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What the hell was that? EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag The BioShock 2 cover art holds a secret (Update) 72 Yep, the box art for BioShock 2 sure does look similar in style and substance to the first ga--whoa. Now wait just a minute! What ... what is that? Look to the left of the Little Sister's head! W... NSMB Wii release bash: Bucken-Berry and Ala-Gold! 35 So, I took a five-hour bus ride to New York City yesterday to do some video coverage of the New Super Mario Bros. Wii launch event at the Nintendo World Store. It was supposed to be a four-hour b... MODERN WARFARE 2 SUCKS!!!!!! 250 Oh ... my ... God ... Please forgive me for taking the Lord's name in vain, but if you're yet to see this, you will most likely blaspheme along with me. This video is currently doing the rounds,... This sounds necessary: A videogame based on The Host 2 11 A videogame adaptation of The Host would have turned out pretty bad, I imagine, but there's no way it could (theoretically) top the upcoming first-person shooter based upon The Host 2. Now I know... New No More Heroes 2 vid: Sir Henry and the Bat-a-rangs 24 Recent pre-release footage of No More Heroes 2 has been awesome, and it seems that the Shinobu/8-bit work-games videos from a few weeks ago were just the start of it. This new trailer gives us o... Grassroots effort to localize President Cat Rena begins 23 While social networking and Web 2.0 have caused many a misanthropic headache (see Jonathon's weekly Fanboy Friday posts, for example), Twitter and Facebook can certainly be useful. On the rather ... JU-ON press mailer is a gross, hairy, & bloody wad of WTF 23 Well, our review copy of XSEED's JU-ON: The Grudge for Wii showed up yesterday, and... yeah. Where do I start with this one? Stuffed inside an innocuous-looking FedEx package was a manila en... Old, crazy, topless man shows off his Neo Geo collection 55 Not safe for work. Also, related (and not safe for work either).  [via TinyCartridge] Origins devs talk Ferelden and fantasy in latest diary 6 In one of the first developer diaries for Dragon Age: Origins, the team behind the RPG indirectly addresses a powerful question: how does one bring something fresh and unique to the saturated fan... Tell me: Are you a bad enough dude to chicky chicky down? 7 Game Watch just gave me another reason to want a Japanese DSi. This newly announced bit of DSiWare, entitled Time Diagnosis, looks like it could easily fill the WarioWare shaped hole that (in my ... Craving a blogging cat adventure game for the Wii? 38 *man walks into Nintendo office*"Okay, I have a great concept for a game. Hear me out. It’s an adventure game. You know, kind of like Zack & Wiki. But, no, you don’t play as ... Bit.Trip mysteries: Perplexing pics from Gaijin Games 14 After interviewing three-man development team Gaijin Games at E3 09, I've been lucky enough to get periodic emails from the guys about their projects, their thoughts on various stuff, and whateve... Wii MotionPlus instructional video assumes you're a moron 28 Unquestionably, setting up Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus peripheral is the easiest part of owning a Wii. It’s a very small dongle with a very obvious output that fits quite nicely onto th... Pre-E3 2009: Rabbids are...wait...what? 27 We've been getting plenty of pre-E3 trailers around these parts. If you scroll down I think you might notice one or two of them. Most of them comprise of awesome action shots and stuff about the ... Sims 3 + Susan Boyle = Weekend post 19 Some things just aren't really worth of the weekday spotlight, but are slightly interesting enough to warrant some weekend love. EA's Sims 3 good luck wishes to Susan Boyle, the Britain's Got Tal... No, seriously: NES purse mod 20 We come across some pretty strange console mods here on Destructoid. While it seems that most mods are purely a visual thing, some shoot for function or portability. I can only guess that was the... 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... Is this an exclusive sneak peek at the new Bit.Trip game? 23 I just got an email from an anonymous source featuring an image (seen above) with the file name "9_113_141520_11215145" and the text "Soon, our trip will continue. Sincerely, Only ... So what is Will Wright's 'Stupid Fun Club'? 