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STOOPID! EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Kid reports parents to cops after they take his Xbox 36 Yet more evidence that children are stupid and should be mass-executed has arrived today, with word of a young boy in Illinois who called the cops after his parents took his Xbox (we assume a 360... Tekken movie sales art shows off the color blue 14 Despite my other job being that of a film critic I have been paying little to no attention to the upcoming Tekken film set to be released in 2010 at some point. I could make up a plethora of excu... Sorry Canada, no Half-Minute Hero for you 69 Apparently, if your game doesn't have French in it, Quebec won't let you sell it. This is probably something our millions of Quebec readers already knew, but one of them, Destructoid reader Mike,... Matt Hazard explains how to deal with being a wash up 14 Some new Matt Hazard news is coming, and to herald its arrival, we received a handy pamphlet from the star of the game himself, the titular Mr. Hazard. The pamphlet is a guide to finding one's in... New Wii system update wacks hacks, yet Indiana Pwns 15 So yeah, it's not a big surprise or anything, but it is a big deal to a lot Wii owners out there: the new Wii System Update 4.2 de-installs the Wii Homebrew Channel, and blocks most methods of re... Fugitive caught after stuffing DS games down his pants 20 If there's one thing worse than being an escaped criminal with a heroin habit, it's being STUPID escaped criminal with a heroin habit. Daniel Larson, despite being incredibly idiotic, became Lee ... Cops play Wii Bowling while on drug bust 68 The one major problem with drug busts (aside from the waste of public money) is that they're simply not fun enough. Luckily, cops in Polk County discovered a way to inject a little happiness into... PSP Minis: No multiplayer, no DLC, no updates 39 PSP Minis is one of the big reasons why I'm looking forward to the PSPgo, especially with Sony promising huge freedom of development and easy approval. Despite the much-lauded freedoms, however, ... These Super Mario fingernails make me want to vomit 40 Pictured is a set of Super Mario fingernails that I am sure somebody, somewhere, thinks is really awesome and cool. I personally think it's grotesque and I feel incredibly queasy just looking at ... Sony's new PS3 ads upset Nigeria (that's racist!) 60 Oh Sony, you and your international PR disasters!You've all doubtless seen Sony's new ad campaign that pokes fun at bloggers and Internet rumors. If you haven't, then Nigeria certainly has, and i... Singapore gamers forge ludicrous suicide pact (update) 56 Eight Singapore fans of Japanese game Slayers entered into a suicide pact so that they could become "Slayers" themselves and kill demons in World War III. The "pact" lasted tw... Onechanbara meets Monster Hunter to create Exorsister 15 You have to admit, the name alone is pretty brilliant. This is D3's latest attempt to bring utter stupidity to the world of videogames. Exorsister is a brand new game that marries hack n' slash a... Cryptic: Lack of MMOs on Xbox Live is 'baffling' 38 With the popularity of MMOs on PCs and the comparative lack of alternatives on home consoles, Microsoft should be jumping at the chance to get more massively-multiplayer fun on the Xbox 360. Howe... Sony: Backwards compatibility will NOT be returning 187 If you're like me, you'll agree that removing backwards compatibility from the PS3 for no reason was a dumb, irritating move. Just before the PS3 Slim was announced, a number of people had hoped ... William Shatner goes after Shatter devs over a joke 26 Star Trek legend and singing sensation William Shatner was stirred into legal motion when his lawyers heard that Shatter was offering a downloadable level that used his likeness and included a re... Guards bring PSP into nuclear warhead recycling facility 17 Brilliant. Three Tennessee security guards have recently been busted for bringing game devices, including a PSP, into a nuclear warhead recycling facility. Due to the obviously sensitive nature o... Teen threatens to hijack plane while playing WoW 35 There should be technical terms for multiple levels of stupid, but for now I'll just make some up: if you have to gauge the actions of the guy in this story and your choices are A Little Slow, St... Lil' Tommy Turnipseed: Ban war toys and war games, please! 