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...

After a literal two-month buildup to E3, the Show of Shows is finally in our rearview mirror. Was it good? I'm still not sure. But, if we zoom out a bit to years past, how often is E3 an unquestionable rousing success? Our expectations ofte...

Early this year as game-of-the-year lists were still coming out, CJ spoke about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's potential victory lap come March 2018. The open-world adventure game was showing up all over the place, and it had jus...

The South by Southwest festivals and conferences have been going down this past week, once again in Austin, Texas, which includes this year's SXSW Gaming Awards, co-hosted by IGN's Alanah Pearce and Blizzard’s Richard Campbell. The hi...

Nintendo revealing their next Super Smash Bros. installment at E3 this year has sent many fans into a frenzy. For those of us not lucky enough to be able to play the demos at E3 itself, Nintendo NY had a few kiosks set up for players. Apparently, one fan was so upset...

The British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) have listed their nominations for their 2018 Video Game Awards. The ceremony will take place in London next month, at an event hosted by comedian and video game fan Dara O'Brien.A lo...

Last week saw The Emotional Games Awards 2018 take place in Laval, France. It was the second year for the ceremony, which exists to "reward and promote games which bring on the most complex emotions in the players".The jury consisted of sev...

Look, I know a lot of big things happened at the Oscars last night, but if you're a big film buff the biggest moment was Roger "I'm never going to win an Oscar" Deakins finally, finally, finally laying his hands on that little golden statue...

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild took home four more awards last night during the 21st annual D.I.C.E. Awards. Nintendo's open-air adventure was the big winner overall, claiming the coveted Game of the Year title along with Outstandi...

In the race for those all important Oscars, the guilds are where avid followers of the awards circuit look to as all-important indicators. The Shape of Water took home the gold in both the Producers Guild and Directors Guild Award...

[Ed. Note: We do awards a bit different at Flixist. Most of our writers do not get early screenings or award screeners of movies, which means it isn't easy to see some of the films that only get limited releases in December for many of us. ...

[Ed. Note: We do awards a bit different at Flixist. Most of our writers do not get early screenings or award screeners of movies, which means it isn't easy to see some of the films that only get limited releases in December for many of u...

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences holds the D.I.C.E. Awards every year to recognize not only the entertainment we enjoy, but the people that made our entertainment possible. For the upcoming 21st D.I.C.E. Awards, acclaimed Nint...

[Ed. Note: We do awards a bit different at Flixist. Most of our writers do not get early screenings or award screeners of movies, which means it isn't easy to see some of the films that only get limited releases in December for many of us. ...

Well, they're here. The 2018 Oscar nominations have rolled in, and there aren't too many stunners to talk about. I'm really excited that The Shape of Water gained so much momentum over the awards season, though. Thanks to that it brought in...

Here we go again. When the Game Developers Choice Awards recently listed its nominees, CJ wondered if The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild had another win left. Well, it might actually have two! The finalists for the 21st annual D.I.C.E....

Obviously this year's Golden Globes won't be remembered much for who won or lost. The dominate feature of the evening was the entire guest list wearing black for the night (not much a departure for the men) in solidarity with women, both in...

[He's at it again! Last year Luca Blight wrote his 2016 blog for excellence in stupidity, making it one of my favorite GOTY blogs ever. This year, he's written a follow-up, making this one of my new favorite year-end traditions. Join him as...

Leave it to the IGF to remind me just how jam-packed my backlog is these days. The finalists are here for the 2018 Independent Games Festival, including nods to recent favorites like Cuphead, Tacoma, Tooth and Tail, Night in the Woods, Heat...

Most end-of-year awards focus on highlighting the best of that calendar year. That's not exclusive to games. Grammy's, Oscar's, MTV Music Awards -- they're all shows that are meant to celebrate entertainment that released in the past 12 mon...

The results of the Destructoid staff GOTY picks on each platform have been revealed over the past few days. But who cares about these nerds anyway? Doesn't the community deserve a voice as well? Why yes, it does. So we're reaching to everyo...

We're just a few days away from capping off 2017 and what an awesome year it has been. Well, for video games that is. From beginning to end, it's been a non-stop wallet-walloping parade of great titles from Sony, Atlus, Nintendo, Sega, Micr...

Samus Returns. And how. MercurySteam knocked it out of the park in 2017 with Metroid: Samus Returns. The Nintendo 3DS title took the 1991 Game Boy release Metroid II: Return of Samus, and re-envisioned it into a gorgeous, aggressive and add...

The runaway most popular game of the year is also our PC Game of the Year. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, or PUBG as it's colloquially called, has been an absolute tour de force on the sales charts. It smashed Steam's concurrent users recor...

2017 has been a bit of an eye-opener for me on mobile gaming. I’d dabbled in the marketplace casually since first getting a smartphone, but this was the first year I attempted to seek out quality titles. In doing so, I found a bevy of...

Yoko Taro did it. While the PlayStation 4 had no shortage of remarkable games this year and trying to sort through them to crown a single standout title was conflicting to say the least, Yoko Taro, Platinum Games, and Square Enix were onto ...