Celeste’s ‘Chapter 9’ DLC will be available on September 9

Deep breaths Celeste’s“Chapter 9” DLC,the long-teasedFarewellchapter, will be available on July 27, 2025. Developer Extremely OK Games, the new name for Matt Makes Games Inc, announced the date onits new blogthat goes over how the company has expanded thanks to the success ofCeleste. That’s a really heartwarming story and I’m glad the company is moving up in the world. As for whatFarewellwill contain, it’ll be an entirely new chapter with over 100+ levels and 40+ minutes of music fromcomposer Lena Raine....

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 191 words · Kenneth Watson

Contest: Win an Amazon Echo or Google Home, courtesy of The 3% Challenge

Order Flamin’ Hot Cheetos from your toilet! For today’s contest, we’re giving away the voice-controlledThe 3% Challengeand an Amazon Echo or Google Home to play it on! So, this one is a little bit different. And as someone who’s a little bit different, that sort of resonates with me. Variety is the spice of life, after all. So let’s get spicy. The 3% Challengeis a prequel narrative game to Netflix’s cult series3%....

June 21, 2025 · 3 min · 481 words · Laura Webster

Crackdown 3 has a teaser site, and it hints at a beta soon

We’ll probably know more tomorrow Now there’s basically no doubt thatCrackdown 3will be shown tomorrow in some capacity for Microsoft’s E3 press conference. An astute reader sent us a teaser site for the game, which has multiple “missions” (complete with dates). Based on previous, similar campaigns, this could be a lead-in for a social push that may launch a beta at some point (the phrasing of “BETA_INIT” seems to hint at this too)....

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Sarah Morris

EA FC 25 Dreamchasers Cup 2 rewards and tasks

Dreamchasers Cup 2 is live inEA FC 25, and you may complete the fresh objective set to win new packs, evolutions, and a promo card. The new cup continues on the theme of the objective we had last week, and you can get some amazing rewards by playing (and winning) a bunch of friendlies. This guide includes details of all the tasks, along with the rewards on offer. EA FC 25 Dreamchasers Cup 2 objective guide The new objective has six tasks, and here are the requirements, along with the rewards on offer....

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 184 words · Daniel Tran

Earth Seeker music comes from former Capcom audio members

Upcoming Wii titleEarth Seeker‘s music comes from a duo that previously handled the audio for some of Capcom’s biggest games. The duo is called Unique Note, and its members are Tetsuya Shibata, a former Capcom audio director that worked a lot on theDevil May Cryseries and contributed toResident Evil, and Yoshino Aoki, who worked onBreath of Fire IIIandIV. As you can see fromhis list of work, Shibata is a badass. Aoki is also a talented vocalist that will actually sing on a few tracks inEarth Seeker....

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 134 words · Jessica Green

Exoprimal suit tier list – all suits ranked

Capcom’s surprise dino-battling hitExoprimalfeatures a rather well-balancedroster of suits.They all work well and, perhaps more importantly, are fun to play. Still, there will always be that one suit that does the job a little better than the others. The following list will help readers pick the best suit for each of the three different roles. Assault 03. Vigilant Though he looks like he came straight out ofDestiny2with the special mission of helping humanity against the Dino scourge inExoprimal, he doesn’t do much....

June 21, 2025 · 5 min · 928 words · Julie Castillo

GAME reportedly preparing to go bankrupt

If you check your Twitter feed today, you might see a few updates reading, “RIP GAME,” or expressing similar sentiments. That’s all because ofa new report in MCVclaiming that the UK retailer is now prepared to go into administration. This follows weeks of bad press andfailure to stock the latest titles. According to the gossip,CEO Ian Shepherd met with senior staff and told them that the chain has two weeks to turn things around or start selling itself off....

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Dominique Norman

Games CJ would have played in 2015 if he weren’t so goddamn lazy

I’ll totally get to these in 2016 2015 was a very weird year for me. Back in January I was just another blogger trying to be funny by making light of the industry we so love. When Jonathan Holmes first asked me to join the main page, I told him no saying that my fake news posts wouldn’t always be good. When he asked again, I said yes and then proved myself right by writingthis....

June 21, 2025 · 9 min · 1726 words · Hannah Richard

Get a limited Destructoid pin from FanGamer!

One day, FanGamer sent me an e-mail out of the blue with the above picture. We never asked for these and were completely floored that they went through the effort to make these. They even made awesome little packages for the pins! So how do you get one? As of right now, you’ll need to pick something up fromFanGamer’s storeand enter this coupon code at checkout: DTOID. Not only do you get a pin but you’ll also get 10% off anything in FanGamer’s online store....

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 136 words · Kristen Olsen

Give $6 to help kids, get into the Rainbow Six Siege closed beta

Extra Life for kids! I’m a big fan ofExtra Life, the gaming-based charity that benefits Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. These hospitals treat injured and ill children regardless of their parents’ ability to pay. How great is that? As if donating tax-deductible money to help kids wasn’t enough, now Ubisoft has partnered with Extra Life to give anyone who donates $6 or more entry into theRainbow Six Siegeclosed beta which starts July 08, 2025....

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Marcus Cox

Guillermo del Toro is ‘not giving up’ on inSANE

Listen for GLaDOS in his next movie inSANEwas originally going to mark the beginning of a full trilogy of games from director Guillermo del Toro, but it wasdropped by THQ earlier this year. There’s still hope yet: the IP rights went back to del Toro, and it sounds like he’s not giving up on making this a reality. Speaking at New York Comic Con about the filmPacific Rim— which, by the way, will have an AI voiced byPortal‘s Ellen McLain (GLaDOS) andsounds amazing, conceptually — he told Kotaku that “now we are talking to developers” aboutinSANE....

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · Samantha Chapman

Here’s how Lara Croft looks in the new Tomb Raider movie

About what I was expecting This time next year, we’re getting a “very different”film adaptationofTomb Raider. As director Roar Uthaug tellsGQ, “We drew a lot of inspiration and reference from the game and the entireTomb Raidercanon to develop our world, and I believe fans will recognize that. At the same time, this is a completely different theatrical approach to Lara Croft that will offer something new in the origin and development of the character....

June 21, 2025 · 2 min · 216 words · Stacey Barnett

How long is Xenoblade Chronicles 3?

Playthroughs will vary wildly, but here’s some numbers to work with Now thatXenoblade Chronicles 3reviewsare out in the wild, I’ve seen all sorts of playthrough lengths flying around. So exactly how long isXenoblade Chronicles 3? Let’s dig in! TheXenoblade Chronicles 3core story (and nothing else) is roughly 60 hours Note: that’s a rough estimate, and read the below provisos! JRPG game length is a hot-button issue, and I came prepared. So for this review, I actually used a timer to keep track of when I deviated from the main storyline....

June 21, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Veronica Gray