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True to our humble beginnings, Destructoid is not made up of (only) journalists; we view ourselves as critics. Our site is a curated, unique mix of editorial voices -- hired primarily from our community. This means you'll see different angles on all topics, which makes for some amusing debate. Get to know our cast of characters:
 | Hamza CTZ Aziz Director of Communications I am Destructoid's Community Manager and General to the Destructoid Army. We are made of many factions but we are all one force that embodies the robot. It is the Lieutenants, Majors and the th... Contest: Win a Limited Edition Halo 4 Xbox 360! |
 | Aaron Mxy Yost Forums Admin I'm an admin for the Dtoid Forums. I also host the Communitoid podcast with some of the other Dtoid community managers! Pronunciation: "Miks-yez-pit-lik" Most people just pronounce it "Mixie" ... Forums, we have them: February 2012 |
 | Dale North Editor-In-Chief I AM DESTRUCTOID'S EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. I LOVE CORGIS. I MAKE MUSIC. Review: Persona 4 Golden |
 | Conor Elsea Community Monster, US Conor has been working with the community since shortly after PAX East '10, where he drunkenly told an editor he wanted to be "more active, man" over and over. The next day, when reminded of it,... Destructoid City Groups and YOU! |
 | Chad Concelmo Destructoid's Features Editor. Chad loves the Super Nintendo, pinball, Pixar, and dolphins. His dream is to one day be taken to the undersea kingdom of the dolphins and made their new king. Since... Movies vs. videogames: Which did it better? |
 | Jim Sterling Reviews Editor Destructoid reviews editor, responsible for running and maintaining the cutting edge videogame critique that people ignore because all they want to see are the scores at the end. Also a regular f... Destructoid unboxes the Wii U |
 | Tony Ponce Associate Editor Destructoid Associate Editor and culture beat writer, Tony loves to share the latest in game-related art, movies, music, and more. Basically, this boils down to posting a lot of YouTube videos to... Get equipped with 'girl power' in Mega Man #19 |
 | Conrad Zimmerman Managing Editor Destructoid News Editor. An avid player of tabletop and video games throughout his life, Conrad has a passion for unique design mechanics and is a nut for gaming history. In addition to managing ... Karateka came out today on Xbox 360 |
 | Mr Andy Dixon US Community Manager Andy is Destructoid's US Community Manager. He moderates the Cblogs and Forums, hosts Friday Night Fights and other community playdates, and promotes well-written user blogs to the front page. ... Play Halo 4 with the Dtoid staff and community! |
 | Joanna Mueller Forums Admin Also known as Zodiac Eclipse on the forums, Joanna is your friendly neighborhood MOMerator and co-forum admin. She fights spam and trolls with Aaron and helps promote and support the awesomeness ... Forums, we have them: March 2012 |
 | Jonathan Ross Associate Editor Jonathan is one of Destructoid's resident PC gamers, although he plays the occasional console game here and there. You'll often find him playing TF2, Diablo or Torchlight, and, most recently, Wo... Impressions: StarCraft Collector's Edition Risk |
 | Jordan Devore PC Editor I'm a founding member of Destructoid, poster of seemingly random cute animals pictures, and tend to be shockingly inoffensive. I'll be your crying shoulder, indeed. Drop me a line if you have a ... Diablo III expansion happening, says Blizzard |
 | Spencer Hayes Community Manager/ Video Personality Nobody really knows what Spencer does. Technically some sort of Community Manager Spencer has also been known to stand in front of cameras and talk to people. Additionally, he's a hot hunk o' man... Team Fortress 2sdays: We all make mistakes |
 | Beccy Caine European Community Manager Beccy is the EU Community Manager and has the funny accent to prove it. Her role is to "maintain the European presence on the site", which primarily involves refusing to cater to American spel... PAX 2012 [picspam] |
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 | Abel Girmay Contributor Born and raised in Oakland, CA. Avid fan of FPS, RPGs, and Little Caesars Pizza. Seriously...they're only 5 dollars. Been gaming since the land before time where cartridges were the norm, flo... Preview: Control the dead in ZombiU's multiplayer |
 | Alasdair Duncan PC Contributor Hey guys, for years you have known me as Ali D but now I am revealed as Alasdair Duncan, who also happens to be a bearded Scottish guy. Who've thunk it, right? . I'm also one of the moderators o... Elite returns with new Kickstarter for Elite: Dangerous |
