Atlus parent company registers Persona 5 domain

HNNNNNG! There have been vague rumblings aboutPersona 5for years now, but it seems like the long-awaited role-playing game may be finally nearing release. Atlus’beleagueredparent company Index Corporationregistered a domainfor the prospective title on May 31, 2025. Of course, Index, like any company, loves squatting on domain names andPersona 5could still very well be years away. Or a release date could drop next week. So, naturally, now is the perfect time to wet your pants and salivate in anticipation....

June 25, 2025 · 1 min · 80 words · Jeffery Francis

Auriel confirmed for Heroes of the Storm, Gul’dan is playable tomorrow

The latter will be on the PTR on July 5 Heroes of the Stormkeeps on keepin’ on! In addition to the already revealed Gul’dan, a new “In Development” video confirms Auriel (the leaks were right!) as the next hero, and shows off some new skins. Arthas is getting Guan Yu digs, Johanna will be sporting a Blood Elf armor set, and Li Ming nabs an awesome looking volleyball premium skin. New mounts are also scattered about the end of the clip....

June 25, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Amy Rose

Battleborn features a TV-style story mode, open beta next month

Two of eight episodes in the beta New details have been revealed aboutBattleborn‘s story mode that will take place over eight “TV-style episodes.” According to the official site, “the game’s Story Mode is structured just like some of our favorite episodic television shows; fromStar TrekandX-Files, to cartoon throwbacks likeX-MenandTransformers. Collectively, the ‘season’ included with the game has one large over-arching story spanning eight episodes (plus a prologue), and each episode tells a self-contained story about theBattleborn‘s fight to save the last star, Solus....

June 25, 2025 · 2 min · 391 words · Rebecca Bender

Battlefield 1 has giant ‘behemoth’ vehicles, a beta coming this summer

Bigger stuff to kill your friends with! During EA’s sorta-kinda E3 livestream, it showed a short trailer forBattlefield 1. Explosions, drama, and soldiers losing their hearing due to other dick soldiers shooting their guns to close to one another are all included. EA also announced two of the biggest additions toBattlefield: dynamic weather and gigantic ‘behemoth’ vehicles, which should provide some dynamism that has been absent from the series. This summer there will be a beta, but additional details have not yet been provided....

June 25, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Jimmy Stewart

Bayonetta 3 is the win PlatinumGames needed

Bayonetta 3was worth the wait Welcome back! It’s another Tuesday, which means tonight there will be a new episode of Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast exclusively on Destructoid.Topics:Bayonetta 3is here! The crew shares their thoughts on the highly anticipated action title. That’s not all — Liam Hemsworth isreplacing Henry Cavillin The Witcher season 4, SEGA talks about its “super game”, andCall of Dutycould beSwitch-bound. ABayonetta 3win is a pretty easy thing to talk about for one!...

June 25, 2025 · 2 min · 315 words · Susan Cummings

Big Bethesda PC sale has Doom and Fallout 4 down to $12.90, plus $2 Dishonored

Shockingly cheap deals As a PC gamer, you just gotta love competition between digital retailers. After Steam’s Summer Sale last month, we’ve been faced with more and more aggressive sales from other digital retailers. This week the Sweden-based GamersGate has thrown the gauntlet anddiscounted a plethoraBethesda titles — many of which are with huge price cuts and reaching historic low prices, beating out even GMG’s strong Summer Sale (which also uncoincidentally launched last Friday)....

June 25, 2025 · 2 min · 229 words · Matthew Clark MD

Burgled: Project Zomboid hit with another major set back

It seems as though developerThe Indie Stonejust can’t catch a break these days. During the past year, they have been locked out of their Paypal funds, had to take their game offline due to major issues ofpiracyand, just yesterday, their office wasbroken into. Not much else is known about the incident, other then 2 work laptops were stolen and developer Chris (Lemmy) Simpson’s credit card. As soon as news of the robbery appeared on Twitter, the “fan” reaction onReddithas gone from unsympathetic tocrass and cold-hearted....

June 25, 2025 · 2 min · 355 words · Jeffrey Sweeney

Check out the Street Fighter 6 themes for Dee Jay and the mysterious JP

Capcom has rolled out two more character themes for its upcoming scrapperStreet Fighter 6, which is headed our way ever so slowly on PC and console platforms — This time around, the new themes herald the return of Jamaican superstarDee Jay Maximum, and the debut of a wealthy industrialist, clouded in intrigue and shrouded in mystery, who goes by the simple moniker of “JP” With the release of these pieces for Dee Jay and JP, we now have heard the themes forallof the revealed characters to date....

June 25, 2025 · 2 min · 362 words · Donald Phillips

Complete Destiny 2 Operation Seraph’s Shield walkthrough

An in-and-out, 20-Minute Adventure Operation: Seraph’s Shield is an exotic mission inDestiny 2that features puzzles, combat, a bit of platforming, and a few nods toBeyond Light’sDeep Stone Crypt raid. It might seem intimidating at first, but even a lone Guardian can breeze through its challenges if they know what to do. Here’s a quick guide covering all the steps needed to complete this mission and some tips on how to beat it on Legendary difficulty....

June 25, 2025 · 6 min · 1185 words · Allison Thomas

Deus Ex: The Fall gets a July 11 release date

Mobile title set for this week Deus Ex: The Fall, the next title in theDeus Exfranchise, is coming to iOS on July 11. We knew that it was coming this summer, but Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have just confirmed the exact release for us. Deus Ex: The Fallwill be available on all iOS devices for $6.99, though you’ll need an iPad2, iPod Touch 5, or iPhone 4S and above to play it....

June 25, 2025 · 1 min · 103 words · Heather Lynn

Disgaea RPG headed west on PC via Steam

Early Access kicks off this coming winter Disgaeafans have at least one thing to mark on their calendars in the new year, as publisher Boltrend Games announced that the mobile and PC releaseDisgaea RPGwill be headed west in 2022. Currently, the all-star adventure is only available on PC in Japan, with its global iteration accessible via iOS and Android. Thefully localized Steam portofDisgaea RPGis expected in 2022. Disgaea RPGtasks players with venturing into a mysterious plane known as The Netherworld, where they will form parties, battle enemies, and raise the strength of “Overlords” in order to venture further into the weird world and tackle its many monsters and challenges in an active turn-based combat system....

June 25, 2025 · 2 min · 221 words · Jesse Mayer

Drunken Robot Pornography to reach full release next week

Still the best title for a videogame in a long time Part of the appeal of buying a game that’s still in development is seeing how much it changes before its full release.Drunken Robot Pornographyis graduating to a full release on February 19, after a big chunk of time spent on Steam’sEarly Access program, and it’s evolved from a fairly simple-looking game into a crazy, over-the-top spectacle with robot dinosaurs. Yes, robot dinosaurs....

June 25, 2025 · 2 min · 226 words · Angela Morgan

E3: Silent Hill: Book of Memories blown open (part 1)

Silent Hill: Book of Memoriescertainly turned heads when it was first revealed, but the attention was not entirely welcome. The idea of a top-down dungeon-crawler set in theSilent Hilluniverse drew more than a little rage from purists, and ostensibly puzzled everybody else. Konami, unfortunately, did not help matters. Very little has been seen of the game was due to launch last month, with many gamers not knowing a damn thing about it....

June 25, 2025 · 16 min · 3226 words · Jennifer Gamble