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Need for Speed Most Wanted is quite an anticipated game for many racing fans, heralding a welcome return to Criterion's open-world style, with tons of stylish cars and modes to boot. Naturally, this is an opportunity for EA t... more
Rockstar has made clear their intentions to marry your daughter release Grand Theft Auto V in spring of 2013. Awesome. I'm sure we'll all be well and caught up on everything else coming out in the first quarter. I mean, ... more
Gameloft comes out swinging with 12 titles for Windows Phone 8. Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour is one of the headlining games of the bunch. The franchise has sold over 6.3 million copies so far. Here's the full lineup: Ice ... more
It's cold as hell in my office. I'm under a blanket, and I have my feet tucked under my dog. I'm chilled straight through and my nose is running. But things look quite the opposite in these new Tropico 4 Gold Edition sc... more
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This new trailer from CCP Games is a fine introduction to their free-to-play multiplayer FPS, Dust 514. It walks you through how your initial selections and preferences determines your eventual role on the battlefi... more
Assassin's Creed III is likely to be one of the most massive titles of 2012. As vast as the American frontier it portrays and able to consume quite a few dozen hours with its single-player content alone, it is ambitious, visually stunning and packed with things to do. Whether or not many of these things are enjoyable depends on how much you like busywork. more
Dragon Quest VII will come to the Nintendo 3DS next February. The latest Jump magazine says that Japan will get what looks like a 3D remake of the classic RPG. According to our sister site Japanator, the only solid one we hav... more
Destructoid is collaborating with our friends at Game Revolution to give away 10 copies of the brand new Zone of the Enders HD Collection! The bundle consists of high-definition remakes of the first two Zone ga... more
Nintendo has announced a neat contest that has fans building a diorama to win a killer prize package. Get crafty and make a diorama that depicts scenes from upcoming 3DS game Paper Mario: Sticker Star and you could win one of... more
Are you lucky enough to own both Forza Horizon and Windows 8? What are you? Rich? Well, Mr./Mrs. Baller, you're now able to download the free Forza Horizon SmartGlass Experience for Windows 8 PCs. This works as an interactive... more
Go ahead. Ram me off the road. It's cool. I'm not mad. I realize that it's part of the experience and fair game. We're good, man. But don't get mad if you find that I've intentionally given up placement in the next challenge ... more
The patch culture of mainstream gaming continues, with Assassin's Creed III being the latest to release a huge launch-day patch, containing 44 fixes. This follows on from last week's Medal of Honor: Warfighter, which also req... more
Hi. We've redesigned Destructoid. We hope you like it. Here's what's new. To commemorate the launch of our badass new site design and new comments system, we're giving away a Wii U system (your choice of col... more
Geoff Keighley's expression in this now infamous photo still gets me. Speaking of Doritos and journalism, Jim wrote a thought-provoking piece regarding the recent controversy, 007 Legends is kinda-sorta not good, Chad co... more
Ubisoft has released a new video featuring gameplay from Rayman Legends in a level called "Toad Story." Observe the footage of five-player platform grooving above and try to resist cracking a smile. As the sequel ... more
It wouldn't be the week of a holiday without indie game bundles themed around the big day in question. Groupees has put together The Bundle of the Damned, a pay-what-you-want collection of horror games and other assorted digi... more
I love Pinball, as I'm sure readers of this blog are well aware. I'm also deeply affectionate for the Mistress of the Dark, Elvira, late-night spookshow queen of the eighties and nineties. So, it's no surprise that I'm highl... more
About a month ago, Valve mentioned its intention to launch a private external beta for the Linux version of Steam in October. Right on cue, the company has begun taking applications for the 1,000-person beta which will focus ... more
Square Enix has released Chrono Trigger for the Android platform to the Google Play store today, pretty much ensuring that anybody who has ever wanted to play the game can now do so. It is available for $9.99, which seem... more
Ahead of this week's Nightmare in North Point downloadable content for Sleeping Dogs, producer Dan Sochan has spoken with Official PlayStation Magazine about what's next on the post-release front. Namely, United Front Games h... more
Assassin's Creed III releases in stores tomorrow and, as you might expect, Ubisoft is celebrating with a promotional trailer. That's how publishers get down, you know, and this one is full of fire, violence and one really pissed-off Native American. We'll have our review of Assassin's Creed III tomorrow morning! Are you hyped? more
Well hello there, jewels. How are you doing this fine evening? Staying dry, I hope? Wha-OKAY ENOUGH SMALL TALK. On today's Destructoid Show, we're treated to a launch trailer for Assassin's Creed III, a live-action trai... more
Although Halloween was a fitting release day for Natural Selection 2, Unknown Worlds has bumped up the game's launch. This mash-up of first-person shooting and real-time strategy is now scheduled to unlock at 5:00pm Pacific o... more
Today's Network Roundup is dedicated to our East Coast friends and family, currently dealing with varying degrees of Hurricane Sandy's wrath. We're even getting effects all the way in Chicago right now, I ... more