10 Earlier today, we reported that game designer (and freakin' genius) Will Wright had stepped down from his position with Electronic Arts to pursue something called the "Stupid Fun Club."... Wal-Mart has a dirty Wii 36 About two weeks ago, I went into my local Wal-Mart to grab some low fat sour cream. (I have a baked potato fetish. It’s how I get my carbs.) On my way to the refrigerated foods, I stumbled ... DS gets a vibrator and it looks absolutely ridiculous 19 If you feel that your portable gaming lacks rumble, you might want to hold out until something better than this comes along. What you're looking at is the "SmartStylus" -- it's a stylus... GDC 09: Nintendo announces Rock N' Roll Climber 13 Nintendo certainly took the cries of fans into consideration when they said last year's keynote ignored the hardcore gamer. More or less every game they announced this year seemed as if it was ai... My closet imploded on top of me. Also, Rhythm Tengoku 34 Let it be known that, in addition to amassing more video games than I will ever play through again in my lifetime, I also have more comic books than I could ever read.  This is simply one of... Taiwan + Cosplay + Dynasty Warriors = What the Hell did I just watch? 17  Apparently, this TV show (which I can only assume is called Game Movie) is popular in Taiwan, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. Koei Warriors insists the above clip is funnier ... Cliffy B's tubgirl faceplate 83 Uh ... okay. It's hard to type when your face is planted squarely in your palm, but you are looking at the pixelated version of what must now be Gears of War 2 designer Cliff Bleszinski's most pr... F*cking heads chopped off and goblin arsef*cking: Gallagher's idea of videogames 43 Noel Gallagher has such a way with words, I find. Never before has modern pop music had such an eloquent and evocative speaker, and never before has the videogames industry been summed up so subl... Confirmed: Weird golden dragonfly sidekick thing in latest Spyro game 25 Even though I had a PlayStation when I was younger, I still managed to completely miss out on every game involving Spyro the Dragon. I remember thinking that the commercials looked pretty interes... Customer pays $50 for a SILVER account? 62 The Consumerist is always a handy little site to check if you want to see what certain companies try and get away with, and every now and then you'll see some game-related chicanery pop up. Such ... Final Fantasy XI boss causes vomiting, takes 18 hours to beat 81 A few months ago, 1up ran a story detailing a Square Enix-produced strategy for Final Fantasy XI's toughest boss, the ridiculously-titled Absolute Virtue. More recently, at the Premier Site Summi... Playgirl model gyrates his way through Wii Fit 59  For all those guys that had some incredibly impactful comment to make about the Wii Hula Hoop video such as "I'd Wiimote that ass" or something equally respectful, this one is for... Pardon us while we laugh: Forbes thinks iPhone can kill the DS 48 Even the one-time king of the console makers, Sony, wasn't able to do it, so why does Forbes think that the iPhone can do the impossible and dethrone Nintendo on the handheld front? Well, we don'... Guitar Hero: On Tour video is funny, but unintentionally so 73  Wanna learn how to rock out on your Nintendo DS!? Look no further than the attached Guitar Hero: On Tour instructional video. Upon watching the clip initially, I didn't know whether to... SCEE PlayStation Day: an age-gated trailer for LittleBigPlanet? Huh? 32 Sony’s wonderfully cute puzzle platformer, LittleBigPlanet, is still many months away from release, so it hasn’t yet been rated by the ESRB. But from everything we’ve seen, al... Doom and Assault Heroes get a price reduction, more upcoming XBLA games revealed 17 Xbox Live Arcade is simply bittersweet this week. First, the good: two decent games, Assault Heroes and Doom, are dropping in cost from 800 Microsoft Points down to 400. The bad news, however, is... IRL Mario is a squatty pedophile 57 This artist's rendering of Mario almost blew my eyeballs out. It's that repulsive. My long standing mental image of Nintendo's cute mascot has been erased by this foul image, and I'll never look ... The least good idea for a port ever: Final Fantasy VII goes 8-Bit 40 Weird gaming crap enthusiasts GameSnipe recently scored themselves a real, honest to goodness copy of Final Fantasy VII for the Famicom.  