Tanooki Mario, people! Tanooki Mario! Will you be able to turn into a statue and rock the joint? I hope so! So, Mario, eh? I’m diggin’ the style. Nintendo has scaled down the open-worldness of the previous 3D Mario games into something of a 2D-3D blend. I really hope it works for them.
As wonderful asThe Orange Boxwas, some people complained that there was no value for them personally, because they already ownedHalf-Life 2andEpisode One. These people are blasphemous demons who should have thanked Valve for making them own such great games twice. If you were one of those people, or if you just want to playPortal, you may be interested to know that (while on the subject of blasphemous demons) EAis planning to releasehard copies ofEpisode 2,Team Fortress 2andPortalfor PC separately....
We recently told youthat the upcoming Japanese releaseNo More Heroes: Red Zonehas something called a “Forbidden View Mode” that lets you look at characters witha free-moving camera. Perv cam, it sounds like. Maybe we’re getting something similar in our NMH release,No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise. A new ESRB write-up on the game says that there’s a viewer mode where a woman’s buttocks are fully exposed. Heh. They said “buttocks.” This comes direct from thesummary:...
Remember those awesome pins FanGamer made for Destructoid? Well we’ve done another reprint of them and you’ll be able to get them at the FanGamer store at PAX East this weekend. Just purchase something from the FanGamer booth, tell the clerk the secret code word (Destructoid) and you’ll get yourself a shiny new pin. Yay! Only 100 of these pins will be available to you at booth 1143 so you better act fast!...
Fist of the North Starhas some new screenshots. You can look at the new screenshots if you want. They are screenshots. Screenshots that are posted on the Internet. For a game. Screenshots. Dynasty Warriorsdeveloper Omega Force is not known for gory content, so it’s refreshing to see these blood soaked screens. Obviously, you can’t have aFist of the North Stargame without brutality, but it’s still so odd to see aWarriorsgame so full of delicious ichor....
I have a terrific free game for you today. I actually picked this one up for free several weeks ago, and it’s become gratis again. It’s an excellent little game and one you definitely need to pick up. Freaking Inkiesis a shooting game where you must squirt paint from two sets of controls on each side of the screen. The controls are red, yellow and blue and the titular Inkies need to be shot using the corresponding color....
Red Bull, the stop-gap solution for all of those wannabe tweakers out there, has decided it wants to dip an unsteady wing into the fertile waters of Lake VideoGameDevelopment. According to Wired’s nubile, younger sisterGame|Life, El Rojo Toro has teamed with Freestyle Games, a development group most recently hailed for the gripping, sordid tale ofB-Boy(a Shakespearean account of the harrowing life of an urban breakdancer), to develop, and I quote;...
Ah,Left 4 Dead 2. The last major release for this year on my “why haven’t you got this yet?” list. I figured it would be worth pacing myself withModern Warfare 2as the go-to multiplayer game, at least untilL4D2became cheaper during Black Friday or Cyber Monday. On multiple occasions, I wasthis closeto caving in, so I probably won’t last much longer. Seems like I’m in a rare spot, since about 80% of my friends list has made the switch from Infinity Ward to Valve this week, while I’m sitting here trying to get my last ten or so stars in Spec Ops....
Gameboi (Vader fanboy):For the first time in 52 days, I fired up the old Xbox 360 for some time withLost Odyssey. I’m not much of an RPG guy, but the game is fantastic, and I wish I had bought it much sooner. I also fooled around withFablefor a little, but it wasGuitar Hero III: Legends of Rockthat took up most of my time. I know most of you hate it, but I had a freaking blast with the game....
It’s July 4, the day we celebrate America doing some stuff to some people a number of years ago because of reasons. In honor of this great day, what could be more Patriotic than a classic scene fromMetal Wolf Chaos? Richard Hawk is the most American man that ever did America. Long live the USA! Also, videogames. If you’re bored of watching fireworks, why not read our stupid words? Aziz:I’ve been testing the comfortability levels with theSumo Couple Bean Bagand during my test, I finally playedNo More Heroeson the Wii....
Building on the foundation of the former title, 2K Czech’sMafia IIis a third-person open-world action game set in the 1940s and 1950s. It stars a dashing protagonist come home to a fictional East coast city after eating a bullet in World War II. Sad events turned sadder as he’s pulled into the mafia after he seeking money to pay off his dead father’s defaulted loan. Last afternoon I played about 35 minutes of the game during a mission at some point late in the “second chapter....
We’ve all seen those pictures of years-old pre-orders forDuke Nukem Forever, which were equal parts sad and hilarious until Gearbox picked up the franchise. Now, they’re back to being merely sad — unless retailers end up honoring the original orders. “There are a lot of people who pre-ordered the game. We’ve been starting to talk with retailers because we didn’t take them directly, and 3D Realms didn’t take them, it was all retailers going ‘I’m going to take this guy’s money,'” Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford said to VG247....
Remember thecrazy Ninjatown lunchboxI posted the other day? Of course you do, because it’s amazingly badass. What’s even more badass, however, was getting a phonecall a few hours after making that post and being asked if we would like to give it away exclusively on Destructoid to celebrate the upcoming release ofNinjatown DS. Hell yes, I say! To win it (did I mention it’s one a of kind?), all you have to do is scoot on over to theWee Ninjatronpage and make a ninja....
