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Fan-project brings The Legend of Zelda to the 3rd dimension

Holy induced motion sickness Batman! That was my first thought upon starting up this 3D version of the original The Legend of Zelda. Granted, it didn’t make me sick, only a little dizzy at ...

ZOMG! Steam has been taken over by 'the casuals'

It was inevitable, I suppose. Not even Valve’s digital distribution service Steam -- one of the few remaining bastions of "proper" PC gaming -- could remain safe from the terrible...

Pac-Man REMIX brings bosses and power-ups to the iPhone

Last week, Topher let us know about Space Invaders: Infinity Gene, an update to the classic move-back-and-forth-while-shooting-those-aliens-that-are-also-moving-back-and-forth simulator that incl...

Final Fantasy IV remix album released by OverClocked ReMix

I’m sure many of you were justifiably bummed when this week’s RetroforceGO! was canceled. Well, OverClocked ReMix has swooped in to rescue all you lonely retro fans -- and people who ...

Raven Squad screens show the Amazon, explosions therein

Since SouthPeak Games was kind enough to send over some new screens from Atomic Motion’s first-person shooter/real-time strategy mash up Raven Squad, I figured I may as well as put them up ...

University project uses the Wii to teach CPR

Wii mods aren’t just forMoving metal arms of doom.They can teach stuff, too.BioMed studentsHave a program that shows howTo use CPR.Waggle teaching lifeSaving techniques? That’s madnes...

Coming soon: Taking pictures in PlayStation Home

I’m sure this “news” will excite the many dozens ones of you that regularly hang out in Sony’s drab Second Life knockoff: the ability to take screen caps in Home probably ...

Funimation bringing Sega's Sands of Destruction anime to US

If the name Sands of Destruction sounds completely unfamiliar to you, that’s because Sega decided to rename the DS role-playing game World Destruction for its upcoming American release. I&r...

JOURNALISM: Ubisoft bringing Imagine Reporter to the DS

In a move that will prove popular with lovers of JOURNALISM everywhere, a recent entry on the ESRB’s Web site has revealed that Ubisoft is bringing a game called Imagine Reporter to the Nin...

PS3 exclusive Agent gets a Web site, and that's about all

We don’t really knowmuch at all about Agent.Rockstar’s making it.(If Take-Two top-brassare to be believed, it willturn out “very cool.”)Now there’s a Web site,but th...

Futuristic detective Tex Murphy comes to GOG.com

Tex Murphy seriescomes to Good Old Games this week.Futuristic dick.You see, it’s set ina mid-century Frisco,shown through FMV’s.Live action, in fact.The first three can be had now;oth...

Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires still exists, pics prove it

The fine folks at Koei sent us a notice today that Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires is still, in fact, coming out on June 23 in both the US and EU. They probably felt the need to remind us due to the g...

Assassin's Creed 3, DLC for AC 2, (sort of) confirmed

Assassin’s Creed 2 is looking pretty nice. While the idea of Assassin’s Do These Same Tedious Missions Over And Over Again Creed getting a sequel didn’t originally thrill me, I ...

People like The Sims 3, buy 1.4 million copies

Sims 3 sells boatloads,undeterred by piracy.The Brits love it too.Lots of new contentand a saucy naked patchmay have helped drive sales.EA celebrates;they enjoy profits you see.PR after jump.

Microsoft/Sony: Our motion controls are better than theirs

Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s Motion Controller were easily two of the biggest announcements to come out of this year’s E3 -- so sayeth the buzz meter. Of course, both ob...

Rumortoid: Next iPhone may have more gaming-centric features

It seems Kotaku has caught wind of several announcements that may drop at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference next week. The first is that a new version of the iPhone will be ann...

Amazon selling new Dreamcasts

Following in the steps of ThinkGeek, Amazon has apparently managed to track down another forgotten warehouse full of brand new Dreamcasts. The online retailer currently has them up for sale, and ...

E3 09: Take-Two already hyping Agent to high heaven

What do we know about Agent, Rockstar North’s recently announced PlayStation 3 exclusive? 1. It’s an action game. 2. It’s an international spy thriller set in the 1970’s. ...

E3 09: Protestors descend upon the Dante's Inferno booth

Well, maybe descend isn’t quite the right word. It’s more like they were peacefully standing outside the convention center waving signs with slogans like “EA = Electronic Anti-C...

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves closed beta kicks off today

Just an FYI for everyone that picked up inFAMOUS -- you can now put that shiny Uncharted 2 promotional code that came in the case to good use by downloading the beta client. (And since the 1282 M...

