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No, a plastic grocery bag is not a travel bag Look, we’re all just pretending to be functional human beings who have our sh*t together. I’m a fan of anything that’ll help — like the Rolo travel bag, which I’ve got in theDestructoid Store for $42.99 and free shipping. The portable wardrobe pack measures 16” x 6” when packed up. Unroll it and you’ve got four mesh pockets to organize your stuff, with plenty of room for clothes, shoes, and toiletries....

They’re making pig-men, Jerry! Since Did You Know Gaming has covered basically every classic series ever at this point, they need to start to work into the more granular type stuff. You know, breakdowns of characters and the like. But this actually works well with Nintendo games, as their tireless development efforts and attention to detail allow for some interesting case studies. Such is the case for Ganon, the low key pig-man enemy of Link and Zelda that has a surprisingly robust backstory, both in and out of the games themselves....

For the most part, they seem pretty nice For better or worse, many in the gaming world might have come to take Destructoid for granted. If you follow gaming closely enough to know who we are, then you’ve probably also formed a general opinion about us, and regardless of what that opinion may be, you likely don’t think we’re all violence-obsessed monsters. However, when I tell people outside of gaming that I work for a website called “Destructoid,” their first response is usually something like “What’s that mean?...

Solve your own murder next year Since getting a look at the teaser trailer forMurdered: Soul Suspect, Square Enix has issued a small update for the project. The game, which is about solving your own murder, will be releasing for Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3 in “early 2014.” I’m curious to see what form the gameplay will take forSoul Suspect, given how very little we know yet. Will weactuallybehave like detectives would?...

Love action, but can’t stand first-person shooters? Love theUnrealseries, but think the graphics are too pretty? ForumiteXaborahas the game for you. It’s calledUnreal Warfare, which may sound familiar until you realize that Xabora wants the game released on the Super Nintendo. According to Xabora’s unofficial press release: The next game in the Unreal Series, exclusive on the SNES.Running at an incredible Full 256p you can see details like you have ever seen before....

Because nothing says ‘Christmas’ like smashing up cars The folks who run the Humble Bundle have a holiday present for everyone who logs in today. From now until 10 AM Pacific time tomorrow, anyone whologs in to the Humble Store pagecan claim a free Steam copy of Codemasters’ 2008 racing simulationGRID. GRIDwas a standout racing game early in the last generation, and it still holds up damn well. There are different types of rules depending on what continent you’re racing on, which helps to vary up the gameplay....

Or the next beta happens I’m surprised at how many people rallied aroundThe Divisionbeta, as the community-based buzz around the RPG elements really took shape. A lot of myDestinyfriends are planning on quitting for it, in fact. A player named Miodec has also taken a shine to the game, and has crafteda Skill Calculator appfor everyone to plan out their character with before launch. It also handles synergies too, based on all of the info provided in the beta....

Here’s yet another video of someone usingKinect to do something awesome. Using a PC and some custom-written code, this young man is playingSuper Mario Bros. 1with Microsoft’s new un-controller. The controls look a little less responsive than a similar game featured onWii Fit Plus, but still, this guy manages to do about as well in the game as I did the first time I playedSuper Mario Bros. 1with a traditional controller… when I was about ten-years-old....

TheXbox.com forumsare, very much like a red ring of death, alight with outrage after multiple reports of a brand new E 74 Error Message, allegedly caused by the recentHDMI update. The real kicker? This apparent outbreak has occurred justdaysafter Microsoft announced it wasending the extended warrantyfor red-ringed consoles. This new error is unique in the fact that it is not a traditional “red ring” problem. The classic “RROD” has three of the system’s four lights illuminated in red to indicate a problem....

Might as well Hey, PlayStation Plus members! This is the last day todownloadthe extended trial version ofDriveclubbefore Sony pulls the offer. Add it to your account now before you forget. Driveclub PS Plus Editioncomes with 13 tracks from one of the full game’s six locations (India), 15 cars, online multiplayer, and trophies. If you’re feeling it, you may upgrade for more content. A fresh batch of games joins the subscription-based program on Tuesday, includingSuper Meat BoyandBroken Agefor PS4 and PS Vita....

FINALLY!!! [Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as much a part of the show as anything else.] Wait, what the hell,BattleBlock Theateris actually out now!? Allow me to pinch myself, just to make sure I’m not dreaming. Hmm, it would seem that I am indeed awake....

Let’s get social In a blog postdiscussingrecent award wins forPokemon Go, developer Niantic included a short but promising tease about its near-future content plans. What do you make of this? “With spring arriving in the northern hemisphere, players can look forward to all new cooperative social gameplay experiences inPokémon GOthat will give Trainers new and exciting reasons to get back into the sunshine.” What this update could and should entail is up for debate, but some players arespeculatingthat it might tie into a not-yet-fully-implemented “raid” feature and/or a possible gym rework....

Here’s what you’ll need Three days late to the party, PC players are finally able to explore the functionally-infinite universe ofNo Man’s Sky. Well, that is if their rigs are up to the task. Ignoring that most people havesome sort of issueswith the PC version ofNo Man’s Skyright now, you need to make sure that your computer meets the minimum threshold to run the game. Now that itsSteam pageis up, we know what those specifications are....