As you can tell, the industry pretty much dies around the end of the year. It will stay like this for another week or so until the new year. Otherwise, here’s the recaps for Christmas and Friday.
Husky Hog interviews members from The Godfather II team, Iran joins the ESRB, Les Claypool is adding lyrics to his Mushroom Men music, Mxyzptlk interviews a Left 4 Dead zombie and plenty more happened over the past couple of days.
Thursday & Friday regulars:
The Memory Card .49: Saving Santa
Okay, I sort of lied: it’s the Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’ Christmas episode
Art Attack Friday: Sii-SEN
Indie Nation #44: Games about games
Originals:
Merry Christmas from Destructoid: Now what did you get?
Merry Christmas from the Destructoid Community
Destructoid interview: The Godfather II
LittleBigPlanet’s Metal Gear Solid Level Pack explored
Review:
Hexothermic
News:
Metacritic’s best and worst games of 2008
Iran joins the ESRB … what else can you really add to that?
ESRB spills details on Guitar Hero: Modern Hits for Nintendo DS
Ninja Blade demo announced for Japan. Hope they like QTEs
Les Claypool adding lyrics to his Mushroom Men score
A PS3-exclusive zombie game you’ve probably never heard of is ‘on hold’
Ordering food through a Wii? Guess what country you will be able to do that in
Two free Springsteen tracks coming to Guitar Hero World Tour this January
LittleBigPlanet: Some IP owners don’t mind people portraying their stuff
Mistwalker to cancel third project thanks to the economy
Luc Bernard is back, and he’s brought friends
Get learned: Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World of Japan’s Game Centers
Massive holiday sale on Steam
Rock Band 2 DLC almost ready for Wii … Nick Chester made me do this story
Gallery:
Killzone 2 delivers cute Christmas wallpaper, predictable cover art
Videos:
Interview with a Left 4 Dead zombie
Community:
C Blogs of 12/26/08
C Blogs of 12/25/08
A Time to Destroy: The games that destroy us
