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Starting next Friday, Destructoid will be picking the best comments of the week and handing out prizes! We’re hand picking funny, clever or insightful comments. So quick random “lol videogamez” type comments don’t count. Whosoevers comment gets chosen will win some kind of random prize from us. Pretty easy contest, right? Just keep doing what you’ve always been doing and you may win something for it now! Ashley gave us the art from Once Upon a Pixel, the new Destructoid Comic page is up, we reviewedFight Night Round 4,Left 4 Dead 2will be at San Diego Comic-Con,Dante’s InfernoLust circle is full of breasts and plenty more happened on 07/10/09....

‘Spring 2020’ It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, butElder Scrolls: Bladeswas finally given some semblance of a release window for Switch duringthe surprise Nintendo Direct Minithat I’m still reeling from. Released in Early Access on mobile devices back in April of 2019,Bladeshas kind of just been chilling in the phantom zone without a release date. Eventually a potential 2019 window changed to a dry “2020,” but thanks to said Direct we now know thatBladesis arriving on Switch in “spring” of this year....

New episodes will arrive every other week Telltale Games is premiering the first episode ofThe Expanse: A Telltale Seriesthis summer. The first installment will go live on July 27, with more episodes to follow in the weeks after. The Expanseseries will be episodic, with five episodes in total. After the first drops on July 27, each episode will follow two weeks after each other, putting the targeted end date in September....

#Darksiders2 As a part of theMonthly Remake and Remaster Global Initiative project,Darksiders IIwill appear on PS4sometime this year. I’m actually pretty excited, as I found Death’s journey to be quite the fun romp and wouldn’t mind doing it all over again. According to the box artthough, it’s called the “Deathinitive Edition.” That’s…too #Darksiders2 for me to handle. I have no words, so let staff member Occams sum it up for me....

New trailer for the 360/PS3 version of Ninja Gaiden III: Razor’s Edge In case you didn’t get a chance to play theslightly better Wii U portof the underwhelmingNinja Gaiden 3, you’ll have your chance soon on the Xbox 360 and PS3 come April 2nd. This version will basically be the same as the Wii U release (minus the GamePad-centric features of course), with the added benefit ofSmartglass supportfor the 360 version....

Nathan Drake preparing to explore your desktop It looks like the next PlayStation exclusive in-line for a PC port will be Naughty Dog’s rock-climbing, treasure-hunting, neck-snapping adventureUncharted 4: A Thief’s End, which originally launched on PS4 back in May 2016. Yes, it was that long ago. The whispers began after the third-person adventure was name-checked in aSony Investor Day Presentation. As you may see in the linked document, a slide was shown noting Sony had more PC ports planned, specifically referencingUncharted 4alongside recent PC arrivalDays Gone....

Retro is a state of mind A long time ago, Destructoid hosted a podcast calledRetroForce Go!It ran for 100 episodes and was beloved by legions, but nothing good lasts forever. However, just because something’s gone doesn’t mean you can’t make something that’s almost as good. Retroid is meant to be a spiritual successor toRetroForce Go!and to that end, I was fortunate that Alex Ryan (aka Dyson) and Topher Cantler agreed to join me for the first episode, as did our own Jonathan Holmes....

I was playingWorld of Warcraftthe other day, and realized something — I’ve been playing this game off and on for almost an entire decade now. Against all odds Blizzard has adapted to change and delivered expansion after expansion, and despite the suscriber dip, the game is still the most popular MMO on the market. And there’smore coming later this year. So I started thinking — what if I could only play one publisher’s games for the rest of my life?...

But not even Sylvanas can stop the bandicoot The latest expansion for Blizzard’s still hugely-successful MMORPG,World of Warcraft, saw amazing sales in its release week, puttingBattle for Azerothstraight in at number three in this week’s UK Charts. This mighty debut still wasn’t enough to toppleCrash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogyfrom the number one slot, which it has now held for over a month, nor could it push pastGrand Theft Auto Vwhich, again,is making a play for the throne....

Also talks next project Xenoblade Chronicles Xis a pretty fantastic game — but director Tetsuya Takahashi doesn’t necessarily think that Japan can keep churning out titles like this for forever. Wheninterviewed by Time, Takahashi noted that “It seems to me that building the entire world of the game itself (making it open-world) is considered one must-have element for Western RPGs nowadays, but that just can’t be done in the current Japan scene....

New project from David OReilly “InEverything, every single thing is a playable character; if you may see it, you can be it.” Come again? “The game lets you see the entire universe from the point of view of the thousands of things in it. In other words, there is no distinction between you and the world, or between a level and a character. All these things experience and interact with the world differently....

Guys? [Update:And it’s actually out!You can find it here for free, but naturally there’s a $14.99 “quick start” bundle. The Switch edition will launch with Update 1.7 in tow, and cross-progression with mobile is confirmed. You can watch the new trailer below, which features music that sounds like it was taken directly from a 2007 E3 Wii sizzle-reel.] Last week, in official documentation provided by Nintendo,Elder Scrolls: Bladeswas plainly listed as arriving on “May 12....

How Celeste’s award went missing in the first place is a mystery Platforming indie darlingCelestetook the gaming industry by storm back in 2018, and won two awards at that year’s Game Awards: Games for Impact and Best Independent Game. While the game is still thought of fondly over four years later, news has just come to light that its developer, Extremely OK Games, never received one of their well-earned awards, at least physically, after it mysteriously went missing....