If you followed the World Cup this summer, you may have seen Argentinian manager Diego Maradona, who came to the position after a storied career as a player. In most sports games, player and manager modes are kept separate. I always thought it would be cool if, say, you played through a two-decade career in a hockey game and went on to be a team’s GM. InFIFA 11, you can finally do that....
Fantasy and game-related book publisher Tor Books is set to publish aBioShockbook this fall, according to a page in the publisher’s latest catalogue. Scant details are scant, butGamasutrapulled a minor quote and a juicy suggestion of an author from the teaser. The book will supposedly take readers “deeper into the realms” of theBioShockstoryline. And according to the catalogue’s index, thepagewas written by Ken Levine — a writer and designer for 2K Games’ originalBioShockand arguably the person best equipped to handle Rapture’s story....
Unless Prince has banned you from his Internet for the past few months, you’ll doubtless have heard ofDmCand theunbelievable fan backlashthat resulted from Ninja Theory’s redesign of protagonist Dante. Despite causing ripples of rage throughout the gaming populace, Capcom believes the controversy has been useful. “To be fair, I think some of the strategy here was to create that discussion and dialogue, and I think it drastically raises the visibility of the title versus if we had just done another Dante,” says Capcom’s Christian Svensson....
Earthboundfans! Did you know that Fangamer and Starmen.Nethave been hostingliveEarthboundplaythroughs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday these past few weeks? They’reexpress-shipping anEarthboundcartall across North America so that each chunk of the game is broadcast by a different community member. The event goes until December 6, and you can join in on the fun by playing along with the livestream and submitting your own art, videos, music, etc. Share your story on Fangamer, and while you’re at it, let us know some of your favoriteEarthboundmoments too!...
Rebooting a classic franchise isn’t anything new. But who’d have thoughtChoplifterwould get the high definition treatment? That’s exactly what inXile Entertainment is doing withChoplifter HD, which will get its first public, hands-on debut at Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle this week. We have the first look at the game in action, with a trailer packed with the good stuff: gunfire and explosions. Oh, and a few lives are saved along the way....
Fallout 3is going to sell well, regardless of what the final product ends up looking like. It’s a prediction I’ve pulled from my backside, but one that I think is more than reasonable. Interplay is certainly prepared to rake in the moolah, and has already mentally spent the wealth — it’s planning torevive an in-house dev studiowith an eye to bringing back long-since deceased franchises, chief among them beingEarthworm Jim....
Crave Entertainment has become the fifth company to part ways with the ESA,GamePolitics reports. Although no official announcement has been made, GP has learned from one of its sources that Crave now joins the ranks of Activison, Vivendi, LucasArts and id Software. Crave is arguably the lowest-key departure to date. The only game I know from the company isJade Cocoonon the PSX. Other “notable” titles from the company includeFuture Tactics: The UprisingandThe Bible Game....
Konami, home to such classics asCastlevania, Metal GearandWild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, has revealed one of the more clever promotional contests in recent memory:a competition to design a brand-new unlockable characterfor their upcomingContra 4. Obviously having a bit of your creativity immortalized within one of the pillars of the gaming world such asContraranks right up there with losing your virginity to Lea Thompson circa 1988 as the pinnacle of awesome, but I have to feel a twinge of pity for whichever intern the higher-ups at Konami con into judging this thing....
This week, William Usher of the Web siteCinema Blendwrote a rather scathing editorial aimed at the Destructoid community, as well as the community atNews 4 Gamers. The article concerned reactions toa story I had written, in which Japanese “rape” games were getting renamed “platinum” games, following the controversy overRapeLay, which has been recently banned due to the outrage it caused when it was found for sale on Amazon. A number of N4G and Destructoid users criticized the banning ofRapeLay, which Cinema Blend has in turn used as a jumping point to argue that those same users must logically enjoy the virtual rape of women, since you cannot defend something without liking the idea of it....
It seems your dreams of being both Broadway starandpilot of Star-class transforming steam-powered Spirit Armor suits will have to waitjust one more week, asSakura Wars: So Long, My Love’s release date has been pushed back from March 23rd, 2010 to March 30th, 2010. Don’t worry though, because as promised, it’s coming to both the PS2 and Wii. The PS2 premium edition will come with a Japanese voiceover disc, poster, and art book, while the Wii edition will come at a highly agreeable $29....
Hang out with Venom, Carnage, and Pico live from the Destructoid headquarters today at 4PM Pacific onJustin.Tv/Destructoidas we swing intoDonkey Kong Returnsfor theNintendo Wii. We get down to serious monkey business as we seek out the mysterious donkey in this classic remake. Join us today for more cheeky behavior and daily shenanigans. Destructoid Livestreams daily at 4PM Pacific Monday through Friday and 12PM Pacific weekends onJustin.Tv/Destructoid.
Rise from your graves, my little Altered Beastoids! It’s time for another episode of our tri-weekly nightmare hellride. This time around, we’ve got some zombie news with theDead Islandtrailer and the announcement that Telltale Games will be making all kinds ofvidyas based onThe Walking Dead.I discussedsomeof theotherstuff Telltale was showing off last night, and then went into ramblin’-idiot overdrive and talked aboutMotorstorm Apocalypse. Tara tried to be as excited as me while talking aboutSega games, but I am the excitedest, so she did not succeed....
Who remembersDisgaea? Absolutely everybody? Of course you do. Yes,Disgaea, as camp as a mushroom in tap shoes and twice as brain frying. Don’t get me wrong, I lovedDisgaea, but any game that allows you to level characters up to 10,000 is simply insidious and not to be trusted. Sadly, we are all slaves to the XP and it is time to kneel at its altar once more asDisgaeacomes to the Nintendo DS....
