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HD EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Serious Sam HD looks like a bloody good time 23 There are two things I feel obligated to mention when discussing Serious Sam. First off, you know those idiotic skeleton things that click and clack when they run at Sam and are literally never n... Want Retro Game Challenge 2 localized? Open up that wallet 34 In a recent Siliconera interview with Xseed's President Jun Iwasaki and Director of Publishing Ken Berry, there's a tad bit of tit for tat over what would need to happen in order for Retro Game C... Mod your useless HD DVD drive to BURN PEOPLE'S FACES OFF! 22 Stuck with a defunct HD DVD drive that’s taking up precious space from your videogames and the Blu-rays? Got a need to inflict pain onto random strangers because your parents don’t ... GT 5 Prologue vehicle & track list announced, makes real-life racing obsolete 18 Rev those engines, folks: yesterday, Sony released the full list of courses and cars that will be playable in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. The game will be out on April 17th in North America for $39.... Xbox 360 HD DVD player ranks number 4 in games on Amazon Japan 47 Now that the demise of the HD DVD format has been announced, it was only a matter of time before crazy low clearance prices hit the Web. Similar things are happening in Japan, and now it seems th... Microsoft bites the bullet: HD DVD no more 70 Ever since the (not so?) great mass defection of 2007-2008, it has been expected that Microsoft would at some point, abandon their own support of the HD DVD format. If you've taken a peek&nb... Format war over! Toshiba announces the halt of HD DVD 100 After much rumor and speculation, it looks like the Grim Reaper himelf has finally come for HD-DVD: In a press conference held in Tokyo, Japan today, electronics giant Toshiba announced they will... GameStop says goodbye to HD DVD 43 Destructoid has gotten word from an inside source (and confirmation - thanks Liqideos) that GameStop/EB Games will no longer be taking HD DVDs or Xbox 360 HD DVD players as of tomorrow. Ever s... Rumortoid: Microsoft to launch Xbox 360 Blu-ray player as early as May 2008 53 Admid cautionary tales from retailers and homeless men carrying cardboard signs decrying that the end is near for the HD-DVD format, comes news that Microsoft has already long since started work ... Blu-ray lands the big fish, Sony must be jubilant 72 Right about now, the executives at Sony who were initially sweating out their decision to include Blu-ray in the PlayStation 3 must be giggling like a bunch of little schoolgirls. What was once a... Netflix goes Blu-ray only, gamers continue gaming 39 Destructoid only aims to run this story as a public service. While the rest of the world is blu in the face from arguing about their HD format preferences, we continue to frag, level grind, and d... Xbox 360 HD DVD player price drops again 52 The Xbox 360's HD DVD player continues to drop in price, this time hitting $129.99 in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.I'll let you, Destructoid readers, speculate why the pl... Porn drops HD DVD, backs Blu-ray: Call for the bell, this one's over 125 As if the annoying hi-def format war wasn't already entering the end phase, today's news that adult film studio Digital Playground has decided to abandon HD DVD and stick solely with Blu-ray has ... Microsoft is NOT considering Blu-ray: Rumors denied 56 Microsoft has stomped down recent rumors that it will consider Blu-ray support with the Xbox 360 following the death knell of HD DVD, Gizmodo reports. News that The 'Soft may create a Blu-ray pla... Updated: Paramount drops HD DVD (confirmed false) 43 UPDATE: NextGen reports that Paramount is denying any plans to drop HD DVD exclusivity.  A victor has yet to take the spoils!It seems as though the funeral march for HD DVD is picking up spe... Microsoft: Shut up about HD DVD drives 51 With Blu-ray now kicking HD DVD's proverbial, you can forgive Microsoft from wanting to distance itself somewhat from the ailing format. While Microsoft rarely gives any comment of substance when... Commence frowning, HD DVD owners: Warner Bros. to support Blu-ray exclusively 122 You read that headline correctly; Warner Bros. has announced today that it's going to side with Blu-ray exclusively and drop all support for HD DVD. However, we will continue seeing HD DVD releas... Rumor: Blu-ray Profile 1.1 coming to PlayStation 3 before Christmas 43 Potentially great news for all you PlayStation 3 owners out there who are using the system as a Blu-ray player or plan to do so eventually: there's a new rumor floating around the 'nets saying ... Super Metroid HD wins Game of the Year in Middle-earth (Update) 81 From Alchemist Defined -- the same artist responsible for yesterday’s gorgeous Sonic the Hedgehog 2 HD mock-up -- comes this equally beautiful rendering of a fictional Super Metroid in HD. ... Sonic the Hedgehog 2 HD wins Game of the Year in Narnia 48 Wallpaper