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This Pikachu-themed pimp outfit is pretty darn incredible

The facial expression of this man simultaneously dressed as a pimp and Pikachu says it all, until you notice the woman on the left of the photograph. Oh, but just wait -- if you go look at the full image, you'll then see that...   more

This Pikachu-themed pimp outfit is pretty darn incredible photo

Have you used any of these weird-ass controllers?

When it comes to controllers, I try to steer clear of third-party options, as I've never once had a better experience with a knock-off versus the real thing. On the other hand, I gladly welcome any and all limited edition pad...   more

Have you used any of these weird-ass controllers? photo


Have you used any of these weird-ass controllers? photo
Have you used any of these weird-ass controllers? photo
Have you used any of these weird-ass controllers? photo
Have you used any of these weird-ass controllers? photo
Have you used any of these weird-ass controllers? photo
Have you used any of these weird-ass controllers? photo



Did you start your morning with PS Vita's Wake-up Club?

Let's face it: waking up in the morning sucks, but Sony has a new game of sorts to make that harsh reality a little more tolerable. Wake-up Club is essentially an alarm clock with social game elements for your PlayS...   more

Did you start your morning with PS Vita's Wake-up Club? photo

Pikachu, I choo-OH GOD WHY

Jhonen Vasquez of Invader Zim and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac fame is the master of the weird and disgusting. His wonderfully grotesque take on the "normal" is no more apparent than with Creepachu! This warped take on Pikachu...   more

Pikachu, I choo-OH GOD WHY photo

Muahahahahahahaha

Muahahahahahahaha!   more

Muahahahahahahaha photo

Japonies 2013

So, like, this is nothing new. We briefly brought up Japan World Cup, a weird-ass horse race-betting DVD game, a couple years back. You might not have heard of it. Or, if you are like me, you completely forgot that this is a thing that exists. Consider this a refresher course in "Japan is f*ckin' nuts" 101. [Vinesauce] Studyguy - Japonies 2013 [YouTube]   more

Japonies 2013 photo

HAWP: Oh Ash, your diplomacy is so thick and hard

This is... well... umm... you know what? I'm not even going to explain it. The latest Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? is brilliance, plain and simple. Go watch it and have a good laugh or two. Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? - Civilization V [GameTrailers]   more

HAWP: Oh Ash, your diplomacy is so thick and hard photo

LOST gets a 16-bit RPG makeover

Oh, LOST. I loved you. You were such an addicting show, even when the plot got horribly stupid. And thanks to College Humor's on going series of turning everything into a Super Nintendo RPG, I want to rewatch every single episode on Netflix.   more

LOST gets a 16-bit RPG makeover photo

Spiritual successor to Shaq Fu out now for iOS, Android

Shaquille O'Neal has returned to gaming thanks to Hiptic Games, the developer of ShaqDown. An appropriately ridiculous-looking Android and iOS title available as of today, this $0.99 game isn't going to win any awards for or...   more

Spiritual successor to Shaq Fu out now for iOS, Android photo

Great MAGFest 11 moment #2: Impromptu dance battle!!!

As I said yesterday, mind-blowing stuff can happen at any second at MAGFest. The kind of stuff that people will be talking about for years to come. Stuff like a random dance battle in the middle of the dealer room. I'm on my...   more

Great MAGFest 11 moment #2: Impromptu dance battle!!! photo

Be a McDonald's Store Manager in Dragon Quest VII game

You'd expect to play as a wizard or warrior in a Dragon Quest game, but in this McD DS downloadable promotional game in Japan, you can also play as a McDonald's crew member or store manager. DS title Dragon Quest VII: McDonal...   more

Be a McDonald's Store Manager in Dragon Quest VII game photo

Take a visit to the Dafoeverse

The Wii U's Miiverse community network is my absolute favorite thing about the console thus far. This is in no small part due to our very own Jim Sterling's declaration that the community for Rabbids Land would see better us...   more

Take a visit to the Dafoeverse photo

Capybara Games' holiday .gifs will be hard to top

It's tough not to be a fan of Critter Crunch and Super Time Force developer Capybara Games when they go and do something awesome like make 12 holiday-themed .gifs for our enjoyment. Granted, only nine of the set have been pos...   more

Capybara Games' holiday .gifs will be hard to top photo

Game glitches are the WORST

Imagine it. You're playing a game, having a great time, and then BAM! Your game glitches out. Sometimes the glitch can be funny. Other times, well, I hope your game auto-saved before all chaos broke out.   more

Game glitches are the WORST photo

NINTENDO 64!!!

