‘F K’… in the coffee! Experience Points is a series in which I highlight some of the most memorable things about a particular game. These can include anything from a specific scene or moment, a character, a weapon or item, a level or location, a part of the soundtrack, a gameplay mechanic, a line of dialogue, or anything else about the game that is particularly noteworthy and/or awesome. This series will no doubt contain spoilers for the games being discussed, so keep that in mind if you plan on playing the game for the first time....

Major Nelson’s blog has a nice little tidbit for youF.E.A.R.fans out there in Destructoid land. It looks like we will be getting afreebie, in the form of the Control and Conquer All Map Pack. So what exactly do you get with this? Read away: Control and Conquer All are both new team game modes that pit each team in against each other in a struggle to dominate different control points on the map....

Welcome to Amsterdam Fallout: New Vegas‘ lead creative designer, John Gonzalez, has joined the team behind theKillzonefranchise over in Amsterdam. Back in March of 2011, Gonzalez left Obsidian Entertainment and joined Warner Bros. Games where he worked as lead designer forMiddle-earth: Shadow of Mordor,a yet-to-be-released RPG prequel toThe Lord of the Rings. According to hisLinkedIn profile, Gonzalez left WB Games back in August of this year and had joined Guerrilla a month later....

Not to be confused with Fire Emblem Warriors [Update: Nintendo is nowsayingFire Emblem Heroeswill hit iOS and Android on February 2.] A big focus of Nintendo’sFire Emblemdirect was the series’ first mobile entry,Fire Emblem Heroes, which is coming out first for Android devices February 2 and “available soon” on iPad and iPhone. It will be free, with additional in-app purchases. The “tactical RPG” boasts a “brand-new, original story”…between two warring kingdoms....

FortniteChapter 6 Season 2 has just begun, and with it, leaks about upcoming updates are already coming out. One of the most interesting leaks so far is the Pump & Dump gun. First teased in theofficial Chapter 6, Season 2 gameplay trailer, Epic Games later confirmed in ablog postthat the weapon will arrive inFortniteupdate v34.10, which is expected to be the next major patch. While the trailer made it seem like a character was wielding two pump shotguns at once, turning the iconic dual pump into a single weapon, new leaks from @LpLeaksNews on X reveal that’s not exactly the case....

[Gen Eric Gui is another newcomer that has started his C-Blogging off on the right step. Read his take on voice acting as part of theMonthly Musings theme. — CTZ] Lately, voice acting has become a topic of great contention amongst gamers. If a game doesn’t have voice acting, the gaming population cries out “Why not?” and marks are made against the game for not giving it’s characters vocal chords. And of course, when a game does have voices, there’s always that chance that comparisons to “nails on a chalkboard” will be brought up in many a review....

‘Keep your guns locked up from children, it’s common sense’ A Texan gun manufacturer has been criticised for modifying a Glock handgun to look like a NES zapper (yup, that plastic gun thing we used to shoot virtual ducks and clay pigeons back in the day). Precision Syndicate insists the gun – which it sharedpicturesof via its social media channels – is a one-off designed for a friend and was never intended to be mass produced....

Tor Books has announced the latest chapter in theHalonovel series calledThe Thursday War. The new book picks up right from the end ofHalo: Glasslandsand continues the “Kilo-Five Trilogy, penned by Karen Traviss. The Thursday Wartells the tale of life after the Covenant-Human war, where humans and Sangheili (Elites) are fighting against each other still, and even amongst themselves. The story will set up “the events and circumstances that will come to define the state of theHalouniverse inHalo 4,” according to 343’s Frank O’Connor....

Titans’ Gathering is the fifth of the challenges at the Slumber Dojo inZelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and it’s a combination of three boss fights that you will already have seen if it’s available as a challenge. Before you can undertake this challenge at the Slumber Dojo, you’ll need to have first completed both the Jabul Ruins and Gerudo Sanctum Rifts, as those contain two of the bosses you’re about to face....

With the release ofWuthering Wavesversion 1.1, Kuro Games has given players the ability to craft echo experience for our Echoes surprisingly, the very wall withholding progress for many in the 1.0 version. As always though, there’s a method to the madness, so allow me to enlighten you on the process. How to make Echo EXP inWuthering Waves1.1 To actually produce your own Echo EXP, you first need to make your way over toMt....

Think of it like an air dash Locomotion is important for anyZeldagame. Even if any given title doesn’t have a fully open world map, getting around is paramount to success, especially as you acquire more abilities and tricks, and deal with tougher dungeons and bosses. InTears of the Kingdom, it’s possibly more important than ever, given the expansion to the skies and the depths. Here’s how to use the Vow of Tulin to make things a little easier....

My baby, I’m afraid I’m falling for you Human: Fall Flatis one of those games that has an incredibly on-the-nose title. It’s a ragdoll puzzler, the kind of thing where your “human” will fall flat over and over again. Chances are that it’s only through partial fault of your own. You could be better, but also the game makes everything intentionally difficult to accomplish. Like, running left to right has never been tough butQWOPdoes its damnedest to keep you from getting there....

Ryoei Mikage has yet to be found Imageepoch, a Japanese developer that has worked on games such asLuminous ArcandArc Rise Fantasia, has a problem. Ryoei Mikage, the CEO of the company, has been missing for over a month, and now,his Twitter accounthas closed down. No one knows what’s going on with both Mikage and the developer itself, who only has one game in development for this year —Stella Glowfor the 3DS, set to release in Japan on June 4....