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WROOOOOOONG!!! EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Truck containing 1,300 Xbox 360's stolen in Canada 37 We've heard stories of game-related robberies before, but this one is pretty impressive if you ask me (and by impressive, I mean f*cked up). Last week in Southern Ontario, Canada in a small city ... What the hell is going on with Fatal Frame for the Wii? 58 Waiting with bated breath for Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse? Me too -- the Fatal Frame series is one of my very favorites. Considering the the game has been out in Japan since last July,... French kid stabs his sister in the name of the DS 26 From stabbing people over handheld videogame consoles to draping themselves in Christmas lights and trying to somehow make it sexual innuendo, the French are clearly a ... unique bunch. The Le Po... Guitar Hero: Metallica misspells Lynyrd Skynyrd, I laugh so hard my sides hurt 28 AHAHAHAHAHAHA *pauses, clutches sides, catches breath* AHAHAHAHA ... Mercyful Fate. Led Zeppelin. Def Leppard. Mötley Crüe. It’s totally metal to purposely misspell your band&rsq... Viva Cruiser goes soft thanks to the FDA 13 Viva Cruiser, the advergame about Erectile Dysfunction product Viagra, is no longer coming to a console near you. I know you're heartbroken, but it's for the best, really, because the convulsions... Fallout 3's Special Edition Pip-Boy clock draws user complaints 27 You may remember seeing this Pip-Boy clock a few months back as part of the Fallout 3 Survival Edition package, which was a little rich for some gamers' tastes at $130. Still, a lot of people did... When being a gamer is not a good thing: check out this kid's Final Fantasy name 95 Wow.I mean ... wow.Please, if you will, imagine Sephiroth Andrew Martin in third grade, at which point it is highly unlikely that he will be a badass anywhere near worthy of his name. Imagine oth... Jonathan Blow, take heed: rapper Soulja Boy reviews Braid 86 If you loved Braid, as the majority of Destructoid's staff did, you're going to want to sit down for this one. Rapper Soulja Boy posted a YouTube video which shows himself and a friend sharing th... Seal away your great games forever 24 The Destructoid staff already went off on the topic of game collecting last month. I think most of us agreed that collecting was fine as long as you actually played the games, and we came to the ... Kid gets his arm chewed off by an alligator, bemoans the loss of his PS3 skills 41 Being a New Orleans native, I know the spooky folklore is only partially true: you can be the victim of a voodoo curse down in the good old south, but its more likely you'll die of alcohol poison... The six best videogames to play during an earthquake 57 The crazy Los Angeles earthquake just happened and, yeah, it was really scary. I was on the top floor of a moderately tall building and I seriously had a little bit of a panic attack.Unfortunatel... Pedophile meets victim in World of Warcraft 36 While there's nothing hysterical about the reporting of this news, you can be sure people quick to jump to conclusions will blame World of Warcraft for being a dangerous environment after they re... Ubisoft responds to lineup criticsm, dumps all over its good games 69 An Ubisoft rep has responded to criticism that its Wii lineup contains nothing for "normal" gamers by essentially saying that nobody cares about their best games, so screw it. Looking a... Videogames to blame for laziness, depression, showing your mother your junk 48 Sure, we know kids get crazy when they get separated from their videogames, but Chamborg Hecht may be on a whole new level of madness (no doubt inherited). According to Ocala.com, Chamborg's moth... Way to go, advertising geniuses....meet 'Thumbcock' 102 Sony has a history of disturbing ads, but this most recent one may even have the power to usurp the infamous PS3 baby commercial for shock value. An ad agency in Vienna for some reason thought th... Predict Britney Spears' death to win a PS3? Also, leave your dignity at the door 53 You know you can always rely on the internet for all variations of tastelessness, and in this case it doesn't disappoint. When is Britney going to Die basically gives you the option to guess what... RIAA: Ripping CDs to your hard disk is illegal 102 These days, there's little love left for the Recording Industry Association of America. It's understandable that they'd want to clean up music piracy, but they always seem to approach things... Teenagers charged in 'Mortal Kombat' tragedy 77 Oh dear. When the game haters of the world hear about this one, there's going to be a field day to rival the Romans reveling over bloody crucifixions. Apparently on December 6th, 7 year old Zoe G... Rock Band delivery truck hijacked by thieves ready to rock 20 Christmas is apparently becoming the season for taking, rather than the other way around. In further theft news, in Los Angeles a group of robbers hijacked a truck carrying 1,000 Rock Band bundle... Wii theft from retirement home proves nothing is sacred 55 Wii shortages have turned up everything from insanely overpriced auctions on Ebay to lines waiting for retailers' Wii shipments to arrive, but this is some seriously unacceptable news. The folks ... Vietnamese kid strangles elderly woman for money to play MMOs 49 This story is so ill I don't even know where to begin, so I guess I'll spit the facts out first and hopefully the fog in my brain will clear by then. The Vietnamese police have arrested a 13 year... Rare: Banjo-Kazooie is definitely not cancelled 23 Speculation has been running rampant about a high profile Xbox 360 game being thrown on the scrapheap. Speculation, however, isn't fact, and the theories that Rare's new Banjo-Kazooie was the can... Girls, want to beat boys at gaming? Here's a handbook 59 Wow. Wow. Wow. To drive home how insulting this is, I'm going to reverse the situation: You meander into Barnes and Noble, and whilst perusing the aisles you stumble upon a bright blue book title... PS3 ProEvo Soccer locks game disc to online account? 