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As Promised. Sketches of Dtoiders at PAX

When I get sleepy, I draw to keep myself awake. And at PAX, with less than 5 hours of sleep a night, being awake was the key. So I drew a lot. Here's a big mural like thing I did. Will I ever paint this or do anything crazy with it, who kn...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

STFUAJPGM # 5: Space

Hey there, Here's a new episode of STFUAJPGM for you to enjoy. It's about space, and is curated by Joe Allen from The Gamewave Podcast. You can check it out here. We also having a contest to give away some free chiptune CDs. You can c...

 
 
 
 

Graphics, Art vs. Life

I realize that it's been just a little while since the Podtoid had this discussion, but I was struck with a thought recently. Yes, it's true that beautiful art holds up better and that you will always achieve what you had in your head with...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

More Dryad Art

Now that I have a proper desk with room for my scanner (you don't even want to know where I used to keep it), I've scanned some of the drawings from the tremendous backlog that I've accumulated recently. The attached images are primarily...

 
 
 
 

My custom Team Fortress 2 shoes!!

A month ago I created my Watchmen shoes, and now it's time to show my new set of customs. Presenting, my custom Team Fortress 2 shoes!! Based off the team logos (seen here), I again decided for something simple yet effective enough to c...

 
 
 
 

Persona 4 and Rock Anthems.

So, I've been meaning to post about a lot of cool things that have happened to me lately. I am now the owner of two arcade machines I bought for ubercheap off of Craigslist, for instance (A Neo Geo MVS and a Mortal Kombat II cabinet! It's l...

 
 
 
 

In-Depth Tuesday: Killer 7

In-Depth Tuesday is a segment in which I try my my best to explain some of the more difficult narratives that exist in videogames. This means I will dissect and find things such as symbolism, allusion, etc. The main point is to help get acr...

 
 
 
 

FFIV: This Really Happens

*spoilers for Final Fantasy IV* This is a comic dramatization of a real conversation in Final Fantasy IV: No names have been changed, because no one is innocent (especially not Kain). It wasn't like I was surprised when Rosa did the who...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

STFUAJPGM contest involves free chiptune CDs.

Good news! STFUAJPGM is giving away a few copies of 2 Player Productions' Blip Festival '08 Live CD set. The double disc, 32 track album documents some of the world's best chip musicians' live performances from last year's Blip Festival, ...

 
 
 
 

A new 3D art style, I hope

One of the things that annoys me about comic book games is nobody is trying to replicate comic books unique art style. I take this back, of course, to the era before quick and dirty photoshop colors. Before digital inking. I'm talking co...

 
 
 
 
 
 

How to love a game?

We probably all love, or at least like, gaming as a whole. Destructoid is all about how we love our hobby and what we think about it and I guess, only a masochist would come here if he hated games. The question I asked myself recently howev...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Pixelated Creations - Inventory Sale & New Stock

So I finally got around to posting some new stuff in my store this week as well as putting some of the old stock on sale. I've reduced the prices on 8 different items in the store from a Tiny Toons set to a bunch of keychains. Everything...

 
 
 
 

VGdrum Update - Shadow of the Colossus & other news

With the beginning of my Junior year of college just around the corner and my parents embarking on a trip to Poland (taking the video camera with them), I had to rush to record my Final Fantasy I-III VGdrum videos as well as my first VGdrum...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Quickposts

Retrofraction

Why not slow cook barbacoa?

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

Sweet this game also got a release date today in a Its out April 12th and seems it will launch day on on Switch and I believe reception to its Steam Next Fest demo was very

 
 
taterchimp

Oh my balls, having Chat GPT/Google Bard write D&D settings might be the best thing to happen to my campaigns in a long I hate writing set

 
 
Cathedral

Should I make a game thats more survival horror / psychological, or side scrolling action shoot em up?

 
 
medicamecanica

I think something about Pillars of Eternity 2 that should be appreciated is that it inexplicably has a big head mode available in the options right away for anyone who wants their epic fantasy to look

 
 
Inquisitive Raven

Netflix just announced that therell be a Scott Pilgrim anime being made by the studio behind Devilman Crybaby/Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! The cast of the film will reprise their roles in the Interesting!

 
 
RiffRaff

This caught my eye while browsing the A quickie, mind-fuck, MTV-in-the-90s, boomer shooter for 5 bucks, sure why Will report back when I get around to playing it Update: This Game Fucks! Buy it if you want to do pcp without doing

 
 
NeoTurbo

One thing I hate about the day after food poisoning is how sensitive my nose is right Everything just smells vaguely gross on the way to work

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

Oh sweet finally a release date of April Game is looking pretty neat so hopefully it turns out well!

