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Previews EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag 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... Hooking onto, under and above Just Cause 2 14 For as long as games have been a popular form of entertainment, they have always had to have a special trick. Sure, we don’t want to call it a “gimmick”, but there are always go... 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-... Preview: Rooms: The Main Building 5 When we were figuring out who was going to cover what game at Hudson's Gamers' Day, one of the titles that we knew very little about (okay, nothing) was listed only as Rooms. Rooms, what's Rooms?... Teaming up and throwing down with Skate 3 12 It's funny looking back on the old battle between skateboarding videogames. Ever since the original Tony Hawk, plenty of skateboarding games have come and gone, and other than the eternal old bir... Hudson's bringing back the Bonk 18 Most gamers can remember the so-called console wars of the 16-bit generation. At the time, each of the console competitors used every advantage they could to show how their system was the right s... Exploring the world of Pandora in James Cameron's Avatar 19 If you’re into movies at all, then you’ve no doubt heard about James Cameron’s Avatar. It’s being hyped up as the movie event of the century and like any potential blockbu... Bomberman is blasting off again in Bomberman Battlefest 5 It’s not a year in gaming without a new Bomberman game from Hudson! Bomberman Live: Battlefest is the latest in the Bomberman franchise and it's coming to Xbox Live Arcade early next year. ... Hudson bringing Japanese horror to the Wii with Calling 19 Hudson is typically known for their easy, accessible and casual style games. Lately though, they’ve been working on branching out to different genres, one of which is the first person horr... The rush that is Bad Company 2's multiplayer 39 The signature multiplayer mode from the original Battlefield: Bad Company, Gold Rush, is back in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Now simply called Rush, two teams battle it out on a slowly expanding ... Partying like it's 1959 in BioShock 2's multiplayer 15 It’s 1959, a full year before the events of the original BioShock took place. A civil war has broken out over ADAM -- Atlas and Andrew Ryan are fighting over the control of the precious res... BioShock 2 through the eyes of Big Daddy 32 In 1960, a man named Jack came down to Rapture and did things that would change the city forever. He killed the founder of Rapture, Andrew Ryan, took away the precious ADAM supply by taking the L... Going to Hell and back in Dementium II 21 Dementium: The Ward was the first game by the folks at Renegade Kid. It was an impressive first outing for the company -- they were able to make a great first-person shooter and survival horror g... Brick by brick in a whole new world: LEGO Universe 17 It is good professional practice that when you first meet a developer to exchange business cards, then follow up with a friendly handshake. However, during one recent gaming opportunity, checking... Purple bullets and co-op kills: Army of Two: The 40th Day 10 You know, I've been looking at Army of Two: The 40th Day for about six months now. After an initial preview, followed by another hands-off opportunity at E3, as well as a solid play through of th... Overgrown smurfs: James Cameron's Avatar: The Game 26 James Cameron’s Avatar is a movie a lot of people are excited for. I mean, for a movie that about a paralyzed man becoming the love child between Larry Bird and the opera singer from The Fi... Video tour: Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm on Xbox 360 28 digg_url = 'http://www.destructoid.com/video-tour-facebook-twitter-last-fm-on-xbox-360-152522.phtml'; Yesterday, Microsoft was kind enough to update my Xbox 360 with a preview of this Novem... Gaijin Games leaps into the Void 12 Gaijin Games and BIT.TRIP. It's a dev team and a game series that has worked entirely within the the constraints of Nintendo's WiiWare downloadable channel. For those who have given their previou... Hands-on Dark Void: Imagine greater than Syfy 22 The other day, Capcom had an event to help spread the word about Dark Void. While you may have heard about the contest that was announced, the event didn't really lend itself to getting a good id... Preview: LEGO Rock Band 32 When Harmonix and Traveller’s Tales announced LEGO Rock Band back in April, the Internet went a bit crazy, charging that Harmonix had finally joined Activision among the ranks of the money-... Vamps on a Plane: Details on WiiWare's Last Flight 16 Revealed awhile back, Bloober Team is finally ready to talk more about Last Flight, an upcoming downloadable title, designed exclusively for the Wii and WiiWare. What happens when Anna, a mysteri... Preview: Left 4 Dead 2's new Scavenge mode 24 As you found out late last