The retro console re-release craze isn't stopping anytime soon. With Nintendo having found immense success with both the NES and SNES Classic, Sony doing...something with the PlayStation Classic, and Sega primed to give us a great experien...

Fighting games had mostly died off before Capcom resurrected the genre with Street Fighter IV in 2008. While there were plenty of niche titles to fill the void in between, nothing had grabbed the public's attention like what Capcom's reviva...

Friends, I return from the City of Angels with good news: There are some ballin' fucking video games on the horizon. Thank you for your continued support of this superb critical analysis. This generation of consoles is nearly ready to ride...

Watching a little old niche series like Yakuza rise to stardom was a wild thing to witness. Playing those silly games in my living room while Sega waffled on whether or not to localize them was a markedly different time: now it would b...

My Friend Pedro is a ballistic game of skill, timing, reflexes, and, surprisingly, efficient time management. This new title from Swedish indie outfit DeadToast Entertainment falls under the highly-replayable score-attack genre, of which p...

If there is an element of mobile gaming that can still get me excited, it's seeing how developers utilize smartphone cameras to create dynamic AR experiences. Pokémon Go was an absolute blockbuster title even if it didn't w...

Bloodstained will probably live forever in the memory of those who backed it on Kickstarter. It was part of the "actually creators can rebuke publishers and do their own thing" era of the crowdfunding platform, alongside of projects like Mi...

The setting is anything but exciting. A labyrinthine office building, the sort of place where Karen from accounting navigates a maze of cubicles just to ask how your weekend was. She doesn't care. She's just looking to kill time before she ...

While From Software is mostly known for Souls and Bloodborne these days, the studio has a wide-ranging catalog of games dating back to King's Field and Armored Core on the original PlayStation. Elden Ring might be the hot new IP going forwa...

I've watched two hours of Cyberpunk 2077 at this point -- a one-hour demo at E3 2018, and a one-hour demo at E3 2019. It's still impossibly cool. Here were our impressions from last year. Here's my takeaway this year: Keanu Reeves is j...

Is there anything better than Luigi's scaredy-cat whimpers? Yeah, maybe – but not much! E3 2019 was my reminder that Luigi's Mansion is a good, wholesome, unlikely series worth supporting. This year, Nintendo's ghost-bustin' action-ad...

Arguably the hottest ticket at E3 2019 is Final Fantasy VII Remake. After surprising fans with a release date just days ago, Square Enix confirmed the game would be playable on the show floor. On the first day of E3, the line to get a ticke...

Music has always been a monumental part of Zelda's worldwide success. Nintendo even crafted an entire concert series out of its legacy. Crypt of the NecroDancer is a game that's literally all about music. It's a match made in heaven.

All right, I may have messed up. When we called dibs last month, I was dazzled by the south Asian muscle woman Amara. And while I'm still going to put her poster up in my locker and draw hearts around it in pink permanent marker, I may have...

Last year, Microsoft released a remaster of the original Age of Empires from seemingly nowhere. Titled the "Definitive Edition," the port scaled the graphics up to 4K resolution, included every campaign ever created for the title, and cle...

Suda51 doesn't seem to be quite sure of what he wants No More Heroes 3 to be. He knows the story he wants to tell. He's currently in the middle of writing the scenario for it, with the general plot of the game mapped out and the smaller sto...

It'd be an understatement to say I hold The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening in high regard. It's my favorite game from my childhood. It's weird and quirky in all the right ways, with enough character and je ne sais quoi to truly...

Often times when a game comes to Switch physically, publishers have the option to cheap out on cart storage sizes and deliver solutions that are too small to actually fit the game. Instead, we're tasked with downloading massive file sizes t...

Bedtime-loving feline Morgana is back with another edition of "Morgana's Report", in which the obnoxiously loud kitty delivers new scoops regarding Atlus' upcoming re-release Persona 5: The Royal. Last time, we got a look at some of the new...

Admittedly, we haven't seen a lot of Cyberpunk 2077 -- especially compared to the scope of the final product. Adding last year's E3 demo to this year's demo, we're up to approximately two hours of gameplay. But, what we have seen has b...

I will never forget Sony's opening salvo that one fateful E3: "this is how you share games on PS4." Amid Microsoft's Draconian DRM-fueled original Xbox One hellscape vision, Sony was the one came out of the gate like Michael the Archangel, ...

Pop culture sweetheart Keanu Reeves showed up in an unlikely place at E3 2019: In one of the world's most anticipated video games. CD Projekt Red made a lot of headlines Sunday afternoon when it revealed that Reeves would play a prominent r...

Each year Destructoid does our recaps a little differently. I lay my opinions on the line, provide full breakdowns of each and every story that happens in each conference/stream (it takes days from our lives to be this meticulous, I assure ...

Nintendo is usually the one to close out E3's conference run. And typically, they're the ones that get that last chance to wow us after so many other events, year after year, fail to delight. Last night Square Enix brought a much-needed spa...

Nintendo capped off its E3 2019 Direct with one final announcement: a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is in production for Nintendo Switch. The dream is alive, baby! Even just knowing it's coming makes me feel all warm an...