It's been nearly a year and a half since my last blog post here on Destructoid. There's been several reasons for that. The first and most prominent being that I just graduated from college and my senior year was full of scheduling, applic...

(Author's note: This article was originally posted back during the switch over to the new Destructoid format. When the site was reverted to the old style of blogs, it got lost in the transfer and I only now found the time to re-post it. T...

Music is one of the primary methods by which video games evoke an emotional response in the player. In order to elicit the response that the designers want, a piece of music is usually played during an event that appropriate syncs...

”Critics who treat "adult" as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of bein...

There are two types of “epic” boss themes in video game soundtracks: those that say “Oh my god we’re facing down an avatar of phenomenal cosmic power that could easily grind us into dust if we piss it off”; and those that say “…and we’r...

My article on Final Fantasy VI’s “Dancing Mad” got a lot more attention than what I was expecting, and it seemed like a lot of the readers in the comments wanted to see me write more on the subject of video game soundtracks. So I finally ...

Spring is upon us here in the Northern hemisphere, and with Spring comes warm weather, MTV showing footage of topless, underage girls on break, hay fever, and of course Easter, which is officially celebrated tomorrow. This holiday represe...

Finally, after more than two months of delays, the seventh episode of the web series There Will Be Brawlwas released on The Escapist this Friday. And holy shit, it is definitely worth the wait. My jaw was open for about the last third of ...

Hello, my name is SWE3tMadness, and I suck at strategy. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I know simple tricks like “Always aim for the eye,” and Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, but that just means my whole meta-game principle pretty much amounts to...

Activision finally announced the final tracks of the Guitar Hero 5 setlist today, so - as I said in my earlier post - here are the video links (and commentary) to go with them. Enjoy! 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite (Eh, not the most challengi...

The full setlist for Guitar Hero 5 hasn’t been released yet, but I’m running into the same problem as the GHWT tracks: I have no utter clue about what half these songs are like. So like the GHWT setlist, I did some research for anyone el...

It may not look like much, but as far as I know this is the only picture available of the art shown off at Miyamoto's roundtable at E3. Let the Internet matlocking commence. Picture credit goes to Nintendo World Report.

Throughout the years, Mario has faced off with his nemesis, Bowser, countless times. And from the first time we dueled the spiky behemoth on a rickety bridge over lava, to the time when we booted him into a sun at the center of the galaxy...

((Some minor spoilers for those who haven’t seen the movie or read the graphic novel.)) This movie is a miracle. By all rights, fans should hate it and everything it stands for. Zach Snyder has taken source material akin to the Bible –...

((Author's Note: Sorry about the huge wall of text, but I can't find any funny pictures to break up this article. If you want something less wordy and more snarky, check out my review of the movie Resident Evil: Degeneration which unfortuna...

Here we go again... So for Christmas, I finally couldn’t say no to a 20 dollar price tag on Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition and picked it up to play over break. After carving a bloody swath through rural Europe (and having an absolute blast...

Satch Boogie has been FC'd on Expert Guitar for GH:WT. Which means that now every guitar part for every song on the official setlist has been completed perfectly by the community at some point. And it only took roughly a month and a hal...

After 21 months of polls, primaries, and nonstop coverage of the candidate's fashion sense, it's finally over. And even though I didn't support the man who won, he still achieved his victory fair and sqaure. Obama is now our president-ele...

Well, in case you haven’t heard, Guitar Hero: World Tour finally hit stores last night. However, some very lucky players managed to get their hands on copies even earlier, and one of them has already posted video previews of the expert guit...

I read way too many webcomics already, with about 14 odd ones crammed into my favorites tab that I check regularly, and all but a few of those being video-game related in some manner. Now, we all are probably familiar with the general for...

Let me preface this review by saying that yes, I am a conservative, and yes, I'm sick of Michael Moore documentaries and the general elitist attitude Hollywood has towards the USA. That being said, this still isn't a great movie. in cas...

There's been a lot of news this past week surrounding Neversoft and Activision's latest stab at the now-bestselling franchise. But while we've seen the full setlist, there has been precious little information from people outside the game's ...

Yep, all 86 tracks. As far as I can tell, this is the real deal. Video links provided for people like me who have never heard of half these songs. 311 – “Beautiful Disaster” 30 Seconds to Mars – “The Kill” Airbourne – “T...

So, I've been a pianist for almost twelve years now, ever since second grade. While I love lots of classical music, as my interest in video games grew, so did my attraction to the music in those games as well. Then one day while surfing the...

Some of you might remember a little gizmo called the Action Replay for the Gamecube that allowed you to manipulate games like putty. Well now through a homebrew program, you can use an application called Ocarina to do precisely the same t...

((MAJOR spoilers ahead for those who have not completed this game.)) For some odd reason, these last few days in July have been particularly inspirational to the C-Bloggers here on Destructoid. I happen to be no different this time. But ...

Many people just don't like the idea of a Guitar Hero without Harmonix. While the takeover from Activision may have miffed some players, I actually didn't mind GHIII that much - the only issue I had were ridiculously difficult note chart...

Well, I just saw the highly-anticipated return of the beloved Indiana Jones franchise: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It's been - *checks calendar* - a really long time since the last movie came out, and with his grizzl...

So there's no denying that SSBB is an awesome game, and with a whopping 314 songs included, the soundtrack is no different. However, many of these songs sound awesome to us because of the nostalgia we attach to them. If you grew up endles...

So with the advent of Super Smash Brothers Brawl on March 9th, the Destructoid blogs most likely became flooded with posts related the game. Truthfully, I have no idea because, well, I was too busy playing Brawl. Specifically, I spent abo...