This is the second part in the epic retelling of Werewolf Game 9 from the Destructoid forums. If you missed it, you can see Part 1 here. Header image by ZombiePlatypus. You can click it for a larger version. Planning Phase 7 - Thund...

The following is a retelling of the recent game of Werewolf on the Destructoid forums. It was Team Fortress 2 themed, where thirteen of the sixteen players were BLU mercenaries, and the other three were RED Spies, bent on destroying the ...

Two years ago today, I asked a special woman to spend the rest of her life with me. This is the story of it all. I've told it before to people who have asked, but never written it down. It started more than five years ago. I worked in...

Finally, a worthwhile WiiWare game that doesn't start with the word(s) "Bit.Trip." Liight debuted way back in September of 2009 as one of the PAX 10 finalists, and it seemed interesting enough for me to call it second best among the grou...

This is the header image, because it's okay to use misogynistic images to drive hits as long as you condemn the image. Bad image! Bad! Game journalist journalist: n - And individual who writes (professionally?) about computer and videog...

I mentioned in my PAX blog that a post on the PAX 10 would be coming. Here it is. In its third year now, the PAX 10 is a tradition at the Penny Arcade Expo, in which ten independently developed games are showcased as some of the best ex...

PAX Prime 2010 has come and gone, far too quickly, as usual. Everybody has slightly different memories of the extravaganza; indulge me for a moment to hear about mine. I got in on Thursday evening, and called up Wedge, because I was sta...

With little fanfare, Aero Racer was released last week as a PS3 Mini. Indeed, so little effort is being put into marketing this bite-sized gem that developer Halfbrick Studios makes no mention of it on its website. This may have to do w...

In case you don't know, 'Splosion Man is an XBLA platform game that was released last year. Even if you don't have firsthand experience with it, you ought to know a bit about it, as it got a nine out of ten in the official Destructoid re...

The Electronic Entertainment Expo is upon us, and that means several things. Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony will all be vying for your attention, some unexpected announcements will be made, and videogame writers from sites across the Inte...

If I could toot my own horn for just a bit, I'd say that I think I'm pretty good at turn-based strategy games. I spent countless hours playing Civilization III, I recently extolled the virtues of Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, and if on...

So, an RPG, a turn-based strategy, and a puzzle game walk into a bar. There they meet some spiffy, yet slightly generic manga-lookin' characters. Everybody has a grand old boozy good time, they go home together, and the result of a nigh...

Whenever a new game comes out that purports to offer the player moral choice, the comments blow up with one of two types of comments. People either come in with the hope that this new game will actually offer the interesting choices they...

Like most everybody else here on Destructoid, I spend quite a bit of time thinking about video games. However, a good amount of that time is spent thinking specifically about how games can be powerful tools for education. And yet, despi...

This will be a relatively short blog. It's mostly just a place where you can view the pictures we took. MizzGothZ dressed as... I don't really know what. Mid3vol drove up from San Diego, brought Knives and Rabite with her. She migh...

As an application for a writing job elsewhere, I was tasked with playing some free-to-play, pay-for-premium-items games, and then writing up reviews on them. However, in a strange twist, (spurred by, I assume, the potential employer's de...

The Lost Symbol is the most recent text adventure by famous designer Dan Brown. It is his fifth published work, and the third chronicling the adventures of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. As a fan of Brown's text adventures, I was l...

As originally posted on The Scholarly Gamer. As a game that is about killing as many things in as little time as possible, Prototype doesn’t immediately appear to be particularly good fodder for philosophical debate or in-depth analysis....

I know, "top ten" lists are cheap, and especially if there are only ten things to choose from. That said, I am going to rank the ten showcased indie games according to how much I personally enjoyed them, and you're going to like it. Or ...

I mentioned the other day in my Left 4 Dead 2 impressions post that when I wasn't just hanging out with Dtoid people, or going to Dtoid panels, or attending concerts, or eating, or sleeping, I spent a fair amount of my time with L4D2, the...

PAX is a wonderful, beautiful place, and I am sure you have heard a little bit about that already. What you may not have gathered is that in addition to hanging out with friends and drinking booze, one of the other things a PAXgoer can d...

Author's note: I realize this game is OLD and there are tons of reviews out there already. I mostly wrote this as part of a job application, and I figured I might as well publish it here too. There has been a recent influx of non-Grand ...

When this month's topic was announced, my initial reaction was, "Well, I guess I'll just have to wait until next month to do a musing article, since I'm totally awesome at everything I do." And then I stopped kidding myself and considere...

"OLD!" you say. "What do we need another Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition review for?" And indeed, the game was released on XBLA a week and a half ago, and Destructoid's official review came out not long after. And in fact, it ...

If you live in America, then you know how important today is. It is the fourth of July, a day when we Americans celebrate American things, like baseball, apple pie, and illegal Mexican fireworks. Some of you shut-ins are on the Internet...

No words can really justify a lot of these. But that won't stop me from trying. Make sure you check the full gallery at the bottom, as I'll just highlight a few. The gallery comes from two events. The first was the pre-E3 party hosted...

Over the years of its existence, the game industry has undoubtedly matured. What once was simply a neat pastime for a handful of geeks has become a multibillion dollar industry, servicing a huge portion of humanity. With this coming of ...

Throughout history, humans have watched bird soaring, insects buzzing, and even some mammals navigating the open air, and they thought, "Man, I wish I could do that..." And indeed, many flying contraptions were devised and built, but non...

...Or any other so-called "illicit materials." A computer scientist named David Collins at Sam Houston State University has developed a tool that would allow investigators to easily extract data from an Xbox hard drive for use in crimina...

A group of students at Georgia Tech were apparently dissatisfied with the way Atari games look when played on current LCD displays. While the ROMs are still available for download around the dark reaches of the Internet, they believe tha...