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I forgot how much I loved The Wonderful 101. Though I only got to play the upcoming remastered version on Switch for ten minutes or so, it still left me impressed. Some of the puzzles that were specifically designed for the W... read
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With PAX East closing its doors, PlatinumGames is in exciting territory. After hosting their first-ever booth at the event, and with just 4 days left on a Kickstarter for their first self published title, The Wonderful 101 Re... read
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PAX East has been a lot of fun this week. Caitlin Cooke and I interviewed Platinum's Hideki Kamiya yesterday after playing Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead, Disc Room, Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon, and a whole bunch o... read
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My first thought when downloading Samurai Shodown, the soft-reboot of the mostly-2D fighting series on Switch, was "I had to delete Skullgirls to make room for this?" The game comes in at about 10GB, which is larger than I wo... read
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[CJ and Holmes Disagree is a series where Destructoid Features editor CJ Andreissen and washed-up Dtoid Show host Jonathan Holmes disagree about video games. Who will you agree or disagree with?]
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[CJ and Holmes Disagree is a series where Destructoid Features editor CJ Andreissen and washed-up Dtoid Show host Jonathan Holmes disagree about video games. Who will you agree or disagree with?]
When I saw the Smash Bros.&nb... read
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When Nintendo first entered the fray of online storefronts with the Wii Shop Channel, you were lucky to get one great game a month on the service.
The scarcity of high-profile, critically acclaimed titles helped standouts lik... read
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When I recently drafted up an interview for the director of the new Bubble Bobble 4 Friends release for Switch, I was filled with hope. Bubble Bobble was one of my favorite games growing up, and there was more than one reason... read
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There's never been a better time to be a fan of 2D, multi-plane beat 'em ups. With the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle, River City Girls, Fight 'N Rage, Streets of Red already out, Castle Crashers making a comeback this year, ... read
Destructoid has had its share of ups and downs over the past 12 years, but there's one thing about us that has never changed: we want to give everyone a chance to be heard.
That's gotten us in trouble more than a few times, b... read
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Halloween is a weird one. Once considered a Pagan holiday that celebrated the connection between the world of the living and the dark worlds of hell, it's morphed into a celebration of being benignly "bad" in a variety of way... read
There are basically two kinds of No More Heroes fans. There's the group who loves it all, and then the people who totally worship the first game, then just sort of tolerates everything else. Personally, I'm in the first ... read
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Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is perhaps the most beautiful high res, hand-drawn 2D fighter ever. It's been critically acclaimed for years and is available on just about every platform as of today, its launch date for Nintendo... read
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Authenticity means a lot to people, and it comes across in the way we talk about video games. Terms like "art game" or a "hardcore game" or an "indie game" all work to stick a flag in a game that says "This isn't for everybod... read
I've been tooling and retooling a list of the most influential indie games of the past ten years, and I don't think it's ever going to be done. It started with a list of 10 games (Super Meat Boy, Shovel Knight, Undertale, PUB... read
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It's been a long time since Nintendo was able to make a hit Star Fox game. Star Fox Zero was one of Miyamoto's biggest bombs, though it wasn't the first time the series struggled to appeal to its audience... read
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River City Girls was announced earlier this year, then few months later, it was out in the wild. That didn't leave WayForward much time to build hype, but their short-but-sweet marketing strategy seems to have worked. Since ... read
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The announcement that SNK's Terry Bogard is coming to Smash was met with polarized responses. Fans of Himbo's and the King of Fighters series were overjoyed, while fans of not-those-things were somewhat irritated, decrying Te... read
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Push Dustin and New WabiSabi just dropped a bomb on the Smash community and the speculation train is already running at a fever pitch. According to a now-deleted listing on Nintendo UK's website, the n... read
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Watching developers play other people's games is always interesting. Most of the good ones end up looking at the other dev's work both for what it is while also thinking about how it was made, making for more layered, insigh... read
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Video games can have an effect on the way people think. I've seen this first-hand with my kid, who just turned four. He sees in a way that I don't. Things I take for granted as harmless or meaningless can affect him for days,... read
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Unless it was made by just one person, it's a bad idea to give all the credit for a game's success or failure to a single individual. Koji Igarashi has produced many of the best games in the Castlevania series, but he's far f... read
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Technically, Konami is still making games with some of their classic franchises. They have a new Contra game in the works, a new 2D Castlevania title set for release this year, and last I checked, the servers for Metal Gear S... read
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The Angry Video Game Nerd does his best to be empathetic, especially compared to his successors. In this world of near-constant Youtuber and Twitch personality scandals, James seems like a downright sweetheart most of the tim... read
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The upcoming June issue of Nintendo Force (available in print for as low as $4.99 until June 23rd) features an interview with Maja, Chad, and Jared Moldenhauer, the "heads" of Studio MDHR, developer... read
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When I was a kid I used to lie around in the grass and ask myself questions like "What makes a Sega game special?"Of course, the answer to that question depends on what era of Sega you're talking about. When they started in w... read
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1001 Spikes is one of my favorite games and I think you'd like it too if you gave it a try. At one point, I even joking-not-jokingly said it's better than Game of Thrones. Given how people turned on that show in its last seas... read
[Editor's Note: One thing that has been made quite evident over the past several weeks is Hollywood has no problem weaponizing the audience's fear of spoilers to their advantage. The urgency to avoid all spoilers and see ... read
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Another year, another round of headlines about the World Health Organization's take on gaming addiction disorder. I can't blame people for continuin... read
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Para-social relationships have become a daily part of many people's lives. Listening to the same personalities on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis can light up the brain in the s... read
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"Where do dreams end and reality begin? Videogames, I suppose."- Gainax, FLCL Vol. 1
"The beach, the trees, even the clouds in the sky... everything is build from little tiny pieces of stuff. Just like in a Gameboy game... a nice tight little world... and all its inhabitants... made out of little building blocks... Why can't these little pixels be the building blocks for love..? For loss... for understanding"- James Kochalka, Reinventing Everything part 1
"I wonder if James Kolchalka has played Mother 3 yet?" Jonathan Holmes
Wild Holmes pic by Cadtalfryn
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"The beach, the trees, even the clouds in the sky... everything is build from little tiny pieces of stuff. Just like in a Gameboy game... a nice tight little world... and all its inhabitants... made out of little building blocks... Why can't these little pixels be the building blocks for love..? For loss... for understanding"- James Kochalka, Reinventing Everything part 1
"I wonder if James Kolchalka has played Mother 3 yet?" Jonathan Holmes
Wild Holmes pic by Cadtalfryn
AnthonyDressRun sprites by Jonathan Holmes
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