It's the most wonderful time of the year. It's that magical night where we all gather 'round the glow of our monitors and settle in for the video game industry's most high-profile awards show. Here are all the nominees. In lieu of the glitz...

We are just one day out from the arrival of the huge 12.01 update for Capcom's uber-popular adventure title Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. The publisher has released two videos to get the community geared up for the deadly confrontations a...

It's me, your favourite British member of Destructoid editorial, here to offer good tidings to our community for an event not even celebrated in my country. For it is Thanksgiving, and across America many will be enjoying an extended holida...

Niantic has revealed that the final Pokémon GO Community Day of 2019 will offer fans another opportunity to bag those super-duper-elusive Pokemon that appeared during previous Community Day events from 2019 and 2018.For a short ...

Capcom continue to pump exciting new content into its epic adventure title Monster Hunter: World. Publishers tend to do that kind of thing when a game turns out to be their biggest and most successful release of all time. A new trailer give...

Microsoft just capped off its X019, the annual celebration of everything Xbox. Well, technically only the news reveal portion has wrapped. The rest of X019 is a fan event that runs through the weekend. Xbox used its 90 minutes mostly as an ...

Continuing its use of Tetris 99 to advertise the newest first-party games coming to the Switch, Nintendo has announced a Luigi's Mansion 3 Tetris Maximus Cup for this weekend. The event will run from Friday, October 25 through Monday, Octob...

Although CCP skipped out on the main Reykjavik, Iceland (the home of their headquarters!) fan fest event this year, they're still moving full steam ahead on the flagship event of 2019: EVE Vegas. The festivities will kick off this Frid...

Coinciding with Overwatch's Nintendo Switch release today, Blizzard has begun the Halloween Terror 2019 event on PC and consoles. If you're in it purely for the skins, there are eight new looks, two of which – Inferno Junkrat and Vamp...

The audience in Rocket League is usually pretty innocuous. It's a bunch of faceless egg-shaped dudes bobbing up and down in silent approval. It is not tough to perform under this sort of pressure. Soon, those eggs will be replaced wit...

Last year, the music of NieR was performed by a live orchestra to four sold-out crowds in Tokyo. The melancholic score from the series performed by a 100-piece orchestra while scenes from the games played out must have been a sight to see. ...

Only a week after launching, Borderlands 3 is already looking forward to the holidays. The people of Pandora aren't taking a vacation, though. They're shooting at specters and skeletons. For Halloween, Gearbox is throwing a free Bloody...

We officially have a trend, folks. Following up on the heels of Marshmello and Korn both performing in-game concerts, The Offspring is jumping on the trend to perform in the popular free-to-play strategy game World of Tanks. The skate punk ...

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...