Indie Pi?ata puts a slight twist on the Steam sale formula

There’s a barrier to entry There’s a brand new sale on some indie games happening on Steam right now, but you might not be entitled to any savings. The reason for this is because the promotion, Indie Piñata, designates already owning one of the discounted games as the membership card. There are ten games featured in Indie Piñata:The Bridge,Super Splatters,Contraption Maker,Flockers,Monaco,Jack Lumber,10,000,000,Triple Town,MouseCraft, andDungeon Hearts. Having just one of these purchased means that the remaining nine are discounted for the next eight days or so....

May 16, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Andrea Mercado

Injustice: Gods Among Us Season Pass detailed

Four characters and alternate costumes Let’s get straight to it: the Season Pass forInjustice: Gods Among Usincludes access to four unannounced DLC playable characters in addition to alternate costumes for Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Deathstroke. The pricing is $14.99 / 1200 Microsoft Points, which Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment says is “four [characters] for the price of three.” I’m generally wary of paying up front, whether it be pre-ordering or buying a season pass, but at least we have something to go on here — NetherRealm Studios previously dida pass forMortal Kombat....

May 16, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Anthony Garcia

I’m sick of guessing at Gearbox’s PAX East teases, you figure out what they mean

Make the internet proud Some shit is gonna go down at Gearbox’s PAX East 2019 panel on March 28 in Boston. It has to. Those resoluteBorderlandsfans will mutiny if they’ve been strung along yet again, this time way harder than ever before. 👀pic.twitter.com/pGGEpIi0V9 — Gearbox Official (@GearboxOfficial)June 08, 2025 That’sBorderlands 3, right?That has to beBorderlands 3. If that isn’tBorderlands 3, this qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment. Time to tease another game for PAX!...

May 16, 2025 · 1 min · 205 words · Gregory Scott

Journey is finally done, waiting on release date

thatgamecompany’s President, Kellee Santiago, says that the beautiful “online parable”Journeyis finally done, meaning that the development process is officially finished. According to an interview onvideoshock, the company is just waiting on a release date now. The latest date we’ve heard is “Spring.” I can’t wait to get my hands on this game. It’s like moving, interactive artwork. A story without words. A study of life through game. Man, I’ve got to stop before I get all douchebag gamer and turn people off from this indie gem....

May 16, 2025 · 1 min · 87 words · Chase Solomon

Legendary racer’s dream supercar featured in Gran Turismo Sport

I love you, and I miss you Hall-of-fame Brazilian racer Emerson Fittipaldi has finally seen his dream supercar not only realized, but featured in the upcomingGran Turismo Sport. Italian car design firm, Pininfarina, is set to reveal theFittipaldi EF7 Vision Gran Turismoat the Geneva Motor Show this Thursday. It joins 20 other cars in theVision Gran Turismo program, in which Polyphony digital called out to car manufactures to make an “ideal GT....

May 16, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · Bethany Nash

Miyamoto: First Zelda ‘plain’, not planned for mainstream

Shigeru Miyamoto, ever the humble duck, has admitted that he did not thinkThe Legend of Zeldawould ever go mainstream. He said the early titles were “plain” and didn’t do much to grab attention. Of course, the legions of fans that it created said otherwise. “When I was makingThe Legend of Zelda, it was very plain,” laughs the impish designer. “I didn’t think that genre would be seen as something so mainstream....

May 16, 2025 · 2 min · 237 words · Rachel Robinson

Mobile games need to stop tying accounts to Facebook

Or at least give players more options Early last year, against my better judgment, I invested a great deal of my time and effort into a free-to-play mobile game. It wasDissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, and for three months it ate up every minute of free time I had. If I wasn’t at my real job or playing games for Destructoid, I was grinding the hell out of it with my squad ofFinal Fantasyheroes, trying to land those sick pulls....

May 16, 2025 · 4 min · 683 words · Vincent Soto

Monark shows off its Ego-driven combat in new trailer

And also some really good trailer jams Monarkis a new project from former members of theShin Megami Tenseiteam, and it’scoming to the West soon enough. Ahead of its February debut in North America, developer FuRyu isshowing off the combatand style ofMonark. In battle, your character and their allies use the power of your Ego to fight what look like some creepy Otherworld forces. Calling down special attacks and magical forces seems the norm here....

May 16, 2025 · 2 min · 285 words · Reginald Lucas

Neon City Riders update adds new features and improved accessibility

Grab yo’ pipe Indie developer Mecha Studios has dropped a major patch for its pixelated vigilante adventureNeon City Riders.The“Super-Powered Edition”update, which is live now on PC and is headed to console platforms soon, makes several adjustments to some ofNCR‘s more troublesome elements. First and foremost,Neon City Riders’overall difficulty setting has been re-evaluated, re-balancing combat and puzzle sections, as well as adding further checkpoints throughout the map. Fans of the game’s original settings can toggle the new “Old-School Mode” option, to leave the difficulty level as it was pre-patch....

May 16, 2025 · 2 min · 261 words · Benjamin Hancock

Nimble Sakura Warrior for 3DS is like samurai Punch-Out!!

Among the news at the recent Nintendo Direct conference — where thePictoChat-ish appSwapnotewas announced — a new title calledNimble Sakura Warriorfor the 3DS eShop was revealed. The game places you in the role of a wandering samurai as he chops down foes, though battles aren’t a simple hack-n’-slash affair. In a similar fashion toPunch-Out!!orInfinity Blade, movement during battles is limited; you have to dodge at the right moment with the slide pad and counter with buttons....

May 16, 2025 · 1 min · 135 words · Ernest Tate

Nintendo Download: Well, there’s not much before Zelda

TheHasbro Kids Bundleis one of the biggest releases this week Normally, this is the part where I talk about a featured game or two that’s hitting the Switch eShop (including ones Nintendo deems fit to trot out). Instead, Nintendo is touting the recentFortnite Star Warscollab as the biggest thing going on this week, which tells you everything you need to know! Even if you delve into the full list below, things are pretty sparse....

May 16, 2025 · 1 min · 166 words · Michelle Evans

Nvidia RTX Remix beta now out, expect shiny remasters of classic games

If you’ve been itching to see retro games be given a bit of a pep in this modern gaming world, Nvidia’s RTX modding toolkit is already realizing that dream. With the open beta now out, prepare yourselves for an upscaled return of some classics. In a ratherlengthy post, Nvidia has outlined exactly what the RTX Remix software is capable of. In a nutshell: it’s a “cutting-edge modding platform” that allows for games from a bygone era to be given a bit of a remaster....

May 16, 2025 · 2 min · 275 words · Angela Robinson

Outskirt Stable location & directions Tears of the Kingdom (Totk)

Trust in Rocinante With a name like “Outskirt Stable,” you’d expect thisZelda: Tears of the Kingdomlocale to be far off the beaten path. Good news: it isn’t! You won’t even need to get near the Gerudo desert to find this stable: here’s where to locate it. Where to find the Outskirt Stable The Outskirt Stable is planted southwest of Central Hyrule, before the series of mountains and the desert that dot the southwestern landscape of Hyrule....

May 16, 2025 · 1 min · 186 words · James Warren