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Steam’s Big Picture: Steam on your TV

Yes! Today’s debut of the Big Picture has us all ready to play Steam games on your televisions. I already do that, but this new mode will make my big-screen gaming life much easier with its new interface with its optimizations for readability. This is a reformatting only, with all of your friends, content and library still there. Big Picture is centered around game controller buttons and commands, though mouse and keyboard are still available....

Sup Holmes feels futile with The Stanley Parable’s Dave W

Get to know the people that make great videogames This week on Sup Holmes, we’ll meetDavey Wreden, creator ofThe Stanley Parable —a videogame about jobs, life, and videogames. What started as aHalf Life 2mod transformed into a successful Kickstarter project, resulting in the forthcoming stand-alone HD remake. Davey is part of a new generation of game developers who are making games like you’d have never seen ten years ago, and getting them produced in ways that prove that anyone with an idea and the drive to share it can be a success....

Team Fortress 2 community mods look spook-tacular

C’mon, I’m allowed one Halloween pun at this time of year, right? Anyway,Team Fortress 2has had plenty of official Halloween updates in the past, whether it’s been special themed maps or limited edition hats. Now a group of modders are ready to unleash a wealth of scary Halloween items forTeam Fortress 2, in theNight of the Living Updates. There’s some really great looking stuff here, from a Mexican Day Of The Dead inspired skill mask for the Pyro, to a full Creature From The Black Lagoon outfit for the demoman....

The Daily Hotness: Witcher 3 is not ass, and other awards

Check out everything Destructoid did today Now that E3 2013 is completely in the books, it’s that time when all the busy little bees of the internet decide what their favorite games of the show were. Respawn Entertainment’s big coming out party,Titanfall,stole the Destructoid Game of Show crown this year, but it hardly seems fair to just talk about the best of the best. What about that game that looks like it will get a solid 8/10?...

The Gift of Gaming: The world’s greatest coping mechanism

Promoted from our Community Blogs [Dtoid community member TheDustinThomas shares the story of how video games helped him cope with the loss of his best friend. This made me ache a bit and wish I could see Isabelle again.Want to see your own stuff appear on the front page?Go write something!–Occams Electric Toothbrush] I’ve never used videogames as a way to escape from the realities of life, I don’t find that to be a healthy way of dealing with things, at least it isn’t for me....

There may be no hiding from Splatoon 2’s Torpedo Sub

The stickiest of sticky bombs Yesterday, we showed youthe fantastically comical Ultra Stamp, which is heading to the arsenal of Nintendo’s arena-shooterSplatoon 2next week. But that’s not the only piece of devastating new tech the multiplayer title has to offer… Coming alongside the Ultra Stamp is the all-new Torpedo Sub, which will be included in certain weapon loadouts. Provided a player is charged with plenty of ink, they can hurl this grenade-type weapon, which will then adopt an antennae and seek out the nearest opponent, homing-missile style....

There’s a secret in BioShock Infinite’s ambient noise

What’s it mean? This isn’t really a spoiler, but you’re probably better off avoiding whatever this is about anyway. I imagine we’re going to be discovering a lot of hidden secrets inBioShock Infiniteoverthe next few months. The latest discovery involves some of the ambient noise that players hear around the Fraternal Order of the Raven section early on in the game. Players have discovered some sort of song will play if you speed up the audio 1000%....

This new Evil Within 2 trailer is just the right kind of demented

He just wants a little father-daughter time Action-packed trailers for survival horror games are always kind of an oddball necessity. Effective survival horror is tense and plodding, a long buildup of dread before the dreadful stuff actually happens. However, trailers best serve the game by getting as many intense moments into a short video as possible. They’re kind of at odds with one another. That being said, this new trailer forThe Evil Within 2seems to split the difference rather nicely....

Treadnauts is a chaotic new take on Scorched Earth

Tank! Tank! Tank! RememberScorched Earth? OrDeath Tank? Or any of those old artillery games? Their spirit lives on inTreadnauts, a cute little multiplayer game that’s just as much about bouncing your impossibly agile tank around as it is lining up the perfect shot. I always love theideaof these games, but they’re rarely so fast-paced or hectic. This speaks to me. If you like how the game is shaping up so far, be on the lookout for apublic alphain two weeks....

Treyarch unleashes mod tools for Call of Duty: Black Ops III

BlOps! BlOps! BlOps! WhileCall of Dutyoriginally launched as a PC exclusive, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who associates the series with computers. Most people either know of the franchise from its Xbox 360 heyday or are familiar with the intrusiveNFL cameos. For a long time,Call of Dutyhasn’t really been worth pursuing on PC. The portshavebeenregularlyshoddyand the games are locked out of modding. While I can’t justify having cheating on servers (Call of Duty 4is just loaded with hacks on PC), at least give players the chance to create levels!...

Watch Dogs PR stunt brings the bomb squad out

I like turtles Between sending brass knuckles for theGodfather IIrelease, sending out $300 checks to represent greed forDante’s Inferno, and sending copies ofMass Effect 3into space, you have to wonder how fun the world of games PR can be sometimes. The latest fun-fulled stunt involvesWatch Dogs,and a mysterious black safe sent to the Sydney based ninemsn news offices. Attached was a note, asking the recipient to “check their voicemail,” which didn’t bode well for the reporter in question, as they had just received a hang-up phone call the night before....

What gaming locations would you want turned into a Smash Bros. stage?

Let’s battle inside Bowser’s stomach! I was driving home from having lunch with Dale North the other day when I got to thinking aboutSuper Mario RPG, aka the best gameever. I think about that game a lot, and it tends to pop into my head quite often for one reason or another. This time I was thinking about how fun it would be to stream the game. It’s pretty stupid to say it like this, but I’m pretty MLG in that Super Nintendo classic....

When does Black Ops 7 come out? Release date, countdown, and more

Get ready to “embrace the madness” in the newestCall of Duty. Black Ops 7is just a few months away from release, so get ready to jump in. BO7is looking pretty trippy judging by its reveal trailer, teasing a campaign full of mind tricks and manipulation asBlack Opshero David Mason takes on a new, highly advanced enemy in thisBlack Ops 2sequel taking place in the year 2035. This means semi-futuristic tech and weaponry will be at the forefront of the new game, a big departure from the early 1990s setting ofBlack Ops 6....