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Listmania! EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag A spotter's guide to videogame bosses 79 I have defeated countless bosses in my time as a gamer. Big ones, small ones, ones with no eyes and giant tongues that they use as weapons. There are some truly unique and surprising bosses out t... Ten 'classic' games that did not age well 224 Videogames are a constantly and rapidly evolving medium. While this means that amazing advances in gameplay and graphics consistently surprise us, it also means that those very same advances are ... Top 20 Horror movies would make great games part 1 24 Last year's list was alright I guess, but I tried to do better this time around. This year I got a lot more input from the other Dtoid editors, expanded the total film count from ten to twenty, a... Male or female: Ten videogame characters that confuse me 123 As a guy who grew up being called “Ma’am” through the drive-thru speaker system at McDonald’s more times than he can count, I know what it feels like to be mistaken for th... The best and worst '4th' videogames EVER! 96 See what I did there?To celebrate this magnificent 4th of July holiday, I am going to do a myriad of things: I am going to eat more hamburgers and hot dogs than most people would think physically... Videogame characters whose leg I would hump 68 Greetings, patrons of Destructoid. It is with a sense of entitlement  great honor that I return to the front page of this fine website, to once again bestow upon you the gift of JOURNALISM. ... Ten obnoxiously cheap ways of extending a game's length 185 As games have become more and more expensive, a focus on longevity has naturally become increasingly important. When we spend $60 on a videogame, we expect to get our money's worth, and that mean... Videogame characters that look like David Bowie 103 David Bowie, born David Robert Jones on January 8, 1947, is an English musician, actor, producer and arranger. Having been active in the entertainment industry for over fifty years with a stagger... The most anticipated Nintendo DS games of 2009 47 You know who I am madly in love with? Fellow editor Colette Bennett. Why, you may ask? Well, first off: look at her! Secondly, she and I share a special bond about how much we adore the Nintendo ... The most anticipated Wii games of 2009 82 As much as the general public seems to love the Wii, many hardcore gamers are still unconvinced that the console is worth owning. Despite being the home to quite a few kick-ass games, 360/PS3 own... The most anticipated PS3 games of 2009 57 So...2008 just ended, and you probably thought you were in the clear when it came to year-end listmania. Well, you were technically right -- this list isn’t looking backward; it’s loo... Amazon's top ten DS games are quite encouraging 18 A while back, I posted Amazon.com's top videogame picks for 2008, based on sales and desire. Considering it was all Wii, and mostly garbage, such a list was an incredibly depressing reflection on... Peter Moore bitches about Internet list column, won't return Eurogamer's calls 21 I've written enough list columns to know that they bring out the troll in everybody. There is something about a random person's arbitrary ranking system that other human beings just cannot fathom... The Telegraph's top fifty games of 2008 list is actually interesting 20 UK newspaper The Telegraph has listed its top fifty games of 2008, dubbing this the "year we all became gamers." While one can question that statement, considering some of the "gam... Sci-Fi is a troll, posts top ten overrated games of 2008 73 Wow, God bless the Sci-Fi channel. Trolling fanboys can be an art form, but Sci-Fi's blog Fidgit has gone all out with its top ten list of the year's most overrated videogames. Including such gem... TIME names Grand Theft Auto IV game of the year, Braid's a close second 71 TIME magazine loves its list, and the well-known publication has produced a top ten games of 2008, with some interesting additions. Predictably, GTA IV has taken the top spot, but Jon Blow's indi... The ten best mini-games EVER! 87 If videogames were like Three’s Company -- with the main game being Jack Tripper -- I would say mini-games are like Janet. They are a part of the main game and sometimes even make the main ... Every NES game ever made, listed in order of awesome 92 Who cares about someone's amazingly detailed list of NES games in order of quality, you say? Why, you may not at all. However, I can't think of any better reason to get people to think about thei... Awfully awesome: Games so bad, they're good 104 If you play a lot of videogames, then chances are that you play a lot of trashy videogames. Let's face it: in a market as saturated as this one, the crap-to-gold ratio is very unbalanced, and no ... Captain Obvious: Mario is Japan's most popular videogame character 9 In news that is likely to shock and amaze, Nintendo's world famous plumber Mario has topped an Oricon Monitor Research survey conducted among 1000 Japanese people asking for their favorite videog... The five best videogames to play