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Dale North psyched about Fallout 3 360 Avatar items Some new Fallout 3 Avatar items are making their way to Xbox Live Marketplace this coming Thursday. You'll be able to pick up your own Vault 101 jumpsuit, an array of other t-shirts and the incom...
Peripherally Speaking: Crossfire Remote Pistol When it comes to Wii accessories, the vast majority of products are ones designed to work in conjunction with the Wii Remote. Just look at all of the assorted plastic bits of junk that you can sl...
Ten Minute Taste: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Maybe you're like me and spent your weekend fighting against illness, unable to brave the cold world to pick up a copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Or maybe you're just not yet convinced after ...
Attention, everyone buying L4D2: I have dibs on Ellis Last year, when Destructoid's staff laid dibs on the survivors in Left 4 Dead, I saw things in Francis that nobody else did. They were so quick to write him off as the least desirable survivor an...
Sexy Time! GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony [Sexy Time! is a regular series where we take a look at some of the more, shall we say, erotic aspects of video games. You're welcome.] It's been a while since we delved into the tawdry la...
Review: Gravitronix Rght around the time that WiiWare was just becoming known to the public, a little company in New Hampshire called Medaverse Studios announced that they would be jumping in on the fun with a game ...
Amazon has Dissidia as Deal of the Day The idea of Dissidia: Final Fantasy is probably more entertaining than the game will be (Jim's review was less than exuberant), which is why I've held off on picking up a copy for myself. Today m...
No Doubt suing Activision over appearance in Band Hero Just as happened with Kurt Cobain's appearance in Guitar Hero 5 and the screams from the bloated, sucking mass which rallied to his defense, Activision is taking some heat for the use of likeness...
Inside Microsoft's first retail store Coinciding with the release of Windows 7, Microsoft has opened their very first Microsoft Store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. People camped out overnight in sixty ...
MS does on-demand software printing at retail Microsoft is really making a serious push into retail, as evidenced by what I've seen today at the opening of their first retail store. One of the biggest issues with software sales at retail is ...
Microsoft offering on-site Xbox 360 repair at new stores The very first Microsoft store opened today in Scottsdale, Arizona. I ran over to check it out and we'll have more on that a little later today, but there's one story that I'm sure will interest ...
dTunes Editor's Week, Day 1: Conrad Zimmerman [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...
Peripherally Speaking: NERF N-Strike Switch Shot EX-3 I love NERF guns. In my household, NERF guns are kept within easy reach at all times because you never know when an all-out war is about to occur. This probably happens more frequently than it sh...
Play the computer game seen in the movie Big The 1989 film Big, in which a child wishes himself into becoming a grown-up, is probably something you're familiar with. One of the interesting elements of the movie is a graphical text-based adv...
Fashion Review: T-shirts from Casually Hardcore Sometimes I like to challenge myself and do something that's a little different, a bit unusual, when it comes to the things that I write. So, when Casually Hardcore e-mailed and asked if we'd be ...
Review: The Warriors: Street Brawl The Warriors is the sort of film which should lend itself almost perfectly to a gaming experience. Its simplistic plot centered around eight gang members trying to cross New York City with every ...
Wii update may be bricking innocent consoles Remember the new firmware update which Nintendo just sent out to do away with all those nasty people who have been running the Homebrew Channel? You know, another one of those feeble attempts to ...
Buy the Mako from Mass Effect for your Xbox Live Avatar Over on the Xbox Live Marketplace, a new prop has appeared in the Avatar Store. You are now able to purchase an RC replica of the Mako craft used to cart Commander Shepherd and crew around the su...
Do-do-do-don't make another Chipmunks sequel, please The screenshots in the gallery below exist for one purpose and one purpose alone: To give me justification for ranting about the existence of a sequel to the 2007 cinematic re-imagining, Alvin an...
Review: Katamari Forever Naaa na-na na na na na-na na na na na-na naaaaa.Naaa na-na na na na na-na na na na na-na naaaaa.NAAAA na-na na na na na-na na na na na-na naaaaa.Naaa na-na na na na na-na na na na na-na na-na na-...
Rock Band DLC: Alice in Chains, Breaking Benjamin, more Harmonix has sent over the list of what songs we can expect to hit the Rock Band Music Store next week. Breaking Benjamin will have a three-track pack to coincide with the release of their new al...
