Randy Pitchford and the Dtoid avatars of ninjapresident, PhilKenSebben, StriderHoang, and T3HM0RR0W at PAX Prime 2012

So what if his last two non-Borderlands games have sucked diarrhea through a straw? At least the man's still got love for the Dtoid community!

Greetings, fellow Destructoid traveler! I come bearing exciting news!

In an effort to cut down on spammers in the comments section, we've promoted several Dtoid community members to "mod" status within Disqus. (See, I told you this was exciting!!)

As of this moment, the following Dtoiders have been granted the ability to mark comments as spam, edit comments containing racist or otherwise prohibited terms, and help to keep us free of the annoyances of the Internet:

Elsa
Occams electric toothbrush
PhilKenSebben
SephirothX
smurfee mcgee
Tristrix

Each of these users was hand-selected by your community team due to a) their trustworthiness, and b) their overall level of activity in the comments. Let's give 'em a hand!

Of course, for the majority of you, Dtoid will still be business as usual. But rest assured that the 12 extra hands we now have swatting spammers will make Destructoid a better place for us all.

Anyway, that's it! Thanks for reading, and thanks to all our new mods!

I have the opportunity to interview Christopher Shy, the illustrator of the upcoming Dead Space 3 prequel graphic novel Dead Space: Liberation. Why am I telling you this? Well, I thought it might be fun to let the Dtoid community in on the project!

If you have any questions you'd like to ask Mr. Shy let me know in the comments below! I'll do my best to get to everyone's.

Thanks, and have fun!

If you're anything like the bajillion or so people who reported the issue to Support over the weekend, you have no doubt noticed that your Dtoid comment count has shot through the roof in the last few days. So what gives?



Legacy comments have been imported!

That's right, our engineers have begun the process of migrating pre-Disqus comments into the new system, which means that this list of most active users is finally accurate (or will be very soon).

So what does this mean for you?

Nothing. Just thought we'd point it out ;)

But while you're here, why not take a moment to congratulate the (current) top 10 commenters, and maybe nudge a few of the old farts who have since moved on!


Anyway, thanks to everyone who pointed this out; we sincerely love that you're all paying attention!

Henry Andrew Dixon, born 11/13 (prime numbers FTW) and already breaking hearts

Look out toddler ladies*, there's a new Dixon lad on the prowl!!

Sorry for the shortblog, but I just wanted to share my good news and let you all know that I won't be around as much the next couple weeks as I enjoy a much-needed vacation with my family. You kids be good in my absence -- I have eyes everywhere!

<3 you all!


Mrs Andy Dixon and Miss Alice Dixon

*Or toddler gents. However he rolls I'm proud as fuck to be his dad.

I think all this Hotline Miami fan art has gone to my head, because I've been having some seriously fucked up dreams lately.

The first took place on Wednesday night. I dreamt that I was hanging out with Good Guy Greg when he began choking on something. A few of us lined up and started slapping him, Airplane-style, trying to get him to shut the fuck up so we could continue playing poker (note: I just now realized we were playing poker), when finally someone stepped up who had seen a TV show in his life and performed the Heimlich maneuver.

What came out was a bloodied, severed penis.

The latest dream was from last night, where I was sitting in a bar with Conor Elsea and a bunch of random people, and we had just found out that our team had lost Road Rules. (Is Road Rules even something that you win or lose as a team? I have no idea. I bet this guy does.) Anyway, I went to the bathroom, and when I came out everyone in the bar was gone so I headed to my car.

That's when Samit Sarkar appeared and started shooting at me. Motherfucker couldn't hit shit.

Really looking forward to tonight. I'll keep you updated.