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Events EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Join Destructoid at the University of Miami's Launchpad 22 Who wants to play an altered reality RTS about sustainable publishing processes called Destructoid?  I'll be at the University of Miami's Launch Pad event today at 4 PM trying to explain wha... Nintendo invades malls for the holidays 15 Unless you're the type that confines yourself to your home and orders all your Christmas gifts through Amazon (not the world's worst idea, really), you're likely to go to a mall at least once thi... NSMB Wii release bash: Bucken-Berry and Ala-Gold! 35 So, I took a five-hour bus ride to New York City yesterday to do some video coverage of the New Super Mario Bros. Wii launch event at the Nintendo World Store. It was supposed to be a four-hour b... A closer look at the Street Fighter IV WTF blanket 24 The Street Fighter IV Snuggie Cozy is uglier and awesomer than we could have ever possibly imagined. Capcom-Unity has a Cozy and they made the poor girl above wear it in the middle of a warm Los ... The Mushroom Kingdom is coming to life for New SMB Wii 18 Nintendo is encouraging any and all fans to celebrate the launch of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and it's shaping up to be one helluva neat shindig. On November 14, from 3:00 - 7:00 PM, you'll have... Go see Deus Ex 3 and Thief 4 at Eidos Montreal 20 Eidos Montreal is inviting the public to come visit their studios and check out Deus Ex 3 and Thief 4 this Sunday. The studio (now owned by Square-Enix) is currently working on the two titles and... New York's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launch event 11 On the eve of the release of what is arguably the most anticipated game of 2009, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Activision joined with Microsoft and GameStop to take over New York’s Union ... Eurogamer Expo = PAX UK (or why I love Dtoid UK) 40 [Community member Anus Mcphanus recounts his adventures at Eurogamer Expo with DtoidUK. -- CTZ] Last weekend was the second Eurogamer expo held in the United Kingdom. This was also one of the bes... Being a face in the crowd with the PS3's 256-player MAG 46 MAG, the PlayStation 3-exclusive first-person shooter that boasts 256-player multiplayer, is set to release on January 26, 2010. So to get people geared up and ready, Sony invited us to a one-on-... Rock Band happy hour in Los Angeles tomorrow night 19 Attention Los Angeles readers! Gyenari in Culver City is hosting a Rock Band happy hour starting at 9:30 tomorrow night. Hite beers will be $2, all other drafts are $5 and house wines and liquor... Chiptune micro tour bringing the lovin' to the West Coast 13 The chiptune scene is flourishing over in New York. A number of the big-name chiptune performers are situated on the East Coast, probably largely to do with Blipfest happening in New York each ye... Capcom invades the Toronto Zombie Walk 13 Last week in Toronto, over 5,000 people showed up for the seventh annual Toronto Zombie Walk. This year, Capcom joined in on the fun and had a Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles booth set up.... Tekken 6 is about to throw a party, you're invited 9 Hey, Dtoid New York. Want to do something fun and possibly win a prize? Then head out to Namco Bandai's Tekken 6 launch party on Oct. 29 from 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. It's being held by New York - Tokyo ... Florida peoples: Come to Infinite Bits to play weird shit 19 Shameless self-promotion: I'm hosting a Weird Games Panel at Infinite Bits, Miami's biggest video game convention.  We'll kick things off on Friday, 6 PM at the Doubletree near the airport b... PAX East tickets now on sale 16 See all of those beautiful people above? Those are all Dtoiders that were at PAX this past year. Good times, but once a year is just not enough.As you may have heard, the Penny Arcade Expo will b... Bellevue getting a $4 million 'game room' 31 Game room? Is that what people want to call arcade nowadays? Anyway, the $4 million game room called Power Play is opening up this Thursday in Bellevue, Washington. The place will be 18,000 squar... Play Super Street Fighter IV in New York this Thursday 9 Capcom is throwing another Fight Club event this Thursday in New York and it's going to be extra special this time around. First, they're going to have Super Street Fighter IV for people to get t... Dtoid Discusses: UK Dtoiders visit Capcom 17 [Editor's note: Capcom UK once again invited their community out to their offices and a number of UK based Dtoiders got to attend. The kids that went talked about the games they got to play in a ... No sleep had! We gamed all to night benefit cancer fund 54 Update:  We're live!  http://www.justin.tv/destructoid  ... but just for another half hour!We have raised over $4,000 in the last 24 hours but that's still a tiny amount to what's ... Second annual Eurogamer takes place later this month 37 Eurogamer is hosting their second annual Eurogamer Expo