For anyone paying attention, yesterday ProfessorPew posted a rather
disturbing story about my good friend Excremento and another dtoider, Gandysampras. It involved angels and demons as well as animal suits. Needless to say it got me wondering. So I had to find out for myself. After much surfing and digging, I found this video. I'm sorry guys, but it's true.




They both do sing and dance.

So hopefully all of you are having a good Christmas with friends and families. I know I did and I have eaten so much that I can barely walk. But I didn't want this day to go completely by without showering all of you with some love, BigPopa style. And of course, you all know what that means. ;) So without further ado, I present to you, my fellow robots, my gift to the Dtoid community: The ladies of Christmas.

First the ladies of Christmas. Help me in giving them a warm Dtoid welcome!





















And now, a few more from the vaults of my computer.





























Merry Christmas Dtoid!! I love you all!

While most of the Dtoid community is out enjoying the joys of Black Friday traffic, I am stuck at work in an empty department. And before some of you ask why I'm at work, let me answer that question with a simple image.



That's right, I am currently earning 2X what I would normally earn. So why not? I got nothing to do on this greedy american semi-holiday. I work in IT and if there is no one here to call and ask dumb questions, there isn't too much to do. But the only unfortunate part of this is that I am bored. Bored, bored bored. So what does a bored Dtoid blogger do?

LIVE BLOG!!!! Starting now!

7:30 Left house for work. Realized halfway there I was wearing no pants.

7:45 Returned home for pants. Forgot security card. What an awesome morning.

8:05 Arrived at work. Started coffee maker. Clocked into office.

8:06 Realized I'm an idiot for working today. Then remembered the cash money I'm earning.

8:10 Coffee is done. Burnt my hand on the damn pot. I knew that handle was there for a reason.

8:30 Propped my feet up on my desk and began watching youtube videos while enjoying delicious coffee.

8:45 Had my first call of the day!! It was my boss....we discussed possible things to keep me busy. I suggested fapping, sleeping and then fapping again. He suggested cleaning out storage area and running Cat 5 drops. Guess who won.

9:05 Watched tribute video to Cammy from Street Fighter. Fapped for 7 minutes straight. Now I must go find some quick wipes to clean up.

9:30 Picked the lint from between my toes. Realized my feet smells and I need to take a shower.

9:45 Finally found the band my roommate was listening to that I liked. It's called Nightwish and they are a Power Metal band with a female singer. Here's their newest single, The Islander.


10:00 Began looking up many different metal bands. So far I don't like Celtic Frost but Edenbridge has potential. I kinda have a thing for a good non-pop female singer with an ACTUAL metal band, not pop metal. Oh yeah, I don't like the new Nightwish singer. She makes them sound too much like pop for me.

10:15 Went to refill coffee. I like Edenbridge now. Also, time for a smoke and a piss, maybe in that order, maybe at the same time. I'll discuss my views on micro-bikinis in the workplace when I return.

10:30 So the work piss turned into a work dump. Have to get all that delicious deep fried turkey out of the system. I must now actually get to some work. I will post again once I am done organizing office and our storage cage.

11:25 Ok so our storage area is now organized much better than it was. I still have to take out the trash but I'm tired and it's time for an office nap.

12:15 Taking out the trash by yourself sucks. I'll just say that right now.

12:20 Went to get some nom noms.

12:50 Back from lunch. Also, on a related note, Taco Bell is no longer as cheap as they used to be. For two tacos and a burrito it cost me $6. Something is wrong with that picture. Now I plan on sitting at my desk for awhile, reading silly innernet articles and getting up the energy to go drop some Cat 5 cables.

Why hello there! Long time no see. How have you been doing Destructoid? I know I have been gone awhile, but now I’m back and I have a lot of nice goodies for you all.

Alright, yeah, that’s not working. I know it’s been awhile since you’ve seen my smiling face. I’m not making excuses because if there’s one thing I learned about blogging this last weekend is that you guys don’t care for excuses. PAX was beyond amazing. If you ever have the chance, go and never regret a dime you spend. Between walking around the exhibition floor and picking up free swag and playing unreleased games, to randomly playing in the Rock Band tournament, to going to the PC free play room and kicking ass in Unreal Tournament III(which I’m picking up ASAP after playing it there), it was an orgy of gaming.

