It's always so sad when a child has to take on adult responsibilities. Like, someone in their life has failed them -- whether through extenuating circumstances or not -- and now a kid has to grow up faster than they should. The older you ge...

Although the backer demo for Koji Igarashi adventure Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was supposed to go live yesterday, the development team have unfortunately revealed that the beta will not be ready for another week.Speaking on Bloodsta...

Those who are looking forward to the next semi-chapter in the Life is Strange canon have one fewer day to wait. The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit will now arrive next Monday instead of next Tuesday. Developer Dontnod tweete...

Dad switched from beer to whiskey immediately after breakfast. Things aren't going great. It's never explicitly stated, but there seems to be a dead mother in the mix. Dad's spirits aren't high, they're in the tumbler. Drain and flood, aga...

When it comes to esports furniture, IKEA doesnt really come to mind -- and they're hoping to change that soon. IKEA just announced a partnership with both a medical company that uses wearable tech UNYQ and Area Academy, an esports company...

At E3, I finally learned what Transference is (aside from being a VR project with Elijah Wood's involvement). It's a first-person adventure game with a psychological thriller tinge that has you inhabiting a family trapped in a corrupted dig...

I can't figure Telltale out. It recently noted that it was spreading itself a bit thin with so many different licenses and shuffled some staff around. Now here it is announcing another major license at E3! The company, which has worked on a...

The shroud of mystery surrounding last week's Insomniac tease has been lifted. Just now, Insomniac Games has announced a brand new game called Stormland for Oculus Touch. The reveal comes via this three-minute announcement trailer. It...

Another World (Out of this World) has found its way to many platforms in the years since its original 1991 release. It's an important game, one I hope manages to reach new audiences every time it's re-released. Next on the list is Nintendo ...

To think, I nearly missed hearing about Europa. The self-described exploration adventure game just bubbled up from the depths of Twitter for me, and I feel obligated to pay it forward: you ought to set aside two and a half minutes to let it...

Back in high school, my buddies and I used to always play a "hide and seek" map in Counter-Strike 1.6. It's a darker map set on just a single street of a neighborhood. Looking back, I'm not sure how we got so many enjoyable hours out o...

In the mid-1960s, the rise of western films produced and directed by Italian auteurs gave birth to a new subgenre of film, the Spaghetti Western. Notable for overdramatizing conflicts, unique audio and visual editing, and eschewing or outri...

If you couldn't tell by now, I'm far more interested in wacky, goofy, and flat-out weird games than I am your typical AAA release. It's just more fun to see the strange afterbirth of a good old-fashioned mindfuck than it is to climb radio t...

Warner Bros. have released the trailer for an upcoming title in TT Games' Lego series. We've already had three Lego Batman titles, so here comes one focused on the villains of the DC Universe (that we got to play as, previously, in three Le...

Telltale took on a lot in a short amount of time and it showed. Somewhere after Tales from the Borderlands the developer went into overdrive, and kind of just picked up every license they could get their hands on. Some of them were great, s...

Sony seems to have a thing for storybook adventure games. They hosted Until Dawn in 2015, and have been steadily supporting Quantic Dream for the past eight years with PlayStation exclusivity for Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls. Like every...

Here's a cool one for ya, kids -- Devolver Digital has given us 23 copies of Minit to give away to the true believers of Destructoid. Why 23? Who knows. Who cares? All I know is 23 of you are getting a free game. And this isn't just any fre...

Shantae: Half Genie Hero - Ultimate Day One Edition hit the shelves on PS4 and Nintendo Switch earlier in May and, reportedly, is already ghost, having sold out in record time.The Day One edition of the physical release included the 2016 pl...

A new trailer has been released for the next in the long line of Lego titles, Lego The Incredibles, which launches on all major platforms next month.In the fast-paced trailer, we get to see some new and old villains, including The UnderMine...

And in the continued stream of upcoming titles being held back, Skullgirls developer Lab Zero have announced that their upcoming mystical RPG, Indivisible, will not make its scheduled 2018 release."While we did everything we could to preven...

As written in the latest issue of Japanese publication Famitsu, Level-5's 3DS adventure Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy is coming to the Nintendo Switch in Japan on August 9.Originally launching for 3DS ...

Omensight is a game about furry, humanoid, animal things that are all trying to murder each other for various political reasons. The whole spectacle of it is absolutely adorable right up until the moment that it chooses not to be. The story...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Myst, Cyan is putting together a limited-run physical collection of all seven games that even includes a replica Linking Book. While the package is only being offered through a currently-running Kickstar...

I originally held off getting Cyan's alien world adventure Obduction knowing I'd much prefer to play the whole thing in virtual reality. It's just one of those games. It has been a not-insignificant wait, but the studio has finished its wor...

At E3 this year, Double Fine will be hosting an event that reunites the original cast from Grim Fandango. Being streamed via Facebook Live, the cast will do a live reading of select scenes from the game along with live music. This is all in...

Like most industry developers and publishers, CD Projekt RED will be at annual shindig E3, to be held early next month in Los Angeles. A recent hiccup on the official E3 site may have pointed at the Polish studio bringing in their mysteriou...