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Jimquisition: Breaking the Bones of Business
A new business model comes along, designed to attract gamers with interesting ideas and consumer-friendly pricing. The old businesses latch onto it. The old businesses pervert it to suit their own miserable ends. Free-to-play? Mobile gaming? DLC? All good ideas, at one time, now linked forever to some of the most consumer-detesting bullshit in the industry. This is what happens when the old guard see a fresh new body, and set about cracking its bones to form a twisted and terrible shape. Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
12:00 PM on 05.26.2013 Impressions: The Art of Dead Space Enhanced EditionEarlier this week I got the chance to take a closer look at one of Titan Books' recent iOS endeavors, Awakening: The Art of Halo 4 Enhanced Edition. While I enjoyed seeing the beautiful and picturesque vistas created by John ...
2:00 PM on 05.15.2013 Game music on guitar like you've never heard beforeTop honors for this month's Note Worthy go to a new guitar duo, The Altered Beasts, who you may recognize as the guitar players from the best game music cover band out there, The OneUps. The two team up for their debut album,...
11:30 AM on 05.13.2013 Contest: Win Art of Halo & Dead Space digital art books![Update: Contest over! Winners have been contacted via Dtoid PM.] Our friends at Titan Books have hooked us up with three codes for The Art of Halo 4 and The Art of Dead Space digital editions! These enhanced editions contain...
8:30 PM on 05.10.2013 Xbox Infinity, Greatness Awaits, Watch_Dogs & Saints RowHey everybody, here's today's Destructoid Show. It was a Friday, so it was live, so it's a little bit extra stupid because of that. We discuss the how "Greatness Awaits" with the Playstation 4, the possibility of the next Xbo...
4:30 PM on 05.08.2013 John Carpenter wants to direct a Dead Space filmSci-fi/horror mastermind John Carpenter (The Thing, Escape from New York ... uh, Ghosts of Mars?) told Game Informer that Dead Space would make for a great film and he'd make for a great person to direct it. "I maintain that ...
9:00 AM on 05.08.2013 Dead Space 3 is the latest game to have officially failedIt had co-op and cover-based shooting, but Electronic Arts' flailing attempts to make Dead Space 3 "appeal to a wider audience" apparently failed. Visceral's latest game now joins Tomb Raider, Hitman: Absolution and Resident ...
6:45 PM on 05.07.2013 EA: SimCity sales 'solid,' Crysis and Dead Space were notElectronic Arts held an investors' call today, and one of the talking points was the performance of some of its biggest properties. Unfortunately, some of the information that was divulged was sort of disheartening. EA appear...
2:00 AM on 05.06.2013 Replica Dead Space Plasma Cutter will burn your face offYouTuber AnselmoFanZero built himself his very own replica Dead Space Plasma Cutter. Oh yeah, the gun can actually burn stuff, as demonstrated in his video. As for the gun itself, it weighs about 4.4 pounds, took about 200 hours to build, and features 1,500-milliwatt burning blue lasers. Space zombies beware – hobbyist builds a real-life Plasma Cutter [Gizmag, via Gizmodo]
5:00 PM on 04.20.2013 This Dead Space fan movie blew me awayWe might never get around to seeing a live-action Dead Space movie on the big screen but I'm not sure if a film coming out of Hollywood would nail the aesthetic of the games as well as this short, fan-made film. It...
3:00 PM on 04.15.2013 Jimquisition: Dark Souls and Dark SalesDark Souls sold over two million copies and is a bonafide success. Tomb Raider sold over three million copies and is a disappointing failure. Wut? Different projects obviously have different standards for succ...
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