[Weekend Destructainment is a collection of funny videos brought together from all across the Internet to bring you entertainment on these slow and boring weekends.] Parodies, music, lamesauce and more await you in this edition of Weekend Destructainment. First after the break is a video showing what aGrand Theft Autogame would be like with The Beatles. Then it’s a music video tribute to games. Next up is aSerious Sam HDsuccess story....
[As originally posted onJapanator] Sun Denshi announced plans to distribute digitized manga through the Japanese WiiWare service starting sometime this summer. No fair! The whole thing kicks off with a new, original manga produced by Reiji Matsumoto, creator ofSpace Battleship Yamato.IGNsays that the company plans on first distributing the manga through the new WiiWare service, then expanding the new property to games, anime, books, pachinko and other media. They have created a new brand called Sunsoft Books for this new type of distribution....
Activision couldn’t just wait a few days until WonderCon, could it? The publisher has gone ahead and announcedSpider-Man: Edge of Timetoday. Developed by Beenox,Edge of Timeputs players into the web-slinging roles of both Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2099. The goal: “correct a timestream gone awry and prevent a catastrophic future brought on by the early and untimely death of Peter Parker.” Sounds serious. The game’s narrative is being penned bySpider-Man 2099co-creator Peter David....
Can’t get enoughWormsaction? Team17 has released a downloadable content pack forWorms 2: Armageddonon Xbox LIVE today called “Battle Pack.” The hefty DLC package features a new “Body Count” mode, a “Horde Mode” forWorms— a single worm battles against never-ending waves of enemies, the goal to stack up the most kills before you meet your inevitable demise. The mode will gets its own leaderboard, so let the trash talking begin. “Battle Pack” also adds 30 new single-player deathmatches, a new “Warzone” theme and ton of new weapons and utilities — termites, ferrets, and more....
Without an official software development kit for Kinect, people have been able to whip up hilarious, often times neatresults. With the Kinect for Windows SDK out in the wild? I think we’re in for a real treat. you’re able to find out more about the SDK — which features are included, what the license entails, etc. — and also download itfrom this page. I could easily see this leading to more inventive uses of the device thanKinect Fun Labsever will, not to completely discredit that initiative....
Infinity Ward’s community manager Robert “fourzertwo” Bowlingjust tweeted a pictureofModern Warfare 2’sretail boxes. According to Bowling, these pups just came off the press and apparently, ‘s–t just got real.’ But wait a second … is that aCall of Dutywe see above theModern Warfare 2logo? We’ve witnessed a lot of waffling from Activision about adding and subtracting theCall of Dutybrand fromModern Warfare. The publisherflat out told usnot long ago that the game would not have theCall of Dutyname attached to it....
LucasArts is looking for some help. Something to do with consoles, they say. One ad mentions that they have “top secret projects in development” and that “experience building and shipping titles on the Xbox360 and PS3” is desired. Right now they have plenty ofwant adsfor positions at their San Francisco offices, looking for everything from environment artists and level designers to graphics and multiplayer engineers. Gearing up for something, looks like....
If there’s one thing I hate more than a militant religious nut, it’s a militant atheist nut. At least crazy fundamentalists have some sort of excuse for their preachy behavior — an overbearing, pushy atheist is simply being an arsehole. I hate it when a bunch of Dr. Dawkins wannabes decide to take things too far and end up no better than the only religious people they should have a problem with (the nutters), which is why I can onlygrimace to findthat so far, it’s just atheists that have found something to complain about with Will Wright’sSpore....
There has beena lot of mediaforShadows of the Damnedlately, but this — this is what I was patiently waiting for all along. It’s a follow-up to the video from a couple months back that gave Suda51 and Shinji Mikamiincredible new voices.
ZeniMax Media, the parent company of publisher Bethesda Software, has announced that it has acquiredArx Fatalisdeveloper Arkane Studios. “We share so many creative values,” says Arkane creative director Raphael Colantonio of other ZeniMax studios id Software and Bethesda Games Studios. “Joining the ZeniMax family will allow us to grow stronger while staying true to the games we love.” Arkane, which has studios in both France and the United States, is currently working on an unannounced title....
Are you sick of me repeatedly expressing an unquenchable desire to playCastlevania: Harmony of Despair? Keep scrolling. Nothing to see here. Are they gone? Good. Because, I just have to say, I want this more than I want to experience the awkward discomfort of meeting Scarlet Johannsson. I want it more than I want to slap Ernest Borgnine. Nothing against Borgnine, whom I’ve always found to be a delight. I just think it would be exceedingly funny and one of those stories which would make me the hit at parties I don’t belong in....
If there’s three things we can all agree on, it’s that playing games is fun, listening to music is cool, and sitting down should be comfortable. With that in mind, Interscope Records and EA Sports have teamed up with Destructoid to give you the chance to play, listen, and sit. Up for grabs for one lucky winner: a copy of EA Sports’NASCAR 09for the Xbox 360; a copy ofInterscope recording artist Rev Theory’snew album,Light It Up; and the comfortableGamerSac gaming chair, courtesy ofLoveSac....
Defense of the Ancientsis an incredibly popular custom scenario forWarcraft III. It’s so big that entire games have been created based on it. Jon St. John is a voice actor most notably recognized as the titular Duke Nukem. The latter is now claiming that he just returned from doing voice work for the former. Here’s thetweet, see what stands out to you. Had a great time in Seattle last week recording for DotA....
