David Fincher's excellent adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is getting a sort-of follow-up in the form of The Girl in the Spider's Web. It's a strange situation, with Fincher and stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig not retur...

It’s hard to talk about Star Control: Origins without talking about Star Control 2. SC2 is a game extremely near and dear to me. I originally played it on the Panasonic 3DO, that system nobody owned that cost an arm and a leg, where i...

Not every single game supports cloud saves with an active Nintendo Switch Online membership, but most do, and there's been understandable confusion about whether or not subscribers will "lose" their cloud data after canceling their Switch O...

So many of the most popular video game franchises have continually pushed their luck and eventually lost. "You can't have too much of a good thing" isn't a motto that applies to games. Not forever, at least. Sooner or later, everything runs...

I'm pretty good at Hitman. I've been playing the games ever since Hitman: Codename 47, a game so clunky that you had to love it in order to put up with its intolerable menu system and unrelenting control issues. The games have such an allur...

Professor Layton and the Curious Village is now available for mobile devices. Just a few weeks after announcing intentions to bring the Japanese HD mobile port West, the game is now available on the App and Google Play stores for $9.99 USD ...

You've no doubt seen the fan art by now. What started as an official new Nintendo character named Peachette has since become a free-for-all of funny, original, weird, and yes sultry fan characters. Bowsette has really caught on, but the int...

Creating games with a lone multiplayer component is an inherent risk when it comes to game preservation. You keep costs low without having to create a single player component and keep potential yields high with microtransactions, but once t...

While virtual reality still feels gimmicky to me - perhaps as a child of the '90s who just remembers Dactyl Attack all to well - there's no denying it maintains an allure that pulls in the people, if not always the dollars. At EGX in Birmin...

Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for their upcoming stealth assassination title Hitman 2. The new clip features everyone's favourite Suspicious Bald Person, Agent 47, as he winds his way through the darkest jungles of Colombia.A far ...

Dark Souls has spawned a litany of memes over the past seven years, including "praise the sun," "the Dark Souls of," and a rather important one that's worth dissecting: "prepare to die." Marketing for the Souls series relied heavily on...

With the company's continued dogged efforts to build upon its eSports and competitive fighting game scene, Capcom has announced a new weekly live stream, focused specifically on Street Fighter V, its pro circuit and its vast community of pl...

I know I've said this before but alternate cover art is my jam. As a physical collector I often find myself wanting to swap covers just for a change of scenery, or in some cases, to hide a particularly bland piece of standard art: the alter...

The nights are getting colder and the skies are getting darker. It's that time of year where we prepare for the launch of the latest entry Activision's bazillion dollar Call of Duty franchise. The publisher thinks so to, as it drops the lau...

Owen Wilson has been gracing the screen since 1996 with his signature catch phrase "wow" (or, as it's come to be known, "woooooow") that kicked off in his very first film, Bottle Rocket, and now a World of Warcraft modder is keeping that le...

Insomniac Games' PS4 release Spider-Man remains the number one game in the UK Charts, making it now three weeks running for New York's favourite web-slinger, who has already broken records as the fastest selling Marvel game of all-time and ...

Pokemon Go has moved on from the shackles of a shunned Niantic experiment and into the Pokemon universe. Professor Willow, the game's mascot of sorts, has officially bridged the gap this past year with the questing system, leading to t...

[Update: Klei has confirmed through a new trailer, and directly to Destructoid, that all platforms will launch on October 9. You can watch the clip below.] Back in 2012 Mark of the Ninja helped put Klei Entertainment on the map. Sure they h...

During this weekend's Tokyo Game Show some lucky players got the opportunity to try out the single-player content of Namco Bandai's Soulcalibur VI, arriving soon on PS4, PC and Xbox One.According to reports, players who were able to progres...

The completely awesome AMID EVIL, a retro-inspired FPS with a gun that shoots planets at enemies, is now on sale for 13% off on Steam. This sale is due to the surprise launch of the game's fifth episode, which is also tubular. How many '90s...

Just announced today, both Risk and Trivial Pursuit Live will be heading to Nintendo's hybrid platform next month courtesy of Ubisoft. Available digitally, you can nab them individually or in the Hasbro Game Night for Nintendo Switch bundle...

With the news of Telltale Games' mass layoffs still fresh on our minds, many fans were holding out for some glimmer of hope in this dark time. With basically every production being cancelled, we had all assumed that The Walking Dead: The Fi...

Life sucks sometimes. Kick back and enjoy a free Steam game! Enter our contest for your chance to win Stone: A Hip-Hop Stoner Noir. It doesn't happen very often, but from time to time I get press for a game that perfectly gels with my perso...

Hardcore Kingdom Hearts fans (bless their little, umm, hearts) have been through a lot. It's almost time for Kingdom Hearts III which is a big deal because they've played through approximately 20 games that weren't Kingdom Hearts ...

It's always an accomplishment when marketing teams are able to fit in so much stupid in just around 30 seconds, but this new commercial for Venom and ESPN might just take the proverbial cake. Depicting ESPN personalities Charles ...