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Sucks 2BU EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Monday (mutilation) Mind Teasers: Karoshi series 5 Last week we played through a game where your future self torments you. This week we just plain old fashion torment ourselves. "Karoshi" is a Japanese word for "death by overwork&q... New No More Heroes 2 trailers are over 24 hours old 18 What do you do when you're a professional blogger JOURNALIST and you come across something that you think is really cool, but you know that it's already days old? Do you ignore it, preventing the... Get your ass to PAX! No More Heroes 2 playable at PAX 2009 15 I'm so frickin' jealous of all of you that will be at PAX 2009 this weekend. Unfortunately, one of my stupid friends decided to get stupid-married and I'll be at his stupid-wedding in NYC next Sa... Peripherally Speaking: Nyko's Perfect Shot 48 Three things you should know about me before reading this: I hate doing stuff I don't feel like doing (some call it laziness, I call it "strong willed"), I'm a sucker for free stuff, an... Tabula Rasa creator sues NCSoft for $24 million 10 Richard Garriott leaving NCSoft late last year came as a bit of a surprise to some, but surely not to others. He certainly didn't sound pissed about it all after coming back from his trip into sp... Rocky and Bullwinkle, Battlezone on XBLA this Wednesday 27 Those of you who keep up with Xbox Live Arcade on a regular basis are probably wondering how last week's stellar game could ever be topped, right? Well, it seems that the people involved with sch... Titan Quest developer folds, Diablo fans saw at their wrists 34 Most hardcore Diablo fans have accepted that the titanic success of World of Warcraft means there will likely never be a Diablo 3, but we have tried to sate our addiction with Diablo-clones. Tita... Valve speaks on recent software territory violations 13 It seems that Valve's territorial control for The Orange Box and other software has caused a bit of trouble for gamers who opted to import to save a few dollars. Some gamers found out about this ... 30% of Xbox 360 consoles are made of FAIL 70 Listening to Microsoft might lead you to believe that all is roses and sunshine in the world of the Xbox 360. After all, the company's never been slow to claim that the old 'red rings of... Where is your God now? Nintendo consoles outsell Sony 5 to 1 in May 52 In hindsight, I suppose making the world's most powerful consoles for both the home theater and portable gaming seemed like a bright idea.  When you have the best system in the business,... A Guide To Recognizing Your Gamers - Chapter 2 57 Welcome, my friends, to the second part of Destructoid's ongoing field guide to the anthropology of the various modern gamer sub-species.  Before we go on with this week's study, I must con... A Guide To Recognizing Your Gamers - Chapter 1 46 It used to be a lot easier to stereotype a gamer. It used to be that all that was needed was some greasy hair, thick glasses, and a few faintly veiled allusions to terminal virginity in order for... ZOMG!!! Just hit play 39 Look I drink...and from time to time, I end up fighting a dog. At one time I was 38 & 2 until the sport was outlawed. I don't remember many of the fights, so this video was nice to see. T... MI-6 Conference 2007: BK lampoons GameDaily, talks viral poultry 9 Day One's afternoon session saw the official conference welcome from Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Peter Moore in which he intro'd the keynote speaker: one Russ Klein, head marketing cheese a... New Splinter Cell: Conviction scans; Ubisoft devs crap on the PS3 [Update] 51 Sam's gone emo. He's also kicking ass in broad daylight and fighting crime by hurling the entire Ikea catalog at the bad guys. A Finnish gaming magazine scored an exclusive look at Splin... UK GAME stores still oblivious; plot thickens 32 Intrigued by Summa's report on the U.K. and Ireland's biggest gaming retail chain, GAME , not stocking Friday's PS3 release of Oblivion, I decided to make a stand for my fellow coun... 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... My moves are killer, son! 9 Behold the mighty power of the Dance Dance Revolution. With the sacred moves passed down from geek to geek, a young man will face his enemies and move in time with the music. Watch as enemies co... Rosenblum pleads not guilty, to be put under house arrest 42 To update the alleged happenings of one very allegedly stupid person, GameLife's Andrew Rosenblum has pleaded not guilty to three counts of threatening to commit a crime and has had his bail ... Hackers continue to ruin Valve? 