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Remakes EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Confirmed: Golgoth working on Joe & Mac remake after Toki 17 The prospect of Golgoth Studio updating Joe & Mac for the high-def era when work on the gorgeous-looking Toki remake is finished excited me greatly, and it definitely excited you guys a lot t... Golgoth working on Data East IP after Toki remake 22 Any studio who can so brilliantly capture the essence of a retro game and bring it into the modern era -- without going overboard -- like Golgoth is doing with Toki is fine by me. In an interview... Suda wants to remake Michigan: Report from Hell 23 Michigan: Report from Hell may have had one of the worst titles for a videogame ever (especially considering the fact that it took place in Chicago and around Lake Michigan, not actually in the s... New Splatterhouse screens are deliciously gory 14 It's been too long since we posted about Splatterhouse. FAR too long. Namco Bandai must have sensed my longing, because they sent over a small handful of new screens today -- just enough to satis... Remedy files new trademark for Death Rally 8 Friends don’t let friends drive cars with chainguns. Not because the idea isn’t metal -- not, it’s totally metal -- but because, generally speaking, videogames featuring weapon-... Earthworm Jim HD built from the ground up, has new stuff 21 I was a little disappointed when I heard that the new Earthworm Jim would be a mere remake, but the folks at Gameloft have spilled a few beans and made the premise sound just a little bit more te... Capcom considering Devil May Cry hi-def collection 77 Sony recently announced that the first two games in the God of War series would be getting a Blu-ray revamp, and the possibilities for more last-gen reruns have opened up. Capcom are masters of t... 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... Contra ReBirth comes stateside to WiiWare on Monday 24 You may not have known it, but Konami has recently published a new Contra Game. Japan, Europe and Australia have already been enjoying the new Contra ReBirth on WiiWare -- some since May, and now... First video of Spelunker HD for PSN 11 Not to be confused with Spelunky on XBLA, which Ashley told you about the other day. That's an indie game by Derek Yu. Spelunker is the classic Irem title, possibly best remembered for its theme ... New high-def videogame remake art is beyond brilliant 33 About six months ago we posted a gallery of gorgeous, absolutely striking art depicting what some classic videogames would look like if they were redone with a new, high-def, stylish sheen. Actua... Serious Sam sure seems shinier 15 Yesterday, we were given this new trailer for Serious Sam HD. I'll say this for the game, it sure looks a whole lot better than Serious Sam does now. Not exactly high praise, but there it is. I s... Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver has video/art 48 It's no surprise that people are pumped for the release of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, being as they are a pair of remakes for what is considered the best generation of the entire fr... 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... Telltale would love to revisit Loom 14 Mere mention of the Lucasarts classic adventure game Loom throws me back into memories of childhood quicker than I can take a breath. At age 12, I stared at a single screenshot of the game in a P... Rumor(ish): Raystorm HD headed for XBLA 14 Joy! Continuing its recent surge in remakes and re-releases on the digital marketplace, it's looking like Taito is set to bring its classic arcade shooter Raystorm to XBLA. There are two screensh... Alien Breed Evolution announced, looks suitably slimy 15 Alien Breed's coming back? What? Yes! For those not in the know, Alien Breed was a top-down shooter heavily inspired by the Alien movies. The goal was to get to an elevator on every level, and th... Famitsu is useless for real info on the SaGa 2 remake for DS 15 Last night, I posted a tool-assisted speedrun for Square's Final Fantasy Legend, the first game in what would eventually become the SaGa series. Like I mentioned last night, I know virtually noth... New Metroid II fan remake trailer gives me the fish sweats 55 My God this game is looking incredible.After more than a year in production (and after a fair share of Destructoid posts about it), the fan remake of underrated Game Boy game Metroid II: Return o... Enjoy Dr. Kawashima laughing at you on the iPhone 8 For only $5.99, you too can now relive those early days of the Nintendo DS by sitting with Dr. Kawashima and playing Brain Age -- or as those Europeans call it, Brain Exercises with Dr. Kawashima... E3 09: A sneak peek at the art of A Boy and His Blob 16 In an age as determined to be as modern as possible, it's sometimes difficult to find artists who will approach art by touching a pencil to paper and creating it all by hand. WayForward's Marc Go... Five ways that RE5: Wii Edition could justify its existence 43 Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, Capcom's first attempt at remaking a HD game on the Wii, was butchered by the gaming press before it was even released. To take a game that has already establishe... Review: Klonoa 34 In a time where non-human heroes were a commonplace thing, a long eared catrabbit carved a small niche into the hearts of gamers. Klonoa was never the world's most famous anthropomorphic videogam... Review: New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat 25 New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is the first Wii port that actually has less in the way of motion controls than its source material. Whereas the GameCube iteration of Donkey Kong Jungle... XSEED says an enhanced remake of a classic RPG is on the way 22 RPGamer recently had an interview with XSEED's Ken Berry, which I mentioned to you yesterday in my sad news about Retro Game Challenge 2. What I failed to mention (bad games journalist, Colette!)... Adventure 2600 Reboot : awesome and available for download 24 Do you guys remember Adventure for the Atari 2600? No, you don't, because the game was released in 1979. My mom was 21 years old at the time and, for all intents and purposes, she probably rode a... The Humans is reborn for PC and DS 12 The Humans is not a new game -- it first appeared on the Mega Drive back in 1982. However, it's not s surprise to see that someone might want to remake the Lemmings-esque title, and Deep Silver h... Capcom hyper hyping: More (and better) HD remakes on the way 66 In a recent chat with Videogamer.com, Capcom's Vice President of business development and strategic planning, (that's VPOBDASP for short), Christian Svensson (CS for short, presumably), said the ... First gameplay video of A Boy and His Blob Wii remake 43 A note to developers: this is how you remake a classic 2D NES game on current-generation consoles.Just a couple days ago, it was revealed that a remake of A Boy and His Blob would be hitting the ... RetroforceGO! records episode 81 tonight: Retro Limbo #3: The Ocarina of Time 124 You may have noticed that we missed our usual slot for a Retro Limbo episode last week in order to celebrate the pristine glory of the Street Fighter franchise. Let's pretend this week's show num... Bubble Bobble comes to WiiWare in Japan 5 Good news, North America: for a change it looks highly likely that something very cool that came out in Japan will come our way too. Japanese Wii owners can download Bubble Bobble Wii as of Febru... Feel the pain: Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins releases on PSN tomorrow 35 The 2.5D remake of the notoriously difficult Ghosts 'n Goblins first hit store shelves in 2006, but the PSP title will soon see new life as it arrives on the PlayStation Network tomorrow.For me... Brandish remake coming to PSP in glorious 3D 3 Just what I needed, another RPG remake for the PSP. I'm not even being sarcastic, I actually like RPG remakes on my PSP, and Falcom is pulling out all the stops for the return of Brandish. The ov... Metroid II remake is done! Your pants will never be the same again (UPDATE) 37 If you work for Nintendo, please cover your eyes and look away. This blog post is not for you.About seven months back I posted an early trailer for a fan remake of Game Boy classic Metroid II: Re... TGS 08: Suda51's Flower, Sun and Rain coming to DS in 2009 17 If Suda51 is involved with a project, I tend to like it quite a bit. While I rest assured that the majority of fan attention is resting on the announcement of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle... Nintendo is going to try and sell us a lot of games a second time 45 At the Nintendo Japan Press Conference, Nintendo announced the "Wii de Asobu Selection," a group of Gamecube games that are being ported to the Wii. We already know that Pikmin is one o... Klonoa remake comes to Wii in Japan 23 Please tell me you played the PlayStation 2.5D platformer Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. If you didn't, you missed a weird and fantastic 1997 classic, which featured a long eared flying cat-rabbit t... Resident Evil re-remake coming to Wii ... seriously 51 Sometimes a publisher must sit down and think to itself: "Okay, we've remade this game roughly 10,000 times. This is stupid." Capcom has no such self-awareness, however, and has announc... Silent Hill goes retro: introducing Soundless Mountain II 60 [video]102836:324[/video]No matter how I much I fumble and strain for the proper vocabulary, I can't quite stress my love for Silent Hill 2 eloquently enough. It was the game that made me decide ... Soulcalibur on XBLA this Wednesday 30 When I think of Soulcalibur, two things always come to my mind: the first being "transcending history and the world, a tale of swords and souls eternally retold," and the second being &... Nintendo details Kirby super Star Ultra for Nintendo DS 26 It took them awhile to get around to announcing it in English, but Nintendo has finally revealed Kirby Super Star