Who's ready for a shortblog on Bastion and a bit of a fireside chat? I hope you are! Let me start with the chat part. The big theme? How's everyone doing? To be honest, life has been absolutely insane over the past few weeks, and it is o...

Today was what we might refer to as a "hot mess." Normally, we'll see a spam blog or two per day, and maybe a harmless failblog or two. Today, it was a perfect storm of fail. The fails piled up like a stack of dino droppings, and not eve...

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Hey everyone. We've received a few requests recently from people who wanted to donate something to Jonathan Holmes after hearing that his place had been broken in to and a bunch of awesome stuff had been stolen. No idea what I'm talking...

Why the hell would someone want to interview a bunch of people all the time? Yeah, stupid question, but it's that question that led me here today to present this interview to you, which is pretty contradictory if you think about it. In ...

Alienware has a cool community opportunity coming up for all of you -- something E3 related, if that gives you a good hint. So, how do you get involved? Great question. If you want to be a part of this, start off by writing a C Blog abou...

While your first blog at Destructoid isn�t the best, most important blog you�ll ever write here, it�s close. A good first impression is key with the community here; take it from someone who didn�t give a good first impression. Sure, my fi...

In the interest of your time and to save some tl;drs, I�ll start off today with a summary: I�m Andrew Kauz, and I�m your new Cblog Commander, Blog Boss, or whatever you want to call me. In any event, I�m taking over as the main cblog help...

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Videogames are intimately familiar with the concept of the hero; Games seem built for protagonists, with worlds pieced together and relationships formed to benefit the hero's journey. Yet a strange thing occurred to me recently: many of ...

Yes, I'm using a football-related quote for my PAX East blog. But, at plenty of people have said in the past, it's extremely difficult to put your first PAX experience into words. At the same time, this was my first gaming event at all, a...

If you flip to the back of your average game manual, you might find a window into the past, hinting at simpler, more infuriating times. If you're lucky, your instruction manual might have a section of blank pages labeled "notes." If you p...

Death is an inevitability in life and in games alike, and in both we try to prolong the time that we get to spend on Earth, on Mars, in Hell, or in some generic fantasy land. Whether it's life over or game over, we struggle to persist, do...

Thank you for calling the Review Score Crisis Helpline. For English, press 1. For Nerdrage, press 2. [happy music] You have reached the Review Score Crisis Helpline, your devoted friend in this time of crisis. This is the main menu. Your...

Much has been said about how much Uncharted 2 does right. The Destructoid review offers a ton of praise for the game, especially its ability to offer thrilling moment after thrilling moment, keeping your adrenaline pumping and your contro...

OK, so maybe that�s a slight exaggeration. But take a short trip with me into the past. A Mega Man poster hangs on a young boy�s largely undecorated walls, situated directly above a television to which an NES is connected. Inside the slo...

You�ve been telling yourself to stay away from that latest gameplay video even as you�re clicking through the post and staring at the screen as the video buffers. The rise in your hype level is palpable as the sound thunders from your spe...

For part one of this three-part status effect miniseries, head over to this post, Status effects are poisons that turn my silent heart to stone. For part 2, head over to Curse you, status effects, stop confusing my heart. The walls have ...

For part one of this three-part status effect miniseries, head over to this post, Status effects are poisons that turn my silent heart to stone The nightmare continues. What, you thought that it was over? Unfortunately, this is not the c...

If you�ve played an RPG, be it a JRPG, western RPG, Korean RPG, or ZuluRPG, you�re familiar with the bane of the item-hater�s existence: the status effect. With the power to turn a potential victory into a crushing defeat instantly, they�...

Heroes and villains have been a staple in gaming since its inception. Of course, this is the same in any storytelling medium, as prototypical stories must contain conflict, and the most direct way to fashion conflict is to introduce a str...

Welcome, friends, welcome. Step into my world. As some of you swell forum-dwellers might already know, I recently moved into a new apartment, where I make my bed below what can only be described as either an elephant or a human who someone...

This is based somewhat on the album Mercy Falls by Seventh Wonder His birth was so many years ago that few among us remember it. It was one of little fanfare; many others were born around the same time and often received more attention t...

I started playing videogames at a very young age � a time when gaming was largely viewed as a hobby for children. This was the prevalent belief in my household as well. As my brother moved on to more adult pursuits like cheva, I decided t...

[We tend to forget that every person will experience a game in a different way. We�re all unique people with unique pasts, after all. It was this consideration that bred the idea for this series. Like the name suggests, I�m going to use t...

They say that you can�t keep a good game company down. Actually, I don�t know if anyone really says that, but the fact of the matter is that it supports my topic for today, so let�s just go with it. There are plenty of game companies fro...

My recent acquisition of a SNES and Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition has taught me a very important lesson about the world. Coupled with the reminder of my dissatisfaction with Madden NFL 10, I�ve come to realize that I�ve been fightin...

It�s more than a little ironic that Sega�s death as a hardware developer came not after one of its terrible consoles or console expansions, but after what is perhaps its greatest console ever: one that could spawn an entire week of love h...

The landscape of gaming companies is vastly different than it was ten years ago. Then, it was a world ruled by names like Acclaim, Hudson Soft, and Interplay. These companies were titans in the industry, seemingly too large to be defeated...

[We tend to forget that every person will experience a game in a different way. We�re all unique people with unique pasts, after all. It was this consideration that bred the idea for this series. Like the name suggests, I�m going to use t...