In 1993, director Jon Turteltaub brought Cool Runnings to the silver screen. A story of hopes and dreams, Cool Runnings followed the inspiring (and hilarious!) story of the first Jamaican Bobsled team’s rise to greatness.
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Word straight from Gaijin games is that their new-retro classic Bit.Trip Beat is finally being released on Europe’s WiiWare service this Friday. Europeans have been complaining for a while that they haven’t gotten the game yet, as they enjoy their fine teas and jellies, not to mention all the games that Nintendo of America will [...]
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Toribash isn’t like other videogames. It’s hard to even say what genre it’s a part of. As far as gameplay goes, all you can do is alter the angle and position of the body parts of a Vectorman-looking dummy. Doing so will determine the strength and type of attack the dummy will carry out once [...]
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There are certain games that barely need to be reviewed. A easy “If you like this sort of thing, you’ll like this game” is all anyone really needs to know. I’m talking about games like Halo 3, Rock Band 2, Mega Man 9; games that fans of their genres will completely love, but non-fans just [...]
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Did you hear that Monster Hunter D Wii sold something around 100,000 duplicates in its first day of release in Japan? Crazy sales for a Wii port of a PSP port of a PS2 game. Chances are that these sales have less to do with Japan’s interest in a four-year-old PS2 game, and more to [...]
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It is becoming more and more clear that Capcom doesn’t think it can possibly release the original Resident Evil enough. The game’s been updated and revamped more than Joan River’s face and they aren’t stopping. Next up is the Wii port of the game Resident Evil: Archives which just got a Japanese teaser trailer. The [...]
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Back in the 90’s there was a brief explosion of games that used claymation. It was awesome. Anyone who lived through that era can tell you that playing a claymation videogame is sweet. In fact if you haven’t played The Neverhood I would advocate taking off your gamer badge and turning it in to your [...]
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I’m almost positive that my glasses are beyond RetRose tinted on this one, but I’m going to state it anyway: Mad Dog McCree was the greatest arcade light gun game ever made. Here me out here. Not only was the game a light gun game (a basic stipulation to be the ideal light gun game [...]
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In this console generation, “hardcore” gamers — especially sports gamers — have completely dismissed and ignored the Wii (you know, like many Destructoid readers dismiss and ignore sports games). Their disdain for Nintendo’s wildly successful console might not approach Chad Warden levels, but you might hear this familiar refrain: “real gamers play on 360/PS3.” The [...]
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State it with me: “It’s about God damned time.” Revealed as downloadable content last freakin’ year, the classic Jane’s Addiction album Nothing’s Shocking is coming to Rock Band as downloadable content next week. The best news? It’s coming to all three platforms, the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii. The following tracks — along with [...]
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