21 You know what we've never run before? A story about some old, out-of-touch activist who claims that "studies show" videogames are bad for children. We've never written about people like... BlazBlue DLC jumps the gun, sucks crocodile nuts 58 You have to love bad DLC, especially when it's as shameless as this. Not only is the upcoming downloadable content for BlazBlue available on Xbox Live before the game's even out, the stuff you ca... Double Helix man brands gaming sites as 'f*gs' 66 Eurogamer is never short of controvery when it comes to its reviews, and the European gaming site has caused yet another stir recently when it changed the score of Grand Slam Tennis from 5/10 to ... The real reason we can't have nice things 21 I thought we had left all these plastic add-ons for Wii Sports in the past. Consumers had smartened up and we weren't supposed to see them as much anymore. But it seems the opposite is true; cons... Wii MotionPlus instructional video assumes you're a moron 28 Unquestionably, setting up Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus peripheral is the easiest part of owning a Wii. It’s a very small dongle with a very obvious output that fits quite nicely onto th... Subscribed to EGM? Enjoy your new Maxim subscription! 53 EGM died a painful and cruel death, but its legacy has been done justice. Those still subscribed to the (officially) dead magazine need not worry that their money was spent unwisely, because inst... 11-year-old 'genius' hates videogames 112 Moshe Kai Cavalin, an 11-year-old graduate from East Los Angeles College, is one smart little kid. However, he has proven that pure intelligence is no substitute for sense and taste, claiming tha... CrimeCraft jumps in bed with Best Buy 6 CrimeCraft, the game that isn't an MMO but is rather a "Persistent World Next-gen Shooter" (PWNS), will be available for purchase exclusively from Best Buy at retail. Why? Honestly, I h... Videogames and CO poisoning, together at last! 6 Videogames cause rape, murder, domestic abuse, obesity and now they are kind of responsible for CO poisoning. That's the word coming from a new report that says people are using gas-powered gener... Boy kills himself after being banned from games 61 A 12-year-old Bangkok boy leapt to his death from a sixth floor veranda after his parents decided to ban him from videogames. The boy was an avid gamer, and it was deemed that his addiction was t... Woman loves videogames more than one-year-old son 25 A Kennesaw woman has incontrovertibly proven that videogames are better than children after being arrested for abandoning her one-year-old son in a vehicle so she could get a gaming fix at a near... Capcom losing mind over Swine Flu, could limit E3 appearance 24 Capcom Japan has apparently joined the rudderless morons who are all crying and whimpering over a disease that has claimed less lives than regular, bottom-feeding flu germs, having allegedly canc... ESRB demands Ninja Gaiden II launch trailer removed 56 Yes, seriously. In what may be the most arbitrary and silly decision yet made by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, Destructoid has been asked to remove a launch trailer we posted for Ninj... Oh, Microsoft: Lode Runner mispriced, customers insulted 25 In today's wacky episode of That's Our Microsoft, the company introduced Lode Runner to Xbox Live Arcade at 800 Microsoft Points, a full 400 Points lower than people had expected. Unfortunately, ... Idiot kid tries to swap handgun for PSP at school 34 A foolish child caused his middle school to be locked down this past week after bringing in a handgun. However, rather than pay tribute to Columbine or Virginia Tech, the boy had brought the fire... EA sends illegal weapons to press, wants them back 41 The concept of consequence has never been fully grasped by videogame PR. Whether they're putting severed limbs around London or sacrificing goats, you can always count on marketing bods to do som... Used Grand Theft Auto comes with free ecstasy tablets 34 A British man was stunned after buying two second hand Grand Theft Auto games and discovering some free ecstasy tablets wrapped in plastic and slotted into the one of the game's manuals. For some... Would-be arsonist thwarted after bragging on game site 42 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... ASA sides with Change4Life over controversial game ads 15 The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that Change4Life's stereotypical and stupid ad campaign can stay. Despite infuriating the British game industry with its implication that videogames ... Shocker: The PS3 will always have Blu-ray 28 Analysts make me laugh my head off sometimes. Outside of being professional guessers, they also some up with some ludicrous ideas, such as the guy who last month suggested that Sony would release... Oklahoma tax break proposal snubs mature videogames 23 An Oklahoma state senator has proposed tax breaks for game developers, but only if the games being made aren't rated M for Mature by the ESRB. Films, commercials and TV projects already get tax i... Mom turns kid's Xbox off, gets taco thrown in face 82 This is the best story you'll read all day, guaranteed. A young man from Deltona is currently sitting in jail after assaulting his mother with a taco. According to reports, 54-year-old Dena Moir ... Xbox Live pederast tries to claim he was joking 22 I've heard all sorts of excuses from kiddie fiddlers over the years, but the classic "I was joking" has to be the best one of all. That's the reason given by Ryan Edwin Donker, 33, who ... Wiimote temporarily kills puppy 38 They say a dog is for