A reinterpretation of a Christmas classic.   more

NINTENDO 64!!! photo

Review: Black Knight Sword

Within my first thirty minutes of playing Black Knight Sword, I encountered a menu option called "cat head grass," a giant mother eye that eats hearts, and severed skulls in a microwave oven that serve as health power-ups. Yep, this is definitely a Grasshopper Manufacture joint.   more

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Black Knight Sword

Within my first thirty minutes of playing Black Knight Sword, I encountered a menu option called "cat head grass," a giant mother eye that eats hearts, and severed skulls in a microwave oven that serve as health power-ups. Yep, this is definitely a Grasshopper Manufacture joint.   more

 Black Knight Sword photo

Strength and honor! Ziff Davis rallies outside CNET offices

In a showing of support for the recent review debacle still underway at CNET, staffers from Ziff Davis including 1UP writers (and that oh-so-dreamy Jeremy Parish) put together a small but profoundly effective demonstration in...   more

Strength and honor! Ziff Davis rallies outside CNET offices photo

Two views of Crackdown: Who wins?

On Thursday, our boys over at Epileptic Gaming had their usual show. And, as usual, they did a review of a game. That game on Thursday happened to be Crackdown (my baby) and joining Wheat with a review was a guy named For...   more


World famous Rob Summa on Marvel.com

In this special edition of Destructoid Reviews (See that new tab up in the toolbar? We're now reviewing games and hardware with the spirit of breeding rabbits) our momentarily flaming executive editor spent some quality ...   more

World famous Rob Summa on Marvel.com photo

Vickie Hogan is dead, not my Sixaxis

Today Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in a casino just north of me, dying at the hump age of 39. Despite a long adult life she will only be remembered for having large breasts, leaving Texas, marrying a (very!) old man for his m...   more

Vickie Hogan is dead, not my Sixaxis photo


Vickie Hogan is dead, not my Sixaxis photo
Vickie Hogan is dead, not my Sixaxis photo
Vickie Hogan is dead, not my Sixaxis photo
Vickie Hogan is dead, not my Sixaxis photo
Vickie Hogan is dead, not my Sixaxis photo
Vickie Hogan is dead, not my Sixaxis photo



Joysticks, the movie

It's officially movie month here at Destructoid folks. First, Robert had the full Dead or Alive movie for your viewing displeasure. Then I gave you the preview of Game Box 1.0. DMV gave us a little Weekend Reading about ...   more

Joysticks, the movie  photo


Joysticks, the movie  photo
Joysticks, the movie  photo
Joysticks, the movie  photo
Joysticks, the movie  photo
Joysticks, the movie  photo
Joysticks, the movie  photo



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P: Saints Row: The Third

I don't know about you, but I'm starting to get pretty tired of how serious games are these days. Videogames are a portal to do stuff you'd never be able to do in real life, yet most games out there try to capture realistic e...   more

P: Saints Row: The Third photo


P: Saints Row: The Third photo
P: Saints Row: The Third photo
P: Saints Row: The Third photo
P: Saints Row: The Third photo
P: Saints Row: The Third photo
P: Saints Row: The Third photo



PAX 10: Hands-off with the delightfully gruesome Swarm

Going into PAX Prime, I had only a vague idea of what Hothead Games' Swarm was all about. Cute blue guys, something about hilarious deaths, and the mention of Pikmin. Alright, got it! That's more than enough to grab my attent...   more

PAX 10: Hands-off with the delightfully gruesome Swarm photo


PAX 10: Hands-off with the delightfully gruesome Swarm photo
PAX 10: Hands-off with the delightfully gruesome Swarm photo
PAX 10: Hands-off with the delightfully gruesome Swarm photo
PAX 10: Hands-off with the delightfully gruesome Swarm photo
PAX 10: Hands-off with the delightfully gruesome Swarm photo
PAX 10: Hands-off with the delightfully gruesome Swarm photo



PSP: Chili Con Carnage trailer overload

There is so much comedy gold in this new Chili Con Carnage trailer ... also, cocks (no, seriously!). Meet the rich, ruthless, and dumb villian, the equally dumb hero who's apparently in the air half the game. The more gam...   more


Insert racist joke about Mexicans here

Eidos Interactive has just released an enchilada of new screenshots for the best Mexican theme-based video game title ever concieved: Chili Con Carnage for (unfortunately to most) the PSP. The images sport crisp character de...   more


SimCity DS gets a promotional bangbus

In preparation for the February 22nd launch of Simcity DS, a street team is driving around Japan in a defaced party bus, complete with bullhorns, shouting at unsuspecting people to play the same damn game that Japanese people...   more

SimCity DS gets a promotional bangbus photo

The most hardcore Mexican themed game ever: Chili Con Carnage

¡Ay caramba, cojones! The Mexican-themed parody game reminds us of an over-the-top GTA meets Hot Shots, sans Charlie Sheen. Chili Con Carnage is set to launch this year on the PSP; check out the trailer above. If you c...   more


More Virtua Tennis 3 oddities: balloons?

