If there's one thing that anime has proven most adept at, it's gathering together a gaggle of doe-eyed, sexually-charged women and tossing them into a mixer with a random sport, occupation, or hobby, usually creating a successful multi-medi...

Show of hands: how excited are we for Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin? (Immensely, right?) We've been faithfully following this stylish action-platformer-meets-farming-sim game for years. After the recent confirmation of a physical edition for Nin...

XSEED Games has announced that its period tale of farmin' and fightin' Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, will be receiving a physical launch on PS4 and Nintendo Switch later in 2020.Developed by indie studio Edelweiss, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a...

Sometimes you need to return to your past to see a way forward, and honestly, I believe nothing could be truer for the Story of Seasons franchise. Since the split with Natsume, its games have gotten better, but those improvements have been ...

We're just a few week away from the North American release of Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. The game, a remake of the Game Boy Advance original, has been announced for Nintendo Switch for quite some time. But during the PC Gami...

As a lover of strategy games, you can rest assured that I love economic games like Recettear and Moonlighter. So when I saw Potionomics was another game in the still new-enough-to-be-unique item shop owner RPG genre, it had me at first gla...

It looks like the deep-diggers at GameStat were on the money, as XSeed Games has officially announced that Kandagawa Jet Girls will be getting a western release this summer, bringing all of its anime watersports action to PS4 and PC in Nort...

The Story of Seasons franchise may have been surpassed by one passionate developer who seems to be very concerned about apes, but it's still one of the most consistently good farming sims out there. In fact, there are several games in ...

Growing up with Arc System Works, it's been a treat to see them evolve to the point where they basically run EVO alongside of giants like Capcom and Nintendo. With humble beginnings as a brawler and platformer developer, Arc crashed onto th...

Granblue Fantasy: Versus is finally out, and if you've read our review, you should have a solid idea of how it works compared to other fighting games. Granblue Fantasy: Versus, I think, succeeds in making every character feel dist...

Anime game lovin' publisher XSEED will be showing off its wares at PAX East in Boston this weekend, giving attendees the chance to check out some of the gorgeous-looking new releases.Rune Factory 4 Special is the Nintendo Switch remake of 2...

In a surprise announcement made on the Granblue Fantasy Japanese Twitter account, it has been revealed that Arc System Works' gorgeous fighting title Granblue Fantasy: Versus is officially coming to PC worldwide - via Steam - and as soon as...

Marvelous is bringing its Nintendo Switch mech game Daemon X Machina to Steam on February 13, 2020, and that's definitely not a sentence I expected to write this morning. Get it, Marvelous! It's cool to see another Nintendo-published game m...

Rune Factory 4 Special is going to be a hell of a good time on Nintendo Switch. Who's with me? The wait for this game – an expanded remaster of a 3DS favorite – won't be too much longer now. XSEED Games has set Rune Factory 4 Sp...

Get your morning off to a guitar wailin' start with the opening movie to Arc System Works' Granblue Fantasy: Versus, which launches on PS4 in Japan next month - with a western planned for later in the first quarter of 2020.Of no surprise to...

Fighting games having multiple season passes is the new normal at this point. Games like Tekken 7, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle have extended their relevancy in the genre by introducing new characters long after thei...

XSeed Games has announced that its exciting-looking platform brawler Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is the latest game in a long line to miss its winter 2019 release date, and will now be with us sometime in 2020.Developed by Edelweiss, Sakuna is...

Publisher Xseed Games has announced that the remastered edition of PS Vita classic Ys: Memories of Celceta is headed west on PS4 in the spring of 2020, following on from its PC release in the summer of last year.The PS4 edition of the 2012 ...

I'm sure I'm not unique in saying this but I've had a lifelong affinity for theme parks. It's always been my dream to pull a Dolly Parton and buy one to call my own. I know that's not going to happen -- Destructoid doesn't pay that wel...

The Senran Kagura series is in a bit of a tough spot right now. Kenichiro Takaki, the creator of the franchise, announced in March that he was leaving developer Marvelous, feeling he was being restricted on what kind of content he coul...

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin has been in the making for some time. Developed by the two-man team at Edelweiss, it tells the story of Sakuna, the daughter of a harvest goddess and a god of war, as she divides her time between battling the m...

Granblue Fantasy is a franchise that's just begging to be an international sensation. Developer Cygames has built it up to be one of the biggest mobile games in Japan, but outside of the country, it's nary a blip on the radar. That's g...

I don't expect to be surprised all that much by this industry anymore. Sure, some announcements can come out of nowhere, like Nintendo capping off its E3 presentation with a teaser of a Breath of the Wild sequel. But with gaming so hea...

3DS-to-Switch ports are something I never thought I wanted in my life, but when the wait for the next great game in your favorite franchise is months or years away, they're actually wonderful stopgaps, reminding you of exactly why you love ...

XSEED Games has finally released a gameplay trailer for upcoming Nintendo Switch throwback BurgerTime Party! which takes the classic 1982 arcade game and reinvents the action for the Nintendo platform. And it actually looks pretty good.As I...