night, Valve unveiled the new Scavenge mode for Left 4 Dead 2. It's a interesting new game mode aimed at players looking for a quick fix of zombie killing. In fact, a r... Preview: MX vs ATV Reflex 4 Recently THQ invited me out to sit down and play the final build of MX vs. ATV Reflex (Samit played an earlier build this year,) and while I was at it take a shot at helming both an MX bike and a... A Beirut battleground in Marines: Modern Urban Combat 17 When you think of a contemporary urban warfare videogame, almost every one is going to think of, well, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. That's an amazing game, setting the standard for contemporary ... Hitting the slopes with a flick: Stoked: Big Air Edition 6 SSX 3 and Amped. These, at least for me, are the foundational games of an amazing series of snowboarding videogames. Sure, you can argue that Shawn White's entry was something worth mentioning, o... Mixing and mashing: Hands-on with DJ Hero 15 It's an odd thing. While I listen almost exclusively pretentious hipster music, I've been pretty lucky in checking out DJ music games this year. I've had hands-on (and off) time with Scratch: The... TGS 09: What I did & didn't like about Final Fantasy XIII 36 There's a lot to like in the new Tokyo Game Show floor demos of Square Enix's upcoming epic, Final Fantasy XIII. We thought we might tell you what we liked about the demo rather than give you a b... TGS 09: Hands on with Tales of Graces 17 Tales of Graces, one of the two new Tales games, certainly looked crisp and pretty when I walked up to the demo station at TGS this morning, and even though my experience with the Tales series is... TGS 09: Hands on with Nier Gestalt 17 While Square Enix licenses and puts out many pretty RPGs these days, I personally haven't made a really strong connection with any of them. Titles like Infinite Undiscovery and The Last Remnant u... TGS 09: Valkyria Chronicles 2 is a worthy successor 13 When games are shrunk down from console titles to portables ones, it sometimes seems like a lesser experience. That's not the case with the move from PS3 to PSP in Valkyria Chronicles 2.  I ... TGS 09: Dead Rising 2 totally has machinegun wheelchairs 17 Wheelchairs with machine guns mounted to them? Check. That's in Dead Rising 2. That's a real thing.Dead Rising 2 has the least handicapped handicap vehicle ever and plenty more craziness. We had ... Preview: Half Minute Hero 17 People like to tell me that I don't have a very strong attention span. Like it's my fault that chickens are consistently funny and that the socio-political situation of 17th century English Renai... Preview: LittleBigPlanet PSP 15 So what do you get when you take LittleBigPlanet and put it on the PSP? LittlerBiggerPlanet? I'm stretching for a joke here, but that's kind of what I got from my few minutes playing LittleBigPla... Preview: Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake 15 Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake was not a game I was expecting to see at a Sony PSP event. After all, Fat Princess has been seen as the main go-to game for the PlayStation 3. But checking it out on... Preview: Tetris for PSP Minis 12 If you've seen my other previews of games on display at last weeks PSPgo launch event, you know that Sony has quite a lineup this holiday season, both on PlayStation Network and UMD. One of the n... Preview: Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines 11 Assassin's Creed was one of my favorite games to come out in 2007. There, I'll admit it. Yes, some of the stuff was boring, and yes, I wasn't able to finish the game due to my stolen Xbox 360 and... Preview: LocoRoco: Midnight Carnival 10 It's that song. I don't know if you know, but the main theme song from the original LocoRoco was so damn infectious I had to download it immediately. Then I found out it was sung by some little k... Preview: Army of Two: The 40th Day (PSP) 16 I've spent a lot of time looking at Army of Two: The 40th Day. I say looking, because although I was one of the first people to preview the game earlier this year, and I had the opportunity to ch... Preview: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising 18 Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, is a game that acts as a pseudo-sequel to the original Operation Flashpoint back from 2001. While the studios are different, and the team behind it has a slig... Preview: Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan 6 My dear Tales of Monkey Island,Telltale has treated you so good, turning you into a successful episodic franchise. Many would say you do the original justice, which is a wonderful thing to see. O... Sol Survivor impressions: making turret defense 'twitchy' 8 One of the best things about going to conventions like PAX, and covering competitions like Microsoft's Dream.Build.Play, is that I get the opportunity to play games that I would've avoided like