Never played a Sly Cooper game before? That's cool -- this animated short should get you a bit up to speed in terms of a few of the key characters involved. The video was created to promote Sly's newest game, Sly Coop...

Little Green Men Games has launched a website for its upcoming space strategy game, Starpoint Gemini II. While this title will have a lot of the usual space exploration, mining, trading, and fighting, it also has a strong foc...

A while back, it was announced that Terraria would be coming out on consoles and that there wouldn't be any further updates for the PC version of the game. This made a lot of people rather upset. Now the developer, Andrew Spi...

Last I heard about PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale developer SuperBot Entertainment, the studio was hiring; that's the kind of story we like to see. Lately, however, it's been less cheerful. It seems SuperBot has been hit...

That the Darksiders games take more than a few cues from The Legend of Zelda -- and may possibly surpass it -- is a secret to nobody. What we were unaware of was that developer Vigil Games always had intentions of supplanting...

It pained me to come down hard on No Time To Explain back in my review last year, but some design issues and bugs left me no choice. The silly time-traveling platformer has since been Greenlit on Steam, and released -- it's ...

With Grand Theft Auto III and San Andreas already available on the PlayStation Network, it wouldn't make much sense for Rockstar to not eventually put out Vice City too, especially with many regarding it as the best GTA. Well...

Good news, everyone! A new patch has come out on PC for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive adding a deathmatch mode as well as the usual weapon balances and bug fixes. Deathmatch will be available for matchmaking and offli...

The DayZ team has come through with another blog post on DayZ Standalone that covers a lot of ground. Visuals make up a good portion of this entry, including a number of screenshots that show off more than interior furniture....

Namco Bandai handed Destructoid an official statement on the Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Wizard's Edition order issue we've been following these past few days. It is as follows: Namco Bandai Games America ...

With the recent bankruptcy of THQ, the studios and franchises they owned are being auctioned off. While Sega just bought Relic Entertainment, it's possible that the rights to Homeworld might still belong to THQ...

The original Corpse Party follows a group of children's descent into hell. After performing a ritual, these students are unexpectedly transported to an alternate dimension and trapped in a cursed elementary school. Malevolent...

No seriously, the trailer has metal in it. Just watch it -- you'll see. Musical arrangements aside, Impire is a new game that looks to unite some of the basic concepts of Dungeon Keeper and Overlord, as you evolve your demon...

There is still a fair bit of time until the release of Injustice: Gods Among Us, but NetherRealm Studios has just dropped a new trailer that give us a little more insight into the major players in this DC slugfest. It seems ...

Remember The Last Starfighter? Of course you do; you probably dream about the premise happening to you. The hope of being recruited by aliens to fight in an intergalactic war because of one's mad gaming skills is pretty much ...

Yep, the special edition version of Splinter Cell: Blacklist comes with an R/C plane. Kind of like the RC-XD that came with the Black Ops Special Edition, but more...aerial. Priced at $169.99 and set to release with the game ...

What a better way to start the weekend with than with some good old-fashioned 1920's gangster thumb-breaking! Only a week away from its release, Kalypso has decided to share a slice of its version of Atlantic City with a PC d...

Sony Online Entertainment and Major League Gaming have announced a new partnership to bring free-to-play MMO first-person shooter PlanetSide 2 closer to the latter organization's audience of competitive gamers. In the coming ...

Recently, we found out about the probable US release of the Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix. Now, we're getting a few more details on what the package actually entails. What we know is that Jesse McCartney was recording new dialo...

The PC version of Resident Evil 6 will get an exclusive mode called The Mercenaries: No Mercy, Capcom confirmed today. This takes the Mercernaries mode we dug and adds "more enemies on screeen than ever before." It looks pret...

We're still on Season 1 of Halo 4's Spartan Ops mode, and on Monday, Episode 7 will hit. Alongside of the new episode, a Grifball playlist will unlock, as will two specializations for those of you who didn't get the early access privileged. Season 1 will encompass 50 missions throughout 10 episodes -- then we'll see where 343 Industries goes from there with Season 2.

