The Weekend Hotness: Pimp daddy Inafune

Check out everything Destructoid did today The man, the myth, the legend, Keiji Inafune will be attending PAX. Hopefully when I meet him again, I won’t do what I did at E3: back immediately out of the room, grab Max Scoville by the arm, and exclaim, “MOTHER F*CKIN’ KEIJI INAFUNE IS IN THERE!” This weekend, I put Hyperkin’s Pixel Art Controller through the wringer,Sup Holmes?gets vertical with Jake Kaufman, Cblogger Handy welcomes you to the world of knock-off gaming, Chris Carter goes beyond with hisDisney Infinityreview then cracks open his boxed copy ofNew Super Luigi U, and Destructoid will be throwing a PAX party worthy of Caesar....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 269 words · Jordan Flores

There’s a Zelda crossover in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate

Here’s hoping for more Nintendo collaborations It warms my heart to see a hunter dressed up like Linkslashing away at a Barroth. Nintendo and Capcom have shown off theirZeldacrossover fornext month‘sMonster Hunter Generations Ultimateon Switch. We’re getting armor inspired byBreath of the Wildand a couple of nods toWind Waker. You can dress up your Palico as a Korok or, better yet, a little Toon Link. The footage will look familiar to longtimeMonster Hunterplayers....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · Jeffrey Lopez

Ubisoft’s looking into how to punish people who glitch The Division’s toughest new boss

Or maybe it shouldn’t This week’sIncursions updatetoThe Divisionbroughtmany changesto the game, including Falcon Lost — the most difficult mission to date. It’s considered end-game content, and Ubisoft won’t even let people play it unless their entire group has achieved a minimum gear score. The boss is level 34, something that’s found nowhere else in the game. While many people have already beaten Falcon Lost, a good handful of them haven’t done it legitimately....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 305 words · Daniel Gonzalez

Use your Club Nintendo codes right now

Lest you lose them forever Club Nintendo has been in the process ofshutting downfor six months now. All along the way, there have been trigger dates where it’s the last opportunity to do something or other. The last of those is upon us, and it’s time to use up any outstanding codes you have. Today is the last day that Club Nintendo codes can be redeemed on the eShop. That goes for Wii, Wii U, and 3DS....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Cheyenne Jackson

Why Tetris is my coping tool for anxiety

The ecstasy of order (Image courtesy ofCookiemagic) A couple of years ago I took my daughter to aTetristournament. It was the first gaming event of any kind for either of us, one held by a local, used video game shop that recently underwent a retooling of ownership and was trying to build a bit of a retro gaming community. I didn’t know what to expect from it, or how badly I would get my ass kicked, but I was curious....

August 6, 2025 · 7 min · 1456 words · Monique Garcia

Xbox Series S officially revealed, priced at $299

The industry’s worst kept secret finally confirmed [Update:A full 90-second trailer for the Xbox Series S has leaked on Twitter, courtesy of user@h0x0d. The video confirms Xbox Series S specs and capabilities, as well as a “November 2020” launch date. You can check out the trailer at the foot of the article.] Microsoft has officially confirmed the existence of the Xbox Series S console. The lower-powered, more affordable edition of next-gen Xbox hardware will launch later this year for $299 USD....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Michelle Sanchez

Alan Wake fights a combine harvester … at last!

Finally, somebody has the stones to stand up to those Goddamn combine harvesters. Man, they piss me offso much. In this brand new trailer for Remedy’s Xbox 360 exclusive, titular novelist Alan Wake kicks the sh*t out of a harvester. This isn’t just any harvester though. This is the harvester … OF SORROW! Silly name aside, this is looking like it’ll be a damn hot game. I worry that the long delays will have affected the quality, but hopefully Remedy can knock it out of the park and deliver a great title....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Brittany Moore

All Monowire in Cyberpunk 2077 and Where to Get Them

Those looking to channel their innerLucywith a Netrunner build inCyberpunk 2077are in luck. Not only can V get the Monowire implant, but they can also get a few different flavors of it and then enhance it to become quite the force to be reckoned with. Here are all of your options and where to get them. How to get Monowire in Cyberpunk 2077 Monowire is a cyberware upgrade for the arms, much like the Mantis Blades or Gorilla Arms....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 303 words · Zachary Robertson

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle releases trailers for Persona’s Elizabeth and Tohru Adachi

Best Dancing Girl Arc System Works has dropped its latest character trailer forBlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle’sVersion 2.0 update, which is coming later this month to the crossover anime fighter. The irrepressible Elizabeth is the assistant of the mysterious Velvet Room in Atlus’ RPGPersona 3.Typified by her happy-go-lucky, somewhat naive, and regularly goofy personality, Elizabeth is, in reality, a tireless worker and dedicated to the room and its master, Igor. Elizabeth originally took to the ring inPersona 4 Arena, where she fought with an adaptive style based on the moveset of multiple other characters....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 222 words · Matthew Hodge

BloodNet emerges from the shadows onto GOG.com

This Microspose RPG is 20 years old I’ve got to hand it to GOG.com, they’re really reaching back to bring some these old PC games kicking and screaming into 2014. I’ll freely admit I hadn’t heard ofBloodNet, an RPG/adventure game from Micropose that was released in 1993 but then again, I was 13 at the time and the only PC I had access to was my dad’s work laptop which was mainly used to play the shareware version ofDoom....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Rebecca Boyer

Clockwork Revolution is a new steampunk RPG shooter from InXile

It’s about time Though the Xbox Games Showcase showed off many follow-ups to well-established names, we’ve gotten some totally original titles too. A prime example of this isClockwork Revolution, a new game from the creators ofWasteland. Ina blog post by InXile Studio Head Brian Fargo, we fortunately find a few details to give this world some context. As the title might imply,Clockwork Revolutionwill focus heavily on time travel. Fargo promises both “dynamic time-bending combat” and a plot centered around the gimmick....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 211 words · Susan Barnett

Come watch the new episode of Inside Xbox with us

Gather ’round, children It’s a fun time of year, those few weeks leading up to E3 when there’s a legitimate wealth of both interesting news and general mystique. Xbox is about to pull the curtain back on some stuff ahead of its E3 press conference. A new episode of Inside Xbox is set to air at 3:30pm Pacific, and it’ll be packed with a wide range of topics. On the docket this afternoon are “State of Decay 2,Sea of Thieves,PUBG,Halo,Forza,Gears of War,No Man’s Sky,Divinity 2: Original Sin, theXbox adaptive controller, Xbox Game Pass news and much more....

August 5, 2025 · 1 min · 134 words · Kevin Robertson

DICE talks Battlefield 4 story direction, motion controls

‘Our goal is to create the perfect Battlefield movie’ As a showcase of the game’s graphics, theBattlefield 4single-player unveildid its job even if most players flock to the main series for its brand of multiplayer. Why not show the latter first? “[Single-player is] a great showcase of a lot of different aspects of the game,” DICE executive producer Patrick Bach toldEdge. “Lots of people say ‘Oh, my favorite thing aboutBattlefieldis this,’ and depending on the personality of the consumer, they want to see different things....

August 5, 2025 · 2 min · 311 words · James Harris