If there's one juxtaposition that really stands out in Asobo Studios' excellent adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence, it's how siblings Amicia and Hugo can find themselves standing on a beautiful dawn riverbank one minute, then be knee-deep i...

One of the more intriguing titles that has popped up in recent weeks is charismatic-looking melee fighter Bleeding Edge. Developed by Ninja Theory, best known for their sombre adventure Hellblade, Bleeding Edge looks to do a full 180 on tha...

The main press conferences of E3 may be done and dusted, but there's still all sorts of cool tidbits and tales coming out of ongoing events such as E3 Coliseum and Nintendo Treehouse. Take, for example, this story of a Simpsons video game t...

11 Bit Studios is no stranger to somber storytelling. In 2014, the studio released This War of Mine, a harrowing survival game inspired by the events of the Bosnian War. Rather than go a shade lighter for its follow-up, the developer double...

Although it's been a solid five years since its original reveal, with things going very quiet in the interim, it appears that Dead Island 2, the sequel to head-lopping adventure Dead Island, is still in development, with new details to come...

PlayStation has released a whopping 20-minute gameplay video for the upcoming kart racer Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled - essentially a remake of the popular 1999 PS1 title Crash Team Racing - which will be leaving the starting grid in abou...

Since the advent of the 3D accelerator in the fifth generation of gaming, developers have been pushing for more and more realistic engines to smudge the line between reality and gaming as much as possible. Recently, we've stagnated with nea...

It's not every day we see a brand new handheld video game console, much less one as funky-looking and curiosity-stoking as Playdate. Just look at this thing! It's such a cutie. And it has a functional crank that folds out from its side. And...

Back in 2014, little known publisher CI Games (alongside of developer Deck13) put out Lords of the Fallen: a clearly Dark Souls-inspired romp with a viking twist. It resonated with a lot of folks, including Dark Souls publisher Bandai Namco...

At the start of May, employees at League of Legends developer Riot Games held a protest at the studio to oppose (among other factors) Forced Arbitration of staff, a contract clause that - succinctly - makes it nigh-on impossible for interna...

Yuke's, longtime developer of pro-wrestling video games, has announced plans to create a second wrestling IP, with aims of providing competition with its own long-stagnant WWE 2K series. Speaking in an interview with Video Games Chronicle, ...

A Hat in Time is one of my favorite games of last year. Its gameplay mechanics revel in absurdity and its writing contrasts cute-as-heck appearances with unapologetic cynicism to great comedic effect. I've said before I felt like devel...

Yesterday, over 150 employees walked out of Riot Games' offices in Los Angeles to hold a "down tools"-style protest over the League of Legends publishers handling of recent discrimination lawsuits. The protest was also directed at the compa...

Platinum is seemingly fed up over not being able to control the future of the games it develops. Titles like The Wonderful 101 and Vanquish have been positively received, but because Platinum doesn't wholly own the properties, it ...

I'm Destructoid's resident Dog and Cat Games Correspondent Extraordinaire. You might have noticed I changed my avatar to match this distinction. So of course anything that comes through the tipline that mentions dogs or cats gets an instant...

Sony has a problem with sexual content on the PS4. While that was mere speculation for the last year or so (despite numerous stories saying otherwise), a recent report from the Wall Street Journal has outright confirmed the policy shift fro...

Natsume Inc, publisher of the Harvest Moon and Reel Fishing titles, has announced a new program designed to help smaller developers get their wares out into the big, wide world. The Natsume Indie Program will see the publisher team with ind...

[In the aftermath of yesterday's awful fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, there are reports that the modeling from Assassin's Creed Unity might be used to help rebuild it. We interviewed Ubisoft's Caroline Miousse back in 2014 ...

Last week's Star Wars Celebration event was the place to be if you wanted to hear about the stealth existence of new projects. We had Janina Gavanker mentioning the Horizon Zero Dawn sequel, and Skywalker Sound's Matt Wood has also seemingl...

The Australian Ratings Board appears to have let slip an as-yet-unannounced title from Shantae developer WayForward Games. According to the rating, there is a River City Girls currently in development at the retro-loving indie studio.This t...

Brendan Greene, better known by his online pseudonym of "PlayerUnknown," has announced that after years of work and promotion, he's moving on from the development of the game that made him a globally recognised name in the gaming industry.I...

Continuing the Resident Evil 2 developer roundtable discussion, Capcom has shared more insight into the remake's production. This time, they're talking heated discussions, Easter eggs, and cut content. On the former topic, the artists were...

If you love learning random tidbits about Nintendo's inner workings, you'll want to see the company's new Japanese recruitment page. The site has a few notable data points folks would want to know about as prospective employees, and for the...

Fans are hungry for the ever-elusive Borderlands 3 to finally show itself, but is PAX East 2019 the right time and place for a full reveal? I could see it going either way. This week, Gearbox Software noted that it's bringing "never-before-...

I, personally, was never really into Talisman, the fantasy tabletop game that blew up huge during my formative years. I did take a stab at it several years back, in an evening that lasted a lifetime and ultimately ended with us designating ...