 
 
Alphadeus

Pearl the Noble (2023): Im back on Adderall, which means I can start writing music I tried to write stuff while off the med, but it just doesnt I cant sort out the noise in my

 
 
medicamecanica
 
 
The Actual Charlton Heston

Guten morgen, here is And I love

 
 
Gajknight

I learned a lot

 
 
ctg867

No other way to state it: these are catastrophically bad Sonys initial projection was 2M, then revised down to We could be looking at Sony ending VR software development in a couple years if they cant dramatically change course here

 
 
RiffRaff

Have a great day!

 
 
TheBlondeBass

Ended up making a teleportation transition that Im genuinely happy about tonight! Who knew all I ever needed was to start using 3D models in my lil engine?

 
 
ctg867

Man, this account is Always helping to save me time on the internet with useful and accurate As someone who has never beaten RE4 I found this very informative so I wanted to share with you all!

 
 
taterchimp

I know theres a few MtG players here - anyone want to try and get a DToid commander group going on Spelltable?

 
 
ChronoLynxx

How much trust do you put in game development rumors? Rumors swirling about a Skies of Arcadia remaster in Multiple smaller sites reporting on the leak from an insider thats apparently gotten quite a bit right in the

 
 
NeoTurbo

Goddamn I have what Im pretty sure is a case of food Been throwing up since 10 pm last night, though it stopped about 10 Currently extremely difficult to get water and foods, and theres a pain in my chest this whole

 
 
GoofierBrute

Whats in the box?!

 
 
taterchimp

Wow, Skatebird controls like asssssss

 
 
RiffRaff

Current

 
 
Punished Nietzsche

Oh man, a month ago i was thinking maybe the Chainsaw Man manga is getting too normal and The last two chapters have proven how wrong i

 
 
KingofPangea

Broke: Using a rex as the ultimate war Woke: Using a rex to water your

 
 
PhilKenSebben

Current Status:

 
 
Gamemaniac3434

So Pokemon Violet is kinda good so Been pleasantly surprised with it, makin my way to the fish pokemon I crave with great

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

Humble Bundle has a new Boomerier Boomer Shooter a very nice one with a good amount of new alone worth it, bundle is made up of Viscerafest The Citadel,Forgive me Father Deadlink,Graven,Wrath Aeon of Ruin,Nightmare Reaper,Impal

 
 
dmanatunga

After the latest episode of The Mandalorian, it still boggles my mind that we havent gotten more Rogue Squadron

 
 
Neronium

Welp, this removal of the GameCube Digital AV port went WAY smoother than my first

 
 
TheBlondeBass

New blog just dropped, new blog just This ones about the internet! Link in Bunp!

 
 
Fuzunga

Full trailer for Unicorn is Adult Swim will also be expanding to start at 7pm on May 1st after they realized that 70% of the Cartoon Network audience from 6-8pm is over New Superman cartoon also debuting on AS this

 
 
dephoenix

Grasshopper started a 72 day countdown to their 25th And I guess this is how I learn theyve been around for 25 Fingers crossed I finally get that Shadows of the Damned

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

Man that is a complete suprise to Aparently the PC port of Last of Us Part 1 Remake is a With how big a Sony IP Last of Us I figured the PC port would be the bare mimimum especialy since it runs fine on weaker

 
 
Occams

An RPG based on Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights? Don’t mind if I do!

 
 
medicamecanica

Think Im a bit overwhelmed by pillars of eternity A lot of choices that the game lets you know you can NOT undo including what kind of battle system you Subclasses and multiclassing is cool but also leads to choice paralysis,

 
 
RLZ

Ive been hoping this would be a thing for a very long Now Im just afraid it will never have a translation because publishing shenanigans like most stuff before Falcom started their partnership with

 
 
Flanx

I dont really own a console at the moment and I want to buy a controller to use on Are any of the newer pads worth it or should I just get a Dualshock 4?

 
 
Gajknight

Current status

 
 
Derpunkel

I discovered that I can try spiritfarer via netflix on my Lets hope that my nugget can handle it

 
 
RiffRaff

Have a great day!

 
 
Parismio

I tried out celeste on my steam deck and wow i forgot how fucked up the B-side to a level I spent a better part of an hour completing stage 2 Really fun though other than

 
 
Lawman

RE 4make finished! Suggesting Hardcore for a first play is terrible, Still, a solid out of Some unfortunate jank, and the game’s exhausting nature suggests there can be too much of a good thing, but that’s better than

 
 
Boxman214

Motorstorm Trilogy Remaster when

 
 
ChronoLynxx

Anyone play card/board games with their partners? Any you would recommend? Weve been having a lot of fun playing Uno, Exploding Kittens and the Super Mario version of Life We talk all kinds of shit while playing which just makes it more

 
 
taterchimp

That Doom fun game sure is fun Im sure Ill hit the freemium wall soon enough and just give it

 
 
Neronium

Forgot one TINY thing in my X-2 HD playthrough and now Im permanently locked out of true 100% completion unless I either A) Do New Game + or B) Roll back to a save from 16 hours I am