E3 09: Command & Conquer coming to an iPhone near you

Yesterday, the chaps over at Touch Arcade found a demo of the upcoming Command & Conquer iPhone game tucked away in a dark (but still pretty damn noisy) corner of the EA show floor booth. A...

E3 09: Raven Squad still exists, pics prove it

If you don’t remember anything about SouthPeak Games and Atomic Motion’s Raven Squad, don’t feel bad, as we haven’t heard anything about it since I brought it to your atte...

E3 09: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up trailer

One of two TMNT games that Ubisoft brought to E3 -- the other being the remake of the awesome SNES game Turtles in Time -- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up is a four person brawler set to...

E3 09: Tom and Jerry are getting an MMO … What?

Yes, you read that headline correctly. In one of the odder news bites to come out of E3 week, it seems that the classic cat and mouse duo will be getting an MMO based around them. The game is bei...

E3 09: Nintendo announces Golden Sun DS

One game I’ve always heard people rank pretty high on their DO WANT lists is a sequel to Camelot’s Game Boy Advance RPGs Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age. But since their devel...

E3 09: Dante's Inferno trailer tells us all to 'Go to Hell'

Hey, how bout that Dante’s Inferno? I hear that it has hacking, slashing, and a protagonist that slams large crucifixes into devils’ heads. Y’know, just like the original source...

Faith and a .45 developer goes bankrupt

Way back in January, we heard that Danish developer Deadline Games had put Faith and a .45, its Bonny and Clide styled shooter set in the Great Depression, on hold because a publisher could not b...

E3 09: Bit Boy!! announced for WiiWare

One of my favorite segments of RetroforceGO! are Colette’s WiiWare reviews, simply because of the ridiculously titled games and the ensuing five-minute long Chad laugh. Unfortunately, devel...

E3 09: Cooking Mama returns to the kitchen this Christmas

You can put the Cooking Mama in the garden, but you can’t keep the cooking out of the Mama … or something like that. 505 Games has just announced that everyone’s’ favorit...

E3 09: Spore Hero and Spore Hero Arena get some new screens

Hey there Dtoiders. It’s been a while since we’ve seen each other on the front page, hasn’t it. Well, the short story is that I’m back from my lengthy absence; and just in...

Former Warcraft III modders working on an online, team-based strategy RPG

LA-based developer/publisher Riot Games has announced that its first title will be League of Legends, an online team-based game that mixes role-playing and real-time strategy elements, for the PC...

Windows 7 will automatically find updates for your games

Microsoft has already announced that the next version of their ubiquitous Windows operating system -- dubbed Windows 7 -- will be available in early 2010. It will, if the above image provided by ...

Lost Secrets Bermuda Triangle is a self-proclaimed 'Hidden Object casual game'

Seriously, “Hidden Object casual game?” Why would anyone come up with such an odd -- not to mention boring -- phrase to describe an upcoming game? I mean, c’mon GameMill Enterta...

Hollywood revelation: 'most games aren't movies,' also The Sims story details

Film has never been a medium that videogames translate particularly well to. I am in complete agreement with Jim Sterling that the reason for this (aside from obvious time constraints) is mostly ...

Far Cry 2's achievements encourage you to make friends

Seeing as how Far Cry 2 tells the story of one man trying to uncover the location of a ruthless arms dealer in strife-filled Africa, it would be easy to imagine the game as a lone-guerrilla sort ...

Portal gets a fan-made prequel in Portal: Prelude

[video]103843:378[/video]What’s this? A Portal mod featuring eight new chapters, nineteen test chambers, forty-eight challenges, six advanced maps, and a brand new storyline just coming out...

Call of Duty 6 not coming until 2010, more DLC to make up for it

It’s no secret that Activision Blizzard has gained something of a fondness for milking its core franchises for every cent they’re worth -- yearly iterations have become the name of th...

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes update fixes 1000 bugs, adds new starting location

Sony Online Entertainment’s MMORPG Vanguard: Saga of Heroes was generally perceived as a huge letdown when it launched back in early 2007. Even so, that hasn’t kept SOE from trying to...

Grand Theft Auto IV PC release date and recommended requirements revealed

We already knew that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV would be coming out sometime in November, and now, thanks to the Games for Windows Web site, can pin it down to a specific date: Novembe...

Crysis Warhead coming to Steam, Multiwinia deal

Valve has just announced that Crytek’s first-person shooters Crysis and Crysis Warhead will be making their way to Steam. Both titles can be pre-purchased this weekend and will be made avai...

