Giveaway: Say hello to your new copy of Adios Amigos

Saludos a su juego nuevo Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of Destructoid. Its two-month mission: To give away free games. To seek out new free games from different genres. To boldly give out more games than any gaming website has done before! So grab your helmet and your first mate, because today we’re sending you to space in the cooperative platform/puzzlerAdios Amigosfor Steam and Xbox One! Let developer Cosmic Picnic tell you about it: InAdios Amigosyou play as 1-4 small alien space-traveler(s)....

June 30, 2025 · 3 min · 471 words · Mrs. Brandy Bryan

God of War team helping to finish The Last Guardian

Teamwork! That’s what we like to see. Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida says that Team Ico has taken in some talent from Sony’s other groups to help finish their latest,The Last Guardian. In an interview withWired, Yoshida confirmed that Santa Monica Studios are among those helping out with the title. He says that “the best engineers in the U.S. and Europe” are also pitching in. “Well, you know, it’s not just Santa Monica, sid Yoshida....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 210 words · Crystal Larson

Grab the Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection demo soon

Demo will be available in Q3 2015 Want to tryUncharted: The Nathan Drake Collectionbefore committing your cold, hard cash to it? The demo will hit the PS Store later this summer, although how much of each game we’ll get to sample in this free taster has yet to be confirmed. Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collectionwon’t just provide an opportunity to revisit Drake’s early antics, either. We already knew that the game will be remastered to boost the visuals and frame rate, but developer Blue Point has now confirmed the gameplay itself will be tweaked to better match the mechanics of the later installments....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · Stephen Oconnor

Happy New Year 2013!

Happy Corgi Ears! As we kick off this new year, I would like to personally thank everyone reading this for supporting Destructoid this past year. You readers are a constant source of inspiration for the staff here, and it means so much to us that you come back everyday. You are the best. We love you. We hope you’ll stick around for 2013, as we’re sure it’s going to be a huge year for us....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Jessica Myers

How one balls a beat in NBA Baller Beats

This sucks. I got excited when I noticed that there was a new video promotingNBA Baller Beats, ready to post it up with something derisive and vaguely resembling wit (it’s a dark room). And then I watched it. I can’t be mean to Kenny “The Jet” Smith! The two-time NBA champ lays out the basic play ofBaller Beatshere and he’s just so damn genuine about it that any desire I had to mock the game has evaporated....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 100 words · Kimberly Zimmerman

How to play Madden NFL 25 Franchise mode with your friends

If you and your friends have the dream of managing NFL teams,Madden NFL 25‘s Franchise mode is the perfect option to test yourselves (albeit on the virtual platform). I love playing the Franchise mode as a solo journey, where I am up against the AI managers. But there’s an option to conduct a league between you and your friends, where each of you takes charge of a franchise. Let’s take a look at the exact steps of setting up a multiplayer league and how your friends can join them....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 229 words · Teresa Collier

How to toss common items at Doomstadt in Fortnite Chapter 5, Season 4

AlthoughFortnite’squests usually have you eliminating enemies, looking for items, and visiting specific locations, theMarvelstoryline is a little different. During Part Four: The Illusionist, your first objective is to drop low-quality weapons in Doomstadt. Fortunately, this is quick and easy if you know a few tricks. How to toss common items at Doomstadt in Fortnite Tossing common items at Doomstadt is another way of saying you need to throw away your weapons....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 286 words · Nicole Anderson

It seems like Xbox has already committed to a digital-only press conference for E3 2021

Digital-only through July of next year Everyone has been forced to move away from physical events for the foreseeable future, as conventions are canceled and the public is encouraged to abstain from sizable gatherings. There’s not really any sort of hope on the horizon, as we’re still not exactly sure what kind of timeline we’re working with. However,E3 2020 has been canceledoutright, and publishers and platform-holders all seem keen to just host pre-recorded streams of what they would’ve shown at a press conference....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 311 words · Leslie Curtis

Japanese subway playing Final Fantasy music for 30th anniversary

Cute Unlike Nintendo untoMetroid, Square Enix is keen on celebratingFinal Fantasy‘s 30th anniversary (it barely missed the cut in December of 1987, but it counts!), as tons of festivities have already been rolled out over in Japan. One little tribute involves jingles playing at Japanese subway stations, includingvictory fanfareandthe main theme. These are located over at the Yokohama subway station if you’re a Tokyo native, and will run until July 7....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 144 words · Daniel Gonzales

Just watching this Mario Maker level gave me PTSD

Props to the first man to defeat the pit I’m sure you’ve all seen hard Mario Maker levels by now, but The Pit of Panga: Cape Escape by the eponymous Panga has to take the cake. It is a bottomless chasm of certain death, fiendish puzzles, and devilish dexterity challenges that seems all but unbeatable. Almost. YouTuberGrand POOBearfinally broke the curse with the first successful clear (not counting the run the creator would have had to accomplish to upload the level) of the pit....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Jean Jackson

Kitten’d is a VR cat-astrophe prevention simulator

STOP KNOCKING THINGS OFF THE TABLE, MITTENS Cats are assholes. Everyone knows this. Why we keep them around I’ll never know. My roommate has a cat, and his favorite thing to do is sneak into my room when I’m asleep and lie horizontally across my face. He’ll jump up onto the coffee table, stare at me, and paw something off from it onto the floor. Unless I’m sleep-pooping again, I’m pretty sure he’s the one who’s been pooping in my bed 2-4 times a week....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 381 words · James Thompson

Live show: Savant Ascend and Rise of the Triad

Prepare for an evening of total sensory overload [Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch Rick ‘King Foom’ Olson play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as much a part of the show as anything else.] Tonight onMash Tactics, we have a double feature that is damn near guaranteed to pop your eyes from their sockets, and perchance melt your brain just a bit....

June 30, 2025 · 2 min · 277 words · Jacqueline Jones

Max: Curse of Brotherhood has doodling and platforming

Brotherly love Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, the sequel to the puzzle platformerMax and the Magic Marker,had some gameplay footage to show off today at E3. After wishing his annoying sibling away, Max must embark on a doodling adventure to rescue him. Physics-based platforming, magical drawing, and lots of jumping around can be expected. It’s somewhat reminiscent ofLIMBOand, visually,Trine. The Curse of Brotherhoodis due out sometime in Spring for XBLA....

June 30, 2025 · 1 min · 70 words · Philip Thomas