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Podtoid 137: Pixeljunk Gears of War This week's episode has a pretty long Games of the Week segment (mainly because we spend a healthy portion of it talking about artgames), so be ready for that. After the first half of the show, h...
Kickstart the Gamma4 event, get some indie games Kokoromi's yearly Gamma event has resulted in some pretty spectacular stuff. Passage, if you don't remember, was made specifically for entry into 2007's Gamma256 event. If you've ever played Pape...
Podtoid 137 is tonight, if you're interested Axe Cop. Read it. Another Podtoid records tonight, and we're as desperate for conversation fodder as ever. Since we can't talk about Axe Cop, that effectively halves my planned discussion contrib...
Play the winners of TIGSource's Assemblee compo Another TIGSource.com competition is complete, and now the rest of us have at least ten new indie games to waste a few hours with. We've reported on the Assemblee Competition before (short versio...
Monthly Musings: the Areas of my Expertise Every month, the Destructoid Monthly Musing topic gives community members the ability to have their work posted on the Dtoid front page. Whether we're talking about videogames or life in general,...
HAWPcast: Super Kawaii Animu Episode Gaiden Image by desfunk. Ash and I don't watch a lot of anime, but we've watched enough to fill an hour's worth of podcastery. If you've got a soft spot for Cowboy Bebop, or if you absolutely hate Azuma...
Vote for your favorite indie game, win some Sessler If you're into the idea of either (A) meeting Adam Sessler or (B) winning a thousand dollars by luck alone, then you may want to vote for the winner of Gamestop and G4's Indie Game Challenge. Th...
Rev Rant: Paragon/Renegade In the final installment of my two-part editorial series entitled, "How to make it look like you hate a game you genuinely adore," this Rev Rant addresses the issue of quantifying morality in ga...
Counterpoint: Mass Effect 2 Last week, Brad Nicholson reviewed Mass Effect 2. Awarding the game a ten out of ten, Nicholson called the game "one of the best real-time action RPGs I've ever played." This is a counterpoint to...
Podtoid 136: iPads and NPC death There's some spoilery Mass Effect 2 talk in this week's Podtoid, but you can avoid it pretty easily: it starts at about the 45 minute mark and ends at 1:05:30. In it, we discuss the final mission...
Podtoid 136 is the beginning of a new recording date Podtoid now records on Mondays because of LOST. Don't ask. Anyway, I know we'll be talking about the death of Cursed Mountain's developer and how that ties into the place (or lack of one) of matu...
ANTHONY BURCH HATES GAY PEOPLE At the conclusion of a recent episode of "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin," Anthony Burch instantly and remorselessly bought Shadow Complex off Xbox Live Arcade, subsequently funding an author who has re...
How to pay for indie games I agree so much with this infographic that it actually hurts. Podtoid listeners are probably tired of hearing me bitch about gamers' unwillingness to spent fifteen bucks on stuff like VVVVVV whil...
Rev Rant: the Wrex Paradox Beard. This rant is a slightly tweaked version of an editorial I wrote a year ago; in anticipation of Mass Effect 2 and what it claims to accomplish with its "suicide mission" finale, I thought ...
Podtoid 135: this goes in there I'm playing Mass Effect 2 right now, so I don't have time to sell you on this week's Podtoid.You can listen to it here. It's about exclusive preorder content, Mass Effect 2, and some other crap. ...
Canabalt soundtrack available, pay what you want (sorta) If you don't already know what Canabalt is, just go here. If you do know, then hey -- you might be pleased to know that the soundtrack is now available for download. Each track costs a minimum of...
The Organic Indie Preorder Pack postmortem is a mouthful A few weeks back, Wolfire Games and Unknown Worlds offered a preorder bundle that included both Overgrowth and Natural Selection 2. Yesterday, the overall results of that sale were released on th...
Podtoid 135 records tonight Podtoid records tonight, and we still don't have too many spectacular news stories to discuss. We'll need a buttload of decent listener questions to prevent tonight's episode from being anything...
HAWPcast: oh god Super Mario RPG is so good This episode of the HAWPcast isn’t any more focused or elegant than any of the others, but we do spend the majority of it talking about videogames, at the very least. The discussed games i...
Interstellar Marines is both innovative and unoriginal I'm torn. On the one hand, indie title Interstellar Marines has one of the coolest development structures I've yet seen. Leading up to an eventual release of a full game, the team is releasing sm...
