One year ago today I joined this community. It was quite good. It had been an aspiration of mine to be some kind of gaming writer type person for around five years prior, since I used to immerse myself in the UK Official Nintendo Magazine...

First I�d like to say Merry Christmas to all, and I hope you get the games you want! I wish that on this eve that everyone on Destructoid is doing fine. I surely am, my import copy of rare GBA title Drill Dozer came through the post this ...

My story emerges from one of those cold autumn afternoons, sometime mid-October where brown leaves painted the pavements with a crisp diverting colour and nights begin to creep in ever sooner. Dusk settles its darkened soul at around five ...

Something I love about museums: the diverse locations captured inside those musky buildings are a perfect trigger for old memories. Between sweaty crowds of tourists and schoolchildren in droves, I can pick slivers of the past to entertain...

Hi again, how are you today? That's so nice! Me, I've had quite a miserable morning actually. My corkboard knocked over a glass of water damaging my magazine collection, and I forced myself to play the last two levels of The Conduit so I...

Hey Destructiod! How are you? That's nice, I've been quite well too! It's been a good while since I've posted anything on here, with final year university/work placements and whatnot to deal with, but I've managed to club some free time ...

The premise is simple. I like videogames and so do you, so I�ve had some fun compiling together some of the recent game�s I�ve enjoyed, not enjoyed, or are currently anticipating, and gave a couple of thoughts on each. Easy, huh! I hope ...

I'm a whore for traffic that I don't deserve in any way, and everyone knows the best way to accumulate that is to vocally disagree with any Super Special Serious Sterling article that comes my side, scour the writing for five hours, and ...

Have you ever seen an Uwe Boll movie? The passionate director has garnered a lot of criticism over the last few years for his occasional tributes to videogaming, but until a few days ago when ITV4 was brave enough to show his 2005 adaptati...

Unwanted. Isolated. If you were a balding, middle aged man who regularly went out in a full green body suit and insisted that everybody called you �Mr Fairy,� these are likely the feelings which would be closest to you; so is with Tingle'...

So, I've recently come out of a play through of the new Prince of Persia, quite happily with the thought that yeah, that was a pretty darn good game. That's fair enough I guess, but it did feel a little strange for me to say, because it se...

For every positive event, there is always a subsequent negative one to balance it out. No, its not something I'd like to believe could be applied to everything in life, but it certainly rings true when upgrading to your next-generation v...

I was at home the other day, playing Banjo Tooie in front of my very elderly Nan, who, in her rare waking moment on the living room couch, decided to comment, �I remember when you used to play these games when you were young.� I paraphrase ...

British game stores are really quite nice. The clean purple tinge of every Game breathes an air of sophistication into this lifestyle/hobby/passion which we carry, while the dank, dungeon-like interior of most Gamestation stores is remin...

So, the Ghostbusters game won't be coming out for a while in Europe, unless you're lucky enough to own a PS3. That kinda sucks for those without. Like, Lost and Damned sucks, or, why the hell did I buy Fallout 3 for this damn piece of pla...

So you�re in a store one day and find yourself in front of something you�ve really wanted to buy for a long time, but right now its just that little bit out of your price range. You pace about in front of the item for several minutes, wond...

Peter Molyneux has taught us that its probably better to have no pre-conceptions when it comes to playing video games. You know, the way people think a game is going to translate all the wildest promises from the reviewer, or developer, in...

May the defendant rise to the stand. *hustle in the stalls as the defendant rises* The prosecution of this trial accuses the defendant, Castlevania 64, of the following charges against gaming: tedious back-and-forth quests, precise pixe...

There have been more than enough times now in which the gaming companies we support have made questionable decisions that we really can�t quite agree with. Large businesses have their big corporate strategies at making the most piles of mo...

You know, there was a time when lag was an amazing thing. Let me give you a scenario. You�re playing Perfect Dark again, arcade mode with eight �simulants� set to normal, the Grid level (you know the one, it had the elevator room from The...

Hey, you. Yeah, you reading this. The one that looked up at that title and thought, �Well, this guy is obviously dumb because review scores aren�t that important, it�s the content that counts.� Wrong. Review scores mean everything. Thi...

Its always nice to look over old games and reap the memories they used to sow, just so we can see how much we have grown since those hazy times back when. Today I would like to talk about quite a special game to me; not only did it teach m...

I�ve always been a firm supporter of Nintendo, ever since I received my NES. Even through those supposed �dark times� during the time the Gamecube was out, consequently which I have no idea about being too busy playing Wind Waker to notice...

To be honest, I don�t know why its name isn�t mentioned more often. You have your Ouendan�s, your Taiko no Tatsujin�s, your Rhythm Tengoku�s, but Daigasso: Band Brothers is rarely heard from in the ever growing, ever loving handheld music ...

Hello. My name is Discarded Couch Sandwich and I�m a lurker. Today is the third birthday of Destructoid, an entity I have been hiding in the shadows and stalking for a long time now. And now, for this day, I�ve decided to come out into t...