MMO shooter Will to Live Online reduced in Steam Summer Sale

You’d be safer camping out with Jason Voorhees Confronted by terrifying creatures, rabid mutants and desperate survivors, you and your party of wanderers must rely on your guts, your skills, your weapons and, more than anything, yourWill to Live. AlphaSoft Studio presentsWill to Live, an exciting new MMORPG set within a decaying, post-apocalyptic wasteland. Whether alone or as part of a clan, you and your fellow survivors must fight for your life against the hostile terrain of a world driven beyond the brink of total chaos....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 290 words · Amy Le

Mother 3 figurines will make you weep tears of joy

You know that list of top50 games of the decadethat one site did? You know, the one. The one where we hadMother 3as the third greatest game of this decade. I bet you thought there wasn’t a way we could honor the game any more than that. Well, you were wrong! Awesome figurines are GO! Now we didn’t make these of course, but I think that by stealing theDestructoidArtisansthunder and putting these figures on the front page we helped artistCamille Youngto honor the game even more....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Andre Holland

NCAA 14: Better with physics

Let’s get physical When I previewedNCAA Football 14earlier this year, I noted that the best news about the game is that it uses the Infinity Engine 2, the original iteration of which madeMadden 13the best entry in the series in many years. Things are more or less the same from what I played ofNCAA Football 14on the show floor. It feels better than the game ever has and is a little better thanMadden 13, given it runs on the second iteration of the engine....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Brittany Cortez

NIS delays The Firefly Diary’s PC release

Now coming in late April NIS America has postponed the PC release ofhtoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary. The puzzle game was initially supposed to arrive next Monday, March 14, but is now being delayed until April 25 to give the publisher more time to test the game and iron out any bugs. Destructoid’s resident horror expert Zack Furnissrecently took the PC version for a spin, and didn’t find many problems wit the port, but it’s always nice to see publishers take some extra time to ensure every player has a smooth experience, rather than rush games out to market before they’re ready....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 101 words · Sheila Gibson

Pokemon Black & White 2 net over 1 million JP pre-orders

Remember when your parents told youPokemonwas just a fad? Oh how wrong they were. Sixteen years later, andPokemon Black & White 2is still selling like hotcakes. A recent report suggests that there were 1.16 million pre-orders forBlack & White 2in Japan. The firstBlack & Whiteiterations also garnered roughly the same amount of pre-orders, and eventually sold 14.71 million units. This is a good sign of things to come for the franchise,which will be coming out later this yearin regions other than Japan....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Marcus Ramirez

Project Natal: Microsoft’s new motion controller explained

“The only experience you need is life experience.” In the biggest surprise of E3 so far, Microsoft announced a brand new gaming experience at the tail end of its press conference: something calledProject Natal. This new controller-free device is part of the Xbox 360 and tracks a person’s full-body motion in real-time. UPDATE 3: Here’s the video from the E3 press conference: Basically, a person stands in front of their Xbox 360 and Project Natal will scan your face or other objects, recognize your voice, and, literally, mimic the movements of your body as you just stand in front of the console....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 233 words · Chelsey Montoya

Sega, SNK, Arc System Works, and more join forces for New Game+ Expo

Grasshopper will be there too With E3 calling in sick for 2020, developers and publishers around the world are scrambling to find ways to get the word out about their upcoming games. Some, like Ubisoft, are prepping their own individual events. Others, like Nintendo, seem to be content just drip-feeding announcements to fans. Those strategies are fine, but there’s something to be said about having a great big show that brings together some of the finest developers and publishers from around the world....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 259 words · Paula Maldonado

Should I join the Merchants Guild or Circle of Fortune in Last Epoch?

ARPGs are all about the loot grind, andLast Epoch’s guilds open up multiple options for players to get the most out of their endless quest for better gear. Introduced inpatch 1.0, the Merchants’ Guild and the Circle of Fortune areLast Epoch’s answers to the problem of trade in ARPG. When players reach Maj’Elka for the first time each cycle, they’ll have the choice to join one faction or the other. The Merchants’ Guild opens the door to buying and selling items with other players, while the Circle of Fortune gives valuable bonuses to players who are grinding for gear alone....

July 30, 2025 · 3 min · 490 words · Wesley Fisher

Silent Hill 2 Remake previews are out, and they sound promising

There have been quite a few doubts about Bloober Team’s ability to remakeSilent Hill 2in a way that keeps the spirit of the original while breathing new life into the legendary horror game. I’ve been guilty of perpetuating some of this cynicism myself, but there’s a chance the game could actually turn out to be good. A number of journalists have been treated to a preview of theSilent Hill 2remake lately, and feedback suggests Bloober might actually have nailed it....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 310 words · Gerald Morgan

Sonic 1 gains Sonic Mania’s Drop Dash in upcoming Nintendo Switch port

Look for it under the ‘Sega Ages’ banner How do you sweeten the deal for yet anotherSonic the Hedgehogport in a post-Sonic Maniaworld? Why, do a little borrowing! Sega is bringingSega Ages: Sonic the HedgehogandSega Ages: Thunder Force IVto Nintendo Switch next month with optional bonus features and modes. In the case ofSonic, you’ll have access to the Spin Dash and Drop Dash moves; the time-attack Mega Play version; Ring Keep Mode in which you always start with 10 rings; and Challenge Mode, a score-attack mode where players compete for the fastest clear time on good old Green Hill Zone Act 1....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 146 words · Bradley Thomas

Sonic the Hedgehog movie now at Paramount

Pray they too never make it TheSonic the Hedgehogmovieis moving studios.DeadpooldirectorTim Millerwas going to produce with his palJeff Fowlerdirecting andSony had the rights to make it, but they put the project on hold and then just entirely dropped it. Paramount, acting like a hungry dog going after their owner’s dropped scraps, scooped it up. Want to know why Sony dropped this? Because making a serious Sonic movie is a dumb, nearly impossible idea that should not be done....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Joshua Mason

Stardew Valley now has better controller and language support on PC

Equivalent console update still in the works With today’s PC update forStardew Valley, it’s just a little bit easier to embrace the laborious farm life while playing with a gamepad instead of a mouse and keyboard. Menu navigation now works more like you’d expect, with your cursor snapping between items, and feels smoother all around. Better yet, for non-English players, there are new localizations. The patch notes: It’s nice to seeStardewfurther open itself up to a wider audience, and as for the controller tweaks, I’ll look forward to them crossing over to the console versions of the game soon enough....

July 30, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Nicole Garza

Steam hit 10 million concurrent in-game players for the first time ever

Never doubt the power of the Steam Sale Valvehas announcedthat its popular PC retail platform, Steam, smashed a major record this past weekend, surpassing 10 million concurrent in-game players for the first time in the platform’s near 20-year history. The mighty number was achieved on Saturday, January 7, with a peak high of 10,082,055 Steam users in-game. That’s not sitting idle, or just logged in, but actively playing in one of the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Steam library....

July 30, 2025 · 2 min · 238 words · Ronald Rosales