Posts

Joining Sony and Oculus As concerns heightendue to the expansion of the coronavirus, yet another outfit has pulled out of another major trade show. While Sony and Oculus (Facebook)have already announced their intentions of skipping GDC, Kojima Productions has revealed that it too will be missing the event. The message is fairly brief, but notes: “Kojima Productions has made the difficult decision to cancel our participation at the 2020 Game Developers Conference due to increasing concerns related to coronavirus....

‘It was a joke’ Hold the phone! After word got out fromZeldaproducer Eiji Aonuma thatthe star of the E3 videomightnot be malein next year’s Wii U game, the internet was set ablaze with rumors and speculation. All of that comes to an end though with this final confirmation from Aonuma — that comment was made in jest. MMGN had a chanceto chat with the man himself, who noted that, “actually, [I made that comment] jokingly....

Dragon’s Lair, Dragon’s Lair 2: Time Warp, and Space Ace [Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch Rick ‘King Foom’ Olson play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as much a part of the show as anything else.] Ever since I was young, I have always been absolutely amazed, and entranced by the awesome animation of Don Bluth....

One of my methods of preliminary research for my kusoge column–my dumpster scouting, if you will–involves searching through old forum threads of people describing bad games they played. You kind of have to sift through the obvious mentions ofToo Humanand the philistines who say something likeKing’s Field, but sometimes I come across something I’ve never heard of, and I go into it largely sight-unseen. A brief synopsis, the claim that it’s terrible, and bonus points if someone says “for some reason....

With less than three weeks left until its release,Borderlands 2had by far the most popular booth at PAX this year. After giving media and fans a chance to go hands-on with one of the arena side quests, I grabbed the game’s producer, Matt Charles, to ask him about the epic side bosses we can expect, Gearbox’s plans for DLC, and his thoughts on that whole ‘girlfriend tree’ thing. “There is no such thing as a girlfriend tree,” Charles says....

It’s all super speculative at this point Back in May when Microsoft first announced the Xbox One, it also promised to bring a fair number ofexclusives and new IPsto the platform. While there’s some stuff currently available and more in the pipeline, a title just popped up that will likely be yet another new property. A trademark was filed by Microsoft with theUSPTOin late December for the mark “Throne Together.” All we know about this term thus far is that it has been classified as game software....

LEIPZIG(August 19th, 2008) – SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc. today announcedThe House of the Dead: OVERKILL, an all-newpulp-horror reinvention of the classic SEGA light-gun shooter franchise. Created by London-based studio Headstrong Games,The House of the Dead: OVERKILLwill take you right back to the beginning of this classic horror series. Available exclusively on the Nintendo Wii early in 2009 and announced to coincide with Games Convention at Leipzig,The House of the Dead: OVERKILLwill be presented live by developer Headstrong Games for specially invited members of the press in SEGA’s business centre suite....

Challenging new pre-sequel announced for 2015 release Renegade Kid has announced a new project,Mutant Mudds Super Challenge. According to studio co-founder Jools Watsham, the upcoming Wii U and Nintendo 3DS platformer isn’t so much a direct sequel as it is a “stepping stone” to an eventualMutant Mudds 2. The experience is targeted at players who mastered the original game, hence the name. The studio is also developing aDementium: The Wardremaster, retro platformerTreasurenauts, and plans to release the three remaining episodes ofMoon Chronicleson 3DS next week....

Borderlands 2 bundle The new PlayStation Vita will be launched this spring, coming in aBorderlands 2bundle. This was confirmed today at a PlayStation media event in Santa Monica. It will include the game with six DLC packs (Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty,Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage, Psycho Character Class, Mechromancer Character Class, Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 1 and the Collector’s Edition Pack.), an 8GB PS Vita memory card, and will all retail for $199....

[New releases is your weekly look at all the hot new titles coming out this week.] Looks like this week belongs to Nintendo with the much anticipatedDisney Epic Mickeyand the sequel to the belovedGolden Sunseries. As for the other consoles, you may want to givenail’da spin. X360:Who’s That Flying?! One More Go!,Deadliest Catch: Sea of Chaos,nail’d XBLA:Unbound Saga PS3:Dora’s Big Birthday Adventure,Dead Nation,Deadliest Catch: Sea of Chaos,nail’dWii:Sniper Elite, Hello Kitty Seasons, Deadliest Catch: Sea of Chaos,Disney Epic Mickey,nail’d...

Seems like a good time to get in on the action This week, Uber Entertainment added single-player to its in-development real-time strategy gamePlanetary Annihilation, which was Kickstarted in 2012 and has been doing its thing as an early-access release for a while now. Good feature to have, if you ask me! The new mode, Galactic War, starts you off with a scaled-back tech tree which you’ll be able to expand as you make progress across the galaxy, fighting against AI commanders in procedurally generated systems....

It’s been a really exciting week for us in terms of cool stuff created by community members (Did you guys catch thisanimated Podtoid clip?)Retronatoris a Destructoid community member and is one of those guys who makes incredible ornate and detailed isometric pixel-art landscapes that give me a radical headache. For some reason, he decided to include me, Tara Long, and our emerald mechanical overlord Mr. Destructoid into his latest poster. Check out the video!...

When Worlds Collide Every once in a while a game comes along that reaches gargantuan hype levels that are relatively unsustainable.No Man’s Skyhit that peak several years ago, in no small part due to Sony’s marketing. I often talk about the exact moment when I get to actually play something like this. A moment where the game is downloaded, in-hand, and ready to go. I get to see how it measures up for myself, devoid of the marketing machine and loud voices trying to sway my opinion....