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Navigating the final days of the apocalypse Fix your eyes at middle distance, that’s where most ofStela— but far from all of it — takes place. This mysterious and eerie trek through the apocalyptic final days of an ancient world makes the most of its scenery by constantly playing with the foreground and background. There’s a cinematic bent to the way depth is manipulated. The descriptor “cinematic” is fitting, which is fortunate, because it’s entirely what developer SkyBox Labs was aiming for....

January is soon enough Bandai Namco has finally given us a firm release date forTales of Berseria, which was released this past August in Japan. It’ll be arriving on January 24 on PS4, and January 27 on Steam in the west. That’s “2017” for all you calendar-challenged folks like me, who will be writing “2015” still on everything and hoping no one notices. Naturally there’s a special edition planned, which is limited to 10,000 copies and packs in all sorts of goodies like 8-bit keychains, cards, figures, an audio CD, strategy guide, a novel (!...

Makin’ Baiken Yesterday, Christmas came early for The Industry’s Chris Moyse, as not only did we get the reveal ofmy favoriteSkullgirlscharacter, Black Dahlