Bryce Dallas Howard and Seth Gabel are voicing the leads Annapurna Interactive has proven itself enough to land a permanent spot on my radar, and while certain games stand out more than others, I’m willing to give them all a look. Next on the roster isMaquette– a “recursive” puzzle-adventure that plays with scale and tells a personal story built around the highs and lows of a relationship. There’s a brain-breaking “zoom-out” gif on Steam to help sell the premise....

Arriving in February Mega Man: Fully Charged, the program that was rumored to premiere under the Disney XD banner but eventually went with Cartoon Network, is in a precarious situation. Right now there’s a lengthy hiatus after just a handful of episodes, though the writing staff says that all is well and the show will return eventually. Whether Cartoon Network will actually support the show or burn off the remaining commitment is up in the air, butFully Chargedis still alive and even has a new toy line....

Another timed exclusive PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds— it’s a big game, right? Everyone wants a seat at the table as Bluehole basically forms its own empire around the tried and true survival/battle royale concept. The thing is, right now, it’s only on PC. Microsoft tapped them first to try and get some sort of exclusivity deal on Xbox One, a concept that they’ve been toting around for many months now — not speaking in any certain terms if this deal is actually exclusive or how long it is....

Lighter, thinner, more colors Announced in Japan at a Sony press conference this morning, the new PCH-2000 Vita model comes in six colors — Black, White, Green/White, Light blue/White, Pink/Black, and Khaki/Black. The sleek new design is 20 percent thinner and 15 percent lighter. A New LCD improves on the quality they’ve been able to obtain with the tech prior, but it’s not that sexy OLED screen from the first Vita....

Stabby McStabStab The awkward looking sequel to the indie crowd pleaser,Nidhogg 2, will be getting a release on August 15 for PS4. While this blog only covers the PS4 side of things, the officialSteam pagefor the game lists the same date on PC. The news was confirmed over on theEU PlayStation blog, along with having an interview about the process for makingNidhogg 2and it’s controversial art style. While I can’t say I particularly care for the way this game looks, I’m almost certain it plays fine....

Have I posted this video already? I feel like I have. Louis CK is awesome. That’s all, really. Tonight, Aaron, Jim, Topher and I will discuss Jack Thompson’s disbarrment, what futureMGSgames might be like without Kojima, piracy as the great equalizer, and this month’s Musings topic. As always, give us your questions and Siegelpuns; the best question-asker will be rewarded with some neat swag, and the best Siegelpun-deliverer will have theirs read by Aaron at the top of the show....

More spawns and more items In an attempt to get people up and at ’em, Niantic is rolling out anotherPokemon Goevent that offers some XP bonuses (again, to the point that they should be normally). The previously announced daily bonus feature will be applied going forward, which nets you extra XP and Stardust for the first catch and Pokestop of the day. You’ll garner even more rewards if you do both of these actions daily for up to a week....

Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast gets into the nitty gritty of Pokemon’s latest presentation Welcome back! It is a new Tuesday, which means tonight there will be a new episode of Spot Dodge: A Live Nintendo Podcast exclusively on Destructoid.Topics: Tonight, we’re discussing the Pokemon Presents presentation ofScarletandVioletfromlast week, what we expect from tomorrow’sSplatoon 3 Direct, the games we’re playing, and more. Our lovely cast from around the web: Brett Medlock (me) and Mary Stowe from Destructoid, John Friscia from The Escapist, Greg Bargas from PC Invasion, and Brett Larsen, our extra special guest....

The Instant Game Collection goes back to Rapture tomorrow PlayStation Store will update tomorrow with new offers for members of the PlayStation Plus service, including the addition ofBioShock 2to the Instant Game Collection of rotating, free titles. Other promotions will include a 10% discount onRockstar Games Collection Edition 1, which includesRed Dead Redemption,L.A. Noire,Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition,andGrand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City. And the fluid physics-based puzzle/platformerPuddlewill also be half off for both its PS3 and PS Vita versions....

I know three things about Oklahoma. It’s the name of a musical, it’s a state in a country across the pond and now it’s somewhere that needs to be protected from the evils ofvideogame violence!Oklahomashit eaterlawmaker, State Representative William Fourkiller, has Oklahoma citizen’s best interests at heart by proposing a 1% tax on violent games. As we all know, taxes based on morality are the only way to ensure the young stay sane....

‘If we can collaborate together, we can drive up the price to a more reasonable value that is more representative of this title’s rarity’ There’s this impossible-to-ignore threshold when something — usually a really good orreally badtweet — rolls into our general staff Slack channel and gets so many of us riled up, I feel compelled to post it on the site. Today, it’s this tweet, in which we’re all reminded of precisely how miserable the retro game market can become during a pandemic....

GSC Game World’sS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2has had quite an eventful development timeline. Fans were initially excited when the game was announced, though it quickly drew criticism when developers announced thatNFTs would be included.The Ukrainian studio backtracked on this, though it then had to contend with the Russian invasion of Ukraine which resulted in the game’s delay. As revealed in afact sheet from the studio at Gamescom 2023,S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2has been delayed yet again, pushing its release date to Q1 2024....

Nuts Mega Manplayers are some of the most eagle-eyed fans in the industry. They saw the writing on the wall forMega Man 11before it was announced by way of a Block Man outfit that seemed like a throwaway/unused piece of concept art, and they also managed to sneak a peak at aStar Force(aMega Manspinoff series) design that graced the pages of Game Informer back in January of 2018. It led to all sorts of speculation that the costume would be playable inMega Man 11, and perhaps people haven’t figured out how to unlock it yet: but nope, that legend has been put to bed....