Overwatch’s holiday event begins next Tuesday

Good to know I’m not even actively playingOverwatchright now on account of the wallet-punching last several weeks this has been for big game releases, but I’m still feeling antsy for Blizzard’s holiday event. Some details and cluesseeped outafter a round of data mining, and now, we wait — until December 13, that is. The company shared a little “RSVP” video teaser over Twitter announcing the date: You’re invited!pic.twitter.com/MQZPZOW4Y1 — Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch)July 30, 2025...

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 108 words · Emily Blackburn

Parks are still trying to figure out how to deal with Pokemon Go

New proposals are coming If you playedPokemon Goduring its peak, you probably saw how a lot of institutions, both public and private sector, reacted to the game. Some embraced it, encouraging folks to petition to add them as a Pokestop, and had deals for players. Others were cautious, posting rules and regulations for folks who didn’t typically visit places like public parks — things like “make sure you respect the wildlife....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 173 words · Veronica Osborne

Peggle 2 will allegedly hit the Xbox One on December 9th

But Popcap still hasn’t announced anything When the Xbox One launch lineup was announced, one title stuck out the most —Peggle 2. I was a huge fan of the original and the pseudo-expansionPeggle Nights, so I couldn’t wait to see what PopCap had in store next. Sadly,it was delayed until after launchto a “TBA 2013” placeholder. Butaccording to VentureBeat,Peggle 2is on track for a December 9th Xbox One release date — the only thing is, that’s less than a week away, and PopCap still hasn’t announced anything....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Ann Stevens

Play Yakuza 1 & 2 massage sub-stories in private on Wii U

New details emerge for the HD upgrade While playing all those saucy hostess club sub-stories in private in theYakuza 1 & 2 HDremake due later this year was already known —thanks to this uncomfortably strange trailer— a recent interview inFamitsuhas shed additional light on other enhancements for the currently Japan and Wii U only upgrade. Specifically regarding gameplay tweaks, the Yakuza team has made a bevy of changes that will make the game easier for newcomers....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 263 words · Robert Rose

PlayerUnknown leaves PUBG owner Krafton to form new studio

The team will explore systems needed to enable massive scale in open worlds Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene, the creator ofPlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, announced his departure fromPUBGowner Krafton today. The creator is forming a new studio in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Greene’s studio, PlayerUnknown Productions, is an independent development studio. Krafton will, however, have a minority stake in the studio. Its site also listsPrologueunder its games, at least for the time being.Announced in 2019,Prologuewas set to be something else entirely for Greene and his team, and also wouldn’t have been a battle royale....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 281 words · Megan Lee MD

Pokemon Sword and Shield is running yet another free Pikachu event, here’s how to get it

It has a comet shard Are you sick of free Pikachus yet? Too bad! Despite the fact that we’ve had an entire string of free Pikachus recently, The Pokemon Company is trotting out their main mascot yet again for anotherPokemon SwordandShieldpromo. This time, it’s aKIBOPikachu, which sports the wish, swift, thunderbolt, and celebrate abilities; and comes with a comet shard item. So what is all of this for? It’s actually a promo fromthe 2021 “Space Sunrise” stream, which ran via the International Space Station right before the New Year in Japan: for some reason, Pokemon were also featured....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Carrie Kelly

PSA: You can hatch a Cyndaquil in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet

Return to Cyndaquil The7-Star Typhlosion raid event inPokemon Scarlet & Violetis here, paying homage to both Generation 2 andPokemon Legends: Arceus. Fortunately, it’s not just Typhlosion making its debut; you can use it to get Cynaquil too. Here’s how to hatch your own Cynaquil inPokemon Scarlet & Violet. Bring Typhlosion and Ditto to a picnic Just like previous raid monsters, you can get a Cynaquil egg by bringing Typhlosion and Ditto to a picnic....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 235 words · Cassandra Lewis

Reminder: Anthony Burch still trying to save the world

Back in November, I told you about “Anthony Saves the World,” an online web series by Mikey Neuman and Anthony Burch of Gearbox Software. (Yes, that’s the same “Reverend” Anthony Burch whose face used to be plastered all over Destructoid.) Well, months later, it’s still happening. And it’s pretty good. They’re six episodes in, which means if you haven’t been paying attention, you have some catching up to do. I’m telling this to you because we’re friends, and I like to make sure my friends know about all the coolest stuff....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 181 words · Joshua Hamilton

Resident Evil 6’s Siege mode, DLC bundles out next week

Will you siege the new content? Siege, the latest multiplayer mode forResident Evil 6, will release on March 5 for Xbox 360 and March 6 for PlayStation 3,Capcom announced. As per the other mode releases, Siege will cost 320 Microsoft Points, or $3.99/ €3.99 / £3.19. Siege revolves around one set of players protecting BSAA rookies while another set attempts to attack them. A map pack bundle will release on the same day for 400 MS Points, or $4....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Jennifer Mcconnell

Rockstar confirms major Red Dead Online support is done, in favor of focusing on Grand Theft Auto

“We have been steadily moving more development resources towards the next entry in theGrand Theft Autoseries” MajorRed Dead Onlinesupport is coming to an end, according toa new blog postdirectly from Rockstar Games. After spending the majority of the post talking about how much stuff is coming toGTA Online, the team broke the news to fans that major development would no longer be a focus forRed Dead Online— something a lot of folks felt was a long time coming....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 250 words · Devin Baker

Rockstar delayed the physical editions of GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition

PlayStation and Xbox bumped to mid-December, while the Switch physical edition falls to 2022 The physical release ofGrand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Editionwon’t be happening in early December as expected, which, given thesloppy state of the game, is probably for the best. As it now stands, Rockstar has decided to push back the game’s physical release to December 17 on PS4 and Xbox One / Xbox Series X, while the Nintendo Switch version has fallen back even further — it’s now slated for “early 2022....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Tanya Garcia

RTX 5000 series now also has manufacturing issues, continuing Nvidia’s shoddy streak

Great news, folks: Nvidia has just confirmed that the production lineup of the fancy new RTX 5000 graphics cards has experienced a hiccup at one point. This manufacturing issue has, in turn, led to a performance reduction on an allegedly small number of cards. This confirmation comes thanks toTechPowerUp’s sleuth-workon the matter, which in turn came about onlyafterRTX 5000 buyers discovered something was amiss. More specifically, a number of RTX 5090 and 5070Ti graphics card users found that their hefty new purchase had a lower number of ROPs (i....

July 14, 2025 · 3 min · 550 words · Arthur Mcknight

SDCC: Sigourney Weaver involved with Avatar: The Game

Don’t those two look completely wrapped up and interested in what they’re watching? Wait, what are they watching. Oh, right, it’sJames Cameron’s Avatar: The Game. How silly of me to forget. If you’re wondering about those 3D glasses, let me remind everyone that the game adaptation ofAvatarwill be viewable in full 3D, a feature that was nothing short of one-hundred percent necessary. Hey, theG-Forcegamedid it, so why the heck not?...

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 142 words · Kristin Davenport