‘Not confident [it] will improve’ Meet the newStreet Fighter Vbeta, same as the oldStreet Fighter Vbeta. Again, likethe first betaheld in July, this one is also running into some snags. And, those aren’t likely to be fixed. Capcom detailed the situation in anemployee blog. According to the developer, several new problems came about recently which affected the rate at which matches are made. It’s said that matchmaking is very slow right now....

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As part of a Gwent combo The Witcherhas been around for a good while — since the ’80s in short story form and ’90s in novelization form –but only recently did the series explode, creeping up into the zeitgeist with each main entry until it could no longer stay in its fantasy niche withWild Hunt. Since then it’s spawned a spinoff in the form ofGwent: The Witcher Card Game, which CD Projekt Red has been heavily promoting in a fair weather era of CCGs....

Sound Card 012: Rocked and loaded! Castlevania.Mega Man. And finally,Contra. With this, my holy trinity is complete. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the greatest run and gun videogame series ever, Allistair Pinsof ranked thetop fiveContragames. But what is a game without a kickass soundtrack to back it up? Nothing, that’s what! Contragames are balls hard, so the music needs to fill you with the strength to tackle impossible odds without fear or hesitation....

Shoutouts to Podtoid It doesn’t feel like it has been that long since former Destructoid reviews editor Aaron Linde moved on to work in the game industry, but it has been almost six years now. In that time, he has contributed to a number of development studios, including Microsoft Game Studios and Airtight Games, beforelanding his current job at Gearbox Software. Recently, Gearbox revealed what has has been working on: thehobby-grade, genre-blended, meta-growth FPSmultiplayer shooterBattleborn....

25 fascinating seconds of EarthBound 64 footage from Space World just popped up It’s a joy whenever we can fill in gaps in our gaming history with new, rare, or resurfaced footage of old games. Thanks to the efforts of Zen, whopurchaseda Nintendo Company Report from 1998, we’ve got a short but detail-rich look atEarthBound 64, a game that’s arguably more fun to talk about and pine for than it would’ve been to play....

Lag sucks DisplayLag, the people behind the handyHDTV monitor lag database,have a nice interviewwith three fighting game pro players on input and online lag and how it affects their game. Carl “Perfect Legend” White,René “KOR” Maistry, and Emmanuel “MASTER” Rodriguez all make money on their fighting game abilities, and all of them say that input lag affects them professionally. It seems that input lag inconsistency is their biggest gripe. Perfect Legend, the Mortal Kombat EVO World Champion from 2011-2012, says that lag changes everything in a match:...

I was fine with the original Remember E3? I remember. It was a hectic time, but it wasourhectic time together. A time when we could all come together, potentially take off work (well, not me!) and chill for a few days (not months) and talk about games nonstop instead of bursts. Back in June of 2019,Ubisoft talkedGods & Monsters, billed as a full-on cartoonyAssassin’s Creedthat was centered around mythological beasts....

All three parts You too can relive the experience of getting completely owned by enemies and having another higher level player jump in and save you by watching theToukiden 2original animation. Done by Studio 4C, it manages to capture the feel of the games quite well and only runs roughly five minutes in length, so it’s not a big commitment. My only big complaint is the bad CGI monster halfway in....

Cyberpunk 2077 is by no means an original concept. The idea of Cyberpunk was established long before the game got its hands on it. If you’re looking for some of the inspiration the game took from, then pick up one of these amazing manga that helped build the world of Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk manga The complex and often dark words of manga are perfect for the cyberpunk setting. Neon streets, high-tech weaponry, and futuristic dystopias are all run-of-the-mill for many Japanese comic booksand graphic novels....

I miss Hudson Soft Bonk: Brink of Extinctionhad been planned for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii before being canceled due to a tsunami in Japan, among other reasons. YouTuber PtoPOnline gives us the inside scoop on what exactly happened to the game with a behind-the-scenes look at its making, and some gameplay of an incomplete build. As I’m ahuge fanofdinosaurs,unreleased games, andBonk, it pains me to watch this footage....

Only Spider-Man beats it Not finishing games you bought is a foreign thought to me, but it happens often! I mean you’re probably thinking to yourself: “I rarely finish games!” And data would support you, friend. Based on a new trophy-scouring report from UnGeek,Ghost of Tsushimais one of the most-finished open world games on the PlayStation platform, but it still only clocks in at a 50.2% completion rate (for the main story)....

(At leastlooksurprised) During this evening’sStreet Fighter 6Showcase stream, Capcom revealed the first wave of DLC characters that are currently throwing shapes in the gym, preparing to grace the ring with their presence in the months following the title’s initial release. As wemay or may nothave already known, the first season of DLC characters will consist ofStreet Fighter Vdebutante and Master of the Turbulent Wind,Rashid, the rogue Shadaloo runaway,Ed, and the community edgelord’s favorite himself, the fearsomeAkuma....