Promoted from our Community Blogs [Dtoid community member ashamasha used a love of video games to learn English. If that isn’t badass, then I don’t know what is. Want to see your own stuff appear on the front page?Go write something!–Occams Electric Toothbrush] In the early ’90s I realized that video games were my thing and back then it was pretty easy for me to get into them. I, like many others here, am not from an English speaking country which never really bothered me when I was young....

In the Grand Theft Auto series, its main characters are often more interesting than villains. You can attribute that to the fact that they are, sometimes, as ruthless as your average video game villain and not always sticking to the good guy versus bad guy dichotomy. Making a scummy asshole more endearing isn’t the easiest task, so let’s give Rockstar some credit and break down who’s the best among the protagonists in theGTAseries....

Prepare your loins Hey, kids! In lieu of a live Destructoid Show today, Max and I have even more awesome in store for you. As part of their six-dayBay Area tour, popular video game cover band The Minibosses will be stopping by the Revision3 studio today to perform a couple songs, including the classic “Castlevania” off their albumBrass. We couldn’t be more excited to host them, so when our episode goes up, please shower them with views and nice comments!...

Coming to Steam in 2021 Friday fact: More games could stand to let us play as legion-leading necromancers. The Unliving, a roguelite action-RPG from RocketBrush Studio and Team17, looks like it could be one of the good ones. You’ll raise hordes of skeletons, sacrifice them to cast spells, and gather artifacts until the day you die. Of course, death is only temporary – you’re a necromancer. you may be your own boss....

For anyone looking for a great game to play to pass the week ahead of some big upcoming releases, Deep Silver has you covered on Steam after making one of their best-ever apocalyptic games free for the next 24 hours for anyone who goes to buy it. Metro 2033 Redux, which was released over a decade ago, has suddenly had a 100% discount placed on it until tomorrow and can be picked up by anyone right now....

And by “PS3 backpack,” I don’t mean some fashionable branded bag, I mean an actual backpack, hooked up to a PS3 and battery. In some kind of promotional stunt that wasn’t expressly for Sony but rather EPSON, a stuntman was saddled with this ridiculous harness mounted with an EPSON HD office projector-thing, then sent out into the world to play what looks likeNeed for Speed SHIFTwhile projecting the images on ceilings, building sides, inside wind tunnels and in nightclubs....

Let’s play with matches Last week, I went to thePLAY creative gaming festival, which takes place every year in Hamburg, Germany. PLAY17 was both entertaining and educational, with something for people of all ages, including workshops, talks and even a game-themed poetry slam. The highlight of the long weekend, though, was the exhibition spaces, which were filled to the brim with prototypes and new/recent releases by indie developers and students from all over Europe....

Prepare for titansmall Titanfallmight not have made as big of a splash as it wanted, with itsCall of Duty-but-with-mechs gameplay, but it has its following. Those who just can’t get enough of the “expansive sci-fi universe” ofTitanfallat home might be in luck; developer Respawn Entertainment is teaming up with Nexon to bring the franchise to mobile and tablet devices. The two studios are co-funding a new developerParticle City, which is sort of a sub-developer to Respawn, founded in part by Respawn’s Vince Zampella and sharing office space in Los Angeles....

I don’t know who’s buying this justification, though Modders have found settings inWatch Dogs‘ filesthat can be enabledto make the game look better and, in some cases, even improve performance. What’s the deal with that? “The dev team is completely dedicated to getting the most out of each platform, so the notion that we would actively downgrade quality is contrary to everything we’ve set out to achieve,” said Ubisoft. “We test and optimize our games for each platform on which they’re released, striving for the best possible quality....

If you’re one of the many people who, like me, felt deep dismay at seeing Epic Games give up on theirUnreal Tournamentrevival to focus onFortnite, then I have good news. OldUnreal is the name of a fan-made project meant to revive Unreal and Unreal Tournament for modern machines. Both games work fantastically well on WinXP and above, are free, and, most importantly, the project won’t come to an abrupt end caused by the whim of a disgruntled IP owner....

The release of WWE All-Stars is quickly approaching, and recently we had the honor and privilege of visiting THQ’s San Diego office to get a look at the game in action. Jon Carnage had the chance to interview two legends in their respective fields: WWE legend Rey Mysterio and video game legend Sal Divita. WWE All-Starsis shaping up to amazing, bringing me back to the classic days of arcade wrestling games....

Will Sonic kiss a human girl? Yakuza: Like a Dragonjust arrived, and naturally, series producer Daisuke Sato worked on it. He’s a busy man, having worked on the series as a designer from the very start (2005!), and is still with Sega to this day. To that end, Sega recently interviewed him in video form, which led to all sorts of interesting discussions regarding theYakuzaseries, as well as…Sonic? In the video below, Sato notes that he’d love the chance to work on aSonicgame, but would want it to be “completely different” compared to what has been released so far....

8BitDo has revealed a new entry in their keyboard lineup. While their previous keyboards were based on the Famicom and NES aesthetic, this one is based more on the classic home microcomputer, the Commodore 64. Oh, yeah. That ismajestic. Electronics were so much more elegant in the 80s. If it didn’t feature wood paneling, it was beige. The classic Commodore 64 breadbox design is peak ‘80s electronics. It was marketed as an affordable home computer for the family, and because of its ubiquity for that period, a lot of games were created for it....