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Goodbye Volcano High nominated to Destructoid’s Best Indie of 2023

From the article:

These are the nominees for this Destructoid’s Best Indie of 2023.

Lethal Company

Chained Echoes

Goodbye Volcano High

El Paso, Elsewhere

Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengeance of the Slayer

Void Stranger

World of Horror

Our final results will go live next week, starting on December 18 with the winner of Best Indie. Stay tuned throughout this week for the rest of our nominees, as we build up to the Overall Game of the Year award on December 22!

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Critics Love Crash Team Rumble | Saturday, 06.24.2023

Here's what some of the critics have to say about Crash Team Rumble:

"A joyous romp [and] definitely worth a spin." - Cog Connected

"Breezly, fun, and cute mayhem." - Destructoid

"A delightful bite-sized and competitive multiplayer experience." - Game Informer

"It's a blast." - Gaming Trend

"It comes together in surprisingly fun fashion." - IGN

Crash Team Rumble is available now on PlayStation and Xbox consoles!

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THE PILE PRESENTS: AOTS! - A Goat-C Christmas | 12/4/06

Tastefully Done.

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'DIABLO IV' - REVIEW ROUNDUP!

IGN - 9/10

"Diablo 4 is a stunning sequel with near perfect endgame and progression design that makes it absolutely excruciating to put down. [...] Diablo 4 takes the strategy of refining things the series already did so well rather than giving it a more substantial overhaul, and that careful and reverent path has shaped this massive sequel into one of the most polished ARPGs ever created, which makes slicing through the legions of the damned a hell of a good time."

Read the full review here.

Gamespot - 8/10

"Diablo IV, at this time, cannot escape comparison to the past of the franchise it belongs to, but it's thankfully a game that has been crafted with a strong awareness of what made each one either revered or reviled. [...] Coupled with a new benchmark for storytelling in the franchise, and a solid narrative foundation for any potential new adventures, it's easy to see Diablo IV as something I'll regularly check-in on for a long time to come."

Read the full review here.

VideoGamer - 10/10

"The game very rarely missteps, outside of some minor frame skips when exploring at speed aboard a mount. Narrative-wise, it’s raised the bar for action-RPGs everywhere, and there’s so much content to experience, it will take the average player a long while to feel like they’ve discovered everything Sanctuary has to offer. Without having played the post-story content or anything beyond the Sorcerer, it’s tough to say whether there are balancing issues, but it is a step up on Diablo 3 in every regard."

Read the full review here.

Twinfinite - 4.5/5

"I cannot overstate just how satisfying it is to play Diablo IV on a moment-to-moment basis, and with so much replay value to be had from its various classes and build possibilities within those classes, Diablo IV feels like a true return to form for the series."

Read the full review here.

Destructoid - 8/10

"For series fans, Diablo 4 makes a compelling case to become your next main game. For everyone else, the specter of cosmetic microtransactions and live service elements hang heavy over this refined action-RPG formula. Fortunately, the game is strong enough out of the box to entertain anyone willing to dive into its world. Everything I played of Diablo 4 was solid, I just hope it stays that way."

Read the full review here.

GamesRadar - 5/5

"That gameplay loop which necessitates such simple, repetitive, attention-dominating action. The sort which offers instant fun from sign-in, persistent challenge in a seamless world, approachable complexity with dizzying choice – a video game which wields an uncanny ability to draw out an intoxicating, impulsive drive for experimentation. Diablo 4 is a triumph that will decimate your free time."

Read the full review here.

Launching this Tuesday 6th June, pre-order with us on PS4, Xbox & PS5 at The Game Collection!

-Jack

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UK watchdog Which? has called on Nintendo to issue refunds to customers who purchased new Joy-Con as a result of the 'drift' | Destructoid

UK watchdog Which? has called on Nintendo to issue refunds to customers who purchased new Joy-Con as a result of the ‘drift’ | Destructoid

Destructoid have written an article detailing the suggestions that UK watchdog, Which?, have given to Nintendo with regards to the Joy-Con drift problems. Personally, I ended up buying a Pro Controller because of stick drift, I have also replaced mine and my other half’s analogue sticks on our Joy-Cons several times. UK watchdog Which? has called on Nintendo to issue refunds to customers who…

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Mr. Driller's mother strikes the Game Archives in Namco traditional Baraduke-- Destructoid

