Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is just two month away, which means that prior games in the series that aren't named Melee are about to fade into the sunset. Though Brawl will probably always remains the black sheep of the competitive scene, Sma...

Dang, John "Jax" Parrish is a very strong man. Sure, he's always been jacked, but compared to his original appearance in Mortal Kombat II in 1993, I'm guessing the dude has put on at least another 20 pounds of muscle.  That's jus...

There were so many ways that it could go wrong. First of all, would it even find its audience? On the surface, The American Dream looks like just another first-person shooter. Would that be enough to kill it right there? Would the people wi...

[Header art by Goomrrat, Katsutank, Street Fighter Legend Akiman, Torini Tea and Hyousen] About four days ago, Twitter user Haniwa posted a short comic about Bowser using the new crown power-up from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe ...

I've been clamoring for a Rhythm Heaven fighter for Smash for a long time now and nothing would make me happier than to hear that opinions have flipped and that series is mounting for a comeback. If Isabelle was revealed for Smash rig...

Team battle Smash with items turned on can be just as competitive and skill-reliant as the standard 1-on-1 no random variables matches that are common in the tournament scene. Just imagine a fight between two pairs of evenly matched f...

According to legends, the original Mortal Kombat was made by just four people, not counting the actors who served as the game's playable characters. That's more people than you see on the development team of your average modern indie game....

The only thing more diverse than Grasshopper Manufacture's library of games is their fan base. In the time since Suda51 left Human Entertainment, the game studio responsible for the first Fire Pro Wrestling and Clock Tower games, he's creat...

As a huge fan of all iterations of Street Fighter III, I've spent many hours contemplating the game's glorious, expertly crafted animation. I knew that some of it had to be rotoscoped (an animation technique that involves drawing over live-...

[Art by Paul Robertson] I have no doubt that Adventure Time will go down in the books as one of the most influential cartoons in history. It's success signaled the start of a new generation of animated shows that were wildly risk-taking wh...

I've been writing for Destructoid for about ten years now, and in all that time, two things haven't changed. The first is, I still know that Mewtroid is the best WarioWare micro-game ever. The second is, I still think that fans of 2D Metro...

[Header art by Yong Dasom] Shovel Knight gets around. I'm yet to see a complete timeline of all the games he's appeared in (though this list comes close), presumably because it's too much for anyone to keep track of, and the list just keep...

[Just Sayin' is a series where Jonathan Holmes is just says whatever. Don't even worry about it.] For some people, new is very good, old is definitely bad, and the latest is always greatest. These people sometimes get annoyed when good game...

While writing for this week's Waluigi-themed Nintendo Force, I reached out to the developers of Semblance, Wandersong, Slime-San, Pool Panic, and Knight Club to see if they'd be willing to make some custom Waluigi fan art in their respectiv...

Just before launching the campaign for The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, Edmund McMillen hit me up on Twitter to ask me if I had any advice on how to help him promote his new game. He seemed a little unsure of how well it would do. This is ...

We're just one week away from Captain Toad's leap to the 3DS and the Switch, and I have high hopes that the intrepid explorer will do well in those new territories. Recent hits in the Character-Puzzle genre like Monument Valley 2 and Steph...

Ask someone why they chose something, anything - from what type of sandwich to eat, to who they voted for in the last election - and chances are their reasoning will boil down to one statement "It felt right." We may like to think that we'r...

It can be pretty uncomfortable when you realize that your tastes don't align with the direction that your favorite fantasy franchises are headed in. As for me, I'm used to that feeling by now. At age 41, I've been through at least three ent...

[Art by Jayspring] Todays detailed reveal of Super Smash. Bros. Ultimate was unlike any other in series history. Almost from the start, series creator Masahiro Sakurai made it clear that we shouldn't expect too many new characters in the ga...

[Spoilers for this past season of The Walking Dead.] In terms of his moral development, Carl Grimes was pretty far along the day that his life ended. According to Kohlberg, the social contract stage is way above the punishment avoidance sta...

A few months ago, I unveiled a rumor that seemed too weird to be real. I was vindicated in the end, though I understand why some were skeptical. They haven't played Runner3 yet, so they don't know how silly the game can be. They also don't...

I was a huge fan of Battle Chasers when it was first released. A big reason for that is it was the first comic I ever read that seemed to love my favorite games as much as I did. Artist Joe Mad was just as in love with SNES RPG Chrono...

Pocket Rumble has been in the works for longer than some of our readers have been alive. Development on the game was just heating up when its team was on Sup Holmes back in 2014, a couple of years ahead of its Early Access releas...