later this month in the United Kingdom. The show will feature numerous industry speakers, indie games and it will have a pretty kicking sho... Seasons Beating IV kicks off tomorrow in Columbus Ohio 4 The fourth annual Seasons Beating IV takes place starting tomorrow and will last until this Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. Seasons Beating is the place to be for all fighting game fanatics. This year... 3D Dot Game Heroes goes gold, sprite statues rejoice 27 See how happy they are? Spelunker looks like he's about to burst into song. Probably. Anyway, From Software held a little event in Yokohama over the weekend to commemorate 3D Dot Game Heroes head... Who needs graphics: three games in 15 pixels 18 Even if we all can't agree that games are art, we can definitely agree that games can inspire great art. I think Art Attack Friday proves this well every Friday. As part of the UK's Gamecity fes... Plants Vs. Zombies guest star in the NYC Halloween Parade 3 I was just replaying Plants vs. Zombies on the plane ride home from Tokyo and thinking it's the perfect game to play when you need to waste some time, but don't want to spend it on something comp... Play Beaterator and Chinatown Wars tomorrow in New York 7 Rockstar will be at the gdgt NY launch party & meetup tomorrow at the Manhattan Center in New York showing off Beaterator on the PSPgo. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will also be available... UK event going to make Crysis happen in real life 19 Um, okay. So Crytek has teamed up with a UK event called Gamecity Squared where they’re going to make Crysis happen. In real life. An area in Nottingham, UK will be transformed into a &ldq... Uncharted 2 demoed on the big screen 7 There's a simple rule in gaming; the bigger the screen, the better the experience. A 22" television is easily trumped by a 46" television and so on until you arrive at playing videogame... TGS 09: Capcom brings along life-size Okamiden statues 12 [As originally posted on Tomopop] Well, this was almost embarassing. Hamza pointed out to me the latest post on Kramez's blog over at Capcom-Unity, featuring these lovely Okamiden statues. Which,... Silent Hill haunted maze opens this October 24 The Jeff Schleffelbein’s Sinister Pointe attraction venue in Orange County is getting a very Silent Hill makeover this Halloween, which we already knew about. The 10,000 square feet vacant ... Professor Layton traveling America, giving free stuff 25 Nintendo is sending out a Professor Layton lookalike to four major cities across the United States. Why? To give people free stuff! Tomorrow, the Layton will be somewhere in Minneapolis from 11AM... BlipFest storming New York again this December 11 The annual festival of all things Chiptunes related returns once again! BlipFest will be taking place on December 17 through the 19 at the Bell House in Brooklyn. The show is open to all ages and... Live in Florida? Want to attend Infinite Bits for free? 37 Miami is a notoriously non-nerdy place -- in fact, wearing a Mario t-shirt around here could even earn you a few weird looks. Thank the gods, some people choose to ignore that and make their own ... Microsoft unveils its 2009 Tokyo Game Show lineup 16 Microsoft has revealed today its list of playable and not-so-playable games that we be on display at this year's Tokyo Game Show. As usual, it's a mixture of both first-party and third-party titl... Fun was had at the Scribblenauts launch event 24 Well, that's it -- I'm jealous. Scribblenauts hits store shelves tomorrow, but if you're lucky enough to live in New York and had a way to get to the Nintendo World Store this past Sunday, you ma... A look back at PAX 09 in pictures 39 Another PAX has come and gone and the memories we all made will not be soon forgotten. Each year, more and more Dtoiders come out to PAX to take in what the guys from Penny Arcade have provided, ... PAX 09: Swine flu confirmed, please go see a doctor 84 Very recently, via Twitter, Penny Arcade announced that they received word of a confirmed case of H1N1 (aka Swine Flu) from an attendee.ConSARS is something we typically joke about when we're not... PAX 09: Get a gander at the show floor 11 The first thought I had while walking the PAX show floor this year and taking pictures was that I was amazed how much it had grown since the first time I came in 2007 -- it's literally three time... PAX 09: Destructoid community meetup plans! 