Back in 2015, folks were wary about the idea of a Super Smash Bros. convention basically popping up overnight. Some doubted that it would even get off the ground (it was announced right after the infamous DashCon ball pit incident, among ot...

"So what's California Extreme?" I hear you asking. Simply put, it's a yearly convention where arcade cabinet and pinball collectors converge in San Jose to show off their favorite machines. Enthusiasts bring their perfectly maintained arcad...

Yesterday was a pretty chaotic, intense day for the Evo 2019 fighting game tournament. Saturday usually is. There's a helluva lot of brackets to complete, games to play, dawdling people to manage, attendees to sign-in and streams to run. Fo...

Day Two of Evo 2019 is about to get underway, as the world's best fighters traipse into the Mandalay Bay Hotel Las Vegas for another day of wrist-snapping warfare. For your convenience, here is a quick post featuring a link to the schedule ...

Alcohol and firearms rarely make for a sensible matchup, but they often do make for an entertaining one. So what do you get when you combine two games that couldn't more intimately alcoholic and trigger-happy? You get the upcoming crossover...

Atlus has announced that it will be teaming up with Gallery Nucleus to put on a Persona 5 Royal and Catherine: Full Body art gallery in LA next month. Similar to what Sega held last year for Yakuza 6, this exhibition will be a showcase of v...

Fate/Grand Order fans might still be recovering from the arrival of Women of Agartha, but Aniplex aren't about to let 2019's packed content schedule up, what with both the 4th of July and the English edition's 2nd Anniversary hitting t...

Sunday saw another amazing week of speedrunning come to an end, as the curtain fell on Summer Games Done Quick 2019. For seven days, players from all over the world descended on the DoubleTree Hilton Bloomington-Minneapolis Hotel in Minneso...

J. R. R. Tolkien inspired millions in his lifetime and millions after. His contributions will live on throughout history, even if it's not directly in the form of his work on Middle-earth, colloquially referred to as "The Legendarium." Tolk...

There's no event in gaming's calendar year I look forward to more than Games Done Quick's charity speedrun extravaganzas. And today sees the return of such an event, with the start of the group's mid-year marathon, Summer Games Done Quick.F...

E3 2019 is still going on today. Can you believe it? It feels like Square Enix really kicked it off on Monday and Nintendo's Tuesday stream with Breath of the Wild 2 was the mic drop. Our own CJ Andriessen snapped this photo on the way...

Back in March, Google revealed its new gaming/streaming platform, Stadia. The gist is that Google is using their billions in the bank to allow folks to stream games with high-quality visuals, with "weak connections" topping out at 1080...

Psyonix is keeping players busy all summer. Now that Psyonix is owned by Epic Games, Rocket League is leaning into one of the things Fortnite does best: Limited-time modes. A trio of LTMs span the summer months with enough 80s fl...

Not to alarm you or anything, but E3 2019 starts in one week. Unofficially, it's even sooner. Whether at home or in Los Angeles, many of us will mentally enter E3 mode this weekend. Destructoid is ready(ish)! EA's doing a stream on Saturday...

To promote the release of Judgment next month, Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have teamed up with Escape Room LA to create a limited-time Judgment escape room. Running from June 30 until July 13, "The Detective" room will feature elements fr...

EA originally planned to host live-streamed events for E3 2019 across multiple days, but that schedule has since condensed into one main event on Saturday, June 8. Today, the company detailed which games we can expect to see at EA Play 2019...

Are you jazzed up for the release of Pokemon Detective Pikachu this week? Currently being heralded as the first good video game film adaptation, Niantic has decided to run an event in Pokemon Go to promote the movie. The obvious prize will...

[Update: Day 1 was great! Day 2 begins about 03:30 PT / 06:30 ET / 11:30 BST. You can watch over at Niconico, or in the Twitter embed at the bottom of this page. Enjoy!]Atlus has announced that they will be streaming this week's Persona mus...

This weekend saw the international Splatoon 2 community don their best ink-repellent clothing and head into battle, as another splatfest aimed to put the world to rights. This time around the topic in question concerned the classic Aesop fa...

Square Enix has announced a symphonic concert centered around one of the most beloved video games of all-time. Final Fantasy VII: A Symphonic Reunion, will take place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on June 9 and is a celebration of the...

This year, Europe's Gamescom event will open with an all-new announcement show, revealing hot news and reveals from major publishers before the four-day expo gets underway. Gamescom: Opening Night Live has also secured a host in The Game Aw...

One of my favourite video game events of the whole year, Summer Games Done Quick, may still be a couple of months away, but that hasn't stopped the organisers from setting the game schedule live, whetting the appetites of speedrunners and s...

It's been too long, Overwatch. What've you got up your sleeve? In a series of teasers, Blizzard has been building toward its next Overwatch event, Storm Rising, which will run from April 16 to May 6, 2019. First there was an in-universe art...

Nintendo has revealed the topic for the next splatfest, to be held in a couple of weeks on Switch multiplayer shooter Splatoon 2. Having recently looked at fantasy, food and fashion, Our loveable hosts Off The Hook are turning their attenti...

A lot has happened with EVE Online studio CCP in this past year. The company was bought out by South Korean conglomerate Pearl Abyss, VR development winded down significantly, and of course, the flagship Icelandic event EVE F...