Nintendo is basically doing the exact opposite thing with the Switch that they did with the Wii U, and to some extent, even the Wii -- support indies.

As I've said many times, Epic Games always finds ways to keep people interested in Fortnite.

The Spectrum Retreat is a puzzling game. It's a puzzle game, sure, and that means solutions are the great reward.

2K Games has confirmed that WWE 2K19 will not be launching on Switch this year.

Skullgirls-helmer Lab Zero Games has released a short, 30-second video featuring part of the opening to their upcoming action RPG, Indivisible.

We got the first trailer for Paramount's Wonder Park today and normally I'd let it slide right by but the teaser trailer is so devoid of anything even remotely hinting at a plot that I felt compelled to share it.

Xaviant wrapped up its "deadly game show" battle royale The Culling last year, pushing the game through Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview in October.

With cross-platform multiplayer becoming more common, a lot of fans were hoping that the PC version of Monster Hunter: World would work with either the Xbox One or PS4 versions of the game.

The wastes are calling again. inXile Entertainment is currently putting the finishing touches on its Nintendo Switch port of Wasteland 2: Director's Cut.

The Electronic Arts family got a little bigger today. EA has just announced the acquisition of Pasadena-based Industrial Toys, which is a studio that focuses on making "hardcore games for mobile platforms.

In May, Blizzard teamed up with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) to sell a pink Mercy skin in Overwatch as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness.

Sega went out on a limb and whipped up an amusing what-if scenario: what if fans could buy a toaster that "burns Sonic's face onto your piece of toast"? Would they? The answer is a resounding "yes.

Gone Home is an emotional explorative game about a young woman named Katie discovering the trials and tribulations her family has undergone in the time she was traveling abroad.

In a new blog post, PUBG Corp. has announced that there are some new features and tweaks headed to the Xbox One edition of popular battle royale title; PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

Rocket League's celebrating its third birthday by throwing things back to the origins of the game.

Believe it or not, "How many people are playing your game?" is a surprisingly hard question to answer for many people both inside and outside the game industry.

A Japanese game schedule post, pertaining to Bandai Namco's excellent Tekken 7, casually makes mention of a second Season Pass, seemingly implying that a new wave of characters and/or features are on the way to the successful sequel.

Along with confirming the release date for Darksiders III today (basically mirroring the leak from this past weekend), THQ Noric has unveiled the various different editions of the game you can grab.

I'm not the kind of person to besmirch something because it looks "cartoony" or is geared for a certain age group.

Speaking on his twitter, Naughty Dog animator Jonathon Cooper revealed a very interesting tidbit regarding Sony's awesome adventure series, Uncharted, and its happy-go-lucky psychopath hero, Nathan Drake.

I love the indie market. Unbound from major publishers that want to reach as many people with a single strike, indie developers operate on their own rules.

Looking at the raw numbers you'd have to say that Ant-Man and the Wasp was a letdown for Marvel.

In 2013, when Kickstarter was just a blip on some folk's radars, Chasm was announced.

Monster Hunter: World now officially has a Steam page and a release date: August 9th.

Following Super Smash Bros. was a lot easier when it was just Smash 64.

Following Super Smash Bros. was a lot easier when it was just Smash 64.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is celebrating a second week at the top of the UK Charts.

In case you haven't heard, EVO just had its first Japanese competition earlier this year.

The official Japanese Okami HD account posted a series of screens and videos taken from the upcoming Switch release of Capcom's spiritual classic, which launches on the Nintendo platform next month.

As Nintendo continues to be not give us a full answer on whether or not the 3DS will live on or live via life support, or if there's going to be a 3DS 2 (right now it's "it depends on the Switch" and "maybe" respectively), it does in fact, live on with some big releases.

Niantic is a bit of an odd duck. It was founded in 2010, shipped a small location-based game in Field Trip two years later that grew into the framework of Ingress, a more popular augmented reality app in 2013, and of course, Pokemon Go in 2016.

We're just one week away from Captain Toad's leap to the 3DS and the Switch, and I have high hopes that the intrepid explorer will do well in those new territories.

This week sees Hamster continue in their efforts to bring all the classic SNK titles to modern platforms, with one-on-one fighter Samurai Shodown V returning on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.

When word got out that Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition would make it over to Nintendo Switch, I had mixed emotions.

