It’s the final week of 2010, and what would a videogame website be without some kind of anticipated games list for 2011, right?! The Destructoid staff has gone through the mighty list of games coming out next year, and we’re kicking off our week-long look at our most anticipated games by starting with our top picks for the Xbox 360. Join me, along with the dreamy Nick Chester, as we gush about our favorite upcoming games for the Xbox 360....
When I was a young child, game consoles were basically a babysitter for me. I didn’t really throw fits or do anything that would be considered destructive, and so my parents felt comfortable leaving me alone with books and games, since they didn’t feel it’d have some great detrimental effect on me. They didn’t understand them in the least, but at least they didn’t think games would be some life-sucking device, as long as I sat far enough away from the TV screen....
Living in the world ofDeus Ex: Human Revolutionmay seem like a riot, with its fancy nanotech and augmentations for all, but it’s more like a world filled with actual ones. This latest live action trailer shows you more about the backdrop of the game without spoiling anything. It sets up events for the state of societal unrest as depicted in the rioting displayed in some of the earliertrailers, and even hints at the Illuminati at the end....
Sega has confirmed that it will be releasingYazuza 2for the PlayStation 2 in North America sometime in 2008. The popular Japanese game saw release in December of 2006, and received universal acclaim by the press. The game kicks off one year after the events of the first game, with players taking on the role of the “retired” Kiryu Kazuma. But as they say about the Yazuka, “once you go black, you never go back,” and Kazuma gets wrapped up in some sneaky business once again....
RedLynx announced today their latest project,MotoHerozfor the Nintendo WiiWare service. This downloadable racing game featuring three major gameplay options, a single player adventure, four-player local multiplayer, and the daily online competition. In the online mode a new tracks open daily to let you compete on leaderboards. It says that physics are a major factor in the gameplay too. Pretty much exactly what too expect from these guys. MotoHerozis slated to be finished around the end of this year or in early 2011....
After being pushed out of 2011,Twisted Metalhas a firm release date: Valentine’s Day 2012. (That’s February 14 for those who aren’t romantically inclined.) “What I predict is gonna happen is you’re going to have people going out to very romantic dinners,” said developer Eat Sleep Play’s David Jaffe, “and then coming home and playing the crap out of local split-screen, and then obviously e know what’s gonna happen after that, because there’s nothing more romantic than blowing your significant other up with a maniacal demonic ice cream truck....
Yeah, if youread my posts, you already knew. Still, official announcements! Delight! Celebration! We do have some new information, as well: it seems that the Wii and DS versions announced will actually be Director’s Cut versions, featuring a new narrative woven into the original storyline. This will either please or horrify fans of the original PC version, no doubt, along with the new puzzles that have been added that will utilize Nintendo’s “unique control methods”....
You have to love the smell of irony in the morning. Ubisoft does not condone PC piracy, much like the rest of the games industry. Despite the stance, it was found that Ubisoft utilized a “no-cd” crack to fix a problem users were experiencing withRainbox Six Vegas 2on the Direct2Drive service. According togamesindustry.biz, the issue began when Ubisoft created a patch forRainbow Six Vegas 2that added new multiplayer modes and fixes for the PC version....
After what seems like a hellishly-long wait, Valve will be releasing the free “Survival Pack” expansion forLeft 4 Deadnext week. Available for both Xbox 360 and PC, it adds a new “Survival” mode, as well as two more campaigns playable in Versus mode. On its officialLeft 4 Deadblog, Valve goes into some detail about the mode. At its core, the “Survival” mode simply “pits your team against never ending waves of infected,” with the goal to survive for a record length of time....
Valve’s Gabe Newell recently wrote an article forEdgethat dealt with procedural narrative (dynamic AI that can handle level scripting by itself), and how it’s used for both a story and a gameplay device inLeft 4 Dead. As a result of procedural narrative a lot of traditionally human play testing isn’t necessarily needed anymore. But that isn’t going to stop Valve. In fact, human play testing may enter into the realm of crazy weird....
Wait, what? Prior toLeft 4 Dead, Valve was working on a prototype for a “flying fairy game.” In an interview with PC Gamer, Gabe Newell and other leading men at Valve spilled the details. “That was a useful failure to us, because it was so clearlydumbthat it made us say, ‘OK, what are we actually good at that we can do instead?'” “It was so bad,” Gabe explains, “you wanted to ask yourself: ‘How could we make a game that was this bad?...
TheVampire Killertheme from theCastlevaniaseries is by far one of the most recognizable gaming themes out there, and it’s probably one of the best themes from the days of 8-bit gaming. It has also shown up in almost every iteration of theCastlevaniaseries, morphing and changing as time progressed. It’s hard to really get a grasp on it all thanks to the many iterations of the theme, but arecently discoveredYouTube vid puts it all together for us....
It’s been more than seven years since Blizzard releasedWarcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and yet here I am playing the real-time strategy with as much enthusiasm as when I first bought it. No, the single-player campaign isn’tthatgood — I’m referring to the game’s immensely popular mod scene. I recently had a sudden urge to dig out my copy, along with the expansion,The Frozen Throne, and I can’t tell you how happy it’s made me....
