So, I took a five-hour bus ride to New York City yesterday to do some video coverage of the New Super Mario Bros. Wii launch event at the Nintendo World Store. It was supposed to be a four-hour b...

The Street Fighter IV Snuggie Cozy is uglier and awesomer than we could have ever possibly imagined. Capcom-Unity has a Cozy and they made the poor girl above wear it in the middle of a warm Los ...

Nintendo is encouraging any and all fans to celebrate the launch of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and it's shaping up to be one helluva neat shindig. On November 14, from 3:00 - 7:00 PM, you'll have...

Eidos Montreal is inviting the public to come visit their studios and check out Deus Ex 3 and Thief 4 this Sunday. The studio (now owned by Square-Enix) is currently working on the two titles and...

On the eve of the release of what is arguably the most anticipated game of 2009, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Activision joined with Microsoft and GameStop to take over New York’s Union ...

[Community member Anus Mcphanus recounts his adventures at Eurogamer Expo with DtoidUK. -- CTZ] Last weekend was the second Eurogamer expo held in the United Kingdom. This was also one of the bes...

MAG, the PlayStation 3-exclusive first-person shooter that boasts 256-player multiplayer, is set to release on January 26, 2010. So to get people geared up and ready, Sony invited us to a one-on-...

Attention Los Angeles readers! Gyenari in Culver City is hosting a Rock Band happy hour starting at 9:30 tomorrow night. Hite beers will be $2, all other drafts are $5 and house wines and liquor...

The chiptune scene is flourishing over in New York. A number of the big-name chiptune performers are situated on the East Coast, probably largely to do with Blipfest happening in New York each ye...

Last week in Toronto, over 5,000 people showed up for the seventh annual Toronto Zombie Walk. This year, Capcom joined in on the fun and had a Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles booth set up....

Hey, Dtoid New York. Want to do something fun and possibly win a prize? Then head out to Namco Bandai's Tekken 6 launch party on Oct. 29 from 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. It's being held by New York - Tokyo ...

Shameless self-promotion: I'm hosting a Weird Games Panel at Infinite Bits, Miami's biggest video game convention.  We'll kick things off on Friday, 6 PM at the Doubletree near the airport b...

See all of those beautiful people above? Those are all Dtoiders that were at PAX this past year. Good times, but once a year is just not enough.As you may have heard, the Penny Arcade Expo will b...

Game room? Is that what people want to call arcade nowadays? Anyway, the $4 million game room called Power Play is opening up this Thursday in Bellevue, Washington. The place will be 18,000 squar...

Capcom is throwing another Fight Club event this Thursday in New York and it's going to be extra special this time around. First, they're going to have Super Street Fighter IV for people to get t...

[Editor's note: Capcom UK once again invited their community out to their offices and a number of UK based Dtoiders got to attend. The kids that went talked about the games they got to play in a ...

Update:  We're live!  http://www.justin.tv/destructoid  ... but just for another half hour!We have raised over $4,000 in the last 24 hours but that's still a tiny amount to what's ...

Eurogamer is hosting their second annual Eurogamer Expo later this month in the United Kingdom. The show will feature numerous industry speakers, indie games and it will have a pretty kicking sho...

The fourth annual Seasons Beating IV takes place starting tomorrow and will last until this Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. Seasons Beating is the place to be for all fighting game fanatics. This year...

See how happy they are? Spelunker looks like he's about to burst into song. Probably. Anyway, From Software held a little event in Yokohama over the weekend to commemorate 3D Dot Game Heroes head...

Even if we all can't agree that games are art, we can definitely agree that games can inspire great art. I think Art Attack Friday proves this well every Friday. As part of the UK's Gamecity fes...

I was just replaying Plants vs. Zombies on the plane ride home from Tokyo and thinking it's the perfect game to play when you need to waste some time, but don't want to spend it on something comp...

Rockstar will be at the gdgt NY launch party & meetup tomorrow at the Manhattan Center in New York showing off Beaterator on the PSPgo. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will also be available...

Um, okay. So Crytek has teamed up with a UK event called Gamecity Squared where they’re going to make Crysis happen. In real life. An area in Nottingham, UK will be transformed into a &ldq...

There's a simple rule in gaming; the bigger the screen, the better the experience. A 22" television is easily trumped by a 46" television and so on until you arrive at playing videogame...

[As originally posted on Tomopop] Well, this was almost embarassing. Hamza pointed out to me the latest post on Kramez's blog over at Capcom-Unity, featuring these lovely Okamiden statues. Which,...

The Jeff Schleffelbein’s Sinister Pointe attraction venue in Orange County is getting a very Silent Hill makeover this Halloween, which we already knew about. The 10,000 square feet vacant ...

Nintendo is sending out a Professor Layton lookalike to four major cities across the United States. Why? To give people free stuff! Tomorrow, the Layton will be somewhere in Minneapolis from 11AM...

