Fallout 76 increasingly feels like the year's big question-mark game. People know it's coming. The Fallout series is prevalent even among folks who buy a few games a year and don't typically follow industry news or trends. Call of Duty: Bla...

The second offering from retro enthusiasts Hamster is a twitchy arcade classic. Fans of shmups can take to the skies once more in a great arcade release from the late '90s, Strikers 1945 Plus, available now on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Sw...

We've done a few late-in-the-game reviews before in Destructoid's history. If enough people ask, we'll do it! Such is the case for Nine Parchments, which actually launched in 2017 on PC, PS4 and Switch and 2018 on Xbox One. We've basically ...

If you've finally decided to give Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 a try due to the barrage of streams on Blackout (Black Ops 4's battle royale mode), delaying from buying on release date means extra savings. This weekend Newegg's eBay outlet stor...

As much as I love my Nintendo Switch, and I certainly do, it's the first console I've bought where I haven't exactly been going wild with buying extra controllers. On the GameCube, I bought nearly every new color Nintendo put out. With the ...

[Header image: Sorceress (1982)]Video Game Movies. They rarely work out, right? Sometimes made as a quick straight-to-video cash-in, sometimes made with the best of intentions, either way they usually fail deliver an experience worthy of fa...

It's flying in a bit under the radar, sandwiched between some of the biggest games of the year, but the new Ubisoft toys-to-life franchise Starlink: Battle for Atlas launches today for Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Our final rev...

Warning: contains spoilers for the modern Wolfenstein games and Final Fantasy XV Decent voice acting is one of the crucial building blocks of a good game. It’s why so many people switch the voices to Japanese in JRPGs and the like, be...

I’d like to start this review off with a tale of Goofus and Gallant and hope to God the Highlights people don’t sue me for doing so. One day, Goofus and Gallant decide to buy the new toys-to-life game Starlink: Battle for A...

There's a seminal moment in cinematic history, in which a world-weary Ossie Davis tells a young Spike Lee, "always do the right thing". This unforgettable moment has stuck with me my whole life and is go-to advice whenever I make my de...

This is the first game that actually made me feel like a detective. I've played tons of games that have tasked me with solving some mystery, only to have it boil down to either not being able to fail, or just plain easy and boring.  Re...

What's Resident Evil without a theatrical range of stage costumes for our heroes to leap in and out of whilst surviving their survival horror? Capcom's upcoming remake of Resident Evil 2 is certainly shaping up to be no different. We've alr...

Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has announced via Twitter that the latest edition of the legendary fighting franchise, Tekken 7, has bagged over three million sales since its launch in June 2017.This impressive number brings franchise sale...

I figured for sure this would be a shorter console generation overall. Some might argue that the ninth generation of hardware has begun already, with the Switch releasing earlier last year. However, with the new trend of half-step consoles ...

Hamster has once again reached into the wayback machine and pulled forward a vintage and obscure title, to be experienced by a whole new generation of video game fans on the Nintendo Switch. This week, it's UPL's arcade adventure Ninja-Kid ...

Bandai Namco has a lot to answer for after 2012's Soulcalibur V. After gutting the beloved core cast and a number of single-player modes the series felt hamstrung, to the point where some felt that it could never come back. When in doubt, p...

After Star Fox Zero flopped, I feared that Nintendo was going to leave the beloved space shooter series in the dust. So when I saw that Star Fox would have a major cameo in Ubisoft's Starlink, I was pleasantly surprised. It’s a far cr...

October 2017 was a tough time for CCP Games, the Icelandic creator of EVE Online. The company has always been at the forefront of experimentation, there were too many hands in too many cookie jars. While they're best known for their play-ru...

To play Dark Souls is to seek victory in a land defined by failure. Lordran, the game's fictional kingdom, is dying. The once-great gods have abandoned their bastions, fleeing a world in desperate need of a savior. Every crumbling city stan...

Over the past year and a half folks have built various flying machines that break the physics of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but this is something different. Zants, a Breath of the Wild speedrunner, managed to showcase an awesome b...

Castlevania is making a comeback. Requiem is due on the PS4 next week. The second season of the Netflix show is out just in time for Halloween. Oh, and the series is making a splash in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. All we don't have, it seems...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has ushered in a new era of AAA: one where every studio and their grandmother tries to pack a battle royale gametype into their project. The thing is, Activision actually did it right, while also providing a strong...

Game developers have begun kicking off their Halloween events early to allow for ample playtime, and that even goes for Valve this year. Team Fortress 2 is on its tenth Scream Fortress event, a fact I didn't particularly care to know but no...

Long-running UK magazines GamesMaster and GamesTM have sadly announced that they are to close. Publisher Future has announced that both publications will be releasing their final issues in November.GamesTM first launched in 2002 under Imagi...

During a recent PlayStation Blogcast with Sony's Sid Shuman, the social media director commented that new news will be forthcoming soon about the remake of PS1 title MediEvil.A further Blogcast, planned for sometime in "the next week or two...