during a stock market crash 53 The stock market is at its lowest in nearly ten years. The American economy is in shambles. Major investment banks like Lehman Brothers have collapsed. Basically, people are freaking out.But I sa... Stardock drafts "The Gamer's Bill of Rights," steals my heart 51 Not only does independent developer/publisher Stardock put out some great strategy games, they’re also somewhat well known for completely omitting any sort of DRM in their releases. Buildin... Thirty rubbish Pokemon: Red/Blue edition 131 As readers will know, I recently confessed my closet Pokémon fandom and am celebrating my newfound liberation with a selection of Pokémon-themed articles for those who also like to ... Employing Jack Thompson 55 As you may or may not know by now, it seems likely that Jack Thompson is to lose his career as a defense attorney. The Florida Bar seems to have gotten the strange impression that he's a lying, m... The ten best videogame dads EVER! 76 It’s Father’s Day! Instead of giving your dad a “funny” card or a(nother) tie this year, how about hanging out with him and playing some videogames? Better yet, instead of... The ten best Metal Gear bosses EVER! 55 I love the Metal Gear series. In fact, I have an unhealthy obsession with it.When thinking about what to write for this feature in honor of the upcoming PlayStation 3 release of Metal Gear Solid ... Five Days to Smash Bros. Brawl: Top Five unfulfilled Brawl pipe dreams 98 Trying to console a child or a retarded person over the loss of a loved one is hard work. It helps to try and find ways to make the abstract emotions the grieving party is experiencing into concr... Six Days to Smash Bros. Brawl: Top Five Smash Bros alternatives 92 According to Garfield, Mondays are always terrible. This particular Monday is especially bad for many, as it's the last Monday ever before Super Smash Bros. Brawl is finally released in the Unite... Ten golden rules of Japanese RPGs 137 The JRPG is a venerable and well respected genre, having survived almost unchanged for decades and supported by a community of hardcore obsessives that drool over every statistic and sweeping, gl... Next-Gen names Top 100 developers, Ken Levine tops the list 14 NextGen.biz has compiled one hell of a comprehensive list of their top developer picks, which is well worth a read if you are work pretending to be busy but actually surfing the internet. Ken Lev... The ten most meaningful videogame quotes of all time 178 What's that? An exaggeratedly-titled top ten list? On the Internet? Surely you jest!Call me a weakling, but it's been more or less forever since I last satiated my base, pathetic, utterly human ... The five manliest videogame consoles of all time 38 It has been a long time since I've visited Arthur's Hall of Viking Manliness. Last time Destructoid was there, The Vikings had a article called the 10 Manliest Videogame Characters of All Time. T... RetroforceGO! recording episode #30 tonight: 2007 Top tens and the year in retro 47 The year's just about over (thank God) and your friends here at RetroforceGO! are ready to close it out in the coolest way possible: with lists. You guys like lists, right? C'mon, everybody loves... PC World names the most offensive games of 2007 34 2007 was a banner years for gaming, but that doesn't mean that tripe isn't being turned out at an equal pace. Some crappy games are hilarious though, and I think my world would be a different pla... YTMND Thursday special edition: 50 of my favorite YTMNDs of this year 33 Many people call me crazy, which they totally should as I tend to do extremely crazy things. For instance, I have spent nearly a total of seven hours going through all of the YTMND Thursdays I've... Gran Turismo 5 nudges its way onto Japanese charts 36 Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has cracked the Japanese charts at number 3, selling 116,000 copies per Media Create data. However, it's the only PS3 title in the list, which is mostly packed with Wii an... GameDaily has the right idea, suggests games to play on the crapper 32 We here at Destructoid are huge advocates of playing games on the toilet. The Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable have revolutionized the fine Art of S**t Taking, replacing magazines and newspap... GameTap editors pick their top 5 games of 2007 34 This is the time of year where game news outlets run their top games of 2007 list. GameTap's official list will come early next year, but for now their editors have all listed their personal choi... Gamasutra names top 5 most affecting game characters in 2007 57 I like this list, but the hard thing here is that 2007 brought a lot of great games, and I'm sure people will feel a lot of characters were left out. While Andrew Ryan was a huge one for me and d... TIME names top ten games of 2007 69 This list ought to cause some waves in the internets. TIME has complied their top ten games of the year, in numerical order, which will certainly but subject to a great deal of disagreement, flam... MediaWise's top ten 'games to avoid' for children and teens 51 The National Institute on Media and the Family has just released the 2007 Video Game Report Card (pdf file), which rates the games industry on everything they're not going to listen to. It covers... 