Paint your friends, no internet required You have to be a nerd of a certain age to remember the golden days of the LAN (Local Area Network) party, a geeky gathering where people brought their computers or consoles together in one physical location to take advantage of latency-free multiplayer. While you may still find game cafés and school networks that offer a similar experience, the practice has largely died out in the era of affordable broadband internet....

Ultimate Maze-Solver As we enter 2021, the 10th anniversary celebrations for Kazutaka Kodaka’s bizarre seriesDanganronpalook set to continue. The latest festivities seeing the arrival of a “mystery maze,” which is scheduled to open in Shibuya, Japan from January 22. As reported byFamitsu,Super Danganronpa 2 The Mystery Mazewill offerDanganronpafans the opportunity to dash through a real-life labyrinth of sorts, gathering clues and solving puzzles whilst staying one step ahead of the evil machinations of killer plushie Monokuma....

‘There?s still a lot more room for discovery and invention,’ says producer Having finally gotten a Wii U, my goal this week has been to playSuper Mario 3D Worldand at leasttrynot to burn through it too quickly. It’s tough, though, with the promise of something new pushing me to continually do “just one more level” until, well, might as well just play the next world to see what it looks like since it’s right there on the screen and all....

Updated: July 17, 2025 We added new codes! Would she still love you if you were a slime? If not, at least you can drown your sorrows in a fun Roblox PvP game. Nothing helps to let off some steam as annihilating enemies inTensura Chronicles, a silly battlegrounds title inspired by the inimitable eponymous anime. Thankfully, you don’t have to reincarnate as a slime, although the odds are that you likely will....

Here’s a gallery of pictures from the TGS show floor so that you may enjoy the sights without the hassle of dodging people or fighting off heat exhaustion. You won’t have to deal with the sweat or the pushing, either. In these shots you’ll see that the show floor isn’t that crazy yet. We’re still safe as the event is only open to press and business attendees for the first two days....

Check out everything Destructoid did today This has been my jam all day. Lines like, “I’ll grab a crocodile by its tail”keep me coming back. Also, that groove, man. Holy willies. Speaking of grooves, Jim talked toDeadly Premonitiondeveloper Swery65, Ubisoft picked a studio for theAssassin’s Creedfilm,The Walking Deadis getting a freaking sweet Collector’s Edition, and much more happened on 26-07-2025. Destructoid Original:Deadly Premonition: the cult of split-personalityFive new designs have arrived in the Destructoid store!...

Dragons. Ponies. Skyrim. I’m tired. SOPA has been neutered, PIPA’s been shelved, we have a new office chat and the ESA stopped being punks a bit too late to avoid the ire of the robot army. Destructoid Original:How SOPA and PIPA make Destructoid feelOffice Chat: Long cutscenes, light bribery and blackoutsThis weekend on Twitch TV: HotBlooded Metal GearsThe DTOID Show: The world’s tiniest hamburger for dollsCommunity:Forum Thead of the day:The Bar: Part 2Community blogs of1/20Friday Night Fights: Because you’ve earned itReviews:Review: Unstoppable GorgPreviews:SoulCalibur on iOS makes me want an iPadPreview: Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen...

Couch co-op makes a compelling case for this game Gazillion’s action-RPGMarvel Heroes Omegais holding an open beta on PlayStation 4 tomorrow, May 23. For the impatient among us and/or superfans who digMarvel Heroeson PC enough to want to do it all again, there are severalFounder’s Packsoffering instant beta access. Those start at $20. Considering it’s free-to-play, there’s local co-op, and folks have fond memories of games likeMarvel: Ultimate Alliance(not that this is the same thing), I can seeOmegaresonating well with console players....

There’s a lot of hubbub around the twoNew Super Mario Bros.games coming out this year. Tony wrote anawesome pieceon why he thinks their copy-and-paste design is a failure. Reggie hascome out sayingthat the fans can’t be pleased even though the Wii U is launching with aMariogame. People love theirMariogames, but theseNSMBtitles seem to have them a bit down. There’s a lot of angst over these suckers even though most of us readily admit that they’re probably going to be fun to play and well received on the whole....

After a couple of weeks of absence, I have returned to bringAlso Talksback to its true form. We’re coming back with a bang, speaking with some of the minds behind the budding entertainment blogTwinfinite.321Go Castis chatting with Dtoid’s own virtuoso composerAlphadeus. AndMash Tacticsis getting back to the classic A.D.D. Friday format. Today at 4pm Pacific, Jon Carnage and Wesley Ruscher will be jumping from game to game at the viewers’ request....

This one’s free-to-play from the get-go Turtle Rock Studios has had quite the mixed history with cooperative shooters. As Valve South, it developedLeft 4 Deadwhich was an undeniably huge success. And, once the studio went independent, it createdEvolve, which more or less flopped. Turtle Rock’s sticking to the same formula for the rubber match. In an interview withGamesIndustry International, Turtle Rock co-founder Phil Robb reveals that the developer’s third title will be another cooperative shooter....

Make Odin proud Let’s talk about fake difficulty in games. In the olden days, often times due to the limitations of the hardware, developers would create certain portions of games that forced you to resort to trial-and-error tactics, often creating cheap deaths and frustration. But of course, to sayeveryretro game resorted to this is a complete fallacy, as I could name a large number of great platformers that did not enforce to this limitation — namelyChip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangersby Capcom, which allowed for a failsafe “box shield” mechanic to avoid unnecessary cheap deaths....

When I was younger I read some freaky book that had me keeping journals and holding things in my hand when I slept so that I may experience lucid dreaming. And it worked. After awhile I was totally aware in-dream, and was doing some really cool sh*t in them. And I was totally flying in every single one. Now there’s an easier way to achieve this control, says psychologist Jayne Gakenbach, a researcher at Grant MacEwan University....