New Games |
- TtWaV video and remix update: Enter the Metal
- Review: iBuyPower HS11 tears down negative expectations
- Battlefield 3 TV spot by Freddie Wong & Corridor Digital
- I'm now prepared to survive the Fall of Cybertron
- Best of 2011: Totally Random Awards, Pt. 1
- My Little Pony and Gabe Newell get Rhythm Heaven Fever
- Review: Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand
- Dating sim about disabled girls gets a release date
- Dumb running Sonic is too funny for its own good
- Taking a page from the QWOPa Sutra
- The DTOID Show: Is it really our last live show of 2011?!
- 25 Days: Win a Kindle Fire and EA mobile games!
- The Daily Hotness: Nobunaga's gotta catch'm all!
| TtWaV video and remix update: Enter the Metal Posted: 17 Dec 2011 11:00 AM PST [Haven't heard about the Talking to Women about Videogames music video and remix project? Click here for the details. It could make you famous!] Good news! The prior remixes in this ongoing sound/video experiment have now been joined by a majestic metal/chip tune remix of the Talking to Women about Videogames theme song by the Order of Tyr, and man is it good! This week also brings us a serious, heartfelt cover of the song by the great Sir Tobbii, and an electronic sound journey jam by the one and only Kaggen. Heads up -- Tobbii and Kaggen are both from European countries where everyone sounds cute when they talk. That's right, we're talking about two sexy hot European dudes that like to play videogames and make music. Start drafting up those marriage proposals now ladies. Get in there before some other lucky filly snatches that gravy up! As for the music video and remix album, we're still on track for finishing both of them up next week on December 21st, so there's still time if you want to get in on the action. Remember, any sort of visual art is acceptable for consideration for the music video; still pictures, drawings, animation, video, whatever. I'm pretty sure we're going to squeeze a little bit of Flashbeagle into the finished product, proving once and for all that anything goes. You might as well whip sometime up this weekend and run it by me, right?It never hurts to try! The same goes for remixes/covers/re-imaginings of the theme song. Throw something together and send it my way! At best, you'll become rich and famous for your effort, and at worst, you'll make me incredibly happy. It's a win/win situation, dawg. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Review: iBuyPower HS11 tears down negative expectations Posted: 17 Dec 2011 10:30 AM PST Lately, we've been doing a lot of articles covering PC hardware that require basic knowledge on how to build your own computer. However, one option I often overlook is pre-built computers by companies such as iBuyPower. Today, I'm going to review the iBuyPower HS11: a holiday special made for gamers who want a good deal, but at the same time, are not interested in building the computer themselves. These are the system specs I received from iBuyPower:
One problem that often occurs when dealing with computer companies of this nature is that while they do include quality components -- the i5-2500K, for example -- there can be a distinct lack of brand names on some of the other components. This lack of exact model allows the company to use cheap components that don't necessarily have the best quality track record, which can leave you potentially with a blown power supply or a leak in the liquid cooling system (Okay, unlikely, but still possible). Not a bad case, but it's not a good case either... At first glance, you can tell it's a pretty cheap case, but it is more or less standard for a midtower. There are three USB ports on the front, including ports for SD cards, along with your typical 5 1/4" drive bay. There are four thumb screws attaching the side panels to the rest of the chassis and a total of five ventilation grates on various parts of the case. To begin, let's take a look at the front. The entire front is on a somewhat raised platform, which under closer inspection, is a front ventilation panel. However, it's more or less useless, as the air circulation is poor to begin with and the front ventilation just ends up being another way for dust to get into the system and gunk things up. The ports are all in convenient places, except for the top audio/mic and USB ports. While it's not a big deal, cords from headsets, USB devices, and the like are liable to be in the way when you open up the DVD drive. All in all, though, good placement on ports. One thing that really kills this case for me is the lack of a good power button; I actually thought it was the circle the plastic mold leaves on cheap toys upon first glance. When the computer is off, it's not very obvious that it's the power button, as it has no visible marking. In fact, the only difference between the power button and the reset button is a small change in size. When