Ultra for the Nintendo DS. A remake of the popular Super Nintendo game Kirby Supe... Dragon Quest Zenithia trilogy coming stateside, subtitles in tow 13 A long time ago, when men were men and subtitles still didn't make sense, Dale brought us news that remakes of Dragon Quests IV, V, and VI were on their way. Today, Square Enix seems to be making... The Sound Card Remixer Profile: Hyadain 17 Destructoid's weekly Sound Card Remixer Profiles highlights the works and music of the internet's game music remixers. If you've read our game music primer, you'll know that "remixers"... RetroforceGO! recording episode 48 tonight: Upcoming retro revivals 108 You've no doubt heard the (possibly) awesome news that some great retro favorites are about to be exhumed and made over for a new generation. We scream, you scream, we all scream for Splatterhous... Warning: Metroid II remake may cause intense salivation 90 I have two people to thank today.First up, community member Haxan for writing a community blog about -- and thereby introducing me to -- a fan made remake of the underrated Metroid II: Return of ... GDC 08: Hands-on with Bionic Commando: Rearmed 26 Last week at GDC, as a large handful of the Dtoid crew was crammed into an amazing Capcom hotel room playing the incredible Street Fighter IV, I was fawning over a playable version of B... New Ys I & II trailer , bring your own nostalgia 24  You like anime cutscenes, you say? Old school turn based fighting? Visiting cookie-cutter towns? The solution to your desires is certainly to be found in Ys I & II DS. If you owned a Se... Holy Hitler! Bionic Commando Rearmed footage revealed 118 Yesterday we told you about a 3D remake of the original NES game Bionic Commando, and now IGN has details and footage on this PSN and XBLA title, named Bionic Commando Rearmed. The downloadable ... PS3/XBL to get a 3D Bionic Commando remake 28 Ah, Bionic Commando. I loved that game. It seems like just last week when I was talking about how they should have just remade the original instead of the wierd, post-apocalyptic reinvention. Wa... Oliver Stone vs. Gamespot in JFG 35 Remember cashwh0re? Our tribute to great ethics within the video game industry was unfortunately missed by the above video (blasphemy!) but I'll let it slide due to this short trailer's otherwise... New Golden Axe = Lair? Lack of playable dwarf = FAIL, at any rate 20 As far as I'm concerned, it's hard to go wrong with a Golden Axe remake. Just give me a dwarf and a shedload of skeletons to fight and I'm happy. Of course, this is the games industry, and nobody... Just give me three months! Bionic Commando wants to make us happy 23 Like everybody else, Destructoid was understandably skeptical when it saw a trailer for the new Bionic Commando. It looks so generic and uninspired, like it was just running down a list of modern... Destructoid review: Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles 29 Rondo of Blood was the one Castlevania title that some people on staff (OK, Linde) were creaming their pants over. Now, Konami finally put out Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, which contain... Bionic Commando remake trailer hits the Web to the sound of gruffness 63 It was only announced yesterday, and already opinions are highly divided on Capcom's Bionic Commando remake. So far voices tend to fall on either side of a binary split, either gushing with the m... Comic-Con 2007: The mystery of 1:18:08 unravels 50 J.J. Abrams is the man. The guy has been responsible for practically reinventing television and saving it from the never-ending onslaught of reality shows and CSI spin-offs. He also made an ext... Dragon Quest IV, V, VI are in the works for DS 11 The Nintendo DS is looking to be the system to have for fans of RPG upgrade/remakes. We already have the brilliantly retooled Final Fantasy III, and we know that Final Fantasy IV is getting a sim... E3 2007: Hands-on with Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles 20 One of the few chapters of the Castlevania saga not to reach Western shores is also arguably one of the best: Dracula X: Rondo of Blood, originally appearing on the PC Engine CD, which never had ... ESWC '07: Early Speedball 2 impressions, shaky-cam 9 One of the most interesting areas of the ESWC floor was a section totally devoted to small, independent, European game development companies. Here is where I spent a majority of my time, tal... New Tron XBLA footage 16 See, this is what I was afraid of. When I heard rumblings of a forthcoming Tron send-up on XBLA, I got all excited, because I had hopes for something similar to Armagetron -- but no! It's jus... Riddick remake confirmed, features post-breakdancing Vin Diesel (update) 26 The rumors we've been hearing for months are true: a remake of the Starbreeze modern classic, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay will officially be making its way to the Xbox 3... « 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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