1UP announces Game of the Year nominees, Kane & Lynch makes the cut 62 The 1UP Network has released their list of nominees for game of the year, and voting is now open at the 1UP Web page. We noticed something while scanning through the list of nominees: Kane and Ly... 2nd annual top ten hottest videogame industry guys search begins 78 Time to show the hotties with the joysticks some love! I'm calling on the Dtoid community for nominations in this year's Hottest Videogame Guy Top Ten list. Last year, the female community helped... A Weird Kid's Top 50 -- Console Games of All Time (Part 2 of 2) 97 [Editor's note: Here is the final part of Excremento's Top 25 games of all time. I have to say that this was such a great read. You can really tell Excremento is extremely passionate for videogam... A Weird Kid's Top 50 -- Console Games of All Time (Part 1 of 2) 65 [Excremento is well known in the Community Blogs for his numerous Top 10 lists he makes every week. This week for the Community Blog Promotion Week, he went ahead and made a Top 50 list of his to... The worst ideas in gaming listed 29 Last week we went over Next-gen's list of the 50 greatest gaming innovations, noting that they forgot tentacle porn in the line up. Now they've put together a list of gaming's worst ideas ever, a... The 50 greatest game design innovations listed 19 Pulling together the 50 best game design innovations wouldn't necessarily be a difficult thing, but ranking them in order probably would be. It's a good thing that Next-Gen has done all the work ... Don't fear the reaper, play him! 17 In honor of Halloween, GameTap has pulled together a pretty solid list of games that feature Mr. Death himself, the Grim Reaper.The list includes obvious nods to Death Jr. and Grim Fandango, bot... ScrewAttack ranks top ten Mario games, SMB3 named top of the heap 38 In their latest Top 10, ScrewAttack chalked up their list of the top 10 Mario titles -- no easy feat, considering Mario's colossal 200+ game appearances. One caveat, though: to be considered ... ScrewAttack's Worst Fighters Ever -- where is Killer Instinct? 45 Oh ScrewAttack, how your Top 10s always take me down Memory Lane, oftentimes to places that I really had no intentions of ever seeing again. Their latest list, the Top 10 Worst Fighters Ever, is... Life in a video game: the pros and cons 22 What if tomorrow morning you woke up and your life was exactly like your favorite video game? What would you look forward to doing first? Would you drive down the I-90 in your Pontiac Sunfire at ... Gaming under the influence: Top 10 drunk multiplayer games 79 Drinking while gaming is such a stupid thing to do, and yet I know most people this site will have tried it. It's a match made in heaven when it comes to entertaining. But playing games drunk... Nintendo shutout: Every game on Japan's Top 21 is either on the Wii or DS 53 Fanboys, today is your holiday. Gamasutra is reporting that every single best selling game in the Japan Top 21 is on a Nintendo platform, topped off by Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. The clo... Another top ten 8-bit list for dissection 34 Would you say the original Legend of Zelda was a better game than The Adventure of Link?  I'm pretty sure we all threw the original in a drawer when that one came out, but now that tim... Miyamoto officially one of the 100 People That Shape Our World 23 I don’t know what the fine people of Los Angeles are waiting for. I have been staring out the window all morning waiting for the giant parade celebrating the greatness that is Miyamoto, but... The top 14 guilty pleasures of gaming 56 The word hardcore when applied to gamers tends to paint a picture of a person who plays games like Halo, Grand Theft Auto, and Gears of War, not someone who sits with his little Nintendo DS and... Miyamoto nominated for TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People 28 Every year, TIME magazine compiles a list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World." Out of the 204 nominations this year, readers can vote on who they want to be in the final 1... Apocalyptic Gaming: what games will you never, ever give up? 119 Destructoid operates within an industry that prescribes scores, usually a one-through-ten kind of affair, to the games we play. But as folks who live and breathe the stuff, it's safe to say t... Gamers, these are the people who you should base your lives around 28 In light of all the bad press video games have been receiving lately, it felt like the perfect time to bring to the attention of the media all the names in the gaming industry that have been us... Summa's top ten games that need to be revived 90 As most of you I'm sure know by now, last night's Epileptic Gaming was pretty much off the hook. But besides our drunken tirades, one of the big things we talked about was our top 10 lis... « 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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