What's the deal with Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville? Where do I begin! The follow-up to PopCap's kooky team-based shooter series Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare isn't fully out yet – the launch is set for October 18 &...

God help me I've gotten back into The Sims this year. Sure it doesn't completely make up for a lack of regular Sim-verse games (can we get another SimAnt please?), but Sims 4 has come a long way since its launch, which includes oodles of DL...

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 3 is here! (Sort of.) PopCap and EA have announced Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville – the third game in their wacky multiplayer shooter series – and in a semi-surprising turn of eve...

Following a tumultuous season 2, Respawn is poised to launch Apex Legends' season 3 later this year: and as expected, it'll come with a new Legend. Leaked by way of August's GameStop Conference (which apparently is the easiest way to leak a...

Nearly two full years after it first launched, EA DICE is still working on Star Wars Battlefront II. Heading into the fall, the developer gave us some idea of what to expect in the coming months. The headliner is the addition of Instant Act...

Just a few days after it was formally announced, EA has given us our first proper look at Need for Speed Heat. As a part of today's gamescom: Opening Night Live, EA debuted the gameplay trailer for Need for Speed Heat. It's kind of split u...

It looks like Need for Speed Heat, EA's upcoming sequel in the long-running racing series, will be ditching loot boxes. After announcing the game yesterday, EA community manager Ben Walke held a Q&A on the Need for Speed subreddit to an...

Electronic Arts fully revealed the new Need for Speed game, which is set to debut this November on PC, PS4, and Xbox One: Heat. The Need for Speed franchise has always had a penchant for fiery monikers, dating back to "Hot Pursuit...

A trailer has unofficially surfaced online for the next game in Electronic Arts' tower strategy series Plants vs. Zombies. As predicted by the European trademark spotted last week, Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville will be the tit...

Electronic Arts have bust out that time-tested, industry-approved hype generator - the mysterious countdown website - in order to generate heat for an all-new entry in their long-running, road-ripping Need for Speed franchise.The site featu...

Electronic Arts has filed a new trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office for a project known as Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville.There are no substantial details relating to this mystery title, but the trad...

After numerous delays and setbacks, Anthem's Cataclysm event is now live. Including brand new story missions and a score attack based mode, this latest update (version 1.3.0) should give Anthem devotees a lot to dig into. There's a ton of ...

To date, there are exactly three Electronics Arts games on Nintendo Switch: Fe, FIFA 19, and FIFA 18. It goes without saying, but that's not some erroneous oversight on EA's part; it's a deliberate strategy to willfully ignore one of the wo...

Oculus Connect is returning yet again this September at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, and Oculus has at least one bombshell for the event: a new game from Respawn Entertainment. Yep, on September 25-26, during the conference, Ocul...

It's an inevitability that every single action role-playing game gets compared to Dark Souls. You know the type. Anything where you can't rush in head-first to every combat encounter? Then it's just like Dark Souls, or so the lazy discourse...

EA Access has found its footing on Xbox One and PC, but until now, PS4 users haven't been able to try the subscription-based service. For the right type of person, it can be a bargain – it's a way to get in, catch up on games, and get...

The Sims 4 is getting a makeover. Okay it's mostly cosmetic in nature (no not that "cosmetic," well kinda), but it's getting one all the same. The game will sport new box art and some UI changes, including a new loading screen and the optio...

The sea is loneliness. That's not a spoiler for Sea of Solitude, the latest effort from Berlin-based indie studio Jo-Mei, and a game that, since its announcement some years ago, has been fairly explicit about its allegorical nature, and its...

When Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was officially revealed, I gave a shrug of indifference. This looked like basically every other Star Wars action title ever made and was starring one of the most boring looking characters I've seen in a whi...

Apex Legends is making a splash once again in the battle royale market, as developer Respawn Entertainment just kicked off season two of the shooter, which includes new character Wattson, another series of content drops, battlefield ch...

Although interest in Apex Legends has significantly waned (it went from the top game on Twitch for several weeks to not cracking the top five for some time), Respawn is still keen on supporting it, and EA is very happy with it. The next hug...

While Lyle keeps practicing his impression of you, here's what's been happening in video games the past week:  Gears 5 is dropping paid loot boxes! The UK parliament is investigating loot boxes! The Witcher 3 is going to fit entire...

Anthem is in a really precarious spot right now. We know that it sold well in some regions, but EA and even BioWare isn't happy about the state the game was in at launch or the lack of post-launch support (or the ability to stick to the ori...

The Sims 4 is still going strong after five years. Although you don't hear it brought up in general gaming conversation often, there are a ton of people playing it: some of whom dabble in Sims 4 on a daily basis. Given how much it's improve...

Each year Destructoid does our recaps a little differently. I lay my opinions on the line, provide full breakdowns of each and every story that happens in each conference/stream (it takes days from our lives to be this meticulous, I assure ...