37 I've said this a few times, but back in college I lived and breathed Counter-Strike. In fact, I'd even say I majored in the damn game. Well, one of the biggest turn-offs to me, after a wh... PS3 so hot they're practically giving them away in the UK 20 OK, well maybe hot is stretching it. How does desperate sound? According to MCV, a few UK retail outlets have slashed their PlayStation 3 prices in order to get rid of that big black meanie box.... Nintendo's top mistakes ... evil grin 131 Attention Nintendo fanboys and gals, your precious little company is not perfect. Hell, nobody is, including me, which I know is very hard to believe. Thankfully, Games Radar has put together a l... Remind bedridden children what they are missing with new NiGHTS game 24 OK, let’s see a show of hands: Who is already getting sick of hearing about NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams on the Wii? Alright, very interesting. Now, who is sick of it primari... Attention Xbox 360 owners: You got a brick, Microsoft has some new answers 26 This new Xbox 360 is just grand. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say it's the bee's knees. But sadly, it seems there are more than a handful of reports out there of gamers' 360&... PS3 in UK laughs at Titanic 83 I admit, it's not looking good for the PlayStation 3 right now. It's one thing to have sort-of-steady sales in the States, but the PlayStation bread was always nicely buttered in the UK a... Think before you poke your Mii 26 Do you think it's possible for a Nintendo Wii Mii to feel? Well, X-Play believes so and they decided to show us what really goes on in the life of a Mii in this eye-opening segment. From M... Mexican state fights back against GRAW with all out seizure 31 Now this is how you fight against video games! There are no pansy-like court hearings or cry baby legislative tactics, no, this is a no-holds-barred "I'm gonna take yo sh*t" style ... Microsoft's got a raging clue for Xbox Live fraud 19 In response to some stories and tales floating around over the past couple weeks about Xbox Live fraud that has been going on (accounts hacked and gamertags stolen), Microsoft has responded by sa... Nintendo: Wii hard drive is a no go ... suckers 33 Nintendo, lovers of innovation and customer appreciation (sinister smile), have come out and confirmed that the Wii will not have an external hard drive for those who wanted such a convenience. C... Anamanaguchi: UK Tour, no more 27 In an unfortunate turn for UK fans of New York's Anamanaguchi, the band was detained earlier this week at Glasgow airport. Why were they denied? Apparently, they were too good to be allowed i... GDC 2007: Yes, the Wii is a piece of sh*t ... I didn't say it 143 Well well, looks like I'm not the only one a little disappointed with the Wii's capabilities. Take a look at this gem unearthed by IGN today at GDC. Combined with what Sony did today and... Capcom shutting down Resident Evil Outbreak servers 58 Last week, when Konami decided to pull the plug on their servers that backed Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence's online play, the community was up in arms. You see, that's a game that peop... Man goes flacid during drunk Tetris sex 35 There's nothing more entertaining than laughing at other people's sexual dysfunctions, especially when they involve Nintendo games. Rocksteady from the NeoGaf forums posted a cautionary e... Nintendo at GDC = crickets 19 In case you were wondering why we didn't mention anything about Nintendo in our news about next week's Game Developer's Conference, well Chris Kohler over at Wired has a bit of infor... Sony gives Kotaku the finger (update) 152 Sony 1, Kotaku 1Or I guess depending on how you look at it, maybe Kotaku won. Who knows? But what I do know is that Brian Crecente has big brass balls and my blogger in arms stood up to Sony and... Still playing Metal Gear 3 online? Say goodbye come April 3 ... suckers 31 If you're one of the proud and few still playing Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence online, then you're going to be in for a very rude awakening on April 3 as Konami shuts down the online fu... If it seems too good to be true ... 19 If you went to your mailbox one morning and found an Xbox 360 shipped to your home by mistake, would you keep it? What if it strangely contained a note to ship the package to Africa and provide... Developer tales: The true story of an abused game tester 58 [Editor's note: What you are about to read is a true story of an industry veteran and loyal Destructoid reader who has been in the business for some time. Names have been left out to protect ... Rabid fans go through 7 faulty 360's; still undaunted 22 The term "fanboy" has never been more rightfully earned. Meet Rob and Mindy Cunningham, whose loyalty to the Xbox brand is simply inconceivable. In the past year and a half, the Cunning... PS3 Titanic loses another passenger 52 The age of exclusives is crawling to an end faster than Lindsay Lohan's career (you see, 'cause I'm Hollywood now, I can say such things). The latest headshot to Sony's PlayStati... Ninty dominates Amazon: SNES > PS3? 