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Announcements EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Halo: Reach to be shown off at the Spike VGAs 40 Still fired up from those leaked Halo: Reach images? Then sit down, and prepare to immediately stand up in just a second. Probably. Along with the list of nominees for the Spike Video Game Awards... High Voltage teases a big announcement soon 23 The guys at High Voltage have been a bit silent since E3 and the launch of The Conduit. After announcing The Grinder and Gladiator A.D. I'm sure they're hard at work actually developing those gam... 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 ... Official BIT.TRIP Beat soundtrack ready for download 12 Ladies and Gents, I have a very special announcement to make for fans of the BIT.TRIP series. You see, while the games are oodles of fun, there's a special element of the whole series that just m... 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 ... Scribblenauts announces a special announcement coming 24 If you're like me or Jim "Not as cool as Hamza" Sterling, you found Scribblenauts to be a valiant effort that bit off a bit more than it could chew... and had crappy controls. Still, if... More wall-meat! Castlevania ReBirth gets ESRB-nounced 26 I feel bad for PR firms that work for game publishers. They can spend years planning the perfect launch announcement for an upcoming game, only to have the ESRB unceremoniously list it on their w... Xbox Live Indie Games receive major permanent price drop 20 The sad situation that is Xbox Live Indie Games has been a topic I've addressed before, and its marginalized position as the red-headed stepchild of Xbox Live has been frustrating for creators an... LucasArts teases 'Awesome news for old school fans' Monday 52 Breaking news: there will be news tomorrow. We bring you this news update to inform you of the news that news is on the way. Tomorrow. Says the LucasArts team via its Twitter:"Amazing news c... E3 09: Nintendo announces new Metroid title 70 Nintendo really seems to be pulling out all the stops this E3, with a slew of first-party titles being announced. Now we can add Metroid to the growing list of games with a Wii game entitled, Me... E3 09: Atlus announces Shiren the Wanderer for the Wii 11 For all you Mystery Dungeon fans, Atlus has announced they've acquired the rights to the Wii title Shiren the Wanderer. The Mystery Dungeon series has had a spotty release over here in the US, al... Thief 4 announced, real name is Thi4f 53 You can take it to the bank -- Eidos is working on Thief 4. Earlier this morning, a tweet from the official Eidos-Montreal Twitter account confirmed the existence of the title and also pointed it... Lionhead announcing ... something tomorrow 17 It’s sunny in Guildford, today. Go outside or something. Or, stay glued to your chair for the next 24 odd hours. (We don’t judge.) A recent posting on the Lionhead Development Blog te... Lionhead might reveal a new IP at E3 15 Lionhead Studios -- the developer behind RPG Fable II -- may have something fresh to show off at this year’s E3. A tweet written by a Swansea Metropolitan University student seemingly spill... Just Cause developer reveals AionGuard 8 The latest issue of Edge magazine reveals a brand new game from the developers of Just Cause, described as an open world fantasy title. It's called AionGuard, and it looks very promising indeed. ... Lock's Quest developer announcing new game on December 5 10 If you read our Destructoid review of Lock's Quest, then you'll know that I am a definite fan of 5th Cell's excellent Tower Defense style strategy game. It is with great interest then, that I hea... Rumortoid: Nintendo to announce a game 'everyone is waiting for' this week 84 According to French site Gamekyo, Nintendo is set to announce a game “everyone is waiting for” at its upcoming press conference this Thursday.Before Nintendo’s almost disastrous... Level-5 promises to electrify you with 'shocking' announcement Sept 26th 16 Level-5, a company I've rather admired ever since the release of Dark Cloud, dropped a rather tantalizing comment in the last issue of Famitsu: they are having a press conference on September 26t... Atlus' upcoming license revealed: Eternal Poison 17 [video]98081:112[/video] On Atlus' official forums, they were having fans guess what their upcoming title announcement was. Too bad Play-Asia had to go and ruin things.Play-Asia just listed a new... Oneechanbara: The Movie 35 I may not be a movie connoisseur, but I know what I like. And while Americans love to hate silly videogame-based movies, I love them. I'm the guy they make them for. I may be alone in this, but g... Creator of the upcoming WiiWare game Eternity's Child drops Destructoid a line 43 Here is a unedited transcript of a message sent to us today through the