The best indie games of '09 (that I forgot to mention) With Indie Nation now all but defunct, I have to apologize: I haven't been pimping out great indie games as frequently as I used to. While games like Machinarium, Canabalt, Gridrunner Revolution ...
Only super-cool dudes can beat Flood the Chamber About twenty minutes ago, the headline to this post would have been something along the lines of, "whomever made Flood the Chamber can go f*ck himself and die because he's a bad person and he cau...
Rev Rant: Player Empathy Every week, sort of, features editor Anthony Burch discusses games and gamer culture in his "Rev Rant" video series. You can watch the previous rants here. This week's rant is a sort-of answer t...
Podtoid 134: Tump New Podtoid. No Jim, but we got Joseph Leray. In it, we discuss:- Every game anyone has been playing, ever- Overpriced games- The subtle art of tumpingAmongst other stuff. You can listen to the s...
Podtoid 134, or something, records tonight Brad and Jim's reign of terror is at an end -- I've got hosting duties back for this week's Podtoid. Granted, Jim will be gone for some stupid reason, but whatever, man. We don't need him. We do,...
The results of the Overgrowth/Natural Selection 2 contest I had a damned difficult time choosing my nine favorite pieces of art y'all did for the Bunny on Alien Ultraviolence contest, but I did. Since I have to. In no particular order, the winners are: ...
Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin: The Most Dangerous Game I'm pretty happy with this week's episode of Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'. I was kind of worried that the subject matter may have been too grim to be funny for most people (a la Geometry Wars), but t...
Contest: Create bunny-on-alien ultraviolence, win games Wolfire Games and Unknown Worlds have joined forces for the Overgrowth/Natural Selection 2 pre-order sale. For the next week only, you can pay $39.95 to not only pre-order both Overgrowth (the s...
Podtoid is tonight, so ask us stuff Blame him. Anyway, Podtoid records tonight. I won't actually be around for it so I don't know what we'll be talking about, but I assume it's gonna be great. Or at least, pretty good. Or at least,...
HAWPcast: Why Did You Show Me That Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin' is a surreal comedy series made by Anthony and Ashly Burch. They do a (semi) weekly podcast. This week's episode of the HAWPcast is, perhaps thankfully, a little shorter ...
Review: VVVVVV Upon reading the list of 2010 IGF finalists, I had only one question: where the f*ck was VVVVVV? I know it's bad form to admit your opinion of a game before entering the review proper, but I'll j...
Rev Rant: crushing difficulty Dunno why the formatting is all screwed up with this week's rant (nor why, after almost half a year of doing these things, I'm still incapable of wrangling Final Cut Pro into submission), but it...
Podtoid 132: Something I don't know what the hell this episode is about, because I don't show up until the last twenty minutes. Probably Jim talking about wanting to have sex with Bayonetta and then Samit talking about...
HAWPcast: a Dr Who sandwich on Half-Life bread Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin' is a surreal comedy series made by Anthony and Ashly Burch. They do a (semi) weekly podcast. Don't worry, this week's HAWPcast (click the iTunes button on the right side ...
Podtoid 132 doesn't have all that much to talk about There has been no news whatsoever over the past week. Nobody, it seems, has done anything at all. For that reason, we may unfortunately have to rely a little bit more on listener questions than w...
Monthly Musings: The Future Every month, the Destructoid Monthly Musing topic gives community members the ability to have their work posted on the Dtoid front page. It took all my strength not to title this month's theme "f...
FACT: I'm going to sue the sh*t out of the Bit.Trip guys A little while ago, Destructoid discovered that the next game in Gaijin Games' Bit.Trip series would be titled Bit.Trip RUNNER. Thanks to a low-res screenshot of the game in our most anticipated ...
Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin: Overlooked Games of 2009 My New Year's Resolution is to learn more about lighting. I'll stick to it until roughly the end of this sentence. This week's episode is a sort of 2009-in-review thing, except not really. Perhap...
Rev Rant: goo and trucks Every week, sort of, features editor Anthony Burch discusses games and gamer culture in his "Rev Rant" video series. You can watch the previous rants here. If nothing else, this week's rant cert...
Podtoid 131: see you next year This week's episode of Podtoid is:- Filled primarily with listener questions- Consisting secondarily of typical end-of-the-year rubbish- A not entirely convincing advertisement for The Void- 100%...
Podtoid 131 records tonight, fueled by your questions We're pretty much out of discussion topics for this week's episode of Podtoid (as of now, we've got "underrated games of 2009" and "stuff we're looking forward to in 2010"), so we need your help....
