New Assassin’s Creed comic focuses on an Indian Assassin

Fighting off the British once more Assassin’s Creed: Brahmanis the next graphic novel based on the popular series by Ubisoft. This entry to theAssassin’sstory takes place in 19th century India and follows Assassin Arbaaz Mir as he fights against British colonial rule. The story is written by Brenden Fletcher, with the art done by Cameron Stewart and Karl Kerschl. This is the same team behind the otherAssassinnovels,The FallandThe Chain. So yeah, there you go....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 86 words · Rita Garcia

Notion Games settles Super Ubi Land dispute

They’re going with the new title ‘Super Ubie Land’ Notion Games, an indie developer for the upcomingSuper Ubi Landran into a pretty big roadblock recently — you know, because of thatotherdeveloper and mega-publisher that has the phrase “Ubi” in it. Yep, that’s right, Ubisoft directly requested that the developer change the name of their upcoming game. As a result, Notion altered the title toSuper Ubie Land, and all is well....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Keith Cantu

Outfit and car packs released for Mafia II

With little warning, 2K Games has released a slew of downloadable content — four packs! — forMafia II. The first, the “Vegas Pack,” will give you two new cars and two new suits. The “War Hero” pack will bring two drivable military vehicles to the game, along with army fatigues and a dress uniform. Pick up the “Renegade Pack” for a hot rot and a sports coupe, along with a leather jacket and a lettermen’s jacket....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · Robert Li

Peripherally Speaking: Nyko’s Perfect Shot

Three things you should know about me before reading this: I hate doing stuff I don’t feel like doing (some call it laziness, I call it “strong willed”), I’m a sucker for free stuff, and I hate gaming peripherals. Those are the three aspects of my personality that came to a head in the process of being put to the task of reviewing the Perfect Shot. I promised Nyko I would review this thing weeks ago, and I kept putting it off, until I heard that they wouldn’t be sending us any more free stuff until we reviewed all the free stuff they’ve already sent us....

May 14, 2025 · 5 min · 942 words · Janet Carr DVM

Shadowrun Returns dev’s next title is Necropolis

A game of brutal combat and survival Gorgeous low-poly aesthetic? Check! Development team headed up by one of the original creators ofShadowrun? Check! Roguelike gameplay designed to cater to third-person action game enthusiasts? Check! I’d nearly swooned when I put all this together for myself. It’s like Harebrained Schemes was designing a game just forme! Ridiculous narcissism aside,Necropolissounds like it has the potential to be something special. Details are scant at this point, but this is what we know so far:...

May 14, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Jeffrey Elliott

SSX dev diary provides a glimpse of pre-alpha footage

This developer diary is a great supplement to the recentslew of detailsonSSXto come out of creative director Todd Batty and Game Informer. As outlined in the text — and again here, in video form — the initialteaser trailerfor the game isn’t as indicative as some would have you believe. There’s a lot of reiteration in what’s talked about, but it is quite nice to have that visual aid to fall back on....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 95 words · Kimberly Griffith

The Daily Hotness: So then why do I feel so uncivilized?

Check out everything Destructoid did today Today I came home from work, started playingCivilization V, and didn’t stop for seven and a half hours. I missed dinner. I missed playingTerrariawith friends. On the plus side, I triumphed as Isabella of Spain, bringing culture to the unwashed masses. So worth it. (Please send help.) On Destructoid, Jim started doing let’s plays with theAliens: Colonial MarinesDLC, the Podtoid crew released a new episode, Tony interviewed Freddie Wong onVideo Game High School, Fraser reviewedFace Noir, and so much more happened on this fine day....

May 14, 2025 · 2 min · 314 words · James Good

The first WWE 2K15 screen is jortstastic

Just hug it out, guys In the first screenshot ofWWE 2K15, the game’s cover star John Cena breaks out a special glare for Randy Orton. You see, the The Viper has his eye on Cena’s belt. Not the World Heavyweight Championship, though. No, a belt much more precious to Cena — the glorious white one holding up his world-famous jorts. WWE 2K15releases on Aug 06, 2025 on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, and Xbox 360....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 111 words · Timothy Cook

There’s a little Halo 5 in this Halo 4 GotY re-release

It’s just an avatar item Halo 4: Game of the Year Editionis coming out next week on October 8 for$39.99. Note thatwhen we first learnedabout this package it was listed at $49.99, so this is a much better price now. It’s going to include the game itself, the Champions Bundle, the War Games Map Pass (which includes theMajestic,Castle, andCrimsonmap packs), and 15 pieces of in-game and avatar content from the Halo 4 campaign....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 100 words · Amy Clark

Thief, Tomb Raider, and more half price on Xbox Live

Deals for Xbox 360 and Xbox One Xbox One deals straight from the console’s digital marketplace itself are a welcome sight indeed. This week’sXbox Live salesare available to Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners alike from March 28 – 30:Thief(50 percent off),Tomb Raider(50 percent off), andCall of Duty: Ghosts(33 percent off).CoD: Ghosts Digital Hardened Edition(20 percent off) is also on sale, but only for Xbox One. What’s more, the Xbox 360 has sales going on right now through March 31 for most thingsBioShock— includingInfinite(67 percent off),Burial at Sea Episode 1(50 percent off),BioShock(75 percent off), andBioShock 2(75 percent off) — plusNBA 2K14(50 percent off)....

May 14, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Maureen Smith

25% Off Project CARS, 50% Off Dragon Age Inquisition in Weekend Deals

Green light deals On Wednesday this week slightly mad Studios’Project CARSreleased. On PC the game is priced for $49.99 but at GMG there is a 25% off discount available. The deal is part of their VIP gaming sale, which requires you to either login or create an accounton this page. Once you’ve done that to be redirected to see the discount to $37.49. Good deal for those that have enjoyed the beta (Dtoid’s review isupcoming)....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 208 words · Brittney Hall

Apple hires Xbox senior director of strategy

It seems that Apple is looking to up their presence in the gaming space with a new hire, pulled right from Microsoft. Richard Teversham was Xbox Europe’s senior director of business, insights, and strategy, a Microsoft employee for the last 15 years. Now he’s moved to Apple’s camp, and we think it’s pretty safe to say that he’ll be doing something game related there, thoughMCVsays something about an “eductation-related role.”Gizmodoreminds that this hire follows another high-profile gaming-related hire, that of ATi’s former graphics CTO, the designer of the GameCube graphics chip....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Ashley Walker

Dark Souls III is getting a new patch that increases its framerate on the PS4 Pro

Patch 1.11 impacts all platforms as well This has happened before, but it’s still weird to see us entering an era of “PS4 Pro exclusive patches.” The next one on the docket isDark Souls III, which will be rolling out patch 1.11 soon across all platforms, but the PS4 Pro specifically will be getting an extra benefit — an enhanced framerate. It wasn’t announced exactly how much of a boost it would be, but it’s happening....

May 13, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Anthony Madden