I saw The OneUps perform live today down at Microsoft’s campus and it was a blast. TheOneUps are one of the best videogame cover bands around and you need to experience their stuff live. The Videogame Show What I’ve Done has returned, Activision registered a bunch of new domains forCall of Duty, Treyarch got some advisement from the military on their next war game and more happened over the weekend....
Exciting news day, ain’t it? Every August, a sandcastle and sculpture contest is held at Clam Harbour Beach in Nova Scotia, Canada. This year, one team decided to mold the entire range of Nintendo’s home console controllers, super-sized. Chill on this Sunday afternoon with these summer gallery photos.
Dengeki Playstation 3 magazine printed a huge interview in their most recent issue with several key team members on theFinal Fantasy XIIIproject, including character designer Tetsuya Nomura, director Motomu Toriyama and producer Kitase Yoshinori. he translation of the full interview can be readhere, but I’ll highlight the key points for you so you still have plenty of time to read all the April Fool’s goodness that the net has to offer today....
Sega’s zombie typing lessonTyping of the Deadwas already odd, but this newest resurrection of the franchise is downright bizarre as it now relates to job hunting. In Japan, a job placement site called Minna no Shuushoku Katsudou Nikki has teamed up with Sega for a new PC version ofTyping of the Dead. This version uses words supplied by members of Rakuten’s job site, and all 3,000 of the words relate to job hunting and placement....
The UK Charts should provide absolutely no surprise this week, withWii Sports Resortdominating proceedings, backed up by absolutelynothingthat we haven’t already seen. Nintendo’s latest cash cow is followed byWii Fit, and from there it’s your usual dose of sports games, licensed games and shooters. I wish I had more to say, but this week’s chart speaks for itself, really. Hit the jump for the usual dreary outlook.
[photo credits:fixelexif] On October 4th, our good friends over atiPlayWinnerandSouthtown Arcadeteamed up with Capcom to stream an “invite-only” NorCalUltimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3tournament. Many of the top players from the Bay Area gathered at San Francisco’s premiere arcade to not only compete for prizes donated by Madcatz but also get their hands on the latest build of Capcom’s other upcoming fighter,Street Fighter X Tekken. After many great matches showcasing the power of Nemesis’ one-frame Level 3 grab, how annoying Ghost Rider’s jumping S can be, and some brilliant uses of Virgil’s Level 1Ouroburos in combos, coL....
Let’s integrate Twitter into our videogames! Seems like a good idea, especially with the social network’s extreme popularity, but attempts to inject Twitter intoUncharted 2: AmongThieveshave not exactly gone swimmingly. In fact, the feature has annoyed the piss out of people already, and the game’s not even been released yet. A number of reviewers have been enjoying early access to the game and turned on the Twitter feature. Soon their Twitter accounts were updating regularly to let a jealous world know about each completed chapter....
Here’s another Xbox Live Indie Game which is coming soon.Urban Space Squirrelshas you playing a super-powered squirrel armed with bombs. It was created by a group of students at the University of Utah. It looks like a frantic platformer, something I am always down for. I’m also particularly fond of the art style. Everything looks so clean and sleek, kind of like a squirrel in a videogame. That’s as opposed to real squirrels, which are filthy, disgusting creatures which should be wiped from the face of the Earth....
If you’re into the idea of either (A) meeting Adam Sessler or (B) winning a thousand dollars by luck alone, then you may want to vote for the winner of Gamestop and G4’sIndie Game Challenge. The best game nets its developers $100k, and one voter will be randomly given a Sessler-guided tour of the G4 studios along with a thousand bucks of spending cash. The nominees themselves are something of a mixed bag: many are great, a few aren’t, and some don’t even have playable demos (I guess you’re supposed to vote for them based on how cool their trailers are)....
TOOOOOOAAAASSSSSSSTTTTTTTT! Are you ready? It’s time for some Destructainment! The videos continue on after the break with sister site Tomopop invadingLittleBigPlanet. Then it’s the very fun lookingHalo 3Spin Cycle map. Next up is a brand new music video from Freezepop guest starring Destructoid’s Jonathan Holmes. Then watch as two guys break some videogame consoles. Next up is the greatest videogame commercial every made. After that we have Playboy’s Grace Kim playing someGuitar Hero....
Ocassionally, I walk into the local arcade here in Syracuse, just to check out what they’ve got in there. From time to time I come across some things that make me do a double take at what I’m seeing. Usually it’s nothing too obvious — it’s something you have to see someone doing in order to really even notice that anything is off. So, this week’s Weekend Reading is dedicated to some of the oddities that I, or the rest of the staff, have encountered in our visits to the arcades....
Japan’s software sales numbers for the week of October 13-19 say that Nintendo’s Wii Music sold 92,000 copies in its first week in Japan. Did you see that coming? It even passed up the relatively hotPokémon Platinum, which has already racked up 1.75 million sales in Japan. New titles likeYuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida Or 2,Kidou Senshi Gundam 00: Gundam Meisters, andCuldcept DSall rank in the top 10 this week, but they’re no match for the mighty casual Wii title....
Those of you not living in the tremendous shadow ofHarry Knowlesmay not be aware of this, but the Writers Guild of America — the union containing almost every film and television writer in Hollywood — is on strike. Since it appears the studio execs are comfortable running reality TV and living off of their wealth during the strike, and the public outcry has been basically non-existent, the writers have been looking for new ways to supplement their now missing income, and gaming is apparently being seen as a viable alternative....
