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Review: Hustle Kings Ever since I was a boy, I've loved playing pool. From the first game played in a childhood friend's basement to the weekly game I participate in today, the sport has always enchanted me. There's ...
Chuck E. Cheese's Kart Racing coming to Wii That right there is a photo of me celebrating my 27th birthday at Chuck E. Cheese's. It was a depressing, miserable experience, watching children mindlessly pump tokens into ticket redemption sca...
Microsoft's Game Room won't have T or M-rated content Microsoft's Game Room looks pretty damn neat, although there are some things which have lessened its appeal recently. Here's another possible one: Game Room is rated "E 10+." What this means, acc...
Now you can play your Atari 2600 ROMs in style I don't use emulators almost every day. If I did, and I'm not saying that I do, I would try to make the experience as similar to the original. In the case of emulating the Atari 2600, this little...
Dante tears sh*t up in this trailer EA released a new gameplay trailer for Dante's Inferno and you can watch it by clicking the little play button above. They spend a fair bit of time focused on the ridable monsters bit...
Beatles Rock Band track generates over $200k in donations The Beatles song "All You Need is Love" was released exclusively on Xbox Live as DLC for The Beatles: Rock Band with the word that a portion of all sales would be donated to Doctors Without Borde...
Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker delayed in Japan Only a day after the teaser/web game site for Metal Gear Solid "Piece Walker" went live, the Japanese release of the game which it was created to pimp, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, has rec...
Professor Layton takes to the ice This ought to brighten your day a bit. It's Professor Layton, master mystery mister, cavorting arou nd on an ice rink. Marvel as he twirls, spins and looks alternately quizzical and smug. I swe...
Next Legend of Zelda on Wii, will be shown at E3 GoNintendo somehow managed to stay awake through Satoru Iwata's quarterly financial reports briefing, a feat I would probably not have been able to accomplish. Good thing, too, as the President o...
Here are some completely fake images of a new Zelda Zelda Informer was sent these screens which are purportedly from an upcoming Zelda title making its way to the Wii. They're totally fake, as evidenced by the creator later popping up in the Zeld...
Mass Effect 2 sells 2 million copies in first week Sounds like EA has a lot to be happy about, according to this press release they've sent out today. Two million copies of Mass Effect 2 have been sold in the first week of release, which is ...
Take a survey, get a free Telltale game Seeking some input on the next Sam & Max season, the fine folks at Telltale Games want to know about what kinds of games you're playing and have set up a survey to ask exactly that. They're n...
Ten Minute Taste: No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Jonathan Holmes just posted his review of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle and to call it glowing would be an understatement. I have to agree, as I've been having a hell of a good time with ...
Games of the week for 1/24/2010: Talking Psycho edition Jim's traveling this week, so you're getting your Games of the Week fix from a different source. Thrilling. You've no doubt seen this video by Miles Fisher, where he covers a Talking Heads song ...
Gearbox gives some hints about a new Borderlands DLC While there is yet to be an official announcement regarding future DLC for Borderlands, Gearbox level designer Jason Reiss made an interesting post to the company's message board today with at le...
Genesis emulator coming to iPhone, won't be taken down Here's something you don't see every day. An emulator for the Sega Genesis is on its way to the iPhone App Store and, get this, it probably won't be taken down within 24 hours. Sega is getting se...
Heavy Rain DLC will make a murderer of you Heavy Rain is finally on the horizon, which means it's clearly time to start getting some details on upcoming DLC for the game. In an interview with Quantic Dream's David Cage, French site GameBl...
Borderlands DLC coming to a store near you Over on the GameStop website, pre-order items have cropped up for a "Borderlands Add-On Pack" on PC and Xbox 360. The product description reveals that the pack will include The Zombie Island of D...
Get a year of Live Gold for thirty bucks at Amazon Want to save a little bit of money this year on an Xbox Live Gold subscription? Amazon has temporarily marked down their supply of one-year cards to 60% of the MSRP. That's an entire year of onli...
Review: Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond I am a huge fan of Matt Hazard's universe. I love the ridiculous characters, set pieces and humor found in Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard and knew as soon as it was over that I would ne...
