The chiptune scene is flourishing over in New York. A number of the big-name chiptune performers are situated on the East Coast, probably largely to do withBlipfest happeningin New York each year. Well, the West Coast is getting some more chiptune love finally as a chiptune tour is set to hit California, Oregon and Washington in the coming weeks. The four-part tour begins in Los Angeles on November 7 at theChop Suey Café and Lounge....
How great is it to see the Koopa Kids back together again? Pretty damn great, if you ask me. Which you didn’t. But I’m telling you anyway, so shut up and agree with me. Iggy FTW! NewSuper Mario Bros. Wiiis preparing for launch and it’s pretty exciting, because it looks incredible. I still need to replace my Wii after moving from Europe to the United States and I’m telling you, this game might be the final push I need to go ahead and do it....
Remind me not to defraud anyone, ever, because even the slightest mendaciousness will land me straight in Malebolge, the Eighth Circle of Hell. Roughly translated from Italian, “Malebolge” means “evil ditches” or “evil pouches,” and boy, has the team at Visceral Games crafted one hell of a gloomy cavern for the Fraud level ofDante’s Inferno. I mean, it’s so dark that it’s literally difficult to see what’s going on around you — unless things are on fire, of course....
It’s one thing to teach a computer how to play another game. It’s a completely different story to try and make it learn the game on its own by reading the manual. Some rather smart folks over at MIT decided to see how well a computer could learn to comprehend new tasks from reading text. As a test, they decided to see if it could learn to playCivilization. The computer started out with just the basic ability to use the mouse cursor and click on things....
High Voltage’s upcoming Wii first-person shooter,Conduit 2, will be hitting shelves in February 2011. The news comes not longer after it was announced that the game wouldn’t be making its fall 2010 release. Yes, we should be playing this thing right now; doesn’t it break your heart? The good news is that the extra development time is presumably letting High Voltage fine tune the game, including adding Classic Controller support for folks not sold on FPS games with motion controls....
Realtime Worldssenior designer Stephen Iannetta is already talkingCrackdown 2and mentioned so in a recentinterview with CVG. Take a look: “We’ve learnt some lessons and if we did do Crackdown 2… I’d love to see it happen,” he said. “I think again it comes to how you can really choose how you approach the missions, and I’d really like to turn the contrast up on that. I’d really like to look at giving the players so many options at how they can do it....
Crytek researched videogame streaming for two years before coming to the same conclusion that I did after a few seconds of watching OnLive: We aren’t ready for a videogame streaming service until broadband gets faster and more reliable. “We had our research in 2005 on this subject but we stopped around 2007 because we had doubts about economics of scale,” Crytek’s CEO Cevat Yerli toldGamesIndustry.biz. “But that was at a time when bandwidth was more expensive....
To celebrate the most candid of holidays and to say “thank you” for over six million downloads, Chillingo the publishers behind leading iOS gameCut the Rope,will be giving owners a Valentines themed update. The update will provideCut the Ropeaddicts with 25 new levels and lots of awesomely sickening romantic imagery, perfect if your addiction for three staring everything has been giving you the itch as of late. For anyone who has yet to cave and downloadCut the Rope, the game is currentlyavailable for the iPhone, iTouch and iPad;Cut the Roperequires the player to puzzle solve the most effective way to get candies into the cute little monsters mouth by cutting a series of ropes and manipulating physics, which is far more addictive than it sounds....
Following Hamza’s appearance on Inside Gamingyesterday, in which our good friend got his drink on, the Voltron-esque collaboration between Machinima and Destructoid continues with another recap of the 2011 Game Developers Conference. In this installment, it’sBattlefield 3,Magicka: Vietnam, and mini-burgers. Savory, miniaturized burgers. I can’t wait for the sequel. Also, the mysterious girl who loves her some free food is mentioned, and then Nick shows up to talk aboutinFamous 2like a boss....
Better late than never, it’s finally here — the Destructoid review forGrand Theft Auto IV. Wanting to give this review our fullest attention, we wanted to make sure we had played enough to feel comfortable in our knowledge of the latestGTAbefore we attempted a review and give you the most honest, unaffected-by-hype review on the Internet. Given the vastness ofGTA IV, you can see how this might take us some time....
I have a hard time hearing female voices. The disability has its advantages, especially when my girlfriend is nagging me about cleaning up the office. (She always says something like “waffle den mellow bison.”) I blame my hearing issue on Trent Reznor and Jimmy Urine. I’ve been in too many crowded, smoky, and most importantly, viciously loud auditoriums because of their amazing vocals and bands. And yeah, this has a point: I have to turn my surround sound system up a bit louder than my neighbors would like....
Over onflickrI found the one on the left fromxleft4deadx, and the one on the right from&y. If that’s not some awesome art then I don’t know what is. Maybe this: Over onTheLastBossI compiled what I thought was the best 25 gamer tattoos of all time, ranging fromZelda, toMetroid, toHalo, toBubble Bubble, to infamousPacmanbutt-crack tattoos and more. Here are my top ten for yuh, but if you crave more check out my site for the runner ups....
From laserdisc to solid state ROM, Digital Leisure has announced that they will be releasingDragon’s Lairfor the Nintendo DS. The 24-year old game (that still looks good today, with its Disney inspired artwork and animation) will ship with a handful of new features, many of which take advantage of the Nintendo DS. The game will be playableeither book-style (dual screen) or top-top (single screen). Digital Leisure is also promising both d-pad and touch screen support, as well as voice recognition, and support for the much ignored Rumble Pak....
