The best pinball machine ever was created, but it never made it to market. Those dicks at Williams HQ told their people to create the next big thing in pinball back in the late 1990s, and a team of pinball pros did just that. We’re talking holograms and explosions and sh*t so cool that they called it the “future of pinball.” Sadly, that machine had no future. You see, the pinball market was going downhill....
Thursday Regulars:YTMND Thursday: Quick, change the channel!Podtoid 56: Monkeys are a satire of humansThe Memory Card .38: Running outside the castle Entertainment:The creepiestSilent Hillcosplay you will ever see News:WithResistance 2, you’ll be playing more and loading lessTwo new Web sites for Japanese horror gamesCall of Duty 4reaches the ’10 million units sold worldwide’ milestoneLollercoaster:Six Flagstheme park videogame announcedSurprise Motorhead track pack available forGuitar Hero IIIFiveGuitar Hero IIIsong packs dropping in JuneUbisoft wants the PSP to not suck, calls for directionPardon us while we laugh: Forbes thinks iPhone can kill the DSNew info onDaigasso Band Brothers DX: Instruments and songs galoreVampire Rain: Altered Speciesofficial site goes liveWolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3hits PSN today, XBLA on June 11Ben Heck teams up with EDimensional to create the one-handed controllerTecmo shares plummet following Itagaki’s departureEA and Crytek announce non-really-sequelCrysis WarheadEA ditches the PS3, opts for Xbox 360/PC version ofRed Alert 3Aero Guitarcomes to Japanese WiiWare, will see a US release later this yearDuke Nukem Foreverfootage revealed on premire ofThe Jace Hall ShowTits or GTFO:Age of Conandevs apologize for shrinking in-game boobsLongGhostbustersscript is longRock Band 2exists, survey reveals cover art and non-infoCapcom releases demo forDevil May Cry 4PCStudent’s Atheism game does more harm than goodGrand Theft Auto IVDLC sorta delayedStreet Fighter IVnot hitting consoles until 2009?...
Mr. Destructoid is in everything these days, including your mom! Destructoid’s timeis running out in the first freeTMS challenge forMs. Splosion Man. The challenge comes to an end on July 31, just a few days from now. The top three times on the Mr. Destructoid challenge will win someMs. Splosion Manand Destructoid goodies like figures, limited edition bobbleheads, posters and shirts. Here are the top five users and times on the leaderboards as of this posting:...
Yes, even Nintendo’s superior technology is not immune to the dreaded freeze. Check out what happened to me and my buddy while playingMaddenon the Wii. It should be noted that if you have your volume all the way up, you may want to turn it down a bit. I saw this happened to someone else and they posted a video, but I think mine is a bit better because you actually see the game frozen and you hear the annoying sound it screams at you for breaking it....
In this case, the gold would be your hard-earned cash, and the hills would be your pocketbook. It looks like maybe South Dakota bureaucrats are looking to get a piece of the online downloadable content cash withHB 1017. Game Politics breaks it down for us: …a tax at the same rate as that imposed upon sales of tangible personal property in this state upon the gross receipts of all sales, leases, or rentals of any product transferred electronically....
I am an irredeemable nerd; I have been since the ill-fated day my mad scientist father combined his own DNA with that of a Quail, resulting in the bastard creation you see before you. My epic nerdery manifests itself in many ways: one being the doling out of unsolicited opinions in regard to videogames, another being a neurotic infatuation with all thingsStar Trek. Combine the two and suddenly you’ll find me amidst the clutter of a toppled desk, my nerdrection being too much for the flimsy legs of aforementioned desk to contend with....
If you had forgotten that Pandemic’sMercenaries 2: World in Flameswas coming to the PlayStation 2, allow these new screens and this trailer to serve as a reminder. While the game certainly doesn’t look as slick as the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions that have been in development since what seems like forever, it does capture theMercenariesfeel. That is to say that lots of things are blowing up in a huge, open world....
Any game that prides itself on how meta it is gets a check in my book. When said game isn’t just being pretentious, but is also deceptively fun to play then it’s full of win. If you’ve checked outThis Is The Only Levelyou know that it is exactly the type of game I just described (if not, go do it because it’s free and Flash). Heck, it’s one ofAnthony’s top indie games he forgot to mention when he was mentioning the best indie games of 2009....
This amazing poster was designed by the one and only Mikey Turvey. Mr. Destrutoid looks at the stars as he sits on a pile of videogame weapons. Before you ask, yes, the “Living the Dream” poster will be going on sale soon. It’s been three weeks since the last community highlights collection so there’s plenty to catch-up on. Flooky is crazy, Mr Dillinger has creepy dreams, we have a lot of artists on Destructoid, Mxyzptlk makes funny videos, Dtoid Baltimore DC is hosting a NARP soon and more happened over the last few weeks....
Relic Entertainment has taken some time off from working on theChaos Risingexpansion forDawn of War IIto give us a holiday card. They even upped the ante by giving us not a simple static image, but a full-blown animated “season’s bleedings” message. you may check it out byclicking here, although those with a heart condition or fear of bulbous flesh demons may want to sit this one out. It’s not as bad as the creature fromClive Barker’s Jericho(Google it … wait, no don’t!...
During THQ’s third quarter fiscal 2011financial report, it made an announcement that shouldn’t come as much of a shock given this morning’s news aboutCompany of Heroes Onlinebeing “evaluated.” The company has “reevaluated its strategy of adapting certain Western content for free-to-play online games in Asian markets.” The end result is, unfortunately, that bothCompany of HeroesOnlineandWWEOnlinehave been canceled. I don’t know anyone who actively playedWWE Online, but there were certainly fans ofCoHO....
For those of you that are skippingPAX Prime this yearand happen to be in Tokyo that same weekend, you’re in luck! Blip Festival Tokyo tickets have just gone on sale! The show takes place on September 4-5 and tickets are priced at $35 for each night. So you need to buy two tickets if you want to go to both nights, which is kind of lame. It’ll probably be worth it depending on your preference on chiptune artists....
Did you ever stick baseball cards into your spokes as a kid? I don’t really remember doing it. I think the times of baseball cards in spokes might have ended by the 80’s once all our parents regretted losing their DiMaggio rookie card in the name of making a cool noise while they rode their bike. Baseball cards are so mid-century anyway, but it’s hard to rep one’s hobby on one’s bike when you’re a gamer....