We have yet another curiosity to add to the hilarious deck of oddball minigames in Virtua Tennis 3: A game mode where you exhert your aggressions against humanity by exploding balloons with tennis balls. It appears the goal...   more


Kristen Bell: Assassin's Creed is a Sci-Fi

Detective Veronica Mars (also known as Kristen Bell in the dimension where women take really long in the bathroom) went through a portal to meet with IGN and dropped major sci-fi bombs on the plot of Assassin's Creed: &q...;   more

Kristen Bell: Assassin's Creed is a Sci-Fi photo

Squenix brings you the greatest commercial known to man! [Updated!]

I want you all to find a comfortable position where you can fully absorb the majesty of the above video before you hit play. It is quite possibly the single greatest piece of film-as-surreality since Salvador Dali and Luis Bu...   more


Necro Nesia cartoon: kids are worm food

Nipponaid: click on the white box with black text to begin movie: The following movie is a promotional clip for Necro Nesia (official site), a small budget survival horror game for the Wii which consists of a character o...   more


Raving mad sculptor makes Wii Rabbid

Riley Holmes, take a bow. And a leak. Apparently it took this gentleman and friends over 5 hours (and a case of Mountain Dew) to make this squishy abomination of grease and mold. He writes "We wanted to make Rayman too, ...   more

Raving mad sculptor makes Wii Rabbid photo

Nintendo Mii maker online

I'm not sure how authentic it is, but someone finally made a flash Mii maker for us eager Wii fans to get a taste of what the new Miis will be like. Speaking of tasty, as you notice I wasn't biased with the Mii I made above...   more


Splinter Cell meets Zidane

Forget every "funny" video you have seen about Zidane, 'cause this official Ubisoft video is teh best the world has ever seen and will ever see on this topic. Props to Ubisoft for this badass video. Who knows? Maybe this is going to be the "special-Zidane-headbutt-move" in the new Splinter Cell. Want more Zidane video game cameos? Check this out.   more


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Spin the Bottle Wii U is ... what? Seriously, what?

[Update: Indie Games has more details on this bizarre social experience and notes how it shares a conceptual resemblance with Johann Sebastian Joust.] During my regular browse of NeoGAF to see if they'd said anything mean ab...   more

Spin the Bottle Wii U is ... what? Seriously, what? photo

Kiki Trick on Wii is a Japanese explosion for the ears

Sometimes, I have no idea what is going on in the minds of Nintendo execs. One minute, they're playing it safe with games starring Mario and Link; the next minute, they're releasing off-the-wall sh*t like Captain Rainbow and...   more

Kiki Trick on Wii is a Japanese explosion for the ears photo

Magicka DLC says 'Good Morning, Vietnam'

When Arrowhead studios said their plans for future Magicka DLC were really "out there", they weren't kidding. They've just announced a new pack for the game dated this spring, called "Magicka: Vietnam." Yeah, that's right. M...   more

Magicka DLC says 'Good Morning, Vietnam' photo

Minecraft ad takes a chunk out of a gangsta's head

It feels good to be a gangsta ... until some kid beats you in the face and yanks a diamond out of your skull. This rather amusing new commercial for Minecraft takes the "punching things for natural resources" schtick onto the streets with uniquely grisly results.  And no it isn't racist, you silly bastards! Kid smashes black man’s face for diamonds in latest Minecraft ad [Mukyou]   more

Minecraft ad takes a chunk out of a gangsta's head photo

Yakuza Of The End videos confirm celebrities, drama, guns

In case you were thinking that Sega's zombie-themed Yakuza game, Yakuza Of The End, was some cheap cash-in on the already-moldering zombie-game trend, you'd be wrong. It's certainly a cash-in, but they're going all out, if t...   more

Yakuza Of The End videos confirm celebrities, drama, guns photo

Kinect hack shows how awesome an Ultraman game could be

Another day, another Kinect hack that shows more interesting things than any of the official games have come up with. This one uses the fancy camera's body tracking to put you into a theoretical videogame starring classic Ja...   more

Kinect hack shows how awesome an Ultraman game could be photo

Destructoid on Bonus Round (Part Deux)

Gametrailers has released part 2, Episode 8 of Bonus Round - The ethics of the Blogosphere. While I really enjoyed doing the show, I have to say that it makes me a sad panda that the best line of this show was cut out. ...   more


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