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As seen on Weekend Destructainment: Dtoider NukaCola smashes them drums to the tune ofBreath of Fire 2. Anthony looks at the best indie games of ’09 that he forgot to mention,Interstellar Marineslooks awesome,Left 4 Dead 2gets Infected bots, a bunch of videogame based toys are in the works and more happened over the third weekend of January. Destructoid Originals:Weekend Destructainment: We are Bomber-MEEEEEN!!The best indie games of ’09 (that I forgot to mention)Best of the Network this weekGames of the week for 20-05-2025: Talking Psycho editionCommunity:The Future: A refreshing cup of HemlockThe Future: Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children!...

The very first trailer forTheatrhythm: Final Fantasyhas hit the Internet, and I’m of the mind that it looks like the most delightfulFinal Fantasygame to have come from Square’s smoke-billowing misery factories in years. I can certainly dig it. It basically looks likeElite Beat Agentswith aFinal Fantasyflavor, and that sounds great to me. I’m also really liking the fact it uses footage from the original games as well, thus exploiting the nostalgia whore in all of us....

If you’ve been following the world of videogames for any length of time, you’ll doubtless have come into contact with the huge amounts of negative press that videogames get. Thanks to media sources like FOX News andThe Daily Mailand individual moral crusaders such as Jack Thompson or Leland Yee, games have shouldered the blame for much of the violence and chaos that is prevelant in society. Of course, it’s easy to slap videogames with a bad reputation in isolated and sensationalized incidents, but when we really put interactive software into perspective, how does it rank up against other causes of violence such as alcohol, football and even shopping?...

It’s a shame this first official trailer for Tyler Glaiel and Jon Schubbe’sClosureflew completely under my radar when it made the rounds a few days ago — the game is looking quite good, and it deserves your attention. I haven’t thought much about it since PAX last year, where the game was on full display. Of course, every time I walked by the demo station, I passed on giving it a try....

If you were to ask Brian Farrell, CEO of THQ, what has been the downfall of many games, he might just smile and break into a conversation regarding trust issues. Making successful games is more than just putting together a skilled team of programmers, artists, and writers — it’s about synergism and reasonable expectations. Most of all, it involves a relationship between publishers and developers that revolves around mutual trust:...

WHAT: Nintendo fans from across the country are expected to converge on the Best Buy at 622 Broadway, New York City for the chance to compete in the New York Super Smash Bros. Brawl Regional Tournament on Saturday, March 8. Over two hundred people will get to take off the gloves, call off all bets and attempt to secure a spot in the Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tournament Finals taking place later that evening....

I played games back in the twilight past, before the idea of a console game demo had even fluttered in a publisher’s waking thoughts. If I think back, I realize there must have been a decent amount of money wasted on the games I discovered I didn’t care for after a half hour of play. Demos therefore amazed me from the very start, and I am eternally thrilled to be able to give most titles a spin before I buy them....

TheTropicoseries is known for touching heavily on the subject of Communism, so it’s highly fitting thatTropico 3‘s downloadable content will be made by the people, for the people. The biggest surprise is that the Xbox 360 version willfeature the content, despite shunning mods and user-build add-ons in other games. Kalypso Media has not confirmed a price or any real details for the content, only stating that it is happening. In any case, it should be an interesting situation, provided Microsoft doesn’t charge us out the arse for it … oh wait, that’s probably what’s going to happen....

A scant handful of you may recall a very unique shooter from Valve and Arkane Studios known asThe Crossing. It was quite an ambitious little game that attempted to blend single player and multiplayer modes into one experience, allowing human players to take on the role of generic enemies and tackle a playable main character. It sounds like a logistical nightmare, but for the time being we won’t get to see if it ever worked, because the poor game has beenput on ice....

RememberEA’s #Lust contestforDante’s Infernothat they ran at San Diego Comic Con? Well, in a strange twist of fate, PixelPoet of GayGamer came in asa runner upin the contest, after submittingsomepicturesof himself with a Booth Bro (suggest a better name for them if you’ve got one) from PAX. When he found out that he won one of the five runner up prizes ($240 to the EA Store and a shirt), he declined the offer and sent back an email to the people at EA, pointing out how narrow-minded the contest was....

This week’s PlayStation Store downloadable game releases are a mouthful. Really. As we reported earlier,Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Carsis now availableat a lower price($9.99) and it’s ready to quench your Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars thirst. Penny Arcade’s second episode ofPenny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness($14.99) has finally hit the Store as well. Expect another adventure full of weird inside jokes that you won’t understand unless you’ve been glued to their Web site for the last few years....

The Wii is a marvelous device. Even though it’s constantly under fire by many in the gaming community that consider themselves “too hardcore” to bother themselves with “underpowered hardware,” it doesn’t seem to matter. Even I’ve been surprised by it all. I always expected the Wii to take a second-place spot behind the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 — on paper, it just seems so underwhelming. Is Nintendo the least bit fazed by this?...

In news that issure to makea number of publishers vomit into their hands, it’s being estimated that the number of used games being traded in the US has reached 100 million a year. That equals a revenue stream worth $2 billion, according to the chaps at Wedbush Morgan. It’s not all bad for the industry, however, as it’s theorized that only 5% of new game sales are affected by the second-hand market, and the trading in of old games could always lead to new games being bought....