A year ago, the music game genre was at its peak. Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour had recently launched to rave reviews, and looking back, it appears that the developers of those games -- Harmonix and Neversoft, respec...

Faceless games like Lilt Line have a tough time getting attention. Like I said to Ashley Davis when we played the game together at PAX 2010, without a main character to identify with, these purely abstract titles have a tough...

Drawing as much inspiration from Jordan Mechner’s classic Prince of Persia as from Team ICO’s gloomy, haunting aesthetics, Hudson’s Wii-exclusive Lost in Shadow seemingly begs for gamers’ attention. ...

Imagine a game like Super Meat Boy on the iPhone. Sounds absolutely horrible, doesn't it? A tight platformer full of tricky jumps and timed challenges, all utilizing the iPhone's notoriously dodgy touchscreen controls?  ...

If you're picking up a Nintendo 3DS at launch, you're likely suffering anxiety over which game to buy along with it. Let's face it: the 3DS launch line up isn't littered with winners.With more than ten launch titles available...

Traveler's Tales has once again taken a popular film franchise and those colorful Danish building blocks, and thrown them into a videogame blender. This time, its dart board of pop-culture has Disney's Pirates of the Carib...

It's incredibly difficult to make a bad beat 'em up. The concept of moving from left to right while mashing buttons to clear out groups of attackers is an incredibly simple one. You've got a game in the bag if you can nail th...

Sometimes publishers offer amazing incentives for pre-ordering a game. Depending on circumstances such as where you live, those bonuses may not always be available, no matter how much you might want them.  Lucky for us t...

Lunar lives on. The old Game Arts RPG still stands as one of my favorites, so it's good to know that I'll soon be able to tap an icon on my iPhone to play it once again.  This iOS port of RPG Lunar: Silver Star Story fin...

Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine has released a batch of screenshots for its expansion Rise of Isengard, including new concept art of the mighty Draigoch, an enemy that will require a band of 24 players to take down...

Frontier Development's LostWinds, which made its debut on WiiWare a few years back, will be coming to iOS and Android phones. The developer (last seen eliciting fuzzy feelings with Kinectimals) showed off the iOS version of t...

Can you imagine playing a videogame that forced you to remember everything you once learned in grade school? What if The Legend of Zelda required you to know the order of all the periodic elements before brewing a red potion?...

Steam has a fantastic reputation when it comes to supporting indie games, and one of the newest titles on offer through the online store is the unique puzzler Lucid, which came out a few days ago and is only 3.99 right now. ...

The Nintendo 3DS eShop has been, for the most part, disappointing. It's also lacking third-party support. Luckily, Gameloft is here to save the day with their announcement that Let's Golf 3D is coming August 11th.  It a...

[Update 8/7 Noon EST: Donation goal surpassed at $21,375 of $20,000 with 9 hours to go.] Minecraft has been a quickly rising hit over the past year. The game centers around mining, and building, and more generally, simp...

Legends of Pegasus already sounds like one of those games you play all throughout the night in one massive marathon session while neglecting to eat entire meals along the way. It's a 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and extermin...

It's been nearly a year since Microsoft released the Kinect hardware and now we're finally starting to see more titles which use the motion control system drip into the marketplace. Leedmees, an Xbox Live Arcade game in which...

Not long ago we discovered that Little King's Story Vita would feature more realistic graphics, and though Konami is trickle feeding us we now know what they meant. We now have screenshots. Very tiny screenshots. Still, they ...

As I brought up the 2009 Sci-Fi film Moon, Tiger Style co-founder Randy Smith’s eyes lit up. He’s a big fan but he stops short of citing it as an influence on his latest game, Lost Mars. Intentional or not...

What do you want from me? It's Lumines, man. What do you want me to say? I'm kidding. Kind of. But it really is just Lumines, but now on the Vita. And that's all we really wanted, right?  The TGS demo for this sequel was...

Since the dawn of time, man has always wondered about his place in the great cosmic picture. But now, if the riddle of human existence wasn't enough, we have to figure out how the Russians play into all of this! Li...

Barely a few days ago, we let you know our thoughts on the League of Legends: Dominion beta that was going on. If that little peek got your Summoners salivating, then hold on to your butts! League of Legends: Dominion ju...

One runs at a lower resolution, looks worse, and only has access to one analog stick on the PSP. The other looks pretty and shiny on the Vita, and adds touchscreen control as well as a second analog stock. But both are t...

Here's a cute trailer for the coming conclusion of the epic LEGO Harry Potter saga, LEGO Harry Potter: Years-5-7. Voldemort is working on being creepy but we all know what he really just wants in life (unlife? re-life?) is to be loved. Perhaps this little boost to his self-image will do the trick.  

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North may be the Tolkien experience gamers have been waiting for, but if you're not quite sold don't expect to find a demo in the usual spots. OnLive currently has an exclusive on a 30 m...

One of the more interesting MMO experiments is about to see its end. LEGO Universe, the family-friendly online free-to-play game featuring everybody's favorite Danish building block, will be shutting down its servers at the e...

Let it forever be known that November of 2011 was a month book-ended by Lineage II free-to-play posts. On November 1st it was announced that Lineage II was going "Truly Free" and now that day is final...

Here's a trailer for a game that someone in the comments of this article first brought up. I thought about the best way to phrase the title of this post, but in the end, the name of the game itself says it all. Listen to Me,...

Q Entertainment has divulged the full track list for Lumines Electronic Symphony. There are 33 songs in total (34 if you count what's played during the credits) including names like The Chemical Brothers, Kaskade, Aphex Twin,...

LittleBigPlanet is going to become a kart racer, creatively titled LittleBigPlanet Karting. It seems odd that a series built around making what you want and creating many types of games has been restricted to a single genre, ...

