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I thought that my emotions were no longer a working part of me and that my tear ducts and vage had dried up long ago, but apparently there is some humanity left in me after all. Jeff Veasey, or “CJayC” as he is more commonly known, founder of GameFAQs.com, is finally stepping aside. It’s not so much that he’s rich as hell and wants to go live his life that makes me sad, but in the goodbye letter he wrote on the site he talks about the industry leavinghimbehind as he got older and older....

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of The Great Retro Quiz! you may’t see me right now, but I am dressed like a game show host and have a very pretty lady standing next to me gesturing towards the computer monitor as if it was a shiny new car or fancy dishwasher. I am trying to set the mood. As with last week, this quiz is all about games available on the Wii’sVirtual Console....

First off, a huge round of applause is necessary for Mr. Topher Cantler for the awesome new Great Retro Quiz! image shown above. He did an incredible job. I get giddy each and every time I look at it. I can’t thank you enough, Toph. Amazing. In less than 24 hours I will be getting sunburned on thebeachofCancunwith the rest of the Destructoid staff. And what better way to celebrate an exotic tropical vacation than with a quiz all about dolphins?...

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Death usually falls into two categories in videogames. There is categoryone, the more commonly seen of the two, when a main character such as Mario or Samus falls into a pit or depletes his/her health bar and just quickly returns to the last checkpoint to tackle the challenge once again (see: basically every videogame ever created). Then there is categorytwo, in which a character in the game actual diespermanentlybecause the story takes a dramatic and unexpected twist....

Yes! Due to unpopular demand, The Podcastle is bringing back another attempt at a live show, now with extra gadgetry. We are going to go live with the show officially at 6pm Brit Time (roughly 1PM EST) and if you want to listen in, all you have to do is click this link: THE PODCASTLE LIVE II The show will officially start at 6pm. So just enjoy the noise/music/tears of lost souls that play until then....

I mean that in the best possible way, honest! So far, we have seen a few different bosses forLost Planet 2. Even though they’ve all been crazy-huge monsters, they look like they fit into theLost Planetuniverse — at least, what we have seen of it so far. But this new creature? I don’t know where to begin here. It’s like a cross between a brontosaurus and a dilophosaurus (the spitting thing fromJurassic Park); a winning combination if I’ve ever seen one....

In a news release that has the Internet shaking, Rockstar Games showed off their … huh? What? What do mean the other one? Oh, right, okay. Hrmm, Hrmm… In a news release that has the Internet making a sandwich, THQ announced that the sequel to their surprisingly high selling franchiseSaints Rowwill be arriving on the PS3 and the Xbox 360 next year. AGOURA HILLS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 15, 2025–THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced the next title in the award-winningSaints Row(TM) franchise is currently in development at internal studio Volition, Inc....

A newViva Piñata? Yes, the word has been floating around, but THQ nailed it for us today with an official announcement: the game will be calledViva Piñata: Pocket Paradiseand will come to the Nintendo DS this fall. Gardening on the go, huh? I would have laughed at that idea a few years ago, but that was beforeViva Piñatasank its addictive claws into thousands of Xbox 360 owners across the globe…...

TheBack to the Futureairboard-ishTony Hawk Rideperipheral may only support one game now, but more games are planned for the device. Robomodo president Joshua Tsui (who we interviewed earlier this month) said that their board should be seen as its own platform: It’s really important to us that when people buy this package that they understand that, right now we’re concentrating onTony Hawk Ride, but we want to make sure that people have a good return on their investment so there are many games that are planned for this peripheral,” said Tsui....

Those crazy cats at RedLynx didwhat? Yep, they put their PC gameTrialsup on torrent Web sites. But before you start calling the closest mental institution, hear the plan out. “Piracy is here, so how can we take advantage of that? What we did actually, on day one, we put that game immediately on all the torrent networks ourselves,” said RedLynx CEO Tero Virtaladuring Develop Liverpool. “That game relies really heavily on the server side — the leaderboards are the soul of the game....

The Wii may be winning the war, but it appears that they aren’t the only ones who are struggling to keep up with consumer demand– just ask Microsoft’s head of global marketing, Jeff Bell: “We’re literally out of stock in many stores. We think this will have an impact on our sales. It may cause the overall industry number to be down a little bit. Retailers have been really upset– they are on allocation....

Earlier this afternoon, Nick Chester and I gave theArmy of Two: the 40th Daydemo a spin. We didn’t finish it — two deaths, the lack of guitar support, and the constant wrangling with the cover mechanic combined to frustrate us enough to quit. But the experience wasn’t without its share of laughs. At one point during the demo we found ourselves stuck in an elevator. Nick asked me, “What, is thisMass Effector something?...

The death of William Birkin fromResident Evil 2. Totally random submission to GameVideos for the win! Sorry, this may be old, but it’s TnA! Summoner characters play D&D. The game pretty much sucked but this sketch is hilarious. Heavy.com has a new game show called Game Slap. You’ll feel like you’ve been slapped after watching it.Random Robot Intermission: The Transformers Rap. Thanks Demi!