By the age of 24, I’d pretty much given up on video games. I was more interested in strengthening my DVD collection than owning the latest consoles and games. Plus, I didn’t have enough income to bolster both collections so ultimately, one had to suffer. That is…until I started working at a bar in Davis, CA. After every shift, a group of us would head over to one of two apartments, one conveniently located directly on top of the other. The [...]
Our lovely friends at Microsoft made a lot of indie developers nervous last month when they decided to announce that XNA would not be supported in Windows 8. There wasn’t much info behind it, just a pretty vague statement that created a flood of questions. I was definitely surprised by this decision. It didn’t make sense to me why they would abandon something that seemed to be doing so well. Not only is this powering the entire XBLIG catalogue, it’s [...]
So let’s get the obvious points out of the way first. As expected, Gears of War 3 still looks amazing, plays well and sounds incredible. The real question is whether there is enough in this package to end the series on a high note or will it join the others that have suffered the fate of the thirds? Fortunately for fans and newcomers alike, I can confidently state that in a year full of threequels, Gears 3 has set the [...]
Hey people, have you noticed that your favorite downloadable games are rising in price? Isn’t this something that’s been happening for at least 2 years now. But hey, now that Chris Charla, the XBLA portfolio director, has actually come out and said it, it’s news. Most the games you buy on XBLA have been $15 for a couple of years now. In fact already 20 titles have been set at that price since the start of 2011 when only 27 [...]
Back when I was growing up, there were three main options of acquiring a video game. The game could either be purchased by you, your parents or an awesome relative who actually looked at your birthday/holiday wish-list and wanted you to be happy on that special day. Another way to play a new game was by heading down to the local video rental location and get charged 1/10 of the price of the game for 3-5 days. This way doesn’t [...]
A few months before the release of Eternal Sonata in 2007, I originally purchased the Xbox 360. Up to that point I had been console-less for years and had borrowed a friend’s PS2 so I could play Final Fantasy XII. At work, a few friends and I had begun discussing Gears of War and Lost Planet and how awesome those games looked. Because it doesn’t take me much to be talked into anything video game related, I soon went out [...]
Hey guys, Halo: Reach is still a thing. Nine months after its release, there are still many people playing the multiplayer maps and enjoying themselves. However, some of the more creative types have taken up residence in Forge 2.0 and have come up with crazy ideas. If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Man, the only thing missing from Halo: Reach is a game of pinball,” your day has arrived. It isn’t exactly a perfect version of pinball. The flippers don’t [...]
I know you’re probably dead and bloating from holding your collective breath awaiting The Horrible Show’s E3 Wrap-up, but in the off chance someone let you know that the digital recording gods smote us and smote us hard on Tuesday night and you’re still with us, here’s my look-back at the Big 3′s E3 performances. Microsoft In terms of slamming down a gigantic friggin’ gauntlet to create a line…no, a trench in the sand about who you think really pays [...]
It has been a week since the end of E3 and I wanted to recap my thoughts on the event. You would have already heard them but, due to the technical difficulties we had in recording our podcast this past week, those brilliant ideas were lost. So now I’m going to share them with you in the time-honored tradition of the written word. I’ll only concentrate on the big 3 press events: Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. Microsoft Last year, Microsoft’s [...]
Attention shifts on the 2nd official day of the expo that allows for some hands-on time with what really matters, the games. That means plenty of interviews, demos, previews, as well more headlines related to the fallout from the press conferences. Day Summary We need a little bit of humor as all the action moves to the show floor: Day 3 Wrap-Up Destructoid Show – Destructoid Recreate the E3 Experience – Entertainment Weekly Potent quotables from Day One – Bitmob [...]