The PlayStation Vita is rich in features, boasting every possible input method a portable gaming system could have to date. Multiple touch interfaces, dual analog sticks, voice control, twin cameras, and even motion sensing; ...

If Lumines was your drug on the PSP, know that it's been refined and made stronger. This is the hard sh*t, folks. You're in danger of totally crashing and burning with Lumines: Electronic Symphony on the Vita. This is th...

Little Racers STREET, the plucky top-down indie racing title that packs a lot of punch for its mere 80 MSP price, has received a multiplayer update. Now you go head to head with up to eleven other players, earning points that...

NIS America hits us with three PlayStation 3-exclusive title announcements today: The Witch and the Hundred Knights (early 2013) - A very pretty Nippon Ichi action-RPG that lets you command 100 knights.  Mugen Souls (Fa...

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is being billed as the first LEGO game to feature talking characters, even though it totally isn't. While the series may have gotten away from using voice acting in recent years, seeming t...

Last week during E3, I met up with 3000AD's president and lead developer, Derek Smart, where he showed me a significant amount of his team's upcoming free-to-play shooter Line of Defense. In all honesty, I was not familiar wi...

"Riders of Rohan" will be the fourth major expansion for free-to-play MMO, Lord of the Rings Online. At over twice the size of "Mines of Moria," this expansion is the largest yet, covering six different regions from the Fang...

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light was one of my favorite games of 2010. It came out of nowhere, and at first I was completely skeptical of the oddly isometric Tomb Raider game. After actually giving it a shot, I walked awa...

[This weekend Destructoid is reporting live from RTX in Austin, Texas, the community based gaming expo for Rooster Teeth fans and everyone else.] At a glance onlookers might characterize Loadout as yet another emulo...

Limbo made its debut on Xbox Live, but Sony could have been first to get its hands on the beautiful sidescroller if only it'd kept its dick in its pants. Instead, the publisher tried to go the whole way and own the game, its ...

LittleBigPlanet got off to a modest start in 2008, but it wasn't a runaway hit. For my wife and I, it was the entire reason we bought a PlayStation 3, but for others, it was simply a floaty, uninspired platformer. I think on ...

Mini-games. Apparently, they're still a thing. If you own one of those new-fangled motion controllers for your system, invariably you'll discover that there are mini-game collections to be found for your device. PlayStation M...

I make no secret of my love for the guys at Vlambeer. Their approach to design, making games that are instantly understandable yet endlessly challenging, hits at the very core of what I think makes for timeless entertainment....

I first heard of this news a few days ago, but I held off on posting it until I could get more concrete information. Thankfully, it looks like the internet rumblings have been correct, as La Pucelle: Tactics is going to be a ...

The original LittleBigPlanet earned a lot of its praise through sheer charm alone. The cute presentation and unique creativity afforded to the player won it a lot of acclaim, despite the fact that, to be fair, the actual game...

Yet another trailer in the pile of Wii U software announced today, this time for LEGO City: Undercover. It reminds me of every cop drama in the seventies. All of them. And that's amazing. In terms of the Wii U, we see that t...

LittleBigPlanet Vita was all set for a September 25th release date, but guess what? That crummy old street date has been broken, which means the release date is "whenever the hell you feel like buying it."But hold on peo...

The idea of developers dedicating resources to mobile versions of franchises is something I’ve long been against, but have slowly been warming up to. So, they might as well make something good. Layton Brothers: Myster...

Simon Pegg's love of zombies and indeed Left 4 Dead 2 is well documented, but it could be that his blessing will breathe new life into a stagnant mod. Left 4 Winchester was a mod started in 2009 based on the comedy zombie hit...

LEGO The Lord of the Rings released today for DS, 3DS, and PlayStation Vita (pictured above). While TT Games has done well for itself on handheld systems, the studio's LEGO titles have always seemed best played on consoles to...

[Update: It appears the servers were running all day during launch, and some issue with my PS3 actually prevented me from accessing the online mode. Once I'd just gone ahead and reset my connection on the system, it got in. ...

In case you have no idea what to expect from a LEGO game these days (aka fun), you can try the LEGO Lord of the Rings demo on the Xbox 360 and PS3. If you have kids, or a significant other who enjoys gaming, I suggest you get...

I first came across Lost Marbles at the Boston Festival of Indie Games this past September. As I walked past Binary Takeover’s booth, I couldn't help but stare at the bright ambiance emitting from the screen and the fun...

If you had told me that Legends of Chima was already a successful LEGO property, I would have believed you. But it's not! Not yet, anyway. Described as a "fantasy adventure set in land inhabited by different magical animal tr...

Last year, Sony was hard at work pushing out value packs for many of its exclusive franchises. It has been a little over a year now since LittleBigPlanet 2: Special Edition was released, but it looks like Sony and M...

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (formerly known as Luigi's Mansion 2) is almost here. True to the game's ghostly allure, details around the game's corporal existence remain shrouded in contiguity. Is this thing even...

GOG.com has just released a compilation pack for Leisure Suit Larry for $9.99 -- it comes with Larry 1-6 and Softporn Adventure. This is a compilation that originally came out in 1996 (RIP Sierra), b...

When talking to another human being who doesn't play many videogames, I have to imagine trying to explain a title like Let's Fish! Hooked On would come across as mystifying. And in its own way, that's kind of awesome. It's a ...

L.A. Noire used a very advance motion capture setup for the detective drama that was able to capture anything the face did. Best of all, it would capture when the actors would screw up their lines too. Nothing creepier than a computer graphic tongue getting flicked out of someone's mouth. Gross.

If you love obscure Japanese dungeon crawlers, Labyrinth Cross Blood: Infinity for the PlayStation Vita is for you. Originally released on the PC, the game was later ported to the 360 as Labyrinth Cross Blood: Reloaded -- an...