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Once Upon a Pixel: Metal Gear: Worlds of Power I forget exactly why, but a while back, Anthony and I procured most of the books in the Worlds of Power series. For those of you who are unfamiliar, they were a set of Nintendo videogame nov...
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom coming in Feburary A lot of us here at Dtoid have been really excited about The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom for a long time. It wasn't too long ago that 2K Play announced that they would be publishing t...
The art of Once Upon a Pixel: Mega Man It seems that a lot of people really enjoyed this month's episode of Once Upon a Pixel, which makes me incredibly happy because it's a combination of two of my earliest loves: videogames and educ...
Once Upon a Pixel: Mega Man Another month, another episode of Once Upon a Pixel. According to Mr. Burch, this is the "purest" episode so far -- that is to say, it is the one that is the cutest and sweetest. It is also the m...
The gamer's 12 days of Christmas Did you know that the list of items in the famous 12 Days of Christmas carol are actually major symbols of Christianity? It's true! "My true love" really represents the Christian God, and all the...
The seven best videogame manuals of all time Growing up, birthdays and Christmases were about the only times I would ever get new games. I was always excited to play them right away, but when you're a kid, you have to at least feign courteo...
Behind the scenes of Once Upon a Pixel: Silent Hill 2 I made one of those Once Upon a Pixel things again. It premiered last Monday, but if you haven't seen it yet, I've got a link right here. You might like it! It's on Silent Hill 2. If you have wat...
Once Upon a Pixel: Silent Hill 2 It's the first Monday of December! Hopefully, you know what that means. If not, I guess I'll tell you: it's time for another episode of Once Upon a Pixel, the webseries that explores an alternate...
Badass of the Month Club: Terry S. Taylor Time once more for the Badass of the Month Club, wherein the staff highlights a character or industry figure of noteworthy badassery. American singer/songwriter Terry Scott Taylor is probably not...
Do the wrong thing: Breaking Sasha's promise Last week, I was happily playing through Half-Minute Hero when all of a sudden, I did something very bad. Naturally, a lot of evil can be done when you're playing videogames. Some "normal" activi...
The art of Once Upon a Pixel: Katamari Damacy Did you enjoy last week's Once Upon a Pixel episode? Want some insight as to how and why I created the dark world that Death Ball takes place in? If the answer to either of these questions is "no...
Once Upon a Pixel: Katamari Damacy Once Upon a Pixel kicks off its official first season with an episode based on Katamari Damacy! Except this time, it's not a bright and happy videogame about consumerism. You see, in the world of...
dTunes Editor's Week Day 10: Ashley Davis [dTunes is a community organized blog showcasing the musical tastes of Destructoid's users. For two weeks, the editorial team is commandeering the series because, hey, we like music too. To furth...
Eight last-minute Halloween costumes for gamers Poor little videogame-lovin' naked guy. Halloween is literally just around the corner, and he still has no costume! It could be that he can't decide on who to be. Perhaps someone from one of thos...
Nothing is Sacred: Cute characters suck Take a look at the lineup of four characters above. If you could choose three of them to be in your party based on looks alone, who would you choose? The spiky haired silent hero? The bulky, musc...
The art of Once Upon a Pixel: BioShock I made a video. It was the pilot episode of Once Upon a Pixel, a sort of sister series to the ever-popular Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'. It has a lot of art in it that I drew. People asked me if I wo...
Review: Champions Online Ah, the MMO. It's a tricky beast, alright. Making one seems to be such a delicate process. As developers and publishers try to replicate the immense success of World of Warcraft, we've seen few s...
Once Upon a Pixel: Bioshock If we lived in a world where videogames didn't exist, where would their stories go? Into science fiction books? Big budget movies? Gritty graphic novels? Educational children's shows? My brand ne...
The Forgotten: The King's Field series Demon's Souls is an upcoming game that has been getting a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Not only does it have a difficulty level that's leaving the most hardcore gamers screaming, but it's...
