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April Fools: Not "nerd"--"node."

No sentence better exemplifies how I felt about Raiden the first time I played Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. After the sinking of the tanker, which is one of the best opening chapters in gaming history, I was waiting with antic...

 
 
 
 

From Sofware with Love: The Tower

I bought my PS3 in 2009, after saving up for it for months. It came bundled with Metal Gear Solid IV, and as soon i finished wiping my tears for Big Boss and Snake, i decided it was time to move on to another game, and that game was De...

 
 
 
 
 
 

From Software With Love: Re-releases and Remasters

This month sees the release of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin edition on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC; an updated version of the game running in a high definition 1080p resolution (with increased textures), 60fps frame ...

 
 
 
 

From Software With Love: Find a happy place...

The ‘Souls games can be unrelenting, brutal and dark; true tests of mental willpower, emotional fortitude and grim resolve. Whilst playing, the majority of the time you’ll likely be inching your way through labyrinthine du...

 
 
 
 

REVIEW: Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap (WiiU)

Despite my claims in a previous review, this month I was simply not done with Zelda, and even though I tried to put it down, once you get stuck into the rhythmic solving of puzzles and spelunking of temples nothing else quite scratche...

 
 
 
 

REVIEW: Hyrule Warriors (WiiU)

Taking a brief departure from the official canon of The Legend of Zelda, and uncharacteristically taking a risk with one of its most prestigious intellectual properties, in 2014 Nintendo released Hyrule Warriors on the WiiU. I'm reall...

 
 
 
 

MAJORA MARCH: The Most Disturbing Man in the Moon

Majora’s Mask ostensibly has a central antagonist, that of the titular mask and its influence over the poor innocent Skull Kid, and supposedly it’s because of this masked villain that you’re gathering power over the ...

 
 
 
 

Majora March: Lend Me Your Ears

Majora March is all about celebrating the minutiae of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask in wake of its recent remaster on the Nintendo 3DS. Playing the game with a fresh coat of paint has the cogs in my giant clock tower of a h...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Bloggers Wanted: Majora March

[This month’s Bloggers Wanted comes from Preposterous Whitey and is all about weird masks and videogame conspiracy theories!] In the wake of the recent re-release of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for the Nintendo 3DS,...

 
 
 
 

My Nine

I must apologize if this video is too artistic and somewhat creepy, here is another video if you need to cleanse your ears. To be honest I was not looking forward to this post. There is simply more than Nine people on the site tha...

 
 
 
 

The Nine Best Dtoiders Ever

I am not the easiest person to get to know. I'm a quiet guy raised by quiet people and I'm 75% deaf to boot. It's not the sort of life that produces the gregarious, amiable type. Being friends with me usually requires people who are co...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Happy Anniversary Dtoid: The Magnificent Nine

I've only just celebrated my one year anniversary here at Destructoid; I officially signed up in February 2014 after lurking for a couple of years in awe of the GIF bombs in the front page articles comments' sections. It's been good so...

 
 
 
 

I Love Shadow of the Colossus!

[This is an essay I wrote a while ago for my college work. It wasn't for a formal assignment, but instead just a practice piece that we were allowed to pick any topic for. So I decided to gush about SotC. I've been sitting on it for ag...

 
 
 
 

Band of Bloggers: Journey into Peril!

I bet you're wondering why that's an image from the old fallout games? For this month's Band of Bloggers assignment -- dedicated to one of my favorite gaming franchises of ever, Fallout -- I ahead of time asked Scholarly Gamer, one of...

 
 
 
 

Important Tips to Win at Sport Betting

Although a large number of people across the globe enjoy a flutter, but many understand as much as necessary about what they are doing to win at sports betting such as soccer betting in the long term. In betting, it is all about getti...

 
 
 
 

The Gift of Gaming: BIONIC ARM!

A great gift to me is something that qualifies the phrase, "the gift that keeps on giving." And what better gift is there that has more to give then what it initially offers then a good old fashioned fighting game? 2008 sounds so rece...

 
 
 
 

The Gift of Gaming: Influences on my sleeve

My name is Nick and I've been playing games my entire life. In this here blog, I'd like to share what games I consider to be influential on who I am today and probably impacted you too. First up, Sim City. Sim City brought me into adu...

 
 
 
 

Giving Thanks: Sega Genesis Collection

Initially I had scrapped an entirely different Giving Thanks post because I got to the point when there had to be a decision made about what could be included and what could not and instead the post got junked. Which sucked because I w...

 
 
 
 

Fangs for the Memories: Slender

It was surprisingly difficult to choose a top horror game, or horror moment. The first that came to mind was ‘of course, Fatal Frame!’. The game is generally very eerie; the ambience is effective; of a breeze drifting throu...

 
 
 
 

Giving Thanks: The Miiverse

Though touted as one of the greater evolutions in gaming, I’ve never been a huge proponent of online gaming. Indulging in a game’s world and story is a personal experience for me. The voices and actions of other players, pa...

 
 
 
 

Giving Thanks: Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire

...My Pa (Grandfather) passed away 13 years ago today. November 16th, 2001. His wife Nana passed away earlier this year after a long fight against Alzheimer's. I was 10 when he passed away... not really concerned with anything more tha...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Quickposts

The Actual Charlton Heston

So, whos still here? Sound

 
 
Vesalius

Current status:

 
 
bong264

Average Tuesday Status:

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Virtua Fighter 3tb Online is now available on Japanese arcades, but unfortunately I wont be able to play it unless I travel to But it wont stop me from talking about on tonights session of VF Takeover!

