In today's episode of Destructoid Impulse: we take a look at Call of Duty's answer to battle royale in the form of Blackout. Yes, that's right, we're talking about the biggest trend in video games and possibly the biggest franchise in video...
I feel like virtual reality games get kind of a bad rap for being "simplistic" or "shallow." They're not always that way. When done right a VR game can take an ordinary experience and transform it into an immersive adventure, heightening it...
Crawling through the long grass, a bead of sweat trickles down my temple. Sweat, or blood? It's hard to tell the difference on an island such as this one. I'd bought my ticket to ride and now I was on the journey, stamped "paid in full" on ...
Today is the final day to play Boss Key Productions ill-fated LawBreakers. In an effort to send the title off with a bang, the subreddit for LawBreakers will be hosting one last unofficial community play time. For the rest of today (Septemb...
It's Blackout beta weekend for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, and that means lots of new players have begun dipping their toes into the game's promising battle royale mode. PS4 players have had access, but the beta just went live this morning f...
Looking to get into an exclusive closed VR beta for your HTC Vive or Oculus Rift? Who isn't? Being in a closed beta means that you, 1) get to try out a game before anyone else can, giving you bragging rights to all your friends, and 2) prov...
In a recent reaching-but-understandable bit of guesswork, fans have been musing over the possibility of Xbox One shooter Halo 5: Guardians being ported to the PC. This came about do to some updated Amazon box-art pictures that changed "Xbox...
We're in that part of the Battlefield cycle where EA and DICE are in a giving mood. Just as the open beta for Battlefield V comes to a close, it's now time to turn our attention back to Battlefield 1. You can currently nab the game for $4.9...
Not a day goes by where I don't sit in awe of the work Night Dive Studios does. The talented wizards over there have brought back some of the biggest classics to modern platforms and updated them to run on a wide range of hardware. In basic...
Virtual reality is one of those things that you kind of accept is going to be a slightly handcuffed experience. The nature of the beast dictates that what you gain in immersion and wow-factor you lose in control and full autonomy over movem...
Battlefield V has been kicking my ass, and based on what I've seen of this week's open beta, I'm not alone. There's going to be a not-insignificant learning curve for players who don't prioritize team dynamics and really take their time. Th...
Preview demos rarely coddle, but they're also almost always accessible. Like, the whole point is to get a good broad understanding for what a game hopes to accomplish. On a subconscious level, there's probably something to be said for makin...
Are you sick of zombies and battle royale in your video games? What if I told you the two were getting combined in a major upcoming release? If you wanted to play a game with the largest combination of industry buzzwords possible, Call of D...
In a new trailer loaded with an incredible amount of PR speak, we've finally gotten some details on how Battlefield V's battle royale mode will play out. Those hoping for something akin to PUBG or Fortnite will be saddened, as "Firestorm" (...
EA and DICE are gearing up for the Battlefield V beta shortly, but they haven't forgotten the previous entry in the series. After talking about making DLC free and taking steps to prevent splitting the player base, everyone will have the ch...
Despite launching to record-breaking numbers, not everything about the hyper-realistic survival game SCUM has been well received. Alongside the main game, a "Supporter Pack" DLC is available that allows users to get some extra tattoos to ap...
If you've ever been a kid and rode around your living room with a stick horse, pretending to shoot at bank robbers with your TV remote, then you'll be a satisfied camper today as we've wrangled up 75 Steam keys for Hopalong: The Badlands to...
If you've always been curious about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but have feared getting destroyed online, Valve has got a solution for you. Released just this week, a brand new "Free Edition" of CS:GO allows users to jump into offline...
Xbox Game Pass is set to receive a bunch of new titles for September and the clear standout is Quantum Break. While maybe not the best game it could be, Quantum Break's infusion of different media formats makes for a great time if you view ...
It's you versus 99 other players. You're running out of air as the toxicity encloses around you. There's one spot on the extraction helicopter, and you'll do anything to secure it for yourself. And oh, the map is littered with mutants, wolv...
The overwhelmingly realistic survival game SCUM launched into early-access today and is already breaking records. Not content with being a streaming darling, SCUM has turned out to be the biggest launch ever for publisher Devolver Digital.
Inspired no doubt by the reality show taking place in the prison which the world has become for most of us, developer Gampires and publisher Devolver Digital have joined forces to unleash the unhinged survival title SCUM, launching on Steam...
We're approaching the one year mark since the release of Activision's billion-dollar earning first-person shooter Call of Duty: WWII. There's still plenty of updates being applied to keep the game's multiplayer fresh, including a new divisi...
For years now, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been the most requested game for Xbox One's backward compatibility service. Despite making last-gen ports of Xbox One Call of Duty games playable, Modern Warfare 2 seemed to elude the servic...
CD Projekt Red put us (and a lot of other outlets) in an awkward position at E3. We saw a Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay demo that was nearly 50 minutes long. Everyone else saw a short trailer that premiered during Xbox's press conference. T...
Hulu has officially ordered 8 episodes of Veronica Mars, and theyre going to get streaming rights to the first 3 Link in comments!
This seemed like pertinent information for Dtoiders looking to buy Red Dead
One thing Ive always loved about NIS games are the randomized names you can get in character This is from the recently released Labyrinth of
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#confessiontoid To this day, I still sucked at hearing lyrics on most songs & tend to go for the ones that sounds pleasing to me, so there are times that I do love hearing them several times without knowing whether theyre shit until I look up the
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The one Magfest I wish I had gone #Uematsutoid
Polygon has a great article about the design documents included in the Beat Em Up Collection This is catnip to
The Lizard Person pretending to be a human that is my client does not know how to read a timeline, and yet, she claims to be a certified project Ohhhhhhhhhh, so
I could contribute one of the old songs from Uematsu to this appreciation day for his music, but this more recent song is beautiful and I hope he recovers his health after the hiatus!
