E3 2018 has been over a week now and that has given us ample time to recuperate, organize our thoughts, and reflect. We saw a lot of great games at the biggest video game convention of the year. We named 10 of those as nominees for Destruct...

[This week, Destructoid is sponsored by Will To Live. Here's a spooky note on behalf of their dev team] Confronted by terrifying creatures, rabid mutants and desperate survivors, you and your party of wanderers must rely on your guts, your ...

I'm in a real weird place with Dying Light. I had always intended to get Techland's parkour zombie survival game out of my backlog at some point, but its lackluster story has kept it permanently frozen on my to-play list. Now that I've come...

[All out of keys, folks! I hope everyone who got one enjoys it!] Sometimes the title says it all -- I do indeed have 500 closed beta keys for Fractured Lands on Steam, and I want you to take one. Nay -- I need you to take one. I have 5...

At a glance, Serious Sam 4 might look like an open-world game. It isn't! It just has some really, really big levels. And with Croteam's new engine tech, the studio can fill said levels with an absurd amount of enemies. Tens of thousands of ...

A few minutes before I played my first match of Gearbox Software's Project 1v1, I was informed that Randy Pitchford refers to the game as "gladiatorial." Pitchford's ability to describe his studio's games with over-complicated, hyperbolic m...

After a hands-on demo with 10 Chambers Collective's GTFO, I'm not sure how anyone could expect to complete a level on their first try. The four-player cooperative shooter is punishing; its twisted, deformed enemies charge at you in packs, a...

It's fitting Rage 2's vision of post-apocalyptic life revolves around graffiti and brightly-haired punks who look as though they follow a strict "here for a good time, not for a long time" lifestyle. Everything about it seems punchier ...

Six hours after my hands-off hour-long demo of Cyberpunk 2077, I finally got a chance to sit down to write out my thoughts. That quarter of a day, those 360 minutes, have done nothing to quell how goddamn fucking excited I am for this game....

It's easy to assume the heart of the Metro series lies in the tunnels that snake below Russia's irradiated surface. They're the capillaries through which both Metro 2033 and Last Light's story unfolded, claustrophobic veins occupied by...

First spotted by Call of Duty super-site, Charlie Intel, Activision have announced that the only way to receive DLC for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is to purchase the Season Pass.Whereas, in the past, fans had the option to selec...

It was rumored, then confirmed, and now ready to download on Nintendo Switch. Hi-Rez Studios hero shooter Paladins, which was leaked via one of the 25 million E3 rumors that popped up over the past week, is now on Switch after a not so surp...

Bethesda is pre-launching Quake Champions' free-to-play variant right now for everyone. While the full free-to-play version isn't ready just yet, people will be able to jump into the trial and keep the game whenever it does launch. This is ...

Metro Exodus made an appearance at Microsoft's E3 2018 presser with a new trailer and a new date. After recently slipping out of this year, the post-apocalyptic shooter is now set for February 22, 2019. Interesting tidbit: "All footage in ...

Star Wars Battlefront II will be getting a big Clone Wars season after its current Solo themed one. Along with featuring levels based around Geonosis (one that is set to be the largest level ever for Battlefront) and other locales, you'll a...

Starbreeze have released the fourth character trailer for their upcoming survival shooter Overkill's The Walking Dead, which is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC later this year.The latest in this excellent series of shorts features Heather, a...

The enduring multiplayer map Nuketown seemed like a given for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, and it is: Treyarch confirmed today that it'll be available "free to all Black Ops 4 players in November." As announced on-stream, the game will also s...

Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios is branching off to create its own self-published game, Generation Zero, an open-world shooter that has up to four players working together to fight killer robots in an "explosive game of cat and mou...

Today sees the launch of the latest seasonal update to Ubisoft's super-tense tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege; Operation Para Bellum goes live today bringing with it a host of new features and balance changes.Of course the best part of ea...

Publisher 2K games announced, yesterday, that Evolve Stage 2, the free-to-play variant of the game will be shutting down its servers on September 3, 2018. This will render the free version obsolete and close down all dedicated servers and l...

There's a lot riding on BioWare's shared-world shooter Anthem and I'm trying my best to keep an open mind that it'll all work out for the studio. It's tough, though -- there are so many unknowns. Anthem will make its second E3 appearance so...

Following on from yesterday's rumour that Epic Games' colossal success Fortnite could be coming to the Nintendo Switch, our old friend the Korean Ratings Board uploaded a new listing all but confirming that said port is happening.Online sho...

That bastion of early announcements, the Korean Video Game Ratings Board, have dropped a mystery in our laps. A listing went up yesterday for open-world shooter Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition for PS4 and Xbox One.However, said game i...

Humble Bundle is at it again with another enticing bundle to add to your backlog. This time, you'll be able to nab the entire Arma series for $20, though you can opt for a lower tier if you already have some of these games. What really swee...

Fractured Lands is a brand new, post-apocalyptic, battle royale game coming from developer Unbroken Studios (comprised of staff that previously worked on the Call of Duty, Medal of Honor and Battlefield series). The game will task players w...