Tonight -- a night when people usually dress up all fancy and gather together for the most high-profile celebration of games -- won't see any tuxes or gowns or high heels or graphic tees underneath blazers. This year, which is the spiritual...

As we told you a few days ago, Fallout 76's Bombs Drop Day event takes place this week. It's a reason to dole out double XP and double S.C.O.R.E. (for getting through the battle pass), and there's a 25 percent discount at legendary vendors....

Call of Duty is hosting another horror crossover for Halloween, and this year, Billy the Puppet from Saw and Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are here to play. Don't be alarmed if you see them running around in Call of Duty: Mo...

Borderlands 3's Halloween event is half trick and half treat. Gearbox hasn't exactly gone all out, as it's mostly just rolled out the same festivities as last year. However, getting through it all should be a little quicker, and no one is ...

Geoff Keighley is ending a drawn-out year of streams the only way he knows how: with The Game Awards. After reaching "50 million global viewers" in 2019, this year's show is set for December 10. The Game Awards will be broadcast from audien...

In a tweet this morning, Naughty Dog promised to share "a lot of exciting things" for The Last of Us Part II on Saturday, September 26. This community-centric date was formerly known as Outbreak Day, but going forward, the developer is swap...

After scrapping its plans for an in-person event this year due to COVID-19-related "health and safety considerations," Blizzard hopes to "channel the spirit of BlizzCon into the form of an online show." As we now know, the replacement event...

Unsurprisingly, the Awesome Games Done Quick team has confirmed that their first event of the new year, AGDQ 2021, will be an online-only affair, as the world continues to be rocked by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Much like last month's SG...

Ubisoft's back with its second Nintendo Direct-like streaming showcase. That's not much of a surprise considering it ended its first Ubisoft Forward by announcing a second. But now we have a hard date and a vague idea of what to expect. In...

You're going for the gold in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare this weekend. That's a deviation from the norm, because usually you're just out for blood. It'll be nice to add some conventional trophies to your collection to go along with t...

With far too many streaming presentations competing for our limited attention this summer and many of them falling short of expectations, it's been tiring, but I have to give props to the team behind the Wholesome Direct. The crew pulled of...

Against all of the odds, and despite all of the hurdles 2020 has put in place, the annual Summer Games Done Quick speedrun marathon has delivered once again. As the curtain fell on this year's event, SGDQ 2020 succeeded in raising an amazin...

It's time for another Super Smash Bros. Ultimate event: which also means that it's time to complain about the choice of header image. This weekend you can participate in a "Royal Tournament," which will allow royalty-based characters t...

[Update: The seventh of our popular Destructoid AMA sessions is now live! So stop by our official forums and take the opportunity to Ask Your Anything to Destructoid's Features Editor, Podtoid producer, and all-round good dude CJ Andriessen...

It's about time for another State of Play. The PlayStation news stream starts at 1:00 p.m. Pacific. This latest show is all about upcoming PS4 and PlayStation VR games – Sony has gone out of its way to temper expectations with a "no ...

The all-important hour is almost upon us. After committing to a series of monthly updates about Xbox Series X, Microsoft just didn't do anything in June. It makes today's event feel even bigger. The Xbox Games Showcase starts at 9am Pacifi...

The second Summer Game Fest developer showcase will be here before we know it. If you're wondering whether it's worth catching live – it's streaming on Monday, July 20 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific – here's a quick rundown of which compa...

Niantic is currently in preparation for the 2020 edition of its annual gathering, Pokémon GO Fest, which takes place later this month. While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has put paid to plans of a physical get-together, Pokém...

The recent Xbox Series X game showcase came and went, and a lot of people were disappointed that it didn't show enough gameplay. This time around Microsoft is raring up to remedy that mishap with their July "Xbox Games Showcase," and now we...

Nintendo hasn't tried to hide the fact that it is using its quasi-free-to-play battle royale Tetris 99 as a glorified advertising vessel. Every time a first-party Nintendo game comes out, it's almost guaranteed that it will get a theme and...

In case you forgot; TGS is much, much bigger than E3. How big? Well try 262,076 attendees in 2019 versus E3's 66,100 figure from the same year. This is with E3's public entrance policy. It's so big, in fact, that it won't be going on hiatus...

Do you miss E3? I kind of miss the spirit of it, at least. There's something about spreading out an E3 period over the course of two to three months this year that really takes the excitement out of it. In the past, we'd all huddle tog...

Sony's meandering marketing rollout for the PlayStation 5 has all been building up this afternoon. We're finally gonna see some games. Maybe more! Sony's PS5: The Future of Gaming stream starts at 1:00 p.m. Pacific, and if you're looking f...

EA Play Live is the latest in a string of delayed events. Originally scheduled for June 11, EA Play is now set for June 18, 2020, in hopes of supporting and prioritizing "important conversations taking place and important voices being heard...

[Update: The organizers of The Guerrilla Collective are shifting the streaming news event to June 13–15 "in support of Black Lives Matter." Apart from that delay, they're also "preparing a livestream for June 7 to highlight Black voic...