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Mr. Driller's mother strikes the Game Archives in Namco traditional Baraduke-- Destructoid

All in the household Something wonderfully unique for today’s Game Archives entry as Hamster pulls ’80s alien blaster Baraduke out of its huge bag of Namco video games and provides it a fresh release on PS4 and Nintendo Change. Initially launched to the coin-op market in 1985, Baraduke, ( aka Alien Sector), sees brave area […]

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The apparently never released Don Doko Don Portable Player, which was to have included Don Doko Don, Don Doko Don 2, and Chack’n Pop. (1)(2)

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Everything about “this road” by Poe, the song at the end of each Alan chapter in Alan Wake 2, makes me go absolutely wild. The way it changes every time to fit what Alan is going through and Alice’s own perspective on his destruction over these years. The last time it appears is an entire 9 minute long segment that slowly distorts until it becomes clear “it’s a spiral.” The whispers of “I’ll find you…”

Even the sequence of events that created this song is unbelievable. Like what do you mean this is one of the first new songs by Poe in almost 2 decades? That Poe and Sam Lake worked on and recorded it in the same place that House of Leaves was edited?? House of Leaves, the book that was one of the major inspirations for Control and Alan Wake, and is written by the brother of Poe??? The looping of it all,,,,

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Platar in Silent Hill as an antagonistic force: There is no metaphor. I'm just going to kill you.

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ok this is the funniest font they could’ve chosen. aeternoblade devs off the 5hits

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Destructoid the last of us dlc

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We also learn details about Killer Is Dead's SEXY Gigolo missions, and get details on the first DLC character for Injustice: Gods Among Us. It doesn't matter your gender, if you like fighting dragons you're gunna want to play our game. On today's Destructoid Show, we mourn the death of Skyrim, celebrate the impending arrival of Bethesda's next project, and wonder what the hell happened to that XCOM first person shooter. "We didn't market the game to men or to women, we just marketed it to gamers. I forget who exactly on the panel said this, but I do remember these words clearly: The questions eventually acknowledged the fact Skyrim has a surprisingly large female player-base. At almost every gaming journalism website, there is a large number of female writers.Īt PAX East the Marketing Directors for The Elder Scrolls held a panel and answered a few questions about how they marketed Skyrim. Just look at GameSkinny, for example, and how many of our top writers are female. I am shocked that so many people fail to realize how large of a presence women have in the gaming world. With the current climate of opinions regarding women and gaming, this is a silly thing to do and will provoke an offended response. The original The Last of Us is getting a remake as The Last of Us Part I, and it’s Naughty Dog’s chance to fix the only real flaw from the original.No, I don’t mean the way it turned every. Whether or not this is simply a contest from Gamereactor, the act still stands as it is. Scrubbing away the female audience with photoshop This is the equivalent of removing Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite or Cortana from Halo. Every character is sacredĮven if you aren't pissed off about the gender issue, you can at least realize how insulting this is to the artists on the creative team.Įllie is not just a female any female video game character, she happens to be about 50% of the game.

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The original art is what we call a full composition: the characters, scene, props, situation, everything, is combined by the artists in a very particular way to create one single powerful image.Ī picture is worth a thousand words and the original artwork speaks volumes. This still does not explain why she was removed in the first place. The photoshopped cover features only the male protagonist and the lack of Ellie removes a sense of tension and urgency from the art. Gamereactor has yet to issue a formal response about the photoshopped cover, but some readers claim the magazine offered several variations of The Last of Us artwork to vote on. The new Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles DLC is headed by Nezuko Kamado (Advanced Demon Form). It was later re-released as a standalone title on May 12, 2015, priced at 9.99, for both the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. It was released Februfor 14.99 on the PlayStation Network and acts as a prequel to The Last of Us. My number one DLC is easily The Last of Us: Left Behind BioShock Infinites Those are just the few that.