t... Preview: Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer 55 Activision and Infinity Ward were kind enough to host an event in Hollywood last night to give us a first look at the multiplayer in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Infinity Ward's Vince Zampella... Preview: The Warriors: Street Brawl 8 If you would so kindly remember, a few years back Rockstar released a brawler based off the 1979 film, The Warriors. Widely well received, the game offered a fresh appreciation for the violent fi... Preview: Blur multiplayer with Todd the elevator guy 10 Last week, we attended an Activision event to check out some new games, and it was there that we met up with the folks from Bizarre Creations, just in from the UK. They were in attendance looking... Hands-on: Critter Crunch (PSN) 10 If Critter Crunch, an upcoming arcade puzzle game for the PlayStation Network, was on the Penny Arcade Expo show floor last weekend, I would have nominated it for Game of The Show. Granted, a puz... Preview: The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition 17 If you played Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, you probably know that there were good things and, well, bad things with the game. However, that has not stopped the game from selling well enough (s... Preview: Dragon Age: Origins 49 Dragon Age: Origins has been an uncharacteristically low-profile game from BioWare. The studio has certainly put its marketing weight behind the game, but it's failed to capture the imagination o... On Assignment: WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 38 THQ officially announced WWE: SmackDown! vs. Raw 2010 and Destructoid was there to capture every moment of the amazing press event.  Watch as Ted DiBiase almost tosses me out the window, my ... Tropico 3 taught me things about dictators 9 Dictators juggle. The good ones provide destructive industry on the richest land while appeasing environmentalists with monuments built to suit their fancy. They declare edicts and talk to their ... Preview: Rock Band Network 26 Last month, Harmonix unveiled Rock Band Network, an upcoming service that will allow musicians to get their songs into Rock Band and actually make cold, hard cash by doing so. It’s a ground... Preview: Demon's Souls Tendency system explained 18 Atlus is busy preparing some RPG lovin' for the PS3 with Demon's Souls. This open-ended online dungeon-y role-playing thing is beauty is being dangled before our eyes, teasing us for the October ... Preview: WET 21 WET is one of those games that had to jump through special hoops to simply exist. Since the game was one of those victims of the Activision Blizzard merger, the very fact that the game still exis... Preview: Fairytale Fights 8 The last time I saw Fairytale Fights, I was surrounded by business types in a small room at E3, where I was the only member of the press. Weird to say the least, I was at least able to catch an e... Preview: StarCraft II single-player 31 Back at the end of July, I got to go back to Blizzard headquarters to take a look at StarCraft II once again. This time, instead of crushing other publications under the might of my hydralisk swa... Odd Society: City-building without the hassle 7 Odd Society is an indie title that flew under our radar. Developed by Odd 1 Incorporated, it’s a simplistic point-and-click title created by a team of 20 or so passionate people. It launche... Preview: The Beatles: Rock Band 40 The dog days of summer have arrived, which means that the September 9th release of The Beatles: Rock Band draws ever closer. Information about the game has been coming from a variety of sources; ... Preview: Brutal Legend (multiplayer) 17 Brütal Legend has a ton going for it. The single-player experience is impressive, the soundtrack is going to rock so hard, and the game is still scheduled to rock October now that Activision... Preview: Halo 3: ODST Firefight 23 If you've been following, you know that Halo: ODST ships on September 22nd, and with it comes a brand new gameplay experience. " Firefight" is a multiplayer cooperative that is complete... Preview: Halo 3's Mythic Map Pack 2 25 Bungie invited Destructoid out for a glimpse of some new hot Halo action this week. Of course, being close to Seattle and an unabashed Halo fangirl, I answered the call with the enthusiasm reserv... Preview: Tropico 3 11 I'll admit, I've never had the burning desire to be a Latin American dictator. Something between the ten hour rants and the constant military garb is just off putting. However, it seems to be a f... « 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! 24 hour contest time GO: For the Glory (PC) Dtoid Twitter    Got news?   tips@destructoid.com Reviews & Previews Left 4 Dead 2 review Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex review Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! review EyePet review New Super Mario Bros. 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