Hopefully, you’ve already heard the good news thatTrackMania Nations Foreverwas released this week for the fabulousprice of free, but if not, there’s plenty of time to get the game downloaded and installed before Friday Night Fights begins. Although ourCall of Duty 4tournament isn’t tonight (no, I don’t know when it is either), Xbox 360 players can still win prizes by way of theLive Fire Weekend. Honestly now, who doesn’t love a good prize?...
Composers of titles likeAssassin’s Creed, Bioshock, Call of Duty, Conan, Crisis, Dantes Inferno, Destroy All Humans!, Dragon Age, Fallout, God of War, Hitman, Mass Effect, Price of Persia andUnchartedwil gather at an event called “The Maestros of Video Games in Burbank, CA on June 11. A composer Q&A panel is scheduled, and a composer signing session will follow. This event kicks off at 2:00 p.m. atDark Delicacies Books & Collectibles, 3512 W....
It’s not often we highlight trivia games on Games Time Forgot. In fact, I wouldn’t be stretching it in the slightest to say that we haveneverinducted a trivia game into our almost-selective hall of fame. Until today. You Don’t Know Jack: The Ride, coloquially known asYDKJ4, is, by far the best entry in the irreverent trivia series. It basically acts as an effective conclusion to theYDKJcollection, despite the fact that (A) it’s notactuallythe last game in the series, and (B) it’s not like any of the previous games had an overarching plot which needed to be concluded....
Fresh from the PlayStation press conference at gamescom 2010 we get word that Sega has “pulled a Sony” and added both Move support and 3D toVirtua Tennis 4. Being developed right now for the PS3 by the Virtua Tennis team in Japan,VT4will come out in 2011 with full support for your shiny wand and your goofy glasses. Sega says that, “the advanced motion sensors of PlayStation Move precisely track both the fast and subtle movements of the controller allowing for pinpoint accurate shots as players improve their racquet skills....
News of Square Enix’s upcomingFinal Fantasy Crystal ChroniclesWiiWare title seemed to comeout of nowherein the Fall of 2007. If you’ve ever wondered how Square Enix got the jump on WiiWare development, you’ll be glad to know that their panel at the 2008 Game Developers Conference did a great job of detailing exactly how this title came to be. The session was hosted by Toshiro Tsuchida (battle designer forFinal Fantasy XIII) and Fumiaki Shiraishi (server programmer forFront Mission OnlineandFinal Fantasy XI)....
As expected, theMass Effect 2universe will continue to expand beyond free downloadable missions. Earlier this afternoon I watched game project director Casey Hudson plow through the game’s first chunk of paid DLC, “Kasumi’s Stolen Memory,” that looks to incorporate a new character, a new SMG, and even a unique way to play this April 6th. The content, which can be launched at any point during the narrative, can be divided into two themed swathes....
Organized by Naughty Dog co-lead designer Richard Lemarchand, “GDC Microtalks 2010: Ten Speakers, 200 Slides, Limitless Ideas) accomplished pretty much what it said on the tin. Ten different game designers from drastically different background and areas gave five minute talks aided by automatically advancing slides. Including the likes of Jesse Schell, Ian Bogost, and Suzanne Seggerman, the session was almost overwhelmingly packed full of intelligent stuff, all (or mostly) based around the central theme, “play with us....
It seems that legendary zombie movie maker George A. Romero isn’t just interested in movies. In an interview I conducted with him yesterday in support of his filmSurvival of the Dead, he admitted that he was interested in making a videogame, and that he had been approached by many companies about doing it, including Capcom. “I’d like to do a game. I’d like to work with a gamer on it,” Romero said after admitting that he doesn’t play games very often, unlike fellow horror iconJohn Carpenter....
Tomato has completed his translation ofMother 1+2for Game Boy Advance, which should have a good number of you rejoicing. You can read all about the patch, and download it, bygoing to this page. The main focus here isMother 1. Not only has the script been translated in full, but tweaks to things like text boxes, menus, font readability, and more have been made. If there were ever a time to give this game a shot, now would be it....
EA’sThe Godfather IIhits stores in less than a month, so the final push to inform gamers about thedynamic, open-worldtitle has begun. This developer diary, which looks at the Don’s View — the game’s RTS-like interface — is part of that, so check it out if you’re not familiar with the setup. The video tells you to be smart and take consigliere Tom Hagen’s advice; he explains how the Don’s View works (yayRobert Duvallvoice-over!...
You think Harmonix is working on the nextRock BandbeyondGreen Day: Rock Band? Yeah, me too. But how about a game featuring the music of hardcore hip-hop duo M.O.P.? Didn’t see that one coming, eh? According toThe Royalty Network, Harmonix Music Systems recently put in license usage requests for the following songs: You might notice these aren’t tracks that would fit anywhere in Harmonix’s currentRock Bandtitles without someseriousimagination. So what could they be for?...
Every time someone on a gaming site posts a picture of a video game cake, a reader just has to comment on it with “must be a slow news day”. Well thanks to people like that, other gaming sites were forced toban postsabout yummy cakes and now you’ll have to come to Destructoid for all your delicious video game cake news. And if Destructoid is suddenly forced to stop posting pictures of cakes, then there is alwaysGame Cakes....
I made a short video about how to trick people into thinking you’re halfway decent atMega Man 9.
