Spoilers, Y'all Author's Note: The following blog post was written after watching the latest Rev Rant on the site, in which Mr. Burch deplores the lack of cool, interesting gay characters in video games. In the video, he holds up Persona 4...

Author's Note I started writing this article yesterday, not too long after Runner was actually released. I successfully completed the article, however, over a 10 hour period, and, as such, there is a very pronounced tonal shift in the work....

Is Pokemon the most Influential RPG of all time? When I was in third grade, there was nothing in the world that seemed more important than the fantastical whozits and whatzits of the Pokemon franchise. My friends and I devoured everything ...

Warning! Mad Spoilers for the Entire Arc of the MGS series follow! For a few years now, I�ve approached most game releases in a state of cautious optimism, hoping that the game delivers a fine experience, but trying to keep expectations n...

Over on Giant Bomb, I host Bomb Should Have A Face, Giant Bomb's Officially Official Community Podcast(an idea I literally stole from the fine guys on the Failcast). Unlike other game podcasts, which are more focused on news, Bomb Should Ha...

Sure, Gears of War 2 looks incredible, but is the game going to turn as much of a profit if everyone buys the game used? I was really surprised with the discussion on one of my subscribed podcasts this week about the Publisher fear of use...

A video created by 38 Studios Producer Rich Gallup and Illegal Aliens screenwriter Ben Coello. The video is intended to promote 38 Studios(the dev house owned by Red Sox Pitcher Curt Shilling) and the sister site they own, called Azeroth Ad...

Over on Giantbomb.com, where every single game has its own individual forum, I've been spending a lot of time in the Braid forum, inevitably talking about the greater meaning behind the game, as well as debating the nature of the medium as ...

I want to rewind time. I want to be able to go back to this morning, to forget everything that happened in the past 12 hours. I want to play Braid again, to have those same revelations, those same discoveries all over again. I want to find ...

DBZ:Burst limit doesn't actually play too badly, but between the straight-up broken online mode, lazy reuse of animation between characters, boring and sleepy voice acting, and single play mode bereft of context to the show, its hard to im...

Let's get the obvious joke over with. I love Rayman! Who doesn't love Rayman? I would go so far as to proclaim that EVERYONE LOVES RAYMAN! HILARIOUS. Truth be told, I have nothing but deep affection for the Rayman franchise. The baby of...

Ladies and Gentleman of Destructoid: I can't take it anymore. I am so sick and tired of the lies, the deceit, the bottled up emotions, contained for too long! I have literally spent the past 8 years denying the truth! I've told myself that...

DEAR GOD. I finally understand I know exactly what Hideo Kojima intended when he released Metal Gear Solid 2. I've analyzed MGS2 bizare,otherworldy,fantastical,stupid,ridiculous,insane,and politely meterosexual storyline... and I finally ...

I'm not necessarily against the idea of a Bioshock movie. Of all the gaming franchises out there, few showcase the tremendous potential of storytelling in the medium quite like Bioshock. I'm not even too worried that the project is being...

Author's Note: This blog entry has been edited to remove information that may not have been made public when originally written. Rumor has it that Sega's latest attempt to beat life into rotting corpse of Sonic the Hedgehog takes the class...

"I need to know what happened! Give me that!" Back in March of 2007, Rockstar released the very first trailer for Grand Theft Auto Iv. Before the release, people were wondering just what Rockstar would be announcing in the trailer. Would ...

In a wild moment of Destructoid-posting madness, I must have posted 8 or 9 questions to the Failcast(which EVERYONE knows is Destructoid's best unofficial community podcast. It wasn't even that I neccesarily "needed" to know the answer to...

Life is complicated.... After nearly 40 hours of gun-blazing, lady-dating- comedy-watching,decison making action, I closed the book on GTA IV. While I wait for more inspiration another Monthly Mus...