From Dust, the gorgeous looking downloadable game from Eric Chahi, will be coming to PC on July 27. It’ll sell for $14.99 and can be picked up via Steam, GameStop, the UbiShop and various other outlets. From Dustcasts you as a powerful influence over the future of a primitive tribe in a beautiful game world. We’ve been incredibly excited about its XBLA/PSN release, and we’re glad PC gamers will be able to nab it too....
The idea of aBioShocksequel polarizes the gaming community, with some believing the game was perfect as it was and shouldn’t be mined too deeply, while others welcome another chance to return to Rapture. I wonder then, how split opinon would be if the franchise was thoroughly exhausted with, say,a film or an MMOon top of sequels. These ideas have been put forth by Take-Two as possible directions theBioShockfranchise could be taken during a slide presentation detailing how much the company is worth in the wake of the tussle between Take-Two and Electronic Arts....
Heavy is the head that wears the crown. It may surprise you to learn that the Destructoid staff played games this week. Follow along as we tell you all about it. Sterling:I’ve been replayingDead Spaceon PC. It’s easier on the computer than it was on the 360 thanks to being able to better pinpoint my attacks, but it’s somehow a lot scarier, probably due to the intimacy you get with a PC....
I got to take an early peek at Gameloft’sTom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Convictionon the iPhone here at GDC. It’s still early, but I was able to see several locales and game play elements, and I feel like it’s already shaping up to be worthy of the name, and a good portable companion to the full-blown console title. Speaking of the console version, the cutscenes, music and voice work were pulled from it and plugged right into the iPhone game....
The initial crew of Destructoid has landed in San Francisco as we prepare to demolish theGame Developer’s Conferencewith our mighty foot. AsNex,ColetteandIchecked into our hotel (the posh W Hotel in downtown San Fran), we were a bit shocked to see that emblazoned on the back of our room cards was a bit of advertising for jobs at Sony —check please! We’re a little confused, but we’re ready to play along as San Francisco prepares to be the home of sweaty nerd types ready to talk shop....
Here’s something that’s relevant to my own interests: Sony’s upcoming zombie outbreak PlayStation Network title,The Last Guy. When a mysterious purple ray hits the Earth, turning normal citizens into monsters and blood-thirsty zombies, the player becomes mankind’s last remaining hope and must escort survivors to designated safety zones.But here’s where it gets really interesting: the game features real-world locales (Los Angeles, Tokyo, and London), and utilizes high-resolution sattelite imagery from Google Earth to render the cities....
Activision has announced theGuitar Hero/Band Herodownloadable content spread for July, and it’s like your local “Active Rock” station is about to throw up on your home consoles. Expect track packs from Queen, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, and Shinedown this month. July 20 – Disturbed Track Pack July 27 – Shinedown Track Pack Tracks will run you the usual 160 MS Points/$1.99/200 Wii Points a piece, or you may save some money and buy the complete packs for 440 MS Points/$5....
If you feel like you haven’t had enough time with theHalo: Reachbeta yet, you have a little bit more time to kill one another before having to go back to one of your other, lesserHalogames. Speaking to Joystiq, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard has nailed down the exact date and time that the beta will be shut down. That would be Thursday, May 20th at 10am PDT. The beta was originally expected to conclude today....
If you watchedGameTrailers TVon Friday night, then you’ve already seen this extended cut of theMedal of Honortrailerthat debuted at the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards. But even if that’s true, I’d say that the new two-minute trailer is worth checking out again anyway. It focuses on the game’s Tier 1 operators, a special unit of the military that works with scalpel-like precision in crucial situations that decide the war. Aside from Tier 1, we haven’t yet seen a whole lot of new stuff thatMedal of Honoris bringing to the table, but developer EA Los Angeles has acknowledged that, and in a refreshing bit of honesty, they’ve said they’recomfortable with it, too....
The Last Windowwasrevealed a few weeks agoas the sequel to DS classicHotel Dusk: Room 215. With the latestFamitsuspilling its game liquids all over our faces, we’ve gotten ourfirst lookat this follow-up game, which purists are going to love. After all, it looks exactly the same as the last game. This is surely no bad thing, as the first game was a cool adventure and the art style was incredibly bold. It seems thatThe Last Windowwill continue the tradition of looking like an A-Ha music video as Kyle Hyde talks to creepy people in a bid to solve his latest mystery....
If you downloaded the wallpaper in the sweet, hot desire to get into thePlayStation Homeclosed beta you may have a surprise waiting for you in your inbox. TodayPlayStation.Blogannounced that theHomebeta has been extended to incorporate “thousands” of new participants. If you didn’t get invited, don’t despair. Sony will be tossing out “many more” waves of invitations before the launch of the open beta. If you’re Europe or North America, you may increase your chances bydownloading content and generally being active on the PlayStation Network....
They say often that we hurt the things we love most, and as I patiently wait for a supremely cheap Memory Card Duo to arrive, I find that a most apt phrase. I love the PSP. As a piece of technology, as a gaming device, I think the PlayStation Portable is wonderful. I love the way it looks, I love the way it feels, and I love the way it makes a little “clang” noise when I open the disc tray....
Here’s the worst piece of news I’ve heard in a while. According to Morgan Haro, the CEO of Hudson Entertainment, the Western branch of Hudson Soft, will be closing down at the end February when Konami acquires the company. All projects being headed by Hudson Entertainment are now canceled. We don’t know exactly what that means, as Hudson is yet to release a list of which games were headed by Hudson Soft, as opposed to Hudson Entertainment....
