Does wrestling still have as much of an audience as it did years ago? I can only speak for myself, of course, but I haven’t watched Monday Night Raw in nearly five years. However, in high school, I spent countless weekday afternoons playing the PS1 gamesWWF SmackDown!andWWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Rolewith my friends, and we were all really into wrestling back then. I haven’t played a wrestling videogame since the disappointingWWF SmackDown!...

[Editor’s note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now onour community blogs.] One of the troublesome facts about any game with even a smidgen of plot is that, somehow, the player needs to be reined in to that plot in some fashion in order for the game to progress....

I get bored of light gun shooters rather quickly, but I’ve always had a soft spot Sega’s arcade gameBrave Firefighters. It used a hose peripherals that you would aim at the screen to put out blazing fires, and yes, it was ridiculous. While I gave up on waiting for such peripherals to come to consoles, it does look like I’ll be getting close with the Epicenter Studios-developedReal Heroes: Firefighterfor the Wii....

Chuck Greene and Frank West are joiningforces inDead Rising 2: Case Westwhich was released today on Xbox Live. The standalone expansion immediately follows the events ofDead Rising 2and sees the two heroes searching for the truth at Phenotrans Facility on the outskirts of Fortune City. New zombies, new weapons and new Combos all await you in this 800 MS Points expansion. Also officially out later this week is Halfbrick’sRaskullsfeaturing Mr. Destructoid!...

Microsoft has been doing a good job of getting the word out about Xbox LIVE Arcade releases lately, but now that we’re out of the special summer and fall line-ups, it’s back to the norm. Unless you actively keep up on this stuff, today’s releases are likely to be seemingly out of nowhere. Interesting week, for sure. I can’t speak for the two new titles (Guwangewas originally released in 1999), but they definitely look worthy of the time it takes to download their demos....

Wedbush Morgan’s report on the videogame industry seems to be the gift that keeps on giving. Yesterday, we spoke abouthow Pachter predictedthat Sony would surpass the Xbox 360 in six years’ time, and today we have another nugget of gold from the analyst’s huge document — talking about how a hi-def Wii couldseriously hurtthe PS3’s comeback chances. “In our view, if Nintendo can offer such a device by year-end 2010, it will be in a position to seriously damage Sony’s chances of a comeback this cycle,” claims the report....

Many of you all ready know that I love all thingsPaul Robertson. FromPirate Baby Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006toKings of Power 4 Billion %; everything Paul has made is undeniably awesome. The latest animation from Paul sees him promoting Syke energy drink. The drink isn’t real (Syke, get it?) but after watching the video, I really want Syke energy drink. I WANT LIFE TO BE LIKE A VIDEOGAME TOO! You’ll see a lot of nods to videogames in this faux ad....

Header image by Phallus Knife Fight, to whom I say: if you turn the paper sideways, I don’t have to crop half your work. Just throwing that out there. Tonight, the Podtoid crew will discuss subjects including, but not limited to: Eidos review controversy,Wind Waker, gamers’ sense of entitlement, and bald space marines. As is usually the case when it comes to typical news episodes like this, we need questions from our listeners (i....

While the Namco Bandai-published, Blitz Arcade-developedPowerUp Foreverwill likely beovershadowed byMeteoswhen it launches on Xbox LIVE Arcade this Wednesday for 800 Microsoft Points, that’s not to say it will be a bad game. As a matter of fact, it sounds kind of neat.PowerUp Foreveris an arcade shooter in which you fly through procedurally generated environments while killing enemy “Guardians” and collecting the energy orbs they leave behind. You know where this is headed, right?...

The Israeli company PrimeSense, who built the technology in Microsoft’sKinectmotion control system, is now looking put their tech into everything they can. PrimeSense president Aviad Maizels said that the company wants to, “expand to all electronic devices in order to make them more user-friendly.” Now flush with a $50 million dollar investment, the company will probably be putting this stuff into toasters before we know it. See? Everybody laughed at the gamers when they said that this “Project Natal” stuff was just a fancy cover for SkyNet....

Oh dear. It looks like the PlayStation 3 version of upcoming action gameResident Evil 5will come with yet another annoying forced install that serves no greater purpose than to piss people off.MTVis reporting that their retail PS3 version of the game demands that 5GB of space remain on the PS3 hard drive — the typical calling card of forced installs. We don’t have a retail PS3 version in our clutches (we’re rocking a debug 360 version) but be warned that if this is the sort of thing that affects your buying decisions, it is there for consideration....

Look, I like the PSP Minis idea. I like a lot of the games released so far. They recently announced PS3 compatibility. You’d think the format would have taken off already, but some studios are pointing out problems with the format and the delivery method, both of which they feel are holding Minis back. Alex Aktion of Beatshapers, the studio behind titlesBreakQuestandMelodyBloxx: “The problem is that the PSP audience won’t pay much....

I think it is safe to say that we are all aware of thisKinect thingand thatPlayStation Move stuff, but who is actually going to buy this stuff?According to the EEDARnot many people. According to their numbers the purchase intent for Move and Kinect“ranked relatively low” on its charts. The two motion control gaming peripherals failed to break the firm’s top 20 despite their “awareness among the core gaming community.” In a more head to head look the EEDAR says that Move and Kinect have relatively equal purchase intent....