This whole court’s out of order! Welcome to Debatoid! If you weren’t around six years ago, Debatoid is an internet debate between two lovely community members. A topic is chosen and the two gentleman/gentleladies will argue either for or against said topic. I will flip a coin to see who takes which side and then the debaters do their thing! The guests are encouraged to use personal experience, facts, and opinions to sway the community to their side....

What happens in Vegas For 50 years, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has shown off innovations and inventions, demonstrating how technology can be harnessed to improve our lives or just make things a little more fun. I got to check out the show on behalf of Destructoid this year to see what we can look forward to in gaming tech. CES isn’t like some of the other conventions you might be familiar with, like E3 or PAX....

Don’t let the reddit thing scare you off Oh, another story about apparent leaks. I can already hear you screaming “this is bullshit”, but bear with me because there are things which actually give some credence to this one. Okay? Okay. A reddit userhas claimed to have taken a survey that leaked some pretty big information about everyone’s favourite upcomingStar TreksimMass Effect 4.There’s a buttload of information here, so I’m going to bullet point the main things....

Rip, tear, repeat If you were worriedDoomwould follow in the footsteps of other modern first-person shooters with a five hour jaunt of a campaign, you may sleep easy now. According toid Software, the average length of the campaign clocks in at a hefty 13 hours. That’s a whole lot of time to listen to a chainsaw gummed up with demon guts. .@Unreal389The difficulty level plays a factor, but folks playing at the office average 13+ hours in the campaign...

That’s not a real room Epic Games is no longer charging developers amonthly subscriptionfor Unreal Engine 4. The engine isnow freefor anyone to use. Well, free to a point — “When you ship a game or application, you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter.” However, there’s no royalty associated with “film projects, contracting, and consulting projects such as architecture, simulation, and visualization,” according to Epic....

WOW. 100 percent gameplay was shown in a debut trailer shown tonight during the 2012 VGA broadcast. A doctor speaks to someone waking from a coma. Someone with a hook for a hand. A soldier. He can’t move well, but is being guided by another patient as the hospital goes dark. Others are being dragged off and being killed. Gunmen move in. Attacks begin. What is going on? What are they after?...

Kmart and their game blog, KmartGamer, are looking to send games bloggers to the 2011 E3 convention, set to go down in Los Angeles from June 7-9. They’re seeking submissions from active, followed games bloggers (in forums, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc. )interested in attending the show. They want to know why you’d be interested in covering the show and what you’d like to see there in their submissions process. If you’re interested,you’ll need to hit this linkand supply your reasons along with your contact info....

While many of you were staying up late, waiting for 12AM PDT last night, other gamers across the world were toiling away, hacking and slashing their way throughDiablo III, as the servers were already up for Europe/Asia. It looks like their hard work payed off, as a group of Koreanshave already clearedDiablo IIIon normal mode in under 5 hours. Just a word of warning, if you don’t want the game’s final boss spoiled, do not click on the marked link in the forum post or the marked link in the source article....

A million copies sold to date Red Hook Games has passed the one-million-copies-sold milestone for its spirit-crushing RPGDarkest Dungeon. I never would’ve predicted it would reach that level of success early on, but once it got going and hit its stride in Steam Early Access, it was clear the game was resonating with people. According to the studio, Steam accounts for 94 percent of the copies sold so far, for a few reasons: a strong Early Access launch and full release on Windows and Mac, and the fact that the PS4 and Vita versions ofDarkest Dungeonhave only been out since July 02, 2025 (they’ve had “decent” sales at “approximately 50K copies [sold] worldwide)....

Also, Pok?mon Shuffle The Wii U has a bit of eShop life this week withKirby and the Rainbow Curse, which looks all sorts of cute. It’s also getting aCitizens of Earthdemo andAxelay, one of my personal favorite SNES shoot-’em-ups. The 3DS is gettingPokémon Shuffle, which, sadly, does not make good use of the free-to-play scheme. I’m slowly making my way through it now because of the limited playtime, but you can read aboutmy initial impressions here, or download it yourself....

You may have free money Do you want more internet money? Well I have a solution for you, buddeh! Earlier today I was talking to a friend about buying the Wii U version of1001 Spikes, and he mentioned that he was going to pay for it with his Deluxe Money. In one fell swoop, I realized what he was talking about, and what I had been ignoring for over a year....

Blockbuster has said that it’s seen a lot of support from game publishers over its increased game rental plans, because they help erode the impact of used games. Apparently, companies receive quite the kickback from rentals, whereas they get “nothing” from trade-ins. “We have ramped up the rental side of our business and we have got an awful lot of support from publishers,” claimed commercial director Gerry Butler. “Publishers like renting as it takes away from trade-ins....

The Harvard Business Review (by way of Gamasutra) has publishedan editorialfrom David Edery, formerly of MIT, and current Xbox LIVE arcade product planner about the next wave of video game based advertising. Apparently the bean counters have found that creating a brand within a game and pushing it on the fans tends to sell like gangbusters! He cites the recent example of Squenix’s collaboration with Japanese drink zaibatsu Suntory on aFinal Fantasythemed energy drink called‘Potion’....