And that's not even mentioning the AMAZING community. More on those crazy cats in a different post.

But I don’t want to ramble and brag about how I got to go while all you cheap bastards sat at home and scratched your asses, so I’ll go ahead and jump into the game summaries. Be warned, most of the games I played were not the AAA titles as the lines for those games were WAY too long so I focused on the lesser known games. So if you haven’t heard of some of these games, don’t feel bad neither had I until I played them.


Developer: EA Canada
Release Date: Sept. 4th, 2008

I played this game for about 20 minutes with some PR dude and while he did kick my ass at it, I can honestly say I want this game….when it hits the $20 bin. FaceBreaker is a combination between a classic, arcade fighter in the tone of Street Fighter while being a boxing game through and through. If you are looking for a realistic boxing sim, look somewhere else because FB is definitely not that.

The controls are pretty basic with a high and low punch button, a throw and a block button as well as a super punch button. As you attack your opponent you build up a meter that, guess what, breaks their faces when fully charged and wins you the fight.

FB was a fun game if you enjoy playing silly games with friends. But as a serious gamer, and a sports games lover, this is not one to buy and play by yourself.


Developer: Blue Omega Entertainment
Publisher: Codemasters
Release date: NA

Ok, I was just walking along staring at the awesome Warhammer:Online area when this image caught my eye.

Needless to say I was intrigued. The image reminded me a lot of the character from The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. There wasn’t anyone playing at the station so I jumped on and tried it out.

The best way I can describe this game is that it is similar to Prince of Persia…but with guns. The version I played still had some issues with its controls; the camera system didn’t feel totally right and aiming your guns was pretty damn hard.

Unless the final version of the game is really ironed out, I don’t feel this game is a purchase. A rental sure, but not one laying $60 down for.



Developer: Midway
Publisher: Midway games
Release Date: November 10th 2008

Ok when this game first was announced I was a skeptic. I thought, “How the hell do you combine two universes as different as M.K. and D.C. and make it work? Superman should be able to destroy them all with one punch!” Needless to say, before PAX I had no excitement about this game at all and thought this was a horrible idea and would never work.

Man was I wrong.

I must have played this game for an hour. I would play a couple of matches and then get back in line to play again. I honestly can say I had the more fun with this game than with any other. And for a game that was met with as much ridicule and doubt as this one, I would have thought Midway would have had a bigger booth but they were in the very back.

This game is a definite must-buy when it comes out. I just hope the online is a polished as the game I played.



Developer: Pandemic Studios
Publisher: EA
Release Date: November 4th, 2008

LOTR:C was a tricky game to find. It was squished in-between the Mercenaries 2 station and the Mirror’s Edge station. Again, this was a game with short to no lines and since it was LOTR, it immediately caught my attention.

To give you an idea on what it is like, think Star Wars: Battlefront but MUCH better and in Middle-Earth and you have Conquest in a nutshell. The demo only showed the good side but apparently you can be on Sauron’s side as well, a neat little twist that’s a welcome change (I’m tired of being the damn hobbits all the time.).

In the demo there were four classes to choose from: Warrior, Archer, Mage and Thief. Each is self explanatory. Controls were simple in theory but in the demo, they were actually a little tricky to pull off right. The objectives for the battle (you were fighting in Minas Tirith at the end of the third movie) were not very informative and those damn trolls were WAY overpowered.

The demo was also very buggy, so I’m hoping what I saw and played was just that; a demo, and unfinished version of the game. But being a huge LOTR nerd, I’ll be buying this game as soon as it comes out. I mean, it does have some multiplayer modes as well as Co-op, so all my fellow LOTR geeks can circle-jerk each other.

I played a few others, but really nothing worth mentioning here. I also tried out some of the MMO’s coming out soon as well as Guitar Hero: World Tour but really GH:WT is just GH with drums.

As for my epic PAX recap, that's coming as soon as I upload all the videos and pictures off of my computer. Sorry, I've been really lazy. Just know that I do love you all and you all will get some epic credits.....eventually.

