Patapon 3is coming and with it is coming 8-player online multiplayer co-op. How’s it going to work? Will it be good? Will you want to play it? These questions can only be answered by our crack team of investigative reporters who will go through anything to get their hands on the game early. No other way to find… What?There’s a demo coming this Tuesday? Oh, well then. I guess our crack team will take the week off or something....
It’s looking like a golden year for platformers on the Wii.Sonic Colors,Kirby’s Epic Yarn,Donkey Kong Country ReturnsandEpic Mickeyare all to come, and with such an excellent roster of games, it would be easy to forget this humble little offering from HudsonSoft —Lost in Shadow. You’d be wise to make a note of this title though, as my time spent with it at its tiny little PAX Prime booth was more than enough to convince me that it could be something very special....
Nyko, the been there done that before company, has proudly released thePlayStation 3’sversion of the ever so popular Intercooler. While recently garnering a decent review over atIGN, it’s just a bit concerning that they once again decided that the pass through power connector thatmeltedmany anXbox 360and voided a few warranties in the process, was the way to go. From their own product page: Keep your console running at optimal conditions with the Intercooler for PlayStation 3....
The concept of “Ladies Who Lunch” somehow got a whole lot less boring last night at the The Carlyle hotel in New York as a tea party was held to celebrate the release ofProfessor Layton and the Diabolical Box. Good old Nintendo with their determination to capture the “new” demographic! If these pictures were in fact not staged and these ladies are indeed having fun, the delicious disease of Dr. Layton may well have been spread to your mom, sister-in-law or next door neighbor already....
I’ve been playingPrototypefor quite some time in preparation for our official Destructoid review, and I’ve been having quite a bit of fun (amidst frustration) so far. It’s a crazy game, and antihero Alex Mercer is a blast to play with. Now we can play with him just a little bit more, with the very firstPrototypeaction figurefrom NECA. The figure portrays Mercer with his shape-shifting blade arm that he acquires a few hours into the main story....
No matter how many times you slap Milo in his stupid little kid’s face, your action will always be tenth of a second off. His recoil from the sweet, sweet deliverance of pain will be just as off sync. In a recent demo of the motion-capture software and hardware,MTV Multiplayertimed the movement-to-screen response. In over 40 movements, across five demos, the Web site has reported a tenth of a second as the average delay....
Every once in a while, two things that make no sense will fall into my lap, causing me to drool a little and wonder what to make of it all. In this case, its a product-specific videogame and breakdancing — afterYarisI’m pretty wary of any game that’s merely a marketing vehicle for a product, but then, it’s also about BREAKDANCING. I have to admit, I’m flummoxed – do I buy this game or run screaming?...
Every Thursday (or thereabouts), “Reverend” Anthony Burch monologues about games and gaming culture for a segment we call “Rev Rants.” However inadvertently, a lot of my rants end up addressing the idea of games as a uniquely expressive art form. There is — and I don’t have to qualify the following statement, because that’s why God invented hyperbole — effectively no one on the Internet who truly believes that games are not an art form, even if we’re just talking about the art of entertaining people....
My name is Chad. And I love dolphins. Because of this love — nay,obsession— our illustrious Mr. Sterling was generous enough to allow me to take a shot at reviewingEndless Ocean: Blue Worldfor the Wii, the ocean-exploring, marine life-interacting sequel to the originalEndless Oceanthat came out two years ago (which I was also lucky enough toreview). While I definitely enjoyedEndless Ocean, two things really bothered me (enough to award the game a just-above-average5....
You may be old school enough to have played the originalDragon WarriorandFinal Fantasytitles, but are you down with the vintage Falcom? If you are one of the proud geeks, you’ll know aboutYs, the action-RPG series that missed the mainstream in the U.S. If you’re a fan, or you want to learn about the series’ roots, you’ll be glad to hear that Gamestop has leaked that Atlus is bringing remakes of these titles to the DS....
Despitepissy complaintsabout the violence of upcoming Platinum Games titleMadWorld, the game still comes out on top as one of the most unique interactive experiences I’ve seen this year, and even a triple X rating couldn’t keep me away from it (if that doesn’t exist as a viable rating for a game yet, it should, along with the rating equivalent of “it may make you sh*t yourself with delight”). It;s hard to say if Sega is concerned with how the game will sell based on their commentary, but we did find out that they are working closely with the ratings board to ensure it is rated accurately....
Due to a massive amount of cheating, Sega has completely reset the Xbox 360 leaderboards forSonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1. The cheating was dismayingly widespread as gamers kept popping up with logically impossible scores. People were clearing stages with a 0″00″00 time and a 99999990 score. Seriously, if you’re going to cheat like a sad c*nt, you should atleastmake it believable. This is like when an underachieving child suddenly claims to get an A+....
Before there wasHalo: Reach. Before there wasModern Warfare 2. Before there was any major console first- person shooter, there wasGoldenEye 64. The classic Rare game was arguably the one that started the whole craze of FPS games for the consoles, and to this day, I can still playGoldenEye 64and still enjoy it. The latest CollegeHumor skit tackles the classic shooter and nails some of those moments EVERYONE experienced. Especially in regards to Oddjob....
