In thelast debate, we discussed whichPokémonspecies and game was our favorite. With hundreds of critters and a dozen different games to choose from, it was probably the most varied range of votes I’ve ever seen in a debate before. While the winner was pretty clear, there was a ten way tie for both fourth and fifth place, and over sixty different pokémon with votes cast for them. Below are the top results from each category:...
Subscription-based videogame rental service Gamefly is snaking its tendrils into the realm of digital PC gaming, unveiling plans for its own gaming download service. GameFly will use its own digital client that offers a “a large and ever-growing collection of titles” for both PC and Mac. As well as a regular digital storefront, GameFly will also be kickstaring a rental service known as PC Unlimited Play, a subscription service that lets users download and play games as much as they like....
You might recognizeGaming Headsas the company who puts out those killer Tank and Heavy statues fromLeft 4 DeadandTeam Fortress 2, respectively. Its new Valve-themed figure isHalf-Life2‘s Headcrab Zombie, complete with exposed intestines and glossy blood. A teaser for this 1/4 scale creeper is all that’savailable currently, but pre-orders are starting very soon: 8:00 AM PDT on October 4. No price has been disclosed yet, although I can already tell you it’s going to demand a large chunk of change....
I’m a big “fan” of theCivilizationseries. I can’t use the word “fan” without massive quotation marks because while I absolutely love playing it and can fall prey to that wonderful “just one more turn” addiction that plagues so manyCivvets, I amcompletely f*cking awfulatCivilizationgames. If I win, it’s either by pure luck (some guy who was about to finish his spaceship gets invaded by another dude, allowing me to finish mine first) or because I’m playing on the easiest difficulty level....
Cobbling together a Quake Engine shooter withQuake 3mod tools is rough work. Introducing a twitch FPS to a new audience, and then getting them to buy it, seems like a brutal challenge. Weeks backwe received wordthat open-source PC shooterNexuizwas headed to PSN and Xbox LIVE Arcade in 2010 with the help of indie developerIllFonic. The studio has licensed the engine and continues to sharpen the visuals, tighten the mechanics, play around with the UI, and fiddle with the formula....
Visceral Games is holding a rad contest forDead Space 2thatgives you a chanceto come up with a hand-to-hand attack for Issac Clarke. From the sound of it, the gorier your attack is, the better. Anyway, ideas can be submitted in the form of video, art, or reliable old text. The call for entries ends on March 26, and then the general public will get to vote on the ten finalists — as chosen by Visceral — throughout the month of April....
Capcom had an official Juri cosplayer show off her stuff during a presentation onSuper Street Fighter IV. Ono-san talked about the new game while the Juri cosplayer posed and mostly stood around looking pretty. Sadly, no purple energy waves or whatever the hell that stuff is shot out of her arm pits … or wherever it’s supposed to come out from. In other news, Destructoid reallyloves Juri. Topher has dibs on her though....
That clip is the cinematic teaser fora just-released 10-person raid dungeon, Zul’Aman. Like previous dungeons sporting the “Zul” prefix, it’s home to trolls and their pseudo-Rastafarian, tribal society. You see, while they originally came off as pale imitations of pro-pot reggae aficionados, the trolls have developed into an amalgam of Haitian voodoo culture, shamanic animal worship, and of course, pale imitations of pro-pot reggae aficionados. you’re able to consider that clip up their to be their ownBraveheart— well, you could if they weren’t fictional, anyway....
By way ofKotaku, it seems some enterprising scoundrels in Chinatown are already putting down the bootleg purses and are ready and willing to sneak you a PlayStation 3. Did Sony screw the pooch on this launch? You betcha. Not only is it completely idiotic that this is happening right now — allegedly — in Chinatown, but according to some recentestimates, the U.S. launch numbers are gonna be chopped down to practically nothing....
With this birthday celebration,Team Fortressis now presumably the same age as those people who call me swears when I hug them with my knife. Rather than us give Valve presents, the team has goodies in store: a hilariously annoying/awesome noisemaker, a party hat, and health and ammo kits have been turned into cake and gifts. Best of all, there’s an inflatable beach ball in spawn that you can shoot/punch/stab. You’ll also find that gibbed players now sprinkle balloons and confetti across the landscape....
Hey, remember that wholeAeria Games/Shaiyacontest thingwe held? Well, it took a little while to tally up all the entrants and make sure all our ducks were in a row, but we’ve finally got it (and thanks for patiently waiting!). We’re proud to announce that the entrant who fulfilled the obligations and emerged victorious was DtoidNirv, who is now the proud owner of a brand new Alienware laptop. Congrats! If you’re bummed you didn’t win, soothe your frayed emotions by going to enter our current contest to win free copies of the newNerdcore calendar....
A couple of months ago,Dyson and I went down to this townin the middle of f*cking nowhere called Joshua Tree. It’s about two hours east of Los Angeles (or five hours east if you’re going on a bus that breaks down halfway there), and the fact that there is civilization out there is amazing. I guess you have to be crazy to live out there. We seriously passed by a house that had a giant boat in their backard....
Created by Dan Flynn, this fan made video shows what happens when the Wii remote is introduced into the world ofThe Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. I feel bad for Link, but you gotta love seeing him run around like a seagull and get tossed into a tree.[ViaDark Diamond Network]
