It's the early 21st century and humanity is embroiled in a bitter war with an alien race hellbent on stemming mankind's advance into outer space. You are a mech pilot. You pilot a war machine that's enormous and powerful. Aliens shoot at you, and you are probably going to need to dodge some bullets and shoot back.
It's an age-old story, one that's probably not going to win many accolades, and that's okay. Sometimes it's just fun to bomb around a distant planet and blow up everything in sight.
Early purchases of Dark Souls II will come with a voucher for the "Black Armor Weapons Pack" containing five weapons and shields (find the item descriptions below) which players can make use of at the beginning of the game. At first glance, this sounds dreadful.
However, these items are by no means exclusive -- you'll be able to find them later on in Dark Souls II without the voucher. So while I'm still not a fan of this approach, I can see the value in letting new players take any advantage they can get. From the sound of it, they'll need it.
Besides, it'll be easy for the rest of us to pass up this equipment until we find it naturally.
That logo. That trailer. That ... everything. Rather embarrassingly, I'm only now coming to the realization that I should have bothered to pay more attention to Broforce long ago. Finally, a game where I can (essentially) play as RoboCop, Snake Plissken, Judge Dredd, and John Matrix.
Developer Free Lives is teaming up with (who else?) publisher Devolver Digital to bring Broforce to Steam Early Access in March. The plan is for the finished thing to hit PC and consoles this summer, but impatient bros can pre-order now for access to the online beta.
There's also the free alpha, in case you never played that.
Broforce + Devolver Digital = Brosanity [Devolver Digital]
The next Nintendo Direct presentation, scheduled for Thursday, February 13 at 2:00pm Pacific, features Wii U and 3DS games "launching by the end of spring," according to Nintendo. Here's the link you'll want to use tomorrow, or just stay here on Destructoid. Either way.
I'm thinking we won't hear any grand announcements following Nintendo's lowered sales forecasts for both systems earlier this year, but it's been long enough since the last Nintendo Direct that there have got to be a few items of note. What do you predict?