CES 2010: Investigating Miles Edgeworth The Ace Attorney series is exceptionally fun. But with four games under its belt that all play very much the same way, I'm open to something new. Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth...
CES 2010: My Mega Man 10 fears are still not allayed I can't lie. Even as a devoted Mega Man fan, I was worried about the announcement of Mega Man 10. "Too soon," I thought. And Sheep Man1? I figured it was going to be the same old story that we've...
CES 2010: Bend over, I'll show you a Dark Void (Zero) And that title is what happens when I start running out of ideas. I've always wanted a jetpack. I think that's a pretty universal desire. I don't think I would even be able to pilot such a thing,...
CES 2010: You dirty R.A.T. I probably played entirely too much Shadowrun (the tabletop game, not the bastardization of same name for Xbox 360) in high school, because I've heard people tell me that these mice look silly b...
CES 2010: Rock out with your stage monitor speaker out We've seen stage monitor speakers for Rock Band and Guitar Hero before, but I don't think I've ever seen one made by a company with the pedigree that Polk Audio has. Until today, that is. Unveile...
CES 2010: I want a moustache ride from Haggar While visiting with Capcom at CES, we had the opportunity to see a number of things that, as a retro gamer, made me giddy as a schoolgirl at prom. Among these is the upcoming PSN/XBLA release of ...
CES 2010: Why do I let Dale convince me to look stupid? Seriously, this is becoming a real problem. There are some pictures from this trip where I'm made to look like an idiot that you guys are never going to see. Ever. In fact, I'm going to go and de...
CES 2010: A backhanded compliment for the PSPgo While cruising through the "Best of CES" showcase this week, Dale and I observed that the PSPgo received an "Honorable Mention." Good for Sony. But wait, what's that? Why is the PSPgo all covered...
CES 2010: Sixense system bringing motion to PCs When we visited Razer to check out their new Xbox 360 controller and headset, there was another little surprise waiting for us. Above is the Sixense TrueMotion device, a motion control system for...
CES 2010: Ion Audio making more gaming hardware When I travel, I've taken to bringing an Xbox 360 wireless controller and PC adapter so that I can play some (totally not) emulated games on my netbook. The keyboard is too cramped and I'm a litt...
CES 2010: Peregrine glove still excites me, coming Q1 We first saw the Peregrine glove back at E3. If you'll recall, the wearable human interface device allows users to execute commands by connecting leads all along the fingers and palm. You can pro...
CES 2010: If you buy Wii weights, you're the dumbell Anybody who knows me is aware of my love for plastic junk, especially if its designed to accomodate a Wii remote. Nothing thrills me more than seeing twelve inch golf clubs that weigh an ounce an...
CES 2010: Nyko's already awesome Wand gets an upgrade Last year at CES, Nyko unveiled their Wand controller for the Wii and we were very impressed. The changes to button layout were great as was the Trans-Port tech which allows other peripherals to ...
CES 2010: The Sound Egg looks like A Clockwork Orange It's kinda hard to imagine a time when egg-shaped chairs were thought to be fashionable. Harder still to imagine that the day might come again. At least back then you could blame the purchase on ...
CES 2010: Watch me debase myself for Muscle March One of the things that I've learned about CES is that, while there isn't as much gaming content as some of the other shows, opportunities arise when you're not expecting them. Like, for example,...
MC Lars song "Reaping Beauty" is all about Bayonetta MC Lars is pretty awesome in my book. His debut album, The Graduate, gets frequent play in my car. And Bayonetta looks pretty damn awesome too. In my head, I imagined that MC Lars (with collabor...
Genitals ruin Christmas with help from PSP Shon Goodman of Omaha, Nebraska thought he had his holiday shopping all worked out when he picked up the used PSP at a local store. Little did he know that the handheld contained a horrible secre...
Goozex's most requested games on Nintendo systems are 'M' Goozex, the game trading service, has released their list of the most requested games in 2009. The ten games across all platforms are fairly predictable, mostly being AAA titles released in 2008 ...
HOLD IT! Ace Attorney Wii videos entered into evidence The Hanafune Times has posted three videos from the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Wii-make that's coming to the US next month. They're taken from the Japanese release with English language settin...