 
 
Virtua Kazama

To no ones surprise, I pre-ordered the VF3tb Premium Music I needed the soundtrack for the longest

 
 
PhilKenSebben

Current Status:

 
 
Flegma

Well, I got my first busted Evercade game (Its not a ROM cartridge, more like an SD card or USB On one hand, I have some tens of game cards already and this was the first case of a On the other, maybe is one too

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Happy 25th Anniversary to the SEGA Dreamcast! Lets reminisce about the console as we go live with Like a Dragon Gaiden!

 
 
Virtua Kazama

I will say that aside from VF3tb Online happening exclusively towards Japanese arcades because SEGA knew about the resurgence of VF3tb tournaments since 2014, we will be able to play the arcade version of VF3tb through Like a Dragon: Infinite

 
 
Flegma

I noticed Ive been playing games for months on almost As in, I might hear a sound effect played, but cant even identify which effect it Will be continuing like this for the foreseeable

 
 
PhilKenSebben

Happy early turkey day to the few, the proud, and the not so many still May your holiday be joyous, and mostly stress Be safe driving and always wear a

 
 
Flegma

I hear theres a lot of new commercial Game Boy software, but not enough proper Alas, I have found myself incapable of writing true

 
 
PatBateman17

Bump OK, Im hosting the annual Dtoid Secret Santa this No pressure to join, but heres the invite: love to see the usual suspects if we Holi

 
 
Virtua Kazama

This Thanksgiving Season, were thankful for this VF5US session that were about to And that is right now as we go live with the Thanksgiving Edition of Virtua Fighter Takeover!

 
 
Virtua Kazama

So I learned that theres a neat Easter Egg involving Fighting Vipers in Like a Dragon

 
 
Vesalius

Current status: I think I may be hallucinating

 
 
Vesalius

Current status: I think I may be hallucinating

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Were back in Sotenbori yet again, but this time we got the Jack-of-all-trades, Akame, to show us Its time for more Like a Dragon Gaiden!

 
 
PhilKenSebben

Current Status:

 
 
bong264

Well, may aswell keep going until judgement day for Got a precambrian khornezerker done up and have called him Kharn the World My vintage chaos warrior collection is getting pretty big considering how hard it is to find these damn things lol

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Instead of doing a Splatfest, were playing more Super Mario Wonder tonight! Lets get more Wonder Seeds!

 
 
Virtua Kazama

With the release of the Super Mario RPG remake finally out, I have a confession to I am godawful at playing Mario

 
 
PhilKenSebben

New Robocop game looks

 
 
Titannel

Anyone else having issues with their Cblog posts not showing the entire post? My latest one is skipping a lot of critical

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Since the last stream failed due to various technical difficulties, were going to play VF5US Its time for another session of Virtua Fighter Takeover!

 
 
Flegma

Illusion you and your final

 
 
bong264

Final Status:

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Three years after the events of Yakuza 6, the Dragon of Dojima cant get peace of his Its time to play another RGG game with Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name!

 
 
Virtua Kazama

The Best Fighting Game category for The Game Awards actually not

 
 
Flegma

Didnt expect a video like this from a relatively big-name Still, I truly cannot understand the negative reaction to the original reveal if it wasnt for the platform it was

 
 
PhilKenSebben

#Striptoid

 
 
Flegma

Ive been toiling away with Illusion Island, and I do like that there is no way to attack the enemies in the But I do not like how much going backwards there is and how uncondensed the game And the AD makes me think of cheap old

 
 
Lord Spencer

Weekly Update, here are the games I am currently I am going to review those within brackets once completed: - -Dragon Quest XI (Switch) -CrossCode (Switch) -Judgment (PS4/5)

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Tonights Fortune Roulette stream contains a Sponsored Were going to take a look at the latest release of Air Twister, a 3D Rail Shooter made by Yu Suzuki!

 
 
Flegma

Speaking as someone who liked the size of the world in Xenoblade X and 2, and didnt mind 1 or 3, I didnt expect to think a platformer (Illusion Island) could have too big and empty

 
 
Flegma

Now playing Illusion I prefer World of Illusion or even Castle of I didnt know there was Land of Illusion,

 
 
bong264

Got some more painting done Theis wonderful lads name is Barnaby: The Warrior of Went for some more free hand attempting but it turned out misaligned but oh well! Gonna have to get some more pre slottas prepped

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Its Virtua Fighter but with Fighting Vipers?! Thats right because in celebration of the upcoming Like a Dragon Gaiden, were going to be taking a look at Fighting Vipers 2!

 
 
bong264

Average Tuesday Status:

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Today marks the 2-Year Anniversary of this meme that Ive been using to go And Im using it again to let you know that were going live with more of Trips Story in Sonic Superstars!

 
 
Flegma

Thats Superstars done for the main Will post an opinion

 
 
Flegma

Cleared world 9 in Superstars, and Ive encountered one or two d*** design levels (7-1, 7-2) and two this boss fight carries on too long cases (8-2 and Also, is world 5 Action Park?

 
 
PhilKenSebben

Hanks face, is what makes this for

 
 
bong264

Saturday Night Status:

 
 
Flegma

Been also playing Final Shmup with inertia close to Sonics (if I may exaggerate a bit)?

 
 
Flegma

Wonder Next up,