E3 has undergone major changes over the past few years. No longer the trade show that everyone must have a presence at, big-name publishers have pulled out of exhibiting at the Los Angeles Convention Center in favor of holding their own off...

There are a lot of rumblings currently going on in the video game industry. With a new generation on the horizon, and highly-anticipated games such as Death Stranding and Cyberpunk 2077 constantly in the news, it's easy to forget that we've...

[Update: Pre-orders are now open for The Star Wars Home Arcade Game.] Just days after revealing it was creating arcade cabinets for classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Marvel games, Arcade1Up is back with one more huge announcemen...

Double Fine Studios has announced that quirky upcoming sequel Psychonauts 2 has slipped from its 2019 release window and will now be arriving on PC and consoles in 2020.The announcement was made during the Tim Schafer-led studio's latest bl...

It's a tough world out there. Most of our Community Choice award votes went to two games, because why not? E3 really needs to step it up if they're going to dethrone some of these AAA titles that dominate the landscape. Give the little guys...

[We're declaring a winner tomorrow, so if you want to write in Just Dance 2020, now's your chance!] Games journalists think they know everything. What do they know of the plight of the working-class gamer? Nothing, I say! They don't know wh...

Now that E3 2019 is fully in the rear-view mirror and we've had time to rest up and reflect on what we saw at the show, it's come to this: naming a winner. Destructoid's E3 crew settled on a list of a dozen very different video games. Some ...

Metal Wolf Chaos is a wild video game, one that many of us have seen, but few have played. It's an extremely patriotic 21st-century tale about the President of the United States, Michael Wilson, fending off a military coup led by his treach...

After a two-week break, Podtoid is back and the crew is in a post-E3 haze. As the industry tries to get back to normal, CJ, Chris, Occams, Dan, and Charlotte talk about the best games to come out of the show this year and the titles they wi...

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...

My first experience with Stadia was playing Doom Eternal for half an hour or so last week at E3, and I can't think of a better game to showcase Google's game-streaming platform. It's fast, it's ferocious, and you know what? Stadia totally w...

I liked Ghost Recon Wildlands way more in theory than in execution, but with this year's follow-up, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, my mind is at ease. Ubisoft's E3 showing brought me around and, frankly, I'm as surprised as anyone by this turn of ...

There is no such thing as high-level Roller Champions because Roller Champions itself barely exists. Its introduction to the world came last week with an E3 announcement and a surprise technical alpha that was open to everyone. At...

The story of Psychonauts is one of the happiest underdog stories in recent memory. The original launched to critical acclaim in 2005 but underperformed so badly that plans for a sequel were scrapped fairly early on. The relative failure of ...

Ubisoft's approach to game design for the past decade can most succinctly be summed up as "more is better." More content, more open world, more everything. Sometimes it works out, like with Assassin's Creed Odyssey -- a game that felt ...

We've gone entirely too long without a new PC game that captures the magic of the original Zoo Tycoon, but with Planet Zoo this year, Frontier Developments is looking to set things right for neglected fans. It's a management sim in which yo...

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 ...

Nintendo's E3 Direct was full of a ton of surprises, but one of the more striking was the announcement of Empire of Sin. Feeling completely out of place for Nintendo's family-friendly image, the short teaser showed mobsters gunning down oth...

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair popped up unexpectedly a couple weeks ago, and we were able to get some hands-on time with it at E3 last week. It takes the lizard-and-bat duo from 2017's crowdfunded 3D platformer and flattens the actio...

The Armored Core series feels like an increasingly distant memory at this point. While games like Daemon X Machina are carrying the torch, it's been almost six years since the last entry, Armored Core: Verdict Day. What's the story there? W...

NIS America wasn't at E3 proper this year. A few blocks away from the convention center, it set up shop in a Chinese restaurant where the smells emanating from the kitchen made my stomach grumble even though I had just eaten about a half-ho...

CJ got the early take on Final Fantasy VII Remake at E3 this year, and after having played through the same section he did, I can agree with most of his observations. But this is one of those big deals so we needed to dig deeper than just t...

At one point in the hands-off gameplay demo of Dying Light 2 at E3, the Techland employee making decisions for the packed room to see on-screen turned on some pumps at a dam, draining one section of the city and flooding another. That one c...

It pains me to say it, but Pokémon Sword and Shield didn't have a particularly good E3. On a micro scale, Nintendo brought a 15-minute-or-so demo in which players got to battle and lightly puzzle-solve their way through a Poké...

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin has been in the making for some time. Developed by the two-man team at Edelweiss, it tells the story of Sakuna, the daughter of a harvest goddess and a god of war, as she divides her time between battling the m...