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Feb
27
Oh wait, my bad! Mario Kart doesn’t even have text support!
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Alright, so remember how I said that Mario Kart for the Wii will support text chatting? Well I was completely wrong. Or rather, Nintendo has no idea what the hell texting means. Here’s the deal, Mario Kart will only support pre-determined phrases that people can send to each other, which Nintendo will provide. So phrases […]
Feb
27
[Following Russell Carroll’s controversial opinion piece on PC casual gaming and piracy, the Reflexive Entertainment marketing director adds lots more hard statistics in this follow-up piece - definitely appreciate him being so honest with explicit statistics.]
My recent casual gaming column published over at Gamasutra, has created a good bit of stir, so I […]
Feb
27
Well, maybe not, but Dan over at TheBBPS already used the sweetest title I can think of.
Nevertheless, this amazing BioShock wallpaper makes me a happy little gene-splicer indeed. If I were a baser man, I would’ve said something along the lines of "Oh my God, this is so pimptight amazing sweet awesomesauce!" However, I am […]
Feb
27
Part two of Half-Life 2: Full Life Consequences: Rockets are my weakness too!
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The epic Full Life Consequences saga continues. This time, John Freeman gets revenge for the death of his brother by giant GMan. But before he can get revenge, he has to go get a new motorcycle and new weapons. Along the way, he fights more zombie goasts, saved some bird eggs, and shot a tree […]
Feb
27
Hands-on with Rainbow Six: Vegas 2’s single player
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As promised, here is my hands-on coverage of the single player campaign for Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. Before I go into details, let me just tell you that I both love and hate the single player portion of RS:V2. Now I realize that makes little to no sense, but due to the fact that I […]
Feb
27
After a long hiatus due to world traveling, I am back with some more songs about videogames. This week in the Mushroom Singdom, we’ve got Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards for the Nintendo 64 and Psychosis, which was on the Turbo Graphix 16.
In terms of the songs, I find it funny because I spent literally ten minutes […]
Feb
27
No, really: SpongeBob Drawn to Life coming to Nintendo DS
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Tommorrow I will be attending a THQ Wii/DS event in New York City, and I have to admit I’m pretty excited. According to the invite, the list of games will include Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed, Battle of the Bands, Wall-E, Deadly Creatures, and … wait … what’s this? SpongeBob Drawn to Life? What […]
Feb
27
Disney brings the Ultimate Band to the Nintendo DS, Wii
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Attention kids, tweens, and teens! If the outrageous rock n’ roll lifestyle that comes along with the peripheral-based Guitar Hero and Rock Band are a bit too much for your virgin tastes, Disney has the answer. Naked pictures of that chick from High School Musi — wait, no! We don’t speak about that.
Introducing Ultimate Band, […]
Feb
27
Start looking forward to Lost Odyssey 2: Microsoft expects big things
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It’s no secret that a fair few of us on the Destructoid staff are huge fans of Mistwalker’s amazingly touching RPG, Lost Odyssey. While it was a sure thing that this was the beginning of a brand new RPG franchise, it should please fans that the sequel is almost definitely in the works.
Speaking of Lost […]
Feb
27
The game industry has today been highlighted by the British Government as a possible beneficiary of film-style tax credits. As part of its "Creative Britain" initiative, Labour is looking into the benefits of encouraging creative industries and raising awareness of the R&D tax credit scheme already in place for game developers.
Secretary of state for culture […]