Through Avalanche Studios' 16-year history, it's best known for two successful franchises. The first, the big and obvious one, is Just Cause. The second will come as a surprise for a lot of folks. It's called theHunter -- a realistic, ...

The first three chapters of A Plague Tale: Innocence paint a harrowing picture. Its vision of a 14th-century France is full of violence and death.  The Hundred Years' War and the Inquisition's looming shadow stand poised to unspool a w...

As most of you readers know, I'm a big fan of the Yakuza series. Ever since my first taste with Yakuza 3, I've been hooked and have eagerly anticipated whatever game Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios teased. Even if a few of the games have disappointed...

The Division that launched in March 2016 is a far cry from the Division that exists today. Developer Massive Entertainment created a technically-adept squad-based cover shooter that never addressed the most major component of a li...

Last summer, I sat down with a very early build of a management sim called Boss Golf. Through the developer's own words, it was an attempt to recreate the charm of such titles as Sim Golf and Rollercoaster Tycoon. I found the alpha to be ch...

I've done long-distance relationships before. Twice, actually. The first one didn't work out. The second has (so far at least). But both were hard. Being physically apart from someone you love may be easier today with our current technology...

I have a confession to make. We were very close to passing by this one. In the business of finding gems at a place like PAX South, first impressions are huge. My first impressions for Dicey Dungeons aren't bad by any means, but it didn't ha...

Fast, loud, vibrant, and violent. Devolver Digital's newest signee Katana Zero wastes no time making an impression, filled to the brim with the sort of constant carnage you'd expect from a game about a contract-killing samurai. It's im...

It’s safe to say that the Nintendo Switch has replaced the Vita as a portable indie beast. Over the last year and a half, Nintendo’s hybrid device has amassed quite the collection of impressive indie titles. No one device lets y...

The popular dino survival game ARK: Survival Evolved will be hitting Nintendo Switch on November 30, 2018, for $49.99. It will be bringing the original ARK map and even have an offline mode for players on the go. The online mode is said to ...

After a few days of recovery, it's time to wrap up our coverage of New York Comic-Con. Between all of the running around most of us did from the Javitz Center to Madison Square Garden for the big panels, the Flixist crew is pretty damned ti...

With the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s second trailer debuting earlier this week, I was wondering why the hell the Spider-Verse panel was going to be an hour and a half instead of the normal hour. At first, Phil Lord ...

Did you know there's a National Quiet Radio Zone in the US? It's a 13,000 square-mile chunk of land that spans parts of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. The purpose of keeping a heavily-restricted radio frequency-free zone is to condu...

It's kind of a small miracle that Darksiders III is getting made -- or at least the way it's getting made. Back in 2013, Vigil Games (developer of Darksiders and its sequel) went belly-up alongside its parent company THQ. A bunch ...

Sometimes a game's title tells you everything you need to know. Shovel Knight, Battletoads, and even Super Mario Odyssey all give you a pretty good idea of what you're in for before you boot up the game. That isn't the case with D...

This week I was able to get a behind the scenes look at the work Eugen Systems has been putting into their upcoming World War II strategy game Steel Division II. From the onset of the demo, when game director Alexis Le Dressay said that the...

I'm not exactly sure how much laughing is appropriate during the demo for The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories. The title, due out for PC and all major consoles this year, is the latest project from avant-garde game designe...

The Quiet Man isn’t a game I’m supposed to preview at PAX. When my appointment was made for Square Enix, it was for Left Alive, a lackluster presentation I’ve already covered. I have no interest in playing The Quiet Man af...

It's safe to say every game developer working today has probably played and enjoyed a Legend of Zelda game at some point in their history. Nintendo's adventure series has been consistently popular for more than 30 years, and it's not h...

I imagine most visitors to PAX West this year don’t even know about NIS America’s suite at the Sheraton in Seattle. In a small room on the second floor of the hotel, a half-dozen NISA employees in “Dood” jerseys dire...

PAX's Indie Megabooth is always worth checking out, and it's frequently one of the most crowded sections of the show floor. You never know exactly what to expect when you visit, but there's almost always something exciting and eye-catching ...

What the Golf? is by far the shortest appointment I had at PAX West. In the overcrowded Indie Megabooth, where a day earlier I meet former Destructoid editor Hamza for the first time, its quirky demo encourages people to watch the utte...

Gris is an absolutely stunning game. The first title from Spanish studio Nomada made a splash in mid-August when it announced a publishing deal with Devolver Digital. Anyone can immediately tell it's a real looker. That beauty isn't j...

Up until this past weekend, ToeJam & Earl was a title I knew nothing about. I've heard of the games over the years, usually from people at GameStop romanticizing the days of their youth spent with it, but for decades it was just a ...

Double Fine is always trying something new. The developer regularly invites employees to pitch their game ideas during its annual Amnesia Fortnight events, internal game jams where no idea is too bizarre. Several well-regarded games have re...