Gamers can’t really be called “courageous” for their pretend exploits in pretend wars with pretend characters, but if we could award at least one man for his out-and-out brass balls, it would be whoever the guy in this video is. He can’t seem to spell worth a crap, but he can certainly take out snipers in the most humiliating way possible. Witness the thorough shame, captured on video for our twisted pleasure....
Everyone has played a game and thought “You know what they should add in the sequel?” Sometimes you would get lucky and said feature would make it into numero dos, but chances are more often than not the sequel came and went, sans your awesome idea. However, the Internet is a helluva drug, and a handful of developers have really put an effort in to listen to their fans and critics by giving gamers what they want, be it through downloadable content, patches, expansion packs, or full-blown sequels....
Destructoid’s least popular podcast, The Podcastle, records tomorrow for all fifteen of its listeners. I have no idea what we’re going to talk about, but I’m sure it will all be videogame related and we won’t go off on any tangents about sex pests and swearing. We never do that. As always, we need some questions and comments from you filthy lot, because we are too lazy and incompetent to come up with our own material....
Sorry for the delay, I’ll just go through all the updates as fast asInternetlypossible. Monday started off with a new map calledNew Pork City. This is the biggest map that has ever been in aSmashgame to date. Tuesday revealed the oldHome-Run Contestis returning. It’s still the same concept, but two new additions have been added. First, the Sandbag can’t fall off the platform anymore thanks to the shield on the platform....
I love hardware porn. Those bright neon tubes, orange-tinted cooling fans and sexy cases PC gamers give me a serious … well, you know. One of the greatest thing about QuakeCon is checking out the crazy setups in the Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) LAN room. I examined every one of the 3,000+ computers at the event, searching for the best of the best. Here are my favorite setups I found at QuakeCon 2011....
No wait, that honor goes toDuke Nukem Trilogy. How silly of me. It needs to be ten minutes longer, and have more logos to compete!
I’m not the biggest fan of theCall of Dutyfranchise. It takes itself way too seriously. TheMetal Gearseries, however, covers similar thematic territory with tongue planted firmly in cheek. If onlyMetal Gear‘s self-aware bombast and tension-breaking humor could be incorporated into theModern Warfareworld. EnterModern War Gear Solid, a crossover parody that finds Solid Snake teaming up with Infinity War’s Ghost to battle the evil Activistsun empire. It seems that Activistsun has just acquired Outer Heaven and will use the added resources to build the greatest weapon known to man, Modern Gear....
A System Update is scheduled to hit Xbox LIVE this afternoon, but there’s no sense in celebrating the progress of the status bar. AsMajor Nelsonis advising via his blog, this is not the update that adds all those E3-announced goodies like Twitter and Facebook and Last.FM. This is just one of those mandatory updates that does something only tech gremlins or a wizard can understand. At the end of the day, it adds WPA 2 Wireless Adapter support....
In honor of the upcomingRally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear AliveI shall deliver all the news this weekend twice: First the sane way, and then the fear way. It’s the weekend, I get to do stuff like this (I hope… please don’t fire me). Also, Destructoid Baltimore/DC is making loose plans to be at the rally so you should too. Sane:THQ boss Brian Farrellrecently spokeon how his company has noticed that people buy games at lower price points....
“What are you selling?” asked the hooded guy inResident Evil 4. Me? Nothing really. I got this Sony netbook up for grabs. THQ, on the other hand, has a whole bunch of sequels for you, stashed away in their jacket. From THQ’s earnings call today, several announcements were made for the next couple of years: Wow, guys. Lots of potentially huge games lined up. Although early, I remember Home Front being particularly nice looking (shown above)....
Ubisoft’s Rob Cooper hascalled Sony outon its handling of the PSP format, stating that it lacks direction and is too intimidating for the “casual” crowd. Ubisoft feels the platform has potential, but wants to see Sony steering it competently before throwing any real weight behind it. “Sony needs to show us a bit more about what its plans are to convince the publisher to invest lots more money into it,” stated Cooper....
We here at Destructoidlove us some Video Games Live. However, so far our Japanese readers (could you raise your hands, we’d like to do a head count) haven’t been able to experience the awesome as the concert series has never arrived in Japan. I know, it seems weird that one of the world’s best known videogame music concerts hasn’t been to a country where most of their music is from, but it is the case....
No,Warhammer Onlineuser, you weren’t charged a monthly fee 16 times in a single month because your Chaos Marauder is justthat baller. It’s because Mythic screwed up. Thegoodnews — inflection depending on how far the coffee shot out of your mouth upon glancing at the billing flub on your statement — is that the developer has realized something is amiss, is getting refunds to users, and is addressing the core of the issue....
