If the Steam Store Halloween sale leaves you wanting, the good news is tons of other digital retailers are also offering up deals for cheap. In fact, you'll find almost all titles on Steam Store cheaper elsewhere (either at GMG or Fanatical...

Rockstar Games has a knack for breaking all kinds of records with its titles. Both Grand Theft Auto IV and V set records in their day and now the recently released Red Dead Redemption 2 is following suit. While not eclipsing the same three-...

Year after year, a new Call of Duty releases and it makes a tremendous amount of cash. While there have been a few dips in sales numbers with the past few entries, Black Ops 4 is off to a ridiculously good start. Activision has announced th...

Just like Mrs. Summers, weekend game deals roundup is returning after a hiatus, minus the vengeance and wanton destructions upon friends and family. For this October weekend, we're spotting tons of great deals and sales event. In the newly ...

The completely awesome AMID EVIL, a retro-inspired FPS with a gun that shoots planets at enemies, is now on sale for 13% off on Steam. This sale is due to the surprise launch of the game's fifth episode, which is also tubular. How many '90s...

Devil May Cry 5 is still roughly half a year away from launch and it is already selling like crazy. According to Steam's "Global Top Sellers" chart, the deluxe edition of the game is sitting at number one on the platform (as of the time of ...

Spider-Man has been tremendously successful for Insomniac and Sony. During its first three days, the web-slinging action game sold upwards of 3.3 million copies. That figure makes it the "fastest-selling first-party PlayStation title," topp...

It should come as no surprise to anyone, but EA's Madden NFL series is massively popular. I guess hype for the latest entry, Madden 19, was at its highest as the game has come out to record-breaking sales. Not only was it the biggest launch...

Gamepires' intensely detail-oriented survival game SCUM has cleared one million sales after debuting on Steam Early Access last month. As previously reported, it's Devolver Digital's "biggest launch ever." The game's popularity checks out. ...

For some reason the games industry doesn't seem to like sharing sales numbers with the public, so it's always interesting to hear about how a current game is doing straight from the source. This weekend at PAX I spoke briefly with one of th...

This week, Destructoid is sponsored in part by QubicGames. This is a note from our sponsor: Summer here in the northern hemisphere may be coming to an end, but that doesn't mean the doldrums of going back to school, work, or regular non-vac...

Hype for Square Enix's retro-RPG revival Octopath Traveler was through the roof before release last month. Not only did the game look to perfectly capture the SNES era of RPGs, it was one that Square Enix was using as a testing ground for s...

PlayStation VR hasn't exactly set the world on fire, but it continues to do well for Sony. The headset has cleared 3 million sales, and folks have purchased 21.9 million PlayStation VR "games and experiences." More interestingly, Sony has c...

Monster Hunter: World's PC port hasn't even been out a full day and it is already breaking records. While Capcom hasn't officially unveiled sales figures for the series' PC debut, a cursory look at Steamcharts.com reveals a concurrent playe...

The splendid run-and-gun game Cuphead continues to sell well and every time we hear about a new sales milestone, I feel reassured. It's wonderful to know that this type of game can be embraced at this level. The latest word: Cuphead has sur...

Frontier Developments has announced that its hit dino theme park simulator Jurassic World Evolution has reached a combined sales total of one million units. This is factoring in the PS4, Xbox One and PC releases along with digital sales fig...

Believe it or not, "How many people are playing your game?" is a surprisingly hard question to answer for many people both inside and outside the game industry. Between digital platforms, sales, the second-hand scene, and a market that ince...

At E3 this year, Bethesda poked fun at the joke that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is available on basically everything. They did this not only with a funny trailer but by releasing an actual working version of the game for Alexa devices (eve...

While my Steam purchasing has severely slowed down in recent years, I still catch myself eying the marketplace's top-sellers list. I like seeing what folks are into and whether or not I'm still with it. This week, Steam has broken out a lis...

Nintendo Switch owners have been craving a good metroidvania, and while there was a bit of a wait involved, Hollow Knight has answered their call. Unsurprisingly, it's a huge hit with Switch players. Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aimé ...

Indie roguelike, Metroidvania game Dead Cells is now available on Linux and Mac OS X. This coincides with the current Steam summer sale with a 40% off discount. Once the summer sale is over, the game will be increasing in price (from $19.99...

Things are really looking up for Ninja Theory right now. The studio was recently acquired by Microsoft, enabling it to "take bigger creative risks and create genre-defining games without the constant threat of annihilation," and now it's re...

[Update: Inti Creates posted a breakdown of the individual sales statistics for Curse of the Moon and the Switch was the leading platform by a wide margin. Around 56% of sales came from Nintendo's platform, with Steam coming in second at 19...

I love Nioh for so many reasons and it warms my heart to see the game continue to sell well. It has tight, layered combat. It strikes a nice balance between drama and levity. The base game is rich with content, and it just never seems to en...

Can God of War be stopped? In addition to being Sony's fastest selling PS4 exclusive and the best selling game of April 2018, God of War has now broken the five million copy mark. While this isn't the best selling game on the platform, it w...