In the past 24 hoursit seems thatWorld of Warcraft has been having a few hiccups. Hiccups as in players can’t log in to play and now that some of them can their characters aren’t there anymore. TheWoWforumsare full of complaints from people who can’t get past the authentication screen and a fix doesn’t seem to have occurred yet. It’s sad, but I’m pretty sure if this goes on for too long a nation wide riot will start....
Excuse the lame use of “wowza,” but my brain is mush right now — you’ll understand as soon as you watch this 4-minute gameplay trailer forRed Dead Redemption. If you haven’t been paying much attention to this open-world game from Rockstar, now is the ideal time to remedy the situation. There’s such an information overload present in the video, I can hardly decide what to talk about. I think what’s most exciting to me is how we’ll have the choice to be a real saint or bastard in this great western setting....
Surprisingly enough, this is going to be a happening week on the Xbox 360 downloadable game front. I say that because A) next month is theBlock Partyshindig and B) usually when they lump three separate LIVE Arcade games together, the end result is less than stellar. This Wednesday will see the following releases: Beyond the new games, there’s something else to be on the lookout for:Duke Nukem 3D. During this week only, it’s going for half price — 400 MS Points....
Forgive me Niero for saying this, but … there is only one thing I hate about writing for Destructoid and that is the fact that I am the one and only writer fromCanada. It’s incredibly lonely up here when I have no one to hang out with from the blogging world. Do you know I have to pin down random strangers at work just so I can talk about things likeBioShockandHeroes of Mana?...
I’ve been thinking a lot about Nintendo, and their long history of introducing a new controller, peripheral, or other device, only to completely abandon it a few months later. They’ve been doing this since the NES days, when the R.O.B. and the NES Zapper hit the scene in a big way at launch and were barely utilized for anything new after that. To hear that Nintendo once considered integrating the Zapper intoLegend of Zelda‘s gameplay gives me some faith that they don’t always intend to go about things that way....
When you’ve been a naughty little bastard and find yourself punished with a videogame ban, what’s the appropriate response? Suck it up and do your time, or commit matricide? If you go with the former, you’re not 16-year-old Kendall Anderson. The boy had his PlayStation system confiscated as punishment for an undisclosed trespass and got into an argument with his mother, Rashida. He did what any ordinary lunatic would do and resolved to kill her in her sleep with a hammer....
If you caught the live stream of the3DS Press Conferenceand ignored the trailer forMario Kart 7because you thought it was the same old Mario Kart you’ve come to love, well, there’s been a change. You will now be able to choose to play in an optional first-person perspective that will be played using the gyroscope sensor. Aesthetically, it looks really nice with the wheel and front of the kart as part of the view....
Welcome, my friends, to the second part of Destructoid’songoing field guideto the anthropology of the various modern gamer sub-species. Before we go on with this week’s study, I must confess that only one of the two breeds I had planned to detail in this chapter has actually made it in. However, this is purely down to the fact that upon starting, I found that said strain provided me with more material than I had originally banked upon, and so a cut had to be made in the interests of brevity....
Less than two full days have passed sinceSony announced via the PlayStation.Blogthat PlayStation Cards were being sent to stores “as we speak,” and already, they’ve been spotted in the wild. A PS3 Fanboy readersnapped a photoof a rack in a Georgia gas station, of all places, that was selling a number of preloaded cards of the $50 variety. The original PlayStation.Blog post also mentioned a general “spring” launch date for the prepaid cards....
Quirky Japanese dev Acquire, responsible for the likes ofWay of the Samuraiand the decent portions ofTenchu, has just revealed its newest PlayStation Portable game:Akiba’s Trip.It had been teasing the game earlier with mysterious pictures of boxer shorts lying around Tokyo’s Akihabara district. Its actual premise seems to have little to do with blue-and-white-striped men’s underwear. Players are cast in the role of a student caught up in the fight against vampires (!...
Back in May, when we came out and asked, Activision had told us that that the name of Infinity Ward’s sequel toCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfarewas simply calledModern Warfare 2. So when Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowlingshowed the world the game’s final box art, we book note that it very clearly wore the words “Call of Duty.” So what’s up, Activision? “Infinity Ward’sModern Warfare 2is the direct sequel toCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfare,” Activision told us this afternoon....
He did it! Isaiah “Triforce” Johnson, thedetermined gamerwho started camping out for the 3DS launch at Best Buy’s Union Square location back on Monday, bought the first 3DS sold in the United States. How crummy would it have been if the poor guy waited in line for days anddidn’tget the first US handheld? Yeah, that’d be a real downer. But, he was successful — in more ways than one. While he was at the launch event, Triforce also managed to get Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime to autograph his Power Glove,reports 3DS Gamer....
SEGA’s booth was fairly lavish this year, with huge signs, flashy lights, ladies dressed like Colonial Marines, and … one fairly quiet man, wandering around with a DS. He was completely nondescript, fairly easy to miss, andcouldin fact have looked like a regular PAX attendee. What he held in his hands, however, wasAliens: Infestation. I’m rather angry that the game was so hard to find, to the point where I’d have totally missed it had Max Scoville not excitedly called me over while miming a “second mouth” with his hand....
