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Animals EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Review: Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! 4 A few weeks ago, indie game developer Arkedo sent me an e-mail titled "An Easy Game from Arkedo to Dtoid, with Love": "Do you think it would be possible to have your mad skillz colleague try and ... Insane cat game becomes worst selling Wii title ever 63 Sukeban Shachou Rena Wii has broken a sales record, but not in any way that should be celebrated. The weird minigame compilation launched this recently in Japan and has swiftly claimed the title ... Miyamoto has a cat, but there 'won't be a Nintencats' 16 Since this is important information to know, Kotaku has learned that Shigeru Miyamoto is now the proud owner of a cat. No details on the cat's breed, color, size of stool, or name are known at th... Monday Mind Teasers: Bloody Fun Day 6 Did everyone escape the clutches of last week's locked room game? Great! This week we face a whole different type of mind teaser game, with both turn-based and path-based strategies to consider a... Golgoth remaking gorgeous arcade monkey-shmup Toki 35 Up until yesterday, if you were to ask me about monkeys in videogames, I'd start off with Donkey Kong and then mention Super Monkey Ball, Samba de Amigo, and maybe those enemies in the Green Hill... Terrorize the waters in Miami Shark 7 What's better than watching a shark go on a rampage? Getting to control the shark that goes on the rampage, that's what! Miami Shark is all about causing as much destruction as possible before re... Wii Fit Plus jumps the shark... and then weighs it 22 Get ready to add crazy cat ladies and people with one too many dogs in their homes to the long list of Wii owners. For many people keeping their pets healthy is almost as important as keeping the... Afrika now gold for North American PS3s 21 Afrika's Western release has been a ludicrously long time coming, but Sony has today announced that the safari voyeur game has finally gone gold for North America. It'll be published by Natsume a... PAX 09: Ride a mechanical horse of doom at PAX 4 THQ will be at PAX this weekend showing off their upcoming game of doomyness, Darksiders. They will also have a giant Darksiders Mechanical Horse that looks like Ruin, the horse in Darksiders. ... Rockstar's Battle animal wallpapers are pretty awesome 19 You see that image above? Want to know what it has to do with videogames? NOTHING! Well, just barely nothing. The image along with two other equally wtf inducing style wallpapers are over on Rc... Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 coming with an awesome gun 28 Activision is bringing Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 on September 29 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. The Wii version is getting some special treatment as it will be packaged with a Top S... WTF?: This bird likes Rock Band 15 Earlier today, both Sean Baptiste and Alex Navarro of Harmonix tweeted something about a "little bird" telling them about some contest going on at the official Rock Band Twitter account... Boom Blox on other formats not out of the question 8 Surprisingly enough, Boom Blox is one of my favorite Wii-exclusive games. There's something about destroying towers and making baby gorillas cry that appeals to me. Although the series is strongl... There's a pun in here somewhere: Risen coming out October 2 4 Publisher Deep Silver has revealed that the upcoming role-playing game, Risen, will rise on October 2, 2009. By “rise” we mean that’s when it comes out. See what we did there? T... Tropico 3 coming to Xbox 360, bringing toucans 13 Toucans are the best birds in the world, and so I'm delighted to be hearing that PC strategy game Tropico is making its Xbox 360 debut with the release of Tropico 3. To be honest, I know very lit... Thinking about the Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll trademark makes us tired 7 If there’s one gaming peripheral that could really put you "inside" Sega’s Super Monkey Ball, it’s the Wii Balance Board. If speculation surrounding a trademark is any... E3 09: Bit.Trip interview with Gaijin Games part one 10 Gaijin Games (of Bit.Trip Beat and the upcoming Bit.Trip Core) is the videogame developer you want to work for. In talking to the guys at this year's E3, I really got the sense that they were all... Preview: Tales of Monkey Island 8 The LucasArts brand of adventure games were always my favorites growing up. Among the very best the company had to offer in the heyday of the genre was Monkey Island. The series created a world w... Review: Toki Tori 10 It’s been, uh ... never since I last played a puzzle platformer starring a chicken. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve always wanted to, but the opportunity has never presented itself. We... Afrika is making its way to North America 14 Hakuna Matata, bitches! The PS3's candid animal photography game, Afrika, has been stuck in Japan for far too long. We here in the West have been begging to take photographs of zebras for well ov... Bacalao! Duck Hunt 42 Cuba's biggest video game critic just mailed us his newest video review: Duck Hunt is the latest gaming craze on the island, and Luigi Santa Rosa Bacalao is not short on enthusiasm. We tried our ... The message to fans in Advent Children Complete 53 Last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of going to see Final Fantasy: Advent Children Complete with Japanator writer Jeff Chuang. The screening, held by New York Tokyo for various members of the press ... Bee swarm traps GameStop employees 38 A GameStop in New York became an "urban jungle" this past weekend as a swarm of bees gathered outside like so many Fratboys at a Halo midnight launch. GameStop employees were trapped at... Capcom losing mind over Swine Flu, could limit E3 appearance 24 Capcom Japan has apparently joined the rudderless morons who are all crying and whimpering over a disease that has claimed less lives than regular, bottom-feeding flu germs, having allegedly canc... Wolverine The Game: Feral Sense app now out for iPhone 5 X-Men Origins: Wolverine The Game -- Feral Sense is an interesting title for iPhone. It uses photo recognizition technology as a sort of game. Armed with the App, you'll go out into the world loo... Swine Flu found in World of Warcraft as I put gun to my head 26 The most tragic casualty of the SCARY SWINE FLU PANDEMIC will most certainly be myself who, no longer able to take people freaking out over the stupid disease any longer, will commit suicide in t... This is why we can't have nice things 15 Oh, marketing. Apparently, The Edinburgh Zoo has “teamed up” with Activision to promote X-Men Origins: Wolverine. That picture only tells you half of the story. According to the press... Review: Rune Factory: Frontier 16 There are certain games that barely need to be reviewed. A simple "If you like this sort of thing, you'll like this game" is all anyone really needs to know. I'm talking about games lik... Win Wolverine:Uncaged and a $200 GameStop giftcard! 103 This week, X-Men Origins: Wolverine finally hits shelves (coming to just about platform imaginable), and I'll bet that some of you have been waiting on it. I have to admit I've been interested in... Would you buy a netbook to game? Vote to win $50 gift card 38 I have a fascination with netbooks (tiny computers you can hide in your vagina). They're cute and are flying off the shelves, but they're only good for word processing and surfing the web ... lik... Fat dude punches kangaroo in the face: New Tekken 6 screens 30 Namco Bandai sent some new screens for the upcoming console versions of Tekken 6, and as promised, that includes images of a fat dude punching a kangaroo in the face. This confirms a few things, ... From cuddly to crazy: The history of the videogame bunny 51 Hey, bunnies of the world. Today is Easter, your special day. Forget about Peeps, coloring eggs, and celebrating the resurrection of that bearded fellow. Today is all about you. Without you, who ... Wiis cost 45% less to make while Nintendo raises Euro costs 32 Just in case you felt you haven't heard enough about how Nintendo has way more money than you do, let it be known that Wiis now cost 45% less to manufacture than they did at launch, meaning that ... Contest reminder: Win some Godfather II swag 59 Every time I think of the Godfather movies, this is the one scene that I recall. There's nothing more messed up then waking up with a horse's head in your bed ... or is there? EA and the Godfathe... Nice 'burns: X-Men Wolverine vid is visually impressive 16 Today, Activision released a developer diary for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. You can view the video after the break. I suggest you do, simply because the texture work on the mutant protagonist&rsqu... Squirrel balls detected in Zeno Clash Web comic 20 Freaky first-person-brawler Zeno Clash is eagerly anticipated by many here at Destructoid, and developer ACE Team has sent a Web comic along to whet our appetites. The comic, created to celebrate... PETA jumps on Call of Duty dog killer bandwagon 54 The other day, we shared with you the story of a bunch of students who whined about the fact that Call of Duty games allow players to defend themselves against attack dogs. Not one to miss an opp... Animal loving students attack Call of Duty's dog killing 49 A bunch of Massachusetts high school students -- obviously idealists, too young to be dragged down by cynicism and misanthropy, bless 'em -- have attacked the Call of Duty franchise. Somewhat lat... If fetch with zombie poodles doesn't sell you on Dead Rising Wii, nothing will 27 The new videos on the Japanese DR:CTYD website (seen by selecting chapters 5 and 6) feature something I didn't think I'd ever see in a video game; a man playing fetch with zombie poodles by chuck... This dog can play DDR and cosplay as Rush better than YOU 37 So this guy on Youtube has a dog. He also has a camera. Put the two together and you get … this. I want to laugh at this, and well, some of it is pretty funny. But I can’t help but f... Spiders > Xbox 360s, according to criminals 20 Two burglars in Wiltshire had a golden opportunity recently, when they found themselves in a room with an Xbox 360 and a wad of games just lying on the floor. Those two burglars didn't touch the ... Allow us to BUG you with these Deadly Creatures screens ... HAHAHAHA! 