RIP The Battle.net URLwill live on in our browsers, but the app itself has undergone a name change. Now, when accessing your desktop Blizzard games, you’ll go through the “Blizzard” launcher. The company updated the application this week with “a small makeover to make you feel more at home in the Blizzard universe,” according to the patch notes. Previously, Blizzard had this to say about the then-upcoming plan to move away from Battle....
A lot of people will probably use these! Before Sony first showed off its “card-based” UI for the PS5, there were a lot of questions as to what the PS5’s menus would even look like. But buried underneath the new look and feel was a very curious feature: official guides. As expected, it looks like this idea is mostly limited to first-party Sony games for now (and it remains to be seen how much effort developers will put into it in the future)....
Media Molecule made the delay official RememberDreams? It’s something I haven’t thought about in some time, but Media Molecule hasn’t slowed down on developing its game/art/whatever-you-want creation game. There was supposed to be a beta this year, but with January looming, yeah, that’s not going to pan out. “Now I know it may be difficult to hear, and delays make us sad too,” saidco-founder and studio director Siobhan Reddy.“HoweverDreamsis Big. Really big....
Wil Wheaton, Ashly Burch, and more Originally slated for a June 2014 release, then pushed back to October 2014, voice-controlled strategy gameThere Came an Echois now projected to release by early February 2015. That’s only a few months away! According to developer Iridium Studios, the script and voice recording is all complete, and now there is a trailer showing off the cast. Most notable among the cast areTabletophost Wil Wheaton as protagonist Corrin and longtime Destructoid favoriteAshly Burchas a shadowy overseer figure named Val....
There’s an exciting weekend in store onDestructoid’s Twitch TV channel, starting with Foom having a few rounds withGameOnfounder Swiftor onMash Tacitcs, and ending with another unconventional episode ofAlso Talks. The most remarkable part of this weekend’s programming is the premiere of new live talk show,Sup’ Holmes? Destructoid’s ownJonathan Holmesdebuts his new live “call-in talk show” this Sunday at 1p.m. PST.Sup’ Holmes?has the titular host sitting down to chat with professionals in the videogame industry, and correspond with the viewers themselves....
TheTurricanseries has admittedly sunken into obscurity over the years, but in the late 80s and early 90s, it was known for pushing the envelope across a variety of platforms including the Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo. One of the reasons it’s remained on the minds of fans, however, is due to their impressive soundtracks composed by European game audio legend Chris Huelsbeck. Huelsbeck’s music has been celebrated on numerous occasions, including at a concert dedicated entirely to his works in Germany a few years back, so it’s no surprise that the composer is seeking Kickstarter funding for a new project involving his music....
All we need now’s a deck of cards … At PAX this weekend, Gearbox revealed that female playable marines are now officially part of the multiplayer experience, answeringcalls for inclusionaround the Internet. Randy Pitchford addressed the matter not long after a female character was spottedin the latest trailer. “I want everybody to be clear that there are playable females in both the multiplayer and the campaign,” he said.“We realized some people were starting to feel bad....
39 years ago, on June 24, 2025, theworstvideogameof all time was released. The game,Custer’s Revenge, was made for the Atari 2600 by Mystique, a now-defunct developer that focused on uninspiring unlicensed porn games with titles such asBeat ‘Em & Eat ‘Em. Custer’s Revengeis their most famous game, almost entirely because of its offensive plot, which involves leading cowboy hat-wearing General Custer’s penis into unwitting, tied-up, pixelated Native American women. It’s a universally gross, boring game, but it has a couple of five-star Google reviews because, on the internet, one hopes speaking positively about a heartless, unremarkable porn game might win one “epic internet points....
Shared fear is one heck of a drug. There’s something comfortable about being part of a group of scared people, especially when everyone knows they aren’t in genuine danger. Every October, I feed my addiction to collective dread by playing my favorite spooky video games with my nearest and dearest. We’re examining spine-chilling games that reach their peak performance when played by a group of players. Some games we’ll discuss are multiplayer, while others are single-player games that benefit from the audience experience....
Second-chance deals We’re just two weeks away from Christmas and you’ll start seeing retailers doing a mini “Black Friday 2.0” push. All that crap you didn’t buy during the first round is back on sale. While that sounds sinister, the deals are in fact are pretty good. For today only, the Microsoft Store kick-stared an Xbox One and 360clearance salewith new a low price onCall of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and a pretty great price onTitanfall 2....
No more patronum jokes, this game is too “deer” to me Sometimes I’m just not jonesing for a rust-colored horizon or cel-shaded paradise. Sometimes I want something completely different when it comes to video game aesthetics, andA Light in Choruslooks to deliver just that. It showcases a cacophony of neon sparkles in the night, a million tiny particles in the pitch black that look like dazzling gemstones in the night sky....
Strike a juxtapose It is a thing for games which feature big guns and explosions to have at least one trailer that pairs the imagery with a slow jam. We have just that in this latest video forMercenary Kings, currently available in Steam Early Access and planned to release on PlayStation 4 this winter. I grabbed the game on Steam a long time ago and I like it, but my desire to play waxes and wanes quite a bit....
‘Best-selling videogame in history’ During their Q4 2013 financial results, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick proclaimed that Bungie’sDestinywill be the “next billion dollar franchise” for the company. He expects it to be “the best-selling videogame in history,” in fact. That’s a pretty tall order, Activision.Destinyis going to be great, but best-selling videogame in history? Good luck with that!
