Mechanophiles rejoice, Stick Shift is on greenlight

The joke is its penis is the gearstick Remember that timeLaura jacked off a car? Yeah, it’s the reason she’s banned from every Kwik-Fix and car dealership in Britain. [Editor’s Note: I was only banned from a couple of Michelin Tyre Centres, okay?] Well now you too can tightly grasp a Volvo’s thick shaft, and make that enginepurr, because developer Robert Yang hasput the game on Steam Greenlight. Look, whether you think this game looks good or not doesn’t matter....

June 6, 2025 · 1 min · 111 words · Justin Cabrera

Memory Mania event and new companions coming to Disney Dreamlight Valley with Lucky Dragon update

The Lucky Dragon update is coming toDisney Dreamlight Valleyon June 16. After the update, players will not only have a new realm and quests with Mulan and Mushu, as well as the brand newMajesty and MagnoliasStar Path event, but also a new time-limited event too. TheInside Out 2themed event, Memory Mania, will be available as soon as the update goes live on June 26 and will run until July 17, giving players three weeks to complete daily requirements and unlock exclusive event rewards....

June 6, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Paul Smith

My favorite 4th of July videogame memory

This isn’t a particularly exciting holiday tale. It doesn’t involve an abominable snowman, or misfit toys, or an elf that wants to be a dentist. It is just a simple story about something that happened on one dark and unassuming 4th of July night many years ago. A night that I will never forget for the rest of my life. A few years ago, I used to live in an apartment building at the foot of the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles....

June 6, 2025 · 4 min · 849 words · Peter Hansen

My introduction to the Destructoid tip line

Sex Shorts and other weirdness So, one of the main benefits of joining the writing staff here is that I’ve been included on the tip line. Basically, anyone in the world can send an e-mail to[email protected], and the writing staff can sort through those submissions and see what’s worth investigating further. As you might imagine, that inbox can fill up pretty quickly, and some of the stuff that lands in there is tangentially related to video games at best....

June 6, 2025 · 3 min · 445 words · John Morgan

New Mario Strikers: Battle League demo available on Switch

Labored with NINTENDO RULES ™ Nintendo hasreleased a new demofor its madcap sports titleMario Strikers: Battle League, giving Switch owners the opportunity to check out the colorful and chaotic soccer game free of charge. The demo is available to download from the eShop now. Tested your grit out on the Strike field yet? Now’s your chance! The#MarioStrikers: Battle League free demo is available now on Nintendo#eShop! Play with a limited selection of characters, stadiums, and matches in the demo today:https://t....

June 6, 2025 · 2 min · 226 words · Tony White

Ninja leaves Twitch to stream exclusively on Mixer

Mixer making moves The smallest of the major video game streaming platforms just recruited the biggest personality. In a landmark move, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has inked an agreement to leave his Twitch channel behind to stream exclusively on Microsoft-owned Mixer. The next chapter,https://t.co/lvn9KBjEYqpic.twitter.com/tljVgyM3bG — Ninja (@Ninja)July 06, 2025 The reason this comes as such a shock is because Ninja is easily the most popular streamer on Twitch. He has amassednearly 15 million followers(although that number is dropping in response to today’s news)....

June 6, 2025 · 2 min · 341 words · Frank Mann

Octopath Traveler II is looking like a treat for RPG fans

The character names still spell Octopath When I started theOctopath Traveler IIdemo fromthis week’s Nintendo Direct, I thought “well, this is certainly moreOctopath Traveler.” I technically wasn’t wrong, but I was massively underestimating what I was getting into. On the surface,Octopath Traveler IIfeels the same. One of eight characters can be your protagonist, the menus are identical, and the core features from before remain. This initially filled with me trepidation.Octopath Traveleris a game I like well enough....

June 6, 2025 · 5 min · 982 words · Jean Cook

Ogle over these brand new Grand Theft Auto V screens

Is that Robert Downey Jr.? We all know thatGrand Theft Auto Vis finally coming in September (the 17th, to be exact), and Rockstar has sent over a fresh batch of screens to hold you over until then. These fresh images range from the depths of the sea all the way to the sky, showing off some diverse landscapes and solid visual work. They also show off the game’smultiple protagonists in action....

June 6, 2025 · 1 min · 112 words · Shelly Smith

Our Top 10 Most FaveRAWRite Board Games With Dinosaurs In Them

Barring meteorites, who doesn’t love dinosaurs? They lived on every continent, came in all shapes and sizes, and put the first paleontologists through an anatomical trial by fire. Dinosaurs are just fantastic, so naturally, they’ve inspired a healthy collection of Jurassic-kicking board games. That was the last pun, I promise. Dinosaurs were my bread, butter, and breath as a kid, and I still remember trivia about nature’s only attempt at dragons at random, usually inconvenient intervals....

June 6, 2025 · 6 min · 1078 words · Daniel Steele

PS Vita goes all Dual Shock with these grips

Want to make your big-ass portable even bigger and less portable? Attach Datel Japan’s newest Vita accessory to the new portable and add some “Assist Grip.” For 1,380 yen you get a Dual Shock-ish grip on each side of the PS Vita. It certainly looks a bit like Sony’s PS3 controller, but the grips look to sit way too low. It seems like your thumbs would have a hard time hitting the buttons on the top half of the system, though gamers with big hands would probably be fine....

June 6, 2025 · 1 min · 134 words · Eric Guerrero

Reddit sends crowbar to scientists to protect against headcrabs

Scientists near Geneva are weeks away from switching on the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator that promises to change our understanding of the universe forever. A Reddit user, however,has consideredthe far reaching implications of this device, and fears that a real-life resonance cascade, as seen in the events ofHalf-Life, could occur, leading to Headcrab incidents the world over. Luckily for humanity, this reader has our welfare at the forefront of his mind and sent along a tool that will protect civilization from alien invasion, should disaster strike:...

June 6, 2025 · 1 min · 174 words · Heidi Coleman

Review: Holy Diver Collector’s Edition

Holy Hell I am ecstatic that I can go online today and buy so many new games for old systems. Just a few years ago, the only options similar to this at least on the NES were reproduction carts–games that either never came out in the west or never came out at all put on a “donor” cartridge that the buyer generally had to provide, sacrificing a perfectly good game in the process, and having to wait a long time for a “fake” game to arrive in the mail....

June 6, 2025 · 6 min · 1104 words · Eric Walker

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has its whole gimmick in the title

The name says it all From Software is squeezing as much as it can out of the four wordsSekiro: Shadows Die Twice. At first, it might seem like nothing more than a stylish-sounding title — all staccato’d syllables with a punch. But, really, those four words explain three of the game’s main hooks. Let’s work left to right. Sekiro isn’t a protagonist’s name. From Software and Activision tell us they’re not ready to reveal the hero’s proper name....

June 6, 2025 · 3 min · 455 words · Casey Wilson