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News EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Defending Nintendo: Gaijin's support of Wiiware 17 If you notice one thing about Gaijin Games current profile of titles, there's one thing the unites them all: they all have released on Nintendo's WiiWare service. Say what you will about Nintendo... Expect more Nathan Drake from Naughty Dog 18 Nathan Drake. He's a man men want to be, and a man most women would probably not find utterly repulsive. Sure, attribute this to the jaunty rugged v-neck and matching holster. It's pure class, af... DJ Hero controller not functional with other games 19 Whenever I play Rock Band, I always use my 360 Guitar Hero 2 controller. Reasons include a functional strum bar, a solid design, and consistent functionality. That's a nice thing about the Rock B... TGS 09: Capcom -"RE4's appeal was limited" 57 I just have to hope that there's some mistranslation afoot here. Jun Takeuchi, producer of Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2 just told Kotaku that in his opinion, Resident Evil 4 was "... a ... Famitsu confirms BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, new character 45 Holy Azure Grimore, Batman! After a confirmed new version of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger was coming to Europe with new features and characters, Japanese and North American players were left wonder... RunMan: Race Around the World dated and trailerized 7 In December of 2005, we were blessed with the gift of RunMan's Monster Fracas, a simple, charming, and hugely addictive indie game. Now the followup game, RunMan: Race Around the World, has been ... PSP Minis multiplayer possibly to come, updates confirmed 15 A lot of hype has been placed upon the PSPgo. It's a sleek, sexy machine with some obvious flaws (battery life, no real new features), but it does sure look great. However, the PSPgo is not the o... Derek Yu's Spelunky coming to XBLA in 2010 22 Surely the cosmos are in perfect alignment for the indie game developer this year. Cave Story and La Mulana are making their way to WiiWare, and now Derek Yu's cave exploring masterpiece, Spelunk... 'Explore the Void' site update ups the erotic ante 6 As if the site's premiere image wasn't titilating enough, this Monday's update takes sexually provocative black and purple shapes to a whole new level. For a bonus boner-popping surprise, hit the... 'Explore the Void' teaser site teases with sexy, sex grid 7 Check out this sexy, sexy grid! Isn't it sexy? Doesn't it make you want to lube up and try to squeeze yourself in-between all those tight, little purple and black spaces? What a turn on! I'm arou... "Two-gamecubes taped together" guy gets fired, goes indie 45 Remember the guy who said "The way you manufacture a Wii is you take two GameCubes and duct tape. It's not clear to me that Nintendo gives a sh*t about gaming as an art form". Yeah, tha... Fox News says that videogames sell well and then addict you 37 So this week the Entertainment Merchants Association released statistics on how the gaming industry was doing. Turns out the industry is doing pretty good year-to-year despite the current slump i... Two new DualShock 3 colors coming to brighten your game room 30 My favorite thing about growing up with a Nintendo 64 were all the different controller colors there were to choose from. Each member of my family got their favorite color and used it exclusively... Behold: Two indie all-stars enter Super Meat Boy 29 Of course, by enter I don't mean, enter, but since this is a game by Edmund McMillien (creator of C*nt), anything's possible. How these guys will be implemented remains to be seen, but what we do... Eduardo the Samurai Toaster to toast toast next week 10 The kind folks over at Semnat Studios just shot us an email to let us know that their odd WiiWare creation, Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, is going to be released on June 15th, 2009. June 15th, 200... Wii hacker Johnny Lee is working on Project Natal 20 Here's a little tidbit of news that may give the doubtful more faith in how well Microsoft's Project Natal will work once out from the conference and into the living room; Johnny Chung Lee, the m... GameDaily BIZ leaves AOL, launches IndustryGamers.com 2 GameDaily BIZ will become IndustryGamers.com, a new site created Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of of the new site, James Brightman, and the fine folks at Hammersuit LLC, who has ties with the fi... New studio Loose Cannon's E3 debut for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii 9 Loose Cannon (great name) is a new studio that features talent from Sucker Punch and Disney. They've got a new multiplatform game in the works, and they expect it to come out either late this sum... Worst News Day Ever: Free crap drumsticks 17 The upcoming game Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, a best-of track collection from previous Guitar Hero games, comes with a smashing set of...drumsticks. That's