Wouldn’t that be crazy?Cheap Ass Gamerput up a post today featuring a picture of a sign at a West Jordan, Utah Best Buy. The sign seems to point to price matching of both new and used prices of local competitors, calling out Gamestop and Game Crazy. Crazy! Says the sign: Why buy used when you can buy new? Best Buy now price matches NEW video games at USED prices from Gamestop or Game Crazy....
Word straight from Gaijin games is that their new-retro classicBit.Trip Beatis finally being released on Europe’s WiiWare service this Friday. Europeans have been complaining for a while that they haven’t gotten the game yet, as they enjoy their fine teas and jellies, not to mention all the games that Nintendo of America will never release in the United States likeDisaster: Day of CrisisandFreshly-PickedTingle’sRosy Ruppeeland. Thing is, this is WiiWare we’re talking about, and WiiWare is notoriously unreliable when it comes to release schedules....
Right about now, the executives at Sony who were initially sweating out their decision to include Blu-ray in the PlayStation 3 must be giggling like a bunch of little schoolgirls. What was once attacked as one of the biggest mistakes in gaming history is starting to resemble a good idea. The momentum for the Blu-ray camp may have been slow in coming, but today it would seem that they’ve found a friend, and landed the motherload — in Wal-Mart — who will be completely phasing out HD-DVD disks over the next couple of months:...
I feel like I should just make a regular feature called “Charity This Weekend” or something because there seems to always be gamers raising money for a good cause. I’m not against this in any way. The more good gamers do the better. This weekend’s charity event is aBordelandsmarathon going on in the land down under. A group of Australian journalists and gamers will be picking up their gaming controllers and tearing around the world ofBorderlandsin 4-player co-op for 48 consecutive hours....
Capcom Arcade, the free iOS app that lets you buy full classic games or tokens to play them (you get 3 play tokens for free each day), now hasFinal Fightand1943available. According toTouch Arcade, the two new additions control pretty well on iDevices and seem to be faithful recreations of the arcade classic. Even better, you can get every full game for $0.99 until April 7th. The rest of the lineup ofCapcom Arcadetitles areStreet Fighter II,Street Fighter II’ Champion Edition,Ghouls ‘n Ghosts,Ghouls ‘n Goblins,1942, andCommando....
Capcom loves tugging at the heart strings of PS3 fanboys, and is obstinatelyrefusing to providea solid announcement concerningLost Planet 2on the Black Box o’ Blu-ray. As with most publishers these days, no press release = no comment. “We’re still thinking about it and haven’t announced a PS3 version, so we can’t say more about it just yet,”statesgame producerJun Takeuchi. WithDead Rising 2confirmed for both Xbox 360 and PS3, and with third party games in general shying away from any form of exclusivity between the two systems, it’s strange that Capcom appears to have yet another timed 360 exclusive inLost Planet 2....
Steve Balmer proudly boasted thatMicrosoft has sold over 8 million Kinect sensorsat their CES press conference night before last. That’s 8 million in 60 days. The aftermath of that is that Kinect is going to be hard to find for the next couple of months. Jose Pinero, Microsoft Senior Director of PR for Entertainment Services, told Destructoid that they’re going to be playing Kinect catch up in early 2011 to meet demand....
Cliff Bleszinski describes the People Can Fly studio as a “team of developers who are slightly off their fucking rockers.” After PCF finished work onGears of Warfor the PC, Epic wanted to work on something brand new with the studio. “We were like there’s gotta be something bigger and cooler that we can do together. Something that’s just tremendous and that would really make an impact. Then we decided why not make an entirely new world?...
All I’ve seen ofOnechanbaraso far ismy preview with Dale at this year’s E3,and even though we weren’t allowed to play it at the time, it instantly became one of my most wanted games of the show. No, it wasn’t as graphically stunning asMirror’s Edge, but it’s about a mostly naked chick killing zombies with a samurai sword. Seriously, you would have to be partially retarded to muck up anything with that much potential....
Relic Entertainment’sDawn of War IIhas a multiplayer component, but we’re guessing you already knew that. The video above walks viewers through character selection and provides an excellent glimpse of the many of the gameplay elements involved in competitive play. Despite a campaign that features only the Blood Ravens, it is quite plain that the other races in the game are open for multiplayer. If you can look past the ridiculously big explosions (get ready for splash damage), you’ll notice that the player can represent all the races in the game — the Eldar, Tyranids, Orcs and Human factions....
The fine editors of Destructoid are hard-hitting journalists dedicated to giving you, the hardcore gamer, all the facts fit to flaunt. This is why, for the past several days, we have been clobbering snakes, scaring bears, and feeding chickens in the name of science and JOURNALISM. That’s right, folks … Destructoid has been playingFrontierVille. Today, we compare our poop. This is the most low-brow discussion ofFrontierVilleyet, and considering we’ve already made countless jokes about “whacking” and “bonus wood,” that’s really saying something....
Welcome to the first installment of a new weekly feature that came to me in a fever-dream the other night. One moment I’m in the loving embrace of an anthropomorphic clown fish, and the next Shannon Hoon is telling me that it’s my destiny to write a weekly article on what the people behind Destructoid are playing that week.Far be it from me to turn down the genius that gave us the Bumblebee Girl!...
The entirety of this post has been removed due to conflicting internal and external interests. The Board sincerely apologizes to our shareholders for any inconveniences this may have caused, and we have mailed all of your significant others large bundles of flowers. Thank you for your patience. Sincerely, The Board of Directors The board doesn’t play games, but the editors do. Here’s their weekly results: Ron Workman:Man, this Internet is something else....
