Back before we were able to connect consoles to the internet, if a developer released a broken game, something overrun with bugs or controls that didn't work just right, there was nothing to be done about. That was it. The game printed on t...

I remember the first time my mom mentioned Pokémon Go. The game had just had its awful, broken launch, but it worked pretty well in the remote area she lived in. She called to ask me about it because all of the employees at her store...

I'll admit I dropped off Fire Emblem Heroes over this past summer. With a new job, a big move, and increased responsibilities all around, I just didn't have time for the app. But now, as the year winds down and game releases slow, it's the ...

Marvelous and Nintendo have given owners of Daemon X Machina many reasons to keep returning to the game week after week. Free content updates have added a lot of value to the package and the developers haven't been shy about pushing ou...

On Monday, I wrote an article about Nintendo Switch Online its lack of new SNES and NES games. I said all I wanted for Christmas was some new titles on the service, and I guess there is a Santa Claus because Nintendo has revealed six new ga...

I've been a fan of open world games since Claude first rampaged through the streets of Liberty City. In those halcyon days of the PlayStation 2, being able to go where I want to go and do what I want to do marked a striking change from the ...

It's hard to say what the gaming landscape would look like today if Infiniminer never existed. The game, developed by Zach Barth, presented players with a randomly generated world filled with voxel blocks they were supposed to break fo...

I'm sure I'm not unique in saying this but I've had a lifelong affinity for theme parks. It's always been my dream to pull a Dolly Parton and buy one to call my own. I know that's not going to happen -- Destructoid doesn't pay that wel...

The entire internet may be talking about Baby Yoda, but there is something else on Disney+ people should be paying attention to. It has crazy doctors, a talking moose, freakish gnomes, and a hallway of heads. I'm of course talking about Ret...

A single game with staying power is a difficult achievement to obtain in this industry. With dozens of titles launching each week, most of them in the Switch eShop, the spotlight tends to move quickly as new hits surpass the current crop of...

Back in September, Nintendo Switch Online celebrated its first anniversary of being a sub-par online service by adding something fans had wanted since it debuted: SNES games. The Super Nintendo is arguably one of the best consoles of all ti...

[Editor's Note: What a decade this has been. It's too soon to say how it will compare to those before it, but the past 10 years have been phenomenal for the video game industry. We've seen the meteoric rise of the indie devel...

Podtoid is back with an all-new episode and this week Dan and CJ are wrapping up their discussion of Pokémon Sword and Shield by diving into the post-game, online play, all the cute new creatures, and whether or not Hop is ...

To the Moon was one of the most compelling and wholly enjoyable indie games of 2011 and one of the best examples of how small developers could use RPG Maker to tell memorable stories. A few years ago, developer Freebird Games...

Right now, there are seven inches of snow on the ground and the temperatures are well below freezing. It's the type of weather that gets people imagining warm, exotic locations in a fruitless bid to tricking the body into thinking it's warm...

I don't envy Game Freak. It's a weird statement to make because for more than 20 years, the company has been part owner of one of the most successful video game franchises on the planet. Game Freak has guided Pokémon since ...

For the most part, this has been a pretty quiet November for video games as several of the big-name titles got pushed into 2020. Thankfully, the one's that haven't been delayed are mostly living up to expectations. That is expect for Grooke...

Street Fighter V, despite its rocky launch, is still one of the biggest fighting games on the planet and at this year's North American Regional Finals of the Capcom Cup, it was announced the game would be getting even bigger with the Stree...

Several weeks ago, Nintendo released the Switch Lite, a portable only version of its best-selling console. It's a great piece of hardware, but it does change one of the fundamental aspects of owning a Switch: it turns this social machine in...

As we told you a few days ago, our reviews of Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield are going to be a little bit late. We didn't get our code until about 07:30 PST and it wasn't until I got home from work that I was actua...

The Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection looks to continue Capcom's winning streak of revisiting classic titles in the Blue Bomber's catalog. It contains six games all on one disc or cartridge -- not extra download necessary -- and the Z...

The next month is going to be absolutely huge for the Star Wars franchise. Not only are we getting the final movie of the Sequel Trilogy next month, but Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is launching on November 15. There is so much St...

It's crazy to think Shovel Knight first released in 2014 and more than five years later we're still talking about potent content updates to what is arguably the most successful Kickstarter game ever. After several delays, Yacht Club Ga...

After an absence last week due to illness, Podtoid is back with an all-new show where we talk about Death Stranding without spoiling the story, dive into the world of Outer Worlds, and dream about Capcom finally releasing Deep Down. Al...