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Remember the new game that Bungie was set to announce at E3 before Microsoftpulled the plug? Well, it looks like they’re gearing back up, as a new and cryptic message from the “Superintendent” has appeared onBungie’s site. Very little can be gleaned from the image above and its accompanying text, which consists of a conversation log. It appears as though the “Superintendent” is some sort of artificial intelligence, associated with the USNC and running into a bit of trouble....

Yesterday saw a milestone forCastle Crashersas the XBLA side-scrolling beat-em-up hitone million players. After only ten months on the service at that. It should not come as any surprise. The game has managed to keep itself in thetop tengames purchased over Live Arcade even as recently as last month where it spent at least three of the four weeks in the top three. Still, that’s a metric s–t ton of sales for an indie developer....

Clive Barkerwas one of my literary heroes long before he entered the gaming universe. Rarely is such a perverse and twisted individual simultaneously intelligent and beautifully spoken, but Clive’s no stranger to this mixture. Not one to take rubbish lying down, Barker addressedRoger Eberton theDigital Trendspodcast, saying: “[Ebert’s] a pompous, arrogant old man, and he’s not going to stop us from making games or enjoying them or… making them art.”...

Didn’t the term “HaloKiller” stop being cool five years ago? Apparently not, with Electronic Arts’ Frank Gibeau invoking the perpetually false term while bigging up Crytek’s big shooter sequel,Crysis 2. In fact, Gibeau quite frankly states that the team is actively trying to craft one of these so-called killers. “…We were trying to craft aHalo Killer, you know a product that would squarely go after what Bungie built with our partners at Crytek,” he explains....

Death still follows, though. After the jump, you can check out a trailer THQ recently released forDarksiders. Thing is, I’m either crazy or I’ve absolutely seen this before. I seem to recall car throwing, epic horseback riding and a giant worm cropping up sometime in the past, but I haven’t found any evidence to support my admittedly spotty memory. So, worst case scenario, you get it again. On a largely unrelated note, do you know who I think really nailed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?...

Ghost Trick comes out next Tuesday and the good folks at Capcom want to remind us all about this by doing a team up MORE EPIC THAN THAT STUPID ONE WITH MARVEL. Yes, that’s right.Capcom enlistedthe services of Chris Hastings, the man responsible forDr. McNinja. The comic sees Ghost Trick’s Sisseltrying to stop an assassinfrom killing Dr. McNinja. Does the assassin succeed? Is Dr. McNinja doomed? Can someone make a Dr....

Hey Destructoid! No Apparent Reason Parties — NARPs for short — are a long standing tradition here at Destructoid. NARPs are parties hosted by Dtoiders for Dtoiders and everyone is welcome to attend a party. It’s about playing games and interacting with other people all in the name of having a good time. BOO! Did I scare you? It’s the spooky month of October, and Dtoiders are planning events all over the globe to hang out!...

Koei is known for two things – repetitive, number crunching strategy games set in ancient China and repetitive, button mashing action games set in ancient China. I have always been a huge fan of the latter, a follower of theDynasty Warriorsseries for many years. Perhaps follower is a little too light – more like a devout worshipper, ensnared by the endless, mindless hack n’ slash madness, terrible voice acting and hair metal soundtrack....

A few minutes ago I got the opportunity to see a live demo (hands off, unfortunately) of BioWare and LucasArts’ MMO,Star Wars: The Old Republic. The focus of the first part of the two-part demo was on the Bounty Hunter class. It opened with a bit of story (unique to the class) that then morphed into a routine “kill them all”-type mission where the player was tasked with blasting groups of gun-toting brigands....

Let me fill you in on my fiancee’s reaction to the news that aGleeversion ofKaraoke Revolutionwas coming out. Let me fill you in on my reaction. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Yea, we’re both total Gleeks and we’re damn proud of it. Judging from the video above, which shows offKaraoke Revolution: Gleein all its gleekiness, we’re going to be pretty happy pretending we are in the midst of a show choir. I know that most of you, even those of you too manly to admit it, are really excited too....

This is the question I’ve been seeing all over forums and throughout my Bloglines account. I’ve seen fanboys scream one way or another. After a while, the mindless screaming can be irritating, but it’s always a fun debate. So, between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, who do you think won? Well, thanks to the community blogs, we can tell what you’re thinking! Just to start off,imbeta’s bloghad quite a few of us on the staff laughing, so I figured y’all might want to see it too....

I don’t mean to shock you, but I am not a very manly guy. I know, I know. Stop clutching your pearls. So when I got to try out a gameplay demo for 505 Games’ new fighting gameSupremacy MMA(out this September for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3), I wasn’t sure what to expect. I know nothing about MMA fighting, and, honestly, didn’t even know what “MMA” stood for until I looked it up on my way to the meeting....

With Electronic Arts having revealed its fangs of late with anattempted hostile takeoverof Take-Two, it was about time that the Empire of the games industry showed the world what it was truly like. Cue the arrival of Lord Riccivader, and EA’s new name —Evil Acquirers, Inc. As I’ve always said,EA is pure eviland the company itself has finally come out and admitted so. EA’s new Web site,EatTake2.comshares with us Evil Acquirers’ blissful vision of a galactic utopia under one glorious banner of nefariousness....