Dragon Star Varnir will soon be heating things up for Nintendo Switch owners this side of the pond. As announced by Idea Factory International, the scaly anime JRPG, which launches on the Nintendo platform in Japan today, will be winging it...

See Nintendo, this is how you celebrate a franchise's 35th anniversary. Square Enix hosted a live stream earlier this evening to celebrate 35 years of Dragon Quest, and buddy, it did not disappoint. Six games and updates were announced duri...

Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD is nearly here (or now if you did the edition with incredibly odd early access). Owing to the fact it's roughly an 18-year-old game, some of its ways might feel obtuse to the modern JRPG player or newcomer...

XSeed Games, in association with Marvelous!, have announced that the western localization of the upcoming RPG Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed will be arriving in the west a mere two months after its Japanese launch. The 10th anniver...

We are still a couple of months out from the launch of long-time-coming JRPG sequel NEO: The World Ends with You. To whet the appetite of fans while they wait, publisher Square Enix has released the super stylistic and charismatic opening t...

The next game in the Tales series is finally ready to set a date. Tales of Arise has been locked in for a Sept. 10 release date, and it's also arriving with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions alongside PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Famitsu...

For decades, Sega's cult JRPG franchise Sakura Wars has been typified by its beautiful character design, excellent music, silly sense of humor, and charming artwork. This latter element in particular will be celebrated in Japan this month, ...

The launch of Fantasian really snuck up on us. After getting announced back in 2019, it flew under the radar until right around New Year's when developer Mistwalker confirmed the JRPG would release this year. Then, out of the blue, it ...

Square Enix has dropped a double helping of exciting news regarding NEO: The World Ends with You. Not only has the publisher announced via its press hub that the uber-cool JRPG sequel is launching July 27 on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, but Squ...

Now that NON-DENOMINATIONAL EGG AND RABBIT day is behind it, Nintendo's mobile battler Fire Emblem Heroes can get back to its typical, war-faring ways. The newest update for the gacha title is feeling a little nostalgic, offering up a quart...

Everyone loves a good brawl from time to time, and in the world of Fire Emblem Heroes, perhaps no nobility is up for the ruck as much as Princess Dagr, who joins the mobile battler this week as its newest Mythic Hero. Debuting in Fire Emble...

Publisher Koei Tecmo has proudly announced that the combined shipments of its JRPGs Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout and its sequel, Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy, have hit one million combined ship...

Cblogs of 3/13 to 3/19/2021 -Exber writes about the psychological milestone of actually beating a game. -Black Red Gaming thinks that Outbreak mode is the correct path forward for the Zombies mode in Call of Duty. -GoofierBrute shares...

Spring is in the air, and there's perhaps no video game that enjoys the changing of the season more than Nintendo's Fire Emblem Heroes. To that end, the mobile battler has launched its newest summoning event, bringing the spirit of funny bu...

In today's contest you can win an Another Eden official artbook and desk pad prize pack! Happy birthday, Dtoid! I know it's our birthday, but that doesn't mean we can't give you a nice little present, right? On deck today is a fun little pr...

Cblogs of 3/6 to 3/12/2021 -RedHeadPeak is enjoying his first "Family Game" experience through playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons. -Exber responds to this month's Band of Bloggers prompt about video game mysteries. -Kerrik52 reviews Thi...

Vanillaware has proudly announced that 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim has hit 400,000 sales. The story-driven action strategy title launched on PS4 in Japan back in 2019, before heading west in the fall of 2020. Written and directed by George Kami...

Back when Destructoid nominated its favorite new characters of 2020, I talked about Yakuza: Like a Dragon's hapless hero, Ichiban Kasuga. Nobody but nobody, it would've seemed, could successfully fill the role of long-term Yakuza protagonis...

Legendary developer Nihon Falcom has announced that it is teaming with a quartet of production companies to produce an anime adaptation of adventure series The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel. The new series is expected to launch on ...

In a collaboration set to rock the foundations of the very galaxy itself, Compile Heart has announced that goofy adventure series Hyperdimension Neptunia is getting set to crossover with cheeky cheesecake franchise Senran Kagura for a brand...

It's been nearly two years since Bandai Namco first announced Tales of Arise, and it looks like we're getting closer than ever to seeing it hit store shelves. Today, the publisher dropped a new trailer for the game that ends with a pro...

Following the recent arrival of Legendary Hero Claude von Riegan, Nintendo has announced "Seeds of Fodlan," the newest summoning event for its free-to-play mobile battler Fire Emblem Heroes. The new update will add further classy characters...

It's rare for me to want to play a game just to appreciate its environmental artwork, doubly so when it's stranded on a less-than-ideal platform like Apple Arcade. But that's where I'm at with Fantasian, a new RPG from Mistwalker (Terra Bat...

[Update: As expected, The Caligula Effect 2 will release outside of Japan later this year. NIS America will be handling localization and publishing duties. It's also giving the game a pretty sick-looking special edition that includes a...

Nintendo is prepping the arrival of the latest update to its mobile battle title Fire Emblem Heroes. Launching just in time for the weekend, the new event sees the arrival of a brand new Legendary Hero, and this time around it's the turn of...