Destructoid

Ms. Destructoid costume at Destructoid's 8 year anniversary. Costume designed by Kayla, who is a professional dancer that doesn't need SJWs to judge her career choices

Destructoid is a video game site that 2 million+ people read every month, ten years running, which has also won various awards including 6 Webby Nominations, 1 Webby Honoree, a Sofie, a Tellie, and a UK Games Media Award. The site is funded by banner advertisements and ad-free memberships, paid for by its regular patrons. The site is divided into a few main sections: News, Reviews, Videos, Community Blogs, and Quickposts. Naturally, such success has drawn Destructoid a ridiculous amount of conservative haters. Destructoid is run and staffed by a rotating roster of editors, and has published over 300 different writers on the home page. Editors are given industry credentials to cover press-only industry events. According to the site's hosting company, Destructoid serves 14 terabytes of data a month.

History

Destructoid was owned by Niero Gonzalez so that he could attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2006. After initially being rejected, Gonzalez began writing original editorials and drawing cartoons which were picked up by then-established gaming blogs like Joystiq and Kotaku. In 2007 the site relaunched with user blogs, forums, and a team of contributors. After E3, Gonzalez appeared at the press conference dressed as Mr. Destructoid (Destructoid's robot mascot, shown on logos and promotional material) to hand out promotional flyers. Gonzalez was the first to break the news of Jack Thompson's disbarment. Destructoid posts an average of 50 stories a day. It was among the first to break stories such as the Nintendo Wii controller's final design, the Sony PlayStation 3's price at launch and Halo 3's release date. Its original editorial work gained mainstream syndication including the web show Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?, now syndicated on GameTrailers. Other works were picked up by social bookmarking sites like the satirical Ten Golden Rules of Online Gaming, and its Guides on Recognizing Gamers. The Mr. Destructoid costume was redesigned in 2012 by Volpin Props, featuring animated LED circuitry, and is still active as their mascot at press events.

Presence in video games

The site's mascot, Mr. Destructoid, has appeared in various console, mobile, and PC video games.

In 2007, it was announced that Hudson Entertainment, the American branch of Hudson Soft had teamed up with Destructoid to develop and introduce a playable character based on Destructoid's mascot, Mr. Destructoid, into its Xbox Live Arcade game Bomberman Live. Mr. Destructoid later appeared in Bomberman Ultra, the PlayStation 3 port of Bomberman Live. Mr. Destructoid's head is available as an unlockable helmet in PixelJAM's game Dino Run, by entering the password "totinos" in the cheats menu. This was included as an in-joke, because that particular brand of pizza was a favorite of one of the editors, and he in turn was a friend of the game's developers. The code was revealed in one chapter of the Podtoid podcast.

In 2008, DestructoidTemplate:'s mascot was also included in the platform game Eternity's Child, but was later removed after a scathing review of the game on the web site. Mr. Destructoid also appeared in Agent MOO: Maximum Overdeath on Xbox Live Indie Games along with Ron Workman, Destructoid's former community manager.

In 2010, it was announced that Mr. Destructoid would be appearing in the upcoming XBLA release of Raskulls. Later that year it was discovered that Chapter 2-18 in Super Meat Boy is called Destructoid. The game was acclaimed by many of the editors, taking DestructoidTemplate:'s Game Of The Show at the Penny Arcade Expo earlier in July. Mr. Destructoid also appears in the flash game Pirates vs. Ninjas, by Bardo Entertainment.

In 2011, Mr. Destructoid appeared as a non-playable character in BiteJacker, a game created by the Bytejacker show on the iPhone as a VIP Character. Your score increases the longer that he remains on screen. In July DestructoidTemplate:'s reviews editor, Jim Sterling, became a playable character in The Blocks Cometh. Later that month Mr. Destructoid appeared in Twisted Pixel's Ms. Splosion Man as a destroyable villain during challenge mode, and again as a ball-swallowing fixture in Zen Studio's Pinball FX as part of the Ms. Splosion Man pinball table. On August 1 Mr. Destructoid became a playable character in Arcade Jumper on iOS. The remake of the classic arcade game Burgertime also features Mr. Destructoid as a playable character.

In 2012, Mr. Destructoid was revealed as a playable character in SpicyHorse's Big Head Bash, where his rooster gun shoots similar but smaller "cocks". He is also a non-playable monster enemy in MonsterMind (Facebook Game) and a machinegun accessory in PerfectWorld's Blacklight Retribution. In the game Retro City Rampage, several of DestructoidTemplate:'s staff appeared in the game as unlockable player skins that are available by going to MJ's Face-R-Us and entering the coupon code DTOID.^{[sauce plz!?!1!]}

Charitable Work

In 2008, Jim Sterling, a Destructoid editor, took part in a sponsored gaming marathon raising money for young cancer patients. Raising $3,000 for the charity, Sterling and friend John Kershaw played a selection of games from the SingStar franchise, effectively singing almost non-stop for twelve hours. The event was broadcast live online for the duration of the event. In 2009, Niero, and other Destructoid editors continued the gaming marathon tradition on October 17–18 for cancer awareness raising $4,835.60 for Extra Life children's hospital in Texas. In 2010, the Destructoid office hosted a 24-hour gaming marathon for the charity Extra Life. Community members raised over $6,000 for Children's Miracle hospitals in Texas. Destructoid has also partnered with Revision 3 to build a clean water well in Africa through the Charity Water organization. In 2011, Destructoid hosted another marathon for Extra Life, raising $6909.16 for Children's Miracle hospitals. In 2012, Destructoid hosted a 56-hour livestream on its Dtoid.tv channel, which raised over $7,000 for Habitat for Humanity. The Gonzalez flew to Costa Rica and assisted the build of a 32-house government project for families living in extreme poverty in Liberia.

Controversy

Destructoid was criticized during GamerGate for firing an employee over publishing a single-source news story about Chloe Sagal and her fraudulent charity drive for a made up terminal illness. The site owners were against running the story as Chloe has a history of mental issues. When the publication asked Allistair for additional sources and he refused and ran the story anyway, which caused an uproar on social media for outing a transgender person, and then attempting to shift blame to his employer which included ugly personal attacks to Allistair's employer. Screenshots of Allistair's attacks made the rounds on GameJourno Pros which some considered a form of collusion, while others cited as self-inflicted career suicide. It was previously cited here that Destructoid fired Allistair for exposing the scandal (omg pageviews!), which obviously don't make any sense with all the facts left out. Destructoid is also criticized for upvoting it's stories on Digg, but the writers did so with their real names under the site's terms of use. Ironically, Digg redesigned a year later because its own community was bullying publications like Destructoid from participating and consequently self-imploded. Destructoid is also criticized for laying off Holly Green, who dug into Destructoid on Twitter two years after being fired. This forced the owners to give a brutal interview about Holly's chemical abuse problems, and it was also discovered that various co-workers cited her as volatile and difficult to work with. In 2013 management stopped supporting Vbulletin and split the forums into its own site (now called OuterHeaven Forums), and was also the subject of controversy by firing a popular moderator for hazing new members and refusing to stop making rape jokes.

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