Let’s face it: scarves make anything cool. Case in point, Fred from Scooby Doo. Do you think he became the leader of the gang because of his brains? Hell no. It’s because of that devilishly stylish scarf he wears. This doesn’t just apply ...

I’m going to GDC this month, and to be honest, I’m really nervous. It’s my first GDC. Hell, it’s my first big convention. I mean, I’ve wandered around Comic Con down in San Diego a couple of times, but that was always just for fun, and I ...

or Three Valentine's Day Videogame Crushes With Valentine’s Day—the contrived greeting card holiday day of love and romance—upon us, I figured now would be the perfect time for us gamers to reflect on those characters we desperately want...

I recently finished my fourth playthrough of Dragon Age II (I previously wrote about my time collecting the game’s trophies), but only on my second of Dragon Age: Origins. Why is that? According to public opinion among gamers (and the gam...

Some games you win by having great reflexes. Other games you win by remembering sequences of intricate button presses. And others you win just by dumb luck. But then there’s another type of game—the game you win by out-waiting it. But wh...

Alright let’s jump on this bandwagon, full on…and hard. Bbain wrote a super-awesome blog, and it inspired me (and everybody else it seems) to write one for myself. I haven’t been able to meet any Dtoiders other than Cadtalfryn in real life,...

I had an idea the other day about how GameStop could beat publishers at their own game. This isn’t fully fleshed out or anything, and who knows, it might be feasible at all. Well, here goes. Here’s how GameStop can beat online passes: they ...

Games like Resident Evil and Dead Space aren’t horror. Now that I’ve got your attention, let me clarify that statement. Sure those games are classified as “survival horror” games, but they don’t represent horror to me, and it has nothing to...

So there’s this little game that came out a few a weeks ago. You might’ve heard of it. It’s called Skyrim and Dtoid’s own Jim Sterling thought it was pretty good. I mean you can fight dragons in it. Awesome, right? Well what if I told you a...

Confession time: I’ve never played a Rayman game. In fact I only vaguely associate Rayman with his own series. The first things that come to mind are those Rabbit-thing mini-game collections on the Wii. But I’ve heard a lot of good things a...

Last time I wrote an article like this it was full of well-deserved vitriol and hate toward some of gaming’s worst feathered fiends. Well to prove I’m not just a Negative Nancy, this article will celebrate one of humanity’s greatest achiev...

Dtoid, have I told you how much I love the Donkey Kong series? Well let’s just say I’m bananas over the franchise. Okay, that was awful. I promise there will be no more monkey-based puns in this blog. Back to the matter at hand, I love Do...

I’m playing through Prince of Persia: Sands of Time for the first time, and I’m at a really annoying part. I have to cross some balance beams while those goddamn birds keep attacking me. You know what replaying this section three times alre...

I’ve seen a lot of blogs lately talking about open-world games and how they give players freedom to do an almost dizzying amount of stuff. These great blogs have addressed only one side of freedom, but what about the other side? What about ...

How Pokemon is Broken I borrowed Pokemon HeartGold from my brother to see if I could relive those carefree days I spent in Johto as a child. Sadly, those days are gone forever. My 60+ hours spent with HeartGold taught me one thing: Pokemon...

On this week’s edition of Under the Radar I want to once again venture back in time to 2005. However we’re moving away from the action RPG genre and into the Wild Wild West of FPS games. Combining the Wild West, vampires before they were ...

This is the start of a new series I'm experimenting with. I can’t promise that it’ll be a weekly, biweekly, or even a monthly series; it all depends on when I can get games for it and when I finish them. Tons of new games come out every ...

On March 8, my copy of Dragon Age II arrived. Little did I know that this title was going to change my life. Dragon Age II is not a perfect game. It’s not even close to perfect. But since it came out, I haven’t taken it out of my PS3’s di...

Fair warning, this is a little bit of self-promotion. I'll leave it up to you to decide how shameless it is. I wrote a little freelance piece on Suite101 about getting into Black Ops' multiplayer modes. It's really for beginners, so I'm not...

Hey fellow Dtoiders. Yes, this post will be shameless. Yes, it will be full of self-promotion. But it also should be really really really cool. (Or maybe just one really). One of the screenplays I co-authored, "The Kult," is being produced...

My Xbox 360 is a secondary console at best. I don’t deny that my primary console is my PS3 followed by the PS2 backwards capabilities on my PS3. Then comes a whole host of retro consoles: GBA, SNES, PS1 etc. In fact my Xbox hasn’t been turn...

TriplZer0’s Personal July Recap Welcome one, welcome all to my personal recap for the month of July! This is where I’ll talk about games played during the month, thoughts about said games, and any other useless information I think you guys ...

Destructoid Community, I’m pissed. Sit with me for a moment and let me tell you why. This game. I’m not pissed because of this review. I’m not pissed because of the new battle system and the ridiculously named Paradigm Shifts. I’m not pi...

The Real World. What is it exactly? Is it the place outside of video games where we live and breathe? Or is it, as people talking to recent college grads are fond of saying, the world outside of college – the world of work, mortgages, he...

Hey there Dtoiders apart from being an avid gamer I’m also a university student just about to finish his undergraduate degree in May. Thankfully last summer I had an internship at a publishing company that is turning into a full-time job o...

One of my first ever articles on Destructoid was about how I found Fallout 3 impossible to get into even after multiple attempts and restarts. It an era rife with frustration and sadness. I can’t bear to speak of it much more. Fast forwa...

I’m going to be brutally honest for a moment here. Are you ready Dtoid? Here goes. I’m pretty terrible at competitive games. Yes I’ll win in contests of skill against most non-gamers but since I rarely play videogames with people unaccu...

...except for those here on Destructoid. That's right, I'm talking about charity. Apparently her name is Charity according to Google Images. So I woke up on Saturday morning and went through my usual morning routine of checking my email...

Even though this game has a pretty robust Wikipedia article it remained forgotten to me until just a few days ago. So even though I've already done a Monthly Musing, I just had to share this little gem with you guys. Let me begin with one...

Yes I know this is years late, but bear with me. Follow me on a young man's quest for greatness and videogame satisfaction. Weep as his hopes and dreams are dashed on the cruel, jagged rocks of reality. Ready? Let's go! Lair. This sin...