Apr
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Wii NiGHTS officially hits this winter; best Xmas gift since Destructo-Dreidel
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Siliconera brings word from Famitsu that the sequel to the cult-classic NiGHTS Into Dreams, is now officially coming this winter (courtesy of Sonic Team sans Yuji Naka), at least in the Land of the Rising Sun. Thankfully Sega is nice about not screwing over us round-eyes, so it's a pretty safe bet that […]
Apr
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The charismatic Gamezebo has posted a piece on the making of PopCap’s pachinko-like PC casual game Peggle, explaining how the rather addictive title was originally designed, in a ‘Behind The Scenes’ piece.
Something I appreciate is that PopCap does seem to be moving on from what I’d describe as the ’suspect concept-borrowing’ of its early […]
Apr
1
Look. I drink.
Sometimes I take pictures that we can't always use on Destructoid. Most of those pictures help me to re-create what happened the night before. If you are not supposed to pee in public places, bite people's faces, harass celebrities, molest sheep, drink yourself into oblivion and steal cop cars, then why did God […]
Apr
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Good god, it's been a long couple of weeks. If you haven't already read my bitching and complaining elsewhere, the story is this: three weeks before the end of my penultimate Winter quarter at Western Washington University, I realized I hadn't done any work. Whoops! So there was this period of panic, followed by a […]
Apr
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A while back Nex brought to our attention the ZREO project which was started in order to recreate all The Legend of Zelda series music with an orchestra sound. This is a great project and Nex did a great job of covering these excellent recreations.
However I felt he missed one of the finer […]
Apr
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Alright, now that I'm done stealing DickMcVengeance's posts, time to get my ORIGINAL CONTENT going. Recently, I've managed to get my hands on some new games that are coming out this year. Let me tell you, there are some great games coming out this year. Sadly, we can't be blessed with all good games this […]
Apr
1
Alright, now that I'm done stealing DickMcVengeance's posts, time to get my ORIGINAL CONTENT going. Recently, I've managed to get my hands on some new games that are coming out this year. Let me tell you, there are some great games coming out this year. Sadly, we can't be blessed with all good games this […]
Apr
1
Guitar Hero II Contest
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Our Guitar Hero II Contest is coming to an end today. You still have a little time left to add some last minute contests. At midnight it’s officially the 2nd and we will be collecting all the comments that were posted during our contest dates. We will be announcing a winner soon. […]
Apr
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BioWare MMO designer Damion Schubert (who had the highest-rated GDC talk this year, actually) has posted at his Zen Of Design blog discussing the question of what a ‘hardcore’ gamer is vs. a casual gamer, and has some very nuanced and smart opinions.
For starters, he points out: “All successful games and genres have hardcore […]
Apr
1
PS3 80GB!!!
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There have been many rumours of a new Playstation3 ‘elite’ ever since a recent FCC filing by Sony!!! The filing included the ability to use any hard drive over 80GB!!! My initial thoughts were that it would be a complete waste of money to release such a thing when the PS3 is (was) struggling to
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