Having spent an unreasonable amount of time with Dawn of War II and its follow-up expansion, Chaos Rising, there were few games this year I wanted on my hard drive more than Retribution. The series' particular brand of combat...

As I played through Darkspore, my opinion of the game kept changing. It's a dungeon crawler in the vein of Diablo or Torchlight, but in a futuristic setting. While many games in this genre essentially end up be...

I love racing games, but my favorite kind are the ones that take you off the road and into the elements. Rally racing has always been my preference. Actually (cue harps and clouds), my money-no-object dream is to actually ral...

I now fully understand what John Hammond went through in Jurassic Park. That poor man. Adult Swim's new web game, Dinosaur Zookeeper, enlightened me. You see, dinosaurs aren't meant to be caged. They'd sooner electrocute them...

Have you had enough Duke with Duke Nukem Forever? No? Turns out a small Danish studio called Interceptor Entertainment is right there with you, as it's working on a high-def remake of Duke Nukem 3D.  Duke Nukem 3D: Reloa...

Knock me over the head with a jug of orange juice! What a great deal coming from Capcom. They've sliced the price of the zombie mowing horror survival Dead Rising 2 in half, down from $59.99 to only $29.99. That's all version...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is set in an alternate future where the debate over human augmentation has escalated into rioting and violence as those against tampering with humanity fight proponents of progressive science. ...

When pressed for news on Dawn of War III, Relic marketing manager James McDermott was surprisingly up front about the direction of the new Warhammer 40,000 strategy title. Some of it's been said before by THQ's Danny Bilson, ...

In my preview for Darksiders II, I mentioned Death's Ghost Hook weapon which helps you navigate around levels or attack enemies. What I didn't mention was that you don't start off with the Ghost Hook right away so you won'...

We have already seen a trailer for this a few months ago, but Kalypso has now officially announced the newest expansion for Disciples III, which is due out on PC in January 2012. The company has also released 12 new screensh...

Endre Barath has released the first episode of his indie project, Dead Cyborg. It's a first-person exploration game that's also a text adventure. With surprisingly good graphics and intriguing gameplay, it's worth looking int...

“Legacy” comes from humble beginnings: Varric, our dwarven narrator, tells Cassandra, a Chantry seeker, that he didn’t tell her about Hawke’s excursion into the Vimmark because he “didn’t t...

What do you do when you are done with Divinity II: Dragon Knight Saga and have a team full of ideas on how to turn the dragon gameplay into something deeper? After seeing it in action at gamescom, the answer appears to b...

Dungeon Keeper 2 and Wing Commander 1+2 are the first two of eight EA classics being brought to Good Old Games. Both games can now be found on the classic PC game service for a mere $5.99. It looks like Dungeon Keeper 2 is no...

The latest update for Dungeons and Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited just went live. It boosts the crafting level to 150, allowing players to make Draconic Runestunes, a new magical weapon for all classes. Also included are s...

Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been the only game that I can remember dislodging Team Fortress 2 from the top of my "Friends' Gameplay Stats" list on Steam. Team Fortress 2 has been resting there at the top for as long as I ca...

Dance: It's Your Stage is to make its début on September 30 for PlayStation 3, Wii and PC. Now, I would talk about how anyone buying this game is probably just doing it to trim some fat, but that card has al...

There it was, on the OnLive console, just calling me. "Please, somebody buy me!" And so I went for it. UPDATE: OnLive is dead. Damn... There is really no reason for me to play this game, other than compare it to a city ...

Pixeljam has made its feel-good dinosaur racing game free to download today and tomorrow. You can grab Dino Run SE on either the Mac App Store, or from Bandcamp, which is also home to the newly released Pixeljams Volume 1. An...

The first real piece of DLC has been released for the excellent Deus Ex: Human Revolution -- weapons and skins don't count -- and at a bit of a hefty price. Like Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker, The Missing Link adds...

To play the first, oh, ten minutes of Dragon Age II: Mark of the Assassin is to gaze into the abyss, to confront everything weird about videogames and the culture that surrounds them. The scene: protagonist Hawke is enlisted ...

Paradox Interactive and Most Wanted Entertainment are preparing the release of their upcoming tower defense game Defenders of Ardania with some new assets for you guys to do some stuff with. Like looking ...

Liked Dungeon Siege III well enough to spend another $10 or 800 Microsoft Points on it? DLC is your answer! Dungeon Siege III: Treasures of the Sun is now available on PC, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. It's set in...

For all its faults, Dungeon Siege III was something that I immensely enjoyed to button-mash my way through on my own. The camera annoyances found in co-op were not really an issue while playing solo, although the AI's tendenc...

Dead Rising 2 Off The Record was only released a couple of weeks ago but the first batch of DLC for the game have now been released. If you thought Dead Rising 2 Off The Record upped the manliness stakes by replacing Chuck Gr...

In a move that almost parodies the current state of downloadable content, Capcom is selling glorified cheat codes for Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. Things that were once included in games as hidden unlockables -- like God M...

Despite fears that some legal chicanery might delay its long-awaited release, id Software has declared that the DOOM 3 source code is available as of today. Now you can make your own games about spider-legged heads and eye-le...

Just in time for the holidays, Indie Royale has come out with a new bundle for the indie gamer on your list. The Xmas Bundle features four games: The Blackwell Trilogy: Remastered, Eets, Dino D-Day and The Oil Blue. The Black...

Just after going into open beta in August, Bigpoint's Drakensang Online will be receiving a major content update just in time for the holidays. This update to the game will be its NORLANDE expansion, which introduces a number...

Disney Universe, the game where you play as a game developer whose upcoming Disney-themed game has come under attack by a virus, has gotten some DLC to celebrate Christmas in their own spooky way with "Nightmare Be...

