Amazon is offering upa pretty nice exclusivefor people who really likeGears of War. For $139.99 you can be the proud owner of a Lancer replica, complete with gore-ridden blade. As a special bonus, when you buy the Lancer you can also getGears of War 2free. For those that would like thespecial edition bundle, it’s only ten dollars more. The Lancer replica has a few funny features. The trigger will activate a chainsaw engine sound as well as a vibration....
THQ has announced thatDarksiders IIwill be pushed back from June to August, allowing Vigil more time to polish the final product. A more solid release date will be revealed in the next few days. The publisher has preemptively answered a few questions regarding the delay, promising that the delay has nothing to do with the Wii U, staff layoffs, or anything else outside of a simple push for quality. It also assures fans that no content has been cut, and all its current launch plans are intact....
3D Realms has learned a valuable lesson today: Never tell exclusive details to newspaper journalists. Inan e-mail exchangebetween the president of 3D Realms, Scott Miller, andthe Dallas Business Journal, it was revealed thatDuke Nukem Foreveris planned to come out towards the end of this year. Miller is targeting the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 to releaseDNFon: “We can’t make an official announcement. Frankly, we may miss the mark by a month or two, but I feel very confident that we’re on target this time....
As originally posted onFlixist Sony, just moments ago, announced thatCinemaNow, a movie streaming service along the lines of Netflix, will be coming to the PlayStation 3 very soon. How soon? Well, PlayStation CEO Jack Tretton didn’t say, but I’ll update this post with more info as soon as it comes in. The cool thing about CinemaNow, from what I can tell, is that you may buyandrent movies from the service. And there’s no monthly fees....
Trion and Crytek have shared a new trailer forWarfacein addition to a silly amount of screenshots to help usher in this week of never-ending news and asset dumps. We get it — the game looks good, particularly for something that’s free to play. (That’s the CryENGINE 3 for you.) The visual fidelity is certainly impressive and, for that matter, the tried-and-true gameplay doesn’t look half bad, either. I think I’ve grown out of these fast-paced shooters, because I tend to die frequently in them, but this might be worth a test run when it comes to North America....
Software preorders double Wii launch GameStop’s Wii U preorders show that things are looking pretty good for Nintendo. According toGamasutra, GameStop has 1.2 million preorders for Wii U games, and that’s for the 500,000 consoles they were allocated. That’s 2.4 games for every console, double the preorder numbers the Wii saw. I think this strong software number says way more about the launch selection than anything else. I’m up forNew Super Mario Bros....
No, he didn’t pay me to post this. EA did. So, maybe I just want an excuse to promote one of my favorite YouTube gaming channels? In Happy Console Gamer’s latest video (of which he’s had a couple lately), he looks back at some painful memories of losing game saves — something I can relate to, growing up in the pre-Cloud, pre-HDD days of game consoles. He recalls a particularly painful memory of some untrustworthy kids deleting hisSymphony of the Nightsave....
It’s safe to say that a major part of the atmosphere in the originalSilent Hillgames was the soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka. Any new music in the series will inevitably be compared to his work, which is almost unfair, since the man is such an exceptional musician. So when the intro track toSilent Hill: Downpourgetsposted on Soundcloud, what can fans do but compare it to what came before? A good intro track should set the tone for a game, and going by this one, we can probably expect the rest of the soundtrack to be mainly atmospheric, like most modern games....
It’s Saturday, so it’s time again for the Hangover to soothe you into another weekend of gaming. We’ll be firing up the Xbox Live Indie Game demos for this week, which are all over the place. All the tropes are there; a couple of zombie games are present, a few games which have a little bit of potential and a bunch of sequels that we’re not going to waste anyone’s time with....
[Not sure what Mash Tactics is? I’ve included a clip from the most recent episode to show you just a glimpse of what you’ve been missing, you daft fool!You can see all of Destructoid’s previously-aired live showsin our archives.] Today,Mash Tacticsis playing HotHead Games’ meaty new DeathSpank adventure:The Baconing. They will be joined (via Skype) by Mike Inglehart, the producer of the game.The Baconingis part of Sony’sPlayStation Playprogram, where gamers are awarded bonuses for purchasing select downloadable titles....
Possibly playable at PAX Prime Remember thefive newSpyPartycharacters? Of course you do! I even came up with elaboratebackstoriesfor each of them based solely on their appearance. Surely everyone remembers that? Chris Hecker, developer ofSpyParty, released a video today showing the new characters in action. Now, remember, “action” inSpyPartyis moving around and acting totally unsuspicious and, in this case, chatting it up. Chris also posted some words on theSpyPartyblog, where he mentions the possibility of having these characters playable at PAX Prime....
Bringing the count to six I hope you really likeMonster Hunter, becausethe total amiibo countfor the series just rose to six. Announced by way of Famitsu, Capcom is adding three more figures to the mix — Qurupeco and Dan, Barioth and Auyria, Rathian and Cheval (each combination consists of one rider and one monster). They’ll be sold for 1,800 yen on December 8, which is roughly the equivalent of $17 each....
Got to free up those factories to pump out NX [Update:Nintendo has denied the rumor. Speaking withIT Media(viaKotaku), a company spokesperson asserted “This isn’t an announcement from our company,” and that “from the next quarter and thereafter as well, production [of the Wii U] is scheduled to continue.”] Among all the rumors about Nintendo’s new home console, code named “NX” (I like “Wii Too,” personally), we might be forgetting about the poor ‘ol Wii U, Nintendo’s long-flagging gap hardware that seemed DOA and has since seen a lifespan close to the Dreamcast or original Xbox....
