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Friday Night Fights: Left 4 Dead 2 edition

Ah, Left 4 Dead 2. The last major release for this year on my "why haven't you got this yet?" list. I figured it would be worth pacing myself with Modern Warfare 2 as the go-to multiplayer game,...
Friday Night Fights: Modern Warfare 2, y'all edition

This has been one hell of a big week for online gaming. The simple inclusion of predator drones alone in Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer instantly had me falling in love with an already satisfying...
Friday Night Fights: Unpaid debts edition

After helping me make bail in an Icelandic jail (image: lundur/Iceland), I promised our community manager that I owed him one. The shark has cashed in his chips, and asked that for this week's Fr...
Friday Night Fights: Originality edition

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another. Yes, it's Halloween tomorrow. Scantily clad drunk girls, "fun size" candy that's not actually fun, and s...
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...
Gorgeous Gamers revamps itself, stay here and play games

At some point in time GorgeousGamers.com was simply supposed to be a place to perv on attractive people who played videogames. Now, however, they've decided to not be quite as shallow and revampe...
Friday Night Fights: It's finally here! edition

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another. Now when I say "it's finally here," I am secretly referring to two things. Firstly, the new me...
Friday Night Fights: Borderlands or Die! edition

Why yes, I did give my post a Borderlands theme for the sole purpose of creating that goofy image. In the words of Muldoon from Jurassic Park, "clever girl."Anyway, things are going alo...
Friday Night Fights: Ch-ch-changes edition

Apologies for coming at you with the lateness!As they say, better late than never, right? Hopefully you've already noticed this, but if not, no biggie: the meetup and play/tournament section of D...
Friday Night Fights: Indestructible tournament edition

Howdy, everyone. How's this fine Friday afternoon been treating you? Don't answer that question, because all responses have one solution: Friday Night Fights. Member participation seems to be up ...
Friday Night Fights: All about Firefight edition

These last few weeks, I've been complaining about the lack of new games with a solid multiplayer component. It's made my totally irrelevant (in the grand scheme of things) job of finding somethin...
Friday Night Fights: Die in a fire edition

Now look, I'll happily admit the whole Kanye meme that's blown up in the last couple of days was funny at first. But as with all things on the Internet, people have taken it more than a couple of...
Friday Night Fights: Mostly back in action edition

ConSARS be damned, we're back in commission for Friday Night Fights.It's been a few weeks since I've had the opportunity to do one of these posts -- moving across the country combined with PAX wi...
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'...
Friday Night Fights: One week until PAX

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another.A good number of Dtoiders are heading out to PAX next week so it will pretty much be a ghost town as far ...
Friday Night Fights: Sir Om-Nom-Nom edition

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another. Who exactly is Sir Om-Nom-Nom, you ask? Why he's this portly fellow.If you haven't download the Lost Pla...
Friday Night Fights: ob-epic gets the MAINGEAR Prelude!

Hey guys, prize fairy here. Today's announcement is a little better than usual however: instead of giving away a few t-shirts or a keychain, I get to give away a big fat gaming PC! Woo! Our chose...
Friday Night Fights: Community shenanigans edition

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another. Look, guys. I love you. I really do. But this whole "let's post increasingly disturbing images in o...
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...
Friday Night Fights: Garbage netcode edition

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another.From Battlefield 1943 (Image: Ars Technica) to Fat Princess to countless other games, downloadable or oth...
Friday Night Fights: Quake Live winners announced!

It's been a fierce couple of weeks for our six Quake Live FNF tournament finalists, but the results are in. Coming in at first, second, and third place respectively are Weird, Gandhi, and Torzela...
Friday Night Fights: 'Sploding, anyone? edition

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another. I couldn't be more conflicted right now. On the one hand, 'Splosion Man is easily one of the best downlo...
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...
Friday Night Fights: Awesome.jpg edition

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another.Notice the insanely awesome picture up there? That is roughly the equivalent of what participating in Fri...
Win stuff: SF IV art, $9000 in PCs, Monster Hunter, Overlord

Ready to Friday?  Four quick contest reminders going on now at Destructoid: CHUN-LI CONTEST!  Win this beautiful Chun-Li original artwork signed by Street Fighter IV’s producer Yo...
Friday Night Fights: Battlefield 1943? edition

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another. No holidays, no vacations, just a bunch of dudes playing videogames over the Internet. Feels good to be ...
Friday Night Fights: Fourth of July weekend edition

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another. It's the Fourth of July weekend here in the United States so a lot of people are out of the house doing ...
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...
How to set up a match in Quake Live

Are you all excited for our Quake Live tournament, but you can't figure out how to actually get a match going? Don't worry, it's actually really easy once you figure out what you're doing! If you...
Friday Night Fights: Meat cubes and free swag edition

Tonight is the big night! I'm fully aware that Gears of War 2's multiplayer can be kind of hit or miss with some of you, which is why this week's prize-filled edition of Friday Night Fights isn't...
Win an Nvidia 9800 GTX + and maybe be able to play Crysis

I know you guys are already excited about the awesome Ghostbusters pack Colette is handing out for this dandy Twitter Friday. As amazing as that is, I'm going to have to enter the arena for "...
Play Gears of War 2 with us, win even more killer swag

Please tell me you all remember our special Gears of War 2-themed Friday Night Fights contest that we held back in March of this year. Just in case you don't, and to make the header image seem mo...
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.&...
Friday Night Fights: Rocket Riot edition

I didn't have the slightest idea what Rocket Riot was prior to this afternoon. I imagine many of you are in the same boat, and probably haven't even heard the name before. For starters, it's an X...
Friday Night Fights: Vacation in Paradise edition

The new Burnout Paradise downloadable content "Big Surf Island" is out, and it's kind of good. For those of you who are on an Xbox 360, and want the Achievement for doing all ten of the...
Friday Night Fights: Red Faction, and why it's awesome

The multiplayer beta for Red Faction: Guerrilla was rough around the edges, but enjoyable nonetheless. The recent multiplayer demo? A huge improvement overall, but I still had some doubts about t...
Friday Night Fights: Land of confusion edition

Apologies in advance if this post seems thrown together and isn't super informative, because that's exactly what it is. I was gone on vacation until very recently, the forums went down, which hal...
Friday Night Fights: It's hammer time!

Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering for Dtoiders to just play games with one another. School's out for college goers! That means it's time to kick back, relax, forget everything you've lear...
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...
Friday Night Fights: Gears 2 double XP edition

Unable to make it to the Miami GameNarp tonight? Sure, you won't get to meet Carlos Ferro (Dom), or participate in the Gears of War 2 tournament that's going down, but it's not all bad.For those ...
Friday Night Fights: Buuuurrnnn edition

Friday Night Fights has got some stiff competition for your attention this week; I can feel it already. There's Star Trek, of course, as well as school, which seems to be coming to an end for man...
Friday Night Fights: Indestructible edition

What was this week like in terms of game releases? There were a few good titles, definitely, but were any of them suitable for Friday Night Fights use? Of course not. So, once again, it looks lik...
Friday Night Fights: Surviving Left 4 Dead edition

Hooray! The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack is out, and it's way more fun than it ought to be! Plus, it's absolutely free. I think you all know what that means. Friday Night Fights + Survival Mode + De...
Friday Night Fights: RE5 Versus, yay or nay? edition

This is probably the wrong channel for this sort of question, but I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more. Actually, scratch that -- for the first time in quite a while, the weath...
Friday Night Fights: Religious holidays edition

It's been a tedious week for gaming news, and with today being Good Friday, things aren't about to speed up any time soon. Because a greater portion of my time is spent talking about videogames t...
Friday Night Fights: Alpha vs. Beta ... Ready? ... FIGHT!

There's nothing quite like a good online rivalry to keep you pumping hundreds of hours into a single game. It's sad in the eyes of some, sure, but most of us would label it as dedication. Don't g...
Friday Night Fights: Recap Attack edition

Decap Attack had its own comic? Huh. I guess you're bound to learn something new every day if roughly eighty percent of your typical day entails constant Internet surfing. Anyway, last week -- as...
Friday Night Fights: Sweet, sweet swag edition

Alright, so as many of you know, we have got some tasty Gears of War 2-related swag to hand out this evening. In all honestly, I expect nothing less than utter madness as large quantities of dedi...
Play Gears of War 2 with us, win killer swag

It's been far too long since we have incorporated prizes into Friday Night Fights, hasn't it? Well, I've got some great news to share that I'm pretty excited about, and I am sure you know where t...
Friday Night Fights: Resident Evil 5 edition

It still seems kind of strange to be talking about co-op for such a long-lived series like Resident Evil, but with this industry's shift towards online play and integrating multiplayer into every...
Friday Night Fights: Killzone 2 edition

Even with the massive amount of hype Killzone 2 received pre-launch, I completely underestimated how many of you would be jumping in Friday Night Fights to play the game late into the night. You ...
Friday Night Fights: An oldie, but a goodie edition

While I fully realize Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare isn't exactly "an oldie," it does happen to be an old favorite amongst the Friday Night Fights crowd, and easily one of our most-pla...
Friday Night Fights: Seth is a big fat cheater edition

Being familiar with SNK boss syndrome doesn't make it any less painful to have my ass handed to me by Street Fighter IV's final boss, Seth.Although the image above does a decent job of conveying ...
Friday Night Fights: Happy Friday the 13th edition

I've lost count of how many Friday Night Fights have landed on the 13th, but I know it's happened a handful of times. I'm not entirely sure people "celebrate" Friday the 13th, but I usu...
Friday Night Fights: Return to Paradise City edition

Funny how something as simple as adding a restart button to a game like Burnout Paradise can make all the difference in the world, at least to an incredibly angry gamer such as myself.I'm going t...
Friday Night Fights: Back in action edition

While the games industry as a whole may still be in boring news mode, we have got some fantastic info to share, namely the forums are back in action and are now sexier than ever.Even better yet, ...
Friday Night Fights: 1995 kept things real edition

See that thing directly above this sentence your reading right now? Yeah, um, my sources tell me that's what hacking looks like. By "sources," I of course mean the movie Hackers; don't ...
Friday Night Fights: Early edition

No, I didn't accidentally queue this post to go up hours before it normally does -- we're just testing a new format, is all.Thanks to the always awesome Mxyzptlk, I was able to get this Friday Ni...
Friday Night Fights: We're back edition

You gotta hand it to Google Images -- the system really knows how to find the most hilarious results that are just barely relevant enough to show up. After an extended holiday break, Friday Night...
Friday Night Fights: Season's Beatings II Turbo HD Remix edition

This may very well be the last Friday Night Fights post for this year, what with the holidays almost upon us and families that need attending to. Nothing would make me happier than to end on a hi...


 
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