 | Alessandro Fillari is a contributor for Destructoid . A San Francisco native, he's an admirer of the city's diverse culture and lifestyle. Prior to joining the staff, he was a contributor and an editor for his coll... Preview: ZombiU brings back true survival horror |
 | Alex Bout PC Contributor Hi! I'm Alex, and I'm on the PC and Hardware teams here at Destructoid. While I've been playing games since I was a kid, I admit that I haven't really gotten into the gaming community until very... Review: Digital Storm Marauder |
 | Alex Katz Check out Flixist's review of Wreck-It Ralph! |
 | Allistair Pinsof Associate Editor Hi, my name is Allistair. I live in Austin. If I'm ever in your city, please come visit me in my minivan. I have many fresh diapers. No worries! Review: Chaos on Deponia |
 | Audun Sorlie A Norwegian journalist and published author, specializing in video game music and salami. Having lived in Brazil, United States, and Europe, he has been featured in many magazines around the worl... Review: Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams |
 | Bob Muir Bob has been hanging around ModernMethod for years and and somehow writes almost everywhere, including Japanator and Flixist. He was once lit on fire, but it's not as cool as you'd think. I reme... Review: One Piece: Pirate Warriors |
 | Brett Makedonski Once petted a penguin and a giraffe within 5 seconds of one another. Seriously. Stop the madness! An open letter to videogame publishers |
 | Brett Zeidler Contributor Dtoid's resident baby, Super Contributor, and Engineering QA. Brett Zeidler of the Internet is also a musician, co-host of Weekend Escape on Dtoid.TV, panda aficionado, and CS student. Buttz. Assassin's Creed III sold over 3.5M copies in first week |
 | Brian Szabelski Oh, hi there. Didn’t see you enter. Anyways, welcome to my humble little blog. For those of you not familiar with who I am, the name’s Brian. I’m 24 years old and hail from Findlay, Ohio. I wo... E3: Lego City battles crime on the Wii U |
 | Caitlin Cooke Dtoid's sporadic review, preview, and Dtoid original writer. Co-host of Weekend Escape with Brett Zeidler on dtoid.tv. "Without the looming consequence of death, is this even science?" Review: Tower Wars |
 | Casey Baker Casey Baker is passionate about all things video game, and has been this way since very young. His earliest memories involve trying to get E.T. out of a hole. Casey plays nearly all genres of g... Review: The Last Express (iOS) |
 | Chris Carter Editor Chris (Magnalon) has been enjoying Destructoid avidly since 2008. He finally decided to take the next step, make an account, and start blogging in January of 2009. Now, he's staff! ---------... The Max Scoville Mtn Dew Challenge - Chris Carter Edition |
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 | Daniel Starkey PC Contributor Some say he never sleeps and eats only gourmet amaretto cupcakes. Others claim he's a hyperactive optimist. To citizens of the Destructoid empire, though, he's Captain Starkey, Intergalactic Game... Check out these gaming blogs and discover happiness |
 | Darren Nakamura Darren is a scientist and an educator by day, and a writer and reviewer by night. He takes care of the Daily Hotness on Fridays. While he enjoys shooters, RPGs, platformers, strategy, and rhyth... The Daily Hotness: I wish I could listen to this |
 | Elliot Gay Monster Hunter 4 is a fast and ferocious beast |
 | Fraser Brown Contributor Got a splinter stuck in his hand nineteen years ago and just left it in there. True story. He lives with this thorny burden in Edinburgh, Scotland, drinking a lot of whisky and playing a lot of... Preview: Europa Universalis IV |
 | Fronz Tom Fronczak is a Founding Editor for both Destructoid and Flixist. Fronz has attended industry events such as CES and E3, but with a degree in 3D graphics he’s pursuing a career in game design a... Monday Mind Teasers: I saw her standing there |
 | Hamish Todd Hamish Todd is a journalist and game designer currently working on "Music of the Spheres", a puzzle game about bouncing bullets, Islamic art, and sound. The trailer and website for Music of the S... He worked on it for three years... and then threw it away |
 | Harry Monogenis Drag Mode added to Need for Speed World |
 | Hiroko Yamamura I am Hiroko, yes I am a ninja The Network Roundup: Ride the storm |
 | Ian Bonds Ian is Dtoid's resident review monkey. If there is a game no one else wants to review, it usually goes to Ian. As a reviewer, Ian has been writing for close to ten years for various sites, starti... The Daily Hotness: Happy Halloween 2012 |
 | Jason Cabral Contributor Destructoid News Contributor, 2D/3D artist and all around art nerd. Avid retro game and promotional items collector, and frequent practitioner of Wing Chun Kung Fu. Review: Cargo Commander |