the computer is on, the power button is lit up by a small white light that shines around the outside of the circle, and the hard drive light is a small dot in the middle of the reset button. I feel like some more thought should have gone into the power button, or at least some impression on it with a power signal; I've seen better layouts on ten-dollar cases. Although it doesn't matter as much to people who won't be tinkering around inside, this case does have decent room to move around in compared to other midtower cases, but it still suffers from a distinct lack of space compared to a full tower (This may be obvious to some, but it needs to be said. People's fingers only come so small). You can't go wrong with the Intel Core i5-2500K I've said this before and I'll say it again: the i5-2500K is one of the best deals out there for a processor in terms of balance between power and price. While there are good AMD solutions available, I would venture to say that for your average gamer, this is really the only Intel processor you should consider unless you have an extra hundred bucks to blow on the i7-2600K, which is the next level up. Of course, everyone's situation is different and if you do need the extra processor power, I am in no way saying you shouldn't get a more powerful one. In case you aren't caught up with your computer hardware, the i5-2500K is a quad-core processor that is priced a little over $200 on most sites. Although this processor doesn't support hyper-threading, many gamers do not necessarily need the power supplied by hyper-threaded machines. Powerful graphics card, but a bit on the noisy end of things... This computer comes with an NVIDIA GTX 570 that holds not one, but two fans. With the extra fan comes added cooling as well as noise output. When idling, it is relatively quiet, as it should be, but when you load a game such as Battlefield 3 or Skyrim, it sounds like a small plane is taking off. Despite the noise, this card is quite powerful and is able to take all the games I tested (Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Deus Ex: Human Revolution) all on the highest settings -- but more on that later. I have mixed feelings about this card, because while it is superior to the GTX 560 Ti, I'm not sure as to whether or not the extra $200 is worth the performance increase. Personally, I would go with the GTX 560 Ti over the GTX 570 because it's not worth it to me, or I would go all the way and get the GTX 580 if I wanted to step the performance up from the 560. This is an overall powerful graphics card, but not necessarily the most price efficient (Not to say the GTX 580 is, but it does offer a decent performance boost over the 570, and a sizable one over the 560). For someone looking for more power, I would recommend using two GTX 560 Tis in SLI, which would offer as much power as the GTX 580 for slightly less money. A little iffy on the Seagate from personal experience The IBP computer I got came with a 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM hard drive, which is relatively fast for an HDD. It's hard for me to treat this drive without bias based on past experience and that my current computer runs on a RAID array of SSD, but as far as I can tell from the short time I've used the drive, it's perfectly fine. As I said in the last paragraph, I'm not very fond of Seagate drives, and with reason. Out of six Seagate drives I've had in my life, all six have died within a year (if not within the first six months). I understand other people may have experienced better results, but I have not and have lost faith in the company. Again, that is not to say that Seagate isn't a good company, it's just saying that I've had the bad luck of receiving six faulty drives in a row. 8GB of Corsair XMS3? Sounds good to me! When it comes down to RAM, Corsair is one of the best companies to buy from. Although you can change the speed, the increase isn't very noticeable, which leaves quality measure up to the longevity and the consistency of the RAM. Corsair has both, and if you happen to get the bad unit of the bunch, it can be exchanged without a second thought. Coonix's website doesn't even publicly sell an 800W power supply... This computer comes with a Coonix 800W power supply, which is all fine and dandy, but I couldn't find anywhere that sold the same model power supply. In fact, Coonix's website doesn't even have it on their product list! You have to wonder why that is, and if it's a quality product or not being that there's no documentation. Even though it's a phantom power supply, it seems to be of at least decent quality on the surface. The power cords have sleeves on them, which is a big plus in my book because it keeps the computer clean looking, and there's a nicely sized fan on the bottom of the unit. However, the fan placement does bother me somewhat. Because the fan is on the bottom, it doesn't allow very good