34 PAX is less than 72 hours away now, and I know all of you coming this weekend are excited beyond belief. In fact, there’s a handful of people, including a bunch of the UK Dtoiders, in Seatt... Free chiptune show outside of PAX Friday night 6 Last year at PAX, Fighter X, Circles and other members chiptune artists held a small chiptune concert right outside the front doors of the Seattle Convention Center. The performance was free, all... Rockin' with Sony & some bands at Virgin Mobile FreeFest 7 I love to get down with great music and videogames, so when Sony offered me (and three Dtoiders) the opportunity to head down to Columbia, MD, and play some PS3 games while taking in some live mu... PAX 09: The list of Dtoiders coming to PAX 69 PAX is just four days away now! Some Dtoiders are already in Seattle today and there are more on their way over the course of the week. We’ve been doing a lot of planning for PAX over on t... What the Penny Arcade Expo means to Destructoid 59 The Penny Arcade Expo was created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the guys behind Penny Arcade and Child’s Play, back in 2004. They started up this expo so gamers of all kinds -- consol... PAX 09: The Capcom store will be at PAX next week 13 Capcom is bringing their goods to the Penny Arcade Expo next week. If you've ever seen a Capcom store at any event in the past, then you know Capcom always bring the goods. Case in point: Giant-s... GameUnicon 09 recap 12 [Community member Senisan82 went out to the very first GameUnicon convention in New England and gave us his impressions on how the event was. -- CTZ] If you've been reading the Dtoid New England ... Level-5 announces Fantasy Life for the Nintendo DS 31 The Level-5 Vision Press Conference that recently took place was chock full of good news like a new Professor Layton game containing an extra RPG, details on the Professor Layton movie and more, ... Anamanaguchi playing in San Francisco this Sunday 14 This Sunday night, Anamanaguchi, Mr. Spastic, A Rival and crashfaster will be playing at the DNA Lounge on 375 Eleventh Street in San Francisco. The show will be from 7PM to 11:30PM and tickets ... Sega indoor theme park opens in Dubai 23 Ah, Dubai. It’s become one of the fastest developed cities in the world and offers some unique attractions. Now, it’s the home to a 76,000 square foot Sega theme park. The theme park... PAX 09: Three-Day badges sold out! 19 There’s just two weeks left until PAX 2009 and the three-day passes have finally completely sold out. There are still a number of Friday, Saturday and Sunday only badges still available, b... Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box tea party! 21 The concept of "Ladies Who Lunch" somehow got a whole lot less boring last night at the The Carlyle hotel in New York as a tea party was held to celebrate the release of Professor Layto... NARP update: GameUnicon 09 happening today! 6 The biggest videogame convention in New England is happing today! GameUnicon 2009 is going to be open around the clock until Sunday evening and a three day pass is just $40! GameUnicon 2009 is g... GC 09: Check out EA's Gamescom Press conference livestream! 0 As some of you may already be aware, Gamescom kicks off today in Cologne, Germany. We're hoping to hear lots of news, including whether or not this PS3 Slim business is for real or not (hint: it ... id Software says Doom 4 is coming next year! Maybe! 19 I love announcements about announcements. For instance, at this year's QuakeCon, id Software spoke at the opening press conference and revealed that there would be no Doom 4 reveal ... at least, ... Take a look at this year's PAX show floor 11 Holy crap! PAX is just 21 days away now! PAX really is the best event for gamers to check out, and if this list of exhibiters can’t convince you, then nothing will. 2K Games, Blizzard, Val... Make your time! PAX schedule is live 23 The Penny Arcade Expo 2009 schedule is finally live. There’s going to be a ton of panels, some awesome concerts, tournaments and a ton of things for people to do while at the Expo. There ar... More No Apparent Reason Parties heading your way 37 No Apparent Reason Parties, NARPs for short, are a long standing tradition here at Destructoid. NARPs are parties hosted by Dtoiders for Dtoiders and everyone is welcome to attend a party. It's a... Katamari Forever, Tekken 6 playable at GamesCom 09 9 Namco Bandai has just announced its playable games lineup for the 2009 GamesCom in Cologne, Germany, which runs from August 19th through the 23rd. The company will be bringing along 8 new titles ... QuakeCon schedule is go! 9 QuakeCon is only a week away! Whose going? If you are don't you want to know what's going to be going down and when? id, the events organizer, has finally released the schedule for the annual eve... BioShock 2 teaser follows through, clues found on beach 28 Yesterday we speculated over one of the mysterious notes from the BioShock 2 website Something in the Sea which indicated an event which would take place at ten beaches around th world at specifi... Here are your 2009 PAX Omeganauts 12 PAX has revealed the 20 randomly selected contestants for the Omegathon competition. Over the course of PAX 09, the contestants will be battling it out in six games: ROUND 1: Mario Kart ® Wii... Miyamoto helps promote Samurai Warriors 3, grins menacingly 16 Shigeru Miyamoto showed up at a recent Samurai Warriors 3 event, which seemed random at first, but makes sense after a little digging. Apparently, Miyamoto was the producer of the Famicom Disk Sy... « 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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