Is Konami starting to make a comeback? It's too hard to tell, right? They seem to be supporting Bomberman R quite well and they're making an effort to bring Castlevania into the fold in multiple ways. Castlevania: Requiem, a collective of R...

Metal Gear Survive didn't survive long enough to make it into my usual lineup of monthly shooters, but it is shambling along in some form or another eight months after launch. Konami has announced that in addition to Castlevania casset...

Despite Saints Row IV still holding the record for the most absurdly priced special edition ever made, I'm floored by how ludicrous the prices for special editions are. What used to max out around $150 has steadily grown until we're seeing ...

Epic Games has been putting out cryptic tweets in recent days, that all appear to be pointing toward a special Halloween-themed event in their popular battle royale hit, Fortnite.The tweets come in the form of creepy limericks, accompanied ...

Spider-Man has been mixed up in a heap of relationships over the years and most of them are messy. Injecting one of them into a DLC of all places sets off all sorts of alarm bells, but Insomniac managed to keep The Heist grounded withi...

Steam has dropped the price of Lara Croft's latest jungle jaunt, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with a discount of 34% for the standard edition, and 47% for the "Croft edition". The third entry to the rebooted Tomb Raider trilogy released a lit...

You really have to give Ubisoft credit for aggressively pursuing their partnership with Nintendo even after they faltered on the Wii U. Most of you really seem to be taking to it, and now we know just how aggressive they are: the Starlink&n...

This week saw the launch of Banda Namco's Soulcalibur VI, a character creation tool that also has some sort of fighting game attached. Despite the endless possibilities and some genius ideas already demonstrated by the community, SCVI faile...

Bowsette is lasting a little longer than most people thought it would. I mean it was born out of a Nintendo creation after all, with the insanely weird concept with Toadette becoming a human Peachette (how did that get off the cutting room ...

You Don't Know Jack has always been an innovative property. The very first YDKJ game in 1995 was one of the first titles to take full advantage of the storage space offered by then-new CD-ROM technology, and there's been plenty of...

Fallout 76 increasingly feels like the year's big question-mark game. People know it's coming. The Fallout series is prevalent even among folks who buy a few games a year and don't typically follow industry news or trends. Call of Duty: Bla...

The second offering from retro enthusiasts Hamster is a twitchy arcade classic. Fans of shmups can take to the skies once more in a great arcade release from the late '90s, Strikers 1945 Plus, available now on PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Sw...

We've done a few late-in-the-game reviews before in Destructoid's history. If enough people ask, we'll do it! Such is the case for Nine Parchments, which actually launched in 2017 on PC, PS4 and Switch and 2018 on Xbox One. We've basically ...

There's a seminal moment in cinematic history, in which a world-weary Ossie Davis tells a young Spike Lee, "always do the right thing". This unforgettable moment has stuck with me my whole life and is go-to advice whenever I make my de...

What's Resident Evil without a theatrical range of stage costumes for our heroes to leap in and out of whilst surviving their survival horror? Capcom's upcoming remake of Resident Evil 2 is certainly shaping up to be no different. We've alr...

Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has announced via Twitter that the latest edition of the legendary fighting franchise, Tekken 7, has bagged over three million sales since its launch in June 2017.This impressive number brings franchise sale...

Bandai Namco has a lot to answer for after 2012's Soulcalibur V. After gutting the beloved core cast and a number of single-player modes the series felt hamstrung, to the point where some felt that it could never come back. When in doubt, p...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has ushered in a new era of AAA: one where every studio and their grandmother tries to pack a battle royale gametype into their project. The thing is, Activision actually did it right, while also providing a strong...

During a recent PlayStation Blogcast with Sony's Sid Shuman, the social media director commented that new news will be forthcoming soon about the remake of PS1 title MediEvil.A further Blogcast, planned for sometime in "the next week or two...

[Update: As confirmed by YouTuber KOFI, Red Dead Redemption 2 does indeed come on two discs: A "Play Disc" and a "Data Disc." No real surprise given the sequel's epic scale.]Next week sees the launch of arguably the biggest video game relea...

The current version of the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is fairly solid, but a few issues with online play still remain. Next week, Capcom will be issuing a patch on October 23 that hopefully squashes those bugs on consoles. P...

Splishy splash. Now New York City is as wet as you want it. The lead-up to Spider-Man's launch was dampened by a short-lived controversy over Insomniac removing puddles from the final game. Deemed "Puddlegate" (not everything needs to be a ...

The main website for nightmarish sexy-time title Catherine: Full Body has been updated by Atlus, giving us a little more information on the new difficulty modes being implemented in the weird anime puzzler. As displayed by the videos below,...

It's a little later than expected, but it's here just in time for some weekend web-slinging. Insomniac's latest update for Spider-Man (PS4) paves the way for the first DLC, adds the anticipated New Game+ mode, and introduces an Ultimate dif...

The newest update to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is just in time for Halloween, and it's a familiar one for anyone who plays other battle royale games. It introduces the Contraband stream, which is essentially Black Ops 4's take on ...