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top stories EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Unleashing creativity with PS3-exclusive ModNation Racers 23 A surprise announcement at E3 this year, the PlayStation 3 exclusive ModNation Racers looks to redefine the kart racing genre with its ridiculous level of customization and community featur... Midnight Riders teaser site found: Left 4 Dead 2 DLC? 58 Those who have played Left 4 Dead 2's "Dark Carnival" campaign will likely know of The Midnight Riders. They are a fictional rock band that Ellis seems to be rather fond of, and the campaign's fi... Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days confirmed 42 Square Enix Europe (formerly Eidos) has today confirmed that Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is coming to the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC next year. The follow-up to 2007's Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, the... No More Heroes coming to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 145 We've heard rumblings for some time now that No More Heroes could be making the Hi-Def jump. The latest issue of Famitsu has finally confirmed what we all have been hopping for! The original No M... Review: Left 4 Dead 2 138 New friends, more zombies, better apocalypse. That's what Valve has promised, and that's what fans will come to expect when they finally pick up the sequel to one of the best zombie games ever m... Ten Minute Taste: Assassin's Creed 2 77 Sunday morning was full of surprises, one of them being Target selling Assassin's Creed 2 a bit early. The amusing part was when the cashier realized the game wasn't released until Tuesday -- af... New releases: New Super Mario Bros, Left 4 Dead 2 & more 23 [New releases is your weekly look at all the hot new titles coming out this week.] New Super Mario Bros. Wii hit store shelves this past Sunday. At first, I was completely against the new Mario ... Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies...on iPhone? 18 This is a real thing. A real iPhone game. It came out of nowhere, yellow eyes and all. The Call of Duty: World at War zombies that you know and love have been portabilized for your pocket. Rememb... Modern Warfare 2 gets dedicated servers via hack 86 Yup. You read that right. Modern Warfare 2 PC now has dedicated servers. Wait, PC gamers! Before you send Bobby Kotick a thank you letter, know that it wasn't they who did it, but rather the game... Review: EyePet 57 Before the Wii, Sony brought casual motion-controlled gaming to the masses with EyeToy. Unfortunately, Sony never really capitalized on it and is only now scrabbling to make use of its camera per... 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... Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii 71 It's a-me! Mario! Nick said he's too lazy to write an intro! But he reviewed New Super Mario Bros. Wii and you can read that after the jump! There's also a neat-o video review, too! Woo hoo! Lov... Final Fantasy XIII release date set (Update) 90 Here it is, folks. Ready? Final Fantasy XIII will be released in North America AND Europe on March 9th, 2010. This comes a short three months after the Japanese release date, which is somewhat s... Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 151 The biggest game of the year is finally here. Infinity Ward created one of the most popular, well-crafted and subsequently imitated first-person-shooter games in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare a... The Bible is coming to Xbox 360 ... seriously 293 For those who can't get enough God on TV or in one of America's ten billion trillion Churches, B&H Publishing Group has the thing you've been waiting for! The Bible is coming to Xbox 360, via... Beaming up with Star Trek Online 26 It's something many a geek has dreamed of. Being able to go where no man has gone before into an MMO based off Star Trek, where they can live long and prosper. If the game was good, they would ho... Modern Warfare 2's controversial airport terrorist attack 100 [Warning: Spoilers McSpoilersons] A video of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s mission “No Russian” was leaked a few weeks prior to the game’s release. Featuring a civilian... Ten Minute Taste: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 53 The console versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launched this morning. Hundreds, probably thousands of retailers did a special midnight release in celebration of the billions of sales sure... New releases: Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Ball Z and more 38 [New releases is your weekly look at all the hot new titles coming out this week.] The most anticipated game of the year is finally here: Activision and Infinity' Ward's Call of Duty: Modern... GameStop justifies Modern Warfare 2 street date break 43 Yesterday, Activision stated that it gave no store permission to sell Modern Warfare 2 before its street date of November 10, but GameStop has implied that the evil publisher knew it was going to... Ubisoft demands high Assassin's Creed 2 review score? 