It’s Slime time: Household items to add some Dragon Quest flair to the home

Slimin’ makes me feel good You may not know this about me, but Slimes are one of my favorite things in the wide world of gaming. I’ve got this adorable little pair of earbuds, a plush Slime, a keychain, and even the PlayStation controller, but I need more. Until I get the tattoo I’m planning on someday, I can fill the void in my life with one or all of these Slime products for the home....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Cassandra Graves

I’d happily lose track of time in Stardew Valley VR (if it existed)

A fan whipped up a proof-of-concept VR experiment I’ve given so many hours toStardew Valley, but I don’t regret the time I’ve invested in the game – not for a second. The same can’t be said of other time-sinks I put up with, most of which come with at least a tinge of regret.Stardewhas this magical everything’s-gonna-work-out-fine effect. I lose myself in it. With that in mind, I shudder to think about how I’d fare in a virtual-reality take onStardew Valley....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 212 words · Alicia Brooks

Live show: Rune Factory on Mash Tactics

Today,Mash Tacticsis jumping into the world ofRune Factory: Tides of Destiny. ThisHarvest Moonspin-off takes adventure to the seas, trading farm tools for weapons at times.Rune Factoryveteran, and neighboring Twitch TV streamer,Aria Blargwill be joining Carnage for this JRPG romp. Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4pm Pacific. WatchJon CarnageandWesley Ruscherlet loose with off-the-wall humor and discuss the issues of the day in the live chat onDestructoid’s Twitch TVchannel. Also, there are videogames being played....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 93 words · Lindsey Cooper

Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection confirmed for PS3

8 games included, coming June 2013 to PS3 We knew this was coming. Metal Gear Solid gets another package, this time bringing together gamesMetal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition, Peace Walker HD Edition, theVR Missions,andMetal Gear Solid 4: Trophy Edition. Squeeze in the original MX versions of the first two MG games and two Ashley Wood graphic novels and you have a hell of a Metal Gear collection....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Olivia Lee

Modern Warfare 3’s nine months of new content detailed

Every month for the next nine monthsCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3players can expect a slew of new content coming their way ranging from multiplayer maps, Special Ops missions, new game modes and more. It all starts off on January 24 with two new multiplayer maps, Liberation and Piazza (both maps detailed below.) Then we can expect another piece of new content in February, followed by two more additions in March....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 248 words · Sarah Howard

Monster Never Cry codes (June 2025)

Updated: July 07, 2025 We searched for new codes! In many games, you play as the hero who does good deeds and saves the world from evil forces.Monster Never Cryturns the tables—you are the Demon Lord, and your mission is to rebuild your evil empire. Build an army and show your human enemies what you’re made of. However, becoming an evil overlord isn’t an easy task. If the grind is too difficult for you, useMonster Never Crycodes to get the resources you need to rebuild your tower and summon powerful creatures to your aid....

August 6, 2025 · 3 min · 468 words · Austin Mclean

More info about Pokemon Sword and Shield’s expansions is coming tomorrow morning

Isle of Armor should launch soon It has been a long time since we last learned anything aboutPokémon Sword and Shield‘s expansions. In January,Game Freak announced a $30 expansion passfor the upcomingIsle of ArmorandCrown of Tundraadd-ons. They’re meant to take the place of an eventual thirdSword and Shieldgame, an approachPokémonhas taken several times in the past. However, that’s the last we’ve heard aboutIsle of ArmorandThe Crown of Tundra. That changes tomorrow....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 160 words · Shannon Adams

Oingo Boingo and Toto in next week’s Rock Band DLC

More music for your growing collection Next week, the Rock Band Music Store will be adding a couple of classic 80’s songs to the list of downloadable content. “Rosanna” from Toto will be available for purchase, along with Oingo Boingo’s “Weird Science.” It surprises me that it took this long for Oingo Boingo to appear in the game, but “Weird Science” is as good an entry point as any. With the DLC winding down, hope this news would have given me for “Dead Man’s Party” (or, if we want to totally ignore reason altogether, “Little Girls“) has already been crushed, so I guess I’ll just take what I can get....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 141 words · Jessica Dillon

PAX Prime’s Indie MEGABOOTH will have more than 80 games

This is where I’ll be 90% of the time The Indie MEGABOOTH just keeps getting bigger and bigger. ToppingPAX Prime 2012’s 30 gamesandPAX East 2013’s 62 games, the booth at PAX Prime 2013 will feature at least 84 different titles from more than 60 studios and will be the largest single booth at the show. Even with four days to play this year, it seems unlikely that anybody but the most devoted indie fan will get to experience all of the games at the booth....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · William Ochoa

Playing Skyrim, Darksiders and The Crysis on a Razer Edge

Fiddling around with that tablet PC gaming thing Your old buddy Jim Sterling has borrowed a Razer Edge with which to do all sorts of videogame things. you’re able to watch me have a bit of a play onSkyrim,Crysis,Castle Crashers, andDarksiders IIif you want. I attempt to make it interesting. A bit. A more thorough write-up on the Edge will be coming in the future, but for now, watch me do playing about for a bit or something....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 86 words · Samantha Phelps

Red Wing Shoes made a real pair of Mario clodhoppers, but you can’t have them

Banned from the NBA Red Wing Shoeshave shown offtheir pair of replica kicks made in celebration of the upcomingSuper Mario Bros. Movie. Unfortunately, they’re not selling them. The company shows the creation process in a video that would be effective ASMR if they didn’t underline it with dramatic music. With painstaking stitching, a bit of hammering, and some good old-fashioned glue, they put a bunch of dead cows together to create the sort of shoes that kids get made fun of for wearing at school....

August 6, 2025 · 2 min · 264 words · Alicia Jones

Save the world in your underwear in Labyrinth Cross Blood

New Wizardry-like gets a debut trailer If you love obscure Japanese dungeon crawlers,Labyrinth Cross Blood: Infinityfor the PlayStation Vita is for you. Originally released on the PC, the game was later ported to the 360 asLabyrinth Cross Blood: Reloaded— and now, it’s getting a Vita release. This new trailer shows off the party customization options of the game, as well as theWizardrystyle first person gameplay. While the genre may be sufficiently niche, I do enjoy a solid, interesting anime-themed game without fail, andI’m still not tired of the dungeon genre....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 107 words · Jennifer Richard

Sci-fi thriller Observation gives you control of a watchful space-station AI

From the crew behind Stories Untold There’s an inherent unease to the concept of an all-seeing, all-knowing artificial intelligence that can physically exert itself, especially when the protagonists happen to be stranded in space. The upcoming thrillerObservationis exploring this trope with a twist: we get to play as the AI, not the humans. “Players assume the role of S.A.M. by operating the station’s control systems, cameras, and tools to assist Emma in discovering what is happening to the station, the vanished crew, and S....

August 6, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · Jessica Contreras