I can feel a hot one The nextSea of Thievesupdate belongs on the cover of the cheesiest ’80s metal album. Get ready to melt some faces — not through the sickest of guitar riffs but through actualhot hot heat. The Ashen Winds update is live and it introduces a new enemy type called the Ashen Lords. They’re a fiery bunch — literally. Their presence is marked by a firenado. They’re capable of turning their faces into flamethrowers....

Lingsha is the newest character available to pull onHonkai: Star Rail, and as one that serves the Abundance role, she has significant competition. With this in mind, is Lingshi still worth your Steller Jades, or should you pass her up for a future character? Is Lingsha worth pulling in Honkai: Star Rail? Lingsha is in an interesting place. She’s a Break/Follow-up-centricFire Abundancecharacter that focuses on offense to do her healing. Thanks to her plethora of buffs for both Break and Follow-up archetypes, she fits like a glove in those teams....

I quit after 5 minutes! I just learned the termchurnfrom our recent article onsocial game makers and how they track players. The term came up again today in aGamasutra articleon a new report from social game analysis firm Playnomics. This firm found that, during their study period this summer, 85 percent of all new players quit social games after only one day of play. Sounds about right to me! The study also found that 95 percent of players that started at the beginning of the quarter were out forever by the end of that quarter....

Transform The unassumingSlay the Spirehas been…slaying since it entered early access in 2017, and things really kicked off for developer MegaCrit after releasing the full version on PC: and eventually, PS4 and Switch. It’s basically a roguelike with cards, with the latter directly influenced by the concept of deckbuilding. As a meshed concept it’s proliferated with a few other games likeSteamWorld Quest(and tabletop games likeClank), and I have to say, I dig it....

Every Tuesday a bunch of us Dtoiders get together and hop online to play some Team Fortress 2 on theofficial Destructoid server! You should join us! I think congratulations are in order for the Dtoid community: we managed to go through pyromania last week without filling up the server with pyros. I’m sure that was not an easy task. So, as part of the prize for being so awesome one of our admins Hank Hill has started up acompetitionthat the entire community is free to enter....

The voice of Brock from the US Anime returns! This episode features Eric Stuart reprising his role of Brock from the original English dub of thePokémonanime, a cameo fromSean Vealsco of Yacht Club Games(Shovel Knight), and a Pokémon-ified version of one of my favorite games from Anna Anthropy (download it here). I can die happy knowing that I brought all these wonderful segments of the videogame world together under one roof....

TEKKEN Hybrid, an HD collection of goods for the ultimateTEKKENaficionado,has been announcedexclusively for PS3. It’s slated for a pre-Christmas release, and features one game, one enhanced demo, and a CGI movie. TEKKEN Tag Tournament HDis a remastered version of the PS2 original, complete with Trophy support.TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2 Prologueis a juiced-up demo, featuring four playable characters from the upcoming game, due to be released in 2012. Finally,TEKKEN Blood Vengeanceis a 3D CGI movie in which “Ling Xiaoyu and Alisa Bosconovitch uncover dark secrets that could destroy the Mishima family for ever....

XBlaze Code: Embryo BlazBlueprequelXblaze Code: Embryois getting a PC port, Aksys Games just announced. Set 150 years before the events of Arc System Works’ fighting games,Xblazefollows the exploits of Touya Kagari, a high school student whose life gets flipped-turned upside down after being rescued from an otherworldly assailant by a mysterious girl by the name of Es. Aksys plans to release the visual novel via Steam on March 1. If you’re more interested in checkingXblazeout on a console, it and itssequelare already available on PlayStation 3 and Vita....

Ellie? Marek Okon worked as a concept artist onThe Last of Us. He posted a piece of art on hisFacebookaccount with the text “let me tease you something… Its coming.” To me, this looks like Ellie fromThe Last of Us. But this could be anything — fan art, torture, Ellie’s cousin, the new lead for the next Uncharted. Okon continued to tease after the piece saw a response, with many hoping that it might be a tease for the next The Last of Us game:...

Dat movie, man. It got me soamped. And the cartoon’s theme song is pretty damn catchy, too. This weekend, give us money so we can go build homes in Costa Rica, Daniel Starkey’s full interview with Hal Halpin gets uploaded,Sup Holmes?rubs shoulders with Konjak ofNoitu Lovefame, and Jim gets friendly withA Valley Without Wind. Destructoid Original:Live Show: Hangover gets awesome with Ronimo!The Question: Do you want Black Ops II?Fireside chat with ECA President Hal HalpinSup Holmes: Konjak explains it allThis weekend on Dtoid....

[Update:I’ve asked Robert Khoo of Penny Arcade for comment, but he’s already commented elsewhere, and is apparently all out of comments at the moment. I also just erased the word “didn’t” from a joke in the second paragraph because it was supposed to appear crossed out, but it isn’t showing up that way in some browsers, which makes the joke just look like a typo. Sorry about that folks!] We just wrapped the second day of PAX East 2012, and we’ve got a lot of video content on it’s way, from both the top notch video teams at Revision3 and my humble little two man production team....

Destiny 2relies heavily on grouping with your fellow guardians to complete its various challenges, both big and small. It’s not a bad solo experience, either, as the various campaigns prove, but it’s catered toward groups or matchmaking. However, there’s still a handful of challenges to tackle on your on through content you solo. Regardless of your path forward, considering a few solo dungeon rewards can beworth it. If that sounds like your forte, you might be wondering where to start....

Through magic, hacking, and ungodly trickery you’re able to see Valve’sLeft 4 Deadrunning on a PS Vita. Well, kinda. One YouTube user,digitalarts001, has tweaked the PlayStation Suite to let him controlLeft 4 Deadrunning a PC with the Vita, with no noticeable lag. It looks nice and smooth, and it gives me hope for future Remote Play support for the system. Amazing. The best part is that this adaptation actually uses the Vita’s features....