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Enshroudedjust released into Early Access on Steam. But how much does it cost and is it on Xbox Game Pass? For those who don’t know,Enshroudedis an Early Access survival multiplayer game created by Keen Games and GmbH. You play as the last Flameborn, tasked with saving your kingdom and surviving the horrors of the Shroud, a corrupting fog that consumes the land. It’s crafting, survival, and action RPG gameplay has been a hit for those who’ve gotten their hands on the title....

Fortnite’s Star Warsevent is now live, and with it comes opportunities to getmultiple themed character skins, items, and more. You need to completeStar Warsquests to unlock certain rewards, with one of your first goals requiring you to collect an E-11 Blaster Rifle from a fallen Stormtrooper. How to eliminate a Stormtrooper and collect their E-11 Blaster Rifle inFortnite x Star Warsevent Eliminating Stormtroopers duringFortnite’s Star Warsevent requires visiting Imperial Roadblocks and defeating any that spawn....

Grim shadow-heavy artwork: Check Playdead, the esoteric indie developer behind creepy puzzle-platformersLimboandInsideare currently looking for staff to work with the studio on a new, still unannounced project. As spotted by@MauroNL3, Playdeadis advertising vacanciesfor what seems to be a full development team, including coders, designers, and artists, as well as a technical director. While the new game is still not titled, the job listing describes a third-person science-fiction adventure, set in a remote corner of the universe....

TheCalgary Comic and Entertainment Expois one of Canada’s biggest gaming, film, television, gaming, comics and “geek culture” events, drawing celebrities, panelists, and events from all over the world. This year, it was also host to theHoney Badger Brigade, a group of startedby three womenwho originally “…came together because of a mutual interest in men’s issues” including “…suicide, homelessness, veteran health, child custody, male victims of rape and domestic abuse, and rape allegations” They are also the creators ofHoney Badger Radioand the “World’s Cutest Rape Joke” t-shirt....

Pump up the volume Sony has been pumping out “wireless headsets” for the PlayStation family for a while, so it was only a matter of time for Microsoft to follow suit. Just this morning they announced the “Xbox Wireless Headset,” a new product that will work with the Xbox console family. Microsoft boasts they have “embraced spatial sound processing by including custom audio hardware to offload audio processing from the CPU, dramatically improving the accessibility, quality, and performance of these experiences....

Former president leaves advisory role Back in DecemberMike Capps, former president of Epic Games, announced he was retiring from the company to focus largely on his family and upcoming baby. Mike was going to stick around in an advisory role, but tonight he announced that he has completely left the company. “When we announced that I wanted to transition out of my leadership role at Epic, the plan was for a continued but less active role, service on the board of directors, and ideally, being that eccentric semi-retired guy who still comes to playtests and gold parties,” Mike stated in aFacebook posting....

Havok? More like have-dick (and balls!) Ashen Riftis a nice-looking, post apocalypse shooter, etc. There was a Kickstarter, now there isa new one. It’ll come to PC and PSN eventually. Now that the housekeeping is out of the way… http://t.co/aphjT2GO64 — Steven, but a santa (@dtoidsteven)June 22, 2025 My enthusiasm was slightly undercut by my inability to make this new “.gifv” file format show up on this website, destructoid-com.go-vip.net. This is why I tweeted it and embedded the tweet....

How Japan Studio built a giant DualShock to help test Knack Speaking at the Develop Conference, PlayStation 4 lead architect andKnackdirector Mark Cerny described the team’s intention to create an “on-ramp” to console gaming with the upcoming character action game. SCE Japan Studio had two audiences in mind, reportsEurogamer: “One audience was core gamers,” said Cerny. “I wanted to tap into the nostalgia for game experiences of the past, that feeling you had when you playedCrash BandicootorSonic the Hedgehogfor the first time....

Will feature in next week’s Famitsu Platinum Games, the studio behind such wild action titles asBayonettaandNieR: Automata, has revealed that it will be making a “major” announcement next week. The mysterious news will drop in the February 27 issue of Japanese publication Famitsu. It is unknown whether this new news will specifically pertain to the fabled “Platinum4” –four incoming mystery news drops that were revealed back in January– but at least we won’t have to wait too long to find out....

While supplies last Bungie is going to release a public beta forDestinynext year and if you want in, you’re looking at a pre-order of the game in the near future. Everyone who put money down prior to today is good to go — look for a redeemable code via email. Otherwise,here’s the listof participating retailers. It’s been specifically mentioned that supplies are limited, so keep that in mind. The beta itself applies to all versions of the game: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and PS4....

Insur-mount-able Among theRainbow Six Siegecommunity, there is perhaps no operator more quirkily beloved than Alexsander Senaviev – better known to theSiegefaithful as Lord Tachanka. Having been present inSiegesince launch, the Russian Spetsnaz operator has become something of a meme character, recognised for his lumbering form, unwieldly head armour and devastatingly powerful mounted machine gun. But sadly for Tachanka, this internet infamy hasnottranslated into a high pick-rate. In a game such asSiege, where speed, mobility, and adaptation are of the essence, standing rooted to one spot in order to fire his trusty turret has left poor Tachanka at the bottom of the popularity pile, only really busted out for The Lolz....

For realsies this time,Skull & Boneslaunches on February 16. If the pirate game has managed to keep you curious all this time, look out for the open access running from February 8 until 11. It is worth noting that Ubisoft+ games can grab the game earlier on February 13. You have several choices including PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Amazon Luna, and PC via Epic where you may enjoy crossplay and cross-progression throughout the platforms....

‘Tis the season to bust out all of your grodiest games and get to bloody work. One of October’s haunting hallmarks is Namco’sSplatterhouseseries, from the 1988arcade classicto the overlooked2010 reboot. Don’t let one of the series’ most charming entries pass you by, though.Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffitiis a chibi-style take on the gore-soaked side-scroller, and it’s the perfect game to blaze through at devilishly fast speeds this Halloween. Whether you’re just getting into speedrunning or looking for something new to tackle, it’s important to find the right starting point....