Old meme is old, I know, but I've been in Miami all week and Niero has not stopped playing it. It's stuck in my head and I feel I must exorcise the demon by posting it on the frontpage. So yes, do please look at my horse. My horse is amazing. While I am here, I promised I'd give a shout out to Destructoid's new Steam group , since I am now a super PC gamer and have been rocking the computer games all...
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Remember way back in August when THQ picked up around 40 percent of Midway San Diego (following that whole full collapse thing), but left off the TNA Impact property? It would appear that the reason for this exclusion was due to SouthPeak Games snatching up the license, as revealed by a recent Q1 2010 financial report released by the company. The "acquisition" is first noted in the report's...
One of the best new weapons of the year? Gun shoes. Hands down. Dexter brought us more stuff on the Prince of Persia movie, GTA IV isn't helping anime, Anthony has dibs on Nick in Left 4 Dead 2 , we're giving away a huge Modern Warfare 2 prize pack, bonus stages return to Super Street Fighter IV and more happened on 11/04/09. Destructoid Originals: Prince of Persia creator pleased with the upcoming...
Ever wondered why some videogames have an underdeveloped and clearly rushed multiplayer element shoehorned into it, even though it was neither required nor destined to be successful? According to former Midway producer John Vignocchi, it's certainly not the fault of the developers. "We were having this battle all the time, talking about, '... is a totally amazing single-player experience the most...
In search of Germany's virtual scapegoats. An October Saturday and Stuttgart is pale with the cold. Outside the State Opera House, the city's grand attraction, a skip sits awkward and incongruous to its surroundings. The sides are spray-painted with graffiti, a hip hop-cum-youth club pastiche probably commissioned to soften the otherwise stark utilitarian appearance of this giant iron dustbin. While...
I don't know what the special occasion is, but this week Nintendo is releasing twice as many games as per a typical Monday morning. First up on WiiWare we've got three new titles. Carnival King brings all of the fun of a carnival midway to your home without any of the creepy carnies. "Aha! I Got It!" Escape Game gives you three challenging puzzle rooms to escape from. Meanwhile Family Card...
Today begins the madness that is National Novel Writing Month. Writers everywhere are feverishly pounding out words as fast as they can in an attempt to write 50,000 words before the end of the month. It averages to about 1667 words per day. I've set a goal of 1800 words a day. My plan is to do three sessions a day at 600 words per session. As I've said previously, my life is too hectic to sit and...
Like a scene from Terminator 2 computers have now reached the point when they are cleverer than humans As a giant nerd, I know that one of the central moments in the Terminator films is "Judgment Day", that moment where the computers became more powerful than the humans; and under threat from humanity, begin to wage war on us. In the original film this date was 29 August 1997. In real life,...
You know how this works: You're a shareholder in a major company -- let's say a major video game publisher like ... Midway Games -- and while the suits assure you that, despite lagging sales and a lousy portfolio, everything's going to be "OK!" Things started looking dodgy when CEO David Zucker abandoned ship in March of 2008
Under the leadership of ruler Kim Jong Il, the totalitarian state of North Korea has been notoriously isolated and secretive . It's incredibly difficult to obtain information or photographs from within the nation, but an anonymous freedom fighter has apparently released some incriminating photographs that demonstrate a disturbingly cruel attitude toward North Korea's youth. The photos depict a depressingly...
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Format: Arcade Release: 1983 Publisher: Bally Midway Developer: In-house Not all gamers are teenagers. Nor do they always hang out in arcades. Such was the thinking of Bally Midway, which in the early ’80s decided to sidestep its competition by building games for the untapped market of less competitive ‘street’ locations – any site that wasn’t an arcade, such as a pizza...
Digital Chocolate has announced that the award-winning mobile and PC hit game Tower Bloxx will be available on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft starting this Wednesday, October 21st as Tower Bloxx Deluxe. Block dropping has never been as fun nor looked as good… Reach for the skies in this wacky skyscraper construction game! In Tower...
Earlier this year, games publisher Midway collapsed, plunging the staff of its Newcastle studio into a desperate struggle to find a buyer. They failed. This is what happened next... The signs were there long before the collapse - hindsight tells us that much. In December 2008, media mogul Sumner J Redstone sold his majority share of veteran videogame publisher Midway to little-known investor, Mark...
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