Hudson brings Dream Chronicles to PSN, XBLA

Dream Chronicles started out as a PC game, but now it’s coming to Xbox’s Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network by way of Hudson. It’s a surreal mystery dreamscape adventure game. That make any sense? It will when you see it. You play as Faye, who is out in a strange world to find her husband and escape a spell of sleeping that has been cast over the town of Wish....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 125 words · David Fleming

Impressions: Battlefield Play4Free open beta

Easy Studios’Battlefield Play4Freehas been available to everyone willing to give it a download as of this week. The free-to-play, pay-if-you-want PC game is currently in open beta. I figured I’d give it a spin, and spout off my general thoughts along the way. If you’ve ever touched aBattlefieldbefore, you’ll know what to expect. Teammates hogging the cooler (see: useful) vehicles, some dumb person who won’t stop honking his horn (and another guy who spends the whole matchcomplainingabout said honking), the standard classes, and lots of spotting enemy troops....

August 3, 2025 · 4 min · 811 words · Charles Watson

Interview with Chocobo Mystery Dungeon developer h.a.n.d.

We talked about the announcement ofChocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon: Tokiwasure no Meikyuuway back in September 2007, where I performed the accurate amount of screaming in joyful anticipation and then went back to the daily grind of non-chocobo inhabited life. Since then the game has been released on the Japanese market, but there’s been no more word about a US version. Ahem, Square? What’s up with that? Some people need their fix, you know....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 451 words · Brian White

Japan: where you can wear your love of Pokemon on your face

Japan, Japan. The land wherea man can throw worms about on a trainjust to see women scream and the penalty for a teacher cutting himself in front of his students is merely a slap on the wrist, it sounds like a wonderland for the weird. Take this item, which only be rightfully called a “fashion mask”. In case you don’t know, the Japanese often wear surgical masks during their commutes in order to avoid catching germs from others....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 158 words · Gary Brown

Japanese man (kinda) marries Love Plus character

Love at first swipe? A 27-year old Tokyo resident nicknamed Sal 9000 (he wouldn’t give his real name) has taken a new bride. You might know her: Nene Anegasaki. Yes, Sal has taken theLove Plus(3DS) character’s virtual hand in marriage. The were married last month — him in a white tux, her with her battery fully charged.CNNsays that friends supported him via an online ceremony. While not exactly a legal union, Sal went through all the motions for Nene....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Megan Orr

Kane & Lynch Web site removes the ‘five star ratings’

Those “five star ratings” that the officialKane & LynchWeb site used totry and trick visitorshave been removed. The attention that GameBump, NeoGAF, Destructoid and other sites gave this dirty tactic obviously had an effect on Eidos taking graphics down. Taking a look atGameBumpagain, they reveal a few more interesting details. Aside from an extremely snarky PR person trying to hopelessly defend the Web site’s stars, an admin from the Eidos forums decided to reply to a fan’s forum post about this whole situation on the misrepresentation with the star business:...

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Michael Romero

Killzone 3 beta details ‘coming soon’

Over the weekend,we talked abouta new web page set up by Sony that seemed to hint at an incoming public beta forKillzone 3. Today, Sony has given us a brief statement about the page, explaining that developer Guerrilla is currently testing the game out, but details are on the way. “Guerilla Games is currently testing a number of elements internally withKillzone 3and further details will be available soon,” states Sony’s senior social media specialist Rey Gutierrez....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 136 words · Marissa Sanchez

Like, OMG! Band Hero demo hits Xbox LIVE Marketplace

Without any irony I must say that I’m really excited to playBand Hero. Don’t laugh. While I’m listening to Dillinger Escape Plan’sCalculating Infinityright now, next up in the queue is Kelly Clarkson’sAll I Ever Wanted. While there’s no Clarkson inBand Hero(there should be — girl can sing!), I think you see where I’m going with this: I don’t hate on top 40 radio. So while some are turning up their noses atBand Hero, I’ll be the first in line to jump on the drums and pound away to Katrina & The Waves’ “Walking on Sunshine....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · Brian Coffey

Live show: The final episode of Backlog

After a journey which has lasted nine months and seen the end of twenty-five games, tonightBacklogcomes to its conclusion. People used to joke thatFable III, the least popular game ever to appear in a round of voting would be the last game ever played on the show. And, as it turns out, they were right. It’s been a hell of a ride and I have had a tremendous amount of fun spending time with all of the people in our Twitch....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Thomas Anderson

Lost Odyssey DLC hits US Xbox Live today

AsLost Odysseyfans should be aware, new downloadable content was announced for the game on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace a while ago, which included new items. Well, if you didn’t nab the content for your game back then, nowmight be a good timeto start. The content pack, priced at 200 points, will include the “Killer Machine” ring which should render many enemies a cakewalk, “The Memory Lamp” which gives the player access to any cutscene in the game, and “The Shattered Bond” which takes you to a brand new dream, exclusive to the North American content pack....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · Adam Ballard

Love/Hate: The NES was great … no, it wasn’t!

[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 on ourcommunity blogs.] The Nintendo Entertainment System — nowthereis a console that is almost universally lauded by gamers....

August 3, 2025 · 12 min · 2445 words · John Ramsey

Matt Hazard review copies arrive with fake gaming mag that the kids will enjoy

Our review copies of D3’sEat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazardhit our offices today, and I’ve been “tweeting” about the gamemore thanI hadexpected to. Does that mean it’s good? Does that mean it’s bad? You’ll have to wait for our review for that one (or ignore us and go buy it). Along with our review copies came a fake gaming magazine calledContinue?,which tries to perpetuate the whole “Matt Hazard as a classic videogame hero” marketing thing D3’s got going on....

August 3, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Nancy Wright

Metal Gear Solid 4’s intro to blow your minds: Also to be outsourced

Everybody knows that Hideo Kojima, genius that he is, shows signs of a mind that exists in another reality. Now there are promises that his latest baby,Metal Gear Solid 4, will have an intro that has never been attempted before and will never be attempted again. Knowing Kojima-san, that could mean anything, including our collective deaths. In arecent interview,MGS4assistant producer Ryan Payton had this to say: we’re working with a studio who is producing the opening movie for the game....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 268 words · Felicia Miller