[Editor’s note: Suff0cat is made of pure win and awesome. He went to aWWEshow this past week and showed off his love for Destructoid and this amazing community. Suff, keep an eye out on your mailbox as we are going to be sending you some love. You define community badassness. — CTZ] Last timeI made a post about getting the Destructoid sign on TV, I promised that it would be much more epic next time I brought it out....
Better late than never — yeah,Mass Effect‘s been out for a couple of weeks, but you wouldn’t dare pass up a chance to hear what we (reasonably honest) folks at Destructoid would say about BioWare’s latest epic action-RPG, would you? Equal partsFirefly, Star Trek, andStar Wars, BioWare’s most recent effort seeks to be the be-all and end-all (or, considering it’s the first in a planned trilogy, the be-all start-all) of story-driven, sci-fi action videogames....
You know what is better than videogames?Cheapvideogames. We have an expensive hobby and it helps to be able to save a few bucks here and there. And each week, retailers vie for our attention with assorted offers of reduced prices and freebies to snag our gaming dollar. Enter Discountoid. Every week, I’ll be compiling the various promotions offered by major US chains in their ad circulars and giving you the skinny on how you can save a bit of cash....
Duke’s not dead!Duke Nukem: Manhattan Projectwill be out June 23 on Xbox Live Arcade for just 800 MS Points. This new adventure was actually originally released on the PC back in 2002 and now it’s been revived for Microsoft’s red ringing console. Glad the series is not dead, but I still wantDuke Nukem Foreverin a bad way. Check out the latest trailer and all the screens below.
When Chadbroke the newsthat Sid Meier’sCivilization Revolutionwas coming to consoles, he took the chance to admit his “platonic” man crush on Mr. Meier, and I’d like to take this chance to totally agree with him. I played and lovedCivilizations I – III, and I can only hope thatOGturn-based strategy game makes a graceful jump into the console scene. I can tell that Norte Chico of the Barbarians feels the same way....
You know, I’ll admit it: some of the most (drunken) fun I have had playing games with friends was with Ubisoft’sJust Dance. And after last night, I would have to say that Harmonix’sDance Centralfor Kinect, after my hands-on with the title, feeds into that cheesy drunken dancing fun. Like it or not, dancing games are the new hot jam. Anyway, Pipeworks Software’sZumba Fitness, published by Majesco, is actually quite a bit like both of those previously mentioned games....
We’ve been hearing a lot about the Nintendo’s next console, which the company is set to reveal at E3 this week. HD graphics. Backwards Wii title compatibility. Screens on the controllers.Touchscreenson the controllers. But a simple rumor thatGame Informerhas decided to spread around today, two days ahead of the console’s official unveiling, may be the wildest of them all. When Nintendo announces the console during this Tuesday morning’s press conference, they may very well be calling it… Nintendo....
In an interview in yesterday’sWall Street Journal, EA’s CEO Lawrence Probst, who is due to step down soon, praised Sony’s Playstation 3, and was surprised at the fact thatsome peoplethought that there would be no resistance to a $599 price point: WSJ:How do you think the PlayStation 3 launch is going? Mr. Probst:They ended up delivering about the number of units that we expected in North America. The interesting thing to me is that people seem surprised that there might be some resistance to a $599 price point....
Speaking with Gamasutra, Eidos Montreal’s general manager Stéphane D’Astous has revealed the studios’ first project —Deus Ex 3. According to D’Astous, the in-house development team “has just passed proof of concept” for the title, but revealed no further details. “The game was very highly rated at its release in 2000,” he says, “and we have this great huge mandate to do the third one, and everyone is very excited.” Depending on your level of commitment, the original futuristic first-person shooter/RPG is considered by some to be the best in the genre....
In a recent interview withEurogamer,Fable 2technical art director Ian Lovett said that consumers were “visually illiterate” and “don’t understand what they’re looking at” in regard to the technical side of the visual quality inFable 2. The question posed to Lovett and lead concept artist Mike McCarthy dealt with new consumers’ first impression withFable 2and asked them to present a contrast to the originalFable’svisuals. In a shocking statement, Lovett revealed thatFable 2would not look as “primitive” as the underfunded and hardware-strappedFablebefore proceeding with the “illiterate” comment....
Who doesn’t love Sonic the Hedgehog? Apparently Matt Casamassina over at IGN, since his recent review ofSonic and the Black Knightscored it at an unthinkable 3.9. What is a fanboy to do when they find out the game they’ve been looking forward to might not be that good? If you guessed that the fanboy would stop for a moment to think rationally and decide that either maybe they hyped the game up for themselves too much, or that maybe they and the reviewer have different tastes and that difference of opinion is allowed, you guessed wrong....
While Nintendo might have rained on the DSi XL’s launch a bit when it announced the 3DS, it doesn’t seem like GameStop’s mood on the new, larger DSi has lessened any. The retail game store has announced that it will be opening 3,200 of its stores at 9 a.m. tomorrow so that those who want the DSi XL can get it as soon as possible. A week ago I would be rushing to my room to reset my alarm since I had planned to buy the DSi XL, and I would be applauding GameStop’s ability to get it into my hands faster....
As I sit here writing this post I look over to Ian who is sitting on the opposite bed and I casually ask “Bulletstorm, one word?” Ian looks up and shouts “Awesome!” I have to agree, my time with the demo left me itching for more, which is always a good sign.Bulletstormappears to be a visually stunning (yes, an FPS with beautfiul colour) that gives the player the ability to destroy their enimes in unlimited ways....
