There’s not a whole lot about Kinect that intrigues me, butPowerup Heroescertainly does. While other motion controlled fighters have opted for realism,Heroesturns your avatar into a superpowered hero out to rescue the world from a series of alien invaders. Each boss you defeat imbues you with their power and, theoretically, the end game could be a lot of fun. Fittingly, the game has gotten a comic book spin-off. Oddly enough it reminds me of thecomics that used to come with kids’ Skechers....

Are you looking forward toKingdom Hearts 358/2on the DS? I’d like to see how they flesh out the story of the series games. It’s supposed to give more background on Organization XIII. The release is still about a month away, so you still have time to decide where you’re going to pre-order it. I was looking around to do just that, and I noticed that a few places have different pre-order bonuses....

Are you guys all over the shock that Konami’sCastlevania: Judgmentfor the Wii is a fighting game starring your favorite characters from theCastlevaniauniverse? Well I have some news for you, according to the game’s producer Koji Igarashi, it’s not a fighter — it’s an action fighting … game … thing. OK, never mind what Igarashi and Konami want us to refer to as the game as. Plain and simple,Judgmentis a fighter. At least that’s the impression I got when I went hands-on with the game yesterday....

If there’s three things we love at Destructoid it’s games, beer, and sitting down. That’s why we’re proud to announced that we’ve teamed up withLoveSAC, makers of alternative furniture and the GamerSac gaming chair, for the First Annual LoveSAC NES Classic! The event will take place atBarcadein Brooklyn, NY on November 16 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will pit players against one another in a series of speed runs in classic 8-bit Nintendo games, includingSuper Mario Bros....

[As originally posted onTomopop] When I think of games I’d like to see produce some figures,Guitar Heroisn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. Actually, it’s not even the third or fourth (those areImagine BabiezandPet Shop Monogotari). But hey, a good figure is a good figure, no matter its origins. Except this isn’t a good figure. This doesn’t even begin toapproachthe basic requirements of a “Good Toy” classification — that is, unless the qualifications have recently been changed to “truck-stop-hooker-faced butt rocker that looks like it was carved out of soap at a summer camp for special needs children....

Yesterday, we showed you a newadfor Sega’s Kinect horror gameRise of Nightmares. That video… was for plebeians.Here’sthe one you want to watch, complete with aLook Who’s Talking Tootwistending.

Fancy some new gameplay footage fromMetal Gear Online? If that’s what you woke up hoping for this morning, then fret not, because we have you covered. This is a nice lengthy slice of sniper gameplay, showing how oddly subdued an onlineMetal Geargame is going to potentially be compared to the explosions and homophobic taunting we’ve come to commonly associate with multiplayer gaming. Notice the keyword though — potentially.In the right hands of the right players, this could be a thoughtful, strategic, more mature online gaming experience that we don’t see enough of in the action genre....

In case you hadn’t checked the Community Games channel lately, it has completely blown up since the New Xbox Experience debuted last week. A handful of the titles showing up are exceptional, likeArtoon, but a good percentage of the games are utter crap — actually, that might be giving too much credit. But like I’ve stressed in the past, the few good games available make up for all the bad....

You know how it works! With the help of each other, try to figure out all of the disguised game covers. They all share a common theme that, once solved, can help you figure out the harder ones. This week we’ve got a simple theme that shouldn’t be too hard to unravel, but there’s a few challenging teasers that might bring the silhouette sleuths out of the shadows. As usual, don’t be afraid to shout out ideas and work together as a team to solve them all....

Microsoft is really making a serious push into retail, as evidenced by what I’ve seen today at the opening of their first retail store. One of the biggest issues with software sales at retail is the real estate that it takes up on the sales floor. you’re able to’t possibly have every product available for the consumer to buy. Or can you? At Microsoft Stores, customers will be able to purchase anything in the Microsoft catalog of PC software, even if the retail box is not carried in the store....

“Hey, I’m Nathan Drake. If you’re the adventurous type like me, then get in on the Subway taste for adventure,” says Nathan Drake in the above video. The idea of videogames and marketing departments working together is nothing new. We’ve had Master Chief adorning Mountain Dew bottles and Slurpees made to resemble Kratos. However, theUncharted 3star has gone a step further by “acting” in a commercial of his very own. He details the “Taste For Adventure” promowe posted earlier, where you can buy sandwiches in exchange for game content....

Last time, Nathan Spencerwas working for the fire department. Unfortunately, he was a little too rough at his job and killed a poor little kitty. Out of a job, Nathan searched for a new place to work. Well, somehow he got lucky amidst this horrible economy climate and found a job as an office middle manager. Who would have guessed a guy who has saved the world from certain doom could do so well as an office manager?...

Admit it, deep down inside, you know you really wanted to getCooking Mamafor the DS. You felt the pull of Mama’s siren song, enticing you to slice, dice, roll and chop ingredients for her approval. You knew you were always inexplicably drawn to everything cute and Japanese. You knew all this, and yet you still resistedCooking Mama.Well, good luck resisting Mama twice. Because this April,Cooking Mama: Cook Offwill be coming to the Wii, and as you can see from theGametrailersvideo above, the cuteness level is still cranked up to 11....