Sacred 2: Fallen Angelis finally out, and you can stop rocking out to those Blind Guardian tracks and do it in the real game. Or, you could whip out this insane guitar at your next party and play some incredibly wicked song and make girls melt into their own panties. Makes you kind of sound like a badass, doesn’t it? Fortunately, Destructoid can give you a chance to do just that....
PostponingAlpha Protocolmight not have been the best move. It will exist in the same space asMass Effect 2, a spectacular title that combined sharp shooting and core RPG mechanics into one tight, narrative-driven package. The last time we checked onAlpha Protocol, we heard something similar being promised. Alas, it’s been a long time since we’ve played the espionage RPG. But at least we have rather fresh-smelling footage to soothe some of our fears....
PrimeSenseare the folks behind Kinect’s motion sensing technology. They’ve just releleased open-source drivers for the peripheral, reportsDevelop. The team had planned on releasing these drivers at a later date, but they decided to put the rush on them in light of the successes of Kinect hacking community OpenKinect. This gives access to the sensors in Kinect as well as provides an API for writing apps. Here’s the question: Is Microsoft going to be cool with all of this?...
My first encounter with Koji Igarashi was at E For All in 2007. Dale North and myself were at the Konami booth trying to control ourselves from buying everySilent Hillshirt available to us, and I looked up and saw a Japanese man wearing a leather hat and rocking that kind of style that tends to leave Westerns baffled. He also happened to be standing next to Akira Yamaoka, the composer for all theSilent Hillgames, and I’ll be honest: between the two of them, I was a little starstruck....
Sound nerds such as our own beloved Dale North can tell you that the KorgDS-10is possibly the coolest thing to hit the DS, well, ever. Of course, if you like to shoot stuff it certainly won’t be your cup of tea, but if you already have a houseful of keyboards and instruments, you know this seriously rocks. Get ready to rock harder, because the Korg DS-10 has earned it’s own event: TheKorg DS-10 Expo....
Kotobukiya is releasing two PVC action figures based on a couple of mechs fromLost Planet 2. These are the first action figures ever made based on the game and they’ll be going for $39.99 each. The figures are five and a half inches tall, feature 20 points of articulation and will have interchangeable weapons too. The figures will be out sometime in May, the same monthLost Planet 2will be released in America, Europe and Japan....
Hey, you guys remember PlayStation Home, the virtual community-based PlayStation Network service that is going to revolutionize the way we interact with games and one another? Yeah, it’s been pretty quiet on that front since the launch was delayed until Spring 2008, but never fear — it’s still coming along. The beta (which most of us, including myself, aren’t participating in) has just been updated with some new, uh, functionality in the form of build 0....
When I first met up with Lukas “3r0t1c n3rd” Cerin — a sterling chap in case you don’t know him, and a thoroughly dedicated member of the Dtoid army — on Wednesday night, he told me of a story he’d heard that there were going to be new Dreamcast games at the GC. I found myself doubtful, but I just couldn’t quieten the little voice at the back of my head that was whooping and flipping somersaults....
LittleBigPlanetdeveloper Media Molecule is trying to getthe word outthat there’s now a wiki for the creatively demanding platformer series. Whatever makes buildingZeldadungeonseasier is fine by me. The wiki will be run by the community, and the hope is thatLBP‘s top creators will share their ingenious methods. If my long-run addiction to catching ’em all has taught me anything, it’s that documentation is a gamer’s best friend. This should prove to be incredibly useful forLBPplayers....
It seems thatLittleBigPlanetbillboards are springing up across America, but you’ll have to look down instead of up to see one. TheseLittleBigPlanetbillboards are, well… little. According toKotaku, this luckyeBayerwalked outside his work building to find a little billboard planted in the grass. He eventually ended up taking it for himself, saving it from being trashed. After doing a bit of research, this guy found that more of these were planted elsewhere in the US, his being numbered 99 out of 1000....
Time to get a little digital carnage on. We’re playingTron: EvolutiononBacklog, the continuing quest to rid my shelves of unfinished games, which is a delightful romp some two hours in. The platforming sequences where you make your way from one building to the next in the Grid I find particularly enjoyable, though I’ll admit that it occasionally feels like a bit of a fight keeping Anon moving in the right direction....
[Backlogis the ongoing quest to ridConrad Zimmerman’scollection of unfinished games. As voted on by the Destructoid community, Conrad plays each game from start to finish live onDestructoid’s Justin.tv channelevery weeknight at 8pm Pacific] In American history, today marks the signing of our Declaration of Independence from Britain. ButPikmin 2takes us back to a simpler time, before we decided that liberty was something for all people and not just the white ones who own land....
Activision has announced today that they’ll be collaborating with peripheral maker Logitech to develop “premium instruments” that will be compatible with the upcomingGuitar Hero World Tour. No peripheral details were given, but given thatWorld Touris a multi-instrument affair, it’s likely we’ll see guitar, drum, and microphone designs come from the Logitech camp. Instruments will be offered for all of the platforms that World Tour will grace (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii), and will offer the advanced functionality for World Tour’s “advanced feature set....