tips@destructoid.com. "Hi Luc Bernard here, the creator of Eternity's Child for wii. well I'm happy to tell you guys t... Microsoft teases with 'important' Xbox 360 news for CES 70 While the Consumer Electronics Show is the biggest trade show in the world, it has always been a  big geek fest. It really is still a geek fest, but since the fall of E3, the show has become... Mega Man's 20th Anniversary countdown ends tonight 72 Mega Man turns twenty tonight at midnight, and to help build anticipation, Capcom has thrown up a countdown timer on the official Mega Man 20th Anniversary page. This is Capcom's second countdown... David is leaving Destructoid, let him give you some swag before he does 104 Yes, it's true. After what has been in all honesty the single best year of my life by a very long way, I'm having to leave the Destructoid staff, as I've been offered a new job in journalism whic... Mastiff hearts Renegade Kid, publishing Dementium developer's next DS title 4 In stores (officially) today, Renegade Kids' Nintendo DS horror offering, Dementium: The Ward, is apparently pretty good. Well, at least we seemed to think so. Videogame publisher Mastiff seem to... Promising talent unveiled for Sin City game 26 You might remember that a while ago I got rather excited about the prospect of a Sin City game based upon Frank Miller's original graphic novels. It was one of those deliciously frustrating annou... G4TV's big annoucement: Cue the crickets 44 After not revealing their announcement on the actual day that they were suppose, and then giving us a week of re-runs, G4TV and Attack of the Show have finally gotten it together and have announc... G4TV has got a secret ... shhh! 63 Apparently, G4TV has a big announcement they plan to reveal this Thursday night during Attack of the Show. No word yet on what it could be, but the rumor is that G4 will be going to HD format for... Confirmed: Nintendo's Senior Marketing VP George Harrison leaves company 8 As Nintendo packs up and heads out of Redmond, a few of Nintendo's power players have decided to stay behind, Marketing VP George Harrison included. Nintendo is moving to hang out with the cool k... Atlus is working on an exclusive PS3 title, may be the next Persona 23 IGN's Podcast Beyond says that Atlus is working on a PS3 exclusive title, and that it might be the next in the Persona series.  They also report that Atlus is trying to figure out how they'l... Coming next week: Fear and Lost in Translation at TGS 28 With a roar of the engine... with flame belching from the exhaust pipe... with the grill work glinting like the blood hungry smile of some Great Red Shark, a crimson Cadillac will explode through... Stranglehold is 'golden' and will be upon us soon 27 Word out of Midway's camp is that Stranglehold has finally gone gold, and will be ready to fill the void of Xbox 360's everywhere come September 5th. While a simultaneous release would have been ... RetroforceGO! is moving! 17 On up? To the East Side? To a deluxe apartment in the sky? No, my fellow sprite loving friends, to Sundays!That’s right; starting this week, RetroforceGO! (tied for first as the best podcas... Ubisoft getting cozy with user-generated game content, busy making other things 9 If there's one thing that's typified this generation so far, it's a huggy, snuggly sense of bringing everyone together in warm, soft-focused harmony and togetherness. Whether it's Nintendo unitin... More Timesplitters 4 details appear, David explodes with joy 35 I love Timesplitters 2. I mean really love it. In an almost scary way. If it were a girl I'd marry it, if it were a food I'd gorge on it until my stomach lining burst, and if it were a drug my ve... David Jaffe confirms three new PlayStation 3 exclusives 24 David Jaffe doesn't waste time. It's just over two weeks since he left Sony to set up his Eat, Sleep, Play studio with Incognito founder Scott Campbell, and already he has four games lined up for... Doctor Who game in the works, Danger Mouse game still non-existent 19 This fansite of David Tennant -- the latest in a long string of literal and metaphorical incarnations of Doctor Who -- has word that a game based on the Who license will be coming to " PC, P... Bully coming to steal your lunch money on the Xbox 360 and Wii 31 That's right boys and girls, you're going to be able to take control of Jimmy Hopkins on your shiny next-gen systems this winter. It will essentially be the same exact game with some new ... Guilty Gear 2 finally announced! [Update] 39 A while ago, I made a small mention in the community blogs about a special announcement from Arc Systems regarding the Guilty Gear series. While it wasn't the anniversary collection that I wa... Synchronized global releases for Last Remnant and Final Fantasy XIII? 8 Cross your fingers Europe. While we might get poked with the poopy end of the release date stick nine times out of ten, if Square Enix's plans for its next two biggies come to fruition, there... Dance Beatdown? Draglade announced! 