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Last call! Win $300 Legion dollars right meow This week Destructoid is sponsored by Legion, a movie about angels who fight with machine guns. Well, that's how I would have pitched it to Hollywood, anyway. Destructoid has three $100 gift cer...
25 days of giving: The $399 MW2 Xbox Contest update: Congratulations Guagloves, you're Goozex's randomly selected winner! You've just won all the stuff pictured above. Except the headless cat. He's not available. W...
Destructoid's 25 days of giving keeps on giving What is Destructoid? It's this thing! We publish it. We love our readers. We have unleashed a string of contests so awesome that babies and whales are reportedly melting. But first, a matter of b...
Public Access Destructoid: How Game Juice is makedt This week in Public Access Destructoid we have a very special show for you today, ladies and gentlemens. We sent Jon Carnage to learn how to squeeze juice from used video games in a real ...
Public Access Destructoid starts now with Jon Carnage Welcome to Destructoid's new late night show! We have a great lineup for you today and an exclusive trailer of Fighting the Kings. I'm sorry this is like 13 minutes late, I was stuck in traffic ...
Join Destructoid at the University of Miami's Launchpad Who wants to play an altered reality RTS about sustainable publishing processes called Destructoid? I'll be at the University of Miami's Launch Pad event today at 4 PM trying to explain wha...
Try Dtoid's new gaming meetup thing, win 1 of 3 sick PCs Update: Today is the last day to enter the raffle. Good luck! A wise young man at PAX once asked me: "Why the hell is it so hard to meet up and play with people on Dtoid?" Good questi...
Destructoid.TV launches! 24/7 videos, trailers, and smut Remember Cinematech? It was a G4 show that played the latest trailers, cut-scenes, and commercials of upcoming video games (with a special segment on smutty Japanese games) with little or n...
AVA banner ads go after Modern Warfare 2 Advertising: No matter how retarded your idea is someone will eventually bump into it and pay attention. While not surfing for pornography one of our readers spotted an advertisement for Allianc...
Florida peoples: Come to Infinite Bits to play weird shit 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...
Take a survey about Dtoid, win $100 if you're lucky For some reason I could not find a single photo of Benjamin Franklin dressed like a thug in full bling. If it is all about the benjamins, why hasn't someone thought of this? Google images has fai...
Connect to Destructoid with Facebook Just a quick site update: You can now login and comment with your Facebook account. Better late than never, right? Since FB is larger than most countries and 40% of the Internet is always logged ...
Ben Heck makes Halo 3 controller for Tucker Max movie It's funny how you often meet people on the Internet through unusual and fleeting circumstances. For example, weeks ago I'd heard that they were making a Tucker Max movie so I checked out t...
The Gamer Studio: A peek into how Destructoid came to be Destructoid turns four next year. That's ridiculous. Surely we should be either bankrupt or lecherous sellouts by now, right? Somehow we're still here by no small contribution of Dtoid's plucky e...
Destructoid gets Unreal - Over $9600 in PC prizes Let's do it again! Destructoid's 24/7 Gaming Meetup begins again today this time with competitive skill-ranked matches in Unreal Tournament and participation prizes for casual gamers. Here'...
The $100 comment returns! Dual-screen laptops, yay or nay? Who wants a $100 American Express gift certificate, courtesy of our sponsor? (Dtoid_Hammershark and Phantomile won the last two.) It may as well be you. Asus is curious about what gamers want fu...
Sold out: Limited edition Destructoid shirt The limited edition run of "Become" by Ashley Davis! Update: SOLD OUT! Thanks to everyone that ordered. They're being printed right now - we'll have photos and estimated ship times for ...
MAINGEAR Call of Duty raffle & tournament comes to a close Thanks to everyone that participated in our MAINGEAR Call of Duty 4 raffle and tournament, sponsored by Intel. Casual players: If you completed a match or played for a bonus ticket you've been re...
Win another $100 gift card from Asus, discuss pancakes First, a matter of old business: Congratulations to Dtoid_Hammershark who takes home a $100 American Express gift certificate, courtesy of our sponsor. Asus is curious about what gamers wan...
A weekend without Destructoid - server upgrade time! Destructoid is moving on up (to the east side, in a deluxe server cloud in the sky) this weekend, so the site may be down for extended periods of time as we set the current servers on fire and da...
Win a $100 American Express gift card for your opinion Off topic before I begin: Dtoid community member Half Left sent the British comedian duo Peacock & Gamble a Destructoid sticker. The gift was mentioned in episode 8 as something they're...
