The Daily Hotness: Cherry and mangos

No More Heroes HDin Japan gets the above images in the game. What do we get? NOTHING BECAUSE THE GAME PROBABLY WON’T EVEN COME OUT HERE RAGE! We brought you our first couple of exclusives forAlpha Protocol, Jim reviewed3D Dot Game Heroes, Ben took a look atShank, the next iPhone was probably found, newNinjatowngoodness is coming to the iPhone and more happened on 04/19/10. Destructoid Originals:New releases: Monster Hunter Tri and some other thingsChange will be a-brewing in tonight’s PodtoidExclusive: Meet Alpha Protocol’s Grigori and SieCommunity:E for Effort: The Artist formerly known as PrinceCommunity blogs of 04/19/10Forum of the day:I am about to play the scariest level, everReviews:Sonic the Hedgehog 2 iPhone3D Dot Game HeroesPreviews:Taking a stab at Shank...

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 378 words · Jenny Griffin

The Daily Hotness: Sleepy time ‘toid

Check out everything Destructoid did today Our resident music maestro Jayson Napolitano wrote up a funSound Cardtoday that charts the best videogame songs to carry you off into a peaceful slumber. What are you even doing awake right now? Go to sleep! And bring some tunes with you. Today, Dale delivered some waning Tokyo Game Show coverage and wrap-ups, Jim bloody playedRace The Sun, we started a contest to win a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 and began giving out a bunch of free games to Destructoid HUGE members, Chris Carter reviewedReal Boxing, and more!...

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 294 words · Kim Davis

The second Nioh beta is out today, with a new DLC to unlock

You can unlock two DLCs, actually Niohhas rapidly shot up my “most anticipated” list. While Team Ninja is a hit or miss studio in a post-Itagaki world (who is also hit or missthese days!), it seemed to really nail it with this one. It helps that we’ve gottennot one, but two demos, the second of which is out today. It features old content from the first build as well as a brand new area, a training sequence, new items, and the ability tounlockbothancillary DLCsby completing the whole shebang....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 147 words · Jennifer Knox

This is what makes The Witcher: Enhanced Edition ‘enhanced’

CD Projekt’s action RPGThe Witcherwas the subject of pretty solid acclaim when it released last year. Based on the fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski,The Witcherput players into the shoes of amnesiac monster hunter Geralt, and presented plenty of long-running consequences depending on various choices made hours earlier in the game. Everything wasn’t all sunshine and roses, though, as the game suffered from various technical problems such as long loading times....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 230 words · Sharon Mccarthy

THQ Nordic acquires irreverent shooter series Timesplitters, which is now ‘set for a return’

Also Second Sight TimeSplittersis back from the dead. Back in 2000 Free Radical Design created something special on PS2 — a silly shooter involving a time travel conceit. But it wasn’t just the out-there concept and outlandish designs that kept it timeless, but rather the commitment to a campaign, multiplayer, and a map editor. It had it all, and for a while there it was riding high with two sequels…until it wasn’t....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 209 words · Dawn Pacheco

UK Charts: Batman is better than Wii Sports Resort

Batman: Arkham Asylumis a great game. What’s more, it’s a great game at thetopof the UK Chart, a position usually reserved for bad games that the idiotic general public lap up. This almost qualifies as a paradox, and I’m fairly certain that the British consumers need to be warned that they’re buying a good game instead of the usual garbage. They might be disappointed when they get home and realize itisn’tterrible....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 126 words · Abigail Castillo

Waste all your cash at the gee-gee’s as Stakes Winner 2 returns to modern platform

Spend a pony at the old airs and graces Hamster has brought another lost SNK title kicking and screaming into the modern era this week, as horse-racing titleStakes Winner 2is now available on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Stakes Winner 2hit the Neo Geo MVS market in 1996, a sequel, obviously, to the previous year’sStakes Winner, which was apparently so hot that it needed a sequel less than 12 months later....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 176 words · Barry Wilson

Watch a mad Christian evangelist rant about Pokemon

Remember that whole, “Pokemonis evil” fad that was popular among Christian extremists in the nineties? Ever seen a religious leaderseriouslyramble about the demonic influence of the Japanese game with a straight face? No? Well todayis your lucky day, son! Watch this mental evengelist talk about kids “taking control of spirits in the dark realm” and decry the “reclusive power-filled monsters.” I always find it funny when religious extremists rail against popular culture....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 190 words · Stephanie Wade

Wattam releases June 28, 2025 (for real this time!)

Hands Across America We loveKatamari Damacy, and I’m confident we’ll also love Keita Takahashi’s latest oddball,Wattam. It’s been such a long time coming, but the friend-making puzzle-adventure game is about to launch. Look for it to land on PlayStation 4 and PC (via the Epic Games Store) on July 26, 2025. “Six years constipation has been relieved finally,”the creator said. It’ll run $20, normally–but folks who pre-orderWattamon PS4 or PC can shave off 15%....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 159 words · Jason Thomas

What happened in Fallout’s Vault 32? Here’s our theory

TheFalloutTV series adaptation of the popular post-apocalyptic video game series features plenty of callbacks, secrets, and twists. But perhaps one of the most confusing and unconfirmed parts of the series is what happened to Vault 32. The sister vault to protagonist Lucy’s Vault 33 clearly had some issues, but what exactly happened there? Here’s our thoughts on what happened. Be warned, as thereare full spoilers ahead for the first season....

June 30, 2025 · 4 min · 750 words · Eric Vargas

What isn’t included in Rare Replay: A comprehensive guide

Promoted from our community blogs [Rare Replaysounds like it’s going to make a big splash. But know that for everyBlast CorpsorPerfect Darkincluded, there’s a slew of games both famous and unknown that aren’t included in the humongous pack. Do you recognize a few of these titles? If you want to try getting on the front page, try starting your own blog, especially aboutGrabbed by the Ghoulies~Striderhoang] Microsoft made a hell of an announcement at E3 regarding Rare, the legendary company that it purchased from Nintendo in 2002....

June 30, 2025 · 15 min · 3175 words · Monica Jordan

Why we should celebrate extra options in games

It’s good to keep your options open Right – let me start this article by exposing my biases. Namely, one of the first games I played to the point of obsession wasThe Sims, and as everyone knows,The Simsis a highly modular game. Since the very beginning, theSimsseries has featured masses of extra content that even requires extra payment, such as expansion packs and, later, the Stuff packs. This kind of spoiled me for other games, where the pathway was more linear and the player’s experience was kept on a tight leash by the developers....

June 30, 2025 · 8 min · 1549 words · Tiffany Phillips

Wonderful Zelda: Breath of the Wild glitch unveils teeming underwater life

I will die of old age before people stop figuring out new Breath of the Wild tricks Twitter user eu_rasi_a_3678 managed to popularize yet anotherZelda: Breath of the Wildglitch: a full view of the game’s underwater ecosystem, which can generally only be seen through a drab lens of blue. Although eu_rasi_a_3678 states that“they did not discover” the glitchand they saw it on Twitter last year, a lot of folks have been buzzing about it because of how amazing this particular video looks....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 171 words · Erin Garcia