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I have a suspicion that it was the game FUSE, which had received flak for this Charlie's Angels-esq poster back when it was still called OverStrike. Sega’s also got a free add-on for all players, adding Group Match mode to online play. The Last of Us: Left Behind is a single-player DLC of The Last of Us. For me, most of the time that means the story content. I looked into this matter, but I couldn't dig up which game Stevenson was referring too. Hell, once Official PS Mag in the US removed two of our characters from a cover we sent them Pretty remarkable, isn't it? According to James Stevenson, the Community Director and Marketing Lead for Insomniac Games, magazines altering covers is nothing cause they are Europe. Bruce Straley responded saying: we’re working on the 3rd DLC. Here's the original art:Ĭompare this to the picture of the front page of the issue (at the top of this page). One fan asked the pair what they were currently working on and inquired as to whether or not there would ever be The Last of Us 2. Lead Designer of The Last of Us (and Uncharted 2), Neil Druckmann, tweeted this pointed remark last night in response to some very suspicious photoshopping. Hello lovelies Today we have box art for. The full list of winners and nominations is presented below.Hey Gamereactor, appreciate the coverage, but is there a reason why you removed Ellie from the cover we provided? Destructoid 429: OUYA Launch Lineup ANNOUNCED Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon DLC, The Last of Us NEW GAMEPLAY &amp More. Lucas Pope's Papers, Please also won a couple more for his collection, taking home the Innovation and Best Downloadable awards. Naughty Dog's critically-acclaimed action-survival game also nabbed the awards for Best Design and Best Narrative, which it can proudly display alongside all the Game Of The Year awards it was given by so much of the games media last year. The Last of Us has claimed the title of Game Of The Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards.

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(Some of) the obscure 3DS tech demos from E3 2010

With the Noclip Archive's 1080p upload of Nintendo's E3 2010 press conference yesterday, I went back into the barely-documented 3DS tech demo rabbit hole for a little bit!

Most people know of the "main" 3DS tech demo from E3 2010, which showed multiple 3D dioramas of Nintendo characters that would later be repurposed for the Puzzle Swap pieces in StreetPass Mii Plaza. But there are a couple more tech demos shown by Nintendo on the show floor that have barely or never seen the light of day since, mostly because Nintendo seemed to not like people pointing too many cameras at the 3DS screens!

The following appears to be the only currently known footage of the "3D Hopper" tech demo, documented by Destructoid! It is part of the trio of 3D demos alongside 3D Paddleball and 3D Challenge, previously reported to be shown to the press behind closed-doors, but this video appears to have been taken directly on the show floor. The original YouTube upload of this footage seems to have gone private, this has been saved from a video tweet I made in 2020.

You can find some articles from news outlets that have talked about this demo, including IGN and Engadget:

While there hasn't been any found footage of 3D Paddleball that I know of, the last of the "3D" trio, 3D Challenge, has been preserved back in 2020! I teamed up with preservation group Forest of Illusion to document the demo in coordination with its release:

Many games that would end up being first-party and third-party 3DS titles were demoed at the show floor in the form of interactive demos or videos, such as the Metal Gear Solid 3 port, Kid Icarus Uprising, Ocarina of Time 3D, and perhaps the most well-known of which, the original version of Paper Mario: Sticker Star.

What would eventually become games included with the 3DS, AR Games and Face Raiders were also shown in the form of tech demos, as well as a demo showing classic NES and SNES games in 3D that would eventually become the basis for the underutilized 3D Classics line. The following appears to be the only known footage of the demo from Nintendo World Report:

I continue to find info (and in some cases the lack thereof) about the 3DS' presence in E3 2010 fascinating, so hopefully more people end up interested in digging up more info or footage from the event!

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Article: 'Interview: Nightingale devs talk worldbuilding and how to stand out in a competitive genre'

We sat down with Inflexion Games ahead of the release of Nightingale.

Excerpt:

"DESTRUCTOID: Following up on that question, all three of you were formerly part of BioWare. Is there anything from your time at BioWare that reverberates into Nightingale? AARYN: I think definitely the worldbuilding. We got a chance to contribute to Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Jade Empire, those incredible universes. You learn a process for that, but you also learn what’s got to be established early on. You learn what kind of IP or setting or premise you want to explore. We spent a lot of time in the early days not just emotionally choosing those features, but a little more operationally as well. Can we do this? Can we build this world? Do we have the expertise it takes to do this? What opportunities does survival-crafting offer that fits with our skillset at our studio? We were relatively methodical about that in the early stages before we committed to Nightingale being a gaslamp-fantasy alternate history game."

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BAYONETTA 3 - REVIEW ROUNDUP!

Much has been talked about on Bayonetta 3 these past couple of weeks, with little of it to do with the game itself. We’ll leave the controversy where it is and will simply highlight what looks to be a major win for PlatinumGames ahead of Friday’s release... Who even remembers Babylon’s Fall anyway?

