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Captain Obvious EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag More Call of Duty and Guitar Hero coming in 2010 22 There have been plenty of stories over the years that Captain Obvious has posted, but I feel this might be his greatest achievement. Yes, the power to state the obvious has been granted to Activi... Captain Obvious: Witcher 2 confirmed as a real thing 10 Yesterday, a video trailer for The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings was leaked online, prompting plenty of speculation and rudderless gossip about a followup to the well regarded PC RPG. Realizing th... GameStop holding Madden midnight launch events 11 For some reason, GameStop has felt the need to announce that its stores will be holding Madden NFL 10 midnight launch events at more than 3,000 of its U.S. locations this Thursday, August 13. Uh,... Final Fantasy XIII's release date will be announced shortly 24 I want to be jaded and scowl every time Square Enix makes some sort of announcement in regards to Final Fantasy XIII, but I have to be honest with myself: ever since that Japanese demo came out a... Too much gaming time may raise kids' blood pressure 39 Lots of things can raise your blood pressure -- traffic jams, stressful days at work, pictures of mostly naked girls writhing on a bed of cherries. Apparently the latest in this list is videogame... Captain Obvious: Wii play healthier than sitting on your ass 18 Here comes some BREAKING news, folks. Get ready for it: a recent study posted on The Hindu reports that playing games on the Nintendo Wii that require physical movement are better for you than ga... Captain Obvious: No Master Chief in Halo ODST 22 MTV Multiplayer asked Bungie's Brian Jarrard whether the Master Chief would be making an appearnce in Halo ODST. The answer: No. Duh. ODST takes place on Earth in between the events of Halo 2 and... Captain Obvious: We'll see Master Chief again, in something 12 So, yesterday, Captain Obvious and I were kicking it real cool. We played some games and went out for drinks. After half a martini, Obvious was spewing all sorts of hot, insider industry news. He... Captain Obvious: Famitsu Editor-in-Chief thinks Dragon Quest IX will sell 18 In a brilliant flash of almost Nostradamus-like insight, Famitsu Editor-in-Chief Hirokazu Hamamura has come out and announced that he believes that the upcoming Dragon Quest IX will sell faster t... Captain Obvious: Atari will continue selling games to retail 7 At a recent London event, Atari told MCV that "retail is still a priority," thus the company will continue shipping their games to stores in an attempt to get them in consumers' hands. ... Captain Obvious: The games industry rejects conservative notions on videogames 46 Just thinking about violence in videogames and its social ramifications keeps us warm on those cold, wintry days when GTA IV isn’t blamed for some some tragic circumstance. Thankfully, the ... Shocker! Most people don't like paying $60 for a new videogame 65 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... Captain Obvious: XBLA needs better categorization 6 In an interview with gameindustry.biz, Proper Games CEO (Flock!) Paddy Sinclair was willing to say aloud what every executive in the industry only whispers in the vast labyrinth of developer-only... Captain Obvious: 'Nothing about Gears of War 2 is family friendly' 11 A few days ago, we reported that Gears of War 2 would utilize two socially acceptable filters. The first of which would censor out all of the dreadful language that Baird spits out of his colorfu... Welcome to two weeks ago: Grand Theft Auto DS will support Wi-fi 13 We're not sure why this story is blowing up this week, but since it's all the rage, we'll go ahead and report it, too: Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS will feature... Captain Obvious: Nintendo doesn't like porn on their Balance Board covers 11 It seems as though Nintendo isn’t exactly appreciative to the more “artistic” Balance Board covers that have sprung up since the peripheral’s debut. The offensive covers b... Captain Obvious: Guitar Hero note charts are unnecessarily difficult 56 Anyone who has made it to the more difficult modes in both Rock Band and the post-Harmonix Guitar Hero games knows that there's a key difference between the titles, and it's not just the shape of... Captain Obvious: Naruto: Rise of a Ninja sequel in development 34 When Naruto: Rise of a Ninja was released last year for the Xbox 360 I was initially pretty skeptical. After seeing the way the Naruto franchise was being whored out with sequel after sequel -- v... Study shows that gamers are not shy nerds 44 Though you all were already totally aware, it seems that the rest of the world is finally finding out that their image of the stereotypical gamer is mostly incorrect. Gamers aren't the shy, lonel... Captain Obvious: Sony admits PSP needs more games 26 In a shocking