Weekend Destructainment: Hey, listen

Hey, listen to this song called “Hey, Listen.” It’s really good. LISTEN! LISTEN! LISTEN! After you’ve listened, then go share your indie dreamz with Mega64. Then stand up forPokemonrights. Next, ninjas fail horribly inShogun 2. Followed by the real relationship between Banjo and Kazooie. Next, it’s a funnyCrysis 2easter egg. Then it’s back-to-backDuck Huntin real life videos. Followed by the latest episode of Nuclear Coleslaw. The Destructainment ends with a rag-time arrangement of theGhosts n’ Goblinstheme....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 120 words · Daniel Chavez

Weekend Destructainment: Skyrim is bonertastic

Skyrim will give you a boner. Fact. The sexy keeps on going with someSuper Marioporno action. Then it’s a music video made through the Kinect. Next up, check out what a Capcom Fight Club is like. Then it’s some “forgotten” NES games. Weirdness continues with The Big Heavy. Then it’s thePokemonintro remade in real life. Next, it’s aWorld of Warcraftdance party. Then it’s some sweet bus tricks inGrand Theft Auto IV....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 85 words · Kenneth Ashley

Weekend Reading: What Sony needs to do to pull ahead

So, this week we’ve seen a ton of news come out from Sony. Early on, we got the announcement that they’ll be cutting the price on the PS3 60GB model by $100, sending the sales of the system shooting up. Next, at E3, we also got the announcement of the PSP redesign, along with a reconfirmation of Metal Gear Solid 4 as a PS3 exclusive. Sony had some great announcements coming out of the gate....

June 15, 2025 · 5 min · 977 words · Stephanie Price

Whip confirmed in Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings

It’s a shame we still don’t know much about LucasArts’ upcoming Wii titleIndiana Jones and the Staff of Kings. Instead of lamenting we’ll just show you the screenshots (available in the gallery) we’ve procured from an asset disc given by the publisherslashdeveloper at E3. As you’ll observe,Staff of Kingshas a minimalistic HUD. You may also notice the stunning lack of beer bottles and golden trinkets — two prominent objects shown in the teaser LucasArts released a few weeks ago....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 122 words · Matthew Gonzales

Xenoblade gets artwork, music, Classic Controller options

Upcoming Wii RPGXenobladehas updatedits official sitewith some fresh artwork and a lovely slice of pretty new music for your ears to lap up like fresh, delicious cream. I sincerely recommend that you fire up the site and select “BGM 2” for some rather delightful aural treats. Very nice track indeed, I must say. Among the assets, it has also been confirmed thatXenobladewill support the Classic Controller as well as the more typical Nunchuck/Wiimote combo....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Jesus Harris

You don’t say! Gran Turismo PSP to be late

The namesGran Turismoand Polyphony Digital synonymous with delays, so it should come to no surprise that the wait for aPlayStation Portable version ofGran Turismowill be just a bit longer. And by “bit,” we mean probably a year or more. Games Radartells us that series creator Kazunori Yamauchi that he is still working on the title, but we shouldn’t expect it until afterGran Turismo 5(PS3) is released. What?GT5?Gran Turismo 5: Prologueisn’t even out, and itwas promised by December 13thof this year!...

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Marc Gomez

Zelda: Heart for the Hero

On my perilous quest to find you all videos of the Destructainment kind, I will tend to come across ones that deserve their own spotlight rather than the orgy that I usually make the videos partake in. Such is the case with thisLegend of Zeldaparody calledHeart for the Hero.Normally, I try and stay away from Flash movies forced onto video players, but this is too damn funny to skip on this time....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 283 words · Anthony Nielsen

Zombie City

Alan Gordon, a game programmer, has postedZombie City Tacticsover at his blog Fission Mailed.The game is a crude tactics game that actually gets quite fun. Your troops are fighting off the hoards of man-eating zombies. You conquer more territory to build more units, while the zombies keep coming out of their little obelisks, until you take control of the obelisk. The game ‘s graphics are lacking, but it quickly becomes engrossing....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Tina Meyers

A new, extremely violent The Darkness trailer to start your morning

There’s nothing like some execution style violence to get me going in the morning.While I have to admit that this trailer doesn’t quite get me as exciting as myhands-on time with the game, there’s a lot to love here. If anything, the video shows the wide variety of ways in which you may really screw up someone’s day.And in the end, really, isn’t that what it’s all about? There’s nothing like some execution style violence to get me going in the morning....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Sandra Wilkerson

A wild new Humble Bundle appears!

In what might be this morning’sworst kept secreton the Internet, a new Humble Bundle was revealed through an unlisted YouTube video: the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle. While the video itself is spreading through Twitter like wildfire at the time of writing,Indie Gamesnotes that the bundlewill be available at 9:30 PSTit’s live now on theHumble Bundle website! Rather than being a collection of indie games, this bundle focuses on Finnish indie studio Frozenbyte and includes the following games:Trine,Shadowgrounds Survivor, the originalShadowgrounds,Jack ClawandSplot....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Terrence Arroyo

Access your Xbox Live account from your iPhone

If you can’t get enough of Xbox Live and cry every time you have to leave the house, then you are in luck! A new App has beenmade availablefor the iPhone which allows you to manage your Xbox Live profile on the go, granting you the sacred power to accept friend requests, see who’s online and send messages. 360 Liveis currently priced at $1.99, but Microsoft once declared that any App that takes advantage of Xbox Live should be free, so that price tag could disappear....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Rachel Dominguez

Age of Conan’s ‘Rise of the Godslayer’ expansion dated

Still playingAge of Conan, Funcom’sConanMMO? Great, OK, know this: the launch date of the prequel expansion, “Rise of the Godslayer,” has been confirmed as May 11th. It will be available as a retail package as well as a download, but you may want to consider grabbing the boxed copy: it comes with a pet and a “package of virtual items. (Both have pre-order bonuses that net pets as well, apparently.)...

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Melissa Jackson

Analyst: 3DS games should be $20-$25

MR Research analyst Billy Pidgeon has called out Nintendo on its $39.99 MSRP average for3DStitles, stating that games need to be around half that price to succeed. “Nintendo needs to change its business fundamentally,” he said. “With Wii and DS, Nintendo built large installed bases but failed to energize those bases. Selling in hardware is important, but Nintendo must increase attach rates and third party opportunity dramatically. “Lower 3DS hardware prices only address part of the problem....

June 14, 2025 · 1 min · 209 words · Michael Farrell