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Online EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag PSN is Sony's basis for taking over the world 0 World domination. It isn't an easily achieved goal. Talk to any dictator with aspirations to rule over Europe or Asia in recent history and they'll tell you, it don't come easy. Sony has a plan t... Learn about UPlay from soothing female voice 13 Recently Ubisoft announced and released its UPlay service to the gaming masses, and the gaming masses looked on and didn't care all that much. The service is yet another way to organize your gam... Online Lessons 101: Monster Slaying in Monster Hunter Tri 16 Look, when I think of Monster Hunter, the last thing I think about is the high school education system. Apparently I must be in the minority, as Capcom seems to think that Monster Hunter and educ... Assassin's Creed 2 comes with a crazy thing named 'Uplay' 17 In case you've been too busy clambering all over Italy and lounging around your villa in Assassin's Creed 2 to notice, there's a little internet-online-tube-thing-service called "Uplay" lurking a... Rumor: inFAMOUS 2 will have online multiplayer 39 Cheeky job listings are a good way to find out about sequels and multiplayer, apparently. Hot off the heels of Dead Space 2's multiplayer mode being (allegedly) revealed, yet another job listing ... OnLive could be on cell phones as well 35 OnLive has been promising a lot since it made such a splash at E3. We've had some time with the guys behind it and are still unsure that it can deliver on all its amazing promises. Every game, an... Rumor: Dead Space 2 to have multiplayer 51 We here at Destructoid have been hearing all sorts of rumors relating to Dead Space 2 and a multiplayer mode. From what we know, it's definitely happening, but it's nothing we can declare as fact... Rumor: check out these Fallout Online screens 29 If you are going to be skeptical about one thing for the rest of the year I'd suggest it is these screens. They're from a Polish site which claims to have gotten its hands on the paperwork from t... AdhocParty releasing, PSP multi making more sense 12 It's a fact. The PSP is nowhere near as popular or widespread in the west as it is in Japan. As such, some of the PSP's best titles such as Monster Hunter Freedom Unite and various fighting games... Iwata: Digital distribution will be prevalent in 20 years 28 During his comments following the release of Nintendo's recent financials, company President Satoru Iwata laid out the connectivity rates for the Wii and DS in Japan. According to Nintendo's numb... Tekken 6 online patch incoming (once it passes cert) 16 Oh, Tekken 6. Like all other online-compatible fighting games, there's always going to be the obligatory outrage against less-than-stellar netcode. Thankfully, Namco Bandai is already on the case... Game SERIES Debate to the Death! MGS VS Half-Life 237 Last week's bonus questions brought in even more discussion than the week before, and when you outdo a Zelda and Final Fantasy debate, that's saying something. And boy did you guys and gamer girl... Home still a priority for all those who care 20 Do not panic! Playstation Home is still a priority. Please go back to whatever it is you were doing before you heard the news that it was possibly no longer a priority for Sony. Chances are whate... Brink devs still up in the air about split-screen play 24 Online multiplayer has pretty much made split-screen gameplay its bitch. The function has been abandoned in half the games out there, and in the ones that it is in it makes one wonder how often i... Game SERIES Debate to the Death! Halo VS Half-Life 244 Last week I introduced a new format for these weekly game debates, and it went great! I used two of the most loved series in the game industry of all time, and the result was just as vicious... Monster Hunter giving Wii friend codes the chop in the US 30 If I were going to be crass, I guess I could describe Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise as "Pokémon for grownups." That's not quite right, but Monster Hunter is reaching pocket m... Check out Small Worlds, a TRUE exploration game 44 A week ago, I complained that too many so-called "exploration" games were actually about collecting doodads and less about the joy of progressively uncovering and understanding more of ... Nintendo says that downloadable services help retail 29 For years now people have been discussing the downfall of retail thanks to the ever increasing use of digital distribution. Of course retail is still here as that inevitable downfall is a long wa... MW2 not delayed on PC, will not have dedicated servers 124 Yesterday Infinity Ward Creative Specialist Robert Bowling went on an information dropping streak about the upcoming PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Those looking to play the game o... Demon's Souls' servers aren't live until game launch 29 Do you have an early copy of Demon's Souls? Been playing through it wondering what all the talk about the ghosts of other characters and unique online functionality is? You thought maybe at one