As many of you already know, A Profound Waste of Time is a limited print magazine that includes contributions from Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight), Rami Ismail (Ridiculous Fishing/Vlambeer), Toby Fox (Undertale), and our very own Jonathan ...

The wait for Hollow Knight's third DLC isn't quite over yet, but in the mean time, developer Team Cherry has released a new update to tide fans over. Called "Lifeblood," this new patch adds a bunch of stuff, tweaks some of the game's featur...

We've known about Edmund McMillan and James Id's The Legend of Bum-bo for a good long while now, but we've never actually known much about it. Bum-bo is a companion in The Binding of Isaac, and this game has been billed as a prequel t...

Madmind Studios' take on hell is something that has intrigued us for years now. Its gory depiction of the underworld -- all made up of teeth and viscera and tortured souls -- is so uniquely promising that the setting very well might steal ...

From seemingly nowhere, the once PS4 exclusive Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin is now available on PC. The game doesn't shed its VR requirement, but it is available on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift via Steam or the Oculus Store. Going for...

Knuckle Sandwich is a surreal RPG in the vein of EarthBound, but there’s so much more to it than that. Andrew Brophy, the creator of the game, uploaded a cryptic trailer last week announcing that there would be an “announcement&...

It's been a while since we've heard anything about Graveyard Keeper, tinyBuild's upcoming simulator about life as a medieval mortuary master. But unlike its subject matter, Graveyard Keeper isn't dead as new gameplay footage shows there's m...

The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival is currently underway in New York City, running through April 29th. The 17th year of the festival will showcase 93 feature films from more than 103 filmmakers, as well as TV premieres, shorts, virtual rea...

Yesterday, Klei Entertainment released the Don't Starve Megapack to retail outlets for PS4 and Xbox One. The compilation was supposed to contain Don't Starve, it's DLC and Don't Starve Together, but something went wrong. Some users on the o...

Immortal Redneck came out last year on PC and hit PS4 and Xbox One several months ago, but the jury was still out on the "TBA" Switch edition. Well wonder no more, as developer Crema has confirmed that the Switch version is set for a May 10...

PlayStation Store is highlighting a small selection of digital games as part of its new "Totally Digital" Spring campaign. The five titles will also receive a price cut for PlayStation Plus subscribers who plonk down a pre-order.The five ga...

It's easy to be pessimistic for an interesting video game. Too often, the games that sell are the ones that take few risks and don't attempt to provide the player with anything emotionally or intellectually complicated. Chances are, the ga...

[Update: Per the PlayStation Blog, the game will launch for PS4 on May 22.] NBA Playgrounds didn't have the greatest launch. As the spiritual successor to NBA Jam, it featured an amusing art style that turned NBA greats into carcitures...

With The Good Life's Kickstarter campaign still on-going, director Swery will be holding a Reddit AMA this Thursday to let fans get any questions in about the game. Running from 8:30 to 10:30 am PST, it won't be limited to just his upcoming...

Swery's The Good Life is still facing an uphill climb on Kickstarter, but Limited Run Games is hoping their pledge to make physical copies will help fund the game. White Owls, Inc. has teamed up with every physical copy buyer's favorite com...

People often assume that lighthearted comedies all lack depth, or that their creators don't work just as hard as those that specialize in other genres. This is part of why we so rarely see a comedy film win an Oscar. Knowing this makes me ...

Sometimes the best way to get an exclusive is to simply ask. While Destructoid isn’t lacking for content about New Blood’s upcoming FPS throwback DUSK, I was curious how the upcoming Episode Three was shaping up. Turns out I jus...

Spin-off pseudo-sequel Terraria: Otherworld has officially been cancelled. In a post on the official Terraria forms, the developer Re-Logic has detailed that the quality of the product after three years of development was not where they wan...

For the past three or four years I've been helping game studio Secret Base to connect with other people in the industry while offering general PR advice for Streets of Red: Devil's Deluxe, which just released on PS4 and Switch yesterday. I...

In what many will surely consider a "surprise" or an "upset" or a "wrong choice," the winner of the 14th British Academy Game Awards was neither The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild nor Super Mario Odyssey. It was What Remains of Ed...

In between my meetings at PAX East I spent my spare time walking the floor looking for any games that might otherwise go unnoticed. After finishing up my meeting with the developers of Black Future '88, I ended up checking out another game ...

There are only a handful of popular competitive shmups out there, and when people even mention the fairly niche subgenre, Twinkle Star Sprites immediately enters the conversation. Rival Megagun has the potential to make a similar impact whe...

We may have already recapped our PAX East coverage for this year, but I plan to keep dribbling out time-insensitive posts for at least another week. Case in point, some small talk with Matt McMuscles from the Two Best Friends Play series. ...

The whiskey tasted like shit, but it was sure better than the piss-soaked puddle of water I'd just dragged myself out of. As I slid the last sip of it down my throat I felt its sharpness mix with the blood in my windpipe. It numbed the pain...

I'm always happy to share the news when a game I love does well in sales and doubly so when that game is as wonderful and charming as Shovel Knight. As a child of the 90s, mascot platformers are my absolute favorite video game genre. While ...