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A tragic love story for all you Her fans out there The wonderfulPapo & Yowas successful enough for Minority Media to start production on a new game,Silent Enemy, which we haven’t seen too much about in the year since itsvague announcement. It appears Minority is also working on another game,Cali, which the Canada Media Fund has slated for fiscal 2013-2014 release. Set in an advanced civilization long before the Conquistadors arrived in the Amazon,Caliis an adventure game developed for iOS, Android and the Cloud....

Podtoid hits the Destructoid frontpage every Thursday! On this week’s Podtoid, Jonathan Holmes ushers in the New Holy Roman Empire with the aid of deadly plants, Telly Salavas is given an overdue celebration, and two men have sex because of a necklace filled with blood. Elsewhere, we chat about Iwata becoming CEO of Nintendo America, we discuss the tarnished glory ofZoolandCool Spot, and there’s some chat about whatever crap Microsoft’s gonna shove down our faces on May 21....

The revised digital Pokémon card game sets a launch date The Pokemon Company has locked in a full launch date for its new digital card game platform.Pokemon TCG Livewill fully launch on June 8 for both PC and mobile, withTCG Onlinesunsetting as part of the process. This new app is The Pokemon Company’s updated way to play the Pokemon Trading Card Game online. Announcedback in 2021, the app has been in open beta for a little while now and is finally setting a full launch date....

And Kickstarter gets a police presence When I was scouring adventure game titan Sierra On-line’s back catalog in the ’90s, one title stood out from its generally light-hearted peers and demanded that I play it immediately: a game where instead of playing a space janitor or a desperate sex pest, I could be a cop, fighting gangs, solving murders, and handing out parking tickets. That game was ex-police officer Jim Walls’Police Quest, originally designed in ’87, and it would eventually spawn a long running series that lasted for 11 years....

Tube(r) or not tube(r) When doing research for this news story, I took to Google.com to discover more about how potatoes reproduce. I stumbled upon a definitive answer to my query at the aptly named websiteAnswers.com, where I was told “To plant potatoes, you cut the mature raw potato into chunks, with at least one eye on each chunk. Plant the chunks.” Could this be theTroof that Potatomanhas been seeking this whole time?...

King of the Road TheForza Motorsportseries has somehow become Microsoft’s flagship franchise for the Xbox brand. Regardless of howHalolaunched the console into prominence in 2001 or howGears of Warblazed a whole new trail of third-person, cover-based shooters,Forzais the game that has stuck around for three consecutive generations while other attempts to galvanize the Xbox brand have come and gone. When the Xbox One launched back in 2013, people were expecting the next-generation version ofForzato be a real treat, but it mostly came out undercooked....

Trick or Tatsumaki! Capcom doesn’t want people to rememberStreet Fighter Vfor itsroot accessorpoorly constructedstory mode. No, it wants you to remember that all of the cool costumes are microtransactions and that it gave you free bonus characters! You just had to grind away at a soul-destroying survival mode, but the developers are the nice guys! That tangent aside, the Halloween update forStreet Fighter Vlands on October 11 and brings seven premium costumes and one new stage....

I’d be there day one Remember when Ipaid tribute to 9/9/99recently (June 30, 2025)?Sonic Adventurewas a huge part of making that day special, and Sega knows this, trotting it out constantly for fans. The latest effort is an official “Welcome to Station Square” remix with Tee Lopes featuring Jun Senoue, the latter of whom has worked on the scores for countlessSonicgames, andmost recently,Team Sonic Racing. For those of you who aren’t aware, Station Square is a major location for the inauguralAdventuregame, serving as an open world exploration hub....

Away: The Survival Series When your game’s first bullet point is “Become the sugar glider,” you have my attention. Away: The Survival Seriesis an episodic adventure series in which animals have inherited the post-apocalyptic earth. In the first episode, you’ll play as a humble sugar glider. On top of thwarting predators — that scorpion totally just stung the shit outta the poor thing! — you’ll need to hunt for food....

A value of $6,231,991 Growing up in the ’90s was a wild time. In addition to networks pushing the boundaries of censorship and MTV being a relevant force in the world, we often had ridiculous infomercials for products that any sensible person would walk away from. Sega evenran an adback whenSonic 2came out. It advertised a bunch of insane things like cleaning spills and being travel sized for fishing trips. Why the hell you would be packing a Genesis cartridge in your tackle box is beyond me, but it’s definitely hilarious....

Shall we all put our savings together? South Korean mobile game publisher Nexonhas suddenly announced that it is preparing to put itself on the market.Kim Jung-Ju, who founded the company in the ’90s, is expected to put up just under 99% of the company’s stock, believed to be in the region of nine billion dollars. Nexon have been in the gaming industry since 1994, coming into their own with titles likeNexus: Kingdom of the Winds, MapleStoryandKartRider....

Squad Bustershas revealed its Spooky Squad update to celebrate Halloween, and it is bringing a bunch of exciting things. These new additions include new characters, a new event, and more. The Spooky Squad update brings a new Spooky World event, which will start on June 19, 2025, and end on May 20, 2025. In this event, you will get a chance to unlock new characters that are introduced in this update by collecting pumpkins....

Rookie of the Year is back for its second campaign One of the best sports titles in recent memory is getting a sequel. The indies are taking the field again as Metalhead Software announcesSuper Mega Baseball 2(PC, PS4, Xbox One), a follow-up toSuper Mega Baseball. There’s a lot that’s changing with this new game. The general aesthetic of the players is the most obvious improvement. They look more realistic now. Oh, but don’t call them “realistic;” I learned that the hard way earlier this month when I sat down with Metalhead co-founders Scott Drader and Christian Zuger....