blockbuster revelation, SCEA European big guy David Reeves has conceded to gamesindustry.biz that Sony is aware that the PSP needs a bigger game library. Oh David...I never thought ... Captain Obvious: life should be more like a videogame 21 Jane McGonigal thinks that life should be more like a videogame. We're not going to argue.Last week at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, McGoingal channeled the powers of ... First PS4 rumor points to backwards compatibility 41 Gamer.tm says that Sony is looking for a software engineer to deal with backward compatibility for both the PS3 and an unnamed next-gen console. Next-gen console, huh? Unless Sony has changed the... Harmonix raises our hopes and crushes them, custom content still unlikely 17 From the beginning of the meteoric rise in popularity of games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero people have clamored for a way to create and upload their own content. Valiant attempts have been mad... Perpetual Entertainment bails on Star Trek Online 14 More news from the world of Captain Obvious and his sidekick, Blatant Bullsh*ttery: Developer Perpetual Entertainment (now renamed P2 Entertainment) has announced they will not continue developme... Microsoft explains Live outage causes 50 Over at CES, Microsoft representative Albert Penello confirmed the suspicions held by most folks able to perform basic deductive reasoning; namely that recent Live downtime and connectivity issue... Breaking News: Parents to blame for screwed up kids, not games 43 In pleasantly shocking news, mainstream media outlet The Star-Gazette reports today that parents, not videogames, are responsible for the development of their own children.  I'm sure you're ... Captain Obvious: Brain Training DS does not improve cognition 24 I doubt the scores of wailing Japanese that buy these games and their hundreds of knock-offs will care one whit about this news, but science doesn't lie. Despite celebrity endorsements suggesting... Captian Obvious helps analysts predict Nintendo dominance for November sales 15 The great thing about our favorite superhero, Captain Obvious, is that he is always willing to lend a helping hand when it comes to reporting information to the general public. Hell, he even regu... Activision Blizzard reveal obvious forthcoming titles in fact sheet 19 The following should surprise no one, but you should sit down, just in case. There is a Call of Duty 5, a Guitar Hero IV, and a new Tony Hawk game "in the pipeline." I know, this is min... Guitar Hero III boosts digital sales for songs featured in-game 14 By looking at Soundscan’s sales figures for various songs included in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock before and after the rhythm game was released, Ars Technica has discovered that &quo... Captain Obvious: Parents frequently bungle game gifts 38 My mother, without fail, would ask me to make my Christmas list every year. Like clockwork, she'd take it, go shopping, and more or less ignore it. I think it took a fit of hysterics at age seven... Australia bans yet another game: Soldier of Fortune: Payback goes unrated 30 Bad news for koala bears with a war fetish -- Soldier of Fortune: Payback has become one in a long line of videogames refused a rating by Australia's Office of Film & Literature Classificatio... Obvious: Unreal Engine 4.0 in development 16 During yesterday's tour of Epic Games' beautiful Cary, North Carolina offices, producer Jeff Morris showed us a few things. Epic's gorgeous mo-cap room; Epic's outdoor basketball court; Epic's br... Captain Obvious: David Reeves says PSP should have had more original titles 18 The desire to post a massive billboard of the ORLY owl on this post is almost impossible to resist, but somehow I fought off the burning need. According to this blurb from Gamepro via GamesIndust... You can do it, put your back into it 12 When I'm not quoting Ice Cube, I'm busy playing video games, much like many of you. I'll be honest: my back and neck hurt like nobody's business after long gaming sessions. It may seem like a job... Captain Obvious: How do you know if a new Xbox 360 has HDMI? Read the box! 16 Now that we know that Xbox 360s are shipping with HDMI ports, gamers were wondering how we could be sure that the system inside the box would actually have the ports on it. The answer is simple: ... Big shocker: Europe gets no Xbox 360 price cut 56 It didn't really come as a surprise when Microsoft announced an Xbox 360 price drop for this Wednesday and it should come as even less of a surprise to learn that once again Europe is left out in... Captain Obvious: Gamers do less homework 29 So it turns out that gamers do less homework than non-gamers? No sh*t, Sherlock. We needed a study to tell us this? The Universities of Michigan and Texas-Austin studied 1,500 children ages 10-1... Peter Moore unloads on Sony one last time before leaving Microsoft for EA 34 In the typical pimp fashion that we've all