Battle Royale is the newest craze sweeping the games industry. If you don't have the mode in your game, you might as well not even bother with online. While I'm obviously being facetious with that statement, it seems a lot of developers are...

Overwatch has a wonderfully deep lore behind its payload-moving gameplay. Whilst you wouldn't necessarily know this from watching the chaotic online shooter in action, Blizzard fill out its massive roster of characters' histories via mini-m...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 recently added its new Specialist, Zero, to the fold. Zero is a hacker - and she's all badass and punky because all proficient hackers are Lisbeth Salander now. In fact, Zero is proving to be a little too proficien...

XSEED Games has announced a string of release dates for upcoming gal fighter Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal. The kunoichi-packed punch-fest will launch in Europe and North America in January.Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal, a remake of the 2012 ...

Fallout 76 is a comedy of errors, but one thing that seemed to be getting corrected was the snafu with the duffle bag included in the collector's edition. After advertising it as a canvas bag, buyers were greeted with an incredibly cheap ny...

Developer Arika has announced that there will be three more characters headed to their fighting game Fighting EX Layer in the first part of 2019. Two of these three characters will be added to the roster free-of-charge, whereas the third ch...

After our glowing review of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate from Chris Carter -- which primarily focused on the single-player components -- I decided in today's episode of Impulse we'd discuss our impressions from the online multiplayer! So, I ...

Battle Royale is still a massive craze, so it only makes sense that the largest shooter around would jump in. Daybreak Games has announced that PlanetSide Arena will take the popular MMOFPS into the battle royale sub-genre next month. While...

True to its word, Square Enix has released a standalone version of Final Fantasy XV's multiplayer component, Comrades. You'll be able to find this on PSN and Xbox Live for $9.99 and it comes complete with 10 new bosses for players to battle...

Following on from the exciting reveal at The Game Awards last weekend, new details and screens have emerged for NetherRealm's next entry into the head-splitting Mortal Kombat series.Mortal Kombat 11 will be headed to PS4, Xbox One, PC and N...

Arachnophobe warning!Other than video games, my main passion is women dressed in suits, with drawn on pencil-thin moustaches movies. Whilst I haven't kept a complete tally of how many films I've watched, I know it's thousands upon thousands...

After the insane snafu with Fallout 76's collector's edition not having the correct bag, Bethesda was finally set to make everything right to its customers. To get a replacement bag, one just needed to head to the Bethesda support website a...

As part of the recent IPO conference held by Japanese developer SNK, further details were hinted at regarding the next entry in the Samurai Shodown franchise, which we first heard about back in September.According to the presentation shown ...

When it was announced Panic Button was bringing Warframe to Switch, I had to Google what Warframe was. Until that moment, I don’t think I spared a second of my life thinking about it. Here was a free-to-play PC game that launched with...

Ubisoft has announced the premiere of an upcoming film about their roof-raising, wall-breaking, window-smashing shooter Rainbow Six Siege. The documentary about Siege's esports scene is set to launch at a series of special screenings in Jan...

The King of Fighters XIV is a great game. I say that without bias as an SNK and KoF devotee. Unfortunately, like a lot of great punch-ups in recent years, it failed to set the scene alive, despite having its own dedicated community of playe...

Now that the dust has settled from the madcap spending spree that is the Thanksgiving holidays, reports are coming through of the products that shifted from shelves over the course of the Black Friday to Cyber Monday warzone.It appears that...

Rebellion's old-school co-op shooter Strange Brigade is set to get a new update later this week, allowing its band of intrepid heroes to take cute snaps whilst on their tomb-raiding, mummy-mashing adventures.Photo Mode will let players take...

It's pretty easy to believe that a ton of Rockstar Games' devotees have traded in their scorching tyres and submachine guns for a set of hooves and a rusty six-shooter in recent weeks. Popular multiplayer warzone GTA Online has just release...

Several weeks ago, we reported on Ubisoft's plans to make alterations to its strategic online shooter Rainbow Six Siege. These aesthetic changes would remove bloodstains, sexual references, gambling references and skulls from Siege's maps, ...

Ubisoft has announced that the latest content update for their strategic online shooter Rainbow Six Siege is now live in the game's PC test servers. Operation Wind Bastion, like Siege's previous seasons, brings new operators and locales to ...

It's been a few days now since Bethesda rolled open the vault doors and allowed wanderers everywhere the chance to step, blinking, into the warm, irradiated air of Appalachia - or West Virginia to the rest of us - in their online adventure ...

Bethesda has responded to concerns from players - currently wandering the wastelands in new post-apocalyptic adventure Fallout 76 - that the maximum amount of stash slots just aren't realistic enough for all of the gubbins they want to carr...

[Update: After our story went live, Digital Extremes reached out to Destructoid to further clarify the early days of Warframe, offering the following quote: We've been making games for 25 years; we always knew we had something special with...

Back in September, Sony had quietly put up notices on the PlayStation store that a select few games would have their servers shut down. These games included Warhawk, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and Twisted Metal. Originally set to ...