[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 ...

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...

In news that isn't particularly surprising, Sony's God of War has joined the list of PS4 exclusive mega-sellers, having just passed the 10 million sales milestone. This puts the fantasy adventure up there with previous big-hitters The Last ...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced that they will present developer Epic Games with a BAFTA Special Award at this year's E3 conference, which takes place in Los Angeles next month. The BAFTA will be accepted by Ep...

GLAAD, one of the most prominent organizations for LGBTQ persons in the world, has hosted its annual GLAAD Media Awards since 1990. It was started to recognize the efforts made by LGBTQ people in various forms of media, including film, tele...

Rieko Kodama is widely considered as the first lady of RPGs. Having worked with Sega for nearly 40 years now, Kodama has helped bring to life such series as Phantasy Star, Alex Kidd, and Skies of Arcadia. To say her work is classic is under...

The Bowsette phenomenon kicked off less than half a year ago, but it feels like it's always been with us. It all started when one cartoonist postured what would happen if Bowser donned New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe' Super Crown item. One s...

If you thought we were done awarding games that came out in 2018, you've got another thing coming as the Game Developers Choice Awards nominees were announced today. Similar to the Oscars and various guild award ceremonies in the movie indu...

In a few days, the hellish anal fissure that is 2018 will be over and the almost guaranteed shit-stained nightmare that is 2019 will begin. For gaming, 2019 is exploding right out of the gate as some of the most anticipated games of this ge...

It wasn't even close. To be honest we probably should've seen it coming. After all, when people talk about their favourite games of all time, Team ICO's titles often crop up in conversation, remembered for their strange beauty, artsy myster...

The list of nominees for 2018's Best Portable Game award is a solid one. Every title is perfect for those bed-time gaming sessions, arduous work commutes or - best of all - extended bathroom breaks. Thanks to portable gaming, we can always ...

Setting out by yourself to create your own game is one of the riskiest excursions a creative type can take. That takes guts. It can take years for one person to see their vision through to fruition, and in that time there are challenges tha...

Into the Breach leaves nothing to chance, nothing to luck. It tells you exactly what it's going to do, all the while daring you to stop it. And most of the time you can't. How frustrating yet fair. Into the Breach is Subset Games'...

It's a well-established and common opinion by now that Red Dead Redemption was one of the best open-world video games of its time. For its sequel, players expected Rockstar to up the ante and surpass the devilishly good predecessor. Ro...

Insomniac Games got so much right with Spider-Man. First and foremost: the swinging. Collectively, we're conditioned to expect Spider-Man to move a certain way as he swings around town, zipping between high-rises like the concrete jungle is...

It's the middle of December which means the video game industry has shifted from looking forward to reflecting. That's the pattern we fall into each and every year as everything slows down for a few weeks before zooming straight into high g...

In trying to come up with the lede for this year's nominations for Best Mobile Game, I looked to the past and what was written in years prior. A lot of great games have been up for this award before, and while the exact set-up for each...

When it came time to start going through the nomination process for the Destructoid Game of the Year awards, I honestly wasn't sure if we were going to have a Best Portable category. Both the 3DS and Vita have had good runs, the latter of t...

At last night's Game Awards, the giant-slaying Monster Hunter: World deservedly earned the Best Role-Playing Game award, which was collected by the producer of the Capcom juggernaut title, Ryozo Tsujimoto.Tsujimoto also took time to make no...

This was supposed to be an awards show, right? Maybe "The Game Awards" is the wrong name for what I just watched. Perhaps "Non-Platform Specific December E3 Keynote-Like Show" would be more apt given that a trailer for a monkey game got mor...

We are right on the cusp of award season as the end of this long, long, long year approaches. Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia are already way ahead of everybody, however, and have dished out their awards for some of the biggest se...

Last week saw the 2018 Golden Joystick awards take place at London's Bloomsbury Big Top, with various industry critics, developers and publishers on hand to see some of the year's best and brightest walk away with the gong in numerous categ...

I doubt anyone is going to complain about the nominee list for The Game Awards' "Game of the Year" category this year. In a year packed with almost non-stop hit games, almost any month could have given us a game worthy of that coveted crown...

We're approaching the end of the year, but gaming news isn't slowing down yet. Nintendo continues to hold regularly scheduled Direct presentations. We just had a particularly eventful BlizzCon showing last week. There's no PlayStation Exper...