RunMan: Race Around the World dated and trailerized In December of 2005, we were blessed with the gift of RunMan's Monster Fracas, a simple, charming, and hugely addictive indie game. Now the followup game, RunMan: Race Around the World, has been ...
The Flora and Fauna of Gaming: Slimes There's an old adage that states, "To defeat your enemies, you must know your enemies." This way of thinking could not be truer in the case of playing a game. That's why manuals and tut...
GDC Austin 09: Storytelling Through Independent Games Alec Holowka, formerly one half of Bit Blot (Aquaria) and currently the head of Infinite Ammo (Paper Moon), was the last speaker to go on at the Independent Games Summit of GDC Austin. A lot of t...
GDC Austin 09: Twisted Pixel's 'Splosion Man Postmortem We all know that Twisted Pixel's 'Splosion Man is a great game. But do you know how it was made, what went into it, or what mistakes were made during its development? I didn't either, until I att...
GDC Austin 09: Flashbang: How to Make a Game in 8 Weeks It's very likely that you've played the hell out of one of Flashbang Studio's games. They've been on a roll the past few years with releases like Off Road Velociraptor Safari and Minotaur China S...
GDC Austin 09: The Fantastic Contraption Postmortem Fantastic Contraption is a Flash-based browser game. Colin Northway is the man who made it. He is now a full time game developer for it. It's as simple a story as the game itself. The Independent...
From the Console to the TV Station: Part 6 Today's From the Console to the TV Station is a very special one, or it is to me, anyway. There is only one show up for discussion, but it is my favorite example of a game-to-TV adaptation in the...
GDC Austin 09: Gaijin Games: Holistic Indie Game Design Many eyes have been upon Bit.Trip developers Gaijin Games recently. They are just barely a year old, but within the span of six months, they've already made three fantastic games. Not only that, ...
Why Catrap is the coolest puzzle game you've never played Every Wednesday, we profile a forgotten or underappreciated game for our "Games Time Forgot" series.Time travel. Not only does it make for an interesting plot device in games, but it's ...
Derek Yu's Spelunky coming to XBLA in 2010 Surely the cosmos are in perfect alignment for the indie game developer this year. Cave Story and La Mulana are making their way to WiiWare, and now Derek Yu's cave exploring masterpiece, Spelunk...
I suck at games: But I'm still a gamer This month's musing all began with a statement I made to Anthony almost exactly a month ago: "I suck at games." Now, I didn't make this revelation just recently. I've always kind of kno...
Badass of the Month Club: The Sprite Time once more for the Badass of the Month Club, wherein the staff highlights a character or industry figure of noteworthy badassery.This month's inductee into the Badass off the Month Club certa...
Games Time Forgot: Thayer's Quest Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.Even though the format has long been defunct, a few Laserdisc games have transce...
From the Console to the TV Station: Part 5 Television is a universal thing. Everyone, no matter where they live, has comedy shows, dramas, sports broadcasts, and cartoons. But there are cultural changes in these shows from place to place....
Review: Wii Sports Resort The Wii Series (Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Music, and so on) often gets a lot of flak from the gaming community at large because of the games' accessibility. Now the newest entry of the series is ...
From the Console to the TV Station: Part 4 Hey boys and girls! Welcome to another edition of From the Console to the TV Station, a miniseries that gives a retrospective look back at all the videogame themed programming that has ever come ...
Games Time Forgot: Super Ninja Boy Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.Super Ninja Boy was part of a series known as Super Chinese in Japan. Culture Br...
Two new DualShock 3 colors coming to brighten your game room My favorite thing about growing up with a Nintendo 64 were all the different controller colors there were to choose from. Each member of my family got their favorite color and used it exclusively...
'Splosion Man and the lost art of the idle animation While playing through the XBLA game 'Splosion Man recently, I couldn't help but really fall in love with the fiery fellow I was playing as. Why? It wasn't because he had an epic, heartwarming sto...
From the Console to the TV Station: Part 3 Videogames are, by nature, a very action-oriented medium. In the vast majority of them, players are tasked to hop around, collect items, power themselves up, destroy the environment, and kick the...
