Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze on Switch will be nearly half the size of the Wii U version

6.6GB Thanks to a tip from a reader, I was able to log into my Japanese eShop account on Switch and take a gander at the listing forDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze— only to find out that the file size has been posted! According to the listing the Switch port is 6.6GB, which is roughly half the size of the Wii U original of 11.4GB. Compression ho! Japanese eShop users can pre-load the game now that the size has been posted, and we can only assume that the functionality will make its way across the world over time....

July 24, 2025 · 1 min · 136 words · Mrs. Jennifer Davis

Explore the world of Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth for cheaper with Amazon’s sale

Were you holding off on grabbingFinal Fantasy VII: Rebirthuntil you could get its two discs marked down? Amazon has one lined up for you. How does 20-ish% off sound? Right now, you can nabFinal Fantasy VII: Rebirthfrom the US Amazon sitefor $54.99. I’ve checked my home and native land Canada’s site, and it’s marked down to $69.99 Canadian Loonies. It’s also discounted on Amazon in Germany and the UK. It’s a decent price for a grand and varied adventure....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 248 words · Carmen Anderson

Fans adore and despise Vampire Survivors’ Darkasso update like some sort of cursed monkey paw

Developer Poncle released theDarkassoupdate forVampire Survivorsin the dead of night on July 23, 2025. As players slowly realized that new content had been added to the game, they delved through the new Darkanas and quickly realized they were completely broken in the best way possible. Provided they don’t crash your system. Vampire Survivors’ Darkassoupdateis a meaty one with a new challenge stage, relic, the aforementioned Darkanas, new character skins, and, of course,some additional surprises....

July 24, 2025 · 3 min · 466 words · William French

Fire Emblem Heroes welcomes Three Houses stars to the roster

New Kids on the Block A brand new update for Nintendo’s mobile battlerFire Emblem Heroeswill add four new characters from the upcomingFire Emblem: Three Houses,giving fans the opportunity to see the warriors in action before the latter’s release. Joining theFire Emblem Heroesroster will be The Black Eagles’ Eldegard, The Blue Lions’ Dimitri, The Golden Deer’s Claude and a female variant ofThree Houseslead protagonist, Byleth. Maybe this will giveFire Emblemfans the opportunity to feel out the three house leaders, and see which one fits the cut of your jib, so to speak....

July 24, 2025 · 1 min · 188 words · Louis Lindsey

Folding@home turns PS3 into the console equivalent of Johns Hopkins

[Psst – Join the Destructoid Folding Group! #55789 ] Yesterday, PlayStation 3 firmware upgrade 1.6 finally went live and with itcame the awesome distributed-computing, disease-fighting power of Folding@home. If you aren’t reading Slashdot daily, you might have glossed over this wholeFolding@homephenomenon, so allow me to spell it out for you; Folding@home is a program that links hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of computers all over the world together so that all of the spare, idle processor cycles that would normally go to waste while you’re bathing, sleeping or masturbating can be better used to help scientists study how amino acids “fold” within the human body, thus granting insight into diseases caused by this process going haywire, such as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Parkinson’s and Pacman Fever....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 263 words · Michael Gonzalez

Four more titles greenlit on Steam in smaller update

I like where this is going One of the more frustrating aspects of Steam Greenlight is its approval system, which gives games the go-ahead far too infrequently given the sheer amount of quality software vying for attention. Seemingly addressing this issue, Valve has approved four more titles today:Edge of Space,Papers, Please,Venetica, andSubstance Designer 3. Based on the announcement post, this smaller, more agile process will likely become the norm. “These titles were selected on the same criteria we have been using in the past: Votes in Greenlight give us a hugely valuable point of data in gauging community interest along with external factors such as press reviews, crowd-funding successes, performance on other platforms, and awards and contests to help form a more complete picture of community interest in each title....

July 24, 2025 · 1 min · 176 words · Erin Rios

Free PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale DLC is out today

Kat and Emmett Graves Remember that freePlayStation All-StarsDLC?Well, it’s finally here, once the PlayStation Store updates later today. For the amazing price of “making the effort to click through a few menus,” you’ll get Kat fromGravity Rushand Emmett Graves fromStarhawkfor your troubles. Keep in mind thatthe DLCis only free for two weeks, at which point they’ll revert to $4.99 each. Even if you don’t own the game, log into the PSN and download the license to the DLC anyways....

July 24, 2025 · 1 min · 126 words · Anna Lara

Gamescom 2020 currently on schedule, will feature ‘expanded’ online presence

Maybe just call it? Europe’s biggest video game convention, Gamescom, is currently still scheduled to go ahead in Cologne, Germany this summer, despite the many,manyindustry events that have been forced to either alter or completely cancel their plans due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As noted in an official press release, Gamescom has not yet made a decision on whether to cancel its physical trade show, which saw almost 400,000 visitors gather in 2019 to catch a glimpse at the latest and greatest games the world’s publishers had to offer....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 327 words · Victor Williams

GDC 2007: Morning after pills (June 27, 2025)

Today is the first real morning after a full day of GDC goodness. Because of that (and because we at Dtoid like to do things a bit different), I thought I’d do morning after wrap-ups of some of the more interesting stuff encountered throughout the previous day and night. My Microsoft Monday morning after pills: •Fable 2: If what is to be believd comes true, then we got a no brainer, real big hit on our hands....

July 24, 2025 · 1 min · 192 words · Alison Hernandez

Giveaway: Play Morphies Law early in this PC beta test

This is my kind of game! [The beta is live now, so take a key!] We’re hosting a giveaway for a ton of beta keys forMorphies Law. Come take one! Hey, now this is more like it! I dig things that are out there, and I think Morphies Law definitely fits that bill. After all, who doesn’t love weird morphing Dia de los Muertos skeletons? If you don’t, you’ve come to the wrong place....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 257 words · Jennifer Martinez

Here’s the first, suitably crazy, gameplay for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands

Perhaps the worst Dungeon Master in history? During today’sPlayStation Showcase, we got to see our first gameplay footage of Gearbox’s colorful and crazyBorderlandsspin-off,Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. The mini-maniac and her crazy imagination will be let loose on August 07, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfcDN-Yewh8 The game uses a “multiclass system that lets you mix and match six unique character skill trees,”per creative director Matt Cox. “You can also customize how your players look and sound....

July 24, 2025 · 1 min · 194 words · Marissa Waller

How to check Earth’s day and night cycle in Warframe

Time of day can be a surprisingly important factor inWarframe. There are a lot of resources that you will only be able to get at certain times, especially on Earth. There are specific plants that are only available on Earth, and they will appear during the day or night. You will also need to know when it is night to be able to hunt the mighty Eidolons that roam the Plains near Cetus....

July 24, 2025 · 2 min · 365 words · Melissa Miller

How to complete EA FC 24 Euro Throwback objective

TheEA FC 24Euro Throwback objective is certainly one of the more difficult sets of challenges to complete, as the instructions aren’t stated explicitly. Instead, you’ll have to decrypt a bunch of available clues and try to figure out how to solve them using the right cards in Ultimate Team. While it might feel gritty at first, completing the set is easy once you know what the solutions for the clues are....

July 24, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Greg Doyle