Contact Us:

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Pitch a news story

We literally get 400(!) emails every day, so make it fun/obnoxious:
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_{Of course, you can also blog about it yourself, but please don't spam. Here's some guidelines on what's cool to post. Gamers are the canniest internet crowd, so be on point.}

For quotes/licensing approvals (we do NOT charge $ for these, but please give us a head's up), as well as reviews, travel, serious business:

Don't email one person directly, as they may be traveling. We travel quite a bit. To contact our seniors, please email our managing editors groupmail.

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We try to keep all copyrighted content off our servers, but we also host 200,000+ blogs and unfortunately some stuff slips through the cracks. For DMCA takedowns please email SUPPORT. We typically take down anything stakeholders ask without question within 48 hours. To expedite this process, please clearly provide proof of ownership in an informal letter. Also, don't send your lawyers after us. If you want to be a dick about it we're going to have fun at your expense.

FAQ & Support

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Can't remember your password? There's no separate password reset page - just try to login using any password and your email address (try a few) and we will automagically send you a reset link. Check your spam folders.

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Still need help? You are the 1%! We're [email protected]

Developer blogs are encouraged but drive-by Kickstarter promoters will be removed without warning. This is a gaming community, not a free classifieds board. Here's some common sense advice if you're halfway thinking about being spammy. Be chill

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Physical mailing address

(but please contact us before you send review copies)
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Media Kit & Traffic

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SPECIALITY CONTACTS

Is something factually inaccurate on the home page? Get in touch asap to our proof team and we'll patch it as soon as humanly possible. Note that this does not reach the editor or management.

Does something, in your professional opinion, suck? You can send a letter to the editor but we'd much rather you posted about it so we can discuss it at large.

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Do you have an idea on how to make the web site better? Its best to post your idea so the rest of the community can weigh in on the idea. We prioritize fixes based on what will make our readers most happy, so we do encourage you to get people behind your idea (but please don't astroturf drama)

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Contests and Community

FAQ: Who owns your community blog?

You do, of course! You own all of your community blogs and posts, and Destructoid licenses them under: creative commons with attribution. We make nightly on-site and off-site backups, but in the case of a nuclear meltdown please make your own local backups so you can sleep better.

Want to give something away, or did you win something in a contest and never get notified? Please get in touch with our community team

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Content takedowns

Just shoot us an informal email and we'll take it down as soon as humanly possible. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously - but please understand that there is a metric f--kton of community uploading going on and we can't catch everything. If you send us a letter from your lawyer a fluffy kitten will get diarrhea somewhere and it will be on you, man.

If you spammed our site and Google is now penalizing your SEO and want us to take that link down ... NOPE! Enjoy your Google penalty. No seriously, we will never remove it and we don't want your money. #Sucks2BU.biz #karmaisreal.edu

If your real name appears on the site / you're cleaning up your social footprint why not completely change the identity on all your posts instead?

For all other stuff, just shoot an email from the address on the account over to community team. You must be able to reply from that account to remove content.

Goodbyes are sad - please don't kill the party instead of employing the Irish strategy on the way out. Also works great in real life!

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For ad-free memberships (like a subscription from TinyPass): are actually managed by a third party and you can do it yourself. Just login and create an inquiry to get a refund asap. We don't offer this service anymore.

If you paid with Paypal and didn't get auto-renewed, login to Tinypass and click on "My History" to see why. We only try your account once, so if it failed for whatever reason you'll have to sign-up again from scratch.

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General Support

Did someone do something naughty, like spam or ugly comments? Does a feature of the site not work? Reach us directly at Support Line. Please make sure you read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Common Sense.

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Site Bugs

Get in touch at [email protected]. In many cases the bug can be to your specific device / browser / browser extensions / antivirus, so please provide as much information about your computing environment to expedite the fix. Please include screenshots, urls, etc if possible. If you have a query about advertising-related problems, please let us know where you are geolocated, as that helps us track down and block the offending supplier. We generally don't do ads in-house.

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Advertising

Destructoid does not accept any in-house direct advertising, we don't accept sponsored articles, we will not let you buy a text link, and if you're even remotely associated with gambling don't even waste your time, we'll block you. All ads must be purchased through third parties. Church and state!

Where to buy ads: Please contact Enthusiast Gaming

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Jobs

Is anything in your writing portfolio funny or self deprecating? No? You can't work here. *slams door*

Generally speaking, we prefer to offer gigs and internships to well-liked people within our community. If you send a resume and you don't have a decent Destructoid Profile its like the equivalent to showing up at an interview in your underwear. It sounds very insular, but we're pretty serious about who we work for at the end of the day: our readers! How can you lead the home page if you've never done your time in the trenches? You must have a Destructoid profile to apply. We don't care if you're the prince of Dishwalla.

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Contact a specific Editor

We have a Staff Page but if it's business related you're way, way better off emailing the group they are in, because we travel a lot. Otherwise just stalk them on twitter and send them a DM or something.

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Product reviews and Junkets

Please DO send press releases and products to our contact email. Do mail review copies to the address above. Anything sent with a return postage will be promptly sent back after review, otherwise we'll assume it becomes niece property by way of cool bro-aunties.

Otherwise ... don't contact us, we'll contact you: it's in everyone's best interest that our staff chooses the products we think will best interest our readers ( for these reasons )

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Ethics, Parties, and Acquaintances

Andrew WK disclosure: Destructoid parties hard with the video game industry. We get that this concept is upsetting to people who think that journalists should be locked in ivory towers like princesses, but we do have to leave the house and have solid, sometimes boozy awkward human relationships to do this type of work. That said, we make every effort to have people review games who were nowhere near said events so we can continue to have enjoyable jobs with party perks, because the Lord and our banker knows we're definitely not doing this for the money.

But seriously, we really care about transparency because we get the whole distrust in media thing. We investigated the magazines and websites that came before us, and so we understand that you should rightfully be investigating us. Go at it! We welcome it and we think we do it better than anyone else -- I don't think you'll find another media publication who completely outsources ad sales and has a wholly independent editorial team who gives 3 fucks about who buys ads, and we prefer to be member-supported anyway. Pissing excellence.

Regarding press events and "junkets": We'd be happy to attend your event, but we will never deliver a review on the spot at your event - forget about it, please don't ask, end of story. Our readers want us testing stuff in our homes on the same type of equipment they would use, not a controlled environment or after doing shots with Jay-Z. We hope that alleviates future awkward conversations.

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High res logos and press

There's a giant Destructoid logo at the bottom of this page for your convenience. For additional logos try our downloads page for other versions of our logo, fonts, and all that stuff.

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Contact the Founder

You can reach Niero by email. Weird subject lines work best, unless you're asking him for a job or an invite to one of our parties, in which you won't get a reply (please refer to Irish method above). Not to be a dick or anything, it's just that the waiting lists for both requests are already on a seniority/loyalty basis. That said, if you ever want to chat about blogging, the games industry, advice on your personal site, etc my door is always open.