Podtoid 130: wild speculation That anime guy is one of the first Google image results for "wild speculation." No idea why.This week's episode of Podtoid, Destructoid's Official Podcast That We Do Every Week, is considerably l...
Indie game Every Day the Same Dream is drudge-tastic This post is about Every Day the Same Dream, an indie game about the monotony of cubicle life and one man's attempt to escape it. Or not escape it. Or something. Now, I know what you're thinking....
Why 'Avatar' didn't change anything for gamers [Editor's Note: We're not just a (rad) news site -- we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware that it may not jive with the opinions of...
Podtoid 130 will probably be less fun than Podtoid 129 In all honesty, we won't be able to do the briskly-paced insanity of last week's episode -- you can't keep that kind of stuff up week after week without it getting less funny, or without one of t...
This week's 'Dollhouse' would make Solid Snake proud Longtime viewers of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse -- both of us -- may have noticed that this week's episode shared a pretty prominent plot element with everyone's favorite postmodern stealth series. W...
AAAaaAAaaAAAaaAAA!!! A price drop! If you haven't heard about AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, I have good news for you. Dejobaan Games' arcade-action-high-score-getting-skydiving-pedestrian-insult...
Interview: Casey Hudson, Mass Effect 2 project lead During my trip to BioWare's offices in Edmonton, Canada, I got a chance to interview Casey Hudson, the project lead for Mass Effect 2. In it, you'll find Hudson's answers to why someone who disli...
BioWare co-founder: JRPGs suffer from 'lack of evolution' While up at BioWare's headquarters in Edmonton, I had the opportunity to throw some questions at company co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk. I was curious about how the duo felt about the cu...
Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin: preggers Nobody seems to like this week's episode of Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin', but that's okay, because I do. I usually have trouble thinking of something else to write for these HAWP promotional posts. O...
Blood sugar sex magik: examining Dragon Age's Morrigan I just finished Dragon Age: Origins the other day, and was truly surprised to have enjoyed it as much as I did. I'm not really a fan of tactical RPGs, nor the swords-n-sorcery setting Dragon Age ...
Preview: Mass Effect 2 Some of you have been eagerly anticipating the sequel to BioWare's 2007 action-RPG-shooter-space-exploration-thing Mass Effect. Some of you have not. I can empathize with both groups. I quite lik...
HL2 mod Post Script is about exploration, the apocalypse I am currently of two minds about Post Script, an exploration-based episodic mod for Half-Life 2: Episode Two. You can get the mod here. Mind number one says, "this is great -- it's an atmospheri...
Rev Rant: sharing Soap Every week, sort of, features editor Anthony Burch discusses games and gamer culture in his "Rev Rant" video series. You can watch the previous rants here. This week's rant is about how Mo...
Podtoid 129: Brad starts hosting halfway through I really have to apologize -- this is one of the most insane, fast-paced, entertaining episodes I can remember, but the audio is awful. Adam Dork picked a hell of a week to go to Japan.But anyway...
Podtoid 129 records tonight, listen to 128.5 while waitin Tonight, the regular cast records Podtoid 129. It will be about...well, ideally, it won't be about the same stuff we recorded in yesterday's impromptu quasi-Podtoid, but I'd be lying if I said th...
What we want to see in Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 With the surprise announcement of Arkham Asylum 2 at last night's Spike TV Video Game Awards show, we at Destructoid couldn't help but tremble with excitement, many of us doing so while wearing o...
Review: Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 5 Guybrush Threepwood is dead; long live Guybrush Threepwood. Thrown into the underworld and seemingly powerless to stop the forces of piratey evil , the fifth Tales of Monkey Island chapter, entit...
HAWPcast: no resettin' Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin' is a surreal comedy series made by Anthony and Ashly Burch. They do a (semi) weekly podcast. This week's HAWPcast starts off like your typical nostalgia trip -- Ash used ...
Podtoid 128: Samit's Italian friends Podtoid is Destructoid.com's official gaming news and discussion podcast. Actually, right now it's our only podcast, so I could probably just omit the "gaming news and discussion" bit. On this we... |
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Ten things I loved about Final Fantasy XIII
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iPad: Likely to change gaming, just not yours
Beyond Dead Space: Sledgehammer Games
How Darksiders is blatantly better than Zelda
The making of The Journalism Show: Episode 02
The simple math of review scores
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