p... TGS 09: 2GB is the new ceiling for XBLA games 26 When XBLA first launched the size of the games was something that Microsoft was very concerned about. They said that keeping games under 50MB kept with the idea of XBLA being a place where you co... Survey hints at PlanetSide 2 coming 15 We're all pretty excited for MAG these days, but to tell the truth the ability to fight large scale wars with hundreds of people has been around for a while. There are plenty of differences/impro... EA wants you to play Command & Conquer 4 online 10 Ever wonder how many people hop online to play a real-time strategy game like, I don't know, Command & Conquer? Well, wonder no more! Talking to gamesindustry.biz, EALA studio head Sean Decke... Monday Mind Teasers: Walking In Circles 5 On our previous flash adventure we ran into yet another locked room and most of us promptly conquered the “escape the room” in record time. However, this time around the block won't b... MAG trailer uses community announcers 31 If there is one thing that MAG is going to rely on it's its community. With 258 people actually able to play at a time you're actually going to have to have 258 people to play a full blown game a... Sony: We were late with PS3's online support 49 Sony doesn't often admit its faults, so when the PS3 platform holder shows some humility, we listen. The confession comes by way of Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, who admits that his... Russian priest designs an MMOrthodox RPG 9 My friend Matthew recently joined the Eastern Orthodox Church, and being the worst kind of lazy pseudo-intellectual, I usually prefer asking him questions about it rather than doing any of my own... 64 million online gamers in China by the year's end 10 Having been to China and having been inside one of their internet "cafes," where large groups of people sit crunched together playing online videogames non-stop I can tell you that some... New character screens and updates for Pangya season 4 13 You're probably familiar with the PSP version of Ntreev's RPG-style golf game, Pangya. If not, you're at least familiar with the dude who won our recent contest. Originally an online PC game, the... Demon's Souls online, co-op and competitive play explained 19 Mmm, Demon's Souls. The upcoming PS3-exclusive action role-playing hardcore dungeon crawling hotness is coming our way on October 6th, thanks to Atlus. One of the coolest aspects of this game is ... First footage of CCP's Dust 514, console companion to EVE 26 I've always been academically fascinated by EVE Online -- any game with an economy robust enough to have its own crises is worth noting -- but its mechanics have always seemed remote, obtuse, and... Halo still has a lot of players, you're probably one of them 71 I don't think anyone is ever going to say that what Halo has done for online gaming is anything short of epic or that the game's multiplayer is bad in any way. No, in fact it is good mutliplayer,... Brink dev believes separate multiplayer is ludicrous 31 Here is Splash Damage's Edward Stern's quote from Gamasutra on multiplayer gaming (read first, we'll discuss after):It's just inane. You get games shipping with separate executables, a completely... Guitar Hero 5 does away with in-game Friend Codes 22 Now that the RRoD is pretty much taken care of let's take quick poll of everyone here and ask what the most annoying thing is in all of gaming. I'll give you a hint: it starts with Friend and end... David Perry: Cloud-based Gaikai a 'wet dream' for investors 12 Not too long ago we told you about David Perry's upcoming cloud-based on-demand gaming service Gaikai, which would allow gamers to play just about anything almost instantly on even the weakest PC... MySpace aiming to be a gaming platform 33 MySpace may be getting its arse handed to it by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, but the former king of social networks believes it has an ace up its sleeve -- it's going to get into games. Tho... SNK Playmore promises optimized online for KOF XII 13 We all know how frustrating it can be when an intense online battle is crippled by lag or poor network performance. It's enough to make you want to punch somebody in the face, especially if you w... Tetris Friends has instant six person multiplayer...sort of 17 We at Destructoid have recently spent an alarming amount of our free time dicking around with Tetris Friends, a free, online collection of Tetris modes with Mario Kart Wii-esque skill level syste... Online gaming is up 22 percent in May, retail games down 7 Over 87 million visitors hit online gaming sites in May, which is up 22 percent from last year. Where are they playing? Sites like EA Online and Nickelodeon Casual Games, or the biggest, Yahoo! G... Play 6-player Tetris over at Tetris Friends Online 15 When I sat down to discuss Tetris with Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers, the creator and CEOs of The Tetris Company this past E3, one of the more interesting topics was Tetris' status as a sport. ... Dragon Quest IX's co-op will be local wireless, not WiFi 12 A few days ago, I posted a seven-minute trailer for Square Enix's upcoming hand-held phenom, Dragon Quest IX: Protectors of the Starry Sky. In the article, I mentioned that I had some questions a... Dedicated servers are coming to the 360 with Section 8 27 This is a big deal. Possibly? Server things and gizmos and clankertickers don't usually make that much of a difference to the general way we play games, but as something new this is a very intere... E3 09: Hands-on with Demon's Souls 21 If you know anything about me, you know that when I rolled up on the Atlus booth today, I was just about the happiest woman alive. One of the games I wanted to get my hands all over the most was ... E3 09: Final Fantasy XIV announced (with online features)! 