life, not just for Christmas, but when Kathy White got a Wii for the Holidays, one dog's life was pretty much over ... at least temporarily. White, the owner of a five-month... Videogames stop two-year-olds from talking now! 26 Everybody panic! It's another "media rapes children" scare! The good old Telegraph, not one to publish a story with an anti-videogame bent, has brought word that British two-year-olds a... Thief takes the Mary Kay approach, nabs a DS in the process 7 I'm sure there are lots of ways to steal portable gaming systems (personally it seems to me the easiest thing to do would be to nab one from a kid when he isn't looking), but recently a thief dec... Woman tries to use Wii as a credit card machine ... fails 97 Usually, there's nothing funny about a woman abusing her slot, but this one is just too good to pass up. A NeoGAF eyewitness has recounted the tale of how his neighbor -- a poor, unassuming, comp... Casual gaming will make consoles extinct? 43 That's the claim coming from a digital marketing company which insists that there is no innovation on consoles and as such, they are working on borrowed time. The company, known as Clickz, is cla... LOL HAI GUYZ THIS IS HOW YOU GET UR GIRLFRIEND INTO GAMING LOL 39 Xbox Live community manager Christa Phillips has revealed the HOT PROTIP SECRETS of getting your girlfriend (omg lol) into gaming. WOWZERZORZ! According to her panel at PAX, Phillips had but one ... South African group wants games and music banned 23 Another day, another country trying to use violence as an excuse to restrict the freedom of media. Today we have South Africa, the country where racism was invented, falling prey to the "ba... Have Chun-Li on your iPod for ridiculous amounts of money 21 It seems to me that any electronic product with a lower case "i" preceding its name invariably turns out to be a colossal waste of money. I guess social status is just worth that much t... Rock Band 2 for Nintendo 64 CONFIRMED ... well ... not really 36 It's hilarious when other people make huge mistakes, and today's callous laugh comes at the expense of Amazon.com, who has been advertising every single copy of Rock Band 2 as a Nintendo 64 produ... Fox News talks Fat Princess: Terrible fat jokes ahoy 31 Fox News "researchers" clearly read videogame blogs, because there's no other way those guys would have found out about the Fat Princess "controversy" and the pretend femini... E3 will have PC games, well duh 19 A recent rumor has been making the Internet rounds stating that this year’s E3 would be all but bereft of anything that wasn’t played on a console. Obviously, this isn’t the cas... Teenager BURNS a Pac-Man into his flesh 83 This is one of those stories you can file under "JESUS TITTING CHRIST!" A teenage boy has used a laser-etching machine to "brand" himself with an image of Pac-Man, burning the... 2K splices DRM out of BioShock 22 As you BioShock PC owners have probably long since been aware, both the retail and Steam versions of the game came bundled with some pain-in-the-ass DRM. While 2K was quick to increase the instal... Nintendo: only 'geeks and otaku' want additional wii storage 70 Check the storage space on your Wii. It's not looking so hot now, right? With only 512mb of on-board storage, all of our Virtual Console downloads are feeling squished under the weight of these n... Daily Mail thinks Fallout 3 artwork is terrorist propaganda 54 According to The Daily Mail, the above image is Al Qaeda's "terrifying vision of a devastated America." It was apparently posted on an Islamic extremists' Web site but nobody in the mai... Teen threatens teacher with knife to buy GTA: San Andreas ... San Andreas!? 70 In a tale of what must be Massachusetts' stupidest child, it has been reported that a thirteen-year old boy pulled a knife on his teacher for enough money to buy Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Po... Too gay to play: Gay gamer's name banned from Xbox Live 117 A gay gamer with the gamertag "theGAYERgamer" has had his name banned from Xbox Live for being "offensive." As we all know, Xbox Live is a hotbed of homophobia, but it seems t... GTA IV region locked on the Xbox 360 ... how lame 29 Bad news for import fans, or people who might be thinking of moving country such as yours truly. Rockstar has decided to region lock Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360. Unlike the PlayStation 3... Videogames may get banned in Afghanistan 59 I don't expect many of you to care too much about this, but this is just infuriating to me. In case you don't know, I'm of Afghan descent but never have actually stepped foot on Afghan soil. The ... Behold the face of idiocy: Swedish gamers already camping for GTA IV [Updated] 86 I guess a few Swedish gamers didn't get the memo that you can actually pre-order games in this dazzling 21st century. The above image is one of several insane Swedes who are actually camping outs... « 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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