Watch Video If it's near the end of August it can only mean one thing: it's time for the Pokémon World Championship. Taking place in Washington D.C., this year's tournament brought the best Pokémon video game play...   read

  Watch Video This year hasn't exactly been the best on the books for mobile gaming. Many of the biggest titles have so far failed to meet expectations and much of what is on the horizon isn't exactly painting a glowing picture of mobile's...   read

  Watch Video The Podtoid team is back together once again, just in time to say goodbye to DuckTales. While Chris laments a game many people will never get a chance to play, the rest of the team reminisces on Omega Labyrinth Life...   read

  Watch Video Ohhhhh...now I understand why Sony only wanted a censored version of this game on its console.   read

It's still a bit surprising to me that one of the most incendiary stories we can post on Destructoid isn't about sex or violence or "censorship" in games. Those were the hallmarks of news bits that used to drive people to the...   read

  Watch Video Podtoid is back with an all-new episode, and while we're down exactly one Dan, the rest of the crew is ready to carry on with a particularly frisky show. CJ, Chris, Charlotte, and Occams are on hand to talk Omega Labyrinth Li...   read

  Watch Video Evo is always a dependable stage for big fighting game announcements and this year was no exception. While some of the biggest reveals got leaked beforehand, some stayed secret until they were announced on the show stage. One of the biggest announcements from the third day of the competition was the confirmation that The King of Fighters XV is now in development.   read

  Watch Video It leaked prior to Sunday's big BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle finals, but Arc System Works did confirm on the Evo stage that Version 2.0 of the game is on its way and bringing with it nine new characters for the anime fight...   read

Do you ever wonder what time the Podtoid crew actually sits down to record the show? Well, because our hosts live on two different continents in three different time zones, it's quite difficult to find a time we're all availa...   read

  Watch Video Is there any situation that the presence of a clown improves? No, of course there isn't. Be it a birthday party, a circus, or a cruise ship full of drunk people, clowns unequivocally make every situation worse. And on this ep...   read

  Watch Video So, there is this game coming out where you punch the living shit out demons and somehow, I only found out about it this morning. Devil's Hunt is an upcoming action game from Polish developer Layopi Games that lets playe...   read

  Watch Video I have no idea if Nintendo and Syn Sophia are planning a fifth entry in the Style Savvy series for Switch, but I sure as heck hope they are. 2017's Styling Star ended up being my favorite game in the franchise and w...   read

I can recall the very first time I experienced the awful phenomenon known as FOMO, or “fear of missing out.” It was in middle school. I was obsessed with the WWF at the time and my family had recently traded in ou...   read

Zombieland, the 2009 horror-comedy starring Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jessie Eisenberg, and Abigail Breslin, is about as close as you can get to making the perfect zombie film. It's got thrills, chills, and a quartet ...   read

  Watch Video The Dragon Quest Hero is, as of right now, my favorite addition to Smash Bros. Ultimate through the season pass. As a 10-year fan (and counting) of the series, it's great to see some representation in the biggest fi...   read

  Watch Video Thatgamecompany is a developer that doesn't so much make games as it does create playable poetry. Its trilogy of titles for PlayStation sought to establish a connection with players on a more spiritual level. Games like Flow ...   read

[Update: Pre-orders are now open for The Star Wars Home Arcade Game.] Just days after revealing it was creating arcade cabinets for classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Marvel games, Arcade1Up is back with one more h...   read

  Watch Video [Update: This original story, written in unfortunate haste, misidentified Omega Labyrinth Life as a port of Omega Labyrinth Z. This is incorrect. Life is a sequel to Z and I apologize for my error on this.]&nbs...   read

  Watch Video Comic-Con was over the weekend and if you are a comic book fan, or rather, a Marvel comic book fan, you were treated to some huge news out of Hall H. There is a new Blade film on the horizon, the Fantastic 4 are joining ...   read

  Watch Video 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 mo...   read

  Watch Video One common thread I've heard about gaming for the past several years is the amazing quality of Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Once arguably the worst mainline title in the series, it has evolved into what ma...   read

  Watch Video Most of Nintendo's release calendar was set in stone at E3 this year, with its biggest titles of the show getting comfortable release dates throughout 2019 and into March of next year. The one exception was Luigi's Mansion 3,...   read

  Watch Video Podtoid is back and there is a whole mess of news to talk about this week. Game Girl Bath Water is taking over the internet, Nintendo is set to finally kill off the 3DS with its new Nintendo Switch Lite, and dogs are getting ...   read

  Watch Video Super Mario Maker is one of those console defining games. On the Wii U, it represented one of the best uses of the system's tablet controller and offered players a chance to show off their level design skills in the one ...   read

  Watch Video Dragon Quest Builders is one of the only games on the market that arguably does Minecraft better than Minecraft. It took the open-world, craft-em-up gameplay of the possibly best-selling game of all time and gave it...   read

  Watch Video 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 ...   read

  Watch Video Hey, remember that lawsuit we told you about a few weeks ago over the game Ion Maiden? Well, it looks like it's come to its inevitable end. 3D Realms has announced that, rather than fight it out in court, it is changing the n...   read

  Watch Video Tennocon 2019 has brought many surprises, but for players waiting to earn a new frame, this is a big one. Digital Extremes confirmed the new Wukong Prime suit is available now for Warframe players on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch. Wukong Prime is an enhanced version of the original Wukong, originally released in 2015.   read

  Watch Video So much is going on in Warframe, with so many new features announced almost weekly, it's easy to forget about big additions that have already been announced. Take the Plains of Duviri. The area is set to follow the massively ...   read

Steven Sinclair, director of Warframe, is excited. He and his team at Digital Extremes are pushing hard on a massive new expansion for the game. The centerpiece of it is the Railjack system, a new battleship players will be a...   read