41 Oh SH*T. We did not see this one coming (at least, not so soon). In the Sony press conference announcements, they dropped an incredible new piece of news: Final Fantasy XIV is coming exclusively ... Treasure World invites you on a magical trip to Starbucks 9 Actually the new game Treasure World is inviting you on a magical trip to any place with a wireless hot spot. In fact, from what we can garner, finding wireless hot spots is the entire point of t... US version of White Knight Chronicles could have voice chat 8 Japanese gamers have been enjoying PS3 RPG White Night Chronicles for awhile now, but what they haven't enjoyed is the ability to speak with each other when playing online. Just typing. The good ... Fan-made WarioWare hits the DS and WiiWare with Made in Ore 13 The world will become a better place on April 29th, as that's the day Made in Ore and Asobu Made in Ore will see a simultaneous release on the DS and WiiWare (in Japan). Nintendo just launched we... Rock out on your keyboard with online music game Jam Legend 11 If you know me, you know me -- I like to rock. Hard. Usually with plastic instruments. And what if that instrument were a keyboard? Better than nothing. In fact, Jam Legend -- an online music &qu... Obama appoints Tauren Shaman to FCC Transition Team 25 If any of you have been able to tear your brains away from Left 4 Dead, you might've heard that President-elect Barack Obama is in the process of choosing his cabinet. What you might not have he... Microsoft opens online store, unsurprisingly fails at it 21 Hear ye, hear ye! Let is be known throughout  the kingdom that Microsoft has caught up with the modern era and opened its very own online store! This store will be selling a wide selection o... Hip Chicas may keep your daughter from becoming a filthy whore! 22 It must be a horrifying moment to look at one's daughter and be unable to recognize your child's face underneath a slathering of gold jewelry and lipliner. This is the fate that befalls "cho... Buyer beware: These are the abandoned Xbox LIVE games 44 The folks at OXM took it upon themselves to fire up a bunch of older Xbox 360 titles and see if there was anyone to be found in each game's multiplayer.Among the slew of games they tested were F.... Street Fighter Online puts a... special item in the store 26 I'll admit it, I don't really know much about Street Fighter Online. Hell, I don't know much about Street Fighter besides what I've played of SFII and the characters who are in Marvel vs. Capcom.... Online adventure game Escape the Museum coming to the Wii 17 I am not that familiar with Escape the Museum, but once I saw the words “adventure game,” my interest was immediately piqued. Upon further investigation, Escape the Museum appears to ... Nintendo's recent trademark filing in Japan raises eyebrows 19 Depending on your TV viewing habits as a child, you may forever associate the letters N.O.M with the sound a certain "googly-eyed" Sesame Street character made while smashing cookies ag... I thought I was done with you: New Mario Kart Wii Tournament now live 16 Sick of Mario Kart Wii already? Today, that may change, at least a few minutes. Nintendo has just gone public with their latest online Mario Kart Wii tournament, accessible to anyone with a Wii,... Phil Harrison thinks we don't want single player games 84 Phil Harrison has said that Atari's Alone in the Dark may be among the last of a dying breed, as consumers no longer want single player experiences. "Alone in the Dark is a beautifully craft... Carnegie Mellon: Play GWAP and help computers get smarter 26 I have a confession to make: I'm addicted to playing Gwap, a quintet of online games that simply task my human brain to perform menial tasks for the benefit of a computer. No, it's not an MMO (ha... Europe to get Metal Gear Online beta 23 Good news, my fellow Europeans! Despite concerns that Europe would not be getting in on the beta for Metal Gear Online, it has been confirmed by Konami that such talk is falsehood. It looked like... Psychiatrist urges that gaming addiction be recognized as a mental illness 52 Doctors are big on relying on their pedigrees to weigh their opinions as somehow more significant than those of the general public, but there are occasions in which their thoughts can hold some m... « 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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