The UPS fairy dropped off a present at my door this morning: The Art of Dead Space, a 97 page art book written and illustrated by the game's development team. It's a fairly solid and hot looking book, with early concept art, weapon and equipment schematics from the game's universe, and some art from the Dead Space comic book. Also included is a set of 3D glasses to be used with the 10 pages of ...

While we most certainly won't be playing Resident Evil 5 this year, we'll all just have to settle for the Capcom and Sony Pictures produced CG film, Resident Evil: Degeneration. Co-directed by Devil May Cry 4 producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Degeneration will be getting a Blu-ray release in North America some time later this year. Capcom's Chris Kramer has the first details on the release, including a slew of extras:Interactive Picture-in-Picture (BD Exclusive) Trivia Track The ...

The above video is NSFW, but if your boss saw it, I doubt he or she would be able to process it in their brain fast enough to report you to human resources.But for those of you playing it safe (I'm not kidding, the video is certainly not safe for work), here's what you're missing: someone decided to modify the Japanese version of Resident Evil 4 on the PC. Instead of turning it into something ...

It's been awhile since we've heard anything from the Seatle, WA-based Snowblind Studios, the folks behind Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and Champions of Norrath. Here's what they're up to: working on an Xbox LIVE Arcade game, Death Tank!If it looks similar to Worms or the PC classic Scorched Earth, that's because it is. The multiplayer shooter features eight different landscapes that are altered when hit by tank fire, changing the battlefield as you play. The ...

With the September 9 release of Spore right around the corner, it's time to move past the press hype and for the marketing campaign blitz to begin! But when it's as cool as these subway ads found in Boston's Harvard Square red line T stop station, it's kind of hard to complain. From the looks of it, they've taken over every square-inch of ad space in the station, with some pretty gorgeous looking Spore-inspired art ...

While the rest of the Destructoid staff are off gallivanting about Seattle doing God knows what with God knows who, I'm acting like a responsible Editor-in-Chief. Early media registration opened today at 6 PM Seattle time and I was one of the first in line. After flashing my business card and drivers license, my name was scratched off a list and I was not only handed a media badge, but a bag of ... stuff. ...

Before Electronic Arts, MTV Games, and Harmonix would hand over a preview copy of Rock Band 2 to us, we had to sign a paper in blood stating we wouldn't talk details about or grab video from certain things. Among those things: Guns N' Roses "Shackler's Revenge" (never heard it!) and the game's new cinematic intro (never seen it before!). The Guns N' Roses track made sense; it's to be the world-premiere of a track ...

From the outside looking in, I'm not exactly sure why an artist wouldn't want his or her music in a popular music game, but singer-songwriter Matthew Sweet isn't all that thrilled. Speaking with North County Times, Sweet says he was unaware that his song "Girlfriend" would be included in 2006's Guitar Hero II. "I've been trying to see if I can get a lawsuit against them 'cause they never asked to use the song," Sweet ...

Hey, there's nothing wrong with updating a great Flash game and porting it over to other platforms. Hell, it worked out really well for Metanet Software's N; when Anthony Burch reviewed the Xbox LIVE version, N+, he gushed over the title, calling it "the ultimate indie platformer."Now the title makes its way to both the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable as, well, N+. After playing the Nintendo DS version for over a week, I can ...

No, I'm serious with that headline: your mom is in Rock Band 2. Among the features of the game's expanded Band World Tour Mode is the ability to hire staff as you gain fans by completing gigs. Your default roadie? Your mom, a Carol Brady-like figurehead who offers you support and, as the game puts it, a "200% boost in clean laundry and worried phone calls."As you progress through the game, you'll be able to ...

18-year-old rapper Soulja Boy has more stuff than you. For instance, he has at least two big-screen high definition televisions that sit right next to each other in his basement. Each is hooked up to an Xbox 360 so that he can play Crackdown with his friends over Xbox LIVE. You, on the other hand, probably have to send your friend home to play Crackdown with him or her. Don't hate -- Soulja Boy earned ...

No disrespect to The Outlaws, but I absolutely despise their song "Green Grass and High Tides." For me, the ten-minute southern rock monster stands as a blemish on the track listing of Harmonix's first Rock Band game. And it's not just because I can't get through the song on Expert guitar, and probably never will be able to. The song itself makes me gag a little bit; it's simply not my "thing." So I was ...

Harmonix's John Drake readily admits that they didn't exactly follow through with their promise of using Rock Band to create an army of drummers. Instead, what they did was help people hone their "bang on things when you see colors on the screen" skills. So what you end up with is people being able to bang out the drums for Nine Inch Nail's "The Perfect Drug" -- a feat which some professional drummers may never ...

If you're reading this, it's likely that Ubisoft's Wii game, Monkey Madness, is not for you. The fact sheet for the game states that the target audience for the game is kids ages six to eight years; considering I'm about to use the word "f**k," I'd hope you are not of that age. F**k. See, there I go. But you guys need to see this. Because from what I can tell, Monkey Madness takes the ...

This isn't the first we're hearing about Devo tracks coming to Rock Band, but here's a good confirmation: next week's DLC will include two Devo songs, both re-recorded by the band for the game. "Girl U Want" and "Through Being Cool" will be available for 160 MS Points ($1.99 a piece) next Tuesday on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and Thursday for PlayStation Network. But even more exciting, for me, at least, is the announcement that Duran ...

Just days after Game Informer revealed their cover story exclusive for Eidos' Batman: Arkham Asylum, here we have our first screens, and the words "totally badass" come to mind.The images confirm the game's "dark" and "gritty" feel, with an angry looking and ripped Batman pounding filthy thugs' faces in with his dirty bat-gloves. The game is said to feature a number of Batman's most notorious villains, and we can see at least two of them ...

Well this confirms it: Bizarre Creations would like to ensure that I don't get anything done. Ever. As if it weren't bad enough that I were being trashed talked about my Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2 scores via Twitter, the developer has now put the leaderboards online. So now I can access my scores right in my web browser, the place in which I do nearly all of my work. Apologies to my boss in ...

While Microsoft’s small-developer XNA tools have been available for awhile, it was only recently that the software giant revealed plans to allow creators to get paid for their efforts. Called Xbox LIVE Community Games, this new allows XNA developers to offer up their titles in exchange for Microsoft Points, with portions of the real-world profits going directly into their pockets. When Xbox LIVE Community Games launches this fall, Xbox 360 owners will have a slew ...

We don't think Terminal Reality could have gotten better PR than the hype surrounding word that Activision Blizzard had dropped their Ghostbusters project. While Activision Blizzard reps wouldn't truly comment on the game's fate, Terminal Reality's Mark Randel is adamant: you will play Ghostbusters. "Ghostbusters will be published," he told videogaming247. "That's all I can say at the moment."The title (which has been in development for awhile) had received a massive PR push prior its ...

Yesterday, Q Games dropped the third installment of their PixelJunk series, PixelJunk Eden, on the PlayStation Network. What you might not know is that the game is the first to take advantage of the much-talked-about YouTube integration, allowing you to capture in game videos and upload directly from your console. I decide to take it for a run to see if it works, and well ... it most certainly does. While I had some issues ...