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During GDC, developer Warren Spector was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award. To pay tribute to a man who has brought so much love and joy in the world, Mega64 teamed up with Cliff Bleszinski for a short video retros... more
It's the simple pleasures in life that I enjoy the most. Getting a free meal, breaking wind without anyone noticing and watching giant Mechs tearing each other to metal shreds. In this explosive MechWarrior Online trailer an... more
Call of Duty Elite Premium Members on the Xbox 360 side will be getting a brand new multiplayer/survival map plus two new Spec-Ops missions tomorrow. This content, along with the three previously released maps, will all be a... more
Role-playing games have had a long and prosperous history in video and tabletop gaming, but haven't quite repeated this success on mobile and tablet devices. From the minds at Ngmoco comes Skyfall, a free-to-play social RPG ... more
Did you catch today's live Destructoid Show? We're all thoroughly exhausted from GDC, but Hamza Aziz, Jordan Devore, and Conrad Zimmerman were good sports and stopped by the studio for some good old-fashioned video game disc... more
Awesome Shark Volcano, the team behind the IGF nominated Nous, was able to take some time with me after the Game Developers Conference was over to talk a bit about their game, Nous. We covered everything from the histor... more
Devolver Digital came to the Game Developers Conference this week with an open call to all game designers to pitch them with game ideas. Our own Max Scoville caught wind of this, tracked down their bus, and forced the De... more
Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk was hanging out in San Francisco this week for the Game Developers Conference showing off Tony Hawk HD. Our tall freak of nature Max Scoville got a chance to talk with the man hims... more
With the open beta for Tribes: Ascend going strong, Hi-Rez Studios announced today that the free-to-play first-person shooter has secured an April 12 release date. To go alongside this news, the team put together a parody tr... more
Conceptually, Fat Shark's War of the Roses sounds promising. Team-based skirmishes using bows and swords, tiered skill trees, and player leveling -- yup, this has the potential to turn out quite well. This week at GDC, Parad... more
GDC is in town and that means all the industry's leading experts are in San Francisco to talk videogames. Two of whom are Kevin Dent (who works with developers to fund their games), and Jesse Divnich of EEDAR. They talk abou... more
During the EA Game Changers event at the 2012 Game Developers Conference, Maxis announced SimCity. It'll be coming to PC in 2013, which clearly isn't soon enough. Curvy roads were announced first, much to the applause of the... more
The limited edition Star Wars Xbox 360 Kinect bundle system looks like R2-D2, and when you poke him in the eye (the power button) he makes a noise, as shown in the above video. He sounds...upset? Also: the included C-3... more
While I was unable to attend GDC 2011 and meet the wonderful Swery 65, I was able to help him introduce his panel discussion, Game Design in the Coffee. A considerable honor of the highest degree, I think you'll find. ... more
Ladies and gentlemen... GDC is coming to an end. I'm exhausted, braindead, and still making Charlie Sheen jokes in spite of the fact that I'm completely sick of them. That being said, today's stories are as follows: Ubisoft ... more
If you're a fan of giant robots or simply destroying them with massive weaponry, put Vanguard Studio's upcoming twin-stick shooter Gatling Gears on your radar. Tara Long spoke with senior game designer Sander van der Vegte to get the scoop on the game, scheduled for a PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade release later this year. more
Popular Flash game Fancy Pants Adventure is gettings its third installment later this year, this time as an Electronic Arts-published downloadable title for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. At EA's showcase event at GDC earlier this week, Tara Long caught up with the game's creator Brad Borne to find out what's so fancy about this adventure's fancy downloadable pants. more
Later this year, Dark Sector developer Digital Extremes will release its take on Top Cow's The Darkness. We got our first look at The Darkness 2, the follow up to 2007's Starbreeze Studios-developed title, at GDC this week. ... more
Treasure-looting divers versus a shiver of sharks, wrapped up in an Unreal Engine-powered bundle. Yes, Depth looks increasingly like the multiplayer PC game we never knew we so desperately wanted. The team has sent out a new... more
Two days ago, Hamza appeared on Machinima's Inside Gaming to help with the show's GDC coverage. It was great. Yesterday, Max and Nick appeared on the show as well. It was also great. Today, Tara Long co-hosts the show, and i... more
The makers of Trials HD are bringing their brand of physics-based racing over to WiiWare later this year with MotoHeroz. While you are racing around in different cars through the 75-plus levels, MotoHeroz feels more like a p... more
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Lead Designer Mike Zaimont is the man behind Skullgirls. He's also a pro fighter who's competed in EVO tournaments, so he knows a thing or two about making a good fighting game. I got some really good hands-on time with this... more
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So Jimmie Johnson's Anything With an Engine is fun. I know, I was surprised too. It's basically the Mario Kart formula mixed in with the charming style and appeal of the Wacky Racers cartoon series. You'll be using var... more
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Following Hamza's appearance on Inside Gaming yesterday, in which our good friend got his drink on, the Voltron-esque collaboration between Machinima and Destructoid continues with another recap of the 2011 Game Developers C... more
DICE is showing off Battlefield 3 at GDC, and I hear it's gearing up to be pretty [embargoed]. They're sharing the love for us non-attendees too, thankfully -- take a look at this first "Fault Line" video installment. Seem s... more
When Arrowhead studios said their plans for future Magicka DLC were really "out there", they weren't kidding. They've just announced a new pack for the game dated this spring, called "Magicka: Vietnam." Yeah, that's right. M... more
Tecmo Koei has decided to pull the trigger early on its GDC offerings by releasing a hot new teaser trailer for Ninja Gaiden 3. Very little has been said about the game since its Tokyo Game Show announcement, but the public ... more
At GDC Europe today, Eric Chahi (Another World, Flashback) and Ronan Bel (Ubisoft lead programmer genius) talked about the upcoming (and promising) Project DUST. Chahi showed a lot of video material of their engine, and how ... more
After cashing in all these used bottles I found, by some miracle I finally had enough money to get over to The GDC and explorer all of its employment opportunities! I, myself, and I have always wanted to know what really g... more
Instead of spending hours trying to figure out exactly how to turn my little Optimus Prime toy back into a truck, I'd much rather just push a button to make it happen, which is why I'm excited whenever a developer decides to... more
First off, know that I'm a seasoned piano player. I've been playing for over 25 years now, and I still play almost daily. I play part-time in a band or two, record often, and have even taught a few people to play piano. But ... more
Bethesda has released a new trailer for its highly promising shooter Brink, and it looks more beautiful than David Bowie's golden scrotum. None of it's gameplay, of course, but it still manages to hype and excite like all go... more
What other headline could we use? It is what it is. Developer Eidos Montreal has officially unveiled the latest in the Deus Ex series with a new trailer for what has become Deus Ex 3: Human Revolution. You can see it in all ... more
On-rails light gun action is what you're getting with this PlayStation Move game called The Shoot. It's called The Shoot because you'll find yourself traveling through mock movie sets. Think of an updated Virtua Cop that tak... more
I've played a few Move games, but the one I just played (above) is the best so far. It's called Slider, and it is the only Move game so far from SCEJ. Slider is set in Hong Kong. A poor office boss and his lovely secretary a... more
We've seen enough living room family gaming promotional videos to last us a lifetime. Nintendo started it with the Wii a few years back, but here recently both Sony and Microsoft have been putting their own versions out with... more
When I was watching Sony's presentation for their motion sense enabled Move Party game this afternoon, I was kind of hung up on the person playing the game. She reminded me of someone, but I couldn't put my finger on who it ... more
Mega64's first GDC 2010 commercial didn't make the cut so they've made another commercial and this one definitely appeals to the nerdier side of gaming. Unfortunetly for Mega64, the second ad is just as bad as the first one.... more
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Even though GDC 2009 is done and gone, we couldn't let The Conduit slip by. This first-person shooter is going to surprise a lot of people when it finally drops. We were able to talk with the guys at High Voltage about this W... more
I can't be the only one who, as a kid, liked to build things just to knock them down. Sure, the school therapist may have thought I had issues, but come on... knocking things down just feels good. That seems to be part of wha... more
Last week at GDC, DICE threw a party to give us the first look at Battlefield Bad Company 2. DICE went all out with old school style post cards, little toy tanks and even an ice sculpture tank that shot out alcohol! As for t... more
Two years ago, I said that this was the greatest Mega64 skit ever. That video has now been topped by their Metal Gear Solid 4 skit that was filmed last week during the Game Developers Conference. Unlike some other Web sites, I'm not going to spoil the surprises. Just hit the jump to see the video and prepare to be blown away. more
Remember when we first heard about Project Offset, that gorgeous first-person shooter set in the realm of fantasy, and then proceeded to hear next to nothing about it since then? Well, it's not dead, thankfully. Although the ... more
When you're at GDC, you hear sh*t. We do. We have. So this evening we walked around San Francisco and talked about what we've heard this week and what we think is coming up. The topic: portable gaming, with a focus on downlo... more
Hear that? That's the sound of my jaw dropping. Granted, it doesn't take a whole lot to get me worked up over a videogame these days, but I'll be damned if Batman: Arkham Asylum doesn't look to be what fans of the Caped Crusa... more
So you thought Nintendo's Bill Trinen looked nuts playing Rock N' Roll Climber? Forget that -- it's old news. The new hontesss for looking like a nutjob while playing a game is WarioWare: Snapped!One of the first available ga... more
I'll be the first to admit that Nintendo's Rock N' Roll Climber is not what I had expected. I suppose it would have been a bit much to expect that I'd be playing a groupie game featuring my favorite Rock of Love cast members.... more
Confession time -- I don't own an iPhone or a bonesaw. Neither of those things kept Marc Ecko Entertainment from sitting down with me to show off the upcoming Dexter title for Apple's portable do-it-all. Developed by Ica... more
The 9th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards ended with a bang -- a bang that could only be brought by a teaser for a hype-inducing game of Modern Warfare 2's level. Infinity Ward put the debut video for the first-person shoo... more
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