Dalgona Simulator codes (March 2025) [SQUID GAME]

Updated: June 21, 2025 Searched for new codes! Dalgona is the most frustrating challenge inSquid Game. If you get a circle, then you’re the lucky one, but if you get an umbrella, better luck next time.Dalgona Simulatoris for the tortured souls who enjoy watching themselves suffer. After completing the challenge a few times, the game might become tedious and repetitive since the cookie shapes remain the same. You can change that by unlocking new cookie shapes withDalgona Simulatorcodes....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Sarah Ryan

Dark Souls PC resolution issue modded out in 23 minutes

It’s truly awe-inspiring how a good modder can show up a game’s original developer in such a short space of time.Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Editionhas caused concern over stunted PC resolution options — a problem that a single gamer was able to fix within twenty-three minutes of the game’s release. Dark Soulson PC had previously been locked to a1024×768 resolution, while the studio also admitted it was unable to fix framerate problems that’d hit the console version of the game....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 234 words · Angela Brewer

Death of EVE player in Libya attack honored by fleet

On Tuesday, an American consulate in Libya was attacked by an extremist mob. During this attack, Sean Smith was killed. In addition to being a foreign service information management officer, he was also one of the pillars ofEVE Online’smajor alliances known as Goonswarm. In honor of his death, Goonswarm is organizing a massive fleet to fly across the skies ofEVE. This fleet will be made up of the largest ships available in the game, and they will be destroying everything in their path....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 328 words · Karen Anderson

E3: Talking to Destructoid editors about Nintendo

There was tons of news coming out of Nintendo’s press conference. Unsurprisingly, most was about the Wii U. We saw a newPikmin, the reveal ofNintendo Land, and proof that Nintendo is courting third parties. But for some people, the announcements were a major disappointment! What should have been mind-blowing and cool was relatively safe. What do our editors think about Nintendo’s presentation? Jonathan Holmes, Jim Sterling, and Chad Concelmo took a little break from seeing all the games to chat about what they liked and disliked from this morning’s press conference....

July 12, 2025 · 1 min · 91 words · Tyler Huff

Fallout 4 officially announced

A little bit early, but who cares? [Update: Shortly after our news post went live, the site was pulled. Thankfully, we captured screenshots while it was public.] [Update 2: We have managed to pull the YouTube thumbnail from the trailer that was embedded on the page. It can be seen directly below. The Scollay Square settingconfirms the new game is set in Boston.] [Update 3: Official trailer now on YouTube added above]...

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 240 words · Pamela Anderson

Fallout 4’s 58GB high-res texture pack is out

Great expectations That promisedhigh-resolution texture packforFallout 4is here, and even thoughit’s been a weeksince we learned this was on the way, I’m still reeling over Bethesda’s beefy storage requirement (58GB!). Doable? Sure. Wild? I’d say so. The recommended PC specs aren’t messing around, either: The images on the texture pack’s Steam page look identical to the ones on the main game page, but Bethesda does havethis lone high-res screenshotfor those of us who can’t possibly run this....

July 12, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Catherine Rodriguez

Fallout Shelter wanders from mobile devices and PC to Xbox One next week

Dwell well Nearly two years later,Fallout Shelteris cracking open the mobile-and-PC-only vault it has been hiding in. There’s a whole world of possibility out there; it’s gonna go test the waters and hope they’re not too radiation-polluted. Bethesda has announced thatFallout Shelteris coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 PC next week on February 7. It’ll be part of Microsoft’s much-ballyhooedPlay Anywhere program— the initiative that allows for cross-buy and cross-saves for certain games....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 298 words · Jennifer Dalton

Fans want these features in Animal Crossing so badly, they made a Nintendo Direct-style video

Multi-item crafting is at the top of my wishlist Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis pleasant, and I cherish it, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be better. The longer our island-life stint lasts, the more we’ll start to noticenitpicksandcracks in the foundation. The more we’ll long for quality-of-life features that would lessen the menu-based busywork and save us hours in the long run.Animal Crossingis a laid-back, carefree, minutia-filled game – and I mean that as a compliment – but there’s a balance to strike on Nintendo’s part....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 286 words · Joshua Morse

Fate/Grand Order celebrates ensnaring 2 million innocents

Saint Quartz be with you Fate/Grand Ordermight be one of the crueler varieties of mobile gacha game, but that hasn’t stopped it from achieving some measure of popularity, if the game’s latest announcement is to be believed.TheFGOwebsitehas announced that the English version ofFate/Grand Orderhas been downloaded 2 million times since its release last year, and they’re celebrating the milestone by making it a good time for folks to actually start playing....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 313 words · Ms. Tracey Daniels MD

Final Fantasy XIV: ARR drops a 2.1 update trailer

The patch arrives on December 17th Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Rebornis still trucking, and its 2.1 update, titled “A Realm Awoken” is set to drop on December 17th. In addition to a new instance called “The Crystal Tower,” the update will include player housing mechanics, a PVP arena, and arguably the biggest new feature — the Duty Roulette. Said feature will allow you to enter random instanced dungeons or trials daily, granting you enhanced rewards....

July 12, 2025 · 1 min · 141 words · Debra Watson

GDC: EEDAR’s five universal truths for top-rated games

Research firmEEDARtracks just about every quantifiable attribute of videogames and then mines that data to help their clients, which includes developers and publishers. In a GDC session on how games get reviewed, Erik Brudvig, director of editorial insights, shared some universal traits of games that score well. The five points seem like obvious choices, but checking these points against some recent games seems to show that they’re onto something. Gamers say that gameplay is everything, but EEDAR’s data shows that visuals are key, and that games with good art and attractive visuals bring better review scores....

July 12, 2025 · 2 min · 323 words · Laura Schwartz

Hands-on with Borderlands 2’s take on Dungeons & Dragons

One last huzzah It’s been a hell of ride, with a fair share ofhighandlowpoints, but theBorderlands 2season of content is finally at an end. As the last campaign downloadable content forBorderlands 2, there’s a considerable amount of pressure forTiny Tina’s: Assault on Dragon Keepto deliver big. “Big” certainly seems to be the keyword here, asDragon Keepcrams a substantial amount of content when compared to the last few campaign packs. Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep(PC, PlayStation 3,Xbox 360)Developer: Gearbox SoftwarePublisher: 2K GamesRelease: June 24, 2025...

July 12, 2025 · 5 min · 1054 words · Elizabeth Paul

Helldivers 2 is bringing back mandatory PlayStation accounts for PC players

If you’ve been enjoyingHelldivers 2exclusively on PC since launch, whether due to preference or because you don’t own a PlayStation 5, Sony is now demanding you get a PlayStation Network account anyway. If you don’t, then you may’t play the game anymore. Ina May 3 news post on Steam, Sony has alerted PC players that PlayStation accounts will become mandatory for brand-new players starting from Monday, May 6. The mandatory log-in won’t appear for current PC players until May 30, and then they’ll have until June 4 to link their accounts or be forced to stop playing....

July 12, 2025 · 3 min · 446 words · Jackie King