Activision has unveiled two new characters for the highly promisingTransformers: War for Cybertron. Grizzled war veteran Ironhide represents the Autobots, while the Decepticons get a surprisingly obscure character in Skywarp. Ironhide is billed as slow and old, but incredibly durable. True to his G1 roots, he’s a loyal Autobot and one of Prime’s most trusted advisors. Skywarp will be similarly faithful to his original role, that of a stealth attacker who suffers from subnormal intelligence....

Welcome to the results of MassDebate!The latest entrystirred up somewhat of a metadebate: The debators’ discourse threw up some controversy; the inclusion of screenshots from Final Fantasy XII twice in my header montage caused some confusion (a genuine error on my part); and finally we had the detractors, arguing that “sequelitis” was a word that I stole from another site, and suggesting that arguing over a ‘trivial’ topic “cheapens the site” (because until this blog came along, Destructoid was Serious Business, like Bloomberg but with videogames)....

I wouldn’t have necessarily expected a game likeMicrosoft Flightto show up on Steam, but such an arrival does put the free-to-play flight sim in front of a bunch of new gamers, so you can’t really argue with those results. There’s also a new premium add-on plane, the Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero. If you’re among the people waiting for some form of a discount on the paid downloadable content, a bundle on Steam might be of interest....

Crytek’s latest does battle with Nvidia’s ‘Gaming Super Computer’ Today, hardware reviewers were able to lift the lid on NVIDIA’s latest beast, the GeForce GTX Titan. Boasting aGK110 chip with2688 CUDA cores and loads of other stuff I barely understand, NVIDIA claims that when you rock three of these things in SLI, you get the world’s first gaming super computer. So far, so prideful. With a trio of these behemoths, my job was simple....

Wow! Sony’s effort to pull in donations via the PlayStation Network started about a week after the March 11 earthquake in Japan. Since then they’ve managed to pull in 109.6 million yen ($1.32 million) in donations and purchases from PlayStation 3 owners. Donating users in the 40 participating countries received a special XMB theme. “While we continue to make every effort to help the recovery of the affected communities in the region, I would like to express our gratitude to every single PlayStation user across the world who made a contribution to the effort,” said Kazuo Hirai, president and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment....

Standalone client released for PC Gosh,Quake Livebrings me back. Bethesda has announced that the standalone client for this free-to-play, browser-based game is out now on PC. Existing players will need to download a launcher which will update their installation files. Current Mac and Linux players, on the other hand, are out of luck. The new client is PC-only, so the only way to continue playing will be through emulation or visualization software running on those platforms....

Discount spy My brother readThe Hunt for Red Octoberin grade four, Lord knows why the school library had a copy. He spent the next few weeks after reading it becoming extra, creepily knowledgeable about nuclear weapons and the lasting impact of Cold War doctrine. I remember, distinctly, the night he explained the concept of M.A.D (that’s mutually assured destruction) in our small, yellow-lit kitchen. How it prevented nuclear war by promising to end every single human life on earth should one ever occur....

No hobbits here, sir Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordorhas gotten a lot of people excited because of its seemingly great combat and interesting reputation system but is it me, or does it just look like a generic dark fantasy game? I’ll be honest, my Middle-earth knowledge is lacking but there’s nothing very “Lord of the Rings”-y about this trailer. Still proof is in the pudding as they say and if Shadow of Mordoris a fun game, then I’ll be giving it a go, Hobbits or not, on October 3....

Lumpy, the green Ratooey, is looking for someone to fund his search for oil inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. He’s certain he can strike it rich and promises a return on investment. However, he’s asking for a lot, so should you do it? Lumpy appears early in the game.You’ll find him near the dock in the south part of Rogueport. He’s loitering near the extreme right side of the screen, and being a bright green rat, he’s a bit hard to miss....

According to information shared by users online, major internet service providers in Vietnam are now blocking Steam in what appears to be an effort to better support the local games market and control which games are released in the country. Users in Vietnam across social media platforms and forums are reporting that their access to Steam has been blocked. One thread onSteam’s forums, in particular, shows a user who has also lost access to Xbox Game Pass....

This is the Last Rouuuund… And so, this is it. After six years of tumultuous fighting action,Street Fighter Vis preparing for its last round as a premier fighting game favorite — To this end, Capcom has released a new trailer teasing the game’s final update — bringing with it a major balance overhaul, as well as a few other fun features. The meat of the new update will see exciting new gameplay options presented to almost every character on the roster....

Coming out in November on nothing but next gen hardware Oh mygosh. Looks at those players’ armpits. It’s like an uncanny armpit valley. They look like Stretch Armstrongs or those sex dolls people date and think are real. Yes, theNBA Liveseries lives.NBA Live 14is coming to PS4 and Xbox One next month. It uses that next gen hardware to pretty good effect in rendering player likeness, too. Armpits aside, anyway....

Developed by OtherSide Entertainment As recent as last month we heard rumblings about the possibility ofa new game in theSystem Shockseries, and now it’s even closer to being a reality. The curious bit is that while Night Dive Studios claims the rights to the series and is working on a remake of the original,System Shock 3in the works at OtherSide Entertainment (Adele says “hello,” by the way). Right now there are only a few teaser sites to go on....