Valve’s head honcho Gabe Newell isn’t exactly the biggest fan of DRM. In a recent correspondence with aconcerned customer, Newell called modern DRM protection strategies “dumb” and opined that the goal of the developer shouldn’t be to restrict, but rather make games more available to the consumer. Without saying it, Newell expressed that Steam (go figure) is one of the best methods of both protecting and ensuring playability with consumers....
Get Kinect-ed! Hey, that was Walmart’s words, not mine. They’ve already set upa dedicated page for Microsoft’s motion-sensing product at Walmart.com. You can go there to learn about the tech as well as pre-order it. They have the pre-order set at $199, but note that your order comes with your choice of one game and a $30 Walmart.com gift card. On the free game, you’ll choose from: It seems that other Kinect games will be added to this list....
Do you know Snowblind Studios? Sure you do. They’re the makers of some big role-playing titles likeBaldur’s Gate: DarkAlliance,Champions of NorrathandJustice League Heroes. As of today, these guys are working for Warner Bros. In a move to become a bigger player in the games market, WB’s Home Entertainment Group picked up the studio, set to join TT Games (LEGO Batman) and Monolith Productions (F.E.A.R. 2) under the Warner Bros. umbrella-ella-ella....
[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.] Street Fighter: Legacyis a very short, yet very awesome fan madeStreet Fighterfilm. The production quality is top notch and marks a recent trend where fan film movies are being produced with such high quality. Make sure you watch this in full HD. Spotted onCollider. First up after the break is some bloopers from theMonster Hunter Triad campaign....
Weekend Destructainment is GO! After the break, watch a group of guys as they try to play together on Xbox Live. Then check out the augmented reality demo showing off the skeletons of the top 100 Spore creatures. Next, a laser cutter plays theSuper Mario Bros.theme. Then check out the very accurate recreation ofResident Evil5’s versus mode gameplay. Next up, check out what happens when supers are used at the same time inStreet Fighter IV....
Are you ready to take a ride on Space Mountain? Whoo! Yes, legendary wrestler Ric Flair will be among the cast for the live action scenes in the upcomingCommand & Conquer Red Alert 3expansion pack,Uprising. Flair will be joined by Jamie Chung, Malcolm McDowell, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, and Holly Vance for the upcoming expansion which is set to ship this March. Gemma Atkison and Ivana Milicevic will both me making a return as well, for those looking for boobs that are not Ric Flair’s....
It’s the 20th anniversary of the release of the Super Nintendo! To celebrate, Destructoid is offering a week’s worth of SNES-related content. Join us for “Seven days of the Super Nintendo!“ I will never forget the moment. I was a kid. A new issue of Nintendo Power had just come in the mail. Like always, I hurriedly opened it as quickly as possible to see all the exciting content waiting for me inside....
Hamza recently told us that thepoopy-lookingHouse of the Dead 2 & 3combo is comingto the Nintendo Wii, and now we see that this remake will be sold at a fair asking price. Sega knows that you can only ask so much for an old game, and if it happens to be a poopy-looking Wii port, then full price is out of the question.According to EB Games, this title, calledHouse of the Dead 2 & 3 Return,will sell for a non-poopy $30....
Nintendo has just announced a price drop for the Wii. Wow, what asurprise! America gets the price drop first on September 27 followed by Japan on October 1. The system will now sell for $199 in America and 20,000 Yen in Japan. The system will still come with everything that was included at the $250 price point, includingWii Sports. Europe appears to havebeen screwedso far, as the price went up and then back down....
When I first glanced at this piece of gaming news, my eyes nearly bugged out of my head. Once I dug a little deeper to find the source of the article, I had to stifle the urge to laugh.I’m still thinking that this newly christened website is going anti-360 as a joke of sorts, but I’m grabbing this just for kicks. Hey, it could’ve happened, right? Anyway, you know you’ve reached an all-time low, when potentially fake websites sound off and refuse to do business with you, due to quality concerns:...
Our very ownTopher lovedYuke’s Nintendo DS puzzle gameNEVES, saying that “it’s like having a huge roll of bubblewrap to pop, only it won’t drive everyone around you crazy.” Then he scored it an eight out of 10. Children’s Technology Review, “a leading professional source of unbaised reviews of interactive technology for children,” agree and have given them game an “Editor’s Choice Award.” Fancy. Additionally, Yukes has announced that the game will be receiving a price drop, and is now available for a very reasonable $19....
Last weekit was rumoredthatBioShock 2‘s “Sinclair Solutions” DLC pack was not DLC at all, merely being a key that unlocked content already on the disc. 2K has since confirmed that this is the case, and has justified itself by saying it didn’t want to split the user base. Wait, what? “The way our engine and game structure works is that people need to have the exact same content for people to play together,” wheedles 2K....
Fanboys: they walk amongst us. They’re in our schools. At the workplace. Even atyour neighborhood grocery. In fact, odds are that someone you know might be a fanboy — a friend or family member. They are amongst you! Panic! Suspicion! Neighbors spying upon neighbors! Secret meetings in undisclosed locations!Dogs and cats, living together! If you haven’t already guessed, I think both sides of the fence are acting a bit silly — the die-hard lovers and the die-hard haters, all of you....