FNF Quake semi-finals start, win a MAINGEAR PC by raffle Destructoid's Quake Live tournament goes into Semi-Finals this week, as six players go head-to-head to battle for $9,000 in Cyberpower gaming computers. Our admins lost sleep all weekend, sifting...
Twitter Friday just happened, Kauza steals your KOF swag Congratulations, Kauza! You were first to respond with the call to be punched in MAI face and won our King Of Fighters swag pack, which includes post cards, 11 limited-edition trading packs...
FNF: I played Cosmic Cannon and all I got was a 9800 GTX+ So, how's your Cosmic Cannon score these days? I'm up to 26 and about to stab myself in the eyes. Anyway, the score is irrelevant: we're giving away random prizes for another week to partic...
IKEA is making computers? Also, contest winners I'm a little late announcing these contest winners. It's not because I don't love you, its because I was distracted with #FNF and by IKEA's awesome new computer. I'm a very silly person.Any...
Friday.Night.Fights. is here! $80,000 in prizes start July 3 The New Friday.Night.Fights has been revealed! We've launched the beta are currently testing a few games on the platform, beginning with in-browser games like Quake Live and Cosmic Cannon.&...
Destructoid KarE3oke party: We're overbooked, come early Just a quick reminder to everyone that RSVP'd for our E3 Party on Monday night: since Facebook doesn't let you set an event cap, there was a flood of entries and we are accidentally overbooked! I...
Destructoid descends on E3: Here's what you can expect E3 holds a special place in my heart. Coming here is a little dream a million nerds like me share, and I'll never forget when I put all logic aside and just went for it by firing up my own gam...
Lose your voice before E3 at Destructoid's party, June 1st! Destructoid is having an E3 party and you're invited! Come watch the spectacle of 50 midgets set on fire as we hurl gasoline-soaked Neo Geos into their mouths! Just kidding -- it's just an open b...
WTF is this contest concludes, a new FNF tournament looms Congratulations to Dtoid_Nosmo for participating in this thing and also to Adam J Who and Christina Winterburn, the final winners of our WTF Is This Sh*t contest. We're pausing the WTF contest be...
Miami's biggest gaming party is tonight! GameNarp.com If you're in South Florida and missed the last one, here's your chance to redeem yourself! Destructoid and friends are hosting our next gaming event TONIGHT at Florida International University So...
Critique a notebook design, win The Beatles: Rock Band Somebody smart once said that something to the effect of "the interface is your product". I think this is how Apple gets away with overpricing their low-powered computer line (and they ...
Twitters to the Editor: BCFx is the most racist game ever? In games writing you have to be very cautious when bringing up the race card, particularly after the lynching of Resident Evil 5's orginal art direction (see what I did there?). I'm the type that...
Duodecuple wielding Gutierrez This happened. You know, not to be outdone. Update 1: It's on.Update 2: Hoffman takes the lead. And cake.Update 3: Meme confirmed. PS. Community participation encouraged.
Would you buy a netbook to game? Vote to win $50 gift card I have a fascination with netbooks (tiny computers you can hide in your vagina). They're cute and are flying off the shelves, but they're only good for word processing and surfing the web ... lik...
Write Dtoid's 5-word Webby speech, win $1,000 cash! Tuesday was awesome. I was away doing the nerdiest thing possible (at a Final Fantasy concert) when Destructoid was nominated for a Webby in the games-related category. Could you imagine my O-fac...
Win a $50 cash money gift certificate [update] Update! Thanks to everyone that participated. Look for a post later this week from Colette with the winner. Want to win a free game on us? Here's how! The folks at Federat...
Mirror's Edge laptop contest concludes! Who won? Thanks to everyone who participated in our Mirror's Edge Gaming Notebook giveaway, sponsored by EA and Nvidia. The randomly selected first and second prize winners are as follows!Nvidia Graphics ...
Dtoid contests update: WTF is this sh*t, Bleach Boy? We have an on-going contest at Destructoid where we ask our dear readers to stuff our office mailbox with the most random crap they can find (for the purpose of decorating our office with absurdi...
Dtoid Labs: What's new under the hood After a week of binge-eating through our 3 year anniversary Tom, James, and I have been heavily tinkering with Dtoid and Japanator code (yes, cblogs are coming!). I was originally going to bury t...
Contest Updates! Win a Mirror's Edge notebook for looking funny First of all, congratulations to last week's WePC winners (they scored a new game of their choice). The winners were randomly selected but I still wanted to point out the ideas they shared ...