air circulation from the power supply. It would be more understandable if the case had longer legs to allow for more air to get underneath the unit, but the case's legs are only about a centimeter high. If for some reason you put your computer on a carpeted floor, it could cause heat problems. I haven't tested this myself, but just be warned. And now for the mysterious liquid-cooling device with a cheesy blue light... I seriously have no clue what brand or model the liquid cooling is. There's no markings on either the fan or the socket that would say what brand name or give any hint. However, you can't argue with the results. It idles around a balmy 30 degrees Celsius in a cool room, and hovers around 50-60 degrees Celsius depending on the temperature of the room at the time. The cooling system didn't come fully filled (meaning there was air in it) and made a constant gurgling sound as the liquid and air traveled through the pipes. So, right from the start, I needed to fill it up with more distilled water to get rid of the noise. To be honest, I don't know what exactly is inside the liquid cooling, and just assumed it was water because I didn't want to buy anything else. Yet another reason why having no documentation on the liquid cooling is a bad decision! As for the blue LED light in the liquid cooling, it seems random that it's located there, as the only way you would see the light is through the small ventilation grating on the side or from above; the case clearly isn't designed to show off the innards. To top it off, the light is covered by a cloudy plastic cover, which makes it look muddy and sloppy. I'm all for LED lights on the inside of cases, but this doesn't even look good. Benchmarks I ran a few games to see how this machine performed as a gaming system, but I decided not to go through the trouble of running individual benchmarks for each component as I normally would because this review is over how the system works together as a whole instead of many separate components. As I mentioned before, I decided to test the frame rate of three games running at 1920x1080: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Battlefield 3. The IBP system held up well against both Human Revolution and Skyrim on the highest settings at around 50-60 FPS and 40-50 FPS, respectively, depending on what was going on in the game. In Battlefield 3, however, I began to see some irregularities: while the gameplay ran smoothly at around 30-40 FPS, some clipping started occurring in the cut scenes. I noticed that parts of faces and scenes would begin to artifact (distort) when on ultra settings, which was a big heads up that things were not going as well as the FPS counter showed. As iBuyPower.com suggests, high settings are probably the highest you want to take Battlefield 3 without some noticeable artifacting, though it should be noted that gameplay was perfectly fine on ultra. Cut scenes were the only place where this happened to me. Price Comparison Here's what I assume a lot of you are reading for: whether or not building the same computer on your own is cheaper, or if buying from iBuyPower makes more sense. Looking elsewhere for individual components, this is what I came up with.
So, in the end, it seems as though the iBuyPower computer does indeed come out on top in terms of price by $122 based off my estimated prices for the parts I didn't have exact models for. Let's take some more things into consideration. For instance, given the current power consumption of this computer, an 800W power supply is unnecessary. Instead, a 700W or 650W would cut it, so you can cut off about $10 right there or more depending on which power supply you look at (assuming they are equal quality and brand-name units). There are also a few other things that could be changed with little to no effect on the system: one being the liquid cooling. Unless you intend on heavily overclocking, an air cooler will be more than enough, which takes off another $20 from the price tag. Adding to that, getting a normal (one-fan, non-superclocked) EVGA GTX 570 will knock off another $25, making the total discount $55, which is obviously not enough to make it an even game. The iBuyPower computer wins this one, hands down. Sorry to all you computer builders out there! Bottom Line You can't argue with the price iBuyPower offers. For $999, you get the i5-2500K, EVGA GTX 570 Double Shot, 8GB of Corsair XMS3 RAM, and the rest of the components discussed earlier in the article. To top it off, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and a cheap keyboard/mouse are both thrown into the mix. Despite my typical distaste towards pre-made computers, it is undeniable that iBuyPower offers a superior deal -- due to their bulk ordering and ability to obtain components cheaply -- and, therefore, deserves a positive review. I recommend iBuyPower's holiday special computer if you are in search of a