 | Jayson Napolitano Jayson Napolitano is an Associate Editor specializing in coverage of game music. After driving both friends and family insane by humming his favorite melodies from videogames while growing up (in... Journey soundtrack gets physical CD release |
 | Jonathan Holmes "Where do dreams end and reality begin? Videogames, I suppose."- Gainax, FLCL Vol. 1 "The beach, the trees, even the clouds in the sky... everything is build from little tiny pieces of stuff. Ju... Review: Paper Mario: Sticker Star |
 | Joseph Leray Associate Editor My name is Joseph Leray, and I'm a contributor to Destructoid and TouchArcade. The best place to keep in touch is on . Archives of my work can be found and , as well as on my personal blog, . ... Review: Borderlands 2 'Captain Scarlett' DLC |
 | Josh Tolentino Editor I'm Josh "unangbangkay" Tolentino, and this is my cry for attention. I'm also the News Editor. Come visit, and see me gush about things directly related to video games. Or not. But hey, divers... Project Eternity gets funded, makes $3.9 million |
 | Joshua Derocher PC Contributor I am a PC gamer. EVE Online is my favorite game right now. I also enjoy Dragon Age: Origins, Skyrim, Starcraft II, and Planescape Torment. I started out gaming on an old school Atari and a Commo... Watch Carthage get attacked in Total War: Rome II |
 | Keith Swiader Preview: Madden NFL 13 gets serious on Wii U |
 | KingFoom Dtoid.TV Producer Live show: Hotline Miami giveaway |
 | Kyle MacGregor Contributor A feral child raised in the woods of California by a gaze of raccoons, one day Kyle happened upon the Cblogs and was taken in by the cult of the giant green robot. The rest is history reall... Battling the Backlog: Asura, Ico, Skyrim, Resident Evil 5 DLC |
 | Liam Fisher Just a few favorites: 1984, Lord of the Rings, William Faulkner (Specifically Sanctuary ad Absalom! Absalom!), Paradise Lost Cowboy Bebop, Gurren Lagaan, Jyu-Oh-Sei, Dragon Ball, Transformers (e... Konami whips up some new screens for Castlevania: LoS-MoF |
 | Liz Alexander I'm one of the token Australians.. I like ponys, kittens and rainbows.. Be careful, I am a predator and I may just send explosive kangaroos after you. I play vidyagamez... EB Expo 2011: Alienware VIP Gaming Challenge |
 | Matthew Razak Monday reviews aren't on Monday. It's old school, trust me. OK, so I've been and editor for a while now. I probably should fill this part in a bit more fully. I've been here a while. In most a... Review: 007 Legends |
 | Max Scoville My name is Max Scoville and I host on Revision3. You are more than welcome to follow me on and I have a of some weird pictures I drew. Here's an embarrassing picture of me from high school: The DTOID Show: Wii U, Halo 4, Uncharted & Curiosity |
 | Patrick Hancock PC Contributor Watching and playing competitive games like Dota and StarCraft take up most of his time. His three favorite non-video game things in the world are space, dinosaurs, and puppets. So if there we... Indie Nation: Zineth |
 | Raz Rauf Getting down with the Wagner in PlanetSide 2 |
 | Stephen Beirne There once was a man from an island Who preferred his spare time to be silent. He liked Final Fantasy XIII, Epistemology, And when gamers got mad he got violent. Goodbye, cruel will: Determinism in videogames |
 | Sterling Aiayla Lyons PC Contributor Aiayla, mistress of keyboards, conqueror of mouses! Heralding the PC master race, but still with enough time to span the mountains and valleys of the PS3, the Wii, and the Xbawks, Unfortunately,... League of Legends Harrowing event officially begins |
 | Steven Hansen Contributor Steven watches anime & sports, buys meat out of trucks, dates a Muppet, and is only good at cooking. He stands before you bereft of solace and well on the road to perdition. (´^ω^) The Daily Hotness: Max Scoville, what have you done? |
 | Storm Dain My name is Storm Dain...no, really it is. I am an avid gamer and video editor. So what does that mean? I MAKE VIDEO REVIEWS! I review for current generation consoles, and for all types of gam... Storm's Adventure with Mortal Kombat |
 | Tara Long I like bunnies. The DTOID Show: GTA V, Assassin's Creed III, & Cliffy B! |
 | Victoria Medina Contributor I've always been terrible with talking about myself, I want to be witty and give you something fun to read, but I never know quite how to say the things I want to say. At least about myself. I ... ESA Foundation awards $90,000 in scholarships |
 | Niero Gonzalez Founder & Publisher Hi, I started Destructoid. Ever heard of it? Destructoid used to be my tiny personal blog on the web, and now it's grown into this crazy monstrosity of a gaming community. Needless to say, I... Destructoid Mobile has been redesigned, go play |
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