designer Alchemist Defined has just ruined my day. He (she?) created an absolutely stunning mock-up image of what Sonic the Hedgehog 2 could look like in HD and now I can’t focus ... Dirty secret: Microsoft hopes HD DVD will fail, according to Michael Bay 58 Famed director and soiler of childhood memories, Michael Bay, has stated in a forum post on his website that Microsoft has been deliberately spreading confusion in the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format w... Toshiba: MS not including HD-DVD in 360 as not to 'limit user's experience' 33 If Microsoft truly have any plans to include an HD-DVD drive with their Xbox 360, Toshiba ain't talking. In fact, they're outright denying it.Rumors circulated last week that Microsoft would fina... Buy 360 HD-DVD player from Best Buy, get Heroes and seven other HD-DVDs free 49 Raise your hand if you want to take Best Buy for a ride! The big box retailer are currently offering a free copy of Heroes: Season 1 on HD-DVD when you purchase the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on. Additi... Sony invites Microsoft and Toshiba to come aboard the Good Ship Blu-ray 48 Okay, so there's no Good Ship Blu-ray, but Sony would love for you to believe that Blu-ray is a massive battleship that dominates the waters, stopping to offer assistance to the little wooden raf... Europe to see a price drop on Xbox 360 HD DVD 25 The United States has already seen a price drop, and now it looks like Europe is going to get a break on the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive as well.Next-Gen reports that Microsoft announced a €20 pri... The HD format war isn't over yet: Paramount, DreamWorks go exclusively HD DVD 184 Just when you thought the high-def format war was nearing an end, something like this happens: Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation announced that they will release their DVD titles ex... Xbox 360 HD DVD drops to $179, tempts with 5 free movies 32 If you've been on the fence about picking up the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive, you might be pleased to know that the deal has been sweetened a bit. Just announced at the San Diego Comic Con, Microsoft ... Sony's Peter Dille sees bleak future for HD-DVD; blasts 360's 'staying power' 62 In one of the strongest attacks on Microsoft we've seen yet, Sony's VP of Marketing lashed out at the Xbox 360 and HD-DVD in one fell swoop during an E3 interview with Gamasutra. He start... 1080p is crap: The new sex is Super Hi-Vision, however stupid the name 49 High definition gaming is a highly subjective term.  You can find these words boldly written accross your 90's era Sega Genesis and all over the packaging of the PlayStation 3 boxes pile... HD DVD update hits for 360 users ... all five people rejoice 49 The handful of people or so who actually went out and purchased the HD DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 will get a pleasant surprise update when they boot up their player today. Here are the goods for... E3 implicated in HD-DVD piracy - Update! 122    Update!  Today the people of the internet spoke loudly with our mute and persistant clicking of... button things ... meh. Ok, so our founding fathers would call us a bunch ... ZOMG!!! New Xbox 360 is... 3 inches tall? 25 Look I drink...And sometimes objects appear closer in my rearview than they seem. But, this is no hallucination. The talented folks at paperartgadgets.blogspot.com may suck at coming up with shor... Ninja Gaiden Sigma demo up on Japanese PSN, hits U.S. later today 11 The demo for the highly anticipated remake, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, has hit the Japanese PlayStation Network store. As we speak, the demo is slowly making its way to my hard drive and then for the re... Sony quick to point out that Blu-ray is winning the next-gen DVD war 41 My new BFF Dave Karraker just sent over a message with a not-so-gentle nudge to the fact that the Sony-backed Blu-ray format is, in some ways, a success in the next-generation DVD war. Karraker ... Tetris in HD! ... wait, what? 31 So you've sold everything your grandmother owns (including your grandmother) to buy that shiny new HDTV, and now you're probably on the look-out for some fine native 1080p software to pla... New MotorStorm screenshots: mud, crashing, and accidental breasts 5 Can anyone tell the difference between these new "non-true HD 1080" screenshots of MotorStorm against the old batch? Probably not, which is a great thing for lovers of games who's f... VF5 720p? Really? That would suck 34 Say it isn't so! Nex put up Virtua Fighter 5 video that made me feel funny in the pantal regions, but with this new news I'm afraid that blue pills might be in order.The folks o... The pirates are winning: HD-DVD movies and Wii games dumped 32 News that should surprise nobody: HD-DVD movies are starting to appear on Torrent networks. According to ArsTechnica, the film "Serenity, was made available as a .EVO file and is playable on... 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