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Does it suck? EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Visceral Games bummed about Dead Space Extraction sales 61 According to a NeoGAF post from a Visceral Games employee- "It is a shame that no one bought this (Dead Space Extraction). As much as everyone made fun of Frank Gibeau's 'experiment', it wil... Two Worlds II gets screens as all Earth's babies cry out 30 When Two Worlds II was announced, it is said that Jesus Christ himself wept tears of purest piss and that every virgin girl in the world had her hymen shattered into a thousand bloodsoaked pieces... Pre-purchase Painkiller: Resurrection, get free games 10 Painkiller: Resurrection? How embarrassing -- I forgot that game even existed. This may or may not have anything to do with the action-oriented first-person shooter getting about zero marketing. ... Break-dance fighting and beaches in the Crystal Bearers 19 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers... I still can't get over that name. It's got three more syllables than Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, the game I previously thought ... Darkest of Days darkening Xbox Live with a demo 22 Today is a grim and sorry day in the history of Xbox Live, as the worst first-person-shooter to ever grace the Xbox 360 has a demo. You too can now sample a mere fraction of the horror that inspi... Ju-On's sh*tty European box art 46 If you have a Wii and love Japanese horror, then you're no doubt interested in checking out Ju-On: The Grudge. However, the box art makes it look like the worst game to have ever existed. The Ame... Awesome wireless game gun won't make you better at games 19 Badass community member and all around swell fellow unstoppablejuggernaut spotted a nifty gadget on YouTube. It's called the GameGun and it's a gun for games. Nothing new there, right? Wrong. It'... Job advertisement smells like Too Human 2 development 33 If a recent ad posting on Gamasutra is to be believed, Silicon Knights is looking for fresh talent to work on a game, and that game may very well be Too Human 2. So far, all the world's babies ha... Memento Mori: the art of trailers and a flaky release dates 4 I have to hand it to Centauri Productions, developers of Memento Mori, a new adventure game for the PC. Obscure (and often unremarkable) PC games are a dime a dozen, but they managed to catch my ... Sharks get the axe: Monster Hunter 3 demo videos a plenty! 15 Did you hear that Monster Hunter D Wii sold something around 100,000 copies in its first day of release in Japan? Crazy sales for a Wii port of a PSP port of a PS2 game. Chances are that these sa... Ubisoft is the 'least consistent' publisher according to Metacritic 22 A new study of Metacritic data suggests that Ubisoft, aka the Activision of Europe, is the least consistent publisher when it comes to game quality, coming bottom of the pile, while Rockstar triu... Sonic Team threatens us with more Werehog action in Sonic Unleashed 2 36 One of the main sore points about Sonic Unleashed was The Werehog, a new alter ego for Sonic that helped to represent everything that is wrong with Sonic Team's continued abuse of Sega's once-lov... Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII countdown ... of DEATH! 29 Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to panic! In seven days time, Square Enix will make an announcement ... and it will have SOMETHING to do with FINAL FANTASY XIII! OH GOD!Actually, it's not that exci... Gore Verbinski is the new Uwe Boll: 'Pirates' director to take on Second Life 29 First BioShock and now Second Life? It looks like director Gore Verbinski has found a new calling in life!According to recent reports in Variety, the Pirates of the Caribbean director has just si... These Valhalla Knights 2 videos are just ... no 19 [video]105340:435[/video] I've never played Valhalla Knights, and if these videos for the sequel are indicative of the series, I think it's very understandable. Why was the above video even relea... New Silent Hill: Rubbish Pyramid Head confirmed (also, November release) 40 Some new information has surfaced on the Western-developed Silent Hill: Homecoming. Chief among them for me is the grim confirmation that Pyramid Head is indeed being recycled and crammed in... Color Treyarch unimpressed over The Bourne Conspiracy 10 Treyarch's Garrett Young has revealed how his team check out the latest release demos, and has confessed that The Bourne Conspiracy left him feeling a little flat. "The Bourne game... w... Destructoid Discusses! Lazy reviewers? Or, maybe your game just sucks 25 You may have heard Jim report the other week, that the AIAS prez says that "game reviewers are lazy." I can certainly see how the whole world of game reviewing is not an exact science, ... GRIN to give Wanted the videogame treatment 16 Wanted was a fun summer action flick, but how will it fair as a videogame? Movie-based games have always had a horrendous track record, but there's a chance this one might turn out to be somewhat... Confusion alert! New Prince of Persia game to be based on movie based on game 38 If making a movie based on Prince of Persia: Sands of Time wasn’t already enough to get fans of the awesome videogame series nervous, now comes news of another Prince of Persi... First gameplay footage of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts 156 So, Nuts & Bolts – I guess that is the official name now. Let’s all pour out a 40 for Banjo-Threeie. I think we all secretly wanted it to be called that.Let me just save you all t... HUGE Sony victory: Vampire Rain CONFIRMED for PlayStation 3 53 That's it boys, the console war is finally over. You can roll out the red carpet and welcome your new king, as publisher AQ interactive confirms that Vampire Rain, up until now a hot Xbox 360 exc... Rumortoid: Uncharted heading to the silver screen? 