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Session details TBA GDC Europeis set for August 19-21, timed to run alongside gamescom 2013 in Cologne, Germany. More and more sessions are being added to GDC Europe’s lineup each week to make the 275,000 person combined mega-event even more attractive to gamers and game makers. Nintendo just added two special sessions to GDC Europe. This would be the first time that Nintendo has participated in GDC Europe.GDCsays that details of these talks will be announced in the near future....

Focused ‘exclusively’ on Nintendo Switch software Nintendo has announced the date and time of its E3 2021 Direct presentation will be June 15, at 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET. Arriving on thelast day of this year’s virtual E3, this presentation will be followed by a Treehouse segment as well. TheE3 2021 Directwill run for roughly 40 minutes, with info focused “exclusively on Nintendo Switch software,” and mostly releasing in 2021 at that....

No love for PC this time Given howsuccessfulOverwatch‘s open beta was, it makes sense that Blizzard would want to offer another free-for-a-limited-time experience to coax people into buying the team-based shooter. From Friday, September 9 at 11:00am Pacific until Monday, September 12 at 4:00pm Pacific, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 owners can playOverwatchfor free. All of the content is accessible, and progress (like levels and Loot Boxes, but not Achievements or Trophies) made during the free weekend will carry over to the full, paid-for game if you decide to upgrade down the road....

Patch 3.8 and the new Blight season are now live Path of Exile‘s 3.8 content patch goes live today, and brings with it the Blight Challenge League, introducing a surprisingly refreshing league mechanic (for an ARPG, at least): tower defense. Throughout the league, players will be fightingThe Blight, the spread of which will need to be stopped in a tower defense-style minigame present in each zone. In the end-game, some maps will be entirely ridden with Blight!...

Hello, surf right in Old-school fourth-gen players will likely rememberthePokemonFlower Paradise zone: a special area that houses the mythical creature Shaymin. The Flower Paradise was onlymeantfor people to access via an item called “Oak’s Letter,” which is an event item that essentially “unlocked” the chance to meet Shaymin. Of course, people have been brute-forcing their way in since the DS era, including in the newPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlremakes. Confirmed by EternalMemes30 on Reddit, the Pokemon Flower Paradise can be entered via using a surf glitch....

It would be all too easy to comment on the fact that Sony seems to be pushingadsdesigned to make their core demographicmasturbate furiouslyvomit in terror, but the subtle genius of this promo is almost undetectably erudite. Thankfully, you all have Destructoid to translate the true genius of this piece.See, there’s this old guy, right? Maybe he has an ex-wife who won’t let him see the kids, and maybe she’s draining him dry with all the alimony he has to pay, and he just can’t bring himself to put a gun to his head....

Knuckle Up Arc System Works has confirmed a western release ofDouble Dragon & Kuni-kun Retro Brawler Collection,as leaked last week on PlayStation database site Gamestat.The compendium of classic punch-ups will arrive digitally on PS4 and Nintendo Switch February 20. The collection – previously released in Japan asKunio-kun: The World Classics Collection –contains 18 old-school brawlers from theDouble DragonandKunio-kun/River Cityfranchises. This includes the three NES editions of the mainlineDouble Dragongames along with the Famicom run ofKunio-kuntitles, featured in both their Japanese and localised forms....

Stream starts early this morning Out of nowhere Sony Japan has announced an online streaming event that centers around the PlayStation Vita, which means I won’t be going to bed as early as I thought tonight. Scheduled for 5 p.m. Tokyo time, this stream is expected to bring some kind of Vita announcement — the page says to expect “new information.” If nothing else, and judging by the age warnings on the site, we’ll at least see some software announcements....

At the top of the week, we ran a story called “Team Rocket is real and wants to corrupt your Pokemans.” The story concerned a malevolent prankster who was distributing a hacked Pokemans at the Nintendo World Store in New York, dressed like a Team Rocket member. Today we received a statement from a “real” Team Rocket cosplay group, who wanted to make it clear that this was a rogue trickster that did not reflect the true intentions of real-life Team Rocket members....

I still can’t stop laughing at this. Destructoid Original:Exclusive: Ridge Racer Unbounded: Create or DestroyLive show: Record of Agarest War Zero on Mash TacticsHow I learned to stop worrying and dieLive Show: Backlog may finish Mega Man Legends 2Vote in Backlog Series 22: Screw the pen, gimme the sword Community:Community blogs of8/9Forum thread of the day:PAX 2011eSports: Really?? Contests:EA vs Dtoid match in Bad Company 2 is now live! (Update)...

A fancy rabbit, a magical hat, and mean crows After playing awee bitlast week, I’m pretty excited about Daedalic’sThe Night of the Rabbit, and even more so after watching the new trailer. I only got to solve puzzles and cast spells in the first sixth of the adventure game, mainly in the charming animal town of Mousewood, but the video shows off quite a few new areas and a rather ominous threat....

In WayForward I trust… maybe Even as a fan of the original cartoon as a child, I just couldn’t get into the newSmurfsfilm, even on a base level. But WayForward maybe change that, at least in the videogame realm, with aThe Smurfs 2game based on the upcoming film sequel. Although it seems as if the game will tie in heavily with the upcoming movie, it will feature four-player co-op platforming action on the 360, PS3, Wii, and Wii U....

Show Me Heaven A team of dedicated video game historians has uncovered and reconstructed an unreleased NES game based on 1990 indycar movieDays of Thunder, some 30 years after it was abandoned by publisher Mindscape Days of Thunderwas discovered byThe Video Game History Foundationamong a huge catalogue of materials that belonged to game designer Chris Oberth, who sadly passed in 2012. As the foundation picked their way through Oberth’s discs, hard-drives and notes, the team came across a 21-floppy disc backup of a single HDD, which contained the code for what would have been the NES edition ofDays of Thunder– entirely different from the Beam Software-developed release edition....