[Update!] Mountain Dew: Voltage winners selected, probably asleep Last night we ran a contest at 4am EST to give away some caffeine to our late-night Dtoiders. Unfortunately the contest is already over -- and I'm sure half the winners are still drooling on thei...
The making of the new Destructoid helmet Want to know how a real pro does it? Don't ask me. The original Mr. Destructoid helmet, while awesome in its own homeless way, was built using a bunch of air conditioner sheet metal bolted and du...
Win a Mirror's Edge Qosmio notebook, Nvidia GTX-260, and more We'd like to thank our friends at EA and Nvidia for donating some amazing prizes for our Destructoid anniversary week contest! But here's the catch -- there are less than 100 hours left to ...
Destructoid turns three Not one. Not two. But three. Man, time flies. Even though he's just a baby (pimp), we gave Mr. Destructoid a facelift by hiring Volpin Props, who created this stunning piece. He (and his hoes) ar...
Reminder: Discuss touch-screen PC gaming, win game of your choice Contest update: Winners announced!See that thing up there? The bottom part is not a keyboard. It's a touch screen. You can also flip it on its side and use it like a book ...
Let me tell you about my Office Space Tim Burton Final Fight MMO It is customary on the Pushing Play podcast to ask their interview guest about what game they would make if they could*. I was a guest on this week's show and my answer was a tale of failur...
Near Miami? Come jog with Mr. Destructoid for a good cause Attention, South Florida geeks! Pry yourself from your computer and put on your neon spandex. Destructoid.com invites you to join Miami's biggest video game community in person (for once) as we r...
Breaking! Free Destructoid shirts for the ladies while they last Time to clean house! Nerdyshirts is closing out the last of our 08' Destructoid skull & crossbones shirts for $5 plus shipping (all men's sizes are sold out, sorry!) but here's how to g...
Guacamole! Remember the guy that made that utterly insane portal gun replica and the little sister life-sized syringe? We got in touch and, well, let's just say I've kept Mr. Krix a little busy.Way bigger. ...
Wave of phishing attacks target your Steam accounts [Update] A number of you may soon be receiving a very convincing email that appears to come from the Steam reset password system: Don't click that link! The URL displayed in the email actually point...
Rumortoid: Nolan Bushnell to keynote ScrewAttack Gaming Conference You'd never believe what happened to me today: I was out jogging with pineapples (as I usually start my week) when I slammed head-first into a six foot bird. He began spewing all kinds of nonsens...
Live Stream: Community Vibes IV, downtown Miami Look, I drink! Gamertag Radio is celebrating four years of podcasting for and by the Xbox 360 community at Club Ecco in downtown Miami (1st ave, 1st street, park anywhere) and we're crashing it ...
Are you in/near Miami? Don't make plans for Saturday! Community Vibes IV is it! Tell your parents you're busy. Tell your girlfriend she either needs to get into this videogame thing or you're going to punch her in the ovaries. Community Vibes IV is happening this...
Monthly contest winner: WTF is this sh*t, Pendelton21? The Destructoid Bordello received an ominous box this week from Ohio Dtoider Pendelton21, whose package luckily did not contain glitter-coated elephant feces. Instead, we were treated to the foll...
Introducing Destructoid Reddit! Share links, celebrate Hamzakah! Before I get into alien technology, let me tell you how this all came about. I was hanging around PAX in a military suit with my helmet, passing out flyers and inviting people to check us out, ki...
What do Gillette and competitive gaming have in common? Sponsor desperation This was bound to get awkward.The Destructoid Bordello recently received footage of Derek Jeter, John Cena, Tiger Woods and Reggie Bush at the Gillette Champions of Gaming Event last Tuesday wher...
Contest! Mail random crap to us, win a video game of your choice! Destructoid's new office is kind of a hippie commune: A move inspired by four guys who started a comedy web site out of their spare bedroom by pooling their money instead of living in separate bu...
Not your typical gaming party: First look at GTR's Community Vibes IV venue Godfree, I'm speechless. You've outdone yourself. This is ridiculous.Gamertag Radio invited us for a sneak peek at the venue for Community Vibes IV inside the unopened Club Ecco, an uber-swank &q...
My closet imploded on top of me. Also, Rhythm Tengoku Let it be known that, in addition to amassing more video games than I will ever play through again in my lifetime, I also have more comic books than I could ever read. This is simply one of... |
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