“The casual gamer that used to play on the PC and the hardcore gamer that used to play on a dedicated gaming portable now plays on their smartphone,” Capcom Interactive president Midori Yuasa told MCV. “The iPhone and larger smartphone markets are extremely important to Capcom as, like no device before, smartphones have the potential to become a universal game platform. We have a lot of stuff on the horizon for both hardcore and casual gamers, so 2011 is shaping up to be huge on Capcom’s mobile front....

A few more new (old) games have been added to the growing list of games available through Microsoft’s Games on Demand service:CrackdownandBeautiful Katamari. According to arecent poston Xbox LIVE man Major Nelson’s blog, Realtime World’sCrackdownis available for download across most regions. In the US, the 6 GB download is priced at about 20 bones — a decent price tag, but keep in mind that theHalo 3beta is over. At least,we think it is....

Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software, believes that the length of a videogame is irrelevant without the “feelings and experience.” Heshared his notionthat we shouldn’t put so much weight into how long a game lasts, and focus more on how good the experience iswhileit’s lasting. Notice how I’m talking in terms of feelings instead of in terms of number of hours? That’s important – it permeates everything we do. The stats aren’t important....

Prototypewas a weird game for me. The general concept — terrorize an entire city as a badass, unstoppable mutant who plain old doesn’t give a damn about anyone — is right up my alley. But somewhere along the way the message was lost on me. Perhaps it was when I stopped saying “ohh, that thing off in the distance looks interesting, let me check it out” and started going through the actual story missions....

Capcom’s giving gamers in Japan a few more options for playingGhost Trick: Phantom Detective, releasing the game for iPhone and iPod Touch this week. The iDevice version will let you play the first two chapters of the game for free, much like a demo. Want more? You can buy sets of three chapters for 600 yen, or the whole shebang for 1500 yen. The game is said to be a direct port of the Nintendo DS game, so where Japanese gamers decide to play it will be a matter of preference....

Yesterday, a group of PS3 hackers united under the name‘fail0verflow’presented their method of circumventing the built-in security of Sony’s machine at the 27th Chaos Communication Conference, or27C3. Today, they announced that the code will be made public for anyone to use. In a nutshell, they found a way to calculate the so-called “keys” you need to “sign” a piece of software so the console accepts it as valid code and runs it....

When we learned that Activision hadtrademarked “Drum Villain”in early 2007, our suspicions became aroused. We waited, and the only thing that happened was Neversoft taking the reins of theGuitar Heroseries, and Harmonix taking their ball and going to Electronic Arts to create the multi-instrument titleRock Band. So what of these drums? According to Neversoft’s Brian Bright, another studio within Activision was indeed working on a drum-oriented title at the same time work was being done onGuitar Hero III....

In case you weren’t aware, baseball is my favorite sport — it always has been. That lifelong love affair first came about as a result of my participation in Little League baseball, and the sport has stuck with me ever since. I played from when I was five until I was fifteen, and though I was no Derek Jeter, I had plenty of fun in those days. Today, Little League Baseball is an immensely popular global organization with over 2....

[Update]We now have three newNHL 11screenshots for your viewing pleasure in the gallery below. In case you’re wondering about what the last one shows, another new feature in the game is user-controlled goal celebrations. [Original story]EA Canada is bringing a host of gameplay improvements and additions toNHL 11, including a real-time physics engine, broken sticks, a real face-off system, and more. And the spectacular Be A Pro mode now includes theCanadian Hockey League....

As we trudge ever onward towardFinal Fantasy XIII‘s 2010 Western release, I am getting more and more eager to get my hands on it. It’s been an incredibly long wait, but the gorgeous looking RPG is finally a dot on the horizon, and now we havesome new screenswith English subtitles affixed, reaffirming the proximity of the localized version. The screens give us a nice high quality image of Bahamut, as well as some new shots of Ifrit’s “Gestalt” mode and some beautiful environments....

[Editor’s note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now onour community blogs.] For all the feel-good platitudes thrown about these days promoting “cooperation over competition” and insisting that “if you give your best effort, you’re always a winner”, I think it’s safe to say that the message, all things considered, hasn’t found much of a foothold; if anything, a belligerent counter-movement has largely stolen its thunder, shouting down from the mountaintop that “winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing”, and demanding that losers “man up” and either make sure to do better next time or don’t bother trying again....

I was surprised to find out that Irrational Games is makinganotherBioShockgame, since I — like, perhaps, many of you — figured they’d be doing something completely different. So when I sat down last night to speak with Tim Gerritsen, Irrational’s director of product development, I challenged him to silence the folks who are asking at this moment, “Why go back toBioShock?” Here’s what he fired back with: …we were like, “You know what?...

Several of ourstaffmembershave been hyped up about the upcoming PS3 titleAfrika, although I have to admit I was personally a little disappointed to find out the game was a picture-taking odyssey. I try to avoid judging before playing, however, so I was still interesting in at least takingAfrikafor a spin. Thanks to the sly eye ofSiliconera, we found out today that Afrika will actually have a different name outside of the US, much likeSiren: New Translationwas issued here asSiren:Blood Curse....