Gotta cook ’em all Game Freak knows me too well. If there’s a list of things to accumulate in a video game, I’m going to do my darnedest to fill it out, whether it’s catching every last Pokémon in Galar or cooking up a storm. Today’s Nintendo Direct filled in a few more details forPokémon SwordandShield, including two new monsters–the fish-spewing Cramorant and the black-tea Polteageist– along withword of a so-called Curry Dex....
Xeodrifter coming to the eShop, and more updates from the Mutant Mudds studio Mutant Muddsdeveloper Renegade Kid unveiled a new project today in a developer diary over atGoNintendo. It’s a bite-sized metroidvania game for Nintendo 3DS about an interstellar vagrant, entitledXeodrifter, that has its genesis in a 2D demake ofMoon Chronicles. The article also brings us updates on the Austin-based studio’s other enterprises.Treasurenautsis still happening, but it sounds like it’s on hold for the moment....
Also, HOLY F*CK IT’S GOKU!!! A few weeks ago, I shared news offive upcomingMega Manalbums. Among those isROCKMAN HOLIC, a 16-track vocal arrange album by the Japanese music labelSOUND HOLIC. I really enjoyed the previousMega Man-themed arrange album,Rockman Kai, so I’m looking forward to more cheesy, Japanese-y, anime-fueled fun. This new promotional trailer features the track “X-Buster,” which predominantly sources the “X vs. Zero” theme fromMega Man X5. Accompanying the sample is a badass animation inspired by theX5showdown between X and the corrupted Zero....
I’ve been playingRuneScapesince 2007. I started as a child who constantly needed help completing quests and making money before jumping betweenOSRSandRuneScape 3years later. Fast-forward to 2024, and I’m now experiencingRuneScape: Dragonwilds’Early Access period as a young yet occasionally grumpy adult. Dragonwildsis a wild ride. What initially presents as a base-building survival game becomes a blast from the past as it introduces you towell-knownRunescapequests, NPCs, and resources. Many moments made me smile upon seeing various references, alongside just as many flashes of frustration that have me sitting back in my chair and questioning whether it’s even worth it....
A minigame compilation with a meta game about haggling a dog to buy real games with real money Leave it to Nintendo to make “free to play” weird. This time, thankfully, it’s my kind of weird.Rusty’s Real Deal Baseballis not a baseball game. Rather, it’s a compilation of baseball-themed minigames. There’s a hitting minigame, for example. Perched at home with a bat, you eye a pitching machine at the slab. Then it erupts from the ground and you find that it is a man in a suit with a pitching machine for a head that pitches you the balls to hit with his man arms....
Crocodile fears Karma’s coming for Bayek in a big way. After senselessly murdering hundreds of crocodiles in pursuit of a bigger arrow bag, the King Croc wants revenge. Sobek’s pissed. The second ofAssassin’s Creed Origins‘ Trials of the Godsencounters features a massive fight with Sobek, the Egyptian deity of strength and power. The trailer above does an apt job of introducing him. Like the previous Anubis trial, this one is available for a week; it ends on November 28....
For the 2015 Holiday Sale Earlier this year I got ajump on the Steam Summer Sale eventby happening to craft a badge at the right time. As luck would have it, it happened again. No, I don’t just always craft badges. Okay maybe I do. I noticed this evening after crafting the first level of theUndertalebadge that I got an emoticon (Flowey) and a background (Sans), but I didn’t get anything else....
Incredible result for speedrunning extravaganza Last week, the Games Done Quick (GDQ) community reunited for a whole week of fascinating, entertaining, and death-glitchin’ speedruns. The annual Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) saw some of the best players from around the globe gather at the Double Tree Hilton in Bloomington MA for seven days of non-stop speedrunning challenges, all in the aid of a good cause. SGDQ 2022 was the first time the GDQ team had gathered in a physical capacity since the COVID-19 pandemic forced events to go online in 2020....
Check out everything Destructoid did today Today was insane. Bonkers. Wacky. I don’t even know where to begin. Eleven Destructoid Originals came out today, including a new Office Chat, some examination on what happened withAliens: Colonial Marines, a new Podtoid episode, and a handful of Valentine’s Day pieces. Five previews showed up today too, includingRemember Me,GRID 2, andEuropa Universalis IV. On top of all of that, Nintendo Direct happened, bringing us tons of Nintendo news, including the awesome revelation that Luigi should star in more videogames....
Check out everything Destructoid did today How about that new Steam controller, eh? Boy, it sure is something! Can you playVolgarrproperly with it? If not, it can f*ck off. Today, Conrad and Jordan become mighty viking deities, Joshua Derocher gets wet thinking about the Steam Machine, Steven Hansen is no “small fry” in the kitchen, former Dtoid editor Aaron Linde joins Anthony Burch at Gearbox, China decided to only sorta kinda play nicely with all the consoles of the world....
Classic ’80s adventure ready to hack ‘n’ slash again Publisher Edia has announced that it will be bringing three entries to the classic PC Engine seriesValisto Nintendo Switch. The development ofValis: The Fantasm Soldier(1986),Valis II(1989), andValis III(1990) for Switch will be funded via a Japanese crowdfunding campaign, with a release penciled in for the series’ 35th anniversary in 2021. As yer boy has told you before,Valiswas originally released on PC-88 and MSX home computers and tells the story of an ordinary high-school girl —Yuko Asou — who learns that she has been fated to protect three spiritual realms from a foretold monster invasion....
Not a sequel to the Maiden song The point-and-click adventure genre has slowly been coming back into prominence over the last console generation. Starting with revivals of old LucasArts games from Telltale, the legendarySecret of Monkey Islandgot an HD port in 2009 and gamers were able to relive the glory days on modern platforms. With the success of that re-release, it was only a matter of time before more games in the same vein came to life....
Even more to choose from Are you using thestandard box artforBioShock Infinite, the reversibleSongbird cover, or something else entirely? Developer Irrational Games has provided even more custom covers should you want to go the latter route, and I must say, the one shown above stands out to me like none of the others have been able to. At this page, you’ll find the covers that did not garner enough votes to win as well as some bonus box art....
