Live show: Lego City Undercover

Finally something new for the WiiIU [Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as much a part of the show as anything else.] Don’t worry, you’re not seeing things, this post is a repeat from last week, but this time, I actually haveLEGO City Undercoverin my hands....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 147 words · Mary Barnes

Muramasa to be reborn on North American PlayStation Vitas

Aksys Games to publish Vita re-release of Wii action RPG Muramasa: The Demon Bladeis once again bound for the Americas. Aksys Games has announced plans to bring the acclaimed action role-player to the PlayStation Vita later this year. The original title was one of the most spectacular-looking games to come to the Wii, featuring Vanillaware’s gorgeous hand-drawn visual style, and it should look even better on the Vita’s OLED display. Aside from the visual update,Muramasa Rebirth, as it’s called, offers updated controls and four additional DLC campaigns featuring new characters....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · Deborah Martin

NBA 2K21 and Call of Duty are co-conspiring to murder your PS5 and Xbox Series X’s SSDs

Dunking your usable GBs straight to hell Imagine, if you will, someone who buys a PlayStation 5 this week and only has a couple of holiday 2020 games on their radar. Let’s suppose, for the sake of the exercise, that they’re going to pick upNBA 2K21andCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. That’s a reasonable assumption. Those are two of the biggest games every single year. It’s a very quick way to put yourself behind the 8-ball when it comes to next-gen storage....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 327 words · Scott Chapman

NieR: Automata rules: Stray observations from a guy who knows 15 hours isn’t enough to really ‘get’ this game

To 9S or not to 9S, that is the question NieR: Automatashould’ve gotten far more end-of-year recognition than it did. But, it released in the same 12-month window asZeldaandMariomasterpieces, and that’s that. All-time classics sometimes get overshadowed and bumped aside by other all-time classics. It’s a video game eat video game world out there. I delayed playingNieR: Automatauntil its Xbox One release earlier this week. To all my friends who were dumb like me and couldn’t find time for it last year, I have this to say: Find time right now to playNieR: Automata....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 289 words · Leslie Rios

Ninjatown contest winners announced; Justino1, come on down!

Some of you whipped up some pretty incredible ninjas for ourNinjatownlunchbox giveaway, so much so that I found myself too stumped to make a fair decision of the winner on my own. Luckily, the creator ofNinjatown, Shawn Smith, was happy to lend me a hand. Here’s what he had to say: “While the choice was difficult, especially with such a variety of types of entries, the winningest custom Wee Ninja has been chosen:Justino1....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 170 words · Antonio Powell

No SimCity refunds on Origin

Anti-refund policy exposes the risk of buying digital If you are one of the many whopurchasedSimCitythis week and found yourself unable to play it, you may feel like you were gypped out of $60 and want your money back. Unfortunately, while physical retailers might do the honorable thing, Origin won’t refund you. An Origin rep toldPolygonit doesn’t refund users unless there are “special mitigating circumstances,” and EA selling a game that doesn’t work through self-serving design doesn’t count....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 259 words · Christopher Brown

Nominees for Destructoid’s Best Mobile Game of 2016

The best games to play while pooping Look, we all know video games are great, but you can’t bring your cutting edge gaming PC or your XboxSteel Battalioncontroller with you everywhere you go. Or maybe you can, but you probably shouldn’t. It’s bad for your back. Thankfully, the games that show up on these little devices we carry around everywhere can be pretty dang good! Phones these days are powerful enough to handle impressive graphics, but that’s not all they have up their protective plastic sleeves....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 159 words · Ernest Richardson

Online stores list The Walking Dead for Xbox One

May be shambling its way to the new generation Telltale’s widely acclaimed series based onThe Walking Deadmay soon arrive on Xbox One.NeoGAF poster MauroNLspotted listings for theGame of the Year editionof the first season and thesecond seasonon the websites of several online retailers in the Netherlands. Much about the listings suggests that they’re placeholders. The description of the games appears to have been directly pasted from a retailer sales sheet and there are no accompanying images....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Tiffany Russell

Owlboy is getting a physical limited edition for consoles

It’ll fly off shelves Theretail releaseforOwlboyis getting closer everyday, but publisher SODESCO isn’t content to simply put the game in a box. Just announced,Owlboywill be receiving a limited edition box for Switch and PS4. Details are mum on what this version will include, but a very nice render of the box is available and it certainly looks fetching. Thankfully, this will be available worldwide, though it is still limited to 6,000 copies....

July 14, 2025 · 1 min · 81 words · Steven Gonzalez

Paradox Controls & Keybinds List (PC, Xbox, PS5) – Roblox

You’ll need plenty of skills and luck to become the greatest Quincy, Reaper, or Hollow. But firstly, you must learnParadoxcontrols and keybinds, as no player will show you mercy while you’re trying to find the right button. We’ve covered all the controls you need forPC, Xbox, and PS5. All Roblox Paradox Keybinds & Controls Like itsBleach-likepredecessor,Type Soul, learningParadoxcontrols is the first thing you must do. They’re essential for mastering combat, especially if you’re lucky enough to get some of the best weapons in the game....

July 14, 2025 · 2 min · 275 words · Caitlyn Gallegos

Party with Dtoiders at some Destructoid game NARPs across the globe

NARPs: It’s what happens when Dtoiders get together and there’sNoApparentReason [but to]Party. Starting this weekend, and going into November, several of the Destructoid city groups are all having some sort of party. All of these parties are community driven because talking to each other over the Internet just isn’t enough for us. See media jerks, gamers aren’t all basement dwelling social inept losers … mostly. Dtoid New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Miami, UK and Australia are all having an apparent party in the next few weeks and you can find out when they’re going down after the jump....

July 14, 2025 · 3 min · 604 words · Katherine Padilla

Pew! Pew! Preview!: Guitar Hero: World Tour (Part 1)

Alright, so look — it was around this time last year that I proclaimedGuitar Heroas we knew it to be dead. You see, I had played thisothergame. You know, the one with all of the instruments that just fit so nicely with a few drinks and a room full of friends. It’s not like I didn’t likeGuitar Hero III; quite the opposite in fact. (I personallygave itan 8.5 out of 10....

July 14, 2025 · 9 min · 1837 words · Noah Sims

Review: A Hat in Time: Seal the Deal

Signed sealed delivered A Hat in Timecan only be described as lovely. It took Gears for Breakfast six years but they finally pushed it out the door, and eventually fans will get their Nintendo platform port: even if the Wii U is out of the picture (yes it’s been that long!). It’s also taken them roughly a year since launch to give us the first major DLC, which is equally charming, but with some…quirks in tow, to say the least....

July 14, 2025 · 5 min · 922 words · Megan Rojas