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Oct
16
ScrewAttack’s Top Ten NES Games
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The guys at ScrewAttack have released another top ten list, this time chronicling the top ten games on the NES. While I don’t disagree with them often, when you do a Top Ten NES games list, you’re going to get some disagreement. After the video, and the break, I’ll continue.
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Oct
16
A Weighted Companion Cube of your very own: “in time for Christmas”
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | Leave a Comment
If you’ve played Portal, the Weighted Companion Cube is a memory that will make you flinch, weep, giggle, or a combination of all three. Possibly while becoming aroused. THAT scene in the game, and you know which one I’m talking about (if you know what I’m talking about), ranks as one of the most memorable […]
Oct
16
Last week we were able to shine some light on the mysterious message left by Capcom’s Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Research, Christian Svensson. Well, Svensson has left us all another message that will surely keep Capcom fans waiting in anticipation for that damned countdown clock to strike zero.
You saw one announcement today at […]
Oct
16
Aha, it’s early in the week, but there’s actually been a number of notable features on Gamasutra and associated CMP Game Group sites, so thought I’d throw them in your general direction all at once.
The ESRB and Kojima Productions articles are particularly edifying, I think - but who knows?
- Q&A: EEDAR’s Zatkin On The […]
Oct
16
Game Debate to the Death!Twisted Metal series VS Gran Turismo series
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | Leave a Comment
Last week’s debate was a simple showdown that took us back a digital decade to a pair of old games that helped get us all addicted to computer gaming. It was an uphill battle for the Rodent’s Renvge cat and mouse strategy game, which sadly only led straight to the Abominable Snowman. In the end, […]
Oct
16
More Achievements = higher sales, better reviews, tastier muffins
Category: Wii Xbox 360 Playstation 3 | Leave a Comment
This piece at IGN has an intriguing look at the world of Achievements from a sales perspective. It seems that games emphasizing various levels of accomplishment (and containing a higher number of varied accomplishments) tend to sell better at retail, are better reviewed by whoever it is that does that sort of thing, and generally […]
Oct
16
Market to go “hardcore” this holiday?
Category: Xbox 360, Industry, Nintendo Wii, Announcements | Leave a Comment
I think it goes without saying that the Wii is popular. It’s being credited with bringing the soccer mom crowd into the gaming circle, and expanding the industry’s audience. Sure, fine, that’s all well and good, but according to Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey, that won’t be enough this holiday season.
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Oct
16
Achievements sell games?
Category: Xbox 360, Industry, General | Leave a Comment
EEDAR, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, has just released a new study that finds that Achievements may be linked to better review scores. Yes, you read that right. The more achievements a game has, the higher the average score tends to be. …it’s a very slow news day.
According to the study, games with more achievements […]
Oct
16
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus goes gold
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Get your headbands and camo back out, because the stand-alone multiplayer follow-up to one of the best games in the PSP library has officially gone gold.
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus brings more maps, missions, and new characters to the portable online multiplayer experience. There’s also a new single player mode called Infinity Mission, a […]
Oct
16
Oh Game Informer, with your games and your informing. When will you ever cease to amaze us? While we at Destructoid have yet to receive our office copy of the latest issue (yes, we subscribe, and we also save 10% off of used games!), the Internet has.
Word is spreading fast that Game Informer makes mention […]