right: crap drumsticks with the game's log... Fallujah developer: Canceled game 'caught us by surprise' 28 Yesterday we told you that Konami pulled the plug on Iraq-based shooter, Atomic Games’ Six Days in Fallujah. Konami PR was quoted as saying "we decided not to sell it" after heari... Internet thinks Lil' Wayne more influential than Miyamoto 53 Whatever this says about society is to be determined, but the Internet has spoken and believes that rapper Lil' Wayne is more influential than both Nintendo visionary Shigeru Miyamoto and game de... XSEED announces Drill Sergeant Mindstrong for WiiWare 11 This is a weird one, but it's coming from XSEED so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Drill Sergeant Mindstrong is a title coming to WiiWare next month. With a militaristic theme, players have to ... Too soon? Hudson River plane crash already in a game, pulled 19 Miracle on the Hudson is what it was called...until the Discovery Channel web site pulled it. Flight sims sometimes suck anyway, but ones based on the real-life experiences of the passengers of U... Monday Morning Motivator: Satoru Iwata eats a snack 15 Our asses are really dragging here at Destructoid HQ this morning. Yes, Mondays even suck for those as*holes that play and write about games all day. Everything is slow moving today. Everything ... Ole! Sony expands PlayStation into Latin America 21 It's now official: 13 countries in Latin America will see the rollout of the PS3, PSP, and PS2 systems now as SCEA expands. This is a partnership with Sony Latin America, and will bring "sel... New ECA Institute works for gamers' needs 7 There's a new non-profit organization that you might be interested in hearing about. It was started by the Entertainment Consumers Agency and represents you, the gamers. This ECA Institute will w... Introducing Destructoid Reddit! Share links, celebrate Hamzakah! 30 Before I get into alien technology, let me tell you how this all came about. I was hanging around PAX in a military suit with my helmet, passing out flyers and inviting people to check us out, ki... Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group acquires Snowblind Studios 7 Do you know Snowblind Studios? Sure you do. They're the makers of some big role-playing titles like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath and Justice League Heroes. As of today, thes... GameFly acquires Shacknews... wait, what? 10 We're not normally for running news about another game site's goings-ons, but this one is interesting. There's one less independent game site out there now that Shacknews has been snapped up by o... Nintendo DS screen scandal: Sharp ordered to pay 261 million yen fine 5 About a year ago we told you about a possible price fixing scandal between Japanese LCD makers Sharp and Hitachi, involving the Nintendo DS LCD screens. The two companies are said to have made a ... UGO in talks to buy 1UP.com, GameVideos.com 10 We heard Twitter buzz last night, but the news comes out in full force this morning on Joystiq. They say that UGO Entertainment is in talks with Ziff Davis Media to buy up network sites like 1UP,... Nintendo will now offer replacement Wii Speak codes 8 I don't know if you heard earlier, but it was first said that Wii Speak units came with a one-time activation code linked to that unit, for use with the Wii Speak Channel software download. This ... Great, Japan's economy also sucks 29 [As originally posted on Japanator]We are now one step closer to unified suckage of the world's economic powers with Japan now officially in a recession. Wait: Japan, didn't you just do this like... Riddick remake gets publisher, has new campaign 16 Last generation's Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was a critical success and, apparently generated enough sales to warrant a remake. Then, like so many other games, the project fel... Videogames help in the study of ADHD 17 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a disorder that... uh, what was I saying earlier?Those that suffer from ADHD find it hard to focus, but those chosen to participate for one of the worl... Mark Hamill to reprise his role as voice of The Joker in Arkham Asylum game 22 This is the absolute best news I've heard all day. Warner Brothers has confirmed that the character of Joker in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum will be voiced by Mark Hamill. Hamill has previo... 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... Gold farming 'industry' employs more than 400,000 people 14 If you’ve ever played an MMO it’s highly probable that spammers advertising various websites that specialize in converting real currencies into virtual ones have assaulted your text w... Warner has 75 games in the works 6 Yesterday, CEO of Warner Brothers Jeffrey Bewkes revealed that the company has over 75 games planned for the next seven years. That’s a serious amount of Bugs Bunny and party titles. The st... How much is that GameTap in the window? 