This November,Guitar Herois making its second appearance on the Nintendo DS withGuitar Hero: On Tour Decades. I had a chance to strap the guitar grip to my hand and give it a whirl at a recent preview event, and found that gameplay wise, it’s more or less unchanged from the originalOn Tour. The hook forDecadesis the music, of course, which is broken up into various eras of rock n’ roll history....
Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’is a surreal comedy series made by Anthony and Ashly Burch.Once Upon a Pixelis a completely different series made by some of the same people. If you hate one, you may like the other. Ashly Burch is out with the flu, but don’t fret — Ashley Davis, the creator and star ofOnce Upon a Pixel, is pinch-hitting for her. She has more letters in her first name, and is thus a quantitatively better person....
The people behind Twonkygave Destructoid $1,700 in prizesto give out to the Destructoid community!Twonky is a super easy to use Android appwhich allows you to beam any media such as pictures, videos, music and more from your phone to any web-connected device in your network such as TVs, laptops and more! The Destructoid staff voted on the all the entries and we narrowed it down to one lucky winner! Congratulations toCapm Trevofor his submission above!...
Could it be? I’m allhnnnnnggggythis morning over the possibility of aValkyria Chronicles 3because Sega has registered a new URL: Valkyria3.jp. Don’t bother trying the URL, though: it just asks for a username and password. ButAndria Sangdid a whois lookup and found that Sega is the owner. They registered this back in May, mind you. Both valkyria.jp and valkyria2.jp point to the respective games. Could this really be the third?! It has been awhile since the second game was released for the PSP....
Zip-lines and sumo wresting areall well and good, but where’s the cash? Activision has listed the ways in which players can enter the $1 million Call of Duty XP tournament. A good portion of the slots are being determined using Call of Duty Elite — most captures in Domination, most kills in Team Deathmatch, that sort of thing. GameStop and other retailers are taking part as well, and lastly, the final four spots will be decided on September 2 by way of aBlack OpsGauntlet at XP itself....
This is news too large for our weeklySmash Bros.Dojo roundup. Visitors tothe Dojotoday will read ofSuper Smash Bros. Brawl: The Subspace Emissary, a brand new single player experience for the upcoming Wii fighter. While there have been paltry single player modes before, this promises to be a fully fleshed out, standalone game in its own right, bringing together the Nintendo universe in one story. The Adventure mode also emphasizes character development....
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The second place winner wasHa-Puken, who will be winning aFang gamepad, while third place wasjayeugene, who will be getting aReaper gaming mouseand aFragMat mousepad. Be sure to check out Ha-Puken and jayeugene’s entries below, as well as the gallery of some of the favorite entries. All the winners, please send your addresses to brad[at]destructoid.com, and we’ll send off your prizes! jayeugene
Every week, Destructoid highlights interesting, innovative, or just plain odd independent games for its “Indie Nation” series. After three weeks ofheady,combat-freefirst-personshootermodifications, what say we detox with aHalf-Life 2mod primarily about smacking mummies in the skull with a mace? Curse— or at least, thefirst episodeofCurse— is a free mod that alternates between intense, mouse gesture-based action and environmental puzzle solving. It’s surprisingly polished, and has enough new mechanics so that, apart from the physics and enemy animations, I wouldn’t have realized it was aHalf-Life 2mod if no one had told me....
Sucker Punch’s electrified superhero sequel,inFAMOUS 2, hasgone goldand is all set for its release date of June 7 (June 10 in the UK). With a whole new city, multiplayer mode and user-created missions, the latestinFAMOUStitle is looking set to be an excellent improvement over the promising-but-flawed original. I’m looking forward to checking it out. I wanted to love the original, and I certainly hope I love this one. Who else is planning to pick this up?...
Infinity Ward just lost another one! With former bosses Zampella and West formingRespawn Entertainment, and following thedeparture of two key developers, the studio has just seen yet another veteran leave its ranks. The latest loss is programmer Jon Shirin, a man who spent six years with the company. “After almost 6 years at Infinity Ward, I resigned today. I’m incredibly proud of everything we accomplished and I’m going to miss everyone,” Shirin announced today....
These were the top 20 Xbox Live games of 2010. I’ve played none of them. Someone asked me a few weeks ago why my last log in time on Xbox Live was a million years ago. This is why. Nothing is wrong with the system or the games, but none of the top offerings for the system really speak to my gaming preferences. I like the nerdy sh*t. These games are too cool for me....
GamePolitics has just released some breaking news about game hating attorney Jack Thompson. Following the Florida Supreme Court’s complaint about Jack’s frivolous and time wasting suit filings, it has just come to pass that the silver-haired enemy of videogames got smacked down with sanctions effectively hampering his ability to waste court time. The Supreme Court will now in future refuse to accept anything from Thompson directly. He will have to go through another lawyer if he wants to make up one of his silly lawsuits....