Good lord is it a scorcher out there or what? All week long, I've been doing everything in my power to move a little as possible so as not douse my clothing in sweat from the near triple-digit temperatures I have to endure.

More and more games want to be interactive stories (even if only kinda sorta interactive) more than they want to be games.

Popular sports games have a reputation for being highly expendable and ending up on the bottom racks of second-hand stores, selling for mere pennies.

We are supposed to be receiving the specifications for the highly-anticipated PC port of Capcom's Monster Hunter: World tomorrow, July 9.

Judging by the general reaction and comments lately, I'm sure many of you are highly anticipating your adventures and online interactions in Fallout 76! But, what if you could access those wonderful online interactions and experiences you might discover in Fallout 76.

Banjo & Kazooie, the adventure loving twosome who starred in Rare's '90s N64 titles, are the next characters in line to receive the statue from the talented craftspeople at First 4 Figures.

John Wick was one of the slickest action films of 2015 and was a tour de force or carnage and chaos.

Well, it looks like Microsoft had a little scheduling snafu for our benefit.

Announced today at TennoCon (an annual Warframe convention), Digital Extremes is partnering with developer Panic Button to bring the hit co-op, sci-fi, third-person shooter Warframe to the Switch.

Keri Russell, well-known for her role as Elizabeth Jennings on FX's The Americans, is in talks with J.

It has been quite some time since Monster Hunter: World launched on consoles and started breaking sales records for Capcom.

Pokémon Go has entered its terrible twos. So much has changed (and so much hasn't).

I just took a two-decade trip down memory lane and now I'm feeling weirdly emotional.

Approximately two weeks ago the massive sprite-based crossover fangame Card Sagas Wars spontaneously re-emerged with a public release.

Fighting game fans have it pretty good right now. The big three of Street Fighter V, Tekken 7 and Dragonball FighterZ are doing pretty well and we have recently seen new games such as Blazblue Cross Tag Battle and Fighting EX Layer added to the mix which have been (mostly) warmly received.

I wouldn't say I have more "respect" for Arby's since the airing of the TV show Baskets, but I have a little more appreciation for them in the sense that seem to be okay with being a punching bag after all the years of Simpsons strife.

At E3 this year, Bethesda poked fun at the joke that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is available on basically everything.

The weekend is upon us once again, good people of the Destructoid community.

The weekend is upon us once again, good people of the Destructoid community.

I have it on good authority that some of you have been waiting for an excuse to hop on A Hat in Time.

We're only a couple weeks out from Sonic Mania Plus (and the Encore DLC for current players looking to upgrade).

In a recent interview with VentureBeat, co-founder of Sucker Punch productions Chris Zimmerman made it very clear that the developer is working extra hard to nail the accuracy of its upcoming samurai game Ghost of Tsushima.

We are just a short week away from the best amiibo ever released.

Octopath Traveler, Square Enix's upcoming classic RPG throwback game for Switch, has been heavily marketed for the last year as offering eight distinct job classes for players to tinker with.

Bossa Studio Games have released a short new trailer teasing a Nintendo Switch release for their comically gory physics game, Surgeon Simulator.

This is not a review of Westworld's second season.   I felt like I needed to get that out of the way right now so no one has any false expectations going into this post.

It has been literally four full years since the reveal of Dead Island 2 and we only know three definite things about it: It's set in California, it has zombies, and it somehow hasn't been canceled yet.

Yesterday, we reported on a new Nendoroid of Persona 5's hacker Futaba Sakura.

Today, publisher PQube and developer Agate showed off a trailer for their newest game, Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story.

If you've been itching to get a taste of Yakuza Kiwami 2, then boot up your PS4 and get to the store.

After nearly two decades I'm getting back into Magic: The Gathering, and I've found that one of the best methods for acclimating back into the fray is getting in at the ground level.

Koei Tecmo have recently revealed that a fully playable build of the upcoming fighting title Dead or Alive 6 will be available to check out at this year's Evolution Fighting Championship, held in Las Vegas next month.

As someone who used to make . wad maps of Duke Nukem 3D back in the day, I'm extremely thankful for mods.

Epic Games has announced that the limited time Playground mode, recently added, pulled, then returned to their battle royale smash hit, Fortnite, is to take another break next week for some new features and fine tuning.