34 If what Gamespot's review on Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer is true, a copy of the game could never be sold or loaned to another PS3 owner for online play without handing over account detai... Nintendo's most pompous boast yet: Claims we were bored until the Wii saved us 77 To say that Nintendo has been smug since the Wii became such a huge success is something of an understatement. The company's press conferences have devolved into long sessions of self-fellatio an... Let boobs flounce free! 89 A recent FileFront editorial treats a topic near and dear to all our hearts -- boobs in video games. However, even though the article's author identifies himself as "someone who enjoys eye c... Plans to classify gaming addicts as basket cases opposed by experts 24 A short while ago, I reported that gaming addiction could well be classified as a mental disorder if certain misguided folks had their way. Today however, Reuters relays that not only is the A... Castlevania movie gets a director 16 This is my third attempt at writing this story. I hope it works out this time. You see my first two tries went unfinished, as the sheer level of apathy incited by this news caused my fingers to s... Capcom sorry for Killer 7 Wii teasing 14 A very small portion of the internet recently bubbled at the thought of Capcom's demented and abstract piece of videogame surrealism, Killer 7, being remade for the Nintendo Wii. A Wii versio... The Non-Newsround #2: Serving you garbage on a silver platter 28 Sometimes, I like to wrap my fingers around the shaft, press a thumb on the end, and pretend that my penis is some sort of warm joystick, and that I am playing video games with it. When I'm n... VH1 tugs on your retro heartstrings with four crappy new games 24 We all know that VH1 is the station for older, and supposedly wiser (read: un-hip), music aficionados. The kind of kind of people that would, upon hearing Freedom Rock, ask you to turn it up, man... The Limited Edition Simpsons Xbox 360 34 Had it not come from Microsoft's PR agency, I'd think it was a photoshop job. The Simpsons Xbox is very real, folks. Oddly enough, today's announcement of the rare limited edition con... Keep saving those pennies, PS3 price cut still ain't coming 17 Because overall PlayStation 3 sales have hit just under 4 million consoles worldwide, Sony hasn't reached their self-imposed holy grail number of 6 million by the end of the latest financial ... Ten Afghan soldiers killed in suicide b ... oh, look, Multiball! 20 One of the strangest (and strangely disturbing) things to ever come from a respected (?) news source has to be MSNBC’s Flash game NewsBreaker. The online game, which plays jus... Guitar Hero makes you work for the songs! Oh no! 43 Over at a site called GameStooge, one of the writers complains about having to unlock songs in Guitar Hero II: Why must one have to unlock songs? The consumer just paid $90 for your product,... Goddamnit, watch this Paper Mario comparison video, you little puke 43 Ryan Stevens at GameTrailers really, really wants you to see this video comparison of next week's Super Paper Mario and the original Super Mario Bros. World 1-2. He's furious that -- you... First Grand Canyon screen released 12 Oh, c'mon. This is worthless.Seriously, we're neck-deep in the next-gen of gaming, and this is what they give us? I know a lot of us have been looking forward to the reportedly "brea... OOT2D creator not quite dead 23 I wish I could say "I told you so", but I didn't write the post. But if I did go through with some long-winded rant about how Richard Denton, creator of the fabled Ocarina of Time 2... IGN's Casamassina has a secret 62 IGN's resident Nintendo commando Matt Cassamassina pulled a Greybush on his blog on friday -- I mean, of course, telling everybody that he has key information that would rock yo' world, ... Sorry kids, no XBLA title this week 18 So much for that weekly Wednesday release program Microsoft had planned for Xbox Live Arcade. Since announcing the "promise," we've been slighted by not only not getting new games t... Attention EB Games: We don't want your Whopper rape 31 In a true sign of absolute absurdity, take a look at what one EB Games browser found as he hopped into his local store. Yeah, that's $7.99 for a Burger King game that now costs $.99. Way to ... When you stare into the abyss ... 18 I don't really visit Internet forums very often, with the exception of two: the Destructoid forums (natch), and Something Awful. I dig on the SA forums because the feats of intolerable stupi... Like Second Life? Go get a First Life instead 24 I don't like MMORPGs. I don't like the concept of it and I despise what it can do to a person. But I'd rather go play World of Warcraft than to ever get into Second Life. If I had to ... EA denies claim of Crysis on the 360 7 Despite what 1UP has said, EA has now officially come out and said that their PC gem will not make it to the Xbox 360. While 1UP had claimed a version of the game was being adapted for the conso... 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... 1UP NOT bought by Dell! 23 We finally received word from Ziff Davis that they have NOT sold 1UP to Dell. It looks like all is well in the world of game journalism once more. Everyone who said it wasn't true, give yours...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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