new computer, because it is one of the best deals you will find out there. Be it for yourself, or a (really, really nice) present for someone else, this is a good buy and worth the money. Along with being a good deal to begin with, you also get some free games with the computer: Batman: Arkham City and Just Cause 2. Paired up with the deal the computer is already, this makes it a complete steal. If you are looking for a new computer in this price range, I would not pass up the offer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Battlefield 3 TV spot by Freddie Wong & Corridor Digital Posted: 17 Dec 2011 10:00 AM PST Freddie Wong and his crew make a lot of crazy special effects-laden videos as does the Corridor Digital team. Each have offered their own take on the Battlefield series, which apparently caught the eye of EA. Tasked with making a television commercial for Battlefield 3, the groups joined forces to whip up a little sumthin'-sumthin' in just 10 days. It's always nice when fans have their works recognized by the source company, and it's even better when the fans get an opportunity to work on official company projects. Watch the video above, which should appear on TV soon, and see if they nailed it. Battlefield 3 - FreddieW TV Commercial [YouTube] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I'm now prepared to survive the Fall of Cybertron Posted: 17 Dec 2011 09:00 AM PST When this turned up and I opened the package, my wife said, "They sent you a lunchbox? You're an asshole." That's a fair enough assessment, I suppose. Anyway, I got this mad tat in the mail today. It's a steel box containing things I need to survive the events of Transformers: Fall of Cybetron. Inside is an "energon" drink carrying a cute Soundwave brand, a chocolate bar that asks if I am hungry like Grimlock, and some booklets containing art and info. Pretty rad for a Transformers fanboy like me. Can't wait for the game, either. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best of 2011: Totally Random Awards, Pt. 1 Posted: 17 Dec 2011 08:00 AM PST Go to any media outlet this week and they'll be trumping up their best-of-the-year list. We're not so different. However, I wanted there to be a place where staff could sound off on what trends, games, and ideas captured their interest (for better or worse) this year. I asked all the Dtoid staff to provide a mini-rant in the form of a fake award. The results are a bit random. Today, we take a look at PC hardware, season passes, and stupendously stupid game names in 2011. Alex Bout's "If I Could Pick One Piece That Would Most Affect Gaming Aspects of a Computer, I Would Pick This" Award Winner: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB I chose the 6950 over the i5 and M4 because of its contributions to gaming performance. While it is unfair to compare the advantages of a video card to a hard drive or CPU, it is undeniable that video cards improve game play the most out of all the other components of a computer. Don't get me wrong, both the i5 and M4 are excellent pieces and shouldn't be discredited as unworthy to buy. There were several different comparisons I made while choosing the 6950 2GB as my choice: for one, the Radeon 6950 (1GB or 2GB) offers excellent performance for the price. The GTX 560 Ti, the Radeon HD 6950's closest competitor, is about the same price despite the 6950's having slightly better performance. Moving on, I chose the 2GB model because it will offer a greater advantage later on as technology advances. The 2GB will not only help at higher resolutions such as 1900x1200 and multi-displays, it will also aid in future game, as they begin to take advantage of the increased amount of memory. Runner-ups: Intel Core i5-2500K, Crucial M4 128GB Max Scoville's "Whoever Decided This Should Be the Title of a Game Should Not Be Allowed to Write Words Ever Again" Award Winner: Ar Tonelico Qoga: The Knell of Ar Ciel Aside from "The" and "of," the only actual word in this game's title is "Knell" which I had to look up. It means the solemn ringing of a bell. "Ar" is the chemical abbreviation of Argon, and "Ciel" is a brand of bottled water only sold in Mexico, Morocco, and Angola. So basically, this game's title is 13 syllables of utter gibberish. If you approached a family member and said, "I want to play Ar Tonelico Qoga: The Knell of Ar Ciel," they would probably think you had a stroke mid-sentence or are possibly possessed by a Satan. I don't care if the game itself is good; the fact that someone decided this was a good name for a product that is sold in stores should be fired and possibly jailed. Runner-ups: Renegade Ops (See Jim's list of better titles), Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution (Colons: They're Cool, But We Should Have a Hyphen Too - There, That's Better), Hunted: The Demons Forge (thank you, Dark Fantasy MadLibs), Dissidia 012 [Duodecim] Final Fantasy (thought the title was a cheat code)
