A new study by University of Delaware Associate Professor Elizabeth Orsega-Smith looked into overweight seniors that were playing Wii Sports. Could they lose weight like their younger, whippersnapper counterparts were? Yep. Fat, old gamers can get some benefit out of Wii gaming. In the study, which gauged calorie burn of a group aged 66 to 78, 30-minute play sessions ofWii Sportsgames had them burning between 20 and 176 calories a session....
October such a busy month for gaming. And now, it’s a busy month for making music … yay! Nintendo has announced thatWii Musicwill be finding its way to stores on October 20. The game features more than 60 instruments, including everything from a guitar to a trumpet. And a dog that makes dog noises. Not only can you wave your arms around while holding the Wii Remote and nunchuck to make music, but the game will also support the balance board for the dropping of killer beats....
Call me naive, but I’m still really curious aboutX-Men: Destiny;I’m all for super hero games that aren’t tethered to a mediocre film. [Pause to rememberThe Avengers] This new quartet ofX-Menvideos highlights the X-Men themselves, The Brotherhood, X-Genes (the method used to customize your character’s powers), and the game’s theme Choice. It’s a neat look at the game’s four pillars, so give them a quick watch.
By now you hopefully know that Microsoft has a big month of March planned for DLC and downloadable games. Actually, its spring “Block Party” is a flagship event, much like their Summer of Arcade. This March we’ll receivePerfect Dark, Game Room, Toy Soldiers, and this little guy from Slick Entertainment (the team behindN+),Scrap Metal. Scrap Metalis an interesting little title, a top-down racing game like days of old, along with a whole bundle of modes players can take part in....
Don’t cancel your newspaper subscription or delete your web browsers just yet!Sony has revealedthat “Life with PlayStation,” the PlayStation 3 version of the Wii’s weather and news channels (all rolled in to one!) is facing a small delay. Originally set for release at the end of July (hey, that was yesterday!), the service will launch sometime in August and will allow users to view a 3D Earth which can be rotated and zoom in on to access news and weather from around the globe....
No, I’m serious with that headline: your mom is inRock Band 2. Among the features of the game’s expanded Band World Tour Mode is the ability to hire staff as you gain fans by completing gigs. Your default roadie? Your mom, a Carol Brady-like figurehead who offers you support and, as the game puts it, a “200% boost in clean laundry and worried phone calls.” As you progress through the game, you’ll be able to hire other staff members, all of which will offer you different bonuses depending on their function....
Thanks to everyone that keeps sending in YTMNDs. Everything I’ve been receiving has been great. Keep flooding myinboxwith whatever you come across. Which one is making you ROLFLOLBBQLMAO this week? Dtoider ZB made this clever YTMND. It’s about the Boston/Mooninites bullsh*t mashed up with All Your Base. Russia’s apology for communism(Thanks Heywood!) Street Fighter characters dancing!(Thanks again Heywood!) Super Smash Bros YTMND style(…Heywood, you rock) Mothers play Double Dragon in real life....
I haven’t watched a reality TV show since the inaugural season of “Lost.” I didn’t like it. I thought the winner should have been the bald voodoo doctor instead of whats-his-hole, the guy who generated sympathy by doing his sister. I can’t say the first episode of Sony’s“The Tester”is doing much for me either, but that’s only because my boy, the suit-and-vested “Barmy,” was kicked off despite his intimate knowledge of parrots and firm grasp of social relationships....
If you have the patience to hold off on getting the latest videogames at release, and don’t mind missing out on the pure joy that comes with buying as soon as possible, you could be spending a heck of a lot less on games than the rest of us. People Can Fly’sBulletstormis down to$40 on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 today only on Amazon. (That’s $20 off on all three, since the PC version is normally $60, too....
A few weeks back, we saw the trailer forValet Parking 1989. It featured interviews and testimonials from Zordix, the one and only creators of (you guessed it)Valet Parking 1989. The combination of their inability to talk about their game in a coherent and confident manner, mixed with their genuine passion for theValet Parking 1989, evoked an awesome mixture of charm and discomfort. Now Zordix is back, with a trailer for their upcoming DSiWare game,1950’s Lawn Mower Kids....
As much as I adoredAssassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, the feeling of my stomach dropping as the game came to a close and offered up more questions than answers is unforgettable. Just one year later, Ubisoft hopes to make good on tying up many loose ends with the upcomingRevelations. But don’t expect everything to get tied up with a nice pretty bow just yet. “Keep in mind we’re following the typical trilogy structure,”Revelationscreative director Alex Amancio told us during a behind-closed-doors demo at PAX....
Over the last few days, a large amount of my Destructoid internal e-mails have ended with me randomly typing the exclamation “CASTLE CRASHERS!” Why? No real reason. I just got to play a handful of recently premiered levels at this past week’s Comic-Con and need to express my excitement about the game somehow. Now, withrecent newsof an August 27 release date comes word that Behemoth’s little yellow buddy Alien Hominid will be an unlockable character in the highly anticipated game....
TheArkedo Seriesstarted life on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel, which allowed for rapid development, but not the large audience the games deserved. Now, it’s being brought to PlayStation 3 by way of PSN. Sanuk Games is sticking with “soon” as the release date here, but we have prices — and they’re looking good.Jump!,Swap!, andPixel!will be a mere $2.49 each, and all three titles support Trophies. If absolutely nothing else, you ought to purchasePixel!...
