Bring me your Service Games Veteran game developer Sega has announced the founding ofa brand new studioin Sapporo, Japan, as translated byGematsu. The new development arm was officially established on June 25, 2025, and is expected to be the company’s second main base of operation outside of its headquarters in Shinagawa City, Tokyo. Sega Sapporo Studio is led by veteran Sega officer Takaya Segawa (who literally has “Sega” in his name)....

Shop till you drop Fourteen days is a long time, especially when you’re inundated with deals, discounts, and bargains. And for game-hungry consumers, Steam’s annual Winter Sale seems to stretch on forever. From the week before Christmas to the yawning, early days of a brand new year, the near-ubiquitous digital game store continually punctuates the holiday season with a fortnight’s worth of cheap video games. But by the time you’re reading this, the Winter Sale is over....

Steam accessories too The certainty behind video games on Black Friday (and the lead-up to it) is that it’ll be the year’s biggest titles that are on sale. It’s expected that the likes ofTitanfall,Battlefield, andGears of Warwill all be discounted, usually heavily. Maybe it’s the calm before the storm, but some of the more interesting Wednesday sales are from some of the more unexpected places. Games likeSteamworld CollectionandAssault Suit Leynosare featured....

The utterly ludicrousquick-time-event festivalthat isAsura’s Wrathshall be getting downloadable content, and it tastes likeStreet Fighter. Ryu will be available post-launch, and you’ll be able to take him on in a traditional, side-on combat situation. No firm details are yet available, with Capcom only releasing one image of the content. In any case, it’s an interesting little crossover for a game that’s either going to be brilliantly stupid, or stupidly stupid....

Let me clarify… If you’re looking fora detailed preview ofSuper Meat Boy Forever, Peter has you covered. This post and video are more of a supplement to his post. I happened to stumble upon him playing the game at PAX, and before you knew it, we were chatting with Team Meat boss Tommy Refenes, level designer Kyle Pulver, and Dtoid’s own Rich Meister in a profoundly distracting way. Peter somehow still managed to get his assignment done on time, with glowing praise for the game no less....

Check out everything Destructoid did today SoGone Homeis out today, and it’s getting almost as much buzz on my Twitter feed asPapers, Pleasedid last week. It’s supposed to be a great example of storytelling in videogames, so I’m curious to see what makes it so special. Are any of you looking into this one? On Destructoid, Conrad and Jordan continued their Daily Spelunk, Jayson brought another edition of Noteworthy, the crew discussedCall of Duty: Ghostson Office Chat, Hamza previewed the newCall of Dutymultiplayer, Chris reviewed Plants vs....

you’re able to’t have too muchProject X Zone! If thehedonically excessive 16-minute trailerdidn’t get your panties nice and moist, here is the full intro animation. It’s your average anime opening, with pop vocals and characters who just stand around doing nothing, but it’s still bizarre to see all those Capcom, Sega, and Namco Bandai icons sharing screen time. It wouldn’t be surprising if a game with so many readily apparent localization hurdles never left Japan, but that doesn’t mean there’s no chance....

Barely a week into 2025 and there’s already a leak fromThe Sims 4, revealing three new Creator Kits headed to both PC and Console before the end of January, and they’re all worth getting in their own unique ways. Creator Kitsare a relatively new type of bundle thatcame about in 2024, and are created in conjunction with prominent names in the Sims 4 community. This time, although there aren’t full details currently available for all three kits, one of them has been made with a certain well-known Sims 4 YouTuber....

May 22 is the revised release date on Amazon Konami’s TurboGrafx-16 Mini missed its original March 19 release due tocoronavirus-related production issues, but the mini console is back on track. It’s nowscheduled to releasein the United States on Jul 05, 2025, so you’re able to stop checking the Amazon page for a hopeful shipping update. You might’ve already heard, but if you’re looking to pick up a second controller for the console (since it only includes one!...

CD Projekt Red has been making a big to-do about an announcement being made today. After months of speculation and assumption, the developer confirmed in alive streaming presentationthat their hugely popular RPG,The Witcher 2, will be seeing release on home consoles when it arrives for Xbox 360 later this year. Speaking to the internet, representatives from CD Projekt Red claimed that the console version would sport graphics very near if not at the quality level found in the PC release....

Can’t even While scrolling about in the iOS app store I found a game calledBreaking Farm— or as it’s known by its other name, “Impending Lawsuit.” The story involves “Weedsenberg,” who watches a “famous television series” and gets the idea to start an island paradise in Jamaica — to grow weed. Intrigued, I booted up the free download, and it’s basicallyCookie Clickeron weed. The tutorial is roughly 15 seconds, and beyond that, you swipe to earn more money, or just rake it in automatically....

[It’s time for anotherMonthly Musing— the monthly community blog theme that provides readers with a chance to get their articles and discussions printed on the frontpage. — CTZ] Most games put the player in a position of power. It’s a time-tested tradition to simply help us out and make the game more, well, fun. Typically, games exploit the plight of heavily outnumbered heroes in hostile environments. When handing a player such a daunting challenge, it seems only fair to give him a few breaks....

Resistance isn’t futile A new trailer hit the airwaves today for Bethesda’s first-person shooter sequelWolfenstein II: The New Colossus. It looks like absolute, wanton, gun-toting carnage. All-American John Cena-type B.J. Blazkowicz is back in action, teaming up with a band of rag-tag resistance fighters (again) to take down the Nazi regime, who have overthrown Manhattan, in the only way they know how, by dual-wielding hot lead in harm’s way. The trailer introduces us to a few new characters, as well as giving us some chaotic in-game action, along with a few glimpses at the game’s blackly-comic tone....