34 According to a “well-placed source,” Atlas Entertainment (the production company responsible for the amazing Twelve Monkeys and Three Kings) has just purchased t... Game Debate to the Death! Hardest game you've ever played? 137 In the last debate, we discussed which Pokémon species and game was our favorite. With hundreds of critters and a dozen different games to choose from, it was probably the most varied rang... Wii Fit's Wii sh*t, courtesy of Mad Catz 22 The Mad Catz PS2 wireless controller is the single worst thing that mankind has ever created (and I say that without hyperbole). The third party peripheral maker is continuing its commitment to p... Why did Two Worlds suck so bad? Developer tries to explain 35 Two Worlds was horrible and I'm not about to pull any punches when talking about it. It's one of a handful of games that I could not bear to play for more than half an hour, I simply couldn't sta... Mt. Movie License: Paramount gets into the games business 23 Following Warner Bros., Paramount has expanded their interactive department to get into the videogames business. Variety says that they will either partially or fully finance titles and will ove... Activision strikes back with 'Tony Hawk Innovation Plan', whatever that is 28 GamePro has put up a short blurb with an update on the sequel to Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground. The story focuses on a few lines from a USA Today feature on Tony Hawk — the man, the myth... Sony files patent on something that looks like a PSP iPhone 20 Sony Ericsson's newly patented Orientation based multiple mode mechanically vibrated touchscreen display looks like the long-time rumored PSP phone. But it has a touch screen. Yeah, I don't quite... Super Crap Trophy: Brawl trophy from GameStop is terrible 79 The above image is what GameStop is offering the winner of its Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament. As you can see, it is the worst thing in the world. It doesn't even have anything to do with Bra... Activision: We're sorry Guitar Hero Wii sucks so bad, here's your money back 45 The Guitar Hero III mono sound issue earned many a Wii owner's ire last year, and rightfully so -- it's pretty tough to rock out when your game's sound resembles a grilled cheese sandwich run ove... Forbidden Terror to be a Wiiware title...if the price is right? 18 If you squint hard enough, you might mistake this game for a futuristic Resident Evil game, but it's actually just a tech demo developed by Emergent Technologies, as one of the Editors from Silic... Max Payne is set to start filming soon, but will it be painful to watch? 52 Last time we heard about the movie adaptation of Max Payne, the man who would be responsible for filling the iconic shoes of the one-man army was still up in the air. One quick peek over at IGN, ... Next Leisure Suit Larry game to revisit its adventure game roots? 22 In an interview with IGN, John Melchior, executive producer of Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (hehehe), the official next game in the naughty series, is quoted as saying &l... Highlander: Eidos proves that with exceptions, there can be more than one 26 An exact release date hasn't been nailed down yet, but Eidos has released a trailer giving us an idea of what we can expect out of the game based on the name nerds and Sci-Fi buffs (present comp... Goichi Suda: Third-party Wii games aren't cutting it 80 Goichi Suda, the game developer behind GameCube indie offering Killer 7 and the upcoming Wii title No More Heroes, recently commented on the state of the Wii and the games coming out for it, sayi... Doctored screenshots and video, we hate thee so 25 Spend some time reading about games, and you'll likely come across a term that you know the meaning of, but never bothered to put a name to: bullshots. We see them often, and they are the bane of... Videogames caused 9/11: Disgusting trailer for Moral Kombat documentary is bad 144 If you've been online for any decent amount of time, you surely will have heard about Moral Kombat, Spencer Halpin's documentary on videogames ... or rather, cultural assassination of videogames.... Samurai Warriors Katana looks like something that is not a good thing 18 A veritable plethora of videos for Koei's first Wii effort, Samurai Warriors Katana, are now available on your Internet, and all I have to say right now is ... get them off my Internet. Now you k... Could