Valve won’t quit onLeft 4 Dead 2in Australia, despite the title having been rejected by the Australian Classification Board. According to Valve head honcho Gabe Newell, the studio has submitted a new, cleaner version of the zombie-skull buster in an attempt to get a MA15+ rating which would allow the title to see a release. “We thinkLeft 4 Dead 2is a lot of fun,” Newell said at a Sydney event yesterday afternoon....
After 1,000 years, the Dark Lord has, against all odds, re-emerged into the world. We hadn’t thought it possible. Our people had, through a use of time- and space-rending magical power, with the aid of a great celestial coincidence and a sentient, priceless artifact, sealed away the threatening power, never to return. Alas, the utopia in which we thrived for generations is now threatened again by the encroaching of that dark power, summoned by a darkly insane harbinger, a madman with the goal of purifying the world through its destruction....
HOLY SHIT! Destructoid was nominated for a Webby in the games-related category. There’s probably no way in hell we’ll win it, but with your help we may stand a chance. We’re asking everyone that enjoys what we do to lend us your support. And your axe, if it comes down to that. Pleasevote for Destructoid by clicking hereand voting for us in the Games-Related category. Seriously though, we’re very pleased (and humbled) to announce that Destructoid has been included among the nominees, which included Gamespot, Rock Band, MLG, The Escapist....
Look, I’m in a fancy promotional graphic! My mom will be so proud! The fantastic folks over atCOIN-OP TVhave generously asked me to be a guest on their show tonight live at 8pm PT (11pm ET)! Ithinkyou can just clickhereto watch it. Orhere. Actually, I am not surewhereyou click. I guess at 8:00 the show just starts or something. Man, I am so dumb when it comes to these futuristic forms of entertainment....
BioShock: Rapture, the prequel to Irrational Games’BioShock, is out July 19. It’s not a game, though, it’s a novel. Fun fact:Raptureis written by John Shirley, who wrote the the 1994 film,The Crow. Is it any good? Not sure yet, as I’m about to read an excerpt from the novel right now. you may, too — publisherTor Books has put it onlinefor your reading pleasure. Unless you totally think it’s crap, then it’s like a 10-minute-long nightmare or something, depending on how fast you can read....
Say what you will about the Wii’s reliance on SD cards for external memory storage, but it can’t be argued that decision has helped make the Wii one of the most quickly and easily hacked home consoles of all time. This latest leap forward in the noble pursuit to free Wii owners from the burden of actuallypayingfor games is undoubtedly the most exciting one yet.Anyone with an SD card-compatible PC, an SD card, a Wii, a GameCube controller, the internet, and the black heart of an evil software pirate can now play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games on their Wii free of charge....
Trying to reach every person out there who has not yet gamed — I hear there’s a hut in the Congo that has yet to playWii Sports— Nintendo looks to take over the burnt bread market with Wii Toaster! Thisrevolutionof a toaster isn’t next gen, it’s new gen! Come on fanboys, let’s get our toast done the Wii way! And, in keeping with the Virtual Console tradition, standard bread toasting will be 500 points and bagels/Pop Tarts will be 800 points per toasting....
David O. Russel’s had a lot of plans for theUnchartedmovie, and those plans have alreadyraised some eyebrows amongst fans of the series. Mr. Russel toldAin’t it Cool Newsthat he does not want to make “a film that was a knockoff of a game that’s not going to be around,” but that he does want to makeUncharted“into a world that has a family dynamic in it akin toThe Sopranosor akin to other worlds....
You know a game flew — no,tunneled— under the radar when the king of Xbox LIVE, Major Nelson,doesn’t even know what its about. But now we can all discover the wonders ofKrissXtogether in an orgy of hot and steamy LIVE Arcade downloading startingright now. All it takes is 800 Microsoft Banana Bucks. Konami describesKrissXin the press release handed out this afternoon as a “word puzzle game” that will put our “trivia knowledge to the test” in over 150 stages of word jumbled-word-fury....
Shane Kim with the fighting words! The Microsoft game division VP has confidently claimed that his company will continue producing the Xbox 360 until one day after the PlayStation 3 dies. There is something hilarious about putting the Xbox 360 and “long lifespan” into the same sentence, but I’ll wait for Microsoft to fall intothatone. Kim had things to say to about both Nintendo and Sony, saying first ofWii Fit: “I can tell you how that conversation goes at Microsoft....
We’re about a day or so behind, but know this:Major Nelsonsays the first wave of Xbox LIVE Update Preview Program invites were blasted to e-mail inboxes in the recent past. Those of you who bothered with registering on theMicrosoft Connect Web sitemay or may not have an invitation waiting, but if you do, you’ll be able to join in on the Twitter and Facebook fun with the rest of the privileged world....
[Update: Added the E3 trailer for the game above.] 2K Games has broken the silence on itsXCOMre-boot, giving it a Jun 13, 2025 release date for North America. The game, which is hitting PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, will be released March 9 internationally. 2K is quick to call it an “intense sci-fi thriller,” but never mentioning the term “first-person shooter” in its press release. What I sawlast year at E3was certainly, on the surface, a first-person shooter....
There’s some new info out on the Yakuza zombie game,Yakuza Of the End,which is set to release in Japan in about a month. One of the game’s new systems lets you work with people you’ve meet on the streets to make an instant partner to fight alongside.Andriasangsays that you’ll have to clear substories to unlock partners, and once unlocked, they’ll be usable by all four game characters. If you look closely at the image above you’ll see that you can even make a hostess a partner....