Square Enix has finally debuted on Good Old Games, and it has two Eidos classics to kick things off. The legendary Deus Ex and the iconic Hitman: Codename 47 are now available on GOG for your edification.  Deus Ex: GOTY ...

It may not seem like that long ago, but way back in July of last year a little zombie-survival game by the name of Dead Block came out on XBLA and PSN. Now, about half a year later, the Call of Duty Zombie mode-esque download...

[As originally posted on Japanator] It's been a while since we last heard of Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, the anime spin-off of Bioware's fantasy RPG. Dragonagemovie.com has been updated, and we n...

I really like these re-release packages that seem to come out these days, especially when I'm not able to get around to picking up every game I want to. When the re-release package comes with a substantial amount of new conte...

“Yes, but is this the right medium for that story?” That’s the first thing they told me to ask myself in film school. It’s something not enough filmmakers ask themselves throughout their career. Thi...

First it was the move to free-to-play that brought throngs of new players to both The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online in the past. What's there left to do? Well, cloud streaming, of course! Starting...

They say the first impression is always a lasting one. The main loading screen in Da New Guys: Day of the Jackass has a guy with his hand stuck in a toaster. "Great," I thought, "is this going to be some low brow, cash-in?" A...

Coincidentally, so am I! It seems as if only yesterday Bioware was pandering to fans, promising Varric DLC, Flemeth DLC, Leliana DLC, and Morrigan DLC. Well, as of this week, EA's RPG sweatshop has stated th...

Deep Black is a third-person shooter that feels like Dead Space, Halo, Gears of War, and Call of Duty all got together and produced a mutant offspring. Frankenstein's monster comes closer to being a part of humanity...

Eerie Canal Entertainment is an independent studio based out of Boston that's made up of people from companies you've heard of and probably like a good deal: Irrational Games, Harmonix, and Iron Lore. They have just announce...

[Update: We transposed a number. DiRT Showdown will arrive on June 12, not June 15 as previously stated in this article. The post has been updated to reflect the changes and we apologize for the error] Codemasters has announc...

Dust 514 is one of the most ambitious games of all time. Not content with just offering a shooter within the EVE Online universe, CCP Games seeks to actually connect the game to EVE itself, allowing both titles to influence e...

Cyanide Studio is still keeping itself busy with the Blood Bowl property. Dungeonbowl takes the ridiculous universe to -- you guessed it -- a dungeon. In this game, teams will first have to hunt down chests to find the ball b...

Will Diablo III ever appear on consoles? It's become increasingly easy not to care either way, given the back-and-forth between the occasional rumors and Blizzard's ability to quickly shut those conversations down. For what i...

I know what you want to read. You want to read that Ninja Theory completely screwed up DmC: Devil May Cry and irrevocably destroyed a franchise. You want to read that DmC is a watered-down shadow of the original games, a stai...

It's obvious Sony is going all out by getting all of the indie game makers they can. They've been getting all sorts of developers on board for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and especially the PlayStation 4. Most of the...

I'm not sure if any of you out there remember it, but around the launch of Dragon Age II, Bioware released a free to play Facebook game called Dragon Age Legends. The game was basically a mixture of city-building and strategy...

The DiRT series is well-known for its Rally-style racing, accurate and realistic physics, and bare-knuckle driving action. Spawned from the Colin McCrae series of Rally games, DiRT took off on next-gen consoles for fans looking for something a little different than the regular slew of gearhead and arcade racing games available on the market. This is not your father's DiRT game.

Last month marked the release of Dead Island - Game of the Year Edition, a feat that some might say would test the very definition of the term "Game of the Year" itself. In an industry atmosphere plagued by constant rehashes ...

Free-to-play retro brawler Dark Blood has only been out for a week (still in beta, though), but it's already getting a massive content update. The level cap has been raised and Act II has begun. New monsters, dungeons, and a ...

Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO) has been around for over six years now. When it went free to play, the game picked up over a million new players and its revenue increased by 500%. I'd call that successful. It wa...

[Destructoid is grabbing its rail gun and heading to Dallas, Texas this weekend for QuakeCon. Stay posted for game news, previews, and strange happenings from the infamous LAN room.] In 2004, Doom 3 was a disappointment. It n...

LucasArts or Sierra: You could like both, but, more often than not, people tended to prefer one over the other in the golden age of adventure games. Though King’s Quest VI was my introduction to the genre (and the Windo...

Looks like it's that time again, kids! Time for another indie bundle to tempt your wallet and Steam account. Some of Britain's most successful independent game developers have come together in a show of jolly-good cooperation...

In theory, flight simulation games offer fans of the genre accurate flight controls with a diverse array of those amazing aircrafts they love so much, with powerful dogfights and skill helping push along a narrative worthy of...

Earlier this week, I got to take a stroll through Gotham and Metropolis with DC Universe Online's creative director, Jens Andersen. Being shown off was the latest DLC, Hand of Fate, which introduces a whole bunch of new PvE a...

Larian Studios, developer of the Divinity series and the highly promising Dragon Commander, is teaming up with GOG.com to hold the service's first ever "pay what you want" sale. You get three Divinity games for any price you ...

Mention DOOM 3 to most fans, and the common (disparaging) response will be, "Monster Closets." Earning criticism for its jump scares, lack of charisma, and stylistic departure from previous DOOM titles, DOOM 3 has not aged we...

With a name like Dudebro -- My Shit Is F*cked Up So I Got To Shoot/Slice You II: It's Straight-Up Dawg Time, you know you're in for something special. This is the project from Grimoire Assembly Forge, a team made up of NeoGA...

Every so often, a tower defense title is able to pull me in, utterly disrupting my ability to function as a productive member of society. One of the more recent games to claim that victory was Defender's Quest, which not near...