Nippon Ichi Software (NIS) is such an enigmatic company and I'm glad it still exists. The publisher has been putting out JRPGs and SRPGs hand over fist for over 20 years now, sometimes saving systems like the PSP and the Vita from complete ...

[Image from a 1982 issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer found by Cat DeSipra] Another year, another round of headlines about the World Health Organization's take on gaming addiction disorder. I can't blame people for continuing to spin their...

Tabletop games rule, and over time many more folks have picked up on that, lending credence to smaller conventions and molding them into gargantuan gatherings. Gen Con was once a small affair decades ago in Wisconsin and has since grown int...

SNK has released the next character trailer for their upcoming steel-clashing epic, Samurai Shodown. Today the spotlight falls on one of the roster's all-new characters, the badass voyager Darli Dagger.As you can see below, Ms. Dagger uses ...

SNK has released the first character trailer for their upcoming Samurai Shodown release. Straight out of the gate we get to see one of the franchise' classic heroes, the petite Nakoruru, step back into the arena.Accompanied as always by her...

When Peter and I stopped by the 505 Games booth at PAX, I was admittedly a little bit jealous of him. While he was checking out Bloodstained, I'd be sitting on the other end of the booth seeing Indivisible, a game I knew very little ab...

It's hard to believe that the metroidvania genre nearly died a decade ago. With Konami and Nintendo basically moving on from the likes of Castlevania and Metroid, it fell on indie developers to continue the legacies that those series starte...

SNK has given us a good look at the three all-new characters headed to their upcoming fighter Samurai Shodown. Not only can we check out the in-game model for the previously revealed Darli Dagger, but we have two further warriors to stoke o...

SNK has revealed their intentions to fully reveal three all-new characters headed to their upcoming feudal fighter, Samurai Shodown. An image has been released featuring three silhouettes, giving us a tantalising glimpse at the new noggin-s...

While Lyle and I continue to re-word our PowerPoint presentation to Congress on why we should nuke the sea, here's what's been happening in video games: Borderlands 3 is happening! Valve has created its own VR headset! Persona 5 S has a t...

PAX East was one week ago and I'm still reeling from it. Since I'm apparently an old man now, I've been tired for the past few days while trying to wrap up my coverage from the event: I wanted to highlight a couple of games that I didn't ge...

The once proud Burnout series is not likely to make a comeback anytime soon. EA may have released a remastered version of Burnout Paradise last year, but arcade racers seem to have fallen out of style with the general public. That's a real ...

While I've personally gushed over it a few times, Destructoid hasn't done a proper preview for New Blood Interactive's Amid Evil. To give you a quick rundown, think a modern take on Heretic and you'll be pretty close to what the game is try...

I'm not sure what else I can say about the roguelike genre that I haven't already written. So many of these games play by the same rules that describing one can be easily applied to another. Just swap out some names and platforms and you're...

SNK and Digital Eclipse are to release a compilation of six classic Samurai Shodown titles. The Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection will include, as its title denotes, the six classic arcade releases that hit the MVS scene between 1993 and 2...

Last week at PAX East, I ended up on a panel with the developers of Soda Drinker Pro, one of the producers of Home Movies, and a talented stand-up comedian. The panel was moderated by a Max Headroom-style virtual host named Merrill Gr...

Yacht Club Games, the developers of Shovel Knight, had a historic showing at PAX East this year. Six years ago, Shovel Knight made its playable debut there. Now it's coming to a close there as well, with Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Sh...

My very last stop of another great year at PAX East was to check out Outer Wilds over at Annapurna's booth. I hadn't heard much about Outer Wilds since back in 2018, but a space exploration game scaled down from the massive undertakings of ...

The point-and-click adventure genre has slowly been coming back into prominence over the last console generation. Starting with revivals of old LucasArts games from Telltale, the legendary Secret of Monkey Island got an HD port in 2009 and ...

Cosmo's Quickstop was certainly one of the more manic games I played on the PAX East floor, and in a good way. As the newest employee of an interstellar gas station, my job was to multi-task across customer needs including pumping spaceship...

I've been following Falcon Age for some time ever since its bird GIFs on Twitter started making the rounds, boasting an adorable baby bird bouncing around and wearing miniature hats atop a gloved hand. I was certainly not disappointed ...

This weekend at PAX East, SNK revealed an all-new character headed toward their upcoming Samurai Shodown sequel. She looks amazing. Representing the first of three newcomers, Darli Dagger is a seafaring sailor armed with a ridiculously huge...

While visiting Headup Games' booth at PAX East this weekend, the first thing about their new title Dead End Job was its very iconic art style. If a game looks like The Ren & Stimpy Show, then it already has my attention.  To be com...

Indie, roguelike, and pixel-art. These three buzzwords have been increasingly prevalent in recent years. After the immense success of The Binding of Isaac, everyone and their mother started to jump on the roguelike bandwagon. Edmund McMille...

As my weekend at PAX continues, I dropped by the Square Enix booth to check out Dragon Quest Builders 2. The sequel to the crafting/action game set within the world of Dragon Quest.   The demo I played showed off the game's first 20 mi...