Vindictushas been out since October so this may be old news to some of you but I played it for the first time earlier today. I typically don’t like MMORPGs or most RPGs in general because the whole “let’s take turns hitting each other!” is annoying to me. Nexon’sVindictus, however, isn’t really like what I was expecting and is more about the action. To the point that it reminded me a lot ofGauntlet....

Hey, rememberDead Island?! No? That’s okay, since the last time we saw some real info on this project wasback in 2009. Developer Techland and publisher Deep Silver have been quietly working on their zombie title for the past few years now and Destructoid was among the select few who got an early look at the updated game. ImagineBorderlandsset on theJust Cause 2island with theLeft 4 Deadstyle of zombies, featuring a quest system similar toFallout 3and the weapons system ofDead Rising 2....

PlayingLost Odysseyto completion taught me one very important thing about myself: I hate RPGs. Not the fun sort of hate that evokes a misanthropic glee — the kind of hate one usually reserves for Fox News and Uwe Boll — but a depressing, unspectacular, bummer hate that I found difficult to put into words. That is, until I playedThe Linear RPG. A clever game-as-game-criticism in the same vein asAchievement Unlocked,The Linear RPGreduces the JRPG structure to its most basic, minimal parts, and reveals the underlying inanity of it all....

Here is everything you need to know aboutResearch and Development: – You can download ithere – Despite being a mod,it is better than the entirety ofHalf-Life: Episode Oneand most ofHalf-Life 2. A puzzle-based mod where your character is never allowed to wield a gun,Research and Developmenthas better level design and more imaginative situations than most first-person games I’ve ever played. You know those moments in really well-designed puzzle games likeBraidorPortalwhere a solution reveals itself and you think, “wow — how clever”?...

Irrational Games continue the slow leak ofBioShock Infiniteinfo today by releasing a paltry four screenshots for the upcoming title. And by upcoming, I mean it’s coming out in 2012. It’s like they’re trying to kill us here. They are pretty, though, you have to give ’em that. They know it, too — they’ve made two of the images into graphics suitable for desktop wallpapering.Get them here. Irrational Games continue the slow leak ofBioShock Infiniteinfo today by releasing a paltry four screenshots for the upcoming title....

Ah, that music — that glorious music. It’s like comfort food to me.Last week during TGS, Square Enix showed off a new trailer for upcoming DS gameDragon Quest IX. For some reason it was not released to the public, leading me to push a few old ladies into mud puddles. Luckily, someone broke the rules and decided to record the trailer and post it on the Internet. Yay, hooligans!Since the surprising reveal a couple years back thatDragon Quest IXwould be a Nintendo DS exclusive,DQIXhas gone from a heavily multiplayer,Secret of Mana-esque game to slowly morphing back to its traditional, turn-based RPG roots....

Breaking news:In the wakeof today’sshocking revelationthat internet rockstar Joseph Leray has allegedly been involved in the dark world of videogames, new evidence shows Leray partaking of what is assumed to be some form of mind-control serum, administered by known practitioner of the dark arts,Dan Paladin. It is believed that this serum affects one’s ability to live without videogames, thus enslaving Mr. Leray into the service ofPaladin and his cohorts. In an effort to protect the citizenry, hordes of laser-equipped armadillos have been unleashed upon the residence of Mr....

I’m not known for my positive Kinect articles, but a reader shared a little story he experienced firsthand and it was heartwarming enough to share. Payne works in an unnamed retail outlet and was demoing Microsoft’s hype machine to customers when a mother approached him. “A single mother of about eight kids came in, one of them was disabled in a wheelchair and couldn’t move his hands,” Payne explains. “The only part of his body he had control over was his head and arms to his elbows....

I love theMetal Gearseries, andMGS4was a great send-off for Solid Snake, but I’m itching to see what else Hideo Kojima is capable of. Hopefully we will see some new flavors on Kojima’s menu, as he is directing not one buttwo new videogamesat the time of writing. As discussed in the latestFamitsu, the first game Kojima is working on will be made in a style similar to his previous work, while the second yet-to-be-announced title is developed with a restructured Kojima Productions and has the Western market firmly in mind....

Despite all the legal wrangling and public airing of dirty laundry, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick still wants Jason West and Vince Zampella to know that he loves them. The former Infinity Ward bosses were fired under a bitter cloud and have been engaged in a high profile slapfight with Activision ever since, but Kotick has attempted to demonstrate that there’s a heart under all the decayed and brittle anti-flesh. “Since we terminated the two executives at Infinity Ward, approximately 35 others have resigned and it is likely that few more people will leave as well,” stated Kotick during a financial call....

Ina recent interview withEdge, Playdead game director Arnt Jensen explained that the Danish dev’s next game will take three-and-a-half years to make. “A good game takes time,” says Playdead CEO Dino Patti. Game director Arnt Jensen describes the yet-unnamed project as “more ambitious thanLimbo.” Still, three-and-a-half years seems like a long time, yes? Perhaps not when you consider that Playdead are ditching the proprietary engine they used forLimboin favor of Unity....

What moreneeds to be said? If you own a Wii, one of the greatest games of the 16-bit era,Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, will only cost you $8 (800 points in Wii currency). Other games that areset to hit the Virtual Console todayareComix Zone,Bonanza Bros., andGain Ground; all of which are Sega Genesis titles, and will also cost $8 a piece. But really, who cares?Link to the Past!...

[Tune in toSaturday Morning Hangoverevery Saturday at 10am Pacific for the latest Xbox Live Indie Games, co-op play and assorted hijinks. We have a couch! Come join us live onDestructoid’s Justin.tv channel!] Please, mom? Guess not. Time again to get up early and face the day. What new horror and indignity will the morning sun bring? It’s Saturday, so that probably relates to the Xbox Live Indie Games we’ll be playing....