Update to Rock Band 2 brings new features If you've turned on your 360 to play some Rock Band 2 lately, you may have noticed a new update is available for download. The gang at Harmonix have cooked up some new features for the game and t...
TGS 09: Hooray for Valkyria Chronicles 2 screenshots! Sega unloaded a bunch of screenshots and character renders from Valkyria Chronicles 2 at TGS today. I am here to serve as a conduit for those images, a source by which you may view and enjoy them...
Review: Muramasa: The Demon Blade We waited very impatiently for Muramasa: The Demon Blade to come out on Wii this month. The slashing action game has been enchanting us with trailers for months. And here it is. The die has been ...
Review: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1 There's absolutely no point in trying to build suspense about whether or not we at Destructoid like I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1 (hereafter referred to as IMAGWZ1T!). We do. It is, quite ...
DLC for Trials HD is in the works If you've become addicted to the high-octane ridiculousness of Trials HD on XBLA, I have good news for you. Redlynx is currently working on DLC for the dirtbike stunt riding game. Speaking with C...
Arkham Asylum breaks the Bat for pirates Good anti-piracy measures are hard to find. At best, it can be an inconvenience for legit purchasers of games while other methods like SecuROM are almost universally loathed by gamers. It seems t...
PAX 09: Swine flu confirmed, please go see a doctor Very recently, via Twitter, Penny Arcade announced that they received word of a confirmed case of H1N1 (aka Swine Flu) from an attendee.ConSARS is something we typically joke about when we're not...
RetRose Tinted: Time Pilot [A critical eye takes time to develop. RetRose Tinted is a regular feature in which I re-examine games of yesteryear to see if my memories of them live up to the reality.] I have always had a kee...
Muramasa still looks unbelieveably badass Muramasa: The Demon Blade is a game many of us around the office are eagerly anticipating. I love Vanillaware games and everything I've read about this one has convinced me of my need to own it. ...
Invincible Tiger released today, get the soundtrack free Somewhat under the radar, Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao appeared for download on Xbox Live Arcade and PSN today. It's a side-scrolling beat-em-up notable for being the first console gam...
Halo ODST video gives details on Firefight Halo 3: ODST drops in just under a month from now, forcing Microsoft's hand in finally beginning to promote and hype this thing up. Seriously, what makes these people think that they can wait unt...
Another adorable Mini Ninjas trailer appears I'll be perfectly honest, my interest in Mini Ninjas extends only as far as the trailers which have been released for it. The game itself does not particularly appeal, especially in light of Burc...
Xbox 360 Twitter and Facebook only available to Gold users Looking forward to being able to check your Facebook and Twitter from the comfort of your couch on an Xbox 360? Better cough up those credit card numbers. Hidden away in the press release announc...
RetRose Tinted: Godzilla [A critical eye takes time to develop. RetRose Tinted is a regular feature in which I re-examine games of yesteryear to see if my memories of them live up to the reality.] I was probably about el...
Batman: Arkham Asylum is out this week, evidenced by trailer Oh yes, the wait for Batman: Arkham Asylum is nearly at an end with the game releasing this week. To celebrate the Dark Knight's return to games, Eidos has released this launch trailer. There's a...
The Warriors Street Brawl looks appropriately named I just bought The Warriors on Blu-Ray last week, so this trailer for the upcoming beat-em-up caught my eye. The Warriors: Street Brawl is supposedly coming to the download services in September a...
New Spyborgs gameplay video arrives Capcom released a video showing a boss encounter in their upcoming Wii brawler, Spyborgs. Normally, I would ignore anything named "Spyborgs" on principle because I think that is a terri...
Policenauts fan translation finally released Today is Hideo Kojima's birthday. To celebrate, the long-awaited fan translation patch for Policenauts has been released. Though repeatedly re-released in Japan for PC, 3D0, PlayStation and Sega ...
Valkyria Chronicles 2 trailer surfaces French website Portable Gamer has a lovely little teaser for Valkyria Chronicles 2. There are no revelations to speak of, as far as I can tell. Of course, I don't understand any Japanese, so the ...