The Flora and Fauna of Gaming: Birds Some people make a hobby out of studying animals for fun in the real world. But not me. Why would I ever want to do that when there are even more interesting creatures to watch inside of the game...
From the Console to the TV Station: Part 2 Last week, From the Console to the TV Station discussed the very first TV adaptations of videogames. Now we jump ahead a few years to two of the more memorable game-based cartoons.The Mario and S...
Review: Kodu Game Lab After being involved in the creative process of a few indie games, I've acquired quite a taste for game making. I now feel that I won't be completely satiated until I make a game all on my own. T...
The art of Once Upon a Pixel Yesterday, a super-secret project that I have been working on little by little over the past month finally came to fruition -- the Once Upon a Pixel episode of HAWP. This was one of the biggest p...
From the Console to the TV Station: Part 1 A while back, I wrote about two of my favorite subjects combined: videogames and cereal. Now I want to take you through another avenue of pop culture history that will help to complete the trifec...
Games Time Forgot: Pulseman Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.As an American, I feel a little weird writing this week's Games Time Forgot colu...
Games Time Forgot: The Journeyman Project Trilogy Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.I was never much of a PC gamer. I missed out on many of the games considered to ...
My Father the Phone: A tribute to Ness's dad Today is Father's Day, and many videogame characters out there are likely celebrating their fathers and father figures. The Koopa Kids and Bowser Jr. have Bowser, Jade has Pey'j, and Mega Man has...
Huge videogame etymology study is educational and awesome! There are some gamers who just play games without giving any part of them outside of what is immediately going on any further thought. Then there are others who play games and wonder, as they sto...
How the Metal Gear Solid series changed my life As you may or may not be aware, Anthony and I have been on a bit of a Hideo Kojima kick lately. This was initially brought on by his desire to get me, a person who had never played Metal Gear Sol...
Toadstool's ???: What is Princess Peach hiding? Princess Peach Toadstool has ruled over the Mushroom Kingdom for many years, keeping a calm and kind demeanor as she juggles her monarchly duties with repeated abductions and appearances in spor...
Games Time Forgot: Chulip Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.It's always been a hobby of mine to visit videogame stores, without the intent o...
Eduardo the Samurai Toaster to toast toast next week The kind folks over at Semnat Studios just shot us an email to let us know that their odd WiiWare creation, Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, is going to be released on June 15th, 2009. June 15th, 200...
E3 09: Pluff The general attitude shown by all of the big three companies this year at E3 seems to be a push towards realism by taking the emphasis off of button presses. The Wii MotionPlus, Sony's motion con...
E3 09: AAF E3 Special! Into the Pixel Art is a very important part of gaming. It all goes in a great big circle. Concept art gives way to videogames, and then those who love the games pay tribute to them through art of their own. It ...
E3 09: Burch 'n Davis play Scribblenauts Shoved in a lonely little corner of the show floor was 5th Cell's Scribblenauts. Even the DS display was facing backwards from everything else, making the game hidden from the rest of the world s...
E3 09: Burch 'n Davis play R&C Future: A Crack in Time Anthony and I were in the Sony booth mostly to check out Ghostbusters, but there was quite a line for it. Before we committed to making our way through it, we popped over to the side to try out t...
E3 09: Burch 'n Davis play Mini Ninjas There are some pretty cool areas set up around the E3 showfloor that physically depict the environment that you would find in the games presented there. For example, the Arkham Asylum area is bui...
E3 09: Burch 'n Davis play Brutal Legend Brutal Legend. You've seen it, heard it, and most likely have waited for it in great anticipation. I know that Anthony and I both have. And today, we finally got to have some hands-on time with a...
E3 09: Hands-on with Cave Story Wii Cave Story is probably one of my favorite games of all time. It has everything a great game ought to have; fun gameplay, a variety of weapons, a compelling story, and best of all, amazing sprite ...
E3 09: Burch 'n Davis play The Legendary Starfy While in Nintendo's area of the show floor at E3, there just so happened to be two lonely looking DS units just waiting for Anthony Burch and I to come to them and try out the demo of The Legenda... |
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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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