Hamza Aziz's "What the F*ck Were They Thinking?!" Award Winner: Seriously, Ubisoft? You're going to release Rayman Origins during the Novembergaddeon of AAA games? Worst of all, you're releasing Rayman Origins the SAME DAY as Assassin's Creed: Revelations? So not only are you competing with other publishers, you're competing with yourselves! Rayman does't have the brand power like it used to, and it feels like it was basically left to drown at retail. Oh, and let's not forget this gem where the sales of Rayman Origins will have an affect on Beyond Good & Evil 2. Runner-ups: The 3DS launch, GoldenEye: Reloaded getting released between the launches of Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3, Konami not promoting ANY of their releases (No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, Frogger 3D, LeedMees, Metal Gear Solid Collection, Otomedius -- probably more that I can't remember due to lack of promotions), EA/Sony/Microsoft preventing consumer rights with their "you can't sue us anymore, haha" terms, the PlayStation Vita's overpriced memory cards, a Tetris subscription fee Patrick Hancock's "Best Superhero MMO That Made the Jump to Free-to-Play in 2011" Award Winner: City of Heroes City of Heroes came out way back in 2004, a few months before World of Warcraft dropped and took the world by storm. That's when my hero, P-Dude (pictured above), was born. It's been seven years since then, and I still find myself enjoying the wide breadth of things to do within the MMO with not only P-Dude but my other characters like Grandmaster Pain, Squirtle, and Sweet Mustache as well. This game is something that Champions Online tried to surpass but ended up only half-emulating. DC Universe Online has the star power, sure, but once you look past that, you may be left wanting more. Now that it's officially free-to-play, anyone can experience the extreme customization options of not only your appearance but your superpowers as well. In the end, I have to give credit where credit is due and give this award to the original superhero MMO, City of Heroes. Always emulated, never duplicated. Runner-ups: DC Universe Online, Champions Online Alasdair Duncan's "Best Impulse Buy on Steam" Award Winner: Sideway: New York I know my choice will surprise most of you, but let me explain why I think that Sideway was the best impulse buy I made on Steam this year. Whilst the runner-ups may be better games, Sideway was the only game I bought this year on a true impulse. I saw it pop up on Steam, watched the trailer, and just bought it. Then I played it and stuck with it all the way to completing it, then I went back and played it again. I didn't even do that with any AAA games this year. With it's lovely graphics, smart gameplay, and the hook of those hidden tags, I'm still playing Sideway; that's why it's the most rewarding impulse buy I made on Steam this year. Oh, and it has nothing to do with my currently being in the top 10 leaderboard! Runner-ups: Terarria, Magicka, Frozen Synapse, Orcs Must Die!, Dungeon Defenders Jamie McGinn's "Most Blood-Boiling, Controller-Smashingly Frustrating Part of Dark Souls That Rhymes with 'Shitetown'" Award Winner: Blighttown Dark Souls is a great if slightly flawed game. Blighttown manages to encapsulate everything wrong with Dark Souls. The camera is constantly being obscured, phasing through wooden walkways, whilst the frame rate grinds to a halt. Enemies can very quickly inflict severe status effects on the player, which can only be cured by items that cannot be found anywhere in Blighttown. Once the player manages to find their way to the bottom, they are confronted with another obstacle, a giant poisonous swamp which is almost impossible to cross without being poisoned. However, the best part of Blighttown is the little flying insects that constantly respawn. The bugs love nothing more than to do their best Cliff Racer impression and hover above you just out of range. When you finally do kill them, they don't drop any experience. Naturally, they do poison attacks. Fuck Blighttown. Runner-ups: Blighttown, Blighttown, Blighttown, Blighttown Samit Sarkar's "When Sixty Bucks Just Ain't Enough" Award In this console generation, we've seen the advent of downloadable content to expand the on-disc experience and maintain mind share... and of course, to get you to spend more money than the original $60 cost. In 2011, publishers went further when they came up with the "Season Pass," a one-time, discounted fee that would get you some or all of the upcoming DLC for one game. If you're already planning on picking up the extra stuff, you might as well save some coin while you're at it, right? Then again, you've paid $60 and are now pre-ordering additional content, sometimes for as much as that initial sticker price. Sometimes, it's a great deal. Sometimes, it doesn't get you all that much. It's probably