Learn the dark history of Arkham Asylum Batman: Arkham Asylum is just around the corner. Eidos and WB keep pumping out marketing for what's looking to be a very cool game. This video is different, however, as it focuses less on what's ...
Holy crap, this Ratchet and Clank trailer is really good Insomniac should write a book on how to make an exciting trailer because they consistently manage to get my blood pumping whenever they release one. Take, for example, this new Ratchet and Clank:...
Here are some Jak and Daxter screenshots for you to enjoy Man, it feels like forever since I played a Jak and Daxter title. Of course, Jak X: Combat Racing isn't really the same thing and I still don't have a PSP to play Daxter on. So, that would put me...
Double Bloob is not a typo, though I wish it were As I was surfing the net today, looking for stories, I happened upon a trailer for what I thought was called "Double Boob" and got all excited before realizing that there's an "L&q...
Have a tidbit of Tales of Monkey Island's second episode The new Monkey Island series from Telltale started out with a bang. Brad Nicholson and I both enjoyed it considerably. On Thursday, the next episode, The Siege of Spinner Cay, will be released.&n...
GC 09: Last two playable characters in Heavy Rain unveiled At Sony's gamescom press conference today, Quantic Dream's David Cage revealed the two remaining playable characters in the long-awaited Heavy Rain. The first is Scott Shelby, a private detective...
Europe getting big pre-order bonuses with Assassin's Creed 2 Ubisoft is showing Europe some love with a couple of limited editions for Assassin's Creed II. The game will be available in "White" and "Black" editions with different goodie...
RetRose Tinted: Dr. Chaos There are a lot of games out there which I have played and not completed. The list seems to be ever-growing, in fact, as I have less time for the practice than I once did. It's far less common th...
Ubisoft's new dancing game does not have Lady Gaga in it yet Ubisoft announced today that it will be releasing a new dance game for the Wii entitled, Just Dance. Interestingly, "Just Dance" is the first track from Lady Gaga's 2008 album, The Fame...
GC 09: EA announces new Simlish music in Sims 3 expansion At the EA press conference today in Cologne, it was announced that the next expansion to The Sims 3, World Adventures will have more music from big artists performing their hit songs in Simlish. ...
Silent Hunter 5 announced, has epic trailer Submarines scare the living hell out of me. I'm not overly claustrophobic, but the thought of being stuffed into a metal tube underwater, knowing that if anything goes wrong that I'm probably goi...
GC 09: Mass Effect 2 trailer and new details revealed Bioware has delivered new information on Mass Effect 2 at today's EA Gamescom press conference. The first information of note is the inclusion of recruitment and loyalty systems to the game. Play...
Confirmed: Cheerleaders playable in We Cheer 2 Namco Bandai delivered unto us video of We Cheer 2. Actually, they sent us three videos. They show the game's multiplayer mode, Cheer-Off, which can be played with two to four players. Since ther...
Peggle Dual Shot $10 on Amazon today There are very few games out there which are more addictive than Peggle. It's like the crack cocaine of videogames. And when you can get it for ten dollars, there's really no excuse not to buy it...
Decline in game sales unrelated to quality of titles If you were thinking of blaming the lack of stellar titles this summer for the considerable drop in year-over-year sales in the games industry, EEDAR's Jesse Divinich would probably urge you to r...
Fairytale Fights gets a release date Fairytale Fights, the game which mashes together children's bedtime stories and puts vicious and bloody twist on them, has had its release date announced today. Playlogic will be dropping the gam...
Serious Sam sure seems shinier Yesterday, we were given this new trailer for Serious Sam HD. I'll say this for the game, it sure looks a whole lot better than Serious Sam does now. Not exactly high praise, but there it is. I s...
I want to go to Where the Wild Things Are Where the Wild Things Are is one of my favorite books from when I was a child. The character of Max speaks to me, as I was always something of the willful sort, and I have a bunch of cool Wild Th...
Realtime Worlds confirms APB will have no subscription fees Over on the website for Realtime World's cops 'n robbers MMO, APB, the FAQ area has some information on what players of the game won't be paying: subscription fees. I think it's great that they'r...
Spore descending on Nintendo systems with Spore Hero series EA announced today that two new games in the Spore franchise will be appearing on Nintendo's consoles this coming fall. Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena will be making their way to the Nintendo Wi... |
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