1. I just bought a PS Vita Borderlands bundle thing, and then sold the BL2 code to someone on NeoGAF. 2. I also own a Wii U and a Dreamcast. I feel like the Vita is their handheld brethren in a lot of ways. 3. I've very slowly taught myse...

I have put over 170 hours into Animal Crossing New Leaf. Those hours come from playing nearly every day, but I usually only pop in for a little bit at a time. I don’t spend much time farming expensive bugs and sea life on the island, I don’...

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (PS2) I played this game in a single day with two friends, and I would suggest this setting for optimal enjoyment. We had fun piecing together clues and puzzles together, and taking turns at the running se...

A rare photograph of a living yoshi. The yoshi is a strange creature. It is, by appearances and by most accounts, a type of dinosaur. It is at once malevolent and carnivorous, seemingly choosing to align itself with an intelligent creatur...

I bought Shin Megami Tensei IV on a whim. Pre-ordered on a whim, actually, the same day I was purchasing Fire Emblem: Awakening. At the time, if you bought Fire Emblem: Awakening and SMTIV, you got a $30 credit on the Nintendo eShop. I kn...

For my entire life, I have been fascinated by video game controllers. When I see a controller I've never used before, even if it's not plugged into anything, I need to pick it up and play around with it. I have always felt that the way a ...

For a very long time, I have given a lot of consideration to what may be considered the equivalent to the drama genre in video games. Although there is no real need to create film genre equivalents in games, it is interesting to consider ...

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds launched this past fall, with a new take on the time-tested Zelda formula. For the first time ever, most of the important items were available to rent from a special shop. If you die, you lose th...

I am not old enough to have been a part of the riot grrrl movement. I did not live in the right place. I am not the right gender to have truly been affected by it. But it entered my life, and was part of shaping who I am. Now, before I g...

Hi everyone! I wasn’t really planning to do an introduction blog, but upon browsing through the community it seems like a thing people do. I’ve been a casual reader of Destructoid since whenever I first started seeing Destructoid get link...