Great gaming on the go Mobile gaming often gets a bad rap among the hardcore crowd, but looking at 2015 it seems like the platform is really coming into its own. These aren’t yourCandy CrushorFlappy Birdclones; these are some legitimately great titles. Alphabearappeared to be a simple word game at first glance, but showed impressive depth for those who dug into it.Downwellmight work better with real buttons, but for an action platformer it handles surprisingly well on a touchscreen....

Deck the halls, write to Santa, and update your respective consoles before the traditional Christmas network outages. ‘Tis the season, so we’re wrapping up another year of gaming at Destructoid with 2023’s best games, and that includes a heavy-hitting category of PlayStation nominees. Destructoid’s process is pretty simple, our very own Eric Van Allen explains as much in hisIndie Nomineesrundown. Games can only be nominated in one category, and our ‘year’ begins in December 2022 — December 2023 games don’t make the cut....

I’ll probably ignore them [Update:Lucioball, aRocket League-like mode, is confirmed as a new gameas per the PlayStation Blog. The event starts today, and more limited time events are confirmed for the future.] Overwatchjust got its first big update recently withAna, but Blizzard has noted a lot more is in store in the future. That future, it seems, also involves new cosmetic items by way of new themedLoot Boxes. Streamers have been getting boxes from Blizzard as of yesterday noting a new Rio Olympic Games promotion, with pictures of new sprays and new costumes for Lucio, Zarya, and Tracer....

They may ‘hurt themselves and others’ PlayStation VR should not be used by children under 12, according to a recent update to the PlayStation 4’s health and safety notices. Redditer KGizzly (viaEngadget) spotted the notice had been added as part of the 3.5 fireware update. Vive, while not carrying an explicit age restriction, suggests the product is “not designed to be used by children” and requests that owners “do not leave the product within the reach of young children or allow them to use of play with it” because “they can hurt themselves or others....

Online GO Fest an overwhelming success Back in June, Niantic CEO John Hankeannounced that his companywould be donating $5m USD in revenue to support a range of black gaming initiatives, projects and communities. However,Pokémon GOFest 2020 – held on Niantic’s AR title this past weekend – proved such a huge success that the companywill now double its donationto $10m. PokémonGOFest usually sees players from around the world gather together for a physical weekend of fun and critter-hunting, but the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forced the annual event to go all-digital this year....

The entire series is coming west Muv-Luvis a game I immediately confuse withMoe Chronicleeverytime it’s brought up. I don’t know why I do that, I just do. So consider my surprise when I heard PQube Games, publishers of such wholesome titles asGal*Gun: Double Peaceand the upcomingOmega Labyrinth Z, was bringing the Vita ports of the game to North America and Europe in 2018. “What the hell did they cut out of the game to make that happen?...

A lovely show full of lovely people I’m a few days removed fromReboot Develop 2018and despite a long trip back home ripe for reflection and a more-or-less normalized sleep schedule, I’m still processing the event. Set along the Adriatic Sea in the otherworldly beautiful Dubrovnik, Croatia — a city quite literally fit forGame of Thrones— Reboot just closed out its fifth year. It was my first time attending. Hopefully, it won’t be my last....

The team behind the upcoming 2D side-scrolling platformerAngry Video Game Nerd 8-bitrealized it would be attending various conventions over the coming months and put together a mobile version of the iconic ‘nerd room’ from the upcoming game. It’s a cool nod to the retro vibe ofAVGN 8-bit, but it also reminded me just how much I miss my old gaming wall. Born in 1989, my gaming wall wasn’t nearly as retro as the one created by the teams at Mega Cat Studios and Retroware....

Capcom Collab 1 As part of the Summer Game Fest 2023, Capcomhas revealeda crossover between their upcomingExoprimaland already gameStreet Fighter 6. This is in the form of just, like, robo-Ryu and cybo-Guile. In other words,Exoprimal X Street Fighter 6. All right then. I test-droveExoprimala while backand came away with stories of butts. I guess this is… more butts. But recognizable butts. I guess it could work, I’m just not really seeing the value?...

British tabloid/glorified comic bookThe Sunhas brought on a neuroscience expert to argue that videogames can cause temporary — and perhapspermanent— mental problems in children. Yep, it’s that time of the month where another British “newspaper” scares its readers into hating something irrationally. Baroness Greenfield argues that a child’s brain, “can be temporarily disabled by activities with a strong sensory content — ‘blowing the mind’. Or they can be inactivated permanently by degeneration — ie....

In the base game ofElden Ring, you were able to visit the Wandering Mausoleums to make additional Remembrances of the great bosses you defeated. Now inShadow of the Erdtree, remembrance duplication is back. This time, it’s in another form, so we’ll show you how to do it. Remembrance duplication inShadow of the Erdtree To use Remembrance duplication inShadow of the Erdtree, you have tovisit one of the three coffins in the Shadow Realm area....

…Redeem on uPlay Years ago, my friends and I used to make a habit of sneaking up on one another from behind and putting each other in headlocks. We called it “Splinter Celling.” We also called series protagonist Sam Fisher “Tom Clancy” as a lark. His name was right there on the box, after all. Anyway, a ton of Tom Clancy’s adventures areup on Humble right now. The minimum amount of money pledged netsSplinter Cell: Chaos Theory,Ghost Recon, and a smattering ofRainbow Sixtitles (1,3, andVegas) along with access to theRainbow Six Siegemultiplayer beta....

The original three Game Boy titles are back Collection of SaGa Final Fantasy Legendis athree-game compilationthat Game Boy JRPG fans potentially bought onNintendo Switchlast December as a cool Christmas gift to themselves. Were you left out? Pretty soon, PC, iOS, and Android players will be able to relive — or, for many of us, discover — this peculiar and sometimes fussy Square series. Next on the docket, Square Enix is bringingCollection of SaGato iOS and Android onSeptember 22, which will be followed up by a PC release on Steam onOctober 21....