Diving intoWarzone’sRebirth Islandtoday immediately caused a stir of confusion for me, as the skies began to dim throughout the match. At first, I believed it to be a newCall of Dutybug or something wrong with my file until I made an embarrassing conclusion: Oh, right, it’s the solar eclipse today. Even though it took me a while to put two and two together, it was pleasing to see the skies changing hues — well, at least for the moment after I got shot at for looking at the pretty colors....

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [For our current Bloggers Wanted topic,‘We are VR’, Gamemaniac3434 wrote a great introduction to the promises and challenges of virtual reality gaming rigs. Seeing is believing, but it’ll be some time before we can all see it. ~ Shade] Virtual reality (VR) is a very difficult thing to describe and demonstrate without trying it for yourself. I’ve seen plenty of doubt and people shrugging it off....

We’re also giving away a copy of Borderlands 3, see below for more details! Dreezy is back this week on the Destructoid Twitch channel with some moreBorderlands 3gameplay, commentary,and with 100% less hair on his back after the events of last week!But, what’s even more exciting is the fact we’re gonna be giving away a copy ofBorderlands 3this week to one lucky (and random) viewer! In order to be eligible to win, you’ll first need to complete two simple steps:...

I’ve been having a retro itch lately and have been going back to previous generations to play some classic gems, which got me thinking of the future. Companies have, in the past decade, tried to revive some big franchises to mixed success, whether it’s Toys for Bob’s remakes of theSpyroandCrash Bandicoottrilogy that garnered great attention, or the happily forgottenBanjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. It’s got me pondering what other retro games I would love to see return, either as a remake or some kind of reboot, in the future....

Here’s a new E3 trailer Yooka-Laylee(a project that I backed immediately), is benefiting from constant updatesthis past year, all of which have been rather flattering. In this newest E3 trailer we’re seeing classic mascot platformer gameplay, including team abilities like gliding or rolling, minecart sections, gadgets, cute NPCs, underwater levels, and what seems to be a racing section. But that music, right? It’s so wonderfullyBanjo-Kazooiewithout feeling like it’s a straight copy and paste job....

Unlike Gaga and Beyonce, we can answer Joke’s on you, we’re doing that podcast thing again! It’s been so long since we’ve done one of these, that I’m not even sure we remember how. Well, I guess there was thatResident Evil 7spoiler cast, but that hardly counts. For a proper Podtoid, you have to go all the way back to December when Darren brazenly declared thatBattlebornshould be our game of the year....

Bringing her big hula hoop too [Update:After mixed messages, Bandai Namcohas confirmedthat Tira can either be purchased as a standalone, day-one, DLC character,orcomes as a bonus character to those who buy the Season Pass, whenever it is purchased. So you get Tira as a “free bonus” when you commit to the Season Pass,oryou can buy her separately on day one. You do NOT get Tira for pre-orderingSoulcalibur VI.Bandai Namco apologised for the confusion....

There’s no crying in baseball Take-Two Interactive has been erasing theMLB 2Kseries from existence,Pasta Padre reports. The baseball games have been removed from2K’s website, MLB 2K10 through 2K12 have been removed from Steam, MLB 2K13’s website is gone, and so on. When Sony teasedMLB 14: The Show, it boasted it would be the only major league baseball game available on next-gen consoles. It seems it will be the only MLB game in general (PS3, Vita, PS4)....

And the Switch Lite, of course! 8BitDo has been doing killer work in the controller realm, and over the past few years they’ve really cemented themselves as one of the leading third party manufacturers for Switch remotes. Now they have something a little different in mind. Starting today you can pre-order an 8BitDo Zero 2 for $19.99, which ships on December 31. 8BitDo is calling it a “keychain-sized controller,” which works on Switch and other platforms like PC and mobile devices....

Gone are the days of only having the option to play as Mario, Luigi, or one of two damned Toads.Super Mario Bros. Wonderis providing us with12 playable characters, which makes it a veritable Mario Party, if you will. So who’s going to be there? This is a list of all the characters: Mario you’re able to’t have aSuper Mario Bros. GamewithoutMario.That would make it more likeSuper Luigi U. Good times. Anyway, the red-garbed plumber is one of the most recognizable characters in all of video games....

Most things come and go in Mt. Holly, but permanent upgrades stick. These lasting buffs stay with you for the entire playthrough, where it doesn’t always feel like you’re starting from scratch. Find out how to get all permanent upgrades inBlue Prince. Table of contents How to get all permanent upgrades in Blue Prince If you want to make your life easier, at least inBlue Princeterms, you can attach permanent buffs to your character by completing various puzzles....

At this rate, the priciest PS Plus subscription tier is a tough sell if you’re not into cloud gaming Sony’s updates to its classic catalog have been disappointingly irregular, and whenever it has added old-school titles from the PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable days, they typically haven’t been the most exciting inclusions. To this day, many fan-favorite games that defined these consoles remain absent from the catalog, such as the originalCrash BandicootandSpyro the Dragontrilogies....

7.9″ tablet finally revealed, ships Nov. 2 Apple’s supply chain has grown so big that we’ll never see the ‘one more thing’ kind of surprise again. For example, they announced this morning that 100 million iPads have been sold to date. You won’t be surprised to hear that Apple announced the iPad Mini at their press conference today in San Jose, California. As expected, it’s a shrunk down standard iPad, now sized at 7....