It take some time to speak to Jake Diggennaro about the upcoming squeal from Polish development team Reality Pump,Two Worlds II. The small team of less then 35 people have taken their time bringing us a new high fantasy RPG much along the same vein asThe Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The game brings us some new features with open role classes and a deep magical system that allows the player to manipulate spells....
You know Hip Tanaka, right? He’s Nintendo’s other musical badass. He’s responsible for the music fromMetroid,Earthbound, and so much more. I love hisSuper Mario Landscore. Anyway, he’s a major player, right? He makes a perfect guest for the Tokyo installment of Blip Fest, the now international chip tune concert. Set to go down on September 4th and 5th at Koenji High in Tokyo, you may also expect to see YMCK (awesome!...
Let’s say your headed to MAGFest (because you’re a totally amazing person). Where will all the cool kids (Destructoid people) be at? Well, if you check out thehandy, not-so-final schedulefor MAGFest’s events right here it should totally help you out. Hover over any of the events and you’ll get a description. But there’s a whole ton of crap to do on that schedule. Thankfully, we’ve pulled some of the more interesting Destructoid events out for you to peruse....
[Editor’s note:naia-the-gamertakes a look at a genre that is very near and dear to her heart. Read on to see how Naia would change the JRPG genre as part ofMay’s Monthly Musings. — CTZ] This is hard for me. This editorial means that I am willing to admit it. It’s like admitting your children have flaws. However, this is necessary to write down and admit it: JRPGs need help. I love them dearly, and my fondest memories as a gamer stem from JRPGs of yore....
At this point, we know very little aboutDead Rising 2outside of the fact that it’s in development for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Capcom’s Keiji Inafune, on the other hand, knows a lot. And he should — he’s produced the original title, and is working alongside North American developer Blue Castle Games to bringDead Rising 2to life. In a recent discussion on theBionic Commando podcast“Top Secret,” Inafune gave up a few bits of information about the upcoming title....
I have to admit — I heard aboutDear EstherfromRockPaperShotgun, and their writeup is probably superior to whatever it is I’m about to blather on about regarding this moodyHalf-Life 2mod. Dear Estheris an incredibly slow-paced mod with no combat whatsoever and an emphasis on atmosphere over scripted narrative. It’s subtle,unapologetic, and gets subtly goddamn unnerving near the end. If you’ve got the time — and more importantly, the patience to deal with your character’s agonizingly slow walking speed — there’s really not much else like it....
A group of industry veterans have started up a new free-to-play development studio, Rumble. The team consists of developers and executives from a variety of big name developers like Activision, BioWare, Blizzard, EA and Zynga among several others. It plans to develop accessible AAA action games for portable devices and PC via browsers and Facebook. Rumble certainly has plenty of experience to go on, both in making AAA games and in the free-to-play market....
While those of us with laptops who couldn’t process their way out of a simple algebraic equation are playingLeft 4 Dead 2on their 360, there is definitely a large chunk of gamers out there who rock zombie killing on the PC. However, like most PC games (and console games for that matter) the final build ofL4D2landed with some glitches. To fix this issue Valve hasreleased a patchfor the gamevia Steam....
Instead the show goes with the ever depressing move of using a season as a release window by saying “The Passing” will be released in spring. On a more exciting note, the broadcast does reveal that the DLC will cost 560 Microsoft Points, and reconfirms all thecool new contentwe already told you about. There you have it. No golf clubs or Witch Brides until April or even May. Delayed zombie killing is sad....
Letters to an Absent Fatheris a brilliant and oh-so-adorable set of comic strips aboutPokemon. More specifically, the strips are all about Ash Ketchum and his ever-mysterious dad. Since Ash’s father figure (or lack thereof) is never mentioned in any official, significant capacity — at least to my knowledge — creator Maré Odomo was really able to go all out with his vision. As of just recently, he began selling aLetters to an Absent Fathermini-comic....
There are a lot of reasons to hope for a zombie apocalypse; paper money would lose its worth, no one would have to go to work, and if a few of your least favorite friends get zombified, then you’d have a guilt-free excuse to bonk them on the head with a sledgehammer. Those are some of the usual zombie fantasies. You’ll notice that “everyone will be cuter” is not amongst them....
[Editor’s Note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now on ourcommunity blogs.] Noted fiction writer and feminist Angela Carter is credited with saying that“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people”....
Children at Vail Christian High School near Eagle in Colorado are currently being taught how to drive safely, and how not to use a cellphone while getting from A to B. Of course, because most people can’t be taughtanythingproperly, the school is using quite a unique method of getting the message across — they’re making kids playMario Kart Wii. The school’s “Distracted and Drowsy Driving Project” charges students with the task of winning a game ofMario Kartwhile attempting to use a cellphone....
