Last week, I once again attended the annual PLAY festival in Hamburg, Germany. Alongside workshops and informative talks, the event included an exhibition of recent and unreleased experimental games and installations. As you would expect, p...

Microsoft just wrapped X018, its "celebration of all things Xbox." What went down? A lot of crowd cheering, an on-stage selfie with Square Enix's Shinji Hashimoto, and a release date for Crackdown 3. While much of the show's news was Game P...

This weekend will see Mexico City play host to the X018 event, a weekend of Xbox-related fun 'n' games which will see fans gather for news, trailers and no doubt a glut of great multiplayer action.Videocasters Inside Xbox will be on hand, b...

We're approaching the end of the year, but gaming news isn't slowing down yet. Nintendo continues to hold regularly scheduled Direct presentations. We just had a particularly eventful BlizzCon showing last week. There's no PlayStation Exper...

No one doubted its return, but the popular fighting game championship Evo is coming back for more in 2019. By way of a new trailer, the powers that be at Evo have confirmed August 2-4 dates in Las Vegas at the same location: the Mandalay Ba...

For the second time in as many tries, Ubisoft has had to cancel an Assassin's Creed Odyssey Elite Mercenary event. The debut was canned on October 18. The follow-up, which was supposed to take place later this week, has also been shut ...

You don't necessarily flock to a video game convention expecting to see fish, but if someone makes the offhand suggestion to hit up a nearby aquarium and the pitch has time to simmer, before you know it, you're committed to spending $35 per...

The Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo (EGLX) is happening this weekend in Toronto, and is set to unleash a whole host of events throughout the weekend (Destructoid versus Escapist, eSports tournaments, panels) among special guests like Naomi Kyle...

The Halloween 2018 festivities for Pokémon Go kick off today at 1:00pm Pacific. The event is your chance to score Ghost- and Dark-type Pokémon including Sinnoh-region regulars like Drifloon and Stunky. The legendary Giratina i...

Game developers have begun kicking off their Halloween events early to allow for ample playtime, and that even goes for Valve this year. Team Fortress 2 is on its tenth Scream Fortress event, a fact I didn't particularly care to know but no...

This weekend was to see the launch of a new PUBG event mode called "Platoon." Taking inspiration from Fortnite's 50v50 mode, the game would see five squads of 10 people per team dueling on Erangel (the game's original map) for supremacy. At...

Considering MapleStory 2 quickly found its way onto Steam's most-played-games list (as judged by concurrent user counts), it's no surprise to hear that the free-to-play MMORPG has now passed one million players a week after launch. Accordin...

Change has been a constant for CCP this past year. They completely jettisoned their VR projects (and studios attached for that matter) in an effort to focus in more on the core EVE Online experience. They've also just been acquired by ...

Destiny celebrates Halloween tomorrow, as its Festival of the Lost event runs October 16 through November 6. That's a long time to push through the Haunted Forest and to earn unsettling masks. Last week, we detailed everything we knew...

I mostly just associate the Festival of the Lost with spooky masks, but for this year's Halloween celebration in Destiny 2, Bungie is sweetening the deal a bit. There's a new limited-time activity that sounds like a neat extension of the In...

Today sees Blizzard's multiplayer shooter Overwatch bring back its annual Halloween festivities. Halloween Terror 2018 gives players a chance to bag some spooky new skins, as well as pick up some of the previous years' goodies that are yet ...

Developer From Software, known to the cool kids as FromSoft, has announced that they will hold a free-to-attend event in Osaka, Japan to promote their range of current and upcoming titles.Taking place on October 14, the "FromSoft Game Event...

It's the first day of October and already everyone's losing their minds over their spoopy plans for Halloween (even though it's still 30 days away). Blizzard Entertainment are also getting into the spirit (LIKE A GHOST) of things by announc...

Slowly but surely, the United States is getting in on the Mario Kart VR action. The Vive-backed virtual reality experience has been playable in an arcade-scale setup in Japan and the UK. Now, Bandai Namco Amusement America is bringing Mari...

The consumer-focused PlayStation Experience won't return this year, Sony has confirmed. Speaking on the PlayStation Blogcast, Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden explained the point of the event and why it's skipping 2018. "I think it b...

If you happen to be going to New York Comic-Con next week, you'll have a chance to meet the cast of Remedy's upcoming action game Control. While only lead actress Courtney Hope has been confirmed, Remedy's own Sam Lake will also be on the s...

During last year's BlizzCon, attendees first heard about World of Warcraft Classic, Blizzard's official take on a nostalgic pre-expansion WoW experience. At this year's event, they'll be able to play it. The company is going one step furthe...

Every year, despite barely playing Dota 2 at all anymore, I look forward to The International (TI). It's the game's premier event and the biggest in all of eSports. Millions of dollars are on the line each year, while the production va...

At RTX 2018 last weekend, I got a chance to catch up with Rooster Teeth Games’ own David Eddings. Having previously worked for Gathering of Developers and Gearbox, Eddings is now the head of game publishing for the budding company and...

[Update: After noting that this was the "biggest QuakeCon yet," Bethesda unleashed the footage, which you can view below. Doom Eternal is directed by Marty Stratton, who also helmed 2016's Doom, and will feature upgrades for the protagonist...