It all started here in the Destructoid community blogs A few months ago, one of our community members reached out to theDestructoid readership for help with a student project. He wanted to createa love letter to videogames, in the form of a printed collection of personal essays and critiques, joined together by elegant design and art direction. Many of our most prominent community members offered their help, and in the end,the project was a huge success....

The future of gaming! Wet with anticipation for Valve’sSteam Machine? While you’re wishing for Santa Gabe to gift you the machine of the future you can witness YouTube user Trial By Game demonstrate a bunch of games played with theSteam Machine’s controller. There’s a bunch of games that have been demonstrated with the controller, from those that would work perfectly to those not so much. Above isRogue Legacy, and below you can watchTyping of the Dead, DOTA 2,andSuper Meat Boy, with plenty more over on the YouTube channel....

Would you consider attacking one at a time? It’s time to get serious. Or stoic. Actually, ifSerious Samis your thing, you might even want to get excited. A team of fans (with Croteam’s blessing, no less) has launchedSerious Sam Classics: Revolutionon Steam, an iteration of the cult twitch shooter that combinesSerious Sam Classic: The First EncounterandThe Second Encounterwith new game modes, campaign levels, fan mods, weapons, and additional maps. Alligator Pit is the indie development team behindRevolution,united by fans who wanted the original games to live on and evolve through theSerious Samcommunity’s desire to expand and update older levels....

Running the rag, running ragged As we’ve just told you repeatedly now, Jonathan Holmes isstepping back from the overarching role of Editor-in-Chief, and various familiar faces are stepping up to absorb his duties as co-Editors-in-Chief. It’s a pretty good deal. Holmes is still around with more time to write posts like his excellentMajora’s Maskpiece from last year, while you don’t lose any singular one of us (Laura, Jordan, Chris) to the all-consuming responsibility of the EIC role....

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marineisn’t on shelves yet, but THQ and Relic are apparently confident enough to be already discussing the sequel. According marketing manager James McDermott, the talks have just kicked off. “We have an internal gating process and we’ll already be talking about whether we put [Space Marine 2] into that,” he said. “Whether we make it or not will be dependant on how well the game does and then also how good the concept is for number two....

As you may know, I’ve been coveringUnbound Sagasince E3 and have consistently made my excitement for the PSP brawler known. Despite this, I somehow did not know the game was out in a bloody week’s time. Now I do, and I also know that the download-only portable game is selling for the sexy, sexy price of $14.99. Released on July 16,Unbound Sagawill only be available via the PlayStation Network, as Sony gears up for its digital-only PSPgo....

For trading Steam still has a ways to go in terms of functionality (mostly to adjust things they implemented, like Greenlight, mods, and trading) but a new change is coming on March 9, sprung by security concerns. For starters, you can’t dupe items anymore by trading. People would previously do this by trading an item away, then put in a claim ticket to restore the item. That seems like a no brainer....

This is just a handy PSA that won’t really be of any use to anyone because we’ll all have forgotten about it by then, but Nintendo has stated that the 3DS will be dated and priced on September 29. This is what the company told Bloomberg Japan, in any case. It waspreviously promisedby Reggie “The Meatman Cometh” Fils-Aime that the 3DS would be out worldwide by March 2011, and most predictions for the price have put it at around $250....

Go get in line! The PlayStation Blogmade an announcement that 444PlayStation 4swill be available at The Standard, High Line hotel in New York City. These will be sold at a midnight launch event at the hotel, and there will be arcade area with 30 kiosks set up for people to enjoy. The line for these extra consoles starts now, meaning in New York City there is a sign that you may wait behind for almost two days so you can get a PlayStation 4....

Hooray? Ace of Spadesis receiving some free DLC today, with four new maps, a Capture the Flag game mode, and a new weapon. The new maps, like the standard ones, are well designed and are unique in their own ways. Map design, however, is the least of this game’s worries. The new weapon is the Snow Blower, which shoots snowballs that create blocks upon impact. While a decent item, it takes up the explosive slot and it’s hardly better than a grenade, turret, or C4....

‘Every decision we make is pushing emergent gameplay,’ says dev Speaking withPC Gamerabout the open-world survival titleRust, Gary Newman of Facepunch Studios said that for as cutthroat as the game can be given the freedom it grants players, “People should be nice to each other because they get a nice feeling from being nice. There shouldn’t be a system hanging around forcing people to be good. It removes a lot of gameplay fun....

SDCC visitors may get the first peek In a tweet yesterday,Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIdeveloper Treyarch teased at zombie-flavoured news coming July 9. It’s time to start writing the next chapter…pic.twitter.com/D31SOEw8vJ — Treyarch Studios (@Treyarch)Jul 06, 2025 Wondering what’s so significant about July 9? Yep, me too. It’s not particularly mysterious, though – turns out it’s the first day of San Diego Comic Con. So if you’re going, you might be amongst the first to lay your hands on the latestBlack Opszombie mode....

Sven played as Ken If you needed a heartwarming story today, this is it. Over in Spain, theStreet Fighter Vcommunity held a tournament called Sonic Boom, and a blind player managed to kick some ass. Known as “Sven,” he managed to use the game’s sound effects to his advantage, and used Ken’s rushdown strength to constantly keep the pressure on his opponent, Musashi, who was commandeering the glass cannon Akuma — he won that bout....