I'm still happy about the gift that Atlus gave us at Christmas. Cyberpunk dungeon crawling RPG Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is coming to us on April 16, 2013. We have full details on what will come in a li...

One of the very first games I ever owned that truly showed me the joy of gaming was SimCity 2000 for the Mac. I lost hours of my life managing the shit out of my various towns, altering the land to best serve my capitalist ne...

Oh HELLO there, I didn't see you on this fine Friday morning. Would you like some new screenshots for Dynasty Warriors 8? Here they are! HELLO! Today we get some a hearty selection of heroes from Jin, Wei, Wu, and Shu. Feast ...

Visceral Games has justified the controversial microtransaction system in Dead Space 3 by claiming mobile gamers expect them now. Well, that's a totally reasonable ... wait, what? "There’s a lot of players out there, es...

Just a short while ago, we received an email from MangaGamer, a distributor of English-translated Japanese adventure games. It contained a press release for an adult turn-based card battler entitled Boob Wars: Big Breasts vs ...

It was such a shame to hear that Neo Aquarium: King of Crustaceans was not a good videogame. For years, I've longed to play a modern take on Odell Down Under that didn't take itself seriously -- like, at all -- and King of C...

While it feels like we have been overloaded with announcements of betas over the past week and it's all starting to blend together, news that online action-RPG Path of Exile has opened up access to a pre-release build should ...

Prior to being picked up by Jagex and released to a wider audience on Steam, Ace of Spades had an alpha build that was available as a free download. While both versions carry the same name, it was the earlier Ace of Spades wi...

After dancing around the rumors for a while, Capcom finally announced that Resident Evil Revelations for the 3DS is being ported to PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and PC. As inconspicuous as a gushing head wound is PS Vita's total abs...

Today it looks like the localization for Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix was leaked there by actor Jesse McCartney. Maybe. Don't get too excited yet. McCartney plays Roxas in the localized KH games, and today he dropped an image ...

I write about Crusader Kings II quite a bit, and I play it even more. If conquering the medieval world, using children as bargaining chips, and assassinating half of the heads of state of Europe was a problem, I'd definitely...

As part of patch 1.13 for Awesomenauts, the 2D MOBA has a new skin for Clunk that models him after The Creeper from Minecraft. It's a great fit for the explosive character, and better yet, it won't cost you any money to acces...

Atlus is looking to appeal to your love of long-range combat with its latest trailer for Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan. The video shows off the dungeon crawler's Sniper class, which boasts pinpoint accuracy an...

You know what they say about cash-ins, right? If people buy them, they'll keep cashing in? Ok nobody says that, I just made it up. But that seems to be the case for the infamous Rockman Xover, because Capcom keeps supporting ...

This is our third and final entry in our series featuring composer Ryo Nagamatsu as he walks us through the attractions in Nintendo Land one-by-one, giving us an inside look at what he was thinking about when he wrote the gam...

After spending a generous amount of time in closed beta, SMITE has opened up. The full release isn't here yet, but now players can get into this rather enjoyable MOBA without having to beg for a key. The video above walks th...

After eons of radio silence, we now have some more concrete info on a Japanese release date for Game & Wario: March 28th, 2013, with a retail price of 4,935 Yen (4,700 digitally). I had a chance to play it at a Nintendo e...

Pangya is still, in my mind, the best thing ever. Ever. Right under corgis and tiramisu. Videogame golf, folks. Don't knock it until you've tried it. If you have tried it, and are playing golf MMO Pangya, know that the next ...

While it would have been interesting if Gray Fox was the protagonist of Metal Gear Rising, we have Raiden now, and he's looking as stylish as ever with these three new gameplay videos. "Zandatsu" details combat, "Locations" ...

