It took me a bit, but after the urging of many Destructoid readers, I finally checked out the If Outriders demo. It's better than I thought it would be!

[Update: People Can Fly has applied a second update to the Outriders demo in response to complaints about the first. As noted by Eurogamer, the Gauss boss chest will have a chance of dropping Legendary items once again. Ledge gear will rema...

Just recently the Fallout 76 playerbase was collectively amped up to try out some upcoming new changes in the public test server (PTS), but Bethesda put a little damper on that with an update this week. Here's the full rundown: "We kno...

Arkane Studios has released a lighthearted video looking at its upcoming chrono-shooter Deathloop, which will launch on PS5 and PC May 21. The trailer sees the stylish title's designer, Dinga Bakaba, walk the viewer through the clock-warpin...

Interestingly, people are breaking Destiny again to make it more fun. Expect the police to arrive any day now! As spotted by PC Gamer, folks have been forcing 12 players into Destiny 2 raids, which are normally six-player affairs. The ...

Apex Legends exploded at launch on Twitch, and has since retreated to a respectable top five position or so since then. But each season waxes and wanes, and the recent launch of Season 8 has been a boon for the game. Amid a launch on Switch...

This week's retro re-release certainly offers something a little different, history-wise, as the retro fans over at Hamster having chosen SNK's on-foot jungle shmup Guerrilla War as its newest Arcade Archives entry, now available to downloa...

As a nice little musical interlude during last night's PlayStation State of Play presentation, Bethesda released a new gameplay trailer for Arkane Studios' riotous looking shooter Deathloop, which is headed to PS5 and PC on May 21. The vide...

Anthem couldn't be saved after all, and the team working to revive it (under the Anthem Next banner) is moving on to help build out the far more lucrative next games in the Dragon Age and Mass Effect series. After a report from Bloomberg ab...

Bungie has announced their plans to expand on their official blog this week, with two new board of director additions (one of which is from Viacom CBS) and an expansion of their headquarters. Bungie explains that they broke ground on an "ex...

Next week will offer PC and console owners their first opportunity to jump in on People Can Fly's new co-operative shooter, Outriders. In a lengthy thread on Twitter, the studio laid out all of the dates and details as it pertains to the de...

After learning that Apex Legends was going to arrive on Switch, we got yanked around a bit on the release date. Of course Respawn had to put on the finishing touches (launching it with cross-play couldn't have been easy), but for weeks...

The rumors were true and the Plants vs. Zombies universe is coming to Nintendo Switch. Well... Battle for Neighborville, the third game in the Garden Warfare shooter sub-series, will officially be out for Switch on March 19 with an "everyth...

In a very solemn but slick trailer, Nintendo showed us an Inkling riding a train from the completely barren Splatlands into another city, Splatsville, which will be a new hub. Wait, Inkling?! Surprise! It's Splatoon 3, and it's hitting Swit...

It was one of the shorter trailers in the Direct, but Star Wars: Hunters is a new free-to-play third-person shooter coming to Switch this year. The game will take place between Episode 6 and Episode 7. It's nice to have Star Wars back ...

Last week, we reported how Ubisoft is re-evaluating its upcoming sci-fi shooter Rainbow Six Quarantine - suggesting the title might be in line for a rename due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday, a new image (discovered by MP1ST) a...

New Halo news is coming back in a big way and it's pretty exciting. Now that a lot of the darkness has parted from the Halo Infinite delay, 343 Industries is giving us huge updates for the Halo series as a whole. Not all...

You ever get excited about a game, forget it exists for a year or more, and then randomly see it pop up close to its release? That's me right now as I'm reminded of Battle Axe, a co-op hack 'n' slash arcade adventure with lavish pixel art. ...

Fallout 76, it's growing older all the time, and in many ways, it's getting younger in Bethesda's mind. While you think about that for a second, know that Fallout 76 is getting another PTS (public test server) build fairly soon. Aiming...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart looked great before the PlayStation 5 came out, but now that it's been a few months, Insomniac's dimension-hopping adventure sounds fantastic. The PS5 sorely needs a game like this right now, and the wait won...

In 2020, Ubisoft announced that it would be delaying practically its entire slate of upcoming releases, pushing back Watch Dogs: Legion, Immortals: Fenix Rising, and the newest entry in the Rainbow Six series, Quarantine. While the two form...

I never thought I'd be the type of person who'd enjoy a game where you pump high school girls full of pheromones to satisfy their needs, but here I am reviewing my third Gal*Gun title. Despite clearly not being in its target demographi...

Borderlands 3 has been dormant for a bit, but it's about to get another windfall very soon as a result of newly minted DLC.  The thing is, we haven't really seen that much of the fabled "Director's Cut" add-on that was announced a whil...

Vaulting and a heavy focus on seasonal cadence, both in tandem, has probably been the worst decision Bungie has made when it comes to Destiny 2. And I've seen some head-scratchers. In the before-times, Bungie could create larger expansions,...

Fallout 76 just got a fairly large update as far as inventory management is concerned: which...turns out is a huge part of this series! Yep, the "inventory update" is currently being put through the paces by players, and overall, on pa...