One of the included/preinstalled Augmented Reality games for the Japanese Nintendo 3DS has a title that translates toFace Shooting. What an amazing name. It’s…not that amazing of a game. But it is funny to set up and watch, as you’ll see in the video above. The front-facing 3DS camera is used to take a snapshot of your face.Face Shootingthen takes your headshot and jacks it up, warping it to make expressions you didn’t know you could make....
The Vietnam expansion forBattlefield: Bad Company 2(all versions) was announced at E3, and then it seemed to disappear for a while there. It’s back, thankfully, with a new trailer and a few screenshots. The add-on still has no price, but when it becomes available this winter, we’ll be getting a significant chunk of new material. Four maps (playable across all multiplayer modes), six vehicles, 15 weapons, 10 Trophies/Achievements, new in-game dialogue, and 49 songs....
The Nintendo Entertainment System had the great advantage of being easy to develop for, resulting in a lot of very unique titles for gamers to explore. I remember staring with intense fascination at the cover ofThe Magic of Scheherazadein the aisle of my local videogame store, more than slightly fascinated at the prospect of interacting in a world that had even a tenuous relationship to the tales I knew fromOne Thousand and One Nights....
Atari is pleased to announce a new heart pounding game,The Chase: Felix Meets Felicityavailable on Nintendo DS. This is a fast-paced game in which players navigate their way through bizarre obstructions, interruptions and mishaps, using the stylus to draw a path to the object of their affection.The Chase: Felix Meets Felicityis scheduled for release in February 2009 exclusively on Nintendo DS. Destructoid is pleased to announce a new mouth watering meal,Hamavailable with salad....
The first full MegaTen game on the DS,Strange Journey, is looking pretty good. We knew it was coming, but Atlus has been pretty tight-lipped on details until recently. Now that we’re drawing closer to the Japanese release date of October 10th, some new details are coming out, including this new promotional video. In this video you’ll see plenty of game play. You’ll get a taste of the first-person fully 3D dungeon crawling....
Banjo-Kazooieis one of the greatest platformers ever created, even surpassing masterpieceSuper Mario 64in my mind.Banjo-Tooie— the game’s amazingly named sequel — is also awesome, although it lacks alittleof the original’s charm and flawless design. It’s stillfantastic, don’t get me wrong … I just get a little overwhelmed with the sheer amount of stuff to do and places to explore. For fans of both these games, today brings some pretty fantastic news!...
I’m speechless. Who the HELL rocks out this hard on an Etch-A-Sketch? The Etch-A-Sketchist (who you may remember from hisGod of Waroffering back in July) has drawn everything from Kanye West to the World Trade Center, but it’sBioShockthat gets my undies in a bunch. I’ll be honest, I have nothing else to smart to say. I wish I was a prodigy gifted with such talents. All I can do is drool onthe awesome creations of others....
Atari has announced that it’s picked up the publishing rights to Krome Studio’sBlade Kitten. Once a PlayStation Network exclusive, the title is now scheduled to hit Xbox 360 and PC, via digital download at Atari.com. Blade Kitten is the creation of Krome’s Steve Stamatiadis, comic book artists and writer best known for his work in bringing the worldTy the Tasmaniantiger. The game follows the part-cat, part-girl Kit Ballard in a 2D adventure packaged as an old-school-meets-new-school arcade-style experience....
The official word onSpec Ops: The Linefascinates me. Promises of a deep, fulfilling narrative and compelling moral choice are all too common, but something about that eerie reveal trailer continues to make me believe that YAGER’s shooter could be an exception, that it could in fact be as interesting as the marketing suggests. Alas, there’s no way of knowing if my gut is correct for the time being. Even these images released this afternoon don’t help — sand, blood, and guns don’t tell me how the things came to be, or how they will shape up inThe Line’s broken Dubai....
Using its digital distribution know-how, Hothead Games (ofPenny Arcade Adventuresfame) will be collaborating with independent developers to bring their original games to the Mac and Windows platforms. The first two games are none other thanBraidandThe Maw.In case you hadn’t heard,Braidis also making itsway to the PC, but as far as the Mac version is concerned, Hothead has the exclusive digital publishing rights. The Maw, having also debuted on Xbox LIVE Arcade, will be brought to “multiple as-of-yet-unannounced digital distribution platforms....
So you’re sitting on the bus and you get so involved in your game ofNew Super Mario Bros.that you end up missing your stop. We’ve all had a moment like this, but have you ever been so involved in your game that a car almost hit you? New YorkStateclaims that too many people are being distracted by handheld devices and it’s becoming a safety issue. With three deaths last year involving handheld device distractions, the state has decided to introduce today a legislation that will ban the use of handheld devices while crossing the road....
BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH! I have…wait…HAHAHAHAH…I have no idea why this is so funny to me, but it is. Nintendo sent our own Nick Chester a little package. Inside a box sealed with a sticker with his name on it, Nick found a copy of upcoming DSi art gameArt Academy ($19.99, to be released on October 25th). Nintendo’s game actually teaches you to draw, blend, shade and more, and it looks like someone did that with Nick’s face!...
Dual-wielding small arms isn’t a new element in the first-person shooter world, but the addition of it in Infinity Ward’sCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2gives it new legs. Dubbed “Akimbo,” the fine art of dual-wielding is, possibly, a skill. Akimbo doesn’t allow people to wield two AK47s or MP5s. Described as “balanced” by game community manager Robert Bowling, the skill allows players to duel-wield sidearms and nothing more. Bowling-sanrevealed the skill at a recent GameCrazy event....