On June 20 developer Romino Games put up a Kickstarter campaign to add more content to Swords and Soldiers II: Shwarmaggedon, itself an enhanced port of the Wii U original from 2015.

I laid my feelings out about the Ant-Man films and their importance to the Marvel cinematic universe yesterday so I won't dive too deeply into that again, but suffice to say Ant-Man is a bit of an odd duck in the MCU, and it's all the better for it.

Sony's PlayStation Vue cord-cutting service, which is not just available on PS4, is increasing its subscription prices soon.

As expected given that an accurate leak has basically confirmed all upcoming Kirby Star Allies DLC, Nintendo has trolled us with a Kirby-shaped mystery tweet -- leading us to believe that maybe a new form of Kirby was in the works.

People have been dying to know when the second season of Netflix's hit Castlevania series would be airing and now we have an answer.

It has been more than a year since we found out 428: Shibuya Scramble was being localized in the west.

Anime Expo 2018 has a ton of gaming related announcements this year, in case you didn't notice the bombardment of NIS and SNK reveals earlier today.

During Sunrise's Anime Expo panel today, Yasuo Miyakawa had a special announcement for attendees.

The Zero Escape series is, without a doubt, my favorite trilogy in all of gaming.

Announced at Anime Expo mere hours ago, Skullgirls is heading to the Switch.

[Update: Lab Zero has uploaded the official trailer to the Skullgirls YouTube channel.

I've had my eye on Dragon Marked for Death since August 2017, and even with a new winter 2018 launch window announced for the four-player co-op action-RPG, my interest hasn't faltered.

Sometimes, I stop to wonder why the Fast and Furious franchise keeps chugging along.

In perfectly appropriate fashion, Xbox is implementing FastStart quickly following its E3 reveal.

Following its E3 showing, BioWare has released an extended look at Anthem.

And just like that, I've got the 1960s Spider-Man theme song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

There's a belief that one equation exists that can explain all of the workings of our physical universe.

Ask someone why they chose something, anything - from what type of sandwich to eat, to who they voted for in the last election - and chances are their reasoning will boil down to one statement "It felt right.

Bandai Namco's cool & cute rhythm action game Taiko no Tatsujin is coming to Nintendo Switch in Japan later this month.

THQ Nordic is one of the more generous publishers around. They like to reward PC gamers for buying its titles years prior.

Dante's Inferno is something of a last-gen cult classic. It's a bastardized re-imagining of the 14th-century poem, as Dante hacks and slashes his way through hell to save his lover Beatrice from Satan's icy clutches.

The Switch reigns supreme this week, with releases for Shining Resonance Refrain, Pocket Rumble, 20XX, NeoGeo Samurai Shodown V, Another World, Awkward, Bomber Crew, Burnstar, Disease -Hidden Object-, Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard, Johnny Turbo's Arcade: Two Crude Dudes, Kill the Bad Guy, Miles & Kilo, Muddledash, Mushroom WArs 2, Neverout, Pato Box, Rento Fortune Monolit, Squids Odyssey, Super Rock Blasters, Survive! Mr.

We all know that Marvel has done something special with their cinematic universe.

It sounds like Devolver Digital is only just getting started on Nintendo Switch and that news fills my indie-loving heart with happiness.

It seems that Good Smile Co. are on a mission to announce more Nendoroid pre-orders than anyone can hope to keep up with.

Players will share the same world in Fallout 76, but that doesn't mean Bethesda Game Studios is suddenly ditching traditional single-player experiences in favor of the games-as-a-service model.

If you expected to find a bunch of oddball microgames in today's 3DS demo of WarioWare Gold, you'd be right on the money.

I haven't worn a watch in some time. Time has no bearing for a die-hard rebel who plays by his own rules.

It’s impossible for me to think of the summer months without my mind wandering towards the cover of These Days are Just Packed.

Californian studio Blizzard Entertainment are certainly not shy when it comes to pumping out the merch for their catalogue of successful video games.

In its blaze of announcement glory, NIS America has revealed the existence of The Princess Guide, a new RPG set for PS4 and Switch in 2019.

The cat is out of the bag. It was kind of out of it a month ago when Amazon Mexico leaked the existence of it on PS4 and Switch, but now we know for sure by way of an official announcement from NIS at Anime Expo.