come to expect from him, Peter Moore couldn't help but volley on last criticism Sony's way, while getting things ready for his new home at ... Captain Obvious: Sony's Jack Tretton thinks the PlayStation 3 needs videogames 18 As you all know by now, the PlayStation 3 has its very own blog, which for the most part is used for Sony employees to say "oh hai guyz." Recently, however, the CEO of Sony Computer Ent... Shock! Horror! Lost Planet & Dead Rising don't do well in Japan 77 Oh the surprise! The terror! The black voodoo! Could any of us have seen this coming a bloody mile away? Xbox 360 games don't do very well ... in JAPAN! That's right, try and repair your ... XBL bannings already getting worked around 25 Well, we knew it would happen eventually, but modders are already finding exploits to get themselves around Microsoft's recent banning spree. Utilizing firmware modifications, those sick and ... Captain Obvious presents: Starcraft 2's official announcement! 88 Don't tell me you're surprised; we could all see this coming from miles away, right? Plus, if Blizzard announced something like another World of WarCraft expansion in friggin' Korea (... Best Buy to rely on common sense to educate consumers 8 It looks like the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer thinks that what its customers need more than lower prices is a little bit of common sense on their side. Best Buy recently an... Captain Obvious: Sony profits fall 28 In the most obvious story since the invention of the word obvious, Sony announced today that their operating profits have fell a shareholder-jumping 68% for the financial year. But, we all knew t... Tony Hawk's Proving Ground induces deja vu 16 When the new issue of GamePro hits the stands on May 15th, it's guaranteed to contain more ProTips than you can shake a stick at (like, "Press start to pause the game," for example)... Captain Obvious: Expect Spore delays 19 Whether you fully realize it or not, Will Wright's Spore is a highly ambitious project that for most of us who have seen and heard it on several occasions, think it may never even see the l... Captain Obvious: Vanguard is tanking 23 Speaking of MMO's, Colette, have I got a story for you! If I may speak bluntly, and I shall, it seems as no surprise that SOE's Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is not doing well. Or in their w... Captain Obvious: Analysts are useless 28 Sometimes posts just write themselves. Such is the case with this latest edition of Captain Obvious. I think we can all agree analysts are pretty ... well, useless. Usually, they spout off thing... Captain Obvious: Bungie officially comments on Halo 3 'X button' 17 Hate to say this, but Bungie, we already knew what the X button did in Halo 3. But, in case you were one of the many non-interested Halo parties not paying attention, the Halo folks have now cle... It's official: The 20GB PS3 is no more 24 I'll keep this short and sweet, because frankly, we've all seen the writing on the wall for some time. But, Sony finally came clean and announced that the 20GB PlayStation 3 is now dead.... Captain Obvious: Motorstorm tops Europe PS3 sales charts 12 As possibly the most non-news item you will read all day, Captain Obvious feels the need to call out Next-Gen on reporting on something that seems like the silliest thing this side of a new cons... Captain Obvious: DS outsells PSP in Japan by a wide margin 16 Don't you love when the same gaming news gets recycled and spit out again every three months? God, I know we do. How else would we survive!?!? The latest item that Captain Obvious has brough... Captain Obvious: Sony says the PS3 is nothing like the Wii 33 Leave it up to the genius mind of Sony to remind us that the PlayStation 3 is nothing like the Wii. I'm glad they're here to say so, because without them, I would have assumed they were e... Captain Obvious: Online players like to say 'gay' a lot 48 In another example of shocking news related to studies, a recent gaming survey on the homophobia that permeates the video game landscape says that a majority of online players use the words "... Captain Obvious: Study of studies says video games don't cause violence 25 Considering violent behavior has been around since the day we crawled out of the primordial goo, the notion that video games caused or led to an increase in violent behavior often made those of u... Gears of War officially coming to the PC 28 In the spirit of he whom doth unpack mountains of expensive UPS boxes I bring you another installment of Captain Obvious, or Capitan No Jodas for you spanish kids.  Confirming what our lit... Captain Obvious: Vice City Stories coming to the PS2 17 Oh noes, Captain Obvious is back! For those who have followed me from Borestiq, you may remember I used to pull out Captain Obvious every now and again. Well, I'm pulllin' that bastard ou...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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