As werevealed last month, Namco Bandai is using its newShiftyLookwebsite to release comics based on “dormant” IPs. It was also hinted at, but some of these dormant IPs are being brought back as games as well! The next comics we can expect are going to be based onAlien ConfidentialandRocket Fox, with accompanying mobile games too. TheAlien Confidential: Black & Whitecomic series by Cryptozoic Entertainment will launch on March 9 while the social mobile game will be out sometime this Spring....

Brainpower, horsepower, and the power of love 2021 saw quite a few delays and dates move around, and Microsoft weren’t strangers to that. Yet the year for Xbox, both in terms of first-party offerings and in the Game Pass lineup, turned out pretty dang good. Let’s start with the one question I know everyone in the comments, replies, and more will be asking:where is Halo?While we’ve been enjoying our time withHalo Infinitehere, we draw the line for GOTY consideration at December 1, andHalo Infinitemissed the cutoff....

Penny Arcaderecently published a chain of emails between one of its readers and Ocean Marketing, a company responsible for a range of third party peripherals. The customer, known as Dave, pre-ordered a pair of PS3 controllers that were due before Christmas, and sent an email to Paul Christoforo after more than a month of silence. Christoforo’s response was simply “December 17,” when asked where the controllers were, by a customer already unhappy he was expected to pay full price for a preorder....

Here’s the Sanctifier I totally forgotMagic: Legendsexists! While a lot of folks were clamoring for aMagic: The GatheringMMO,we got this instead at The Game Awards last year. It’sMagicby way ofDiablo, which could be all sorts of great if developer Cryptic Studios can clean up the gameplay a bit. Today we’re getting a look at the new Sanctifier class: one of the five starters inLegends. They’ll focus on celestial light, and surprise: white (plains)-based mana abilities....

If you thought we might play it safe this week and tiptoe around the already considerable controversy surrounding Destructoid’sEternity’s Childreview, perhaps keeping the moral high ground in distancing ourselves from the sh*tstorm, well…you’ve probably never listened to Podtoid before. You can alleviate that problem by goinghere. This week’s entire episode is fueled solely by listener questions, which means a lot of random and varied topics of discussion. Which is nice. Highlights include:...

Podtoid 457 September has arrived, and in any other year, this would be the kick-off to a monster release schedule rolling into the holiday season. But in the year of COVID, so much is still up in the air. We don’t know the release dates or prices for the next-gen systems, we don’t know if Nintendo has a trick up its sleeve for November, we don’t even know if the games we’re looking forward to over the next 12 weeks will be hit with a last-minute delay....

Welcome… to my lair! The games industry, like the movie industry and apparently the television industry, is one that thrives on sequels. Just look at the list ofupcoming games for 2017. You can barely swing a cat without hitting some follow-up. Some of these games look to improve upon the first entry, others exist solely to continue the story and some basically start from scratch, going back to the drawing board to give players something completely new....

Does it? Siliconerasays that they’ve obtained a leak from a company working on Sony’s PS4 marketing campaign. The keywords from this leaked material are “Greatness Awaits.” They have the full rundown on a commercial that asks the viewer questions like “Who are you to be a slave to the past?” and “Who are you not to be great?” “You, with the imagination of a brilliant child and the powers of an ancient god....

Steam, Stadia, PS4, Xbox One, Switch [Update:Battle for the Gridis now on Stadia, completing the promise of a fifth cross-play platform. To get it as a Stadia Pro member,head into the storefrontand find it under “Stadia Pro Games” along withPanzer Dragoon, Superhot, Get PackedandLittle Nightmares.] What once started as a very rough project blossomed beautifully, asPower Rangers: Battle For The Gridadds another feature over a year into its launch. According to the official Twitter account, onceBattle for the Gridarrives on Stadia in June, it will join the array of cross-play capable versions that already exist....

It’s finally here Since the long-awaited sequel to 2005’s cult classicPsychonautswas announced back in 2015, fans have been chomping at the bit for any new information. Well, we finally have it, because Double Fine just dropped a new gameplay trailer. Psychonauts 2was also confirmed for an August 25 release date, and will be available on Xbox Game Pass.

Man, I loveResident Evil.The announcement ofResident Evil Requiemwas a highlight for me this past weekend, and I am fiending to play it and learn more. So much of my identity as a gamer is tied toResident Evil.Some of my earliest memories are watching my uncle playRE1on PS1 before I ever had my own. And then for my ninth or 10th birthday, I asked for a PS1 of my own and just one game:Resident Evil 2....

YOU’RE LYING, I KNOW IT! L.A. Noire’sremaster just released on each new console, but some people might not own them. Maybe they also just really like the adventures of Cole Phelps and want their platform of choice to reflect that. If you somehow fall into either of those categories, take a gander atthese “lovely” beasts. Rockstar is holding a contest where each week, a new console will be up for grabs....

Shuhei Yoshida explains regional exclusivity Sony worldwide studios bossShuhei Yoshida has taken to the Internet to defend Sony’s practice of offering different PSN content in different countries, explaining the often wild disparity between America, Japan, and Europe. “There are both positives and negatives in the current regional approach, and I admit I have 3 PSN IDs for Japan, US and Europe,” confessed the executive. “Managing multiple small countries with multiple languages is much more inefficient than managing a large single country....