Dragon Age will 'Return to Ostagar' at a later date Brad Nicholson would have written this story but he was too busy. Doing what, you say? Well, it wasn't crying, I can assure you. It was something really manly, like bench pressing live tigers or ...
Will Microsoft ditch spacebucks for real money? In a recent interview with Game Informer, Xbox Live General Manager Mark Whitten was asked about the possibility of Microsoft dropping the points-based system for sales of items on the Live Marke...
Kill 255 of your closest friends in the MAG beta today Just a quick little reminder that the MAG beta officially opens to the public today. If you planned ahead and downloaded the files during the few weeks that they've been available, you're al...
What Grand Theft Auto could perform theft on [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 that it may not jive with the opinions of...
Overpriced wireless adapter less overpriced on Amazon I don't believe in wireless networks. I'm not one of those guys who is so hopeless that I have to physically see something to believe that it's working and/or exists. I'm just hopelessly paranoid...
Duke Nukem fans keeping the faith with Forever film Finnish independent film studio HMCIndie released the above video yesterday. It is a trailer for their upcoming fan film based on Duke Nukem and bears the name of the legendary vaporwa...
SPORTS! EA shutting down some old servers next month Over at the official EA website, the publishing juggernaut has a new list of games for which they will no longer provide servers for online play. While some of the games are surprisingly old, suc...
NSMB Wii is 8th biggest seller in entire Mario series For reasons that I can only assume are totally awesome, NeoGAF user "Michan" has been keeping an eye on the sales numbers coming out of Japan for the Super Mario series and ranking them in the ab...
Gerbil Physics now on XBL Indie Games, no Lemmiwinks When I heard about the game Gerbil Physics, I automatically assumed that it was some sort of Richard Gere simulator. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that it's actually a 2D destruction gam...
Modern Warfare 2 is most-pirated game of 2009 Shocker, right? Arguably the biggest game release of this year wound up being the one most stolen? Hard to imagine. Yet that's exactly what the people at TorrentFreak are claiming. Their ye...
Mad Moxxie looks as sexy as her DLC Damn, that Mad Moxxie is one fine looking lady. I appreciate her cavalier attitude, lovely gams and the fact that she could kill me without a second thought. To say that I'm looking forward to t...
Rabbids send holiday greetings, predictability ensues The gang behind Rabbids Go Home sent along their holiday card in the form of the above video. As you can probably guess, it involves the titular characters in some sort of seasonal adventur...
Is this some amazing Assassin's Creed concept art? When we at the Dtoid staff saw this bit of concept art possibly produced for Assassin's Creed, our collective jaws hit the floor. The assumption has long been that someday the game would be taken...
Holiday greetings from Majesco and Serious Sam "Carol of the Bells" is my all-time favorite Christmas carol. I think it's because it feels more aggressive than joyful and has a little bit of darkness in its tone. It's like a mass murderer hi...
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood coming to Virtual Console ... in Australia. The OLFC ratings board, which rates videogames for the former penal colony, has recently rated the classic Castlevania title for that country. The original game has never been r...
Play Modern Warfare 2 with Dane Cook, pretend he's funny In a move certain to draw hordes of people to the service, Microsoft has announced their latest "Game with Fame" promotion. This coming weekend, players of Modern Warfare 2 will have the opp...
Developer Census finds employment up in North America While the number of jobs in the United States has been shrinking for most of the year, information released in Game Developer Research's 3rd annual Game Developer Census shows that the developmen...
National Institute on Media and the Family shutting down One of the long-standing organizations fighting the good fight for righteousness, decency and protecting our children from those evil videogames has fallen. The National Institute for Media and t...
New Eye of Judgment game coming to PSP Remember The Eye of Judgment? It was that PlayStation 3 title that used the EyeToy to look at a game board on which you played a card game and the cards you played appeared on screen like some so...
Bayonetta's luscious locks lash, lance and liquefy Eh, I'm probably exaggerating there. I just couldn't resist the ancient and awesome allure of alliteration. Here's another Bayonetta trailer for you to feast your eyes on. This bit of...
TheSpeedGamers to capture all 493 Pokemon for charity Remember when Pokémon games were limited to just 151 little critters to collect? God, those were the days. I can't comprehend trying to acquire every Pokémon they've come up wi... |
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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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