Christmas theme returns to Kayak VR: Mirage

During the holiday season, a few games get Easter eggs. Better Than Life took to Twitter to reveal that the Christmas theme is returning toKayak VR: Mirage, and it also gave an update regarding new content. For the holiday season, Kings Canyon is spruced up with snowy mountains and flying sleighs. It’s a minor change but it’s a good way to get you into the festive season.The team also visited Redditto address when new content is coming....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · Timothy Knight

Drill Digging Simulator codes (June 2025)

Updated: June 16, 2025 We added new codes! If you’ve never read Jules Verne’sJourney to the Center of the Earth, now you may skip it and discover what’s down there yourself.Drill Digging Simulatoris a Roblox game where you drill your way through all the thick layers of our planet and earn Cash while doing so. The drill that you start with is quite slow, and getting all the better ones requires plenty of Cash....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Albert Nguyen

EA looking to stream games direct to Comcast customers

Get titles like Madden and Fifa from your cable provider Titles such asMadden, Fifa, Monopoly,andPlants vs. Zombieswere just some of the games reference. The focus will be on sports and casual games at first, with genres like first-person shooters and action games to be looked at based on user preferences. This would also be a service specifically for those that use the cloud-connected X1 cable box system. Comcast customers will be able to turn their tablets into controllers to play these games, which is disheartening to hear....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 120 words · Lee Miller

Fortnite cube explodes, revealing new map design

RIP Kevin Fortnitehad a scheduled “live event” today, focusing on the mysterious cube that has been hanging around since the second half of Season 5 (Fortniteis currently in Season 6). The past live events have looked pretty great, so I decided to jump in and experience this one for myself. I was not disappointed. you may watch in my video below, but there was an actual cutscene! The cube, aka Kevin, has traveled the map, slowly, which resulted in lifting up the island of Loot Lake and suspending it in midair....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Terry Krueger

Game journalist pranked: we laugh with, not at

Shacknews editorChris Faylorwas pranked in the worst way — by his own people! I can’t wait to see the revenge prank. E3 maybe? Chris was set up by fellow editor Nick Breckon and Shacknews community member Abigail Sponge. Sponge posed as a Lionhead Studios rep and called to prepare Chris for thelongand insane list of demands he would have to meet for his (false) scheduled interview with Peter Molyneux at the 2008 Game Developers Conference....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 183 words · Matthew Nelson

Gran Turismo Sport update brings Autopolis track, new cars and more

Update 1.34 available today Tarmac-melting racing gameGran Turismo Sporthas gotten a new update today, courtesy of developer Polyphony Digital.Update 1.34 brings a new track to Sony’s classy driving sim, as well as five new cars for you to take out for a test drive. The new track is Autopolis in Japan, the site of recent Super GT and Super Formula races, renown for its twisty sections giving way to pedal-gunning straights....

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 207 words · Sergio Glover

Hands-on with Damnation’s multiplayer

The claim to fame forDamantionhas been that it’s a vertical shooter, meaning that you’re not just stuck following the path on the ground the entire time like most other third person shooters. You have to jump, climb and swing to get to higher spots on levels to take advantage of your environment. In a way, the game will make you feel like a monkey. I got a chance to previewDamnation’smultiplayer last night and finally got a chance to see what this Steampunk vertical shooter was all about it....

July 21, 2025 · 4 min · 696 words · Nathan Harrison

Heihachi returns to Tekken 8, because no volcano can hold him

One of the biggest pieces ofnews coming out of Evo 2024was the announcement that Heihachi would be coming back toTekken 8.This rules because it’s both the return of the series’ most iconic villain, but also because this particular update might change the way the story ofTekkenprogresses going forward. What’s so special about Heihachi in Tekken 8? Tekken 8, like most modern fighting games, is no stranger to DLC characters. It had previouslyadded Eddy Gordo, the fan-favorite capoeira fighter introduced way back inTekken 3, and is about to introduceTekken 7’sLidia, the — I kid you not —Karate-fighting Prime Minister of Poland....

July 21, 2025 · 4 min · 729 words · David Brown

Helldivers 2 player tries to educate others on extraction etiquette with helpful how-to video

Almost every mission inHelldivers 2is fun as long as you’re with a squad that plays the objective and doesn’t actively try to kill you. However, that fun can dissipate quickly when it comes to extraction, the simplest part of any mission that often causes the most issues. Extraction from a mission inHelldivers 2shouldn’t be difficult, but it is more often than not. You might end up missing the Pelican by one second because you were halfway across the map when the timer started, another player could accidentally kill you with aStratagem, or you might run out of ammo while defending the extraction point....

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · 549 words · Isaac Thompson

Here are your free PlayStation Plus games for March

Indie-heavy month Oof. I mean, look, it’s notbadper se. There isBroforce(PS4), which actually got in the lineup bywinning a fan vote, so it’s what the people want (relative to the other two choices, anyways). And there’sGalak-Z(PS4), which is a real coolGundam-ish roguelike inspired by old-school mecha. There just isn’t that one nice tossed-in AAA game I suppose, though the excruciatingly detailed and good art in both of the aforementioned should be enough to sate you?...

July 21, 2025 · 1 min · 105 words · Eric Meadows

Here’s what happened in the community for May!

Team Fortress 2 with waifus Welcome to the month of June! Where we look forward to the future of the Destructoid community by looking backwards at the month of May! I bet you can’t guess what the biggest topic everyone loved about May was! If you said it wasOverwatch, then you’re wrong! Obviously not everyone loves it you dummy! Some people have different taste and simply don’t likeOverwatchdue to differing opinions on design and genre....

July 21, 2025 · 4 min · 750 words · Laura Stevenson

How to find the Treasure of Daybreak location in Throne and Liberty

There are a ton of quests and collection tasks inThrone of Libertyas you progress towards max level, and while some are straightforward, some like finding the Treasure of Daybreak are a little tricky. This is the exact location where you may find the Treasure of Daybreak and how to complete the Treasure of Daybreak exploration quest inThrone and Liberty. Where to find the Treasure of Daybreak The Treasure of Daybreak can be found northeast of Vienta Village in the Monolith Wastelands, close to the Sandworm Lair waypoint....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 414 words · Jorge Moore

How to Get Into FFXIV Xbox Beta

At the recentFinal Fantasy XIVFan Fest, Phil Spencer and Naoki Yoshida revealed thatFinal Fantasy XIVwould be heading to the Xbox Series X|S. On Series X,FF14will have 4k support as well as faster loading. It will be a digital-only release for the Xbox version. If you plan on checking out the MMORPG on an Xbox Series X|S, you’re probably wondering how to get into theFFXIVXbox Beta. Below is everything we know about the beta, how to access it, and when it begins....

July 21, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Michael Hawkins