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Q2 2013 can’t come soon enough Despite being a sometimes unreasonably passionate supporter of thePikminseries,Pikmin 3hasn’t really wowed me just yet. Perhaps that’s because my expectations are so high — I’m looking for something larger in scope here, not simply more of the last installment presented with superior visuals. Everything shown so far has been nice, but again, I haven’t been amazed. This trailer from Nintendo Direct, however, is a huge step in the right direction....

Yup, we really are doing one this time. Thelast timeI posted about Podtoid, it was really just an excuse to draw attention to the fact that the Mexican-American population of Texas has some very interesting ideas about rampant procreation given their stereotypical lack of financial support, but this time we actually need your questions! Topics have yet to be finalized, but you can almost assume PAX and its myriad of games will be the main topic....

Back to Kobe I mentioned in my look atCastlevania: Legacy of Darknessthat its developer, Konami Computer Entertainment Kobe, got a bit of a bad rap from their work. However, even in those sometimes malignedCastlevaniaefforts, there’s a spark of life that was lost in future 3D entries in the series. It made me curious about the developer’s other efforts, but it wasn’t my intention to move directly onto another one of their titles....

Back 2 (old) Skool Back in 2019, the global gaming community was introduced to two totes-adorbs, totes-dopey schoolyard sluggers: Kyoko and Misako, collectively known as theRiver City Girls. Essentially a rebirth of sorts for the legendaryKunio-kunseries, WayForward’sRiver City Girlsrevitalized the franchise for modern audiences, retaining the open-world nature and nose-busting brawling of its predecessors and dressing it up with dazzling colors, a badass soundtrack, slick artwork, and cool new characters.River City Girlsreinvented not only theKunio-kunseries, but also brawlers themselves....

I think we can all agree that cheaters are the absolute worst. Those self-important jerks who have nothing better to do but ruin the game for everyone else are a constant source of frustration for gamers and developers alike, but Rockstar’s announced a pretty great method of dealing with the dilemma: Quarantine. Anyone found cheating inMax Payne 3‘s online portion will be walled off into what they’re calling the “cheater’s pool....

Star Wars Outlawsis finally out for everyone on PC and consoles to explore the beautiful open world it offers, featuring Kay Vess as the protagonist in a galaxy far, far away. Amidst everything, you must strike a good balance between frames and quality. Why you ask? Well, enjoying the story at great graphic quality and getting over 60 frames per second is what most players would love. And for a game likeStar Wars Outlaws, it makes more sense than ever considering there is so much to explore....

Capcom has plans to release another edition ofResident Evil 5, although it’snot quite the “Director’s Cut” we expected. At Sony Computer Entertainment’s TGS 09 press conference, Capcom’s Jun Takeuchi revealedResident Evil 5: Alternate Edition, a reworked version of the game that will implement PS3 motion controls. Takeuchi was light with the details, but he did sayAlternate Editionwould have different content. He also revealed that potential players would play the game with themotion-controller-dildo thingin one hand and a Dual Shock in the other....

Look, some of you are still pissed aboutValkyria Chronicles IIIbeing a PlayStation Portable game and not a PS3 game. But it’s happening, like it or not, and now there are screenshots. To me, they look pretty good. The Nameless’ slightly darker color scheme stands out better against the series’ trademark pastels. Dialog seems to happen on the real-time screen as well, with 2D cutouts popping in from the sides of the screen like manga panels....

Check out everything Destructoid did today Guys, guys, guys!Ni no Kuniis finally out. I bet you’re all playing it right now, ent ya mun? Man, I love Mister Drippy. The game is so good, guys! Talk about it! Today, Jim pannedFinal Fantasy: All the Bravest(apparently it’s bad and Square should feel bad), Jayson Napolitano brought us some great tunes in his talks with composer Ryo Nagamatsu, Ralph Nader called videogames electronic child molesters, Conrad reviewedThe Cave, which looks rad, and a bunch of other things happened!...

Out on June 10, just in time for E3 It was rumored recently and now we have confirmation: a Demon Slayer Switch port is on the way, due out in June. Based off of the mouthful of a titleDemon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chroniclesthat just came out recently, the game will be making the rounds on every major platform later this year, as it’s already out on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S....

Yeah, I don’t get it either Adding new content toRunescape Old School,the server which aims to recreate when the game was in its glory days, seems kind of weird to me. If the whole point of it is that it’s a nostalgia-fueled romp through the game that stole every waking moment of my 12-year-old life, why are they adding new stuff to it? Either way, Jagex haveintroduced the continent of Zeah to the game....

‘It’s true that our recent growth has stemmed from the need for people to stay at home’ Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis a hit. It’s such a hit that it will probably end up as the number one Switch game of all time, dethroningMario Kart 8 Deluxe, and could hold that top spot forever. So it makes perfect sense that Nintendo is going to try and chase that success. Speaking to Nikkei(as translated by Nintendo Everything), Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa explains how the game got so popular, in fairly obvious terms: “It’s true that our recent growth has stemmed from the need for people to stay at home....

One Machine to Rule Them All Yesterday, I looked at one of the most recognizable shifts we’ve seen in the past few years:motion controls. In the next segment for this editorial miniseries, I want to address integrating a number of disparate services into one device that rests comfortably in your living room. I remember quite some time ago, I would wake up early on Saturdays, play games for a few hours and then just kinda stare at the screen for a bit....