10 MORE YEARS! 10 MORE YEARS! [Recently over Discord, Lawman has been mulling over gettingUltimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3for PS3 since he owns the Vita version. Despite any opinions about how a community is dead, we both agreed that as long as there are players, there will be a scene. So along comes Virtua Kazama with an eerily timely post about supporting your fighting game’s scene, whether it’s as old asMeleeor up and coming likePokkén....
The Nintendo Wii was gaming’s greatest magic trick. Back in 2006, the Wii felt like the next frontier of gaming. Swinging your arm to throw a bowling ball was so immersive thatpeople broke their TVs without even thinking about it. Yet as the console aged, the luster of motion controls faded. What started with “can you imagine playingSmash Broswith the Wii remote?” quickly turned into “please do not give me the Wii remote to playSmash Bros....
The lump of coal in your heart Destructoid’s Game of the Year awards are upon us. It’s a time to celebrate another year of excellent video games, share what surprised us, and evangelize the forgotten gems and stealth hits that may have gone unnoticed. It’s also time to shit on everyone else’s favorites. Let’s face it, half the fun of GOTY lists are explaining why they are deeply, deeply wrong to every other simpleton in the comments section....
Infinite Air hits PC, PS4, and Xbox One on October 25 BesidesSnowandSteep, there’s another snowboarding game coming down the line —Mark McMorris Infinite Airfrom HB Studios, which last worked on the golf simThe Golf Club. I don’t know that any of them nail that exact style I’m looking for as anSSXfanatic, but the more the merrier in this genre. As its name implies,Infinite Airfocuses more on real-world riders. So far, the roster consists of Mark McMorris and his brother Craig, Silje Norendal, Torstein Horgmo, Danny Davis, and Ulrik Badertscher....
That tiny Pip-Boy is so cute The argument about whether cats are better than dogs has finally come to a close. Cats win. I mean, just take a look at these cats cosplaying as a character fromFallout— how could you ever consider dogs better after seeing this? You’re probably just jealous you might not ever get your claws on thereal-life Pip-Boy if you haven’t already preordered one. If you want to see cats wearing other cosplay head over tothe Seattle Sea-Cats official Twitter....
This week’s UK Chart is unbelievable. Good games, obscure games, or otherwise totally unlikely games have all made it into the chart, as if the United Kingdom folded space and came back from a nightmare realm tainted by a dark and alien sentience. Seriously, this chart is justweirdto look at. The star of the show isDemon’s Souls: Black Phantom Edition, which has made a stunning debut at number six. Just ahead of it is, of all things,Naughty Bearat number five....
Valve’s Chet Faliszek, writer for the upcoming zombie shooterLeft 4 Dead, hasbeen discussinghis decision to focus on the zombies themselves, and not on an “evil mastermind” behind their appearance. “The evil mastermind at the end is never as good as whatever you had in your head when you were coming up with it,” explains Faliszek. He used the 1996 disaster movieTwisterto hammer home the point: “They had evil weathermen to justify their plot....
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 3is officially in development, Saber Interactive, Focus Entertainment, and Games Workshop announced in a press release on March 13. The game will feature a new campaign, multiplayer modes, and everything that has made theSpace Marineseries a success. Following the strong reception ofSpace Marine 2in September 2024, the game’s community remains highly active, with peak concurrent player counts ranging from 7,000 to 10,000 on Steam and an overall positive rating of over 80% on the platform....
As if Sean Bean doesn’t already joke about dying in nearly every one of his films, he makes a crack about being “replaced” in the nextCivilization, creating a canon death for his character, the narrator. It’s heartbreaking! More triumphantly, you can get a little behind-the-scenes look at this process, in which he low-key says it’s easier than making films because you have the lines in front of you. Oh, and the brief footage of the chorus that performs live music?...
What a great opportunity to try the polarizing former The Xbox Game Pass is still chugging along: nicely, I might add. In addition to new-release games a bunch of semi-new and older titles also pop up rather frequently, and we’re getting some decent drops this week and throughout January. On January 17We Happy FewandThe LEGO Movie Videogamearrive, the former of which is easily one of the best “Game Pass rentals” to date....
It’s looking like June 18, 2025 Tiered gear is a system that doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon: and that includes the expanded tier plans forWoW Dragonflight.Based on some datamining efforts from Blizzard Watch, we seemingly know the date when Inspiration Catalysts will come along and facilitate this process in the fresh dragon-themed expansion: July 06, 2025. The Creation Catalyst is called the Inspiration Catalyst inDragonflight The week of July 26, 2025, Inspiration Catalysts are set to make a debut according to the leak....
Poor Mario Upcoming Disney filmWreck-it Ralphis jam packed full ofretro videogame references, but you won’t find Mario in the film. Why is one of the most-loved gaming characters missing from the mix? According to an article on the film atGamesRadar, both the writer and director said that he was too important to waste on a quick cameo. They didn’t want a small appearance for such a major character, so they tried to work out a bigger scene for him....
Only in Japan for now, sadly The Witch and the Hundred Knightsis nearly upon us, and to celebrate, NIS is doing a limited edition run of the game in Japan. It’ll including a 44-page hardcover art book, an adorable figurine of the Witch herself, and the soundtrack. As a general rule, I dig how Atlus and NIS keeps things simple when it comes to collectible releases — an artbook, a soundtrack, and maybe one or two small extras....
