This week saw the release of two highly anticipated games, Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat. You would think that as a fighting game aficionado, I’d be all over pulling Fatalities, but I’ve actually never been a fan of the Mortal Kombat fighting system. I have heard good things from many people though, so I’ll definitely have to check it out.
However, I’m really excited to play Portal 2. I have a confession to make. I’ve never been a PC gamer and as such, I just beat the first Portal game last week. It was an amazing experience, and I can’t wait to see what the second iteration has in store (Spoiler alert: a little birdie told me its awesome.) I did have a chance to play some of the co-op with my roommate! So much fun!
This week in Friday Night Fights, the Dtoid community has chosen to enjoy this weeks releases, by playing Mortal Kombat and SOCOM 4, along with a few old classic FNF games. For a full list of the games and community hosts, check out below. FINISH HIM!
New to FNF? Read this: Each week, a bunch of Destructoid readers and usually an editor or two get together to play some videogames online. Basically, this is what Friday Night Fights are all about.
The planning for FNF takes place in the forums, where community members volunteer to host by posting their information (gamertag, time to meet up, game, etc.) in the forum post corresponding to the system they’re interested in playing on.
Then, every Friday, reminder posts for those who don’t read the forums regularly go up in the community blogs section all thanks to a dedicated group of cool individuals. And for everyone who wants their info all in one place, they have got my weekly recap posts to look forward to between 4:30 – 5:30 PM EST.
Now that you’re here, just scan the list below and find a game you want to play. All that’s left to do after that is to join the match by contacting the host below using any means necessary. For Wii, you might have to be a little creative, but for 360/PS3 a simple “invite me” message will be fine.
The names on the left are our Destructoid handles, while the ones on the right are our online handles (PSN IDs, for example). Don’t see a game you want to play? Feel free to post a comment offering to take up hosting duties yourself.
Tonight’s Hosts:
- Platform: PC/Mac, Steam
Game: Whatever you can get people to play. Steamtoid is a fun hangout
People: Join the Steam group to find us!
Time: Anytime. All of the time.
- Platform: Playstation 3
Game: GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption, Mortal Kombat, SOCOM: Special Forces, Portal 2
People: Aurain, Foolishbean69, Ramalhera
Time: 21.00 CEST | 20.00 GMT | 15.00 EST
- Platform: Xbox 360
Game: Halo: Reach, probably followed by GTA4 or Halo Wars
People: Tarvu (The Kinky Ninja), The Guy with the Hat (GT: Mighty Hatman), etc.
Time: 21.00 CEST | 20.00 GMT | 15.00 EST
Tonight’s Hosts (more info from SephirothX):
- Game: Magic: The Gathering
Host: Caiters (GT: Six Is a Robot)
Time: 8:00PM EDT
- Game: Monday Night Combat
Host: ScottyG (GT: ScottyGrayskull) & Epic-KxDtoid (GT: Epic KxLIVE)
Time: 9:00PM EDT & 12:00am EDT
- Game: ‘Splosion Man
Host: GaminginPublic (GT: GoodPostureClub)
Time: 9:30PM EDT
- Game: Section 8: Prejudice
Host: Epic-KxDtoid (GT: Epic KxLIVE)
Time: 10:00PM EDT
- Game: Mortal Kombat
Host: Rammstein (GT: Ramstein)
Time: 10:00PM EDT
- Game: Gears of War 3 Beta
Host: mrandydixon (GT: Mr Andy Dixon)
Time: 12:00AM EDT
Tonight’s Hosts:
- Game: Killzone 3
Host: Trev (PSN: ElZilcho)
Time: 8:30PM EDT
- Game: Homefront
Host: Elsa (PSN: Elsa)
Time: 9:00PM EDT
- Game: MAG
Host: Elsa (PSN: Elsa)/ Byronic Man (PSN: Tsukanda)
Time: 10:00PM EDT
- Game: SOCOM 4
Host: Lenigod (PSN: Lenigod)
Time: 1:00AM EST
If you want to find people to play with, check out the Steam chat below:
