Ubisoft's back with its second Nintendo Direct-like streaming showcase. That's not much of a surprise considering it ended its first Ubisoft Forward by announcing a second. But now we have a hard date and a vague idea of what to expect. In...

You're going for the gold in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare this weekend. That's a deviation from the norm, because usually you're just out for blood. It'll be nice to add some conventional trophies to your collection to go along with t...

With far too many streaming presentations competing for our limited attention this summer and many of them falling short of expectations, it's been tiring, but I have to give props to the team behind the Wholesome Direct. The crew pulled of...

Against all of the odds, and despite all of the hurdles 2020 has put in place, the annual Summer Games Done Quick speedrun marathon has delivered once again. As the curtain fell on this year's event, SGDQ 2020 succeeded in raising an amazin...

It's time for another Super Smash Bros. Ultimate event: which also means that it's time to complain about the choice of header image. This weekend you can participate in a "Royal Tournament," which will allow royalty-based characters t...

[Update: The seventh of our popular Destructoid AMA sessions is now live! So stop by our official forums and take the opportunity to Ask Your Anything to Destructoid's Features Editor, Podtoid producer, and all-round good dude CJ Andriessen...

It's about time for another State of Play. The PlayStation news stream starts at 1:00 p.m. Pacific. This latest show is all about upcoming PS4 and PlayStation VR games – Sony has gone out of its way to temper expectations with a "no ...

The all-important hour is almost upon us. After committing to a series of monthly updates about Xbox Series X, Microsoft just didn't do anything in June. It makes today's event feel even bigger. The Xbox Games Showcase starts at 9am Pacifi...

The second Summer Game Fest developer showcase will be here before we know it. If you're wondering whether it's worth catching live – it's streaming on Monday, July 20 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific – here's a quick rundown of which compa...

Niantic is currently in preparation for the 2020 edition of its annual gathering, Pokémon GO Fest, which takes place later this month. While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has put paid to plans of a physical get-together, Pokém...

The recent Xbox Series X game showcase came and went, and a lot of people were disappointed that it didn't show enough gameplay. This time around Microsoft is raring up to remedy that mishap with their July "Xbox Games Showcase," and now we...

Nintendo hasn't tried to hide the fact that it is using its quasi-free-to-play battle royale Tetris 99 as a glorified advertising vessel. Every time a first-party Nintendo game comes out, it's almost guaranteed that it will get a theme and...

In case you forgot; TGS is much, much bigger than E3. How big? Well try 262,076 attendees in 2019 versus E3's 66,100 figure from the same year. This is with E3's public entrance policy. It's so big, in fact, that it won't be going on hiatus...

Do you miss E3? I kind of miss the spirit of it, at least. There's something about spreading out an E3 period over the course of two to three months this year that really takes the excitement out of it. In the past, we'd all huddle tog...

Sony's meandering marketing rollout for the PlayStation 5 has all been building up this afternoon. We're finally gonna see some games. Maybe more! Sony's PS5: The Future of Gaming stream starts at 1:00 p.m. Pacific, and if you're looking f...

EA Play Live is the latest in a string of delayed events. Originally scheduled for June 11, EA Play is now set for June 18, 2020, in hopes of supporting and prioritizing "important conversations taking place and important voices being heard...

[Update: The organizers of The Guerrilla Collective are shifting the streaming news event to June 13–15 "in support of Black Lives Matter." Apart from that delay, they're also "preparing a livestream for June 7 to highlight Black voic...

America is at a breaking point. All last week, tensions rose across the nation as Black Lives Matter supporters took to the streets to protest the killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. You've seen the footage laid bare on social med...

[Update: A day later, the PlayStation 5 event is official (and also one day later than expected). Sony has confirmed its PS5: The Future of Gaming broadcast for 1:00 p.m. Pacific on June 4, 2020. Here we go!] Sony is reportedly aiming to ho...

After acknowledging that BlizzCon 2020 was very much up in the air, Blizzard has called off the event. According to BlizzCon executive producer Saralyn Smith, the company is currently exploring options for an online replacement event that c...

[Update: You can watch the stream right now at the link below!] We haven't reached critical mass with the summer-long not-E3-but-close-enough live streams, but I can feel it – we'll be there soon. At some point, likely in June, I'll h...

As arenas remained closed and in-person esports events continue to take a hit, more and more organizations, including EVO, are making the move to online tournaments. This past week Ubisoft announced a new initiative for online Rainbow Six: ...

A couple of weeks into Summer Game Fest and the dates are already stacking up. Today, the gaming festival added two more live-streamed events to its schedule: one on June 22, and one on July 20 – both Mondays! Nothing replaces the E3 ...

Like every other video game expo this year, Gamescom had to either adapt to the pandemic or bail. That meant shifting from a physical gathering with way too many people in Cologne to a worldwide, all-digital event with "world premieres, new...

[Image Courtesy @Sora_Sakurai] Evo is the only esports event I look forward to every year. Where else can I see a guy in a full-body fox costume wipe the floor with opponents in Dragon Ball FighterZ? Sadly, with COVID-19 destroying eve...