Three years is a long time. My time at Destructoid is a few weeks shy of the three-year mark. That's right--I'm leaving the Dtoid staff! But before I go, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about my experience working with the talen...

Hey Dtoid, remember when I had the Friday shift for Cblog Recaps? That was fun, wasn’t it? During my stint, I grew to love spending an hour or two on Saturday afternoons compiling the community’s content into a neat little ...

On May 7, 2002 the Exton Dodgers beat the Red Sox. I know this because I pitched that evening. We won 6-4 and I struck out three batters. It was my first outing as a pitcher and the Dodgers celebrated our hard-fought victory by drinkin...

Resident Evil was never about zombies, viruses, or characters being turned into sandwiches. The original Resident Evil and its police-station sequel were always an exploration of architectural horror. In 1996, Resident Evil’s Spe...

[Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be doing a handful of blogs under the title of Blind Fire. Think of it as a column or something. Each blog in the series will be short, off-the-cuff thoughts on some of the game's I've b...

I know I’ve mentioned it before, but I love skateboarding. There’s something spiritual about the act of riding a skateboard that resonates within me. Skateboarding, at least as far as I am concerned, is an extension of my p...

March is a month that feels inexorably linked to mythology. The old mantra of "March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb" personifies an entire month into some kind of deific creature, capable of changing its entire being during t...

I have always secretly harbored a desire to be a farmer. There’s something to be said for a lifetime of backbreaking labor and sun-tanned skin. I take delight in thinking about the endless toiling in fields that stretch as far as the...

2015 was a pretty crazy year for me. A lot of great things happened for me, but I was also kept grounded by some terrible things that happened as well. Maybe it’s karma or whatever you want to call it, but at least I’m alive, happy, and...

There’s a moment during the first few hours of Deadly Premonition that has always stuck with me. After a particularly long day, Special Agent Francis York Morgan rises at the crack of dawn in the Great Deer Yard Hotel. He’s ready to wo...

It’s been a pretty interesting year for me, at least as far as video games are concerned. I’ve played more games than I can count and enjoyed more than I thought I would. Plenty of triple-A titles have captured my attention, alo...

I’ve never cared much for the modern iteration of Fallout. I love the classic entries, and enjoyed both Fallout 3 and New Vegas for what they were, but have never understood the Fallout fervor that Bethesda’s recent entries have...

Just about six months ago, I wanted to break out of my comfort zone. I’d been writing about games on a site that did decent numbers despite its size for a year or so and I wanted to grow. I didn’t have much of a plan, but I knew...

May 2011. I was working at Best Buy when the rapture was supposed to occur. I remember that we made some jokes about it actually happening, laughing over our employee headsets about turning a corner down an aisle and seeing nothing more tha...

Earlier this year, I had a fascination with Crypt of the Necrodancer. I bought the game on a whim because I had an empty weekend in front of me. A couple hours after installing it, and I was hooked. Crypt of the Necrodancer allowe...

Apologies if this is showing up in the feed a second time, I'm not really sure what happened but anyway...   I have two main fears in life: clowns and David Cage games. Thankfully, I’ve managed to live a quarter of a century most...

A couple of months ago, a fellow writer and I were discussing how fortunate the collective gaming world is in regards to its creators and their respective legacies. “We’re lucky,” he told me, “that most of the really...

Sometimes I feel extraordinarily lucky. Other times I feel like a lost pet, confused about where I am but never knowing where I went wrong. I’m twenty-five years old, an age that would have scared me for a long time. Now, I’m th...

It might have been a yellow, goggle-sporting youth that changed my life. It also could have been a deranged security guard. Or a defeatist descendant of a legendary conqueror. Perhaps it was the allure of summer camp, or mentally charged ab...

Tinkerbell stood next to me as I burned my cigarette down to its filter. She looked frustrated, her time divided between irritated looks at the rainy parking lot and texting with the dual-thumbed fury of a person whose patience has run thin...

Video game hopes and dreams are built upon leaks and rumors. The games industry is notoriously leaky, with insiders regularly tipping off journalists and media outlets about upcoming projects or close-lipped drama. This weekend, news ...

Splatoon is a really good game. I bought a Wii U earlier this week just to check it out and I couldn’t be happier with my decision. Being both a kid and a squid is a magical experience that has led me down an inky path to post-mo...

I have a handful of friends that know nothing about video games. For whatever reason, they don’t have much of an interest in the industry. Some of them play a few titles each year, often based on my recommendation alone, but...

With The Witcher 3 on the horizon, I have been thinking about role-playing games a lot. I’ve been spending a lot of time playing ArcaniA – The Complete Tale on my PS4 in order to drop a review next week, relishing in the ga...

Let’s get one thing out of the way first: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night looks great. Almost every bit of the game that we’ve seen so far exudes a stylish vibe that, when mixed with Igarashi’s creative prowess, see...

� "She dreams of freedom, and the decks of whaling ships fast after the beasts at sea. But alas, she is a woman." Plenty of video games allow you to steal. Games, stemming from darkly lit Dungeons and Dragons sessions, to early CRPGs a...

Crafting and survival are two of the most popular terms in 2015’s video game lexicon. Each week brings the gaming world a new game built around crafting and surviving in an open world. Be it on a hostile island, a zombie-infested...

Time for some more Good Things in Bad Games goodness. If you didn’t check out the inaugural entry, go ahead and do that now. I’ll wait. Really. Anyway, today I’m going to be talking about a game that isn’t nece...

The best part about the internet is that I have always found it to be a place that people can freely express their opinions and engage in conversation with others quickly and civilly. We can all thank Al Gore for this unique ability, f...

Well, it looks like The Birdman hasn’t retired his digital skateboard quite yet. Recently, the gaming world was abuzz with rumors and speculations regarding the kind of, sort ofconfirmed Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, chomping a...