In the latest EA Montreal-created live-action trailer forArmy of Two: the 40th Day, we see the game’s two goons, Salem and Rios, participating and enjoying a little bit of immediate holiday joy. Don’t come into it thinking Christmas — these dudes are trick or treating, scoring some office supplies from a bewildered person. What’s the ultimate goal of this little adventure? Well, if we told you, it’d spoil the footage above....
[Weekend Destructainment is a collection of funny videos brought together from all across the Internet to bring you entertainment on these slow and boring weekends.] The nextTiger Woodsgame is going to be awesome! The golf club mechanics look like they’ll be vastly improved too. Great job, EA! Weekend D continues after the break with a Mario/Dante’s mash-up. Then watch as porn stars play someDungeons & Dragons. Next, it’s aSuper Mario Landrock cover by Dtoider P4KO....
Hope you’re Friday is going well. I’ve just got a couple of quick announcements for you, then I’ll let you get back to whatever you were doing. First off, I wanted to remind you to vote for your favorite game inThe Destructoid Show readers choice award. It’s free and easy, all you need it a Twitter account. Just tweet ” My @dtoid game of the year vote is: #dtoid-(blank) ” with (blank) replaced with your favorite game of 2010 (with no caps, spaces or other punctuation; examples — haloreach and metroidotherm) and presto!...
[Editor’s note: Whoa, a promoted story that isn’t related to the Monthly Musing theme?! That’s right boys and girls, we still recognize brilliant pieces of work that deserve to be promoted. Such as this case where Cowzilla3 writes an eye-opening piece on what No More Heroes really represents. — CTZ] Videogames stories hardly ever confront the gamer, causing some sort of introspective look on the decisions they’ve made throughout the game and prompting them to not only take a look at what they are doing in the game but who they are as a person....
I don’t know what you think of when you imagineWii Fitgaming, but I’ve always pictured a obese woman in ill-fitting sports wear, jumping up and down on a plastic board that can barely take her weight. She steps on the cat’s tail, knocks over a vase from her quake-causing stomps, and eventually the home’s foundation begins to crack. The camera pans to the rest of the family, all in a unison facepalm....
What’s this? OnlytwoWii Shop releases today? But they’re really good ones, right? Well, I’m not going to make that call. Bplus’ “jump and roll” title,Niki – Rock ‘n’ Ball (1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)is today’s lone WiiWare title. The game has you waving the Wii Remote around to control Niki — in ball or rock form — as you collect something call ZeLeLi pearls. It looks to essentially be a platformer, and you’ll be hopping around environments using “the physics” to your advantage....
I don’t know if you know this, butCall of Dutyis kind of a big deal. You want cold, hard facts to back that up, do you? How about this little bit of knowledge: in one weekendWorld at War‘s newest map pack, Map Pack 3, was download over 1 million times. That’s a big number and puts it in fine company with its brother and sister,Map Pack 1andMap Pack 2, which also sold like candy at a fat kid convention on their respective debut weekends....
Harmonix’s John Drake readily admits that they didn’t exactly follow through with their promise of usingRock Bandto create an army of drummers. Instead, what they did was help people hone their “bang on things when you see colors on the screen” skills. So what you end up with is people being able to bang out the drums for Nine Inch Nail’s “The Perfect Drug” — a feat which some professional drummers may never do on a real kit — but not really understanding what they’re doing....
The earlier story revealing that the BBC wasn’t planning on producing a properDoctor Whogame was false — it appears the particular BBC employee interviewed for that story was out of the loop and literally didn’t know what the hell he or she was talking about. Eurogamerreports that UK developer Ironstone Partners is indeed working on aWhogame for the DS, PS2, and PC to be published by Eidos Interactive, though they have refused to divulge any further details....
The university of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, has made public theresultsof one of its latest studies: Players of so-called‘Killerspiele’likeCounter-Strikeactually don’t like the military or war more than those who don’t. They asked 5000 people, 4500 of which were gamers, about their views on the military, war and terrorism and found out that the answers don’t really depend on whether or not that person plays videogames. The person’s age, education, aggressiveness and their stance on authority on the other hand are important....
(The exclamation point, as you may see, is actually in the title. Believe me, I’m no more excited than you are about this.) Wii owners like minigame collections, right? I mean,Carnival Gameshas somehow sold over 3 million copies worldwide. 2K Sports actually tried to capitalize on the minigame market on the Wii last fall withMLB Superstars, but that game failed miserably reviews- and sales-wise. So they’re taking a mulligan with an all-new group of baseball-themed minigames,Baseball Blast!...
Usually I’m not into these “announcement of an announcement” stories, but this one’s suitably big and you could do with fair warning. So mark the date and mark it well, for on January 19, Nintendo is going to be in Amsterdam to reveal its launch plans for the 3DS. The release date, price and lineup of launch titles are all set to be revealed. So far we know that Japan will be getting the system on February 26 for ¥25,000, with a rough March date in North America....
Major Nelson is a tease. Yesterday afternoon, the Xbox LIVE guru announced the arrival of additional sunglasses to the Avatar editorvia his blog. Men and women were said to receive a variety of multi-colored “Shutter Shades.” The men, for whatever reason, will also receive a pair of “Hippy Shades.” Despite the monumental nature of the update, Microsoft has yet to release it. The delay is unfortunate news. Through research, we’ve learned that three kinds of people wear sunglasses: hip people, freedom fighters jacked into the Matrix, and glaucoma patients....
