[First we brought you the wallpaper, and here's the video! Thank Playboy for making Monday suck less.]
This. Since 2006 Destructoid has published every form of conceivable games editorial imaginable. We've brought you coverage of every gaming event around the world, interviewed nearly every important gaming personality, sat with developers, chased lawyers, fought with corrupt games marketers, and have published thousands and thousands of reviews, previews, rumors, and leaks. We believe in hard-hitting gaming because that's where our passion lies and that's what our readers want most ... with one exception to the rule.
In our entire canon of work do you know what our most popular article of all time is according to our server-side analytics? This nerdcore gallery of boobies from 2006. Yup.
Dear reader, you are unabashedly The Dude.
When I opened up my inbox today I was surprised to find none other than email from Playboy offering our readers the enclosed high resolution wallpaper of Jo Garcia, the part-dork-part-model hybrid pictured somewhere in that vortex of video game peripherals. The ongoing series of wallpapers are housed at Playboy's Gamer Next Door, and there's also a production video coming. (No pun intended).
On one hand we stubbornly have ignored our numbers and rarely strayed from core gaming news. On the other hand ... well, you don't want to know what the other hand is doing.
Internet, what is is that you command me to do?
In all seriousness I've asked various colleagues who publish web sites and my research has concluded is that we must absolutely participate in some way that is respectful to readers that don't want breasts-on-games, and maybe cleverly disguise it somewhere else on the site. Am I right, my naughty forum goers?
Ladies and gentlemen, our magic word for this kind of content is now "kittens". If you'd like to see more kittens on Destructoid please sound off in the comments below.
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Seriously? That's it? You can barely see anything and those shoes are atrocious. I'd rather see everything, get rid of those shoes, and have her covered barely by Xenoblade and The Last Story discs. Then send that image to Nintendo.
Ah, I was hoping that Playboy would send over an image of the Lusty Argonian Maid. What game is she from,anyway? Are characters from Flash games on the Internet being included in these spreads now? Play Magazine would never stoop so low. I thought that Playboy was better than that.
Oh,well. Maybe when Playgirl sends over something, it will be a hunk who is more visually interesting than this. Maybe Geralt the Witcher or Thane Krios or Ratchet the Lombax or someone to that effect.
Too bad that Richboy didn't send over something instead.
KITTENS! No need to get raunchy and low-class, you can add a little kitten goodness and still be good. After all, IGN (as you linked to) seems to manage it well enough.
I'd like to see a photoshoot of real gamer girls. Beating Super Mario Bros. is required to qualify. Imperfect bodies are not only allowed but encouraged.
There's a some humorless feminist website called Go Make Me a Sandwhich that has a hard-on for Dtoid. I wonder how long it's going to take them to get a hold of this. lol
Real girls that really play games please. Not so "make-up'd"...
Actually, no. To be fair we have to juxtapose this image and any like it with a picture of jim sterling in the exact same context, like set for set... Tit for... Well... Nevermind.
Honestly? Despite how vulgar Destructoid can sometimes be (Terrafaptyl porn, I'm lookin' at you.) you guys somehow manage to maintain a certain kind of class that just... Works. If I wanted kittens, I'll google kittens. otherwise, I'd prefer it if Destructoid stayed relatively kitten free.
I don't really care either way but if we're going to have kittens can they at least be more attractive than the one posted? Also cocks, I want things to stay equal (and to laugh at the homophobic commenters).
Not that I don't like kittens... QUITE the opposite, if ya catch my drift.
But there are plenty of places on the internet for kittens, and Destructoid is not among them.
Destructoid is great for what it is, that being (as I see it) a video games outlet that isn't afraid to go against the grain, as well as a place for writing that is funny and colorful (that's putting it mildly). IGN's indulgence in non-gaming related writing has severely lowered their standards. (Podcast Beyond is pretty good, but I rarely visit the IGN website proper anymore.) Don't let the same thing happen to Destructoid! The worst case scenario is that the writers devolve into a bunch of faceless internet nerds, equal parts gamers and fappers, who use memes in a totally non-ironic way.
I just made an accunt ^,^ also Dale North is way more sexy then the "kitten" or is it "bunny"(I'm so confused)and Jonathan Holmes as more personality in his icon then this person.
In all honesty, I'm totally bi- on the topic. I don't mind the "kittens" at all (unless I'm reading the site at school or in public) but I can easily find other, non-video game sites for all my "kitten" petting needs. Kittens, bears, snails....it doesn't bother me.
If it helps your numbers add kittens. As long as every article isn't about kittens it's not like I'm forced to click everything I come across (though I may partake from time to time).
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4:00 PM on 09.19.2011 | 
Thankfully, we can all agree that this would be the first and only time they've photoshopped any of their images.
Oh,well. Maybe when Playgirl sends over something, it will be a hunk who is more visually interesting than this. Maybe Geralt the Witcher or Thane Krios or Ratchet the Lombax or someone to that effect.
Too bad that Richboy didn't send over something instead.
So yes Niero I ask, nay DEMAND you post more kittens on Destructoid.
Also more kittens.
No offense, but really?
...now, maybe if it was non-shopped mature kittens... no...no, I'm good. Just gimme the game stuff, please.
I like you and I agree.
Actually, no. To be fair we have to juxtapose this image and any like it with a picture of jim sterling in the exact same context, like set for set... Tit for... Well... Nevermind.
=^.^= KITTENS =^.^=
Not that I don't like kittens... QUITE the opposite, if ya catch my drift.
But there are plenty of places on the internet for kittens, and Destructoid is not among them.
Destructoid is great for what it is, that being (as I see it) a video games outlet that isn't afraid to go against the grain, as well as a place for writing that is funny and colorful (that's putting it mildly). IGN's indulgence in non-gaming related writing has severely lowered their standards. (Podcast Beyond is pretty good, but I rarely visit the IGN website proper anymore.) Don't let the same thing happen to Destructoid! The worst case scenario is that the writers devolve into a bunch of faceless internet nerds, equal parts gamers and fappers, who use memes in a totally non-ironic way.
FREEEEEEEDOM!
not that i don't like kittehs but it's not dtoid.
In all honesty, I'm totally bi- on the topic. I don't mind the "kittens" at all (unless I'm reading the site at school or in public) but I can easily find other, non-video game sites for all my "kitten" petting needs. Kittens, bears, snails....it doesn't bother me.