Final Fantasy Brave Exvius arrived back in 2015 in Japan and in 2016 in the west, and has been firing on all cylinders since then on mobile platforms. It's been firing so brightly that they decided to green light a spinoff: War of the Visi...

Okay so this isn't quite Heroes of the Storm, but it's probably the closest Ubisoft has come to an all-star game. It's called Tom Clancy's Elite Squad, and will unite franchises like Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Division, and Rainbow Si...

I'm not the only one who's bummed Nintendo squashed its sleep-tracking device. The Pokémon Company is stepping up with a quality-of-life initiative of its own: Pokémon Sleep. The mobile app hopes to "turn sleeping into enterta...

What if there was one cloud-based service to bridge all of your Pokémon games together? There is – well, there's going to be! – and it's called Pokémon Home. It's planned for iOS, Android, and Switch in 2020 with s...

Today during Minecraft's 10th anniversary, Microsoft unveiled the new "top secret" project: Minecraft Earth. It's that AR (augmented reality) concept we heard about recently, much in the same vein as Pokemon Go, Garfield Go (haha), and what...

I thought I was done with Minecraft for good, but an augmented-reality mobile game could be the precise thing to pull me back in after all these years. Earlier today, Microsoft began teasing Minecraft AR with the promise that more details w...

I promised the editing staff here at Destructoid that I would write this piece as a professional journalist simply trying to cover industry news for a slow Sunday. Little did they know I had my fingers crossed behind my back. That means it ...

In late 2018, 20th Century Fox trademarked "Alien: Blackout," giving people hope that there was a proper sequel to Alien: Isolation on the way. That, uhh, didn't turn out to be the case. Alien: Blackout is a mobile game that laun...

The Forza series isn't a complete stranger to the realm of free-to-play, but today there's another wrinkle in the franchise's usual timeline: Forza Street. Developed by Electric Square and published by Microsoft Studios, Forza Street is a W...

Little Nightmares succeeded splendidly at crafting a dark and macabre world full of twisted monstrosities and grim fates. It's perfectly understandable that developer Tarsier and publisher Bandai Namco wouldn't just want to leave that...

The Elder Scrolls: Legends has slowly been building momentum this past year as it gears up to launch on more platforms and hosts several high quality expansions. So far the next content drop is looking pretty great, as evidenced by our excl...

Last month Niantic "experimented" with a Pokemon Go event they called the Legendary Lunch hour, which basically beefed up the amount of five-star raids for a brief period on March 13. It's a pretty genius idea all told, as it gets people ou...

Death is a frequent visitor in Minit. After a minute of living, you die. Then you come back to life, again, for only a minute. And then you die. It's quite excellent. Finally, a year after it first launched, Minit is coming to the plat...

April Fools' Day wouldn't be complete without a cute little time-waster of a game from Google, and this year, we can play a rendition of Snake directly inside the Google Maps app on iOS and Android. In this version of Snake, you control a t...

Gwent: The Witcher Card Game is chugging along nicely with new expansions (including Crimson Curse, the first major card expansion that's adding 100 cards into the mix) and campaign content. It just came out officially after all in October ...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a one-of-a-kind multiplayer puzzle game full of panicked bewilderment and a-ha moments. One player has control over a ticking time bomb; everyone else has to parse and explain how to disarm doodads using ...

As announced this evening during the Game Developers Conference, Activision and Tencent's free-to-play mobile adaptation of Call of Duty will make its way to iOS and Android devices in North and South America, Europe, and other regions late...

After selling 1.5 million copies on Nintendo Switch, it's clear that Octopath Traveler has secured its future at Square Enix. Along with Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, a new mobile game once again set in Orsterra and slated ...

PSO was such a huge part of my gaming career it's maddening that Phantasy Star Online 2 hasn't come west yet. It's moved from PC in 2012 to Vita, PS4, Switch and mobile platforms in various ways (truncated or cloud-based) but it's still jus...

Take the fight on the go with today's contest for a FRAG prize pack! I know we don't do a lot of coverage 'round these here parts, but after our last swaggy giveaway, I figure we can expand our scope a little bit. Today we've got a prize pa...

Pokémon Go wants you to ditch your sad office lunch and your meaningless office smalltalk. Anyone who's fortunate enough to get an hour-long break in the middle of the workday will soon find themselves with a little extra incent...

If you boot up your PS4 you'll be staring at an "update now" message and might be wondering what it entails: well, it's mostly about iOS remote play this week. As part of update 6.50 you'll be able to control your PS4 with an iOS device. Th...

Fire Emblem Heroes just celebrated its second anniversary in February of this year. That's two years of success for Nintendo's mobile golden goose, a situation that's even more bizarre when you realize that Fire Emblem was on life support i...

We all make mistakes. Sometimes we're in a hurry, and we don't take enough time to think things through. Maybe you were in a Mystic sorta mood when you first installed Pokémon Go only for second thoughts to begin creeping in a couple...

Niantic is giving Pokémon Go players a proper chance to catch the shiny variant of Meltan, one of the series' newest and most huggable critters. It's only a slightly different shade and the tail is just blue instead of red, but still...