Much like the recently talked about 8-Bit version of... Is Mario ready for adulthood? Suda 51 thinks so 64 Some might say that underneath the wholesome facade, Mario has already been there and done that (eating magic mushrooms for power, anyone?) since his humble beginnings, but that hasn't stopped Su... Condemned 2 trailer reveals the most terrifying creature yet: the exploding baby 62 The sequel to the Xbox 360's most underrated launch title, Condemned: Criminal Origins, will be upon is in a little more than a month. There hasn't been a whole lot of media for the game up to th... The worst game ever made: Animal Soccer World for the PS2 73 [Editor's note: TheGoldenDonut is known for his amazing tip finding skills. In fact, he's so good at it, some of us wonder if he even has a real life. There are times when we won't touch a tip wi... Gamasutra names top 5 developers of 2007 33 Oh, these top five lists. While they are relevant to the voice of each website that contributes one, sometimes I think their purpose is utterly defeated by the flame wars that follow (including D... Difficult games: My miserable little pile of failure 50 So, extending my... extended Castlevania kick recently, I started playing Dracula X Chronicles on the PSP over the weekend. Firstly, it's a toe-curlingly good remake -- when Richter first crosses... Games time forgot: You Don't Know Jack: The Ride 15 It's not often we highlight trivia games on Games Time Forgot. In fact, I wouldn't be stretching it in the slightest to say that we have never inducted a trivia game into our almost-selective ha... PS3 Guitar Hero III flashes its dongle at us 21 Wired's Game|Life has managed to snap a candid shot of Activision's upcoming Guitar Hero III "letting it all hang out" on the PS3. It turns out that the PS3 version of Guitar Hero III's... Art Attack Friday: billybob884 26 No self-respecting soon-to-be-released game sequel can step into the public spotlight without a proper papercraft to steadily guide it's bashful hand ahead. And so from the right wing enters the ... Crysis demo to be released on the same day as Halo 3 38 Here's a bit of strange news for today: a singleplayer demo for the upcoming PC shooter, Crysis, has been dated for a September 25 release. Hmm ... does that date sound familiar to anyone? Oh yea... Chinese government punishes corrupt officials in new online game 10 This is hilarity on a stick. China, the country that finds skeletons in videogames offensive, has released a game where you can physically torture corrupt politicians ... and their families! Inco... Manhunt 2 banned in the UK (Updated for Irish gamers) 133 Today marks a very miserable day in the supposed evolution of mankind, as the British Board of Film Classification has rejected Rockstar's PS2, PSP and Wii sequel, Manhunt 2, refusing to give... Sony drops bombs (and employees) like Galvatron 61 Kotaku has word that between 80 and 100 employees at Sony Computer Entertainment of America's Foster City headquarters were given pink slips earlier today.The layoffs came as a surprise to e... Man shot during act of altruism; also, he might enjoy video games 21 The Sun (The UK's answer to two old women gossiping over a clothesline) has a report, by way of Gamepolitics.com, detailing the heroic acts of one Adam Mapleson. Mr. Mapleson came to the aid... The Sims: The Movie: The intensely stupid idea 59 According to Harry Knowles' AICN, 20th Century Fox now has the rights to make a movie adaptation of The Sims based on a script penned by the genius who brought you Scary Movie 3.Doesn't t... Fake game Friday: Prince of Persia Wario Within 4 Another minimalist fake game this week: it's by Fana7ic, and I'll be totally honest with you: all he gave us was the title, and, in a way, that's enough.It's Prince of Persia: War... Man stabbed to death over PlayStation ... still? 19 A piece in the San Francisco Chronicle reveals that Sony's console systems are still responsible for murderous violence and the sort of covetting that that Commandment was created in respons...		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