Capcom keeps diving into the well of Mega Man X. Despite the fact that the series proper died with Mega Man X8 in 2004, the publisher is keen to bring back Zero and X on a moment's notice, cramming them into myriad fighting games, RPGs...

The Harry Potter franchise is a riddle gaming just hasn't been able to crack yet. There have been many attempts over the years, with different developers and publishers taking a swing at the book and film series, with mostly middling r...

We'll always have the original Plants vs. Zombies. I'm just putting that out there now. This week, PopCap and EA began testing Plants vs. Zombies 3 with a pre-alpha version available to Android users. You'll need at least a Galaxy S7 runnin...

The more I heard about Dr. Mario World the more I wanted in. The idea of multiple characters from the Mario-verse donning doctor outfits beyond the scope of just Mario and Luigi was a sight to behold: I mean Bowser in a coat helping cu...

Minecraft Earth is another intriguing AR game that could make waves in the mobile market, similar to what Pokemon Go did a few years back. It has a similar track, as it's going to be free-to-play and will arrive on iOS and Android, but the ...

The Dota Auto Chess mod kicked off at the beginning of 2019, and started a trend in the process. After reaching an apex of eight million players over a scant few months, the "auto-battler" genre was born, and man did publishers ru...

Tetris 99 gave Nintendo Switch owners the first tantalizing taste of Tetris imagined as a battle royale, and before long, mobile players will also be able to duke it out in block-slinging survival skirmishes. The first in a new line of upco...

Elder Scrolls: Legends is still laying down expansions, and they've been pretty great. The next one is the Khajiit-centric (!) Moons of Elsweyr, which is arriving later this month and sort of meshes Voltron style with the Elder Scrolls...

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...