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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

EdgyDude

PSA: Warhammer 40,000: Gladius and Hue are free to keep on Steam right now

 
 
Gajknight

Forever status

 
 
Chris Moyse

The old gray mare she aint what she used to

 
 
RiffRaff

Have a great day!

 
 
taterchimp

The comments on here made my night better

 
 
ScionVyse

I think Ive hit that point in the year where theres basically nothing left I really want to get out of stuff thats After Street Fighter, which Im not even sure I want, all that is really on my radar is Talos Principle

 
 
Parismio

I nabbed a copy of Ex 3!

 
 
Avoclefo

Spider-Man 2 trailer was cool, although I hope Spider-Man 3 (or Morales 2) is in a new Shanghai, Dubai, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Vancouver, Mumbai, Hong Kong, somewhere

 
 
Mamekuma
 
 
cockaroach

Getting home to my wife watching Reboot, holy This show brings me back, both in the fact I watched its of run on ABC, then got to finish it in High School via I remember loving how serious it got by the end, good preteen melodrama

 
 
Inquisitive Raven

Marvelous will have a Direct in 15 minutes! Will my wife Nami StoryofSeasons make an appearance? Lets find out!

 
 
Seymour

This is my first exposure to Quixort and I cant get over how clever a game it Its basically Tetris + pop culture/math questions, but you need to see it play out to truly understand I cant elevator pitch this one too

 
 
Virtua Kazama

Tonight on Fortune Roulette: This will be the last one for a while until I finish Were going to start it off with Deathwish Enforcers, a spiritual successor to Sunset Riders!

 
 
Gajknight

Current status

 
 
TheIntern

Is Games Workshop okay? All day my feed has been blowing up with Warhammer video Like, dude, Boltgun was

 
 
Virtua Kazama

I should really make a blog about It needs a sendoff like Yeah it had a rocky start, but it did become better at the

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

Huh people just found out that the NPCs in Tears of the Kingdom that arent main story NPCs their faces were all made from a more advance verison of the Mii Nice to see a bit of Miis atuff even indirect stuff

 
 
house4lyfe

Seen on a van this morning on my way in to Apparently Shrek is Latinx and has a side

 
 
taterchimp

I specifically requested extra I guess this is

 
 
EdgyDude

I totally missed the initial Phantom Blade: Zero announcement but looking at the trailer that game looks damn Almost as if they put Nioh, Ninja Gaiden Black and Sekiro in a blender and then took the result as a base

 
 
Boxman214

I refuse to do Proving Grounds Shrines in Theyre

 
 
bong264

Welp, still no space marine 2 release date so Im gonna go ahead and guess its March of Sad Status:

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

I played through this games Steam Next Fest demo a while ago and it was Was suprised to find the game felt very much like a indie 3D Mega Man but I dont mean that in a bad It just came out right now!

 
 
Seymour

You hear of Fashion Souls? Well, I wanna see your Drip of the Kingdom!

 
 
Trevlyn

Throwback Thursday, Do you still feel the Thoughts?

 
 
Mamekuma

So its WORSE then I predicted

 
 
Ricky Namara

Kids say the darkest EDIT: I originally typed darnest, but my phone corrected it to It is It is

 
 
medicamecanica

Sky pirate indie I havent played Skies of Arcadia, but Im guessing thats part of the

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

@Sam Bat Boy is out today looks like it might be a fun little indie to play! It is also out on

 
 
Seymour
 
 
RLZ

Oh I really want this ! But I shouldnt spend that :-( Goes live in some 6 hours if anyones

 
 
TheLimoMaker

Gollum looks positively The reviews are going to be a fucking

 
 
CycloneJoker

Book 3, Hallowed Harvest, Three down, three to

 
 
Kerrik52

Deception 4 really upped the skill ceiling to a ridiculous degree, to the point where it makes me feel dumb at But not as dumb as the game itself, holy shit is it stupid and horny in the best possible Image

 
 
medicamecanica

A full playthrough got uploaded to YouTube like a week I skimmed it and every part visually looked like mud, and gameplay wise it seemed like nothing was ever

 
 
Punished Nietzsche

This may sound stupid, but hell, I prefer to ask you guys rather than spoil the game watching a How the hell do you get money or rubies or gold on Totk? I been playing for hours and I still dont Also

 
 
RiffRaff

Even if there were no 1st party games shown (or even many exclusives), there was plenty of interesting stuff at the PS Mad hype for Talos Principal 2! That Phantom Blade 0 soulslike thing looks interesting Have a great day!

 
 
PhilKenSebben

Current Status:

 
 
Xeo

It finally fucking I joked about it for I lamented its absence for But its finally fucking happening! And the news has finally made my wife interested in trying the first game! Fuck yeah! Dragons Dogma 2 baybee!

 
 
dephoenix

Im I thought Sony was showing off video games today, not a collection of short films?

 
 
Meursault

Sony finally giving the Wii U the respect it

 
 
Ricky Namara

Tony Stark died for your

 
 
Goemar

Is someone going to tell Konami that Delta has the value of 4, not 3?

 
 
Zalno

Yall check out VIVIDLOPE yet? Its a fun And its only And it runs great on Steam

 
 
Spaceloaf

4 Genshin Impact codes (60 primos + exp and These might expire quickly so use them

 
 
ctg867

I said a while back when Sonys shareholder data indicated the overwhelming majority of its sales were digital that this would be he last generation of consoles w/ built in disc Update on that:

 
 
Exber

Few weeks ago I finally got my hands on this game for 4$, which I post today as the Metal Gear Master Collection doesnt include Still good to see Metal Gear Solid 3 getting a Gotta hang on to this one before prices go

 
 
CycloneJoker

Theres a dupe trick in ToTK Im capable of Under update in this article:

 
 
RLZ

Wheee ! Very interested in this, as in hoping it doesnt stay stuck on the Playstation ecosystem too