9 Although the vice president of GameTap had recently stated that things were going great despite the entire editorial team being laid off, it looks like parent company Turner Broadcasting System d... Video game thief gets caught, threatens clerk with AIDS 26 The WTF rooted in this sad little tale has nothing to do with video games themselves, but that's ok -- the passing association with them is reason enough to tell the story. After all, the interne... PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720: too early to talk about? 22 Forbes' Chris Morris says that it's "insanely early" to start talking about the next generation of videogame consoles. I agree, but that hasn't stopped anyone from talking about it here... Square Enix: we're neutral when it comes to hardware platforms 38 Yoichi Wada, president of Square Enix, says that they are neutral when it comes to the platforms they publish games on. They managed to raise eyebrows at E3 with their announcement that Final Fa... New York signs videogame bill into law 21 New York, you've finally done it. It took you a while, but you've finally signed that pointless videogame law into action. If you look back at the coverage Samit and David Houghton gave the bill... Nintendo and Sony expanding further into Asia, Microsoft gets lonely 10 According to Thomson Financial via Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Nintendo and Sony are beginning to actively court countries in Asia besides Japan, specifically Taiwan and South Korea. Nintendo has ... Shocker: People who buy consoles usually have another one 28 Today, the San Jose Mercury-News ran a story dealing with the sales of new consoles. According to the report, the sales of next generation consoles is still rising, but only through people that a... Scraps: Crap we missed on 6/20/08 5 Have you heard about these mysterious severed feet washing up on the shores of British Columbia? Yeah, there's been six of them, all in sneakers. Oh, wait, that last one? Totally a hoax -- it's j... Scraps: Crap we missed on 6/19/08 10 Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton decided he's going to be launching a "Gossip on the Go" phone call service. For a measly $5, Perez -- or a recording of Perez, although I'm not sur... Scraps: Crap we missed on 6/18/08 9 TodosJuegos.com webmaster Alejandro Reyero recently painted his 11-month-old child's room with a LocoRoco theme. And what the hell did your parents ever do for you? With that in mind, I've b... Scraps: Crap we missed on 6/17/08 12 Last night, on the recommendation of BlindsideDork, my wife and I watched the Spanish-language horror film [Rec]. At one point, a child uses her teeth to rip off a chunk of her mother's face. And... Scraps: All the crap we missed on 6/16/08 19 We work hard here at Destructoid, but we party harder. That, of course, is the reason why we missed writing about these stories today -- drugs.Introducing "Scraps," all of the videogame... ScrewAttack announces Hard News (soon featuring someone you just might know) 47  If you are one of those people notorious for typing "TL;DR" or "WALL OF TEXT" in the comments of blog posts, yet still feel the need to know what's going on in the gamin... NewsBlaster proves that tragedy can be fun! 24 More than a year ago, we here at Destructoid told you about NewsBreaker, a Breakout-type game the MSNBC Web site created to get younger people to read its news. The concept was simp... Blizzard acquires Diablo3.com, Internet flips out, Blizzard remains calm 35 Big news! Blizzard Entertainment has purchased acquired the fan-owned domain Diablo3.com! You know what that means, right? Right? Blizzard are prepping for the mega-announcement of the century, r... Xbox 360 power brick burns house, local news fails 70 An Xbox 360 power brick caught fire and caused about $100,000 worth of damage to the home of a Little Rock, Arkansas gamer. It's a sad story, and I wish the best for the victims. But we know tha... Dan "Shoe" Hsu to leave Ziff Davis 53 Man, it has been a whirlwind of a last few months for Ziff Davis/1UP/EGM. After filing for bankruptcy just a month ago, it now looks like 1UP and Electronic Gaming Monthly staple Da... 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... WhatTheyPlay.com breaks down games for parents 43 ESRB ratings on videogames aren't always enough for some parents. While a Mature rating is a clear indicator that a 7-year-old shouldn't be playing the title, a Teen rating may have a full range ... The Wii gets a bit Naughty 15 No, this has nothing to do with the special "attachments" we told you about earlier.Former Naughty Dog employees Jason Hughes and Andrew Gilmour have formed a new company called Steel ... New York Times calls Halo 3 and Super Mario Galaxy 'unambitious' 58 In the New York Times' "High Scores for the Games of 2007," the usual suspects like BioShock and Mass Effect were named triumphs of 2007, and even Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruct... « 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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