On this week's extra sexy episode of Communitoid, Aaron says silly words from The South, Conor drinks too much and spoils Serenity, Jo entertains us all with another dramatic spam reading, I say inappropriate things... more
Nintendo has decided to fully detail the last three Nintendo Land attractions that we told you about earlier this month. These last three round out the list of 12 attractions coming to the Wii U launch title, both of which dr... more
[Mash Tactics airs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific on Dtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as m... more
Airtight Games, the folks behind recent the fantastic first-person puzzle-fest, Quantum Conundrum, recently announced the launch of a mobile games studio. And now they've just released their first mobile game, called Pixld. &... more
Who knew that a picture of a man sat next to a bag of Doritos could snowball into anger, humiliation, and intrigue? The most startling thing about this industry is that the biggest of avalanches can erupt from the humblest of... more
It took me a while to play the original Assassin’s Creed after the game released. The good-but-not-great reviews coupled with gameplay that didn’t look interesting to my Super Mario Galaxy-obsessed self just made ... more
What better way to celebrate Halloween than by dressing up as your favorite videogame character? And what better incentive to share that costume with the world than the chance to win a free game?! From now until Halloween, po... more
Super Mario 64 is now playable with a friend. Just like you always wanted. Oh? You never wanted that? Still, this video from YouTube user Skelux is pretty interesting. It shows two Marios running around together in Mario 64,... more
Dr. Jonathan Crane accepts an invite to give the Jimquisition a lesson in fear. It's the Halloween special, and while your ol' pal Sterling confronts his greatest nightmares, a long-hated horror trope is discussed, defended,... more
[Update: The finalists have been selected! Head over to Big Fish's Facebook page and vote for your favorite!] Our buddies at Big Fish Games are currently giving away codes for their latest golf-themed iOS puzzler, Fairway Sol... more
After it turned out that the new GoldenEye game didn't suck and Activision simultaneously published a new third-person Bond adventure in the form of Blood Stone (seriously flawed, but showed promise) I actually had ... more
The Entertainment Software Association Foundation raked in $822,000 at its 15th annual Nite to Unite for Kids game industry black tie event this past October 18 in San Francisco. These funds go into ESAF's grant and scholarsh... more
Ubisoft has released a map and texture pack for Minecraft today that is inspired by their upcoming game, Far Cry 3. Tools, locales, and weapons get the full Far Cry makeover in this pack. You'll find FC3 locations and c... more
Valve wants to let you know that they've unleashed "monster savings" on many titles in what they're calling their Spooky Spectacular. Over 80 titles are available at "scary" low prices from now until "about the time all the p... more
[Update: This post, originally published with the headline, "Playable Splinter Cell and more at Toronto's Gamercamp," has been amended. We have received an email from Ubisoft saying Splinter Cell will not be playable at ... more
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask will be my very first Professor Layton. This game, which I've learned is the fifth in the series, has just launched for the 3DS. With the huge following this franchise has gathered, ... more
Call of Duty: Black Ops II has a new live-action trailer in the same vein as the first game's, continuing the "Soldier in all of us" marketing line. This time around we have mechs, drones, horses, and Robert Downey Jr. in a jet. As you do. Regardless of what folks think of the game, it is a pretty cool bit of footage, don't you think? more
In a statement that may cause the weaker-minded to crumble into a pile of insane confusion, Gogogic CEO Jonas Antonsson has declared that solo gaming experiences are nothing but a gimmick and not what games are supp... more
Final Fantasy XIV's grand finale comes as the Sevent Umbral Era descends on Eorzea, Square Enix said this morning. This will mark the end of Final Fantasy XIV's story and the beginning of upcoming game A Realm Reborn. H... more
Eight years after its release, Painkiller has received numerous expansions, mods-turned-retail-releases, and ports. Almost all of which have been terrible and too stubborn to update the game. Nearing its ten-year anniversa... more
Nintendo overlord Satoru Iwata has revealed that Animal Crossing: New Leaf would not be getting any paid downloadable content. Apparently, it's not "wholesome" enough an idea to fit in with the game's philosophy. "That sort o... more
Jonatan Söderström has no cash, and really needs to make some money off the back of his recently released Hotline Miami. However, rather than fight pirates in the same way those similarly penniless multi-million dol... more
The flood of special music releases to commemorate Final Fantasy's 25th anniversary continues. In addition to Final Fantasy Vinyls and Final Fantasy Tribute -Thanks-, Square Enix is recording an entire album of orchestral arr... more
Retroware TV has a regular program called The Video Game Years, an overview of a particular year's gaming highlights with commentary by web personalities and other famous faces. Basically, it's just VH1's I Love the '80s, un... more
[Destructoid's Director of Communications Hamza Aziz asked Jonathan Holmes to make a show called 'Sup, Holmes?' so that Destructoid could later sell a t-shirt that says 'Sup, Holmes?' on it. This is that show. Subscribe... more
You can be sure a lot of beer will be consumed as Soundtrack Cologne 9.0 is preparing to bring some esteemed videogame music legends together for a round of panels and an exclusive concert over the weekend of November 15-18 a... more
