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Best of 2012Love them or hate them, shooters are one of the biggest sellers in the videogame industry. Despite the saturation of shooting games, 2012 saw a number of them that sought out to offer actual interesting stories. Plus, a number of them looked at giving players more features than what we've grown accustomed to from past iterations. As a reminder, here are our nominees for best shooter of 2012: And the winner is ...
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Developer Treyarch blew away expectations and raised the bar on what it means to be a Call of Duty game. Literally every staple mode was overhauled in some way, on top of completely new features that were introduced. Single-player saw improvements all around, most notably with the player choices that can be made that determine which of the handful of endings you will experience. Multiplayer now let's player have full control over exactly what loadout they can bring into battle, even going so far as letting players just start with a knife. Zombies has been made into a fully fleshed out mode, the new Strikeforce missions brings in some tower defense elements, and the ability to livestream and shoutcast multiplayer matches straight from within the game shows that Treyarch is a strong player in the eSports field.
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1:30 PM on 04.09.2013 EA voted worst American company in 2013How time flies! In April of last year, Electronic Arts "won" the worst American company of 2012 award, beating out near-criminal banks and oil companies to achieve victory in The Consumerist's publicly voted poll. EA has now ...
10:00 PM on 03.29.2013 Phantom Pain, Destiny, & A Total Eclipse of Battlefield 4Holy moly, you guys, it's been a long week, and we had lots of news out of GDC to cover on today's Destructoid Show. For starters, EA showed off seventeen full minutes of Battlefield 4, which looks very pretty, albeit exactl...
10:30 AM on 03.29.2013 Journey inspired by World of Warcraft, lonelinessthatgamecompany founder Jenova Chen delivered a talk on Journey, right on the heels of a sweep of the Game Developer’s Choice Awards the night prior. Naturally, the room was packed full, and Chen received a lovely stand...
9:30 AM on 03.28.2013 Journey kills at the Game Developers Choice AwardsGame of the Year, Innovation Award, Best Audio, Best Game Design, Best Visual Arts, Best Downloadable Game. That’s 6 out of 11 total awards, and the game was ineligible for two of them (and I’m still not sure why ...
8:30 AM on 03.28.2013 Cart Life and FTL win big at the Indie Games FestivalThe Game Developers Conference currently going on in San Francisco is home to the Independent Games Festival. A couple of months ago, the finalists were revealed. Last night, the winners were revealed. Richard Hofmeier’...
10:00 AM on 03.24.2013 The top ten MUST play games of PAX East 2013The PAX East show floor this year is a perfect reflection of how much of a transition period we're in while we wait for the next-gen cycle to start. There are several big name titles on display here, but a lot of the floor th...
4:45 PM on 03.06.2013 Journey wins big at the BAFTA Game AwardsLooks like the folks at thatgamecompany might need a new trophy cabinet after Journey picked up five BAFTA Game Awards last night at the ceremony in London. The PlayStation Network title won awards for Artistic Achievement, A...
9:00 PM on 02.07.2013 Journey wins Game of the Year at D.I.C.E. Awards[Update: The show is over! Check below for a recap of all the winners. We'll be posting clips of the show as they become available. The 16th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards are live tonight, and will be starting at any moment. These ...
7:15 PM on 01.24.2013 Journey, Dishonored top Game Developers Choice AwardsThe nominees for the 2013 Game Developers Choice Awards are in, and it looks like Journey, Dishonored and The Walking Dead are leading. Hey, those were our favorite games too. Journey took six nominations as the top favorite,...
1:30 PM on 01.14.2013 Journey leads D.I.C.E. awards with 11 nominationsThe 16th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards take place next month in Las Vegas and the nominations have been announced by The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. I'm not at all surprised to see Journey taking the t...
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