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According toIGN, via the magically deliciousSiliconera, Squenix, the corporate megalith that brought you such games asFinal Fantasy LMV: Numeric StrifeandDragon Quest Heroes: A Hard Day’s Moogle, is planning on releasing a remake(s) of the older titles in theDragon Questseries to tide people over during the excruciating wait for the Nintendo DS nerdgasm-in-a-boxDragon Quest IX. This news comes straight from company CEO Yoichi Wada, during a financial briefing that took place in Tokyo earlier today....

With Overlord developer Triumph Studios returning to the helm The fourth entry in theAge of Wonderseries,Age of Wonders 3, will make an appearance this fall on PC, thanks to series creator Triumph Studios — which has spent recent years with theOverlordseries. It will be the first entry in over a decade, with the last beingShadow Magicin 2003. Age of Wondersis a strategy-RPG that merges tactical turn-based combat with city-building. It debuted in 1999 through a partnership between Triumph and Epic Games, which may also be returning according to a hint dropped by lead designer Lennart Sas in aEurogamer interview....

Act fast, but not furious Two weeks has already come and gone, meaning that today, April 10, is the last day you’re able to pick up the freeForza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furioustitle for both Xbox One and Xbox 360. Beginning tomorrow, it jumps to $10 — a price so Ludacris that only someone carrying around twin Glock .40s (Roll out!) could afford it. While the standalone chunk ofForza Horizondidn’t set our world on fire, it was certainly enjoyable....

Can you earn 1,000,000 points without dying? Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved— it’s still really dang good! The treasured Xbox Live Arcade twin-stick shooter has resurfaced as a backward-compatible title on Xbox One. Previously, it was available to folks in the console’spreview program. Now it’s back, open to the wider public, and some people are pissed about the lack of support for other Xbox 360 games likeRed Dead RedemptionandCall of Duty: Black Ops....

I have lingering concerns aside from the streaming tech itself My first experience with Stadia was playingDoom Eternalfor half an hour or so last week at E3, and I can’t think of a better game to showcase Google’s game-streaming platform. It’s fast, it’s ferocious, and you know what? Stadia totally works. I came into the demo expecting as much, but I’m still impressed. Away from the hustle and bustle of the E3 show floor, in a private off-site venue, Google had Stadia runningDoom Eternalon a big-screen TV by way of a Chromebook with a wired internet connection....

Happy holidays Ah, the holiday season. That awkward time of year when you’re expected to be in the same room as your extended family, talking to your great aunt that you barely remember about how no, you’re not in school anymore; you graduated five years ago. The only source of reprieve is that tiny, rectangular computer in your pocket. As if Halfbrick understands your need for distraction to keep your sanity, it’s offering its entire iOS catalog for free....

Well done, Blur Blur Studio has beenkilling itlately. You might not know the company by name, but as someone who plays modern videogames you’ll surely recognize the company’s visual effects. WhenHalo 2 Anniversarydebuts inThe Master Chief Collectionnext month on Xbox One, the game will sport brand new cinematics — perhaps you’ve seen the impressive still featuring Sargent Johnson? Well, here’s a whole trailer of the stuff. To quote Kyle, “good lord!...

You made me promises, promises, you knew you’d never keep There were some shaky launches last year. WhileAssassin’s Creed: Unityhad faces disappearing and slowdown, andDragon Age: Inquisitionhad weird character freezes and misfiring dialog triggers, these games couldn’t hold a candle to the absolute disaster ofHalo: The Master Chief Collection‘sbroken multiplayer and buggy single-player. Multiple multi-gigabyte patches since November haven’t completely rectified the problems, and despite reassurances that the next patch will be the one to fix everything, here we are in February still trying to connect to games....

YES! Sega has announced an HD remake of the Sega Saturn classicNiGHTS into dreams…for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC this fall. The game was originally released on the Sega Saturn 16 years ago today, and now it returns with HD graphics, a 16:9 aspect ration, leaderboards and trophies/achievements. There’s also an optional Saturn mode that leaves the original graphics intact. I’m so excited! Check out the new screenshots in our gallery....

A Faceful of Joy A Fistful of Gunis a combination of a classic beat-’em-up likeTurtles in Timeand a shoot-’em-up likeJamestown. So naturally, I’m deeming it a sheat-’em-up. No, wait, that sounds terrible. A boot-’em-up? Better, but still not that great… How about a boosh-’em-up? Yeah, I’ll go with that one.A Fistful of Gunis the best goddamn boosh-’em-up of all time. Most people might know Paul Greasley for his work onEdmundin the past, or for his upcoming gameUnder the Ocean....

Despite it’s flaws,Kid Icarus: Uprisingdid a lot of things right. The game channels a particular energy that is usually only found in a certain brand of 80’s and 90’s anime. The light weight, sweet-and-strange narrative mixed with heavy influences from classic mythologies fused with intense action and ridiculous comedy is highly reminiscent of stuff likeEl Hazard,Tenchi Muyu, andProject A-Ko. It only seems fitting then thatKid Icarus: Uprisingwould be adapted into anime form....

Longer the wait, the more it hurts Welcome back! It’s another Tuesday, which means tonight there will be a new episode of Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast exclusively on Destructoid.Topics:It’s been quite the year of disappointing video games. FromCrossfireXtoBabylon’s Fall, in tonight’s opening topic we discuss the worst games of the year. The crew also discusses the recentPokemonScarlet and Violetleaks and Square Enix’s majorNFT blunder.All of that and so much more on Spot Dodge!...

‘No compromises’ Microsoft closed its E3 press conference with an announcement that’s going to drive the future of Xbox for years to come. There’s a new Xbox One coming and it’s more powerful than the one that launched in 2013. Project Scorpio is the next step for Xbox. Phil Spencer took the stage and said that he believes it’ll be the most powerful console in existence. It has 8 cores, 6 teraflops of GPU power, and is capable of rendering at 60hz....