The Armored Core series feels like an increasingly distant memory at this point. While games like Daemon X Machina are carrying the torch, it's been almost six years since the last entry, Armored Core: Verdict Day. What's the story there? W...

Did you know that From Software made a virtual reality game? I feel like Déraciné, a boarding-school adventure starring an unseen faerie, never fully sunk in. It launched last November for PlayStation VR with assistance from S...

While From Software is mostly known for Souls and Bloodborne these days, the studio has a wide-ranging catalog of games dating back to King's Field and Armored Core on the original PlayStation. Elden Ring might be the hot new IP going forwa...

Suda51 doesn't seem to be quite sure of what he wants No More Heroes 3 to be. He knows the story he wants to tell. He's currently in the middle of writing the scenario for it, with the general plot of the game mapped out and the smaller sto...

At E3 2019 this year, I had the distinct honor of sitting down with Kazuki Hosokawa (producer for Judgment and Yakuza) from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios and asking him about the future of the series and how each game gets made. As well as gettin...

Admittedly, we haven't seen a lot of Cyberpunk 2077 -- especially compared to the scope of the final product. Adding last year's E3 demo to this year's demo, we're up to approximately two hours of gameplay. But, what we have seen has b...

Last year, Sega announced that it would be remastering the PS3 Yakuza entries for release on PS4. The idea was to have each game playable on a single console and series producer Toshihiro Nagoshi even commented they were being done for...

Pop culture sweetheart Keanu Reeves showed up in an unlikely place at E3 2019: In one of the world's most anticipated video games. CD Projekt Red made a lot of headlines Sunday afternoon when it revealed that Reeves would play a prominent r...

Cyberpunk 2077 has a curious launch date. It will release on April 16, 2020 -- approximately six months before the next generation of consoles is expected to debut. With so many people questioning whether the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One...

One of the big, surprise announcements from Nintendo's E3 Showcase was the confirmation Suda51 is working on the oft-requested No More Heroes 3. In a presentation full of must-have titles, it was the standout for me. As luck would have it, ...

We all know how ridiculously popular Fortnite is. Making Epic Games hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the massive success of the battle royale game has spurred the creation of numerous pretenders to the throne. The battle royale craze...

Devil May Cry 5 released in March and has been incredibly well received. Rave reviews across the board and fans praising it as a return to form, it seems Capcom has figured out what made the series so special in the first place. That secret...

11 Bit Studios is no stranger to somber storytelling. In 2014, the studio released This War of Mine, a harrowing survival game inspired by the events of the Bosnian War. Rather than go a shade lighter for its follow-up, the developer double...

A Hat in Time is one of my favorite games of last year. Its gameplay mechanics revel in absurdity and its writing contrasts cute-as-heck appearances with unapologetic cynicism to great comedic effect. I've said before I felt like devel...

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is nearly six years old at this point. Let that sink in for a moment. Director/producer Naoki "Yoshi P" Yoshida has been at this for a while, shipping two expansions for the massive project while touri...

One of the greatest things about Destructoid is its sense of community. I've made life-long friends here and meet folks who share the same passion as myself nearly every single day. Bartek Kubica, who resides in Poland, is one of those peop...

You might not know George Fan, but odds are he knows you. As one of the brightest minds at PopCap Games, he's lived vicariously through all of your endless Insaniquarium sessions and Plants vs. Zombies runs. Fan worked at the stud...

Yacht Club Games, the developers of Shovel Knight, had a historic showing at PAX East this year. Six years ago, Shovel Knight made its playable debut there. Now it's coming to a close there as well, with Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Sh...

The first thing I did at PAX East yesterday was hit up Matt Papa and Takuya Aizu of Inti Creates about a question I've had on my mind ever since they shadow-dropped Blaster Master Zero 2 last week: Will the game get character DLC? The ...

Magic: The Gathering Arena, even in beta form, is ripping through the digital card game market. With newcomers like Artifact fizzling it's poised to really make a splash this year when it fully launches: a goal that's helped by the fac...

It wasn’t a surprise that Google announced Stadia, its game streaming platform. Rumors had been swirling for a while that the internet giant was jumping into the console war. Those rumors were enough to bring in the biggest names in t...

Fire Emblem Heroes just celebrated its second anniversary in February of this year. That's two years of success for Nintendo's mobile golden goose, a situation that's even more bizarre when you realize that Fire Emblem was on life support i...

Final Fantasy XIV is in a good place, but just nine years ago, things were looking disastrous. What's known as the vanilla version of XIV rushed onto the scene and basically tanked immediately, leading to a complete reboot that's rarely see...

It feels like Hearthstone has been around much longer than four years. With myriad expansions under its belt, a ton of support and a thriving eSports scene, it's had a major impact on how studios approach the card game space, both in terms ...

[Header Herabuff by @WaddleDurrr] Nick Franco's Pokémon: Hard Mode comics popularized the concept of the Nuzlocke, one of the most well-known self-imposed challenges among electric mouse enthusiasts. Its two simple rules --...