Mediterranea Inferno visual novel sets console debut for July 04, 2025

Developer Eyeguys and publisher Santa Ragione released the “treacherous visual novel”Mediterranea Infernoon PC in August 2023, and now it has a date for consoles. The latest announcement has the game hitting PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on July 29, 2025. Mediterranea Infernofollows the act of Eyeguys’ 2020 visual novelMilky Way Prince: The Vampire Star, which tackled similarlyweighty themes. You can see some of its idiosyncrasies on display in the console announcement and launch date trailer below....

May 17, 2025 · 2 min · 241 words · Beth Walker

Mega Man 1 & 10 composer joins the Shovel Knight team

The auditory magic of Mega Man lives on in shovel form We’ve been posting aboutShovel Knighta lot. It’s not our fault. It’s Yacht Club Games’s fault. They just keep announcing new things that make us feel great, so we have to write about them. Those are the rules. The latest “feel great” news is perhaps the greatest so far. Manami Matsumae (via the good people atKoopa Soundworks), sound effects designer and composer onMega Man 1and one of the composers onMega Man 10, is joining Jake “virt” Kaufman in crafting music for the game....

May 17, 2025 · 2 min · 226 words · Danielle Black

Mirage: Arcane Warfare will be delisted next week due to new GDPR regulations

Out of mana TheGeneral Data Protection Regulations, or GDPR, is a set of European laws that govern data protection and privacy for people and businesses operating in the European Union and European Economic Area. Due to the nature of the GDPR, it does not require government legislation to go into effect and is immediately binding as of August 11, 2025. So what does this have to do withMirage: Arcane Warfare? Sadly, it looks like the game will cease to be because of these new regulations....

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · Joseph Lewis

My awesome Namco x Capcom Fight Club experience

[Justice recently represented Destructoid at a Namco and Capcom event in London, and his experience turned into this epic blog. Give it a look! – Kauza] As you may have read recently, Namco and Capcom brought Fight Club back to London for a christmas battle. It was held over two days (December 2nd-3rd) at the Namco Station in Westminster, with the first solely for industry folk, with each person paying £15 for entry, all of which would be donated toGamesAid, a charity that distributes funds to a diverse range of charities....

May 17, 2025 · 12 min · 2407 words · Jeffery Ramirez

Nintendo announces New Super Luigi U launch promotion

Get double coins and possibly a free pin If you downloadNew Super Luigi Uon the Wii U eShop this week, you’ll be able toearn double coins(40) for completing the survey for it onClub Nintendoby August 1. Also, if you check a box at the end of the survey, you’ll be entered into a contest for a chance to wina Luigi pin. It might not be much, but at least Nintendo is doingsomethingfun for a new release — a simple DLC release, I might add!...

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Elizabeth Jordan

Nominees for Destructoid’s Best Multiplayer Design of 2014

Best of 2014 [Image credit:Mike Lambert] Friends can make any game worth playing. Growing up, couch play was a staple in my household. I would often have videogame themed birthday parties, inviting all of my buddies over to have fighting game tournaments and, one time, aTenchu IIlevel editor challenge. While a great single-player game can always elicit strong emotional reactions within oneself, a great multiplayer game lets you share those emotions with your loved ones....

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · Emily Chase

Oh hell yeah, Mortal Kombat 11 is all set for April

Raiden??? I don’t mean to alarm you, but Raiden just made Scorpion’s head explode in front of a live studio audience. Ed Boon brought the sufficiently gory debut trailer forMortal Kombat 11to The Game Awards, along with a fast-approaching release date: the game is set to launch on July 15, 2025. Not only is it coming to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, but there’s a Nintendo Switch version, too....

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Jennifer Calderon

Oxygen Not Included Oil update strikes black gold

‘Duplicants infected with Hypothermia should no longer vomit Hypothermia germs’ My current favorite sadism-simulatorOxygen Not Includedgot an update recently, adding in a significant new biome to the game. Buried deep in the bowels of your mysterious asteroid, the oil biome is filled with sweet, sweet crude oil for your extraction pleasure. Of course, tunneling deep into an increasingly oxygen-poor hole for a filthy resource is sure to be a safe, fun experience for everyone – especially with thegerm mechanic introduced last update....

May 17, 2025 · 2 min · 255 words · April Brennan

Pack the piggy bank for the PS3 (Update)

In areportreleased this morning, an analyst with Lazard Capital Markets claimed that up to 80 percent of the PlayStation 3 consoles available at launch will be the hefty high-end version — that’s $600 in case you’ve been locked in a closet all year.Also included in his little homework assignment is the estimation that Sony will “ship another 800,000 units via air freight through the end of the year (1.2 million units total in calendar year ’06) and another 1....

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 201 words · Ryan Martinez

Phosphor: Unreal Engine 4 ‘the best engine available’

Awakened dev bigs up Epic’s next-gen engine In ourexclusive look at the reawakenedProject Awakened, Phosphor Games revealed the Kickstarter-backed sandbox game will rock Unreal Engine 4 in its final build. It already looked promising in UE3, but the team hopes to be more “futureproof” with UE4, an engine it believes is the best in town. “We switched over to UE4, in part because we knew it would look so much better right away, but also because we really want this game to have a long future, and clearly the future is next gen engines like UE4,” explained Phosphor’s Chip Sineni....

May 17, 2025 · 2 min · 384 words · Gabrielle Miller

PS Mobile platform now open to all developers

PS Mobile Dev Portal launched Sony has launched the PS Mobile Dev Portal to help developers get started working on PS Mobile. The official SDK is available through this portal, as is the license agreement. A fee of only $99 is required for a developer, and this gives them the ability to publish as many PS Mobile games as they’d like for one year on PlayStation certified devices. What this means for you, gamer, is that the PS Mobile library of games will grow....

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Patricia Miller

Single-sitting lo-fi horror game Paratopic is worth another look

Definitive Cut incoming I’m all about these spooky lo-fi games that pop up from time to time. Ray wastelling us aboutParatopica few months ago, and now the first-person horror title is gearing up for a Definitive Cut release onSteamanditch.io. The faces may look goofy as hell, but the sinister low-poly vibe is on point. It’s a game made up of strange vignettes about three separate but not wholly unconnected characters: an assassin, a VHS smuggler, and a young girl....

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 176 words · Michael Ward

Sonic Adventure coming to PSN

We’ve known aboutSonic Adventureon Xbox Live Arcade for roughly ten million years, but what we hadn’t heard was confirmation on a PSN counterpart. That confirmation has now arrived, courtesy of the ESRB. The software rating board and compulsive bean-spiller recently graded the game for the PlayStation Network, letting the big purple cat out of the bag. Sega has refused to announce either a 360 or PS3 version ofSonic Adventure, but with the huge wealth of evidence now in our hands, the publisher really ought to give up the ghost and admit it....

May 17, 2025 · 1 min · 102 words · Michael Lopez