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Only of the VR variety though At E3 this year, we heard from Microsoft that its upcoming Project Scorpioconsole wouldn’t have exclusive games. Turns out that isn’t the case anymore. Speaking to Engadget, Xbox marketing chief Aaron Greenberg said that while Microsoft is “not going to have console-exclusive games for Project Scorpio,” it doesn’t think of VR as console gaming, “so with the VR experiences those will be new things that you will get on Project Scorpio....

How do you do, fellow Hitmen? Warner Bros. and IO Interactive have released another trailer to whet your stealth-slasher appetites for upcoming sequelHitman 2. The new spot explores some of the wacky weaponry available to 47 in his next wave of contracts. From prosthetic limbs to electronic explosives, as well as bizarre distractions such as wall-mounted beepers and bomb-laden rubber ducks,Hitman 2hopes that would-be Agency assassins will use their ingenuity and imagination to put together the perfect hit, utilising all of 47’s deadly tech, and even the surrounding environment to, quite literally, make a killing....

February 13 If you could measure thirst, the wait forFinal Fantasy VII RemakePart 2 would be an ocean. It’s in a very unique position, to be sure. If the firstFinal Fantasy VII Remakebit bombed in every way, there probably wouldn’t even be a follow-up. But it was good! And it sold! So everyone is anxiously awaiting Part 2 for any number of reasons, which is definitely happening. A lot of us are curious as to how the team could possibly adapt the open world structure; a stark contrast to the more linear, yet personal Midgar setting....

With the FighterZ honeymoon ending, I want to know We have reached the point inDragon Ball FighterZ‘s lifecycle where a lot of the casual crowd is dropping off of regular play. NowFighterZcould very well be the most-played fighter right now in terms of sheer numbers, but people move on to new things or get busy, and playing fighters religiously to keep up with all of the latest tech can be exhausting....

Tekken 8is continuing the trend of recent fighters likeStreet Fighter 6andGranblue Fantasy Versus: Risingby including a new feature to entice new players. With its “Special Style,” the King of Iron Fist Tournament is poised to suck new players into its surprisingly bizarre story. Tekken 8 joins the new generation of fighting game controls Special Style is a new control method where players are able to pull off special moves and combos with the press of a button....

Sons of the Forest1.0 broughta lot of amazing additions and updates, including new story content and voice acting, but none of these additions is more exciting (to me) than the fluffy and highly adorable little trash pandas that can now be found around the forests of the island. As much as I hate to write this (and I really do), Raccoons are a good source of meat because they’re pretty slow-moving and won’t do any harm to you if you attack them....

Whoooo? Although she didn’t win the contest, we were so impressed with one of the entrants – Anabela – that we’ve hired herto stream on our channel every single Friday. Well, we decided that we should work on a t-shirt design for Anabela. Behold, the latest design for our merch store: Created by Ashley Hay, our latestWhoooo?design is available to buy right now on theofficial Destructoid merch store, and can be printed on t-shirts, tote bags, face masks, hoodies and all sorts of other products....

[Update:Contest closed! Grand prize winnner is Dreamweaver! Runner-ups are N7, nekobun and Overindulgence!] Yes, you read that right. Freaking ukuleles. We’ve teamed up with Square Enix to give away a badassArmy Corps of Hellthemed electric guitar and ukuleles. Three ukuleles to be exact. It’s a rather fitting prize if you think about it.Army Corps of Hellhas a badass heavy metal soundtrack going for it all the while you use a goblin demon army to reclaim your crown as the king of Hell....

Feel free to disagree We have reached the end of the road as far as fancy-schmancy Xbox One X models go. Less than three years after Xbox’s souped-up mid-generation Xbox One first released, Xbox has announced that it’s done with limited editions. The June release of theCyberpunk 2077Xbox One Xwill be the last one. Looking back, Xbox has actually been quite restrained with limited editions — much moreso than with the regular Xbox One over the years....

XDefiantis finally here after a long road of development and several beta weekends over the past few years. If you’re like me and have been itching to play this game more, this is your chance to sink your teeth in and get a new flavor of theCall of Duty-style gameplay we’re used to. If you’re enjoying it enough, then you might be considering spending money on the game to support it or get cosmetics....

It’s coming in March now Xenoblade Chronicles 2was all set to get a massive patch, one that would add a welcomed-but-at-the-same-time-insane-because-wow-this-game-is-packed New Game+ mode — but it’s just been delayed. Nintendo announced the delay on Twitter, and was transparent about it pertaining to a bug that basically screwed the whole patch deployment operation. The time that’s needed to fix it? About two weeks. You can catch the patch on March 2 worldwide....

Daytona USA joins BC along with some other titles While we may not be getting an extreme amount of backward compatible titles on Xbox One today, at leastDaytona USAis finally available on the system. The classic racing game was truly a technical marvel back in 1993 and remains a highly enjoyable game thanks to itsincredible frame rate(eat your heart out,Breath of the Wild). Now you’re able to relive the classic on your new(ish) Xbox One along with some other titles that don’t really matter too much (StackingandTower Bloxx Deluxe)....

What happens when you write astrongly wordedletter to Q-Games’ Dylan Cuthbert? The man gets things done. After TheBBPS’s Ryan Hewson wrote to Cuthbert aboutPixelJunk Monsters‘ difficulty, hereceived a responsechock-full-of information and exciting promises. Cuthbert says thatMonsterswill be receiving a patch that will allow players to go through the offline mode in either Easy, Medium, Hard, or the new Expert modes. On the subject of the excellentPixelJunk Eden, Cuthbert hints at new gameplay modes, saying of the game’s swing mechanic: it’s “much too fun to waste on just one set of game rules....