What’s the difference between gaming addiction, compulsion, and harmless fascination?
[Image from a 1982 issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer found by Cat DeSipra] Another year, another round of headlines about…
What if you could force your favorite podcast hosts to listen to each other?
[Image from Your Wife, Last Night] Para-social relationships have become a daily part of many people’s lives. Listening to the same…
Blazing Chrome devs take a ‘shot’ at a John Wick fan game
It wasn’t long ago that I was researching how many videogames Winona Rider has been in. The number was surprisingly…
Panzer Palidin and Gato Roboto lead a new wave of indie Titanfall-likes
If reading the words “Titanfall-likes”made you frown, I hear you, but with the Titanfall series on indefinite hold, my guess…
Five things Switch owners should know before pulling the trigger on Cuphead
Just yesterday I saw a Cuphead plushie for sale at Target next to the Game of Thrones and Stranger Thing…
Smash Bros. Ultimate commercial shows off a Stage Builder tab
Nintendo just released a new thirty-second ad for Smash Bros. Ultimate and it’s one for the books. On the surface, it…
After making violent games, devs cleanse their palettes with pacifist bird sims
Limbo features a lot of deaths, but as many have written about before, these deaths can be interpreted as a…
Switch Port Report: Darksiders feels dated in all the right ways
Gears of War, God of War, World of Warcraft. The Darkness. Dark Void. Dark. You ten-year-olds raised on Fortnite out…
Meet Merrill Grambell, the first bot to host a PAX panel
Watch Highlight: PAX EAST 2019 – DRAGONFLY THEATRE – We Made a Bot Watch 1000 PAX Panels, And It’s Moderating…
Cyber Shadow initially shied away from publishing with Yacht Club
Yacht Club Games, the developers of Shovel Knight, had a historic showing at PAX East this year. Six years ago,…
Stranger Things 3 spoilers: Joyce’s [blank] isn’t in the [blank]
When it comes to niche genres, they don’t get much smaller than the “games featuring Winona Rider” subsection of your…
Blaster Master Zero 2 might get DLC
The first thing I did at PAX East yesterday was hit up Matt Papa and Takuya Aizu of Inti Creates about…
Blaster Master Zero 2 might get some DLC
The first thing I did at PAX East yesterday was hit up Matt Papa and Takuya Aizu of Inti Creates about…
Destructoid will be at PAX East and we will do our best this time
As of this very moment, Peter Glagowski, Rich Meister, Caitlin Cooke and myself are entering the Boston Convention Center to…
What are your dream Nintendo/indie developer pairings?
I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time. In fact, I think it was over five years ago…
Justin Wong thinks competitive puzzle games could be as big as fighters someday
Last week, with no warning, Tetris 99 was unleashed upon the world, and puzzle games will never be the same.…
Switch SP? Gameboy Classic? What do you want from Nintendo’s next dedicated handheld?
[Image by Fred Wood] Compared to the Wii U, the Switch is doing fantastic, with the fastest selling Smash game…
Metroid Prime 4 is one of many Metroid games to be reworked, rejected, or soft-canceled
[Art by Jorge M Velez] Not a lot is known about the now-scrapped game that was once called Metroid Prime…
Switch Port Report: Everything (the game) is a Super Odyssey minus the Mario
With Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo came close to maxing out on the concept of being anyone you want to be.…
Jonathan Holmes’s picks for the best games of 2018 that feature Jonathan Holmes
Writing “Best of the Year” lists makes me feel pretentious and self-aggrandizing. That’s probably because these lists operate under the…
Jonathan Holmes’ picks for the best games of 2018 that feature Jonathan Holmes
Writing “Best of the Year” lists makes me feel pretentious and self-aggrandizing. That’s probably because these lists operate under the…
Switch Port Report: Rain World
Nic Rowen’s review of Rain World seemed sympathetic but sad, which makes sense given that the game does a lot to invoke…
Shovel Knight’s creators are hankering to take a crack at a new Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball
Shovel Knight turned five this year, and it shows no signs of slowing down. He’s sold over three million copies…
Today I’m playing Katamari Damacy Reroll first, Smash Ultimate second
I love Smash Bros. I love it when it’s fair and I love it when it’s tragic. I love the…
Goldeneye-inspired split screen FPS Screencheat Unplugged lands on Switch today
Screencheat has fared very well on non-Nintendo systems since it was first released in 2014, but now that its on the…
How to update the classics for modern audiences with Dotemu
We live in a time when most people forty years old and younger were brought up adoring media that was…
Neo Geo Mini outshines the PS1 Classic, could pave the way for a GBA Mini
I don’t know what’s going on with the Neo Geo Mini. Shortly after I got my hands on one, SNK…
Cheap Golf is not Satanic (I think)
When I first saw that the Kickstarter for Cheap Golf ended with 666 backers, I figured it was just a…
Brie Larson wants to play Samus, kisses Waluigi
In the past, she was in a band with Superman. In the present, she’s Captain Marvel, one the most powerful…
The new Halloween bosses for Streets of Red are Switch exclusive for now
The developers at Secret Base have just launched a free patch for Streets of Red: Devil’s Dare Deluxe that includes…