It seems like everyone is saying “print is dead” lately, especially when it comes to videogame magazines. Even though I write for a gaming Web site, I really enjoy reading gaming mags — even the sh*tty ones. Does anyone remember Gamefan? That magazine was both terrible and awesome at the same time. But print is not dead yet, and things are starting to look up… for the UK pubs, at least....
Wondering if Mama will be able to skillfully make the transition from the kitchen to the garden? Fire up your Wii and you can grab a a demo of the upcoming DS game, which comes out this May.After you get the demo, you simply transfer it to your DS via Wi-Fi connection and you’re good to go. I wish we could see more demos of DS games like this — take notice, Nintendo!...
Oh wow, here we go: news I’m excited about. During the Konami press conference atgamescom, a new WiiWare title from Hudson was announced calledTower of Shadow.Gameskyoposted the trailer and some screens from the game, and right off the bat I’m completely fascinated — something that doesn’t happen with new game announcements enough these days. In the game, you control a shadow that has one goal: to reach the top of a tower....
For a game that’s supposed to be set in Paris during World War II, where the main character is out for revenge, a trailer using Flogging Molly’s “The Seven Deadly Sins” feels pretty out of place. Thankfully, whoever edited the trailer, which you can watch after the break, really made the whole thing work. We’ve talkeda lotaboutThe Saboteuroverthe monthsand we’re pretty excited about the game here at Destructoid. The new trailer only furthers our excitement for the game....
I’m sure it’s long been every gamer’s dream to get themselves into a videogame somehow. If you ask me, it couldn’t get better than being in one of Insomniac Games’ own titles, and that’s just what they want to do: Sony and the developer are holding a contest to get your face intoResistance 3. HopefulResistance 3wannabes are being asked to upload a photo of themselves “in the middle of aResistance-style battle (or looking like you have just survived one)....
We heard rumors of a “secret instrument” forGuitar Hero World Tour, and our guesses were way off base. It turns out that this instrument isn’t really musical at all: it’s your PC. Players will be able to use their PC to import MIDI tracks into the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions ofWorld Tour. Shacknewshas the scoop from Neversoft’s Brian Bright: The MIDI sequencer functionality encompasses rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass, keyboards and drum tracks on the PlayStation 3, but will be limited to drum tracks on the Xbox 360 due to unspecified “hardware issues....
Do you feel as though there is an inadequate quantity of bullet-hell shmups available for your PS3? Does it make you sick to think of how few times you’ve clenched your controller in a fit of immeasurable rage at your own inadequacy? An enemy is approaching. On June 15th,Gundemonium Collectionwill be dropping on to the PSN service. For $14.99, you’ll be able to get this triple-threat containingGundemonium Recollection,GundeadliGneandHitogata Happa. All the games have Trophies to collect and include a feature that allows uploading your play sessions to Youtube....
Xbox Live Arcade’sHouse Partyis in full effect now that the parents are off vacationing in Hawaii. (What can possibly go wrong?) The first title for this batch of releases is rather fitting due to its in-your-face batsh*t insanity: Arc System Works’Hard Corps: Uprising. The full download is priced at $15, but even if you aren’t in the market for a gorgeous-lookingContragame, I recommendplaying the demo; there’s enough content to justify the download time....
This past weekend at PAX EAST, Harmonix project lead Chris Foster revealed something that he should not have. Yes,Rock Band 3will have vocal harmonies just like the Beatles iteration before it. Asked a question as to whether or notGreen Day: Rock Bandwould be featuring tracks with vocal harmonies (it will), Foster began running down a list of games which would offer it. “We’ve said Rock Band 3 would have harmonies already, right?...
[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 that 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.] This morning seemed like any typical, normal day. I got up feeling like shit from allergies, groaning as I got out of bed about needing to go into work as my head pounded from inflamed sinuses....
When Atlus ported the originalPersonagame to the PlayStation Portable, they had a mind to exploi- I mean, introduce fans raised onPersona 3andPersona 4to the series as a whole. And while the originalPersonawasquitedifferent from its descendants, enough people took to it that a port of thePersona2: Innocent Sinwas justified. And this time, according to director/composer Shoji Meguro, more changes and improvements are on the way. Besides the spiffy new intro and soundtrack, the battle system will be tweaked to match the changes added with the release ofPersona 2: Eternal Punishment(the one half ofPersona 2English-speakers actually received), as well as the speed optimizations added to the original’s PSP port....
The New York Times is runninga storyabout a California college student named Jonquel Brooks who went on the lam after killing one man and wounding two others with gunfire. The unfortunately-named young man apparently was enraged after he was accused by the three of stealing a “PlayStation”* and a game. This is not the sort of thing a gaming blogshouldbe covering, but since a game console was involved, we wanted to pre-emptively counter any of the critics who are no doubt masturbating furiously over the prospect of pinning this entire thing on video games (instead of on the parents of a child who would saddle a youth with a name like “Jonquel”)....
[Hey all. Ted put together this really awesome comparison post in the community blogs right after the Sony press conference. I thought you’d all like to take a look at it, so enjoy another episode of “Community Blog Masterpiece Theatre.” Dave and Jim are wearing their monocles just for it. – DMV] Hurrah, it isKillzone 2. You all know the story, right? They showed off a video at E3 of 2006 and said it was real, and then admitted that it was prerendered....
