Outreach got lucky. It's a Gone Home-like on a Russian space station set during the Cold War, and features no science fiction elements. I like Gone Home quite a bit, I love alternate history fiction, and I just started w...   read

I remember a surprising amount about the plot to Fable III, considering that I stopped actively thinking about it once the credits rolled some seven-odd years ago. I remember you were a prince, and your brother was the king, but he was...   read

I haven't felt competent at Call of Duty in quite some time. With the series' move towards the futuristic came an ill-fated attempt to capture imaginations of the eSports crowd, overcrowding the once-storied Call of Duty multiplay...   read

In the Detroit: Become Human hands-off theater demo we were shown at E3 2017, we got to see some of the iconography that will define the android/human conflict at the heart of the game's story. The androids' much-lauded digital graffit...   read

When I first saw The Force Awakens (a fine production that is better than Rogue One in every conceivable way), I left wanting to know more about the period between Return of the Jedi and the new film. And as a finger on the M...   read

As a retro swing enthusiast, I loved the E3 2017 Super Mario Odyssey trailer song. "I'll be your 1-Up girl" is such a perfect line. I don't have the critical vocabulary necessary to explain why it works so well, but it does and I'...   read

GungHo Online CEO Kazuki Morishita recently confirmed to Destructoid that Let it Die would be receiving a "huge update" at the end of June. Although the specifics are still being determined, the update is currently set to add ten floor...   read

Today at E3 2017, GungHo Online Entertainment CEO Kazuki Morishita spoke with Destructoid about the company's upcoming title for the Nintendo Switch. According to Morishita, the game will be an "action game for all ages with a lig...   read

If you've ever played Forza Horizon, then Need for Speed Payback will seem very familiar. They're both open-world driving games set in the desert, they both feature a stunt chain system that doles out experience based on how well ...   read

According to Need for Speed Payback producer Jeremy Chubb, Payback will run at 1080p with a 30 FPS framerate on the standard Xbox One and PS4 models, and 4K with a 30 FPS framerate on Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro. It's unclear if t...   read

Today, during the Xbox press conference, EA and BioWare showed off "in-engine" gameplay from new BioWare IP Anthem. The game is a co-op open world RPG, where players team up with their friends to go beyond the walls of an unnamed city to fi...   read

Annapurna's foray into the world of video games continues with Ashen, a game set in a ruined world where the player characters look to bring light back to whatever bad situation they've found themselves in. The game is a multiplayer open-wo...   read

Between the large inscrutable monsters and the ruined post-apocalyptic landscape, Bandai Namco's Code Vein reminds me of the first Nier (post-apocalyptic world populated by people who are involved with some kind of crazy "kee...   read

Today, Deep Rock Galactic was announced as an Xbox One "console launch exclusive" at Microsoft's E3 2017 press conference. Deep Rock Galactic has already been confirmed for Steam Early Access, and is currently set for a "2017" release....   read

A. Verdin (name redacted for privacy) isn't the only person who allegedly scammed review keys from video game PR representatives and developers, but he's one of the few who got caught. Verdin – AKA "BattlefieldAxe," "Airo95," "RaphaAa...   read

I was at the very end of Fear Effect Sedna's Digital Dragons demo when I came across a puzzle that I couldn't quite solve. The first major puzzle in Sedna forced me to explore the environment to defuse a bomb, and I actually kinda like...   read

At the Digital Dragons expo in Poland last month, Justin Bailey (not that one), the CEO and founder of the investment/crowdfunding platform Fig, spoke about the decline of crowdfunding. Bailey compared the history of video game crowdfunding...   read

At Digital Dragons this past week, Pawel Sasko, Lead Technical Quest Designer at CD Projekt Red, took apart several quests in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and its expansions. Since most of the quests Sasko discussed were fairly late-game a...   read

[Spoilers for the previous four episodes of A New Frontier.] From the Gallows is this past season of The Walking Dead distilled into a single episode. Every save glitch, every charming line of dialogue, every fully-realized c...   read

At first, I loved Lethal League. It has plenty of style, it has a fun central mechanic, and it filled my need for a chaotic yet accessible fighter to bust out at parties – now that I no longer have access to Smash Bros. But as I made ...   read

This week at the Los Angeles Games Conference, experts on the Chinese video game industry spoke to a room of games professionals (and me) about how to find success overseas. "Maybe this panel should be called How to Lose Less in China," sai...   read

[Update: IO Interactive has taken to Twitter in response. There's not much to glean from the post, but it seems like IO will have a lot to say later, possibly about Square's history with high expectations.] Today, Square Enix announce...   read

Hey, this is still happening! In this installment of Destructoid Wrestling, we crown the inaugural Destructoid Champion. The Bye Bye Man faces off against the Editor-in-Beef Jordan Devore, while Myles Cox handles the Mangling Editor Brett M...   read

[This review contains spoilers for The Walking Dead Season One and Tales from the Borderlands.] When I said A New Frontier was shaping up to be the most consistently good Telltale game since the first season of The Walking Dead, some t...   read