Any army, no matter who’s leading it, is only as good as its infantry. Go ask Napoleon and Hitler about Russia. The phrase “land war in Asia” sends grown men running, reducing them to a huddled mass of crying, blubbering jelly. With that in mind, riddle me this: why do most games keep throwing the same types of enemies at us*? I’m not talking bosses — every game has cool bosses....
Those of you still rocking the multiplayer inCrysis 2might be interested to know that more content has been pushed out. Or maybe you’re looking for an excuse to play again? Be warned, it’s gonna cost you. The Decimation Pack brings on five new maps — 5th Avenue, Chasm, Plaza, Prism, and Apartments — plus the smoke grenade and FY71 assault rifle to Xbox Live and also PC via in-game means. The content comes in at $10 and should hit PlayStation Network on June 28 in North America....
First, yes deadmau5 made the above monument to himself. “no hax. pure skill.” says the DJ. So yeah, deadmau5 really loves himself someMinecraft. So much so that he is making music for the game! He’s gone ahead and released a sampling of one of his new tracks which you can listen to on hisSoundCloud page. The song is a “simple sunrise/daytime theme.” It’s a pretty relaxing song and perfect forMinecraft....
Bit.Trip FLUXis a hard game to write about. On one hand, you could simply say that the game is the spiritual sequel toBit.Trip BEAT. On the surface, it plays exactly likeBEAT, only backwards. Scratch that surface though, and you may see that the game is so much more. In its own way,FLUXis a retrospective examination of the entireBit.Tripseries, a metaphysical expression of the afterlife, and a statement about the meaning of life itself....
Yesterday I told you thatDef Jam Rapstarreceived a permanent price drop, but that wasn’t the real news. The big story is that the Xbox 360 version of the game now features support for Kinect. Sorry, no fancy motion controls here — it’s simply an update that will allow you to use the Kinect camera to record videos. You can then upload the videos to theRapstarcommunity portal, where people can point and laugh at you singing Salt N’ Pepa’s “Push It....
Blue Dragonfor the Xbox 360 was supposed to be incredibly excellent. It was created by the folks at Mistwalker, backed up by the pedigree of some of the most recognizable names in the JRPG world — Sakaguchi, Toriyama and Uematsu to be precise. What a shame, then, that the game was actually a bit rubbish. Nevertheless, you can’t keep an RPG franchise down (unless it’sreallygood), and now we can all enjoyBlue Dragon Pluson the Nintendo DS....
Remember when a studio could center an entire game around a living glove, and that wasn’t questioned as irrational behavior? Yes, the days ofGloverwere simpler times. The game was set to receive a sequel, though that was eventually canceled. Now, an early version has become playable. No joke! AGlover 2prototype cartridge wasacquired by NES World, and rather than have it sit on a shelf somewhere, unplayed and unloved, it’s been uploaded to the Internet for anyone curious enoughto find it....
A game calledFuro Jump!! Guilty Gear Gaiden!?is coming to DSiWare in Japan. But don’t expect fighting in this. It’s actually a platformer staring Chimaki. He goes on a quest to visit a hot spring bath, but he’s hindered by some really weird sh*t on the way. Instead of fancy fighting, there’s a lot of jumping and strange spinning and frog punching. Arc, what are you smoking? This 2D platformer will come out in September in Japan for 500 DSiWare points....
Around 2 years ago, Hamza a.k.a. CTZ asked a few members of the Dtoid community to create special meetup groups that would handle event planning in specific designated areas across the globe. From New York to San Francisco, the United Kingdom to Austrailia, these groups have flourished and expanded tremendously over the past two years and have shown us how the internet can actually bring forth potentially great relationships that have meaning and purpose to them....
[dTunes is a community organized blog showcasing the musical tastes of Destructoid’s users. For two weeks, the editorial team is commandeering the series because, hey, we like music too. To further expand your horizons, make sure to check outthe dTunes blog.] Hi! Don’t worry it’s not the weekend yet. You didn’t just waste your entire Saturday at work. Nick was kind enough to let me out of my cage a few hours early so that I could share with you my favorite music much likeConrad,Topher,R3YandBradalready have....
What do you get when you combine gigantic ball-rolling fun with weird (and I mean, weird) rainbow loving characters? Easy, you get yourself the overwhelming cuteness of Katamari. What happens when you take that cuteness and cross it with the Xbox 360?Beautiful Katamari, that’s what. Hit the jump for the hands-on impression. There are a few things in this world that give me an almost inexplicable sense of joy. Things like: kittens, sunny days, warm chocolate chip cookies, free drinks, and hookers with hearts of gold....
We already knewthat Infinity Ward’sCall of Duty 4was a looker, no doubt about that, but this new footage from a live demonstration at Microsoft’s press conference is absolutely breathtaking. Cries of “game of show” are being thrown about, and while we don’t know about that just yet, it definitely has to be one of the best looking. We’ve attached the standard-definition footage of this demonstration above, but you owe it to yourself to hit up the big screen,high-definition version....
Creativity Unleashed. That’s their tagline this year for E3. We would pick through the list of exhibitors on thefreshly launched Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010 website, but we know better by now. It’s too early to talk about who is coming and who isn’t. There are some omissions in theexhibitor list, but I’m sure they’ll pop up sometime before June. My feet already hurt from just looking at the list, so it’s fine as is now....