43 Fanboys will have a field day with Amazon's public Top 25 video game sales list, which is completely overrun by Nintendo products. Among the usual suspects from the Wii camp is one strange su... Tokyo kid murders family for mad tokens 7 Our strange Asian counterpart spotted a story of a hardcore gamer gone wrong ... and dumb. Apparently a university student was having trouble with his arcade habit RL-fragged both a man and his ... Gran Turismo causing wrecks? No. Stupid kids causing wrecks [UPDATE] 17 The Times Online has a story up about one Christopher Hayden, a 19-year-old British gentleman, who undoubtedly is hated by both his parents and his local pastor for being an especially stupid bo... Warhound beats Crysis in big acne scars 16 Will you look at this poor man's face?  I'm all for realistic imperfect skin texturing, but this latest bid by Polish developer Techland seems a bit too severe. Compare with this scr... But isn't this nature's way of weeding out the weak? 23 So you're sitting on the bus and you get so involved in your game of New Super Mario Bros. that you end up missing your stop. We've all had a moment like this, but have you ever been so... Hey PS3 Virtua Tennis: No online for you! 39 While I brought news earlier today that both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 would see Virtua Tennis 3 in 1080p, Gamasutra confirmed through SEGA that the game won't have any online play for... You mess with Mario, then you get the death notice 31 Got a Mario video or image? Want to put him in a sexually suggestive position? If you do, watch out for The Man, cause he's coming to make your day hell. It seems Nintendo has hired the firm ... A bunny's Colts won Superbowl Saturday 35 As if Miami was not already an overpopulous inferno of bad drivers, the descent of every media outlet and hardcore football fan into my fair city has made it nearly impossible to drive anywhere w... EA puts White Council on hold; Summa's inside source says canceled 10 EA confirmed that their next Lord of the Rings RPG, White Council, will be "on hold" for the time being. Well, sorry to break it to you LOTR fans but this one is canceled. I just so ha... Online retailer quits, calls out game industry; waahmbulance dispatched 32 Some online retailer I've never heard of, DVD Empire, has come out and said they're going to stop selling video games and they got a few reasons as to why. Take a look at their list of co... Sony's PSP falling farther and farther behind 41 Pocket Gamer has a story up about Sony's recent financial reports and the news looks grim for their tiny, black portable. Here's a quick quote to illustrate the mound of excrement piling... I'm in your heat ducts, stealing your PS3s 26 Chalk another one up for the PS3-related crime scoreboard: a desperate gamer attempted to steal a console and some cash (presumably to finance a 1080p TV?) but failed to ready smoke bombs, ninjas... SiN Episodes indefinitely postponed 8 One of the big buzzwords in gaming as of late has been "episodic content", and one of the frontrunners of the episodic content movement was Ritual Entertainment, the developers behind t... Mario Party 8 delayed; PS3 shivs Wii in the back 38 Well lookie here. It appears that the PlayStation 3 isn't the only system smacked with delay news lately. It seems our good ol' pals at Nintendo want to show that they too know how to de... GRAW 2 delayed for PS3; Are we seeing a pattern here? 11 Well, maybe all those developers weren't lying: the PlayStation 3 is a bitch to program for. The latest delay casualty for Sony's mean machine is Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, which... Australia says Blitz and drugs are bad ... mmmkay? 7 It's not bad enough that Blitz: The League for the Xbox 360 had to suffer from last-gen straight to next-gen port status, but now the government of Australia says the game cannot come near an... Get a PS3 in Japan ... on the cheap? 16 Not only is the new PlayStation 3 considered a little expensive for a console here in the States, but it seems like the PS3 may be a little too expensive for the peeps in Japan as well. Maxconsol... MotorStorm delayed ... again 19 Originally thought to be out in the U.S. on Feb. 26, MotorStorm (that gritty driving game Sony is banking heavily on) has been pushed back to a vague "spring 2007" release date. While ... Wee Wii contest nets mass firing 43 After the death of a mother recently because of an idiotic morning DJ contest called "Hold Your Wee for a Wii," the radio station that employed these jackasses has decided to can 10 em... Stringer: PS3 launch pushed to April [update] 17 We're not sure if it's just a slip of the tongue, but Sony's Sir Howard Stringer told Cnet's News.com that the PlayStation 3 will launch in Europe in April and not in March, dela... « 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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