: Wii Fit Plus 24 Wii Fit Plus is a $20 upgrade to Wii Fit. It includes everything from the original title, plus new games and new "fitness"-related things that I only sort-of care about. The game now tr... Rumor: Voice of Mario teases new Mario game 41 I wonder if Nintendo is pissed at Charles Martinet right now? The company is known for it's secrecy, and their tendency to keep new games unannounced for as long as possible. It's hard to imagine... Moogle, milk, and rock these new Crystal Bearers vids 5 I guess Bon Jovi wasn't enough, as Square-Enix has just started with another weird way to promote Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. This time it involves a moogle with marac... Super Meat Boy's twitter updates got the 2600 meat funk 11 Looking forward to Super Meat Boy? Then should been keeping up with the game on Twitter, where all the major Meat Boy news first goes public. Here's a recap of the latest from Tweet Boy's meats, ... TvC:UAS character count and sleazy quote get ESRB-nounced 15 Man, the ESRB should start charging for their PR services. Their "warnings" have done a lot to get me excited for videogames over the past few days. This time though, the news isn't all... Badass of the month club: Frank West 34 Time for another Badass of the Month Club, wherein the staff highlights a character or industry figure of noteworthy badassery. When I first met Frank West, I wasn't all that impressed. He's ugly... Review: You, Me and the Cubes 23 Over the course of my tenure here at Destructoid, I've noticed that most people don't want to read reviews of games they haven't A) already been thinking about for a number months or B) don't alr... Two minutes of The Grudge Wii is right proper creepy 39 Have you kept track of how many Wii games feature minimal combat and maximal flashlight? By my count, there are seven: LIT, Fragile, Fatal Frame 4, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, The Calling, a... Steaming turd tossing in the Crystal Bearers ESRB-nounced 20 Everything may seem serene in the above video, but Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers promises to be quite "nasty". According to the ESRB, The Crystal Bearers will in... Every time a PayPal ka-chings a meat angel gets his wings 35 So, if you check the cblogs regularly (as you should), then you probably already know that Edmund McMillen, (indie game artist/designer) just did some hospital time, and like many indie game art... Break-dance fighting and beaches in the Crystal Bearers 19 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers... I still can't get over that name. It's got three more syllables than Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, the game I previously thought ... SH*T JUST GOT REAL: Nintendogs invade Animal Crossing 31 Long time readers of Destructoid know that I live in a sort of alternate reality, a reality where a "hardcore" game is isn't determined by how "mature" or "bad-ass" ... Review: Dead Space Extraction 43 When it was first announced that the Wii would be getting its own Dead Space title, fans of the original game immediately cried foul. It was fair to assume that like the console's other big 360-t... Exclusive look: The Braid that almost was part 3: NPCs 13 Here's the final act of our three part behind-the-scenes on the creation of Braid. Part one focused on Tim, part two on devising the game's enemies, and part three is, well, everything else I cou... Tell me: Are you a bad enough dude to chicky chicky down? 7 Game Watch just gave me another reason to want a Japanese DSi. This newly announced bit of DSiWare, entitled Time Diagnosis, looks like it could easily fill the WarioWare shaped hole that (in my ... Geon Cube is more super and Pac-Man than Super Pac-Man 13 Have you heard of Geon Cube? Yeah, I didn't think so; I hadn't either until I got this press release. That lack of press alone probably spells doom for this game. No matter how great it turns out... New Wii system update wacks hacks, yet Indiana Pwns 15 So yeah, it's not a big surprise or anything, but it is a big deal to a lot Wii owners out there: the new Wii System Update 4.2 de-installs the Wii Homebrew Channel, and blocks most methods of re... Exclusive: The sights & sounds of Retro Super Meat Boy 23 [Surprise, a Destructoid exclusive! You saw it here first!] How do you feel about this whole "retro-revival" thing? If you're going to play a retro game, do you want it to go whole hog ... TGS 09: The first twenty minutes of RE:DC's new scenario 13 I know a lot of you think that you don't like on-rails shooters, but it may be time for you to reconsider that generalization. Console on-rails shooters are really kicking ass of late. Gone are t... TGS 09: Capcom -"RE4's appeal was limited" 57 I just have to hope that there's some mistranslation afoot here. Jun Takeuchi, producer of Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2 just told Kotaku that in his opinion, Resident Evil 4 was "... a ... TGS 09: First look at RE 5: Alternative Edition's extras 16 Here's the latest, blurriest, off-screen footage of the recently announced Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition. We've already seen how the game will control, but now we've got a better idea what... Art Attack Friday: The Braid that almost was part 2: Foes 4 Last week, we gave you an exclusive look at the design process which led to the creation of Tim, the protagonist of the award winning 2D platformer Braid. This week, we've got artwork that led to... New No More Heroes 2 trailers are over 24 hours old 18 What do you do when you're a professional blogger JOURNALIST and you come across something that you think is really cool, but you know that it's already days old? Do you ignore it, preventing the... TGS 09: New Dead Rising 2 videos and impressions round-up 44 One of the games we're most excited to see at Tokyo Game Show this year is Dead Rising 2. Check out our extended coverage (and the new sexy trailer pictured above) to understand why you should be... Mega Man 9 turns 1, Capcom to tell us something fun 24 One year ago today, Mega Man 9 was released onto the world, and people are still playing the damn thing. Though many found the game's 8-bit style to be ridiculous and alienating, others (such as ... Behold, the coming of a giant: Zombie Panic in Wonderland 43 There are some videogames that people would rather talk about than play. For instance, folks have spent more than a year prattling on about how much they "appreciate the significance" o... Suda 51 un-clearly clarifies No More Heroes' future 47 Want to see No More Heroes on the 360 or the PS3 someday? I wouldn't blame you if you had your hopes up. Suda 51 (the game's creator) has said many times that he'd like to bring the series to one... Art Attack Friday: The Braid that almost was part 1: Tim 15 It's good news/bad news time again. Bad news first: for the next few weeks, I'll be borrowing Art Attack Friday from the infinitely more sexy and attractive Hamza"CTZ" Aziz. The good ne... Happy Kwanzaa? FF Crystal Bearers' suicidal release date 26 The long delayed, often thought dead Final Fantasy Crystal Chronciles: The Crystal Bearers finally has a US release date. In what will surely be remembered as one of the most clever, or the most ... Review: Contra ReBirth 33 The surreal mixing of Hollywood references, real-life political terminology, and sci-fi craziness has long been a staple of Konami action games, but the Contra series takes that special brand of ... More wall-meat! Castlevania ReBirth gets ESRB-nounced 26 I feel bad for PR firms that work for game publishers. 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