The annual festival of all things Chiptunes related returns once again! BlipFest will be taking place on December 17 through the 19 at the Bell House in Brooklyn. The show is open to all ages and...

Miami is a notoriously non-nerdy place -- in fact, wearing a Mario t-shirt around here could even earn you a few weird looks. Thank the gods, some people choose to ignore that and make their own ...

Microsoft has revealed today its list of playable and not-so-playable games that we be on display at this year's Tokyo Game Show. As usual, it's a mixture of both first-party and third-party titl...

Well, that's it -- I'm jealous. Scribblenauts hits store shelves tomorrow, but if you're lucky enough to live in New York and had a way to get to the Nintendo World Store this past Sunday, you ma...

Another PAX has come and gone and the memories we all made will not be soon forgotten. Each year, more and more Dtoiders come out to PAX to take in what the guys from Penny Arcade have provided, ...

Very recently, via Twitter, Penny Arcade announced that they received word of a confirmed case of H1N1 (aka Swine Flu) from an attendee.ConSARS is something we typically joke about when we're not...

The first thought I had while walking the PAX show floor this year and taking pictures was that I was amazed how much it had grown since the first time I came in 2007 -- it's literally three time...

PAX is less than 72 hours away now, and I know all of you coming this weekend are excited beyond belief. In fact, there’s a handful of people, including a bunch of the UK Dtoiders, in Seatt...

Last year at PAX, Fighter X, Circles and other members chiptune artists held a small chiptune concert right outside the front doors of the Seattle Convention Center. The performance was free, all...

I love to get down with great music and videogames, so when Sony offered me (and three Dtoiders) the opportunity to head down to Columbia, MD, and play some PS3 games while taking in some live mu...

PAX is just four days away now! Some Dtoiders are already in Seattle today and there are more on their way over the course of the week. We’ve been doing a lot of planning for PAX over on t...

The Penny Arcade Expo was created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the guys behind Penny Arcade and Child’s Play, back in 2004. They started up this expo so gamers of all kinds -- consol...

Capcom is bringing their goods to the Penny Arcade Expo next week. If you've ever seen a Capcom store at any event in the past, then you know Capcom always bring the goods. Case in point: Giant-s...

[Community member Senisan82 went out to the very first GameUnicon convention in New England and gave us his impressions on how the event was. -- CTZ] If you've been reading the Dtoid New England ...

The Level-5 Vision Press Conference that recently took place was chock full of good news like a new Professor Layton game containing an extra RPG, details on the Professor Layton movie and more, ...

This Sunday night, Anamanaguchi, Mr. Spastic, A Rival and crashfaster will be playing at the DNA Lounge on 375 Eleventh Street in San Francisco. The show will be from 7PM to 11:30PM and tickets ...

Ah, Dubai. It’s become one of the fastest developed cities in the world and offers some unique attractions. Now, it’s the home to a 76,000 square foot Sega theme park. The theme park...

There’s just two weeks left until PAX 2009 and the three-day passes have finally completely sold out. There are still a number of Friday, Saturday and Sunday only badges still available, b...

The concept of "Ladies Who Lunch" somehow got a whole lot less boring last night at the The Carlyle hotel in New York as a tea party was held to celebrate the release of Professor Layto...

The biggest videogame convention in New England is happing today! GameUnicon 2009 is going to be open around the clock until Sunday evening and a three day pass is just $40! GameUnicon 2009 is g...

As some of you may already be aware, Gamescom kicks off today in Cologne, Germany. We're hoping to hear lots of news, including whether or not this PS3 Slim business is for real or not (hint: it ...

I love announcements about announcements. For instance, at this year's QuakeCon, id Software spoke at the opening press conference and revealed that there would be no Doom 4 reveal ... at least, ...

Holy crap! PAX is just 21 days away now! PAX really is the best event for gamers to check out, and if this list of exhibiters can’t convince you, then nothing will. 2K Games, Blizzard, Val...

The Penny Arcade Expo 2009 schedule is finally live. There’s going to be a ton of panels, some awesome concerts, tournaments and a ton of things for people to do while at the Expo. There ar...

No Apparent Reason Parties, NARPs for short, are a long standing tradition here at Destructoid. NARPs are parties hosted by Dtoiders for Dtoiders and everyone is welcome to attend a party. It's a...

Namco Bandai has just announced its playable games lineup for the 2009 GamesCom in Cologne, Germany, which runs from August 19th through the 23rd. The company will be bringing along 8 new titles ...

QuakeCon is only a week away! Whose going? If you are don't you want to know what's going to be going down and when? id, the events organizer, has finally released the schedule for the annual eve...

Yesterday we speculated over one of the mysterious notes from the BioShock 2 website Something in the Sea which indicated an event which would take place at ten beaches around th world at specifi...

PAX has revealed the 20 randomly selected contestants for the Omegathon competition. Over the course of PAX 09, the contestants will be battling it out in six games: ROUND 1: Mario Kart ® Wii...