This is actually pretty unbelievable unless everything that happens in America is pre-scripted and follows that true Hollywood path of last minute excitement. In a recent Major League Gaming tournament a team entitled Triggers Down was playing a capture the flag match and had the enemies flag and was returning it to their base to win the match and progress …
Sneaky, sneaky! While many of you have waited in anticipation for word on the new Bioshock, we have been hiding in the shadows, playing it so that we can bring you this first report on what to expect. We headed back to the underwater city of Rapture to see what’s what in the sequel to one of this generations biggest …
Last year saw the gaming industry hit hard by the *ack* global economic downturn, with many people losing their jobs and numerous studios closing their doors, no longer able to turn a profit. M2 Research added up the casualties, and nearly 11,500 people in the video game industry lost their jobs since late 2008. “The final count for layoffs since …
The US beta of Mario Kart-meets-LittleBigPlanet ModNation Racers ended this Sunday. Its character and car creation tools have already highlighted just how creative people can be, given the opportunity. If you weren’t fortunate enough to get in on the beta using that sneaky US PSN account of yours, there is a second chance. European territories will be getting their very …
With the recent news that Natal would be forgoing its onboard processor, instead unloading the image processing on the 360’s CPU (and consuming 10 – 15 % of its resources in the process), “core†gamers are naturally starting to get a little apprehensive about Microsoft’s new device. How would developers supplement their Triple-A titles with Natal support? Joystiq wondered the …
It’s been a while since we have seen any Dante’s Inferno details so I thought it would be a good time to go trawling the Internet to see what we can find. The latest Inferno video is a developer diary discussing the evils of Fraud and Deceit which is the 8th level of hell, that special sin that all those …
One of my fondest arcade memories of all time (and the major reason that I was sad that I didn’t own an N64) was the hours and amounts of cash that I pumped into playing NBA Jam Hangtime at the local arcade. Sure the earlier ones were awesome fun on my Megadrive but Hangtime really hit the money. A new …
Destructoid met up with Aaron Greenberg at CES this past week to chat about all things Xbox 360ish and specifically to find out more about Project Natal. Unfortunately Aaron didn’t reveal much about Project Natal except to say that we, the general public and games media, have no idea yet about how they are going to use it. He did …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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