15 HAHAHAHA! BUG! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Of course, scorpions and spiders are arachnids, not bugs. Shut up and have some screenshots of the Wii game that everybody is talking about ... when they remember it... Wiimote temporarily kills puppy 38 They say a dog is for life, not just for Christmas, but when Kathy White got a Wii for the Holidays, one dog's life was pretty much over ... at least temporarily. White, the owner of a five-month... SimAnimals Web site lets you throw around a bear like a $2 Hooker 4 The official Web site for EA’s SimAnimals recently launched and there’s plenty of stuff for people to check out if they’re into animals that are way too happy. Seriously, it's l... PETA names Fable 2 most animal-friendly game of 2008 ... uh, chicken kickin'? 34 The moment PETA dropped this little press release into our inbox, I laughed until I was sick. The crazy animal rights activists and part-time terrorists have continued to exploit the games indust... Iran NOT joining the ESRB after all 12 During the Christmas period, we ran a story from The Tehran Times which states that Iran was joining America's ESRB. It seemed weird at the time, and now we know why -- it's not really true. Game... Author blames dead deer on games, suggests humans are NEXT! 29 [video]114253:848[/video]  Videogames get the blame for almost everything -- from gun and knife crime, to drugs, to simply doing badly at school. Now, conservative author Bill Croke has stai... Ten videogames that keep PETA awake at night 110 As everybody with a brain knows, PETA is an insane organization full of insane people with an insane agenda. However, they do love their videogames, so that makes them alright by us. The animal r... Kids hang kitten with videogame controller, sherrif accuses GTA of rape 63 Welcome to the logic train, our first stop is Sensible City! Two nasty little six years old brats somehow found themselves playing Grand Theft Auto, then had the bright idea of pelting stones at ... Rumortoid: National Geographic: Afrika coming in November 11 Sony's PS3 safari title Afrika is already out in Japan, but I totally forgot all about it until I was watching Qore episode 6 this past week. The insanely lovely Veronica Belmont held up a copy i... PETA loves Sega, praises publisher for making chimp unemployed 33 Professional badger shagging group (and animal rights advocate) PETA has been showing Sega some love, praising the publisher after it pulled a commercial featuring a live chimpanzee. The ad was t... [UPDATE] The Awesome Apocalypse now to support bewbs! 44 Not prepared for the impending Awesome Apocalypse? Find yourself lacking in 100% cotton garments of WIN and AWESOME? Fret not, my dear fans of RetroforceGO! The combined powers of retro, Splitrea... Pig ball alert! Marble Saga: Kororinpa to hit the Wii next spring 7 Hudson announced this morning that its sequel to underrated Wii game Kororinpa will be rolling onto store shelves in spring of 2009 (click here for an early trailer).For those of you not familiar... Molyneux on Fable II's canine companion: "He's just a dog." 22 The other week, in a rare show of humility, Peter Molyneux mentioned some of the imperfections in the upcoming Fable II. This included his much lauded feature, the dog who acts as your character'... Sssh! Cesar Millan's Dog Whisperer comes to DS, PC 10 Have you ever seen Cesar Millan's Dog Whisperer on television? I don't think it is supposed to be funny, but I can't stop laughing when I watch it. I think it has a lot to do with the incessant &... My Aquarium for WiiWare brings a fish tank to your television in glorious SD 24 [video]99456:151[/video]Software innovation alert! Hudson Entertainment has announced that it will be bringing My Aquarium -- "an all-new, original IP" -- to WiiWare.Yes, it's a virtual... More Z-list 'celebrities' infect EA's FaceBreaker 29 Previously in our FaceBreaker coverage, we reported on someone I've never heard of appearing in EA's cartoony new boxing game. Today, we're here to do it again, as yet another pair of practically... Unleash the Fury, then put it away again: Fury MMO says bye bye 17 It's news like this which makes me afraid of getting too attached to an online game (that and all the extra spending which could be used to buy me a some candy or a smart duck of some sort). Anot... Greetings from Destructoid's E3 Intern B*tch 2008 41 Within the past few weeks, you, the average Destructoid community member, have seen some of your peers promoted to front page editor status.  While Brad does mostly news and Conrad was recru... THQ Holiday Junket: Deadly Creatures impressions 18 Last week, I headed out to the Royalton Hotel in midtown Manhattan -- yes, the same one that’s mentioned in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five -- for the 2008 THQ Holiday Junket (and... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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