too early to judge these passes when we don't know what all of the content will look like, but if people are being asked to pay for it upfront then it's only fair, isn't it? Best Season Pass of 2011: "Rockstar Pass," L.A. Noire ($10) Each L.A. Noire case was a meaty piece of content, ranging from 45 to 90 minutes in length. If you dug the game, paying 10 bucks (a 50% discount) for four new cases was a no-brainer. The same goes for Elite -- if you're sure you'll buy every new Modern Warfare 3 map pack at $15 a pop, you're probably a hardcore enough player to also want the additional in-depth content that Elite offers. Worst Season Pass of 2011: "Season Pass," Saints Row: The Third ($20) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My Little Pony and Gabe Newell get Rhythm Heaven Fever Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:15 AM PST Rhythm Heaven Fever continues to spread, and has now overtaken Valve's Gabe Newell, the King of Hyrule from the Zelda CDi games, and Applebooty Sugarbottom (or whatever her name is) from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Yes Bronies, I know I should have done my MLP:FiM research before writing about a character from your favorite show of all time, but no matter what that pony's name is in real life, chances are I wouldn't enjoy typing it as much as I enjoyed typing "Applebooty Sugarbottom." No disrespect intended! Feel free to call me Applebooty Sugarbottom anytime you want. I think it sounds cute. For those of you new to the whole Rhythm Heaven Fever wrestler video sensation, here is a quick breakdown. First the original Wrestler interview game was shown to the world, and it was awesome. Then someone remade the video with a sexy man. Then McFlyGold remade the video with me in it. Then Camacho, a Japanese man who likes energy drinks, the Team Fortress 2 gang, and many more got into the act. Personally, I'm still partial to the sexy original, though I still believe that there is still plenty of potential left to be explored in this still developing genre of short film. Do you have what it takes to make the best Rhythm Heaven Wrestler video EVER?!!?!? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Review: Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand Posted: 17 Dec 2011 06:00 AM PST You may not be aware of it but EA just took a 2.7 GB dump on your hard drive. Within the latest patch for Battlefield 3 lies its first expansion Back to Karkand (B2K, brah!) Far less ambitious than the Vietnam expansions of the series’ past, B2K is an effort at mixing some old maps (all taken from Battlefield 2) with some new tech and ideas. Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand (PC [reviewed], PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
Part of this has to do with the fact that they have so much more detail -- no longer are you looking across a long plain of nothing. Another factor is that draw distance is much improved, these days. Remember the nasty fog most players had to experience in order to run BF2? I give EA the benefit of the doubt that the maps are close to the size of their originals. Even if they aren’t, they feel well tuned for Battlefield 3’s pacing.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dating sim about disabled girls gets a release date Posted: 17 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST Katawa Shoujo is a game I first heard about years ago but that hasn't been discussed on the Destructoid main page. At least, I didn't notice any posts after a cursory search. Anyway, Katawa Shoujo (which translates to "Disability Girls") is an indie love sim that takes place in a high school setting. The twist is that you and the girls you are pursuing are all handicapped. There is a girl without legs, one without arms, one who is blind, one who is a deaf-mute, and one with horrible burn scars across half her body. The game has a rather unusual origin story. In 2007, someone on 4chan posted concept art by a doujin artist named Raita for a dating sim revolving around disabled girls. Now, 4chan isn't exactly known for being the most tasteful of places, and the image was probably meant to to fuel fetish desires. However, along the way, someone decided to form a team separate from 4chan and turn the concept into a full project. As development continued, it became apparent that this wasn't some sick fetish joke and that these girls were being treated just as any other love interest in your typical Japanese visual novel. On January 4, 2012, the full game will finally be released on this page. The demos were available in several languages including English, Japanese, French, Russian, German, and others, so it's likely the final version will also have multiple options. I have a weird mix of feelings regarding the whole thing, though. On one hand, the game will have sexually explicit scenes (though they can be skipped if you desire), lending