Last night my roommate got stood up. He made plans with a girl to watch some scary movies, went out and rented said movies, and then ended up having the girl cancel on him. Sucks for him, let me tell you. But out of this slight tragedy, we were saved by two things. The first being my other roommate’s hot cousin and the second being the movie he picked out, Doomsday.

Now while I won’t say Doomsdaydoes anything new for the action/female badass/human-killing virus genre, what it does do is entertain the viewer most of the time, completely disgust them at a couple of points and throw them curveballs every 20 minutes or so. Read on to hear the details.

Doomsday’s plot reads like a dish of copy pasta from the Resident Evil series and the Fifth Element. Basic summary is that ANOTHER nation destroying virus, this time called Reaper, has been unleashed upon England. Rather than have the entire country be destroyed, they decide to just seal off Scotland with a giant wall and let the silly Scots deal with it. I mean, no one likes the Scottish anyways right?

Fast forward 30 years and now we have an outbreak of Reaper again, this time in London. Also at the same time as the outbreak, survivors are found in Glasgow, something that wasn’t supposed to be possible. So of course a team of scientists/SWAT members are sent in to investigate and to try and find the cure that they believe is developed by a Dr. Kane. What follows is a nightmare journey through hell…..or at least it starts out that way.

Without spoiling the movie too much, let me say that for the first 30 minutes when the team crosses the wall, it’s exactly what I expected. A gruesome, brutal, post-apocalyptic, dog-eat-dog world that Scotland has become. Think Mad Max, but with updated special effects.

But then, halfway through the ‘Over-the-Wall’ part, the movie throws a curveball that is hard to understand and really, detracts from where the movie was headed. I’m not sure if the movie twist was really necessary. It was neat to think about, but really disrupted the idea that the entire country of Scotland had gone straight to hell.

So enough of that, on to the actors. Eden Sinclair is played by Rhona Mitra, who is seriously a cross between Mila and Angelina. Don’t believe me?



She does an adequate job at the part. I mean, a gun-toting, sex-starved, one-eyed cop isn’t that hard to play right? Her most recent credits include Shooter and The Number 23. Other than that, nothing of real importance.

The rest of the cast of Doomsday is refreshingly free of A list actors, a phenomenon that sometimes makes the movie better. These B-list actors include Bob Hoskins(Smee from Hook and Bart from Unleashed) as the Chief of Police, Bill Nelson , David O’Hara as Michael Canaris(the crazy Irishman in Braveheart), Alexander Siddig as Prime Minister Hatcher(Ajay in Reign of Fire, Nasir in Kingdom of Heaven, best known as Dr. Bashir from Deep Space Nine), and Malcolm McDowell as Marcus Kane(Mr. Linderman in Heroes, best known for Dr. Tolian Soran in Star Trek: Generations). Hoskins and McDowell turn in their usual good performances and I enjoyed the scenes with either one of them. I really wish they both made it into more mainstream movies.

Anyways, the movie was fun to watch, if a little loopy at some points, but it isn’t for the sensitive subject. This is a gory movie, something in which I can usually handle in most cases. But one scene literally stopped me from eating my delicious chocolate chip cookies for a few minutes. In case you hadn’t heard, the Mad Max characters are cannibals…..and we’ll leave it at that.

So to sum up, if you enjoyed any of the RE movies or Fifth Element, Doomsday will probably appeal to you. It’s also a fun action movie, if a little stupid at times.

First of all, thanks for the response we had last week about the fantasy football league. Well it's all set up now, but due to a miscommunication between myself and the Commissioner, I didn't know I needed a list of email addresses to invite to the league. So here I am again, letting everyone know that if you are still serious about playing in the Dtoid Fantasy League, put your name and email address in the comments below. I need them to send out invites.

Now, here's a few details of our league. We will be having a live, online draft sometime next week. More details will be revealed on that as me and The Commish work it out. This is a 14 man league and there is already 3 spots filled so if you want in on it, it's first come, first serve.

The league is head to head, so that means, for all the noobs, that you will be going up against one person each week for 13 weeks, plus three weeks for playoffs and championship if you make the cut.

Like I said last time, for the winner and runner-up, there are prizes involving Dtoid swag.
Thanks for all your interest guys and sorry I wasn't that clear last time. Also, if you haven't signed up for a fantasy account with ESPN.com, when you get the invite email, you will have to.