[John “JC” Calhoun is the Senior Designer in charge of story on a little Wii-exclusive hitting shelves later this year,Dead Space: Extraction.Maybe you’ve heard of it? We’ve got an exclusive little sneak peak at what will be his first blog entry on the official Dead Space: Extraction Web site, which is set to go live next week. Enjoy. – Nick] Hello! My name is JC, and I’m the story designer onDead Space: Extraction....
Looking to one-up its ownFallout 3 Collector’s Edition, Bethesda has announced that it will be shipping aFallout: New Vegas Collector’s Editionfor all platforms in North America. In the words of Bethesda, the slick packaging will include: Parts of the “Making of” documentary were filmed by a crew led by Electric Playground’s Victor Lucas at last month’s Bethesda press event in Las Vegas; keep an eye out for the back of my head or something....
God it’s pretty. Say what you will about what Square Enix has done to theFinal Fantasyfranchise — lord knows I could say plenty — but they know how to make something stunning that assaults the eyeballs. I’ll never play it. I might like to watch someone else play it for a couple of hours, take in the eyecandy, and then be able to sleep knowing that I’m not investing more of my life than that into the experience....
Check out this sweet gameplay debut trailer of DICE’s upcomingBattlefield 3. Cry at the amount of money you’ll have to spend to make it look this good on your PC! It does look rather good, doesn’t it? The footage from the trailer shows a U.S. Marine squad in an engagement with hostile PLR focres in Iraqi Kurdistan. I don’t recall we’ve been able to destroy civilian infrastructure in Kurdistan in a video game yet, so that might be a first....
The gentlemen atAdhesive Gameshave been hard at work since the release of their initialHawkenteaser trailer. They have finally blessed us with a few minutes of actual gameplay footage for you to feast your eyes upon. If you have not yet heard ofHawken, hopefully seeing this glorious mech combat in action will plant it firmly onyourradar.
Destructoid has Forums? That’s a question that gets asked around here quite a bit. The answer to that question is very muchYES. For those of you that are new to Destructoid or maybe haven’t paid attention to the “other side” of the site, allow me to give you a bit of a recent history lesson. First off, I’mTechnophile(or just Will) and I’m the admin/manager of the Destructoid forums. I’ve been here on the site officially since December 2007 and lurked before that....
Would you like to play a game in which you play as an ant, a beetle and a spider who have to protect their stash of food from waves of enemy invertebrates? If so, thenBug Heroesis going to be your jam, son! You switch between your three bugs to take on different types of enemies, with the Ant suited to ranged combat, the Beetle designed to squash small enemies, and the Spider used to assassinate armored foes....
Last weekwe began the Xbox 360 odd debate brackets and, well, let’s just say that one game is going into round three with a lot of confidence after reading these results: I expected some readers to respond harshly to the debate;Qrazecompared it to picking between a penis and a vagina, and then threatened to “wrath” me. The scare tactics were as effective as they were hilarious, but I was glad that most of the comments took the debate seriously, without letting things turn into Jonathan Ross’snext article....
Well, it’s official, andSurfer Girl was correct: there’s most certainly aGhostbustersvideogame in the works. Game Informeris set to revealall of the information on the upcoming game — which is said to be a sequel to two films — in their next issue. Talent from the original films, Harold Ramis, Billy Murray, and Dan Aykroyd are teaming up on both scriptwriting and voice work for the title. Not much is known about the game at this time, but all should be revealed in December issue, which should hit mail boxes any day now....
“The GameStops in DC are really … crappy. They’re in a really bad part of town. There’s, like, bars on the windows and shit.” — HarrasmentPanda, DC/Bmore NARP, July 30, 2025 Evidently the rest of the country doesn’t share Panda’s fear of GameStop as they have control of 21 percent of the gaming market in the U.S.Gamasutracame up with the numbers in an expose on the company they are conducting and say that the other 79 percent are sold mostly by chain stores like Best Buy and Walmart....
Aninnuendo-packed postfrom earlier this year told you aboutGardening Mama, the next in the series of Taito’sMamagames. I was going to follow it up with another sexually charged news post, but I think Jim used all the good ones. How about a dirty gardening-themed joke instead? Check that out after the jump. Majesco tells us that the green thumb game is set to release in the US in early 2009 for the DS....
How do you evaluate an MMO when you’ve only had an hour with it? I believe the simple answer is that you may’t. In San Francisco earlier this week I was shuttled to LucasArts HQ, a campus tucked away from the hustle and bustle of downtown in some of the city’s fabled rolling hills. I was escorted beyond a line of cubicles, quaint little office homes where game creators are sculpting one of the studio’s next big releases....
Chatting with PC Gamer at GDC,Introversion Software‘s Mark Morris admitted that the independent studio likely won’t work with Microsoft on another Xbox Live Arcade title in the foreseeable future. “Do we regret working with Microsoft? No, but it’s unlikely we’ll work with them again … they make you work harder on the production value, but they don’t back it up with sales,” Morris puts it bluntly. In the case ofDarwiniaandMultiwinia, he says that “XBLA were good to us and put us in the deal of the week, but it had no impact....
