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Destructoid clearly got robbed of Best Blog again this year. I think they are still pissed we shipped Sterling off to America.
What's not mentioned here is that after the ceremony, two of the Grainger games guys were caught doing cocaine in the toilets.
Also that your own Hollie Bennett was nominated for one of the awards!
Also that your own Hollie Bennett was nominated for one of the awards!
What if it was used and splashed tomato soup on you? At the very least your soup would be ruined. People have been executed for less, probably.
People get offended way too easily. >.> We never have any kind of fun like that over here in Amureeka.
EUROPE FTW.
EUROPE FTW.
Keza Macdonald from IGN UK talked about it on their podcast and she sounded pissed off about the whole event, which she was one of the winners, so it was her night. These representatives from this company sound like idiots. Just because you sponsor a event, doesn't mean you get to control it and make it your own personal playground, to do whatever you want. Why would they, be tell the winners, to get off of the stage? Why would they be telling anyone, to do anything? You're just a freaking sponsor, you don't run the whole awards show!
Grainger Games are absolute shit-holes of shops. They attract the scummiest customers with their cheap prices for scratched discs, non-PAL games, and empty boxes. I seriously wouldn't have expected anything else from them.
Grainger's contribution to the night was spot on. When you look at the garbage most sites including this ones, how can you go wrong with midgets and jokes alike. I'm not condoning the individuals behaivour here but you need to ask yourself why did they think all that was a good idea in the first place?
Games Journalism is a joke in itself.
Games Journalism is a joke in itself.
I've actually had two, TWO fist fights in Grainger Games!
Ross is bang on, it full of gobby little spackers most of the time in the shop and the staff aren't much better
Ross is bang on, it full of gobby little spackers most of the time in the shop and the staff aren't much better
Grainger's contribution to the night was spot on. When you look at the garbage most sites including this ones, how can you go wrong with midgets and jokes alike. I'm not condoning the individuals behaivour here but you need to ask yourself why did they think all that was a good idea in the first place?
Games Journalism is a joke in itself.
Games Journalism is a joke in itself.
Let's take a look at your current front-page stories, shall we?
>"Marvelous made mad bank off of boobies and Vanillaware"
>"Tetris crackers: Taste Mother Russia in your mouth!"
>"Fruit Ninja Kinect unleashes my ninja penis"
>"Brawl in the Family pulls off a BRILLIANT Pokemon joke"
If Grainger acted like infantile arseholes, it's because that's what anyone might think was the expected standard of behaviour after reading the games media industry's infantile output.
>"Marvelous made mad bank off of boobies and Vanillaware"
>"Tetris crackers: Taste Mother Russia in your mouth!"
>"Fruit Ninja Kinect unleashes my ninja penis"
>"Brawl in the Family pulls off a BRILLIANT Pokemon joke"
If Grainger acted like infantile arseholes, it's because that's what anyone might think was the expected standard of behaviour after reading the games media industry's infantile output.
Neverminding the fact that this should have been reported on three days ago.
I think it's really poor form to have an article about the GMAs and not even mention that a destructoid staff member (now ex), Hollie, was nominated for one of the awards!
I think it's really poor form to have an article about the GMAs and not even mention that a destructoid staff member (now ex), Hollie, was nominated for one of the awards!
@ TheToiletDuck
Well I am not actually ex-staff yet, I still work here and yes I was nominated for an award.
Well I am not actually ex-staff yet, I still work here and yes I was nominated for an award.
Correction: Hollie is not even ex staff (until the 1st). So what the hell destructoid are you not proud of your own staff??
@ToiletDuck
Yeah the only logical conclusion is that Destructoid isn't proud of its staff's achievements, it couldn't possibily be that the one person who wrote this article (me) simply didn't know. That said, it's a glaring omission, one which I have now rectified.
@Hollie
Congratulations on the nomination, Hollie. I hope you weren't the victim of a flying condom.
Yeah the only logical conclusion is that Destructoid isn't proud of its staff's achievements, it couldn't possibily be that the one person who wrote this article (me) simply didn't know. That said, it's a glaring omission, one which I have now rectified.
@Hollie
Congratulations on the nomination, Hollie. I hope you weren't the victim of a flying condom.
I like granger as i got the GOW collection for £6, brand fucking new. Great prices, shitty, shitty shops.
I've never had a real problem with Grainger Games (though CHIPS is much better), but you just have to wonder who decided some of their antics (besides the drunkness and drugs, as that was mostly the morons they sent to 'represent' them) were a good idea.
I completely agree with what bugmenot just said... the more I come to destructoid as of late, the more I see the site turning into the sort of pandering bullshit "gaming" website that I hate to see. I dont think anyone on destructoid has the right to criticize this sort of childishness, when the sort of shit you guys consider "content" these days, is getting more and more laughable.
@bugmenot
Congratulations, you picked 4 stories posted on a weekend that were separated by a number of stories involving actual game news and community articles. Your point was what, exactly?
Maybe you want to be a part of a gaming site that's only personality is criticism and hate (cough cough Kotaku cough), or perhaps you'd rather prefer a gaming site that's personality shines relevant to how much they get paid for it to shine (cough cough IGN cough Gamespot cough), but as for me? I'd take Destructoid over any of em. Its the fucking weekend for god sakes, why can't they run something like the BitF article alongside actual news?
But apparently since you know so much about gaming journalism and the Destructoid community (I mean, that became quite apparent with your name. Couldn't even make your own account, huh?) then you should have no problem making your on website jam packed with information on an hourly basis with a professional, unbiased standpoint, right? Show us how its really done, hero.
Congratulations, you picked 4 stories posted on a weekend that were separated by a number of stories involving actual game news and community articles. Your point was what, exactly?
Maybe you want to be a part of a gaming site that's only personality is criticism and hate (cough cough Kotaku cough), or perhaps you'd rather prefer a gaming site that's personality shines relevant to how much they get paid for it to shine (cough cough IGN cough Gamespot cough), but as for me? I'd take Destructoid over any of em. Its the fucking weekend for god sakes, why can't they run something like the BitF article alongside actual news?
But apparently since you know so much about gaming journalism and the Destructoid community (I mean, that became quite apparent with your name. Couldn't even make your own account, huh?) then you should have no problem making your on website jam packed with information on an hourly basis with a professional, unbiased standpoint, right? Show us how its really done, hero.
@ ZRB:
"information on an hourly basis with a professional, unbiased standpoint, right? Show us how its really done, hero."
Doesn't seem to be getting that from here, that's for sure.
"information on an hourly basis with a professional, unbiased standpoint, right? Show us how its really done, hero."
Doesn't seem to be getting that from here, that's for sure.
Had they flicked money into the food instead of condoms, this scenario would have played out much differently.
Condoms cost money bitches Wsup
Condoms cost money bitches Wsup
Wow.. I love you guys in the UK but between your game retailers and your news sources, you've got to feel like your end of the industry (aside from a few shining examples, like Rocksteady) is being made into a complete mockery. I know its not so great here in the States but... Somehow this seems so much worse.
"Perhaps he thinks videogame journalists should be covering politics or wars instead of things that happen in the industry."
Videogame journalists: They've covered wars, you know.
"Perhaps he thinks videogame journalists should be covering politics or wars instead of things that happen in the industry."
Videogame journalists: They've covered wars, you know.
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