In a move that may very well get people who were already going to buy God of War: Ascension to pick up a copy sooner than later, it's been announced that Kratos' new game will include early access to a demo for The Last of Us...

Platinum Games fans, rejoice! Bayonetta will be coming to the PlayStation Network on January 30 for $19.99. It's safe to assume that this version will be the patched version of the PS3 game, due to the fact that the base vers...

A new trailer has arrived for Aliens: Colonial Marines, the game that's finally, definitely out in February and nobody can take that away from me. It's a video all about kicking ass, and how the Marines are the ones who shal...

After weeks of waiting, Ubisoft has remained tip-lipped about the upcoming Tyranny of King Washington "what if" DLC for Assassin's Creed III. Tease after tease came in after the Season Pass was announced, but there's been no ...

Luigi's Mansion launched with the GameCube to little fanfare, oft forgotten by all but its most ardent fans. When news of a 3DS Luigi’s Mansion dropped out of the blue, it reinvigorated this base, but news since has be...

The enthralling Shogun 2 and its two expansions, Rise of the Samurai and Fall of the Samurai make up Total War Shogun 2 Gold Edition, a collection that gives you the whole strategy game shebang. It still blows my mi...

Deep Silver has seen fit to grace the realm with nine minutes of Dead Island Riptide gameplay footage. The game's not shown off much moving imagery yet, so this nice hefty chunk is most welcome! The pre-alpha footage shows o...

If you're a fan of pre-orders, you can gain access to the "Industrial Revolution Pack" through pre-ordering at select retailers (basically everyone). You'll get access to three in-game items, 500 bonus currency, five lock pi...

Riot Games Associate Producer Steve "Udyr" Mieczkowski has just dropped a bomb that's been years in the making: the League of Legends Mac client is now in testing, with an open beta period coming in the near future after a PB...

After releasing its well-received action-puzzler Waveform on PC, independent developer Eden Industries has moved onto its next, much more ambitious project. Citizens of Earth is a role-playing game in which you, the Vice...

Trion Worlds' upcoming videogame and television show hybrid, Defiance, is almost upon us and I must say that this game has caught my attention. I mean, the fact that whatever transpires in the TV show will affect the online ...

During this morning's Nintendo Direct, Iwata explained how Pikmin 3 would feature an in-game camera that allowed you to take photos from the Pikmins' point of view and share them on Miiverse. Meanwhile, some sample photos wer...

Greetings fellow Call of Duty fans -- it appears as if Activision is launching yet another double XP weekend for all Black Ops II players.  In typical COD fashion, the "switch" for double XP should be flipped a...

Have you been itching to try out the Firefall beta but couldn't because, you know, beta access codes? Well, Red 5 Studios is about to make your day (or weekend) because the studio has today announced a temporary open beta te...

With Crysis 3 launching on February 19 in North America and Feb. 21 in Europe, next week's open multiplayer beta seems a bit last-minute, but we'll take it. Available on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, the beta contains two...

It’s a good thing that Borderlands 2 doesn’t often touch on real-world culture over the course of its kitschy, ostentatious sci-fi romp -- the times where it does have tended to be low points. I was disappointed t...

It feels like we've been waiting forever for new Skylanders Giants characters. The titular "Giants," who are rather large and expensive toys, are getting a staggered release schedule to increase demand. Here, near the end of ...

Europeans oftentimes get the short end of the stick when it comes to games. That's been especially true for Atlus fans as of late, but there's finally some good news on the horizon. NIS America has announced that Persona...

If you're itching to get more out of the world of DmC: Devil May Cry, today is your lucky day. Titan Comics has just announced that a tie-in comic series is now available on ComiXology.com, and will be coming to print soon. T...

Although Platinum Games' new trailer for Bayonetta 2 doesn't show any gameplay, instead focusing on some enemy designs, concept art, and Bayonetta's legs, it's worth watching for fans of the original. Throughout the video, v...