Step your pantsu game up senpai OK so there is one last game from Tokyo Game Show I wanted to talk about. It’s an odd one you may have heard of by now, and assuming you read the title to this article, you should have a good idea of what the game is about. Yep, in the recently announcedSchool Girl Zombie Hunteryou play as Japanese school girls, and you hunt zombies....
I mean, its good, but has its flaws too [Edit: The original version of this article stated that the world size was only 12% larger that last generation in error, and has since been corrected to 12 times larger.] “The reports thatMinecraft: Nintendo Switch Editionis the best version of the game are greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain aka Jed Whitaker No, really. People are acting like it is the best thing since sliced bread when it reality it is just week old bread: still tasty, still functional, and still the thing you love....
Episode 1 of Super Game Jam is out now on Steam Steam moving into distributing film projects that deal with game development is no surprise. AfterIndie Game: The Movieand Valve’s ownFree to Playfilm, we’ve got the first episode ofSuper Game Jam.It’s a five-part series that follows pairs of indie developers as they crank out a game in 48 hours. The twist? All the games have to follow a theme set by the other development teams....
A big win Sling TVis a pretty neat cable-cutting service that’s already live on the Amazon Fire TV, Roku 3, and in the coming weeks, the Xbox One. Today, it debuts AMC in its base package, which is still priced at $20 per month. This is a huge get, asThe Walking Deadis one of the biggest shows on TV, andBetter Call Saulis fantastic so far. IFC is also being added, which most people will be familiar with by way ofPortlandia....
Three discs of arrangements paying homage to Secret of Mana Last month we shared anexclusive sampleofSpectrum of Mana, a 3-disc tribute album to Hiroki Kikuta’s timelessSecret of Manasoundtrack featuring stemage, Alexander Brandon, Tim Yarborough of The OneUps, and many others. The album was finally released, and while I’ll have a review ready forNote Worthy, I’ve already listened to the whole thing and love it. Fans can download the entire album and all the artworkfor free, or they can spring for physical editions of both, along with a series of shirts sporting some pretty killer depictions of the elementals (Dryad and Salamando are awesome!...
Do you care how much money entertainment products bring in? Hooray,rich people! Then you’ll be interested to know, perhaps, that Activision has announcedCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3earned $1 billion in sales within 16 days. This information comes from “Charttrack and retail customer sell-through information.” You know what this means, don’t you?Avatar‘s race to $1 billion took 17 days, so clearly this is important. So important. Videogames, everybody — turns out quite a few of us enjoy them enough to scrounge up $60 without much hesitation....
One of the best parts of my job is the satisfaction that comes with the phrase. “We’ve partnered with,” knowing full damn well I set that up, myself. It makes me sound and feel official. I made it, Mom! Take that! Ahem. Anyway, we’ve partnered withSuper Rare Gamesto bring you guys news of their latest releases, and also the opportunity to win a copy of their past special physical editions of previously digital-only games!...
[People have had time to collect their thoughts, and I am back from vacation, so Monthly Musing blogs are ready to be promoted! Our first blog is from Dexter345, who uses his awesome science and graph-making powers to take a careful look at how his biases evolved with each generation. Want to post your ownMonthly Musing?Click on thisand start writing! — JRo] Bias. It’s a word we hear all too often when discussing our favored passion....
It’s Ga-Lar-Ga, though Ga-Lag-Ah is acceptable. Namco Bandai are teaming up with Swedish-US company The Nuttery Entertainment to produce an animated show based on the classic 1981 shmup,Galaga. Galaga Chronicleswill feature new characters and adventures based around the classic arcade game, and will lead a host of new and upcomingGalaga-themed projects. “We are incredibly honored to be able to work on such an amazing legacy property,” says Nuttery founder Magnus Jansson....
Watch out Funky Kong, that goose has a knife! New year, same old regularly-scheduled game sales on the usual digital storefronts. To kick off 2022, the Nintendo Switch eShop ishosting a New Year Saleuntil 11:59 p.m. Pacific onJanuary 16— it’s your chance to grabShin Megami Tensei V(for $41.99 instead of $59.99) andUntitled Goose Game(for $9.99, aka half price), among others. What a devilish pairing! I had my suspicions about that goose’s neighborhood-pestering nature....
I like the way you move BeforeGoat Simulator, there wasAmazing Frog?, a physics-driven make-your-own-fun sandbox game that’s so damn funny I’m willing to put up with the irksome question mark in the name. It’s a game most of us have not actually played, though, what with it being exclusive to the Ouya.Amazing Frog?has since popped up onSteam Greenlightand this expanded version sounds, well, let’s just take it away from the description, shall we?...
[Editor’s Note: We’re not just a (rad) news site — we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive with the opinions of Destructoid as a whole, or how our moms raised us. Want to post your own article in response? Publish it now on ourcommunity blogs.] I have a confession to make — my virtual gamer self is a sociopath....
Plus Mac and Linux support Valve has updated the Source software development kit to support Mac OS X and Linux as well as virtual reality by way of the Oculus Rift headset. Tremendous news for mod teams who want to make cross-platform projects going forward or want to experiment with a Rift dev kit. Additionally, the company now hosts thesource code on githuband mod tools will ship with their respective games as opposed to being tied to the SDK Launcher....