7 Ever been to one of those parties -- think back to some kid's Bar Mitzvah, or maybe it's someone's awkward, overheated wedding, and sometimes someone's dancing just looks a little... First title for WiiWare announced; no, it's not Geometry Wars 20 Courtesy of the fine folks at SPOnG, Destructoid has received word that the Viennese company, Bplus, is the first to announce an original title for Nintendo’s upcoming WiiWare channel. Sinc... 'Bleach' finally comes to North America 22 The strange hybrid gamer/anime fan is a rare beast. They (we?) can't decide on pizza or Pocky. They're doomed forever to cosplay Final Fantasy characters. Their monthly income is f**ked w... Gamecock signs TimeGate's new FPS 7 Gamecock seriously do need to start rounding off their name with the word "tease". The promise of a new indie publisher with heavy left-field leanings has been getting more than a few ... PS3 version of Fatal Inertia delayed again, this time possibly forever 19 Fatal Inertia has become a horribly fitting monicker for all the wrong reasons over the last year. Initially announced as an exclusive PlayStation 3 launch title at last year's Tokyo Game Sh... Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution to conquer consoles and handhelds next year 11 Let’s just get this out of the way right now. I have a little bit of a platonic man crush on Sid Meier. His Civilization strategy games pretty much single-handedly started the whole concept... Soldier Of Fortune 3 confirmed 22 Unfortunately, if you've read the headline of this story then you've already got through most of the information we have on this one at the moment. Today, Kotaku got confirmation through... Fonix signs speech recognition technology deal with Nintendo 8 Think waving your arms around while playing Wii games makes you look silly? Would you much prefer it if you could wave your arms around and yell a lot, thereby achieving the all-round persona of ... Gamers For Gaming: The plan revealed 129 It should be no secret to the more observant amongst you that the current debacle surrounding Manhunt 2 has hit a nerve with myself and Jim. It's not that we feel particularly protective of t... Sony wants to show you the money 35 There's a nifty little theory of economics called supply and demand, which basically states that only a limited amount of people are willing to purchase an item at a high price point. In ord... id Software's new engine premiered at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 12 As you may remember, just over a week ago, id Software announced John Carmack's latest plan to make you feel inadequate about your PC via the new engine he's working on. At the time, id ... Reggie: Over half of Nintendo of America's marketing staff to leave 11 A few days ago we reported on a rumor posted by Game Informer that Nintendo of America may be losing 90% of its Sales and Marketing division during its imminent relocation, including such big n... Location-based DS game brings real world pirating high jinks 17 The line between gaming and reality became slightly more blurred today, as new developer area/code announced their location-based DS game, Plundr. Already available for laptops, the pirate-theme... War never changes: Fallout 3 Teaser! 33 Tipster Jecrell not only gave us the above YouTube link to Bethesda's teaser trailer for Fallout 3, but he also directed us to Voodoo's blog, which has some extra info on it. Pete Hines,... New studio appears in a puff of smoke 10 Word has reached us from Gamesindustry.biz that another new guest has arrived at the gloriously debauched party we like to call gaming.Made up of former employees of Relic Entertainment, the crea... Pollen Sonata on its way to the Wii? Maybe? 22  This is curious. An unnamed, unsigned Danish developer has posted a video of its current Wii project on Youtube in the hope of finding a publisher. There's nothing to identify them on t... Time for another new graphics card: Carmack strikes again 25 Listen carefully. Go on. Listen. Really concentrate. Hear it? The curious sound you can detect floating across the breeze is that of the world's PC hardware vendors wringing their hands with ... Podtoid 23: The MP3 release party! 39 It's up!I would like to thank my co-conspirators: Aaron Linde and Ron "Cease and Desist" Workman, as well as our guests, Nick Chester, Aktrez and Virtualgirl.As usual, you can hit u... Ubisoft's Ubidays '07 recap 15 With Ubisoft's Ubidays event in Paris having come to a close, it's not hard to imagine that just maybe you might have missed something. A game here, an announcement there -- it's a lo... A game to kill for? 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