Winter Wonderland is nothing more than a distant memory, and that can only mean one thing for Overwatch players: it's almost time for the Lunar New Year 2019 event. If your bank account feels decidedly light on credits this time of year, I'...

Coinciding with the official "Bastet" short story detailing Ana's past in Cairo, Overwatch has begun an in-game tie-in event with cosmetic rewards up for grabs. Similar to the D.Va Nano Cola Challenge, players will need to accrue nine wins ...

A new exhibition has been installed in the Schwules Museum in Berlin, Germany to celebrate LGBTQ culture and history in video games. Titled "Rainbow Arcade", the new exhibit was designed by art director Nicolas Simoneau and co-curated by Sc...

If you thought we were done awarding games that came out in 2018, you've got another thing coming as the Game Developers Choice Awards nominees were announced today. Similar to the Oscars and various guild award ceremonies in the movie indu...

Suda51 will be hosting a two-hour long Travis Strikes Again stream next week. While being broadcast in Japanese, the stream will have an English interpreter for non-native speakers to understand. The broadcast will go over some new details ...

When does Overwatch League season two start? Not soon enough! Blizzard has set the opening day for February 14, 2019 and also detailed a few key changes and additions to the league's structure. For starters, there are now 20 different teams...

Bundle up. Grab your headphones. Set out your lightly refrigerated beverage of choice. The Game Awards 2018 are about to start, and we're in this together. Whether you're tuning into the stream for the actual awards or you simply want to so...

[Update: The big reveal happened. Persona 5's Joker is coming to Smash as a DLC fighter.] The clock is ticking for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It's almost here. We're in counting-the-hours territory. Can Nintendo squeeze in one final reveal...

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...