Over the past few months, it has been a common frustration surrounding any and all discussions ofThe Mana Bar. “I want to go!”, “Why does Brisbane get this?” and “When the hell are they opening in (insert city here).” Well you can finally stop throwing your controllers as the time has come! Co-owner Guy “Yug” Blomberg officially announced today that The Mana Bar will be expanding, with new venues opening before 2011!...
used to be amazing right? They used to teach us what was fun: Golden Eye. Perfect Dark. Banjo Kazooie.Freakin Donkey Kong!Were we just young and delusional? Lately, it feels like Rare doesn’t know how to count higher than 64. Perfect Dark Zero BLOWS. Kameo gets no mercy either. When two different generations of gamers lose their virginity in between the beginning of a game’s production and its final release, you know you have automatically failed....
Sean Devlin is something of a bruiser. Lacking a symbiote, and to our knowledge, not carrying some sort of mutagenic virus, the protagonist of theThe Saboteurhas to handle his business with the might of his fists and his flare for the dramatic. His old fashioned approach to battle — punching a dude square in the face — is a nice departure from the open-world action we’ve been dealing with of late....
Gaming on Facebook is huuuuuge. It stands to reason then that games would want to work as easily as possible with Facebook, and so we receiveBlur‘s Facebook integration. You can see what it will look like above and read how it will act in the paragraph below. The game is going to feature a “Share” button that will let you challenge people to race, share achievements, post screenshots and basically quickly let you put things onto Facebook that people may or may not be interested in (most likely the latter)....
Today’s gaming setup belongs to SakuChan and her room is overrun with anime! Every inch of the place is covered with pictures, toys, movies and more. Check out SakuChan’s C Blog for more picturesof her setup. craineum sings a couple of videogame lullabies, the 2009 complete games list has started, The GHost celebrates one-year at Destructoid, GrumpyTurtle draws Mr. Destructoid, I lost my mind linking to every 10 things you don’t know blogs, and plenty more happened this past week in the Community....
Electronic Arts still seems to be struggling with this whole, “running an online service on its own” gig, and its latest mis-step is to accidentally troll a vast amount of its customers by rubbing their noses in the fact that they weren’t invited to theStar Wars: The Old Republicbeta. A number of gamers (including our own European editor, Maurice Tan) were sent an email by EA thanking them for taking part in the beta, whether they actually got in or not....
This week’s edition of the UK sales chart might as well just be copied and pasted from last week, because it looks almost exactly the same. For the third straight week in a row,Wii Fithas inexplicably topped a chart of videogame sales, proving perhaps once and for all that society is dead on the inside. I mean, really?Wii Fit,FIFA 09andMario & Sonic at the stupid frigging Olympic bastard Games? Again? Who is LEFT in Britain to actuallybuythis stuff?...
Yesterday, we brought you the early news that theUncharted: Drake’s FortuneTrophies patch waspushed out in Europe. A few hours after we ran that story, it appears that Sony and Naughty Dog rolled out the U.S. patch. Now everyone can get in on the Trophy action and finally start building up their list of accomplished tasks. As typical of the Trophy system, there will be three levels of Trophies available for the game....
There was a big stink earlier today overa rumor regarding the supposed prices of upcoming XBLA titlesBraidandCastle Crashers, found on several Japanese blogs including Xbox Japan. The internet has been on fire over the high prices ever since. I’m sure I’ll catch flak for it, but I don’t consider $22.50 to be a ridiculous price to pay forCastle Crashers, a game I would have happily forked over $50 for. Anyway, enough about what I think: apparently Microsoft has had direct contact withShacknewsand clarified that the aforementioned prices are incorrect for both international and domestic markets....
You know the drill when it comes to dungeon crawling RPGs. Endless hack n’ slash action punctuated by fetch/carry quests and trips to the cellar in order to kill 50 giant rats. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all in favor of such RPGs, but sometimes I’d like the gameplay to be as deep as the leveling and loot systems. Luckily,Veneticahas us covered, promising complex combat and hundreds of varying quests....
[Weekend Destructainment is a collection of funny videos brought together from all across the Internet to bring you entertainment on these slow and boring weekends.] Frank Howleymade a parody of Ke$ha’s “TiK ToK” and gave it a very videogame spin. Strangely, it’s pretty catchy. Weekend Destructainment is a little smaller than usual, but there are still some videos here for you to check out. After the break, Dtoider P4KO does a rock cover of someZeldamusic....
What better time to invade than when North Americans are just waking up from their turkey comas? Space Invaders Get Even(1 player, 500 Wii Points), Taito’s WiiWare title that turns the tables of the classicSpace Invadersfranchise by putting players in control over UFOs. I had a chance to play the game at Tokyo Game Show and it played out mostly like a point-and-click affair, with the nunchuck’s analog stick controlling the UFO and the Wii Remote pointing determining where I fired; Earthlings didn’t stand a chance....
Ghostbustersfans and Xbox 360 owners across Europe were more than a bit peeved when theyfirst learnedthat Sony had locked down Terminal Reality’s game for a timed PlayStation 3 release in that region. Destructoid is based in the United States, but we understand your pain… and we’re very sorry. But today we have some good news for you. Destructoid has confirmed with Atari that the North American version ofGhostbustersfor the Xbox 360, set to hit stores on June 16, willnotbe region locked....
