Lots of stores and websites give you ass games in their bundle deals, but Amazon has newer titles — stuff you’d actually want. Their limited deal has you picking from a list of games. If you buy two you’ll get one more free, with the lowest priced item being the free one. Here’s some of the good stuff on the list: There’s more in this list. What’s good is that lots of the games are at discounted prices....
Ok, I’m sure you are all sick ofallmycoverageof Tetris this E3. Hey, it’s not my fault the game is 25 years old (older than me!), and everybody wants to make a big deal about it. I mean, who do you know who has not played the game? Obviously, Google has played Tetris. In celebration for today’s silver anniversary of the block-busting game,Googlehas changed the front page logo to something recognizable to gamers everywhere....
At some point in timeGorgeousGamers.comwas simply supposed to be a place to perv on attractive people who played videogames. Now, however, they’ve decided to not be quite as shallow and revamped themselves as the “Facebook for gamers.” There seem to be people on the site and you can most likely network through it. There’s… ummm… contests. Really, this doesn’t look any different from the hundreds upon thousands of other social networking sites except for some extra gaming stuff here and there, and if you’re here at Destructoid you’ve already got the greatest gaming community around so I don’t see why you need it....
Codemasters sent us a bit of info today on an some upcoming downloadable content for their racer GRID for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and it seems like a pretty substantial update. Called the “8 Ball” pack, the DLC will add eight new playable cars to the game, including the McLaren F1 GTR, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X, and the Nissan GT-R GT500. I don’t know much about cars, but all of that stuff sounds really fancy, and the screen shots in the gallery seem to back up that assumption....
(Pre-emptive Editor’s Note: Murder isnotadorable. No matter how many references to unicorns (or thatadorable baby polar bearthat’s been in the news lately) you toss around, there is simply no way to add levity to the deaths of innocent people. That said, penguinsarekinda adorable. They waddle around, often falling over, and they carry their eggs around on their tiny feet; like I said, adorable. So, if the systematic slaughter of other people makes you a little bummed, here’sa linkto some pictures of penguins instead....
You can think of Luis Lopez as a protector of sorts. Benefitting from the culture of the celebrity emphasized in The Ballad of Gay Tony, Lopez is paid to ensure that saucy starlets and other celebs have a good time in Maisonette9 and Hercules, two of Liberty City’s largest clubs. He’ll deliver the good stuff to talent and he’ll even whisk the famous away from the cold grip of the paparazzi....
It’s one thing to readDestructoid’s hands-on impressionsofGuitar Hero: Aerosmith, but it’s a whole different experience to be in the same room asAerosmithandGuitar Hero. Well, not exactly that.Guitar Herowas several rooms away from Aerosmith — but all the doors were open between Aerosmith andGuitar Hero, so it’s like it was one room! You could count the 15 minutes ofGuitar Herofootage shown to a crowd of press, VIPs, “Meet and Greet” people, and whoever else managed to get into the room at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square yesterday, I guess....
I was getting really excited about asking my esteemed colleagueChad Concelmoto focus onNBA Jamfor one of hisMemory Cardarticles. But then I realized that the greatness of those games couldn’t technically be summed up in a “moment” per se, so that went out the window. Oh, well. Regardless, some of my favorite memories from those old-school arcade-style basketball titles came out of the ridiculous cheat codes in the games. I know I’m not alone when I fondly recall throwing down dunks with Bill Clinton and Al Gore…good times, good times....
Final Fantasy X-2is a strange beast, in that no one really knows what to make of it. On the one hand, the response from “real” reviewers was relatively positive. On the other hand, the collective gaming community seems to hate it with a fiery passion, with exclamations thatFinal Fantasy‘s first sequel “doesn’t count” and that it was “Yuna’s Barbie dress-up” instead of “a realFinal Fantasy.” Yes, it’s true that the game is now four years old, but that fact makes it easier to analyze the game on its own merits....
To say that Activision/Infinity Ward battle has rocked the industry would be to put it very lightly. Activision cutting the head off one of its biggest cash cows and inspiring a number of resignations has been a huge and bitter story. One developer famous for its good treatment of staff, Insomniac, has criticized Activision’s behavior, going so far as to the call the situationhorrifying. “I have some friends at Infinity Ward and I can’t tell you how happy I was to be at Insomniac when I heard that news [of West and Zampella’s sacking],” says designer Jake Biegel....
The first time I playedFallout 3, I hated it. While there are legitimate problems with the game such as glitches and odd pacing, I confess that much of the fault was with me. I didn’t “get”Fallout, and over the intervening months since its release, I have really gotten into the series and now feel I have the right frame of mind to enjoy my post-apocalyptic head popping. Naturally, I had to check outFallout: New Vegasat PAX Prime to see how it was coming along, and I bring you word that it is indeed coming along very well....
If you have a Wii and love Japanese horror, then you’re no doubt interested in checking outJu-On: The Grudge. However, the box art makes it look like the worst game to haveeverexisted. The American cover art is alright, save for its “Haunted House Simulator” tag line, but theEuropean box? Oh myGod, the European box … Just look at it! That’s a Japanese horror game, being represented by a ludicrous white woman peeking out from behind a sofa as if this were the cover to aGoosebumpsnovel....
I know full well that the upcomingKatamari Foreveris nothing more than a rehash of all the previous games with new skins and music, and you know what? I’m just FINE with that. Much like the Silent Hill series, I’m just happy to go back to that world, and I don’t particularly mind if everything about it isn’t brain-blowingly original. What can I say — sometimes it’s just comforting. I know, I’m boring....
