Capcom likely won’t fix Monster Hunter Freedom Unite for iOS 9

Beat it before you update Monster Hunter Freedom Uniteis a pretty great gameon iOS. It’s a shame then, to learn that Capcom probably isn’t going to update the game to support the recently released iOS 9. According to the game’s official iTunes page, Capcom notes, “This application is not compatible with iOS 9 (including the beta). There are currently no plans to update this application in the future. Please keep this in mind when updating your OS....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 152 words · Charlotte Contreras

Crystal Conquest puts that old web browser to work

Now that I sit behind of a computer most of my work day, browser based games have become a necessary element to my ultimate goal: putting things off as long as I can. Square Enix has released a trailer for their upcoming RPG style slash-em-up,Crystal Conquest. I can feel my productive time slipping through my fingertips. The upcoming browser based title looks to incorporate some interesting multiplayer action, complete with Square Enix style spell casting, and lots of big swords....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 152 words · Bethany Anderson

Destructoid’s award for Overall Best Game of 2017 goes to…

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Kept you waiting, huh? We’ve seenrobots with weird life choicesovertake the top PS4 slot,Fleischer cartoons made a comebacknearly a century later, anda Nintendo game triumph on mobile. It was a weird, wonderful year, so wonderful that it could give the fabled 2004 and 2011 a run for their money (seriously, go down that rabbit hole sometime). It was an amazing year for games, but one title dominated the conversation for almost the entirety of 2017 —The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 318 words · Valerie Harris

Destructoid’s Indie Gems – Edition 6: Reinventing psychological horror through art and glitches

Trapped inside your apartment, forced to relive the same five days on an endless loop, you wonder if there’s any light at the end of this impossibly dark tunnel. Things outside of your control brought you here. Face-to-face against a past you’d love nothing more than to forget, you’re reminded of happier times through the smiley Post-it someone placed on the bathroom mirror. Waking to the sight of it feels like a façade placed atop the broken mirror that is your fractured mind....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 744 words · Anthony Fletcher

Development ceased on World of Darkness MMO

CCP CEO states, ‘efforts were falling regretfully short.’ CCP Games announced today that development has been halted on theWorld of Darknessmassively multiplayer online game. In a statement,CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson expressed regret over the decision, saying, “I am truly sorry that we could not deliver the experience that we aspired to make. We dreamed of a game that would transport you completely into the sweeping fantasy of World of Darkness, but had to admit that our efforts were falling regretfully short....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 233 words · Phillip Larson

EA FC 25 The General Evolution: Best players to use

The General Evolution is now live inEA FC 25, and you can complete it to upgrade a card of your choice. While this is a paid evolution that requires you to spend 60,000 coins to unlock, it offers notable boosts. Let’s take a look at all the requirements, followed by the best players for the upgrades. EA FC 25 The General Evolution requirements Here are the requirements for The General Evolution inEA FC 25....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 174 words · Randall Cordova

Entire ‘Gears of War Collection’ unlocked on Xbox One by playing Ultimate Edition

Gears 1-4 Microsofthas announcedthat if you purchaseGears of War: Ultimate Edition, you’ll be able to unlock the entireGears Collectionby way of backward compatibility, and now we have a few concrete details on the matter. If you playUltimateon Xbox Live from August 25 until December 31, you’ll be eligible to unlock the collection this fall when it hits. That includesGears,Gears 2,Gears 3, andJudgment. When said collection does arrive, anyone who owns it by way of the Xbox 360 will also be able to play their copies, and the originalGearswill evidently drop later today for Xbox One preview members....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 130 words · Andrea Nicholson

Expedition 33’s big open world is so worth exploring, if only for the ability to ‘slay’ like never before

It only makes sense thatClair Obscur: Expedition 33’scharacters would have a wide array of glorious fashion styles to customize with. The French sure are stylish. The turn-based RPG game has a massive array of costumes and haircuts to collect, from the ridiculous and silly to serving looks in the most serious manner possible, and I’ve been having a blast in the open world trying to buy and collect all of them....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 694 words · Morgan Romero

Fire Emblem Heroes adds Three Houses’ Edelgard as new Legendary Hero

The Black Eagles take flight Nintendo has released a trailer for the newest update headed to mobile battlerFire Emblem Heroes. Arriving April 30, this newest summoning event will see the arrival of popularFire Emblem: Three Housescharacter Edelgard, who joins theFEHroster as its latest Legendary Hero. Edelgard is a young noble and captain of The Black Eagles, one ofThree Houses… erm… three houses. A woman of incredible beauty, grace, and poise, Edelgard is nevertheless a master war tactician and a fierce warrior on the battlefield – cutting down her opposition with a swing of her mighty axe....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 157 words · Andrew Zuniga

Fortnite’s Playground mode will be taking another break next week

Coming back bigger and better Epic Games has announced that the limited time Playground mode,recently added, pulled, then returnedto their battle royale smash hit,Fortnite, is to takeanotherbreak next week for some new features and fine tuning. The Playground mode, which re-launched earlier this week, allows small teams of players to occupy a private playing area, where they are given more resources and a one-hour time limit tocreate the coolest homestead that they canwithin the game’s engine....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 172 words · Charles Massey

GDC announces a summer show, probably earlier than it should’ve

Tough to get too excited right now The games industry, just like the world at-large, is trying to figure out how to manage the COVID-19 outbreak. Conventions have been canceled, manufacturing has been delayed, and nearly everybody’s working from home as we face a very real uncertainty about how long the coronavirus crisis will last and what kind of toll it’ll take. Today, three weeks afterpostponing its regularly-scheduled March convention, GDC announced dates for a new summer show....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 281 words · Carrie Gonzalez

Genshin Impact Version 4.3 Special Program summary and Primogem codes

Genshin ImpactVersion 4.3 is just around the corner, and its special program tells us everything we need to know. In case you missed it, here’s a summary of everything new coming to Version 4.3: Roses and Muskets! 4.3 Livestream Primogem Codes RS99D5LVTM6VUBRQC4MCT4PZ8BQ9CMMVS5PM Each code grants 100 Primogems and a few other materials. They expire less than a day from when the Special Program premieres, so redeem them now! 4.3 New Characters: Navia and Chevreuse Naviais a 5-star Geo Claymore character....

August 6, 2025 · 4 min · 702 words · Paul Taylor

Guilty Gear Xrd player stands up too early, loses

Best moment of EVO so far? Today’s top story from EVO came from aGuilty Gear Xrdmatch between Woshige and Ogawa. After pulling off a comeback victory in the second round, Woshige mistakenly thought he’d won the match in its entirety. He stood up and turned to the crowd, triumphantly raising his hands in the air. Meanwhile, his opponent took advantage of the situation and quickly took control of the match before Woshige realized it wasn’t actually over....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 118 words · Michele Jones