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Would-be arsonist thwarted after bragging on game site

A wannabe UK arsonist has been intercepted and arrested by police after he was caught bragging about his intended actions on gaming portal Newgrounds. The 16-year-old moron was spotted by a Montr...
Burn Zombie Burn videos: Get 'em while they're hot, and sort of rotting

With zombie games enjoying a bit of a revival as of late, it should be no surprise that digital games are getting in on the undead fun. Double Six will be bringing Burn Zombie Burn, a frantic sco...
Teenager torches warehouse because he's rubbish at games

Some of us are content to throw our controllers or fling the disc across the room, but one Korean teen has dealt with his gaming frustration a little more .. . And by that I mean he burned a ware...
Fight fires for 'real' with Real Heroes: Firefighters for the Wii

"Running into a burning building" can be found on my ever-growing list, "Things I Will Never Do Because I'm a Pussy." I understand and respect the role of firefighters, whethe...
Paging Tazar and Snaileb to Cancun - Congrats to our Dtoid fanboy winners!

 The backstory: Destructoid turned two (or twenty), so we're putting babies in people in Cancun next week to celebrate and this year we wanted to fly Destructoid's biggest fanboy and a frien...
PSP fire may have been caused by third party charger (not the fires of puberty)

You may recollect a news report we brought you in early February about a middle school student whose PSP caught fire in his pants, causing second degree burns and likely making the poor kid the b...
GameFAQs poster burns down church, did it for the lulz

Proving that the GameFAQs community members can always get stupider, a teenage boy bragged on the gaming advice site's message board about burning down a Pamyra church, adding that he was "L...
TGS 2007: Rainy Woods: David Lynch just called his lawyers

Rainy Woods is described on the GameVideos website as "Silent Hill meets Twin Peaks" and aside from their desperately needing to ground the analogy with a video game reference lest it...
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Battle Orchestra; my mind is blown

Thanks to Siliconera we get a prismatic view of Japan's confusing, wacky, and often surrealist culture that seems to be a broken mirror reflection of our own. I'm sure there's an a...
Destructoid's games of the week for 06/10/07: HR nightmare edition!

To whom it may concern, It has come to my attention that the smoke detectors in the lavatories are made entirely out of Papier-mâché. While they make for decorative and festive ac...
Podtoid 25: The owls are not what they seem edition!

Tonight, we're recording the thrilling conclusion to Podtoid 24, Podtoid 25. Will we answer all of the lingering issues of last week's podcast? Who killed Laura Palmer? What the hell is t...
You got Awkward Cannon!

Larry David, the maestro behind such seminal television masterworks as Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, has absolutely no interest in portraying the theoretical daily struggles of characters ...
Sony Gamers Day 2007: Lair

Playing Lair this week was the first time that I can say the gameplay actually was good enough to stand up next to its graphical dominance. Every other time I've played the game, the SIXAXI...
Letters to the robot: LA fires, hot homeless people, and an easy way to Wii

We receive all kinds of email at Destructoid. We mostly get death threats, naked women covered in video games, news tips, legal threats, polar bear ransom letters, and desperate pleas for Summa&...
Human Head Studios office damaged in fire

Human Head Studios, creators of Prey and owners of an oddly disturbing Dr. Octopus-esque website, are probably in the market for a new office, since theirs was wrecked partially damaged in a fir...
PSP $169 price drop. Idea: keep waiting

A variety of sources with more child labor than us are reporting that the PSP will drop to $169 tomorrow, making it still $50 more expensive than the world's most succesful video game console...
Rockstar advertises GTA4 trailer; we've reached the apex of meta

The above video was culled from a half hour long chunk of programming on the FX network (y'know, the one that brought you the violent, non-Commish Michael Chiklis). Apparently it's a co...




 
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