Space ships, missiles, and aliens populate these new Endless Universe screens

Here’s a gallery full of shiny new screens from Galactic Civilizations II: Endless Universe, the upcoming add-on to Stardock’s space-faring strategy game Galactic Civilizations II: Dr...

Another Diablo III 'fan' argues for darker colors, gives examples

[video]103382:344[/video]You may remember last month when Diablo III developer Jay Wilson tore into submissions by “the game’s too darn colorful” crowd. Pointing out several fla...

A lot of people play RuneScape: Enough to earn a world record, anyway

I clearly just don’t get RuneScape. Some time ago, at the insistence of a younger cousin (who played the free MMO religiously), I gave the game a shot, and was subsequently unimpressed. May...

Die before you buy: Left 4 Dead demo confirmed

Most people have probably long since made up their minds about purchasing Left 4 Dead. Valve’s AI scripted, co-op zombie shooter has received a very warm reception from both the gaming pres...

Blood drive used to promote new Dracula adventure game

EA’s stunt of giving away free gasoline to promote Mercenaries 2 is a pretty tough act to follow, but publisher Encore is giving it a shot by partnering with the American Red Cross to organ...

Shocker! Most people don't like paying $60 for a new videogame

Instead of just sitting around grumbling about not being able to afford all the great releases coming out in the next few months, GameDaily called up some gamers to listen to them grumble about n...

EA's Crysis Warhead PC priced, releasing next week

Back in July, Chris Remo brought us the news that EA would be selling a computer specifically marketed as a reliable way to play the upcoming Crysis Warhead. Aside from a general idea of what it ...

Former GameStop employee rants Yahtzee style

[video]102954:326[/video]I know that several members of the gaming public have a great deal of malcontent for GameStop and its practices -- employees hassling about reservations and subscriptions...

Expanded Call of Duty 4 training sequence discovered

[video]102719:320[/video]Do you remember F.N.G., the training course in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare? The one at the beginning of the game where the SAS guys have you run through a training cou...

Sins of a Solar Empire shifts over 500,000 units

PC developer and publisher Stardock -- a company well known for treating their customers with respect -- has revealed that Ironclad Games’ real-time strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire has...

Steam sale: All id titles 50 percent off this weekend

So, how about those id games? I hear they have good graphics and environmentally conscious space marines. I also hear that they’re currently on sale at Steam: 50 percent off for this weeken...

Godfather II teaser reveals the sordid underbelly of virtual organized crime

[video]102525:309[/video]I never did play the original Godfather. Even though the Wii version lets you choke a b**ch, I just couldn’t get myself interested in what appeared to be a rather a...

Play videogames or study for the SAT, now you can do both

Did I study rigorously for the ACT when I was in high school? Hell no. I was far too busy leveling up my party in the .hack// series to read through some boring test prep booklet. Yeah, it probab...

The Daily Hotness: 2 Human (9/2/08)

Some of you might not agree with Jim Sterling’s review scores, but you have to admit that the man is a master of the digital paint brush. For instance: the complex facial expression on Bald...

The Daily Hotness: Noisy Labor Day parades (9/1/08)

This morning I was awoken by the lamest parade ever. At first, all I heard was some music outside; a small (yet very loud) marching band was slowly making its way along the street in front of my ...

New releases for the week of 9/1/08

Spore is finally releasing! Spore is finally releasing! Spore is finally releasing! Spore is finally releasing! Spore is finally releasing! Spore is finally releasing!Whew, sorry about that, bu...

The Weekend Hotness: Chad endorses the Souplantation (8/31/08)

The next time you visit one of the Souplantation’s 109 family-friendly locations make sure to tell your server that Mr. Destructoid sent you in order to save 10 percent on your meal. Ok, so...

Best of the Network this week

The ModernMethod office sure has changed a lot over the years. Not only do we have a bigger TV, but our boss has gotten ripped. Seriously, check out that sexsay Cuban. On Destructoid, there are v...

The Daily Hotness: Release dates can move up? (8/29/08)

Who knew that release dates could move anywhere other than back? Oh well, I’m certainly not going to complain if I can play Dead Space a week earlier. Except I won’t be able to, becau...

Stardock drafts "The Gamer's Bill of Rights," steals my heart

Not only does independent developer/publisher Stardock put out some great strategy games, they’re also somewhat well known for completely omitting any sort of DRM in their releases. Buildin...

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