Weekend Destructainment: STAR POWER!

How to teamkill inGears of WarbyGeoff Mendicino. Mario rescues the Princess and wants a little reward. Made by Seth MacFarlane as part of his new YouTube/Burger King partnership thing. Thanks, power-glove! Miley Cyrus playsRock Band. Eh, excuse to put up a video of Miley Cyrus … you know, for all of you young people that are fans of her and not posted for totally perverted reasons at all … yup....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Joshua Berry

West Coast Wigout 2: Videogame music concert during E3

GM4Asent along word of a videogame music concert set to kick off on the first evening of E3. It’s called the West Coast Wigout 2, and it will feature Nerdcore, Chiptunes, VG Cover bands and more. They say that you’ll be able to see how games have influenced art and music over the last 25 years at this event. They’ve got an awesome music line-up with acts like The Megas, Mega Ran (AKA Random), A_Rival (AKA AE), Wizwars, EvilWezil, Tanuki Suit Riot, and Quarter Circle Jab performing at the June 15th event....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Sarah Robertson

What is going on in this Otomedius X trailer?

I don’t really know what this trailer is about, and I’m not sure if I really want to know. It looks like it is a showcase of the different characters you can choose? And why do they all have to be girls, or cat pirate… things? Scratch that, the last thing is actually pretty hot. Anyway,Otomedius X— orOtomedius Excellent— is still coming to the West and while there are GIRLS in front of my gameplay footage (seriously, go away) it should hit North Americathis Fallwhen last I heard about it....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 119 words · Justin Lewis

Wii Willy Wrighty gives Nintendo more Spore

It was just recently that legendary BAFTA winner Will Wright was declaring the Wii a superior platform for development, and it looks like he’s a man of his word asit’s been announcedthatSporeis coming to that very platform. For those living under a rock,Sporeis an upcoming PC game in which you evolve a species from its tiniest cellular incarnation to an entire space travelling population. Aside from being a game by Wright, the title has generated a lot of excitement for its increasing sense of scale and ambition, as well as the promised customization and the all-important feeling of Godlike power that the player will be imbued with....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 226 words · Virginia Santos

WiiWare title Swords & Soldiers has Vikings and style

New rule: every game should have either Vin Diesel or Vikings in it. We recently uploaded a boatload of assets forSwords & Soldiers— an upcoming WiiWare title by Ronimo Games — and whoa, Vikings rock as hard asDiesel. Swords & Soldiersis a side-scrolling, real-time strategy game. It’ll have three factions, roughly 20 hours of play time, split-screen multiplayer, and the three basic strategy staples: unit variety, sick spells, and corpses. The bubble menu for special attacks and orders looks intuitive, which is always a welcome addition to any WiiWare title (especially one of the strategy variety)....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Pamela Brown

Winter robot art – we have a winner!!!!

And the winner is: iLink for the massive Destructoid Snowbot!!!! Please email to us at[email protected]with your mailing address and we will send you your prize asap! Runners up: Lark with his insanely hilarious Men of Nerdcore mashup and Wario67 for more awesome entries than I can even count. You guys are freaking amazing. Thank you so much for participating! Next time, peeing in the snow will definately be allowed. Everyone seemed so sad that they couldnt do it....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 79 words · Jason Marsh

Xbox 360 = a latter day PS2: More JRPG love in the form of Tales

The Xbox 360 is definitely the PlayStation 2 of this generation. Affordable, with the largest library, and rushed, shoddily put together hardware, Microsoft’s curvaceous rectangle of red rings has some way to go before it could enjoy a direct comparison with Sony’s behemoth console, but in relative terms, it’s filling that role in the current generation landscape. One way in which it can be compared is with all the JRPG attention it’s been getting lately....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 280 words · George Stone

Yaris not delisted, only expired

The ship has already sailed for videogame enthusiasts who really enjoy Toyota-branded Xbox Live Arcade titlesdeveloped by ex-Blizzard employees. As of a few days agoYariswas completely eradicated from the Arcade consciousness. It wasn’t removed because it blew (it did), it was removed because the contract with Microsoft expired. Yarisdebuted on Xbox Live Arcade, June 08, 2025. It’s been a little more than the contractually obligated year, but it’s better late than never....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Darren Flores

You know you’re a hardcore gamer when…

You take bribes on a regular basis from people dying to get on your Xbox Live friends list. 9. You actually thoughtViva Pinatahentai was a good idea. 8. Two words:Halocosplay. You love gaming themed clothes so much you even wearSuper Mario Bros.underoos to seduce your lover. You playUnoon Xbox Live while eating a bag of chips, drunk, naked and on web cam. Your weekly celebrity sex dream now features Peter Moore....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 199 words · Morgan Wright

Your Wii is sad and lonely, says Nielsen

Nielsen’s State of the Video Gamer study somehow measures a percentage of the total time a consolecould be used. I don’t know how the hell they do that, but their figures show that the Wii has the lowest user activity. Compared to your other game systems, your Wii is kind of sad and lonely. The Wii owners use their console 6.8 percent of the total time they could have used it....

July 27, 2025 · 2 min · 227 words · Justin Hamilton

YTMND Thursday special edition: 50 of my favorite YTMNDs of this year

Many people call me crazy, which they totally should as I tend to do extremely crazy things. For instance, I have spent nearly a total of seven hours going through all of theYTMND ThursdaysI’ve done this year, collecting my favorite ones, narrowing down the list to 50, writing up this post, accidentally clicking one of my short-cut icons to MySpace, finding out I didn’t save the draft with all the links already written up, screaming and punching my desk, and then starting all over again....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · Samantha Jordan

Yukes announces XBLA game, Double D Dodgeball, and it’s not what you think

If Team Ninja were responsible for the upcoming Xbox LIVE Arcade titleDouble D Dodgeball, it would have featured exquisitely animated females bouncing around and tossing balls at each other. For most of you, we would have been talking “insta-sale.” Instead, what you’ll be getting later this year is a Yukes-developed competitive dodgeball titled featuring neon aliens and squid creatures. Yeah, I’m disappointed, too. The title will feature a variety of characters, each with unique attributes and shot types....

July 27, 2025 · 1 min · 123 words · Michele Brown

Amazon teases its Black Friday sales line-up

Relating bunnies to Black Friday deals from Amazon isour new thing, apparently. We’ve been handed a sampling of things to come, and I can already feel the consumer whore in me starting to grow increasingly excited. In particular, the PS3 bundle for Friday sounds very tempting indeed. Thursday through Monday – 300+ deals while supplies last, including: Friday Only Deals: With all of those $35 games being so recent, I’m hopeful we’ll seeLeft 4 Dead 2(Xbox 360) drop down to around that price range as well....

July 26, 2025 · 1 min · 123 words · Dawn Wilson