Destructoid review: Boom Blox

What do you get when the greatest videogame company of all time teams up with the greatest film director of all time for an original project on the Nintendo Wii? That remains to be seen, as Capcom and Hayao Miyazaki currently have no plans to work together. While we wait for that to change, we can all sit around and playBoom Blox,the first game in what is planned to be a series of collaborations between Electronic Arts and Steven Spielberg....

June 15, 2025 · 8 min · 1513 words · Maria Jefferson

Diablo 4 Season 7 tier list: Best classes to use in the latest season

Every season, the meta makes quite a noticeable shift inDiablo 4,thanks to some adjustments and the gimmicks surrounding it. Now that we are in Season of Witcraft (Season 7), here is a tier list of the best classes. Diablo 4 Season 7 tier list Below are the current classes in the game ranked overall. This will consider leveling, mobbing, bossing, and endgame activities like The Pit. S-Tier S-tier roles are those that have a good early game into a consistent endgame....

June 15, 2025 · 4 min · 722 words · Christopher Smith

Division devs brag about Ubisoft’s Snowdrop engine

Video shows tools in use, little else Ubisoft dropped this video today featuring some of the people working at Massive Entertainment, talking about their experience using the Snowdrop engine to developTom Clancy’s The Division. If you’re hoping to see some additional footage or content from that game, don’t get your hopes up. This is basically an ad to pitch how easy it is to design games with Snowdrop, and the only really “new” stuff is tech demo reel footage totally unrelated to any Division other than “Sales & Marketing....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 89 words · Joyce Jackson

Do you expect to see Gen 10 revealed during July’s Pokémon Presents?

It’s July, which means the July 22 Pokémon Presents is fast approaching, where, for an unspecified amount of time (likely 30 minutes), we are expected to get a host of new information from various Pokémon projects that are either out or coming soon. Pokémon Legends Z-Ais a given, as well as likely news for the newPokémon TCG Pocketexpansion and some newPokémon Godetails, alongside a sprinkling of the other Pokémon live service games fromPokémon Sleepand beyond....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 332 words · Jennifer Adams

Dune: Awakening is pushing MMO character customization to the next level, and I’m here for it

Most MMOs I’ve played let you change your hair, pick a body type, maybe throw on a cool scar—and that’s about it. It gets the job done, but let’s be real, it’s kind of forgettable.Dune: Awakening, on the other hand, redefines character creation. It’s precisely what MMO players like me have been waiting for. One of the first things that caught my eye was the thoughtful attention to detail—features you don’t often see in games, such as the colors of the eye’s sclera or even a sunburned look....

June 15, 2025 · 4 min · 825 words · Brittney Reyes

Earth Defense Force: World Brothers shows off more cute bug-bustin’ action

THEM! One of the quirkiest looking releases on the horizon has to be Sandlot’s cute voxel shooterEarth Defense Force: World Brothers.This spin-off title to the popularEDFfranchise will take the series’ typical monster-mashing action and stylize it with adorable voxel visuals. AsEDF: World Brothers‘ Japanese release approaches D3 Publisher has launched a new weekly video series, that will offer overviews of a variety of elements found withinWorld Brothers‘ colorful, insect-infested universe....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Kurt Quinn

EarthBound Beginnings on Nintendo Switch Online needs an SP version

Ain’t no shame in the SP game It may not be the Virtual Console setup I loved on my Wii and 3DS, but I have to say I’ve really been digging the Nintendo Switch Online retro game package as of late. A few years ago, I got my first good look at how I could enjoy playing these decades-old games when I went through and completedZelda II: The Adventure of Linkfor the very first time....

June 15, 2025 · 5 min · 954 words · Andrew Wolf

FF7 Rebirth Corel: Every Fiend Intel location and strategy

Fiends are groups of more difficult variations of normal enemies withinFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth. Chadley will have you fight them for intel alongside hisaggravatingsidekick, MAI. Corel is the same in regards to this as the last two regions. One difference, however, is that Corel is broken into two sections. The first two Fiend Intel locations are in the north side that you start on, with the other four being south of the border....

June 15, 2025 · 4 min · 845 words · Jennifer Keller

Free Test Drive Unlimited 2 add-on hits PC

Unfortunately forTest Drive Unlimited 2, its launch didn’t go as intended, thanks to technical issues that are all too common these days. Eden Games’ way ofmaking up for thiswas releasing the first major add-on for free, which it has done — if you have the PC version. As you may see, the Exploration Pack contains quite a lot in the way of fixes, improvements, and even new content. I’ve seen some comments on the official forums thatthere are problemswith installation, but can’t verify the claims personally....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 126 words · Michael Crawford

Giveaway – Butcher (Steam)

Win one of 5 copies Say hello to new Steam (and GOG) releaseButcher! Game looks pretty damn awesome, and it just so happens that we have some copies to give to you lovely folks! Thanks to the awesome folks atTranshuman Design(check out the site for the prototype version!), we are bestowing 5 of these gifts upon you! Now watch a trailer: Can’t wait to stream this, this coming weekend. I get a strongAbusemeetsBlackthornevibe, and that makes me wet....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 98 words · Melissa Carrillo

Good Old Games outs Good Old Gift to Botanicula customers

These days, you pre-order or pre-pay at your own risk. With instantaneous Amazon price drops, “pay what you want bundles”, and tons of other sales, odds are you can save money in pretty much every facet of gaming — especially on the PC. This principle applies in spades forBotaniculafans who pre-ordered the game for $8.99 on Good Old Games, only to find that you could essentially buy the game for as little as under a dollar duringthe recent Humble Indie Bundle event....

June 15, 2025 · 1 min · 162 words · James Kerr

GTA publisher Take-Two expects fiscal year 2025 to ‘set new standards’ in the industry

Publisher targeting an unprecedented $8 billion in revenue Take-Two Interactive, the parent publisher behind Rockstar Games and theGrand Theft Autofranchise, has announced that it is preparing for what it believed will be a record-shattering fiscal year 2025. The comments were made by CEO Strauss Zelnick in the company’snewest financial report. “Fiscal 2025 is a highly anticipated year for our company. For the last several years, we have been preparing our business to release an incredibly robust pipeline of projects that we believe will take our company to even greater levels of success,” said Zelnick....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 300 words · Michael Morgan

Halo Infinite delayed into next year, Xbox Series X launch not affected

343 would rather wait than crunch The Xbox Series X was going to be the first Xbox console in four generations to launch alongside a newHalogame. That’s substantial becauseHalois Xbox’s flagship franchise. Hand-in-hand, they can do a lot to help each other. That’s no longer the case. Developer 343 Industries has made the decision to delayHalo Infiniteinto 2021. No new release window was given apart from it coming next year....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 224 words · Derrick Norman