Hey folks. We all saw the two big Smash reveals at this last Nintendo E3 Direct. "Hero" from Dragon Quest (actually, from several of the unnamed protagonists in past Dragon Quests) and Banjo-goddamn-Kazooie. I really didn't believe tha...

Oh hey, good morning! We're back with some more old comic book ads to take a lookie-loo at, so I sure hope you enjoy this trip down advertisement lane. This one is from the second issue of Lobo, a DC character of very 1990's repute tha...

[Direct link if images aren't loading] Once again, good morning to you! For my third entry into what has become a daily blog series on this site I present more comic book ads for us all to enjoy. The cover will be our normal starting p...

[If the images aren't loading try following through on this link directly] Good morning again! This is the second in a series wherein I post images of comic book ads and we look and we laugh and we cry a little. The first blog was from...

[Update: If you're unable to see the images, scroll to the comments. I copy pasted the entire blog in there lined up with all of the pictures. Sadly, this has to be done.] Good morning! This is the start of a series wherein I upload pi...

Good morning to you all. What follows is maybe not the typical thing to go into the C-Blogs, it's more of a guide. All the same, I figured some folks here would get some use out of a very shortly worded routing guide to get them throug...

Hi again, this is the written component of episode three of Word Play for people who just want to read and don't feel like having Resident Evil 2 get in the way! If you want to know exactly what that series is, check out the first epis...

Hey there! In my previous Wordtoid Quick Post comments section I mentioned writing up a written companion piece for my next episode of the newly launched Word Play YouTube series. This will be a summation of what I talked about in the ...

I can hear the furious typing of so many bloggers as I write this, but boy is this a fun part of a console’s life cycle. There’s nothing but potential ahead, and the newly christened Nintendo Switch looks like it has plenty...

We’ve recently seen the release of the very ambitious Mafia III and the reactions have been… wilting. From the reviews I’ve read and the gameplay I’ve watched, the game opens strong but lacks any ability to car...

My gaming life once contained a fair few rituals, full of annual or semi-annual replays of favorite games, but these days I just don’t have the time. What I’ve been keen to do recently is keep one game on a slow burn that I...

Sweet n’ savory Jesus, there have been a lot of Minecraft clones in the preceding years of that game’s rise to popularity. The unnecessary and uncreative use of “voxel” graphics, crafting mechanics, day/night sy...

Chances are you've heard this comparison made too many times, and you've probably made it yourself a fair amount, I know I have. By now it’s mostly met with eye rolls for the unoriginality and laziness of the comparison, after al...

All the talk of Resident Evil 7 has stirred up in me some ideas about the series. A lot has happened over the years with Capcom’s old survival horror franchise changing its skin a few times and now it looks set to do so again in ...

This one's been in the hopper for long time, about as long as Dtoid oldster Anthony Burch's essay on hype in gaming culture that was posted back in June. Burch basically outlines why hype is responsible for a lot of the notoriously neg...

By now most of you have either played or heard enough about Inside for you to formulate a firm opinion. If you haven't seen or played the game all the way through, I'd highly advise either playing or (as a second option) watching a let...

Dtoid ran a story a little while back about a fan-made patch for the GameCube version of Skies of Arcadia, the Dreamcast RPG with the diehard cult following. The Legends version, released some years after the original, added a bunch of...

Former Dtoid staffer Jam Starling once ran a spin-off podcast that was essentially a continuation of his old Podtoid show. It ran for a short while but they managed to grab the attention of some corporate sponsors in that time by draft...

I know most people probably dismiss the Uncharted multi-player modes and focus on the story and set pieces featured in the single-player campaign. But for me this series was able to deliver well on both the single- and multi-player fr...

  It's now a long and illustrious series, that of the famous Souls line of games from From (from-from!). Much and more has been said about this series and Dtoid's own Chris Carter has published a very fine and fulsome review. So a...

First off, I've heard some early commentary about the upcoming Dark Souls 3 from those who have played and finished the game. It was all very spoiler-free, but I won't be taking their comments into account in this post. What follows is...

Welcome to Trackmania! "Isn't that some racing game?" It -- well, kinda! I mean, yes it is, but not like you might be expecting. With the recent release of the most polished and console friendly entry in the long running series, Trackm...

It's one of the silent categories of videogaming and it's one of the most mutable properties of a game, it's also one of the most indirectly commented upon aspects of a game. I'm talking about how a game treats the player within the na...

Since I play a whole bunch of Smash 4 online throughout the week, I figured I'd put some of that toward a productive purpose. In the following videos, you'll see some random 1v1 match-ups in For Glory that I played. They're a best of t...

I'm an Uncharted 2 multiplayer vet, let's get that out of the way first. I know a lot of people come to this series for the really impressive single player campaign, and all the goodness contained therein. And I don't blame those people, ...

It's a shifting world in the entertainment industries, and a vital part of entertainment is critical reception. With a symbiotic relationship between industry and critical media, any change in one can have dramatic consequences in t...

[In Podtoid episode 236: "Give My Scarecrow A Blowjob", co-host Conrad gives us a rare Willem Dafoe movie pitch. It's a long and complicated affair that's read at a pretty fast pace, so it's a bit difficult to follow aurally. What follows i...

Smash 4 has the most controversial clone characters added to the roster since the original implementation of clones in Melee. Between the over-representation of Fire Emblem chacters (at six), the multitude of sword-wielders (...

I didn't like to share things much as a kid. Being plenty introverted as well as the youngest of three, I wasn't put in too many positions where I needed to open up my inner space to other people. So when it eventually happened, I had ...

The latest (and last[?]) additions to Smash 4 come to us in the form of the much maligned Corrin and the much anticipated Bayonetta. While Corrin's addition is considered and eye-roll because he's yet Fire Emblem character giving...