credence to the fetishism and exploitation criticisms. On the other hand, it's a chance to empower those with permanent disabilities, to illustrate that they are as beautiful, fascinating, and capable as any able-bodied person. In the end, I think the pros outweigh the cons, and I'll be interested in giving the game a spin. Maybe I'll post some impressions later down the line. Katawa Shoujo Will be Released on January 4th [Katawa Shoujo Dev Blog] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dumb running Sonic is too funny for its own good Posted: 17 Dec 2011 02:00 AM PST Got a knack for creating simple animations? Got no art skills whatsoever? Then it's time to play a fun new game called "Dumb running Sonic," where the goal is to make the goofiest-looking Sonic running animation, save it as a GIF, and share it with the world. Our artsy buddy Zac Gorman, the Mega Man 2 guide fella, made a post last week about how cute it would be if Sonic "ran like an idiot." His animation was seen as a challenge by Nedroid artist Anthony Clark, who responded with this little number and a call for other artists to submit their interpretations. The response has been overwhelming, spawning the Tumblr page below. You really should spend a few minutes browsing through the submissions. I guarantee you'll have a hearty laugh. I even posted a few choice pics in their full animated GIF glory after the jump. Enjoy! dumb running sonic [Tumblr]
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taking a page from the QWOPa Sutra Posted: 17 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST Now I bet you totally want to play QWOP again and waste an hour of your Saturday, right? Admit it. And the next time you're getting frisky in the sack, this is what will be in your mind. You're welcome. Dorkly Bits: QWOP Guy Has Sex [Dorkly] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The DTOID Show: Is it really our last live show of 2011?! Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:52 PM PST
Public humiliation aside, things happened recently and we felt it necessary to report on them, because we are PROFESSIONALS. First up, I Am Alive got a new trailer, SW:TOR is surprisingly good, and EA is crazy if they think people are going to $100 for an in-game car. On the Sony side of things, the PS Vita will be tied to one account after all, and definitely won't include any manuals. You know, in case you were wondering how to turn the thing on. Damn kids and their newfangled technologies. Last but not least, a special thanks to Devolver Digital and 21st Street Games for providing us with oodles of glorious codes to give away the show. If that's not enough for you, be sure to watch tonight's episode for details on how to win a Halo: Reach Xbox 360 bundle or one of three copies of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. It's limited edition and it's sure to impress that special imaginary someone in your life! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 25 Days: Win a Kindle Fire and EA mobile games! Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:00 PM PST Easily one of the hottest Christmas items this year is the Kindle Fire. The full color 7" multi-touch display tablet does it all by bringing you books, movies, TV shows, apps, web browsing, cloud storage and so much more. We're giving one away as part of our 25 Days of Giving celebration thanks to Electronic Arts to play some of the best EA mobile Android games! We'll be giving you a gift card so you can load EA games from Scrabble to Madden NFL 12 on to your new Kindle! In order to win the tablet, just leave a comment below telling us which of the EA mobile games you want to play the most. We'll be randomly selecting a winner to give the Kindle Fire to after the contest closes on December 18 at 11:59PM CST. No limit to entry and contest is open to anyone with a US based shipping address the prize can be shipped to. Good luck! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Daily Hotness: Nobunaga's gotta catch'm all! Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:59 PM PST So, the prospect of a new Pokémon game on the 3DS had me really, really excited. The revelation of Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition for the Nintendo DS (not the 3DS) was both disappointing and exciting. The concept is definitely intriguing and the images sparked some sort of hidden Japanophile excitement somewhere in my soul. Could be good. Some Dtoid staffers give their impressions of Star Wars: The Old Republic thus far, Holmes reviewed King of Fighters XIII, we list our favorite game characters of 2011, the 3DS ambassador's GBA games are available, and more happened on 12/16/2011. Destructoid Original: Contests: News: |
Destructoid impressions: Star Wars: The Old Republic| You are subscribed to email updates from Destructoid To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
