What can you do when you run a disgustingly popular and profitable mobile game? Almost anything you like, apparently. That seems to be the logic driving the latest event in Cygames' Granblue Fantasy, which sees its skybound fantasy setting ...

Nintendo’s E3 threw me for a loop. I was hoping for detailed breakdowns on most of the Switch reveals we got last year, but we don’t really know anything new on most of them, nor have we seen many new reveals. And yet, the new...

(Editor's Note: Flixist and Destructoid are not immune to this issue. Despite actively searching we suck at recruiting women. It's an issue we take seriously. If you're a woman and enjoy writing about movies or video games we'd love to give...

Dedicating 25 minutes to a single game in an E3 presentation is a sign of confidence. It shows a company is proud of a game, excited even, and it wants to share everything it can with fans, hopefully igniting their excitement as well. For S...

Speedrunning is a hobby that requires a lot of patience and a lot of hard work. Playing the same game over and over again sounds like a recipe for boredom, particularly if the slightest mishap can ruin an otherwise perfectly good run. In sp...

Assassin's Creed is growing. Last year's Origins proved that Ubisoft putting the series on a brief hiatus could mature it into something more complex. The upcoming Assassin's Creed Odyssey seemingly follows this trend, as it'...

Right now, I'm overcome with an immense feeling of joy. I'm happy, content even, because after seven, long days of running around the crowded hallways of the Los Angeles Convention Center and sleeping in an apartment so cold Ice Man would a...

Between Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Nioh 2, and Ghost of Tsushima, E3 2018 had a lot for samurai action game fans to obsess over. Building on the Tsushima gameplay demo shown at Sony's press conference, Sucker Punch Productions offered a beh...

Things aren't going well in The Surge 2's dystopian landscape. Jericho City is a far cry from the dimly-lit industrial buildings that dominated so much of The Surge's runtime, but it's hardly a happy place. A mysterious storm lingers overhe...

Capcom has a tight set-up in the South Hall of E3. The entrance to its demo for the Resident Evil 2 remake is a miniature recreation of the Raccoon City police station, redesigned as a short haunted house to provide a brief bit of...

It's fitting Rage 2's vision of post-apocalyptic life revolves around graffiti and brightly-haired punks who look as though they follow a strict "here for a good time, not for a long time" lifestyle. Everything about it seems punchier ...

Unlike most of the other games I'll play at E3, a single level of Mega Man 11 is actually enough to give a comprehensive look at the quality of the final product. There are two available for my session -- Block Man and Fuse Man -- and ...

Andy's Room is an absolute stunner. As the E3 demo for Kingdom Hearts III opened, I stood there for a moment, in absolute awe, at what Square Enix had created. Arguably one of the best, most colorful games I've seen, it took me a moment to ...

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed was a celebration of all things Sega -- and it was an amazing arcade racer in its own right. Matter of fact, I think it's up there with Mario Kart 8. The next racing game from Sega, Team Sonic Racing...

From Software is squeezing as much as it can out of the four words Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. At first, it might seem like nothing more than a stylish-sounding title -- all staccato'd syllables with a punch. But, really, those four words ex...

Do you like coffee? Do you like sidescrolling beat-em-ups? Do you have a Sega Genesis (or a Steam account)? Then your mission, should you choose to accept it, is enter this contest to win a copy of Coffee Crisis.

When Starlink: Battle for Atlas was announced at E3 2017, I immediately wrote it off. Here was a new toys-to-life product in a time when other franchises in that niche were starting to die off. In 2017 it seemed like an antiquated conc...

Zipping around in Spider-Man (PS4) for the first time at E3 brings back memories of Batman: Arkham Asylum, and I mean that in all the best ways. Rocksteady raised our collective expectations for superhero games in 2009; Insomniac is on trac...

Six hours after my hands-off hour-long demo of Cyberpunk 2077, I finally got a chance to sit down to write out my thoughts. That quarter of a day, those 360 minutes, have done nothing to quell how goddamn fucking excited I am for this game....

E3 is a rather lousy place to play Dragon Quest XI for the first time. Sessions are limited to just 15 minutes, and with two small maps to explore with a bevy of points of interest, a single session isn't even a proper amount of t...

I've been a fan of Pixar for most of my life. Whenever Pixar gets around to making a new movie, whether it's an original movie or a sequel, there are a few things you can be certain of. It's going to make a fortune at the box office, i...

Remedy is finally breaking free of the linear narrative formula that it has damn near perfected over the past 20+ years. For its seventh game, Control, it's wading into the waters of the open-world genre. We were shown a 20-some-minute hand...

For a while now, there have been claims from fans that the maps in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds are basically asset flips. To quickly get the uninformed up to speed, asset flips are when a developer buys things like character models or bui...

It's easy to assume the heart of the Metro series lies in the tunnels that snake below Russia's irradiated surface. They're the capillaries through which both Metro 2033 and Last Light's story unfolded, claustrophobic veins occupied by...

Arc System Works' countdown clock, which has been running the last couple of days, has ticked away its final minute, thus revealing that the developer will be publishing a new title, developed by A+ Games, based on popular anime Kill la Kil...