The Grandstanding Of Gaming Needs To Stop
I’m not entirely sure when the wretched tentacles of the real world’s troubles began to wriggle their way in to my preferred form of escapism, but I would really love it if they would stay the ... more
I’m not entirely sure when the wretched tentacles of the real world’s troubles began to wriggle their way in to my preferred form of escapism, but I would really love it if they would stay the ... more
There are few things in this industry that motivates me to write these days. However, when I came across this ambitious indie title by Theory Interactive, I had to bring it to the Destructoid... more
When Final Fantasy XIV was revealed one of the first things that was announced was a beta test. Within a matter of weeks a beta application went up on the main FFXIV site, but nobody has receiv... more
There's an event here called Temporada de Patos, big tournament thing with a bunch of different games. They do this event every six months, so I figured I'd browse around the website. And oh sh... more
I'm trying to compile all of the information regarding the event and stuff it in to one single post so pardon me if everything seems thrown together right now. Good news already flowing from th... more
No, he isn't made of thousands of polygons, but in the realm of gaming he is far more unique to me than most of the high-res avatars I control upon my television screen. As I told all of you la... more
Yes, I know it's late but I was on vacation that week and I'm also lazy. thankfully Comic-Con hasn't been a suckfest so I don't expect to have to write up a scathing opinion on it. See that v... more
Yes, it appears so. Atlus, who has been just shoveling out the SMT love lately, has dropped an ad in the latest Famitsu magazine with a rather enigmatic spin on it. It involves purple clouds a... more
Now that the site has been updated a video is shown with three men from India speaking about the game (presumably) and every now and then one of them will say "The Last Guy! Playstation 3!!" ... more
Google Earth? Zombies? Is this already made of complete Win? I'm pretty sure from what little I've learned of this game that I'm going to buy this as soon as it hits the PSN, but I still need t... more
I've been wanting to change my homepage for some time now. I've been using a clone of the Opera Speed Dial feature for firefox and it's useful, but ugly as hell. That's when I thought about mak... more
Yes, I got in to the closed beta test (wasn't that difficult really) and considering I'm an MMO-hound I just had to try out this latest offering in the massively multiplayer genre. Considering ... more
and the topic is the persistent rumor that Kingdom Hearts 3 is coming to the Wii. For those not wishing to click out this is what it says: "We'll kick off the next 20 years of Nintendo Power... more
The picture conveys my feelings for the full-version of the game. The single-player campaign is fun and given the humerous script of the story it should keep anyone interested until the blast t... more
This is a rather late considering at the rate that news travels anything regarding GTA4 now would be considered as "OLD", but I was playing through the game yesterday and I was thinking about t... more
Seriously, who hasn't just absolutely broken the internet screaming about how awful the DRM application SecuROM is? Initially touted as the end of piracy it has become nothing but a huge scam... more
RAWR I figured that that Jim would find this amusing. Hopefully everyone else will too. more
Yesterday the gaming media outlets pretty much echoed the same news story over and over that cited a source that claimed that Versus XIII was being suspended so that the team could focus on Fin... more
So, for like the last we've seen the release and re-release of the Star Wars Lego games for Ps2, 360, PS3, PSP, etc etc etc. However, this time around it seems that the Lego games development te... more
Updated first post! I deleted the other first post to make this first post. I have decided to dedicate this blog to gaming news that usually isn't covered off the front page, but expect a bit of... more
Valdis story has some of the nicest art I've seen in an Independent game. Everything from the backgroudns to the characters and enemies is done with such beauty, you would imagine th... more
As you can see from the screen shots, blocksum has a set of hi-tech graphics. Being a puzzle game, their job is not really to be bleeding edge, but to have a practical purpose. The ... more
This game doesn't have the best graphics out there, in fact, you could say they're quite simple and minimalistic, but they're not ugly. The design varies from level to level, while s... more
Well, as a side effect of being a mexican, I'm poor. This means that I must get my gaming fix from either pirating software and/or Indie games. And that's pretty much why I'm starting this se... more
November 10th was a important date in the History of Cross-Border Gaming. Me and some friends had the pleasure of hosting a small gaming tournament, the third of its kind. I will sprinkle some... more
This is my introductory post for my community blog in destructoid, I shall explain what it's all about. Living in Mexico is weird, the are really weird: packers, smashers, gothgamers, jgamers, ... more