Fallout 3 resurrect Earthworm Jim? Is it a good idea? 37 Fallout 3 is going to sell well, regardless of what the final product ends up looking like. It's a prediction I've pulled from my backside, but one that I think is more than reasonable. Interplay... The torture porn showreel: See the Manhunt 2 that they didn't want you to see 153 Fresh from the hacker's pantry, here are the uncut scenes from Rockstar's controversy magnet/attention whore, Manhunt 2. In all its bleak and bloodsoaked glory, this showreel of murder is take... Destructoid review: Clive Barker's Jericho 36 I've been awaiting the chance to play through the final build of Clive Barker's Jericho with some degree of trepidation. You see on a personal level I've had rather a lot invested in the game sin... Zeus help me, another Rygar game's coming 14 Fans of Destructoid will have gathered by now that I love a good, old fashioned action game. This is why I hated Rygar: The Legendary Adventure for the PlayStation 2. While some people seemed to ... What Cooking Mama should have been? Hell's Kitchen game announced 22 With the popularity of Cooking Mama, it was only a matter of time before somebody came up with the "grand" idea of giving the most entertaining chef on television his own game to punish... Chad Concelmo vs. Chris Kohler ... Ready? ... FIGHT! 47 Actually, I’m just being dramatic. Game|Life’s Kohler was on the other side of the Attack of the Show discussion I just recorded regarding E for All, but we didn't fight. We just butt... First (clear) gameplay shot from Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix 20 Rapidly following the cell phone footage, NeoGAF strikes once again, this time giving us a clearer look at Capcom's upcoming Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (What is it with all the excess... G4TV's big announcement: Part Two 41 But wait, there's more! Tonight, G4TV's Attack of the Show crew added to last week's big announcement with news of two more new shows. Starting on November 9, G4TV will be bringing you coverage o... 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... "Disaster is right!" headline be gone; Disaster: Day of Crisis shows potential 18 When the Wii was first announced last year, there were two “mature” looking games on its tentative release slate. The first, Project: H.A.M.M.E.R. sadly looks to... Want to look like Chun Li or Ryu this Halloween? Tough luck, try Akuma and Ken 27 Gamesniped has uncovered a true gem for anybody who wants to look like a street fighter this Halloween. Sadly, the Ryu and Chun Li costumes are (less than surprisingly) sold out until 2008, but A... Beowulf trailer begs the question: Good game, or another movie tie-in? 21 I was excited to hear that Beowulf would be made into a game way back in July when the screenies started to surface. Although the video above is every bit as epic as one would expect from a old p... TGS 2007: The Lost Odyssey vs. Blue Dragon: A completely unfair cross-analysis 16 Now that Blue Dragon is out and midly sucked hardcore RPG gamers are looking for the next big thing on Xbox 360.  Few titles are as poised to rank as the top spot as Lost Odyssey, the slick-... TGS 2007: Fl0wer trailer is ... calming 19 I love pretty games, as long as they are well done and have a story to back up their graphical prowess. With this new Fl0wer trailer from TGS, I feel like I just watched the prelude to a tampon c... Uwe Boll snaps up film license for unreleased game: Facepalm ensues 28 Love him or hate him, one can't deny Uwe Boll's determination to make movies in the face of life itself telling him he can't. As if to further prove his dominion over the forces of common sense, ... Leipzig GC 2007: Test driving the Wii Balance Board 35 I stepped up to the Wii Fit Balance Board feeling rather ambivalent about the whole thing. On the one hand, while I'm a big fan of what Nintendo is doing in taking games beyond being playthings a... Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be gamers 83 If there aren't enough bad things in the world to expose our children to, now some soccer mom has created a line of t-shirts to tell other people what items their kids cannot have, like sugar o... MTV injects major moolah into gaming, proves again that music is an afterthought 20 Not exactly known as one to adhere to a strictly musical format, MTV has decided that investing heavily in the videogame market over the next two years is the next great idea. According to what M... ScrewAttack's top ten worst Mario games 72 TheGoldenDonut let us know that ScrewAttack posted its top ten worst Mario games of all time. I have no life, so I'm making shrewd use of Gametrailers' embed codes to bring it to the Destru... Sierra announces Rebellion developed Alien/Predator PSP title 10 Remember back in 1999 when games that had the words "Alien" and "Predator" in the title were good? The PC first-person shooter, Alien Versus Predator, certainly wasn't game o... Thermal design expert pokes around inside an Xbox 360, finds badness 19 As a Brit, I'm genetically predisposed to being unable to deal with warm weather. 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