NintendoLife - 10/10

“Bayonetta 3 cranks up the chaos, improves the combat, polishes the level design, and adds a ton of new mechanics to the mix, making for the very best entry in this storied series to date. PlatinumGames has absolutely nailed it this time around, carefully layering on more ways to engage enemies, piling on the OTT gameplay sequences, and giving us multiple protagonists without upsetting the balance of what makes these games amongst the very best examples of their genre.”

Read the full review here.

Gamespot - 9/10

“There's nothing more attractive than confidence, and Bayonetta 3 developer PlatinumGames is well aware of it. From the way Bayonetta sashays about the screen--left hand cocked on her hip while the other clutches her gun--to the sheer bombastic nature of the game itself, every part of Bayonetta 3 is unapologetically self-assured. Like the titular witch, Bayonetta 3 feels as if it doesn't much care how it is perceived because it knows its own worth as a game that offers fast and fluid gameplay, jaw-dropping spectacles, comedy, and camp in a way very few others do. And it's hard to argue with that when it's true.”

Read the full review here.

Eurogamer - Recommended

“Bayonetta 3 might not be as consistently brilliant as its predecessors, but when it's good it's next to godly; playing as Bayonetta with her entire suite of toys unlocked is as electrifying as it's ever been, a spectacle of sinewy combat and S&M excess that's uniquely, defiantly video games. It's so over-the-top that trying to make sense of it would be a mistake, and while the rough edges are a disappointment if you embrace the chaos there's a lot to love here. Bayonetta 3 is overstated, in parts underbaked - but it's rarely less than a thrill.”

Read the full review here.

GAMINGbible - 9/10

“Bayonetta 3 is a near-perfect game. I’ve never considered that the combat in Bayonetta or its sequel was missing anything in particular, but the third game’s new inclusions are so well refined that it may be difficult to return to the previous titles having experienced this one. Furthermore, the story, despite a few confusing points, has easily cemented itself as my favourite of the three. Not only is this one of the Switch’s best titles of the year, it’s truly one of its strongest to date.”

Read the full review here.

Destructoid - 10/10

“In an early tone-setter for the game, you’ll water ski as a giant demon dragon, and it only gets wackier from there. When playing Bayonetta 3, much to my delight, I had no clue what was going to happen next at all times. I was absorbed, and between the crazy story, the environments, and the action system that’s been refined through two prior games (and years of experience), I had very little downtime. It’s pretty much everything an action fan could want.”

Read the full review here.

GodIsAGeek - 9/10

“As action games go, let’s pull no punches: Bayonetta 3 is an exceptional time, and up there with the very best there is. Compelling from start to finish, there’s very little reason I can think of to say anything other than it was well worth the wait. Yes, it could look better, and sure, it could be a bit less sexy, but really there’s just nothing else out there like it, and it deserves to sell gangbusters, and be celebrated because ultimately, Bayonetta 3 itself feels like a celebration of the medium. Bloody hell, what a ride, but maybe don’t make us wait another eight years for the next one, please.”

Read the full review here.

Scoring high across the board with plenty of other reputable review sites echoing the sentiment, there’s still time for you to pre-order Bayonetta 3 for Nintendo Switch, right here at The Game Collection!

You’ll earn an extra £5 rewards points too...

-Jack

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The reviews are in!

10 - IGN

10 - Inverse

10 - RPG Site

10 - Gamespot

10 - Destructoid

10 - Nintendo Life

10 - CG Magazine

9.8 - Game Informer

5/5 - VGC

5/5 - VG247

5/5 - GamesHub

5/5 - ComicBook

4/5 - Eurogamer

Metacritic: 97

Opencritic: 98

[alteredsilicone]

Warframe interview on Destructoid

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Whispers in the Walls was the best performing update!

Ben Starr was personally approached by Rebb to play Arthur in WF 1999.

Arthur is a sort of experiment with a voiced protagonist who interfaces with the world, there will be more protoframes too and we will learn about them and interact with them.

I want to hear the weird lines...

Rebb emphasizing how Excalibur and Arthur are two different entities.

Obviously Tennocon is going to be the big thing for Warframe 1999 but I'll be honest, I am getting hyped and my expectations are rising.

This is them talking about the volatility of live service games. x)

There's more in the interview I just clipped out a bunch of fun stuff!