95 We hear about these situations far too much, where a publisher is accused of attempting to broker a guaranteed favorable review from a press outlet. The latest to face such allegations is Ubisoft... Reggie: There is no Wii HD 87 It's been rumored for a long time, and many gamers have clamored for such a mythical beast, but Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime has decided to play dream killer and put paid to any fantasies ... Rumor: Halo: Reach weapon pics leaked 58 The first Halo: Reach images might have been leaked this afternoon via the MLG message board. User “Tom Morello,” recently created a thread showing a blurry, perhaps camera-phone-snat... Exclusive: Full Achievements/Trophies for Darksiders 19 We're really looking forward to Darksiders at Destructoid, and THQ apparently likes that we're looking forward to it. Both of these elements have collided to allow us to be the first ones to show... Eminem drops rhymes over new Modern Warfare 2 trailer 68 With Infinity Ward dropping Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in stores next week, we're winding down the marketing hype machine, presumably wrapping things up with this final "launch" trailer that ... No Doubt suing Activision over appearance in Band Hero 41 Just as happened with Kurt Cobain's appearance in Guitar Hero 5 and the screams from the bloated, sucking mass which rallied to his defense, Activision is taking some heat for the use of likeness... IW responds to MW2 petition, servers capped at 9v9 151 PC gamers already hopping mad at Infinity Ward over the lack of dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2 might want to skip this story. The studio has responded to a number of fan questions surround... Review: Dragon Age: Origins 222 What do you do when you stop making games for one of the biggest roleplaying franchises of all time? If you're BioWare, the answer is easy -- make your own roleplaying franchise and start again f... Xbox Live party chat blocked in Modern Warfare 2? 90 If you were looking forward to a big Xbox Live party when Modern Warfare 2 launches, it seems that Skype may be your best friend. It's being reported that Infinity Ward's FPS sequel will block Xb... Strippers cannot distract Counter-Strike players 106 Dedicated Counter-Strike players are possessed of an indomitable will, as evidenced recently in Russia where a team promoter tried to shake their nerves during a round of the first-person-shooter... Destructoid.TV launches! 24/7 videos, trailers, and smut 57 Remember Cinematech?  It was a G4 show that played the latest trailers, cut-scenes, and commercials of upcoming video games (with a special segment on smutty Japanese games) with little or n... Nintendo officially reveals the DSi LL 101 Early adopter burning FTW! Nintendo has announced that, less than a year after the launch of the DSi, a brand new, bigger, better DSi is on the way. We had already heard that a DSi with a bigger ... Exclusive: Unearth rocks music games in new music video 34 On November 10, metalcore band Unearth will release a special edition set of its 2008 record, The March. Distributed by Metal Blade, the set comes with bonus tracks as well as a DVD of music vide... Modern Warfare 2 level about (SPOILER) confirmed 221 SPOILERS, first of all.Secondly: what you see above may be a leaked gameplay video from Modern Warfare 2. We're currently awaiting comment from both Infinity Ward's PR guys and the community mana... Modern Warfare 2 will have a third-person mode 46 This morning’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 surprise was genuine. The shooter is indeed set to feature a third-person perspective. Just don’t think Infinity Ward changed the directi... New DSi with bigger screen to hit Japan this year 51 For those of you straining your eyes to see the Nintendo DSi's 3.25" screen, Nintendo hears your cries. According to Japan's Nikkei post, Nintendo will be releasing a Nintendo DSi with a 4&q... BioShock 2 gets brand new trailer, looks amazing 66 I'll admit I was cynical about BioShock 2 when I heard it was announced, but this brand new trailer really does help warm me to 2K Marin's follow-up to the gorgeous 2007 shooter. It looks intens... Man kills his son over a missing videogame (facepalm) 159 A forty-year-old man becoming enraged beyond reason over a missing videogame is worrying enough, but when you find out he's prepared to kill his family for it, things enter a whole new level of d... Netflix Instant Watch coming to PS3 in November 81 Color this PS3 owner surprised: after more than 11 months of Xbox 360 exclusivity, Netflix will be making its way to the PlayStation 3 next month. We’ve heard this rumor many times before, ... Super Street Fighter IV in arcades? Don't rule it out yet 14 Hey, remember when Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono informed gamers that there won’t be an arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV? Well, there may still be some hope for arcade f... Modern Warfare 2 PC specs: 3 GHz, 16 GB install? (Update) 92 There's been a lot of hate going around in regards to the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. While it's kind of my obligation to pay attention to that stuff, it's gotten so out of hand that I'm tryi... Inside Microsoft's first retail store 56 Coinciding with the release of Windows 7, Microsoft has opened their very first Microsoft Store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. People camped out overnight in sixty ... Three-minute Left 4 Dead 2 trailer is just... wow 153 Holy. Crap. I hope you're sitting down, because the three minutes of Left 4 Dead 2 footage above is more incredible than I had thought it would be before I pressed play. And believe me, I ha... Microsoft offering on-site Xbox 360 repair at new stores 48 The very first Microsoft store opened today in Scottsdale, Arizona. I ran over to check it out and we'll have more on that a little later today, but there's one story that I'm sure will interest ... Microsoft CEO DOESN'T confirm 360 Blu-ray add-on (Update) 141 Gizmodo has an exclusive interview with Microsoft CEO's Steve Ballmer going up in full this Friday. Until then, they're releasing little clips from the interview and the one they have up right n... Last Flight dev on what it means to be 'hardcore' 21 Wii owners with that itch to swing their Wii Remotes to slice up bloodthirsty vampires on an aircraft will have their chance soon. Developer Bloober Team tells us the first episode of its WiiWare... Miyamoto: Next console to be 'compact, cost-efficient' 72 Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto would definitely know what Nintendo's next big thing looks like, so we'll take his musings on what the next Nintendo console would look and be like to heart.He tells G... 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... Rumor: Killzone 3 in development for 2010 release 70 The Official PlayStation Magazine has dropped a huge rumorbomb on the astonished heads of PS3 fans, naming Killzone 3 as one of its "secret games of 2010." According to the magazine, a ... 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... Mass Effect 2 gets January 26 release date 59 Start working on your best Commander Shepard impressions -- BioWare has announced that Mass Effect 2 will be hitting North American shelves on January 26. Europe needs to hold tight for a few day... 250 GB PS3 slim coming to North America on November 3 47 To the surprise of no one, Sony has announced that on November 3, a slim PlayStation 3 with a 250 GB HDD will be available at retailers in North America. The cost? $349.99.According to Sony, ther... Splinter Cell Conviction's full walkthrough video 28 As we've been saying ever since E3, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction is the game to watch. What we've seen so far looks incredible, but we've been wanting a better look. Well, you're not g... GTA: Gay Tony multiplayer to feature parachutes, tanks 29 What, did you think Rockstar was going to ship the next episode from Liberty City without some new multiplayer stuff? That's not their style, now is it? The Ballad of Gay Tony opens up multi... Koei's Fist of the North Star looks friggin' awesome 45 Yesterday we found out that Koei was giving Fist of the North Star the Dynasty Warriors treatment, and there was much rejoicing. Now, the very first screenshots have been revealed, along with lea... EA announces Madden NFL Arcade for PSN, XBLA 20 Electronic Arts has announced that it will be bringing Madden NFL Arcade to PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Arcade "just in time for the holidays in December."Developed by EA Tiburon,... Nintendo Wii downloads: Final Fight 2 and stuff 10 Things have happened on the Nintendo downloadable front. This morning ushers in one title on each of the publisher’s three digital platforms. Don’t expect the amazing, but don’t... Avatar bullsh*t coming for Modern Warfare 2 27 Infinity Ward heard that you like spending fake moon money on fake moon clothes for your fake moon person. That's right folks, Modern Warfare 2-branded Avatar nonsense is coming to Xbox Live. Are... LEGO Rock Band 100% exportable, track list exposed 22 LEGO Rock Band (check out our comprehensive preview), due out this holiday season, will offer over 40 songs. In keeping with Harmonix’s music platform ethos (and confirming an earlier rumor... Resistance 3 billboard on movie set reveals NYC setting 44 You can't blame Sony for thinking about its marketing ahead of time, but I'm sure they probably didn't expect this.  Pictures taken from the set of the upcoming film action/sci-fi film ... « 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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