Depending on when this article goes live,BioShockwill either be about to turn 17-years-old or has just recently celebrated the anniversary. In any case, many of us will be thinking fondly of the 2007 FPS that helped push video game narratives further along. We may also be wondering whether the franchise will ever make a comeback. With its creepy atmosphere, gorgeous visuals actualized in the underwater city of Rapture, the first game in the series is nothing short of a modern classic....

One of the more unexpected reveals during the September 2023 Nintendo Direct isBandle Tale: A League of Legends Story. The cozy-looking pixel-crafting RPG is in development by Lazy Bear, the studio behindGraveyard KeeperandPunch Club. Bandle Taletakes place in theLeague of Legendsregion of Bandle City. Players will take on the role of a Yordle looking to restore the magic to Bandle City. With the help of familiar Yordle friends like Teemo, Lulu, and Tristana, the player will gather resources and craft a plethora of items to build up their city....

Suspend ALL the enemies The best thing about the new subclass Strand inDestiny 2:Lightfallis that you can earn Strand Meditations just by using Strand. Gone are the days of going on fetch quests for the Exo Stranger or throwing Glimmer at Ikora Rey in the Tower to unlock Aspects, Fragments, and alternative grenades. Simplyuse Strand anywhere in the systemand Strand Meditations will drop. After grinding out some activities and killing enemies around Neomuna, we’ve discovered the best Hunter build for Strand inLightfallSeason 20....

Hooded Horse and Untitled Studio has announced thatits upcoming smithing simulatorgame,Blacksmith Master, is hitting Early Access on PC on June 03, 2025. A blacksmith simulator seems like such an obvious concept to me. It’s just so easy to gamify. It’s practically in a slew of crafting sims already. A cursory search on Steam suggests it’s already trodden territory. So, I almost overlookedBlacksmith Masteruntil I took another glance. Rather than simply being a game where you take resources and produce items,Blacksmith Masteris, in part, a management game....

You got your Zeds in my LARP session Two dismemberment-focused multiplayer games on PC,ChivalryandKilling Floor 2, are joining forces to release new content for those who own both titles. I already talked about the Knight character and his Zweihander weapon earlier today in myKilling Floor 2preview, but Tripwire Interactive will be providing Zed-slaying weapons in everyone’s favorite knight-slaying game. Owners ofKilling Floor 2will have the following weapons inChivalry: a Hedge Trimmer Blade replacing the throwing knife, the Gorefast Longsword which has a gross hilt made of hands, the Maulverizer (which I imagine will replace the Maul with a sledgehammer), and the Fleshpound Quarterstaff, which has big chunky Fleshpound arms attached to either end....

Join us March 1 for another Xbox LIVE Community Playdate [Update:We’re live right now!Send us a PM on Xbox LIVEif you want to join, or watch the stream over onStreamtoid(streaming now) andDtoid TV(taking over in about an hour)!] This Friday, March 1, Destructoid will be taking part in another awesomeXbox LIVE Community Playdate! Join Hamza Aziz, Chris Carter, King Foom, Abel Girmay, Conor Elsea, Daniel Starkey, Avalon Treman and myself as we hop aboard the UNSC Infinity and War Game it up inHalo 4!...

‘We know this will be painful for those with slower or metered internet connections’ Destiny 2is undergoing some huge changes this fall, most notably the fact that it’s going to be jettisoninga tonof previous content to make way for new things. Bungie has hinted at some upcoming backend changes for a while; but nowthanks to the studio’s latest blog post, we actually have some semblance of how that is going to directly impact players when theBeyond Lightexpansion arrives....

It’s 2023 and my miles-long PlayStation 2 backlog is still eyeballing me, but there sure were a lot of good games on PS5 this year worth jumping on — with a few of those available on PS4, too. Over the last few weeks, the Destructoid crew has been juggling aroundnominees and winners for our GOTY 2023picks, and this year’s line-up didn’t make those conversations very cut-and-dry. On the PlayStation front, ourbest PS4/PS5 game nomineeslist could easily pass for something over a decade old; it’s very Destructoid....

Secret… penguin man For anyone growing up in the mid-2000s,Club Penguinwas the pinnacle of gaming when we were kids. The game got aheart wrenching (and hilarious)send-off when it wasofficially shut down in 2017, but for 12 shining years, the penguin-themed children’s MMO was a place for us to come together, throw snowballs at each other, and try and see which curse words we could get through the chat filter. My own memories of playingClub Penguinare a bit scattered — I remember the sledding mini-game, hanging out in the pizzeria, and the rumors that if we got enough penguins on one side, we would actually be able to tip over the iceberg....

Just in time for Black Friday We’re a week away from Black Friday and the deals are about to start flowing uncontrollably. (Hmm there’s probably a better way to phrase that.) If you’re the type to pick up on Xbox Live’s annual Deals with Gold Black Friday sale, then you’ll, of course, need an Xbox Live Gold membership. If you’ve never tried Xbox Live Gold before, this week’s promotion is a good intro to the service as the Microsoft Store is offering a one-month Xbox Live Gold membership for $1....

EA released a reveal trailer forCollege Football 25and pulled out all the stops to deliver a presentation package true to the sport’s unrivaled pageantry. College football is entrenched in tradition. From hitting the “play like a champion today sign” in South Bend, to running down the hill as a team in Clemson, every college has their own unique rituals that set them apart from other schools.EA Sports College Football 25tapped into that history in its first officialreveal trailer....

Epic will work with both studios to publish their upcoming games Today,Epic announced new publishing partnershipswith two notable indie studios. Eyes Out and Spry Fox will both work with Epic for publishing their next, currently unrevealed games. Eyes Outis the new studio co-founded bySpec Ops: The Linelead Cory Davis and Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck. The pair are currently working on their first game, an unannounced multiplatform “cosmic horror” game built in the Unreal Engine....

In Europe Here’s some news that snuck by last E3 week. Quantic Dream’s belovedHeavy RainandBeyond: Two Soulsare coming top PlayStation 4, “only for Europe and the PAL region,” according to the PlayStation Blog.The European one. A year ago there werehintstowards a PS4 version ofBeyond. This quietly materialized over E3 week in the form of upcoming individual digital releases of either game and dual pack that includes both, either in physical or digital form....