Fledgling Xbox studio The Initiative continues to bolster its ranks with some of the video game industry's top AAA talent, having added four more developers from major league studios.As noted by their respective LinkedIn profiles, Apex Lege...

If there's one title from 2019 that came out of nowhere, kicked down the front door, and immediately captured the attention of the video game community, it's WayForward's upcoming brawler River City Girls. With a reveal trailer dropped like...

We'll never stop missing Satoru Iwata – not for a moment. It's hard to believe the former president of Nintendo has been gone for four whole years now. He left such a positive mark not just at his own company, but on the video game in...

Yesterday saw the release of a short documentary by production company Noclip, looking at the rollercoaster ride developer IO Interactive has been on during the production of the now-legendary Hitman series. It seems that, despite the ups a...

While new Xbox studio The Initiative is yet to develop its first video game, it has succeeded in putting together a team of heavyweight players from the AAA development scene.The most recent acquisitions to the new studio, which was first a...

It's fair to state that last year's revisit to the God of War series was an all-out success. With its vision of a matured, tired Kratos, and the incredible quest he undertakes with his son Atreus, Sony Santa Monica not only reinvented the f...

At a recent event in Taipei, held to celebrate the Chinese launch of Yakuza 5, Team Yakuza producer Daisuke Sato mused on the possibilities of giving the "Kiwami" remake treatment to the Japan-only Yakuza Kenzan titles.Speaking with Bahamut...

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 ...