The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has revealed its winner's list for the 2021 iteration of The DICE Awards, celebrating some of the fine releases that hit the market during last year — arguably one of the best gaming...

Last night saw the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) hold its annual BAFTA Games Awards, which saw a cavalcade of excellent releases from 2020 line up in hopes of receiving recognition from Britain's premier arts & med...

Vanillaware has proudly announced that 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim has hit 400,000 sales. The story-driven action strategy title launched on PS4 in Japan back in 2019, before heading west in the fall of 2020. Written and directed by George Kami...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has released the nominations list for the 2021 edition of its BAFTA Games Awards, which will be taking place later in March. The Last of Us Part II has received a record-breaking 13 no...

After almost two weeks of voting, the polls are closed and the tallies are finalized. We now know the winners of the 2020 Steam Awards, from Game of the Year to Best Soundtrack to Labor of Love. I knew there was a not-insignificant chance R...

You've already heard from the Destructoid staff regarding our favorite games that came out of the hellscape year 2020, but now it's time for your voice to be heard, Dtoid readers. That's right, it's time for the annual Community Game of the...

We've made it to the end of the year, and that means it's time for the Steam Winter Sale, which is hosting I-don't-even-wanna-know-how-many PC game deals until January 5 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific. Lots of players are buying Stardew Valley (it's...

It honestly didn't make a lot of sense to engage in mobile gaming this year. After all, the appeal of gaming on your iPhone or Android device ties into the fact you can play wherever you are. At the office, on the train, in the waiting room...

2020 was a weird – and for many people, at times frustrating – year for PC gaming. That sentiment goes for plenty of people who tried to secure a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S at launch, and it definitely also goes for PC gamers. You m...

Looking back on 2020, I'm having a hard time fathoming that Dreams and Spider-Man: Miles Morales – to say nothing of the PS5 in general – all came out in the same year. It's been a long one. Too long. Even if there is a new cons...

The degree to which the Switch has bounced back from the troubles of the Wii U is nothing short of impressive. In under a year, the Switch outsold the Wii U from a hardware perspective. In a little over a year, the Switch surpassed the tota...

Despite what you may think about the show, it is nice to get a reminder of just how good the games have been in 2020. At the Game Awards, the best of the year got their due...you know what, I still can't get over Sephiroth in Smash. That's ...

As if the gaming community wasn't already on tenterhooks for CD Projekt RED's long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077, the action-RPG adventure wowed judges at gamescom this past weekend, scooping up no less than five "Best of gamescom" awards.The futu...

British online media outlet Gayming Magazine has announced that it will be holding its first "Gayming Awards" ceremony in early 2021, offering recognition and plaudits to companies, communities, streamers and games that offer positive and i...

GDC may have been pushed out of sight, but the 2020 Independent Games Festival awards still took place last night as originally scheduled, albeit without a physical stage and audience. Instead, the IGF winners were publicly revealed in a pr...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has presented its full list of nominees for the 2020 BAFTA Games Awards, which will take place in London in April.In a huge list of categories - which includes gongs for Narrative, Ani...

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences puts on its annual D.I.C.E. Awards show every year as part of the summit it hosts in Las Vegas. The show has recognized some of the very best games of all time, with past winners including ...

What a year 2019 was! It's been a while since I've seen so many diverse entries come up as real contenders for game of the year. From an Estonian police RPG, to a game about a mischievous goose, if you couldn't find something to love in 201...

Just like The Game Awards a month ago, Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding will have the most chances to stack precious cargo on its back at the GDC Awards in March. At The Game Awards, it took home three of the nine awards it was nominated...

The next time you're looking to branch out beyond your typical week-to-week video game backlog, consider poring over the finalists for the 2020 Independent Games Festival. The list is brimming with wonderful indie games – some you'll ...

And that's a wrap for the Steam Awards 2019. Over the past month, Steam users have nominated their favorite games of 2019 across eight different categories, from the classic Game of the Year award to more (potentially) surprising awards mea...

All heaven, no hell. That's one vague way to describe Devil May Cry 5. There are so many more possible descriptions, each one ratcheting up the peculiarity and ridiculousness in step with the level of detail given. But pulling all the way b...

A new campaign, backed by some of the biggest publishers in the industry, is encouraging UK video game fans to get out to the polls this week for the General Election, and is offering prizes for some lucky voters who do so.The "Gamechangers...

Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia held its annual PlayStation Awards ceremony, celebrating the highest-selling titles of the year, (regardless of their year of release), across the Japanese and Asian markets.As per usual, Platinum a...

What's the best video game of 2019 that you suck at? I bet you have an answer ready to go. That's one of the questions at the center of the Steam Awards, an annual community-centric ceremony meant to highlight the best and brightest PC game...