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And so it begins. Hot off the heels of Joe Biden meeting with the videogame industry and President Obama asking for research into the effects of violent gaming on young minds comes two bills that have been proposed to congres... more
Microsoft has, at long last, made account migration an easy, automatic process. For years, folks who moved to new territories, like myself, were stuck with their Xbox Live accounts tied to their old homeland, unable to use an... more
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The Internet is not always the best place for sensitive souls. Even normally respectable human beings can devolve into rabid, carnivorous, blood-thirsty beasts at the drop of a hat -- sometimes they even say mean things ... more
Southington SOS, the group that had planned to physically destroy "violent" videogames in order to save the world from guns, has decided to back down and cancel the event. Claiming it had achieved what it wanted to, the group... more
Sony chief executive Kaz Hirai has admitted the PlayStation Vita is not performing as expected. However, he has deployed Sony's usual get-out, claiming they'd rather be judged on speculative success rather than, y'know, real ... more
If my obsession with Lumines: Electronic Symphony has taught me anything, it’s that the future of the future will still contain the past (and that time goes slow, time goes fast). I didn’t buy Electronic Symphony ... more
Kickstarter has released a ton of stats on all the projects that were started in 2012, and gaming brought in the most money pledged of all the categories with over $83 million. $83,144,565 to be exact. Breaking that stat down... more
British tabloid the Mirror has decided to try something a little different. With its peers implicating videogames in school shootings, this particular rag has a new approach -- blaming games for giving kids cancer. ... more
Taking to Twitter after a fan inquiry on a possible Wii U version of Lords of Shadow 2, Dave Cox, producer of the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow series, shut the prospect down entirely. "Sorry to disappoint you but no chance," ... more
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has claimed that sales of the Wii U aren't doing badly, despite its failure to replicate the "sold out" status enjoyed by the original Wii during the holidays. "At the end of the Christma... more
The Wii U was supposed to be a console equal to (or better than) the PS3 and Xbox 360, capable of running the same games and thus expanding its third party library. However, it's not quite gone down that way, with Crysis 3 be... more
Last week we found out that PlayStation 2s had stopped shipping in Japan. Sony has now officially announced that PlayStation 2 production has stopped worldwide, according to The Guardian. Yes, it's truly an end of an era. Har... more
Nintendo's obsession with tying game purchases to hardware may have bitten it in the keister, with word that secondhand Wii U systems are able to redownload software purchased by the previous owner. Oh Nintendo, you so Ninten... more
We're only a few days into 2013, but Sony's already vying for the Asshole of the Year award in a competitive fashion. It's been discovered that the company has patented a method of "tagging" games played on multiple systems, ... more
Metacritic has released its annual list of the top rated games of 2012, organizing its review averages to find which titles received the most critical acclaim throughout the last year. Unsurprisingly, The Walking Dead took to... more
Splash Damage studio director Paul Wedgwood has criticized a prevailing trend in the industry for publishers to put undue emphasis on Metacritic scores, something which can affect a studio financially if they don't hit review... more
MTV Multiplayer is in the midst of "reviews week," discussing a subject very close to my heart. Yesterday I provided the indie take on Multiplayer's "Bill of Rights" for game reviewers, and today I must sh... more
MTV's Multiplayer Blog has posted The Game Reviewer's Bill of Rights, along with some very interesting discussion from a number of reviewers across the games media industry. The Bill is only a rough draft, but here's what the... more
In a showing of support for the recent review debacle still underway at CNET, staffers from Ziff Davis including 1UP writers (and that oh-so-dreamy Jeremy Parish) put together a small but profoundly effective demonstration in... more
In the middle of the insane lines at the Sony booth at Tokyo Game Show they set up stations along the way to let us play with the Vita's hardware introduction software, called Welcome Park. This series of mini games teaches f... more
When the Vita was first announced earlier this year I was able to play around with a tease experience for the next Ridge Racer title. I was hoping to see more of the game at Tokyo Game Show this year, and I was able to, but t... more
I wasn't expecting something scary when I heard that NanaOn-Sha, makers of PaRappa The Rapper, were making a Kinect title. You might expect something scary when you hear the name Haunt, but this game is closer to a virtual fu... more
As you may have heard, MotorStorm was recently delayed and then officially crippled from a 1080p 60 FPS pie-in-the-sky to a 720p 30 FPS reality. One of the comments by Toneman in the discussion pretty much sums up my thoug... more
Are there family members nearby? Drag them over to the computer so you can explain why you'll be ignoring them after you suffer their dry turkey. If you have an Xbox 360 (or will be buying one at midnight) listen up... more
Sony has released updated shots of their two PS3 versions (neither of which are in production yet... sigh) which show the design differences between the 20GB and 60GB models. It does not take a professor of psychology to ... more
THE PROMISE - Microsoft reps have been billing this game as the next big thing after Halo. We've heard stuff like "a game 12 years in the making, an incredible modified version of the Unreal 3 engine with advanced swordpla... more
5/9 Update: IGN has released a comparison article between the two motion sensitive controllers. Basically it explains the two different motion sensing technologies, calms NES fanboys down, yadda yadda. You know, if this ... more
Yeah, so this is a trailer showing off the ridiculous visuals Crytek's conjuring for all you graphics whores out there. While I'm always a gameplay-over-visuals guy, I do have to say ... it is impressive stuff. Watch t... more
I was watching the Real Madrid vs. Bayern Munich Champions League semifinal (some videogamer, right?) and during one of the commercial breaks, up popped the much-maligned Prototype 2 trailer. You know, the one with Johnny Cas... 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
It’s me!A couple weeks ago I shot a segment for the Spike VGA nomination special for GameTrailers TV and it is airing tonight (on Spike, midnight EST)! So, watch it! And also watch the actual VGAs on Sunday night. I am ... more
I never know how to handle these “appearance” posts. I don’t want to look like a tool by writing all about me (look , I’m on T.V.!), but at the same time, I don’t want to miss out on an opportuni... more
A couple of weeks ago I got a call from GameTrailers asking if I would like to represent Destructoid on the site’s new television show, GameTrailers TV. Since I would do anything for Destructoid (and I mean anything) I ... more
The DTOID Show: THQ Bankruptcy, SimCity DRM & The War Z
