It’s okay to fail in Disco Elysium

Failure isn’t (always) the end [Narrated by Dan Vincent] Disco Elysiumopens with you on the floor. Your character, whoever they are or whatever might be left of them, is face-down in a nondescript hotel room. You are surfacing, breaching the plane between the void and the living only to find yourself harboring the grand-daddy of all hangovers. This is the introduction to the character you’ll inhabit throughDisco Elysium. They are many things, and can become even more: calculating, feeling, thinking, judging, determined, or remorseful....

June 7, 2025 · 6 min · 1147 words · Marcus Obrien

League of Legends is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this week

Starting on 10/15 It feels like just yesterday when I was running Ryze trying for Pentakills while a friend of mine ran Fiddlesticks in mid. If that’s gibberish to you I completely understand, as not everyone has playedLeague of Legends, much less all the way back in 2009 when it was completely fresh, trying to differentiate itself fromDOTAas a scrappy newcomer. It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since then, and billions of dollars later (plus a 2011 Tencent takeover), it’s still one of the biggest names in esports....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 210 words · Margaret Bennett

Live show: Mash Tactics plays Crysis 2, win a 3DS contest

It’s been an eventful weekend but we are back withCrysis 2and news of a upcoming stream you won’t want to miss. Carnage will be rocking this title today on thePlayStation 3. Kipper the cat will also be joining us to help keep things chaotic. As a reminder, we will be giving away theNintendo 3DSin a few days so this is your last chance to enter the contest. Hang out with Destructoid Chill Bros onJustin....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 119 words · Michael Lucas

Looks like Superhot VR is coming to Vive ‘soon’

Clear the room There are a handful of virtual reality games I feel like I’m really missing out on, andSuperhot VRprobably tops that list.Superhot? Excellent!Superhot VR? Even better! (Or so I’m led to believe.) Look, I wanna fight like Christian Bale in the not-great movieEquilibrium, and this is as close as I’ll get. Motivated HTC Vive owners canuse a workaroundto playSuperhot VR, but as far as official support for the device goes, we’re still waiting....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 100 words · Joel Day

Marketers wanted guns on Beyond: Two Souls promo art

Quantic ‘categorically refused’ generic action artwork Beyond: Two Soulshad to fight to stop its promo art being reduced to a character holding a gun like 90% of the rest of videogame advertising, Quantic Dream recently revealed. Had marketers had their way, Ellen Page would be clinging to some weaponry or other, probably looking off to the side with a full beard. “We have to be very careful,” said studio CEOGuillaume de Fondaumière to GameSpot....

June 7, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Douglas Hernandez

Math Answer or Die Codes

Math Answer or Dieis anotherRobloxgame challenging you with platform jumping over lava. The quickest players to answer mathematical questions earn extra blocks, introducing an element of urgency and fun. In this guide, we will shareMath Answer or Diecodes to help you come out on top. How to redeem codes in Math Answer or Die Redeeming code is a simple process. Follow these steps: To ensure the code works correctly, please make sure to enter it exactly as we’ve listed....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Donna Reed

Mistwalker shares concept art for unannounced project

Terra Battle console game, is that you? Last week,Final Fantasycreator Hironobu Sakaguchi gave a master class presentation at theUniversity of Hawaii’s West Oahu campusas part of a series of talks aimed to increase students’ understanding of the business of content creation. During the session, Sakaguchi showed off new concept art from an unannounced title currently in development at Mistwalker. According to a Twitter user (VoltySquirrel) attending the event, Sakaguchi didn’t say much about the upcoming project other than it will probably wind up on a current generation console and might be revealed in about a year....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 217 words · Brad Ho

Mojang reveals two new Minecraft 1.21 features

In apost on theMinecraftBlog, Mojang revealed two of the new features coming toMinecraftUpdate 1.21. The first of the two new features is a new block: The Vault, a special new storage block that protects against players who steal all the loot at the end of a trial. The second is the Wind Charge, a new item that drops from defeated breezes and allows you to harness their power. New Minecraft Block: The Vault According to Mojang, The Vault makes multiplayer adventures more rewarding for everyone....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 347 words · Regina Bell

NetherRealm’s mobile games get new characters for Mortal Kombat’s 25th!

FINISH HIM, where HIM = The Game You’d think that touch screen controls and fighting game inputs wouldn’t go together well, but somehow NeatherRealm Studios managed to pull off multiple fighting games on mobile devices. While they are basically heavily compromised versions of their console counterparts,WWE Immortalsis actually a fairly original take on tag battles with outlandish approximations of WWE superstars. What more could you ask for? More characters? Well, ask and you shall receive....

June 7, 2025 · 2 min · 215 words · Randy King

New info revealed about PS4 exclusive The Order: 1886

Taking cues from cinema Coming via thePlayStation Blog, Ready at Dawn has confirmed a few details about its upcoming PS4 title,The Order: 1886. For starters, the game is in fact a third-person shooter as some have guessed from the E3 trailer. Still no confirmation on whether or not the multiple characters in the trailer was a hint at some sort of co-op, though. Outside of this,The Order: 1886is taking a very cinema-inspired visual design....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 183 words · Michelle Thomas

Nintendo Download: Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection

Also,Sol Cresta Assassin’s Creedis back, and it’s thebig releasethis week on Nintendo Switch.Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collectionreunites fans with a character Ubisoft loves to constantly dig back up, and the collection itself includesAssassins’ Creed II, Brotherhood,andRevelations. So that’s one decent game by a lot of standards, one great one, and one disappointing one respectively: not bad! Buried in that list isSol Cresta, which wasn’t the headliner this week despite all the hype!...

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 100 words · Kristi Lopez

PAX 10: Super Meat Boy hands-on interview gets gishy

Hey, did you hear the news?Super Meat BoywonDestructoid’s coveted PAX Game of the Showaward. It’s coveted to the point that it’s practicallysinful. People covet this sh*t for real. I didn’t playSuper Meat Boyuntil the last day of PAX. Since I’d already played the game last year, and because the game always had huge crowds around it, I didn’t give it top priority. That was probably for the best. The game is such a time sink....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 162 words · Carl Wright

Persona Q2’s Ryuji Sakamoto is here to bemoan adults in new trailer

‘Oh Skull, you’re pathetic…’ It’s time for another trailer for Atlus’ upcoming sequelPersona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. It must have beenat least ten minutes since the last one, so let’s see who is next to join the roster of the Nintendo 3DS adventure. This turn, it’s The Phantom Thieves hot-headed sport star, Ryuji Sakamoto, ready to take on shitty adults and injustice wherever they raise their noggin. Ryuji is a pretty common character trope; the flustered, angry and somewhat dim-witted best friend who, regardless, will never ever let you down should the going get tough....

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Victor Parker