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Food EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Karaoke bar gets a Rune Factory food menu 8 Ah, Japanese game tie-ins. They're sometimes so strange that they seem misguided and pointless. Still, they're fun to talk about.This one ties together Marvelous Entertainment's upcoming game Run... Blood bag energy drinks make all your dreams come true 37 We've all wanted to drink a massive bag of blood before, and now our desires have finally been made real. Harcos, creators of the famous "mana potion" energy drink, have announced their... Phantasy Star Portable 2/Pizza Hut campaign is shameless 35 Deliciously shameless, that is! Phantasy Star Portable 2 is on the way, and Sega has revealed that it will be joining forces with Pizza Hut in order to fill the RPG with pie-based shenanigans. Ju... Scribblenauts caught in 'sambo' racism controversy 217 It had to happen, really. With over 22,000 words in its vocabulary, it was only a matter of time before someone managed to find a racist angle with Scribblenauts, and that racism came in the form... Order Papa John's directly through your PS3 browser 35 Look, I am not even going to pretend to be healthy here -- Papa John's (unless eaten in very small quantities) is not good for you. At all. However, it is totally freaking delicious, and I love o... Want to become a 'Doritos Gaming Consultant?' You can! 10 Remember Doritos: Dash of Destruction? How could you forget? The game was surprisingly not terrible for a little free game that was designed purely for Achievement whores, and the charm of a game... McDonalds Dragon Quest game going well 13 A while ago, McDonalds in Japan teamed up with Square Enix to create a downloadable game called McDonalds Travelers. It's an ingenius marketing scheme that exploits Japan's love of Dragon Quest a... Get sushi educated with Sushi Academy for the DS 14 Yes, Sushi Academy is another one of those silly games where you make food with a stylus, but it's more than that. It also educates players on the art of sushi.In-game challenges show you how sus... Nuka-Cola vending machine vends Nuka-Cola 21 If there is ever an excuse to do something awesome, it is in order to party. That was the reasoning behind Kotaku reader Tugrik's creation of a bona fide Nuka-Cola machine. You might remember the... Irem's upcoming PSP RPG makes me hungry 27 I'm always hungry. Ask my co-workers -- I'm always bitching about it. The last thing I need is a cast of role-playing game characters to make me even more hungry, but Irem's upcoming RPG is doing... EA and Dr Pepper strike multimillion-dollar marketing deal 23 IndustryGamers revealed today that Electronic Arts and Dr Pepper have struck a multimillion-dollar partnership. EA will be advertising Dr Pepper products in their games starting with The Sims 3 i... Pokemon Cheeseburgers! Also, Japan gets McWiFi 15 No, they're not cheeseburgers with Pokemon in them, though if you flattened a Pikachu and threw it atop a Dugtrio, it would kind of look like a Cheeseburger. It's too bad that Dugtrio looks...lik... National Chicken Month, Guitar Hero 5 both in September 10 On the game’s official site, Activision has confirmed a September 1 release date for the upcoming Guitar Hero 5. For those keeping track, that’s eight days before that other music gam... Japan: Order pizza with your Wii in the Catering Channel 14 With the Demae Channel (Catering Channel), your Wii Remote becomes a food remote control!The new Japanese Wii channel lets you click to order food. Move your little "1 hand" cursor over... DEVIL KINGS RICE! 11 I just wanted to see what that headline would look like. It looks all sorts of terrible. Nevertheless, it is a very functional headline, because that is exactly what we're talking about. Capcom's... Neo Kobe Pizza: a Snatcher-inspired dinner in pictures 56 Neo Kobe Pizza is: - From Snatcher - Theoretically awesome To put that theory to the test, Ashley Davis and I got the necessary ingredients (both of them) and followed the incredibly vague prepa... Preview: Food Network: Cooked or Be Cooked 13 In a perfect world, either Dale North or Johnathan Ross would have been on hand to preview this game. Not because I didn't think it was cool, but because all they ever talk about when we're all t... Mountain Dew Game Fuel makes triumphant return with WoW branding 50 I don't know why, but I find the concept of Game Fuel hilarious. It's possibly thanks to it being the dumbest marketing idea in a long time, since it's just a drink that tastes of Gummi Bears and... Helghast spooks a bunch of game journos, gives them Killzone cakes 28 The above video is rather stupid, yet contains a more coherent and concise plot than the single-player campaign of Killzone 2. Yes, I went there, that's just the sort of hard-edged videogame bl... Round 1: Ronald McDonald vs Super Mario Bros - Fight! 32 You already know what Mugen is, right? Well, what you may not know is how scary the Japanese Ronald McDonald is. At our sister site Japanator, we actually have a permanent tag for him called Ran... Jack Thompson's secret Veggie Tales twin discovered! 26 Ever since Jack Thompson lost his job, I resolved to stop covering the man's antics until he did something supremely stupid. That said, I could not resist following up on the suspicions that had ... Oh, Canada: Beyond Good & Evil is a cheese pack-in 31 I love me some string cheese. I'm not sure why it peels like that, but I totally dig it as a midday blogger snack. And I dig Beyond Good & Evil. Though it's not the newest game around, and I ... Videogame characters that are probably delicious 56 On the last episode of Podtoid, we were asked a very thought provoking question. It was put to us that our mother had been kidnapped by a terrorist, and the only way to defeat the terrorist was t... Yakuza 3 gets its own ramen 15 Oh, Japan. You and your game-themed food. Your Tales of Hearts curry didn't look too hot, but we're totally down for your Yakuza 3 ramen.On March 2nd, Yakuza 3 ramen will hit Japanese grocery sto... A brief history of videogame-themed cereals 32 Last week, Mr. Concelmo started a conversation in the editors' email inboxes about cereal that ended in a post to the front page of Destructoid about Nintendo Cereal System. Many gamers have fond... Reminder: Nintendo cereal was awful 61 So today, Chad "Amazing" Concelmo was debating out loud: which was his favorite cereal of all time, Fruity Pebbles or Cookie Crisp? This, like most things, sparked a 60-email thread abo... 'Who hasn't wanted to run and own a DQ?' Um, me? 15 [video]116245:938[/video] There's a Dairy Queen game.If you were to drive on a certain highway in Texas, you'd notice that every town you pass through has a Dairy Queen in it. Is that a good thin... Noisy much? Iron Chef America Supreme Cuisine trailer 2 [video]115619:925[/video]I wrote this game off as a Cooking Mama rip-off early on, but the screens and details coming out here lately slowly changed my mind. If anything, this is a "rip"... Yes, that is a Shadow of the Colossus grilled cheese sandwich 38 A couple of months back I posted an Art Attack Friday about Anna the Red (or kickintheheadcomic on Flickr), an artist who created some famous videogame characters out of tasty bento boxes. If you... World of Warcraft restaurant opens in Beijing 16 Oh the irony ... a place where you eat out, dedicated to people who don't go out.Despite this obvious marketing flaw, a World of Warcraft restaurant has indeed opened in Beijing, China. The estab... Go to Burger King for a heart attack/Nintendo toy combo 34 I saw a commercial for this stuff the other night, but now there are pretty pictures to write about as well. Burger King is upholding the time-honored tradition of coaxing children into obesity w... Art Attack Friday: Bento box edition 14 Yes, that is a bento box done up as Katamari Damacy. And, yes, I want to eat it.Flickr user kickintheheadcomic has created some of the coolest (and tastiest) art I have ever seen. Using food elem... Gamer Grub? What? Seriously? 63 With TGS looming and a bunch of extra-curricular assignments keeping me busy, I've not been around much this weekend, so I'm a little behind. However, I really don't know quite how I missed Gamer... Atari NYC Media Day: Hands-on in the kitchen with What's Cooking? Jamie Oliver 15 Yesterday, Atari invited me out to their New York City offices to get some hands-on time with a number of games from their upcoming Fall 2008 slate of releases. Throughout the day, I’ll be ... Iron Chef: Supreme Cuisine to feature Batali, Morimoto [update] 19 NEEDS MOAR ALTON BROWN. If you've ever watched the Food Network adaptation of the Japanese cooking show Iron Chef, you know who the real star is: Alton Brown. His witty commentary and slight misp... Destructoid Gourmet: Making a BioShock cake 25 BioShock is noted for its grim themes, visceral combat, tone, and colorful characters. While I applaud the game for all of the above, I think there is something missing. For a period, I could not... Chubby Japanese people are helping game makers get rich 13 [As originally posted on Japanator] At sister site Japanator, we continue to follow the strange eating habits of the Japanese people, and recently we've noticed that their habits have taken an un... Europe gets a DS cooking game: Cooking Guide 20 I know I'm going to catch "get back in the kitchen" comments for this, but I have to admit it — I like cooking. I decided to learn to like it when I realized I was thirty years ol... Game Suppli: vitamin supplements for gamers 35 As gamers, we have a sort of reputation for being unhealthy. I'm not saying that all of us slam bottles Mountain Dew and cram a slice of pizza in between rounds, but you know what I'm talking abo... Geeky gaming goods give you wood... goods 13 How many times have you found yourself cutting meat (or... celery, for the vegetarians out there) on a plain white cutting board while thinking that something was missing from your life? Me? All ... Iron Chef America: Supreme Cusine comes to Wii and DS 28 Allez cuisine! The Japanese cooking competition Iron Chef has always been good fun, and makes for an excellent drinking game (ask me later). The show was imported into the US by Food Network rece... Check out these a-maze-ing cupcakes 38 Just when you thought the internet was fed up with game-themed food... Here we are again at that funky time of the afternoon when you've already had lunch, but dinner is still a bit off. You... Rumor: Iron Chef heading to Wii, secret ingredient most likely shark fin 36 Ready your knives and study your obscure cooking techniques, because what you learned in Cooking Mama won't be nearly enough to prepare you for the battle that awaits in Kitchen Stadium. Over at ... Soda says sorry for calling you fat 17 Yesterday we told you about what soft drink companies really think about gamers, but now it looks like that was all a big misunderstanding. The American Beverage Association sent Kotaku a lengthy... Blame Game: drink companies say videogames make you fat 24 San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom recently proposed that larger stores should be charged a fee for selling soft drinks that contain high-fructose corn syrup. This was proposed in attempts to trim ... Belt-busting News: Spyro in Wendy's Kids' Meals 9 Fitting right in line with content like Hamza's Nerdcore #8 is this news about Vivendi Games promotional partnership with fast food chain Wendy's. If you don't mind loading up your kids with fat ... TGS 2007: Microsoft's International Community and Press Party 6 Microsoft's shindig took place at the New Otani hotel, right next to Makuhari Messe. This was a poolside affair, which mixed Japanese celebs, foreign press, and community people with good food an... TGS 2007: Sony Pre-TGS Cocktail Party 14 No rest for the weary travelers, as Team Destructoid trudged on towards Sony's Pre-Tokyo Game Show Coktail Party. The invite only cocktail party (which took place in Sony's United Showroom at the... Steal this right now: 333th comment wins limited-edition Halo 3 sauce! 3778 It is a fact that our community manager, the honorable Ron Workman, only consumes two major food groups: cigarettes and Mountain Dew. (Could you imagine the fusion of those two tastes?  We c... E3 2007 Aftershocks: Rise of the Argonauts awesome developer interview 23 Not awesome because this game looks cool mind you, awesome because this guy is really freaking excited to talk about it. As the last of Destructoids E3 coverage rolls in (that show was like sooo ... E3 2007 Aftershocks: Hands-sticky with the Wii Party Station 42 While running around Santa Monica a resident Dtoid editor scooped me on a strange coffee table gaming accessory that popped up at the event: The Wii Party Station. The uncoventional product has ... Jack Tretton compares PS3 to Steak & Lobster; does not appreciate cheese fries 51 At this year's E3, Vicious Sid over at Gamepro spoke with Sony's Jack Tretton about the PS3 and its future. When asked to equate each of the three major consoles to a meal, Tretton had t... Bethesda Softwork's bloody mess: Fallout 3 ... the cake 16 The highlight of Bethesda Softwork's post-Fallout 3 press event party (which took place in the hip, downtown Washington D.C. lounge, Chloe) was not the free booze. I wouldn't even say it ... Behold the miracle of the Pac-Man crisp! 56 Yes I said crisp, not chip, you empire-disrespecting, uncultured, slack-jawed, American peasants. Only kidding, Jimmy loves you and your charming, jeep-driving ways. But this is indeed a crisp, f... Think you can design a decent XBLA game? Here's your chance 14 Have you ever downloaded an Xbox Live Arcade game trial only to find out that the game was a major waste of time that wasn’t even worth the hard drive space it took up? You probably thoug... Freestyle Games, Red Bull to take gaming to the (twitchy, diuretic) XTREME 10 Red Bull, the stop-gap solution for all of those wannabe tweakers out there, has decided it wants to dip an unsteady wing into the fertile waters of Lake VideoGameDevelopment. According to Wired&... Left 4 Dead gameplay footage plus bonus nerdy commentary 48 Some random geeks from 1UP have gotten their hands on Left 4 Dead, the upcoming co-op zombie game where you can either play as the small group of survivors or the neverending hordes of zombies t... Destructoid: The Italian Restaurant 9 Diversification is important for a growing gaming business, as is stockpiling marinara sauce and not making offensive Mario impressions when Italian people visit. This is why we broke in a local... According to Subway, gamers are fat and will die prematurely 25 It seems that lovable fata*s-turned-skinny-white-guy Jared isn't cutting it anymore. He's tired, played out. Sooo 2006, as it were. Without Jared, how is Subway supposed to sell sandwiche... Have your cake and read about it too 16 Every time someone on a gaming site posts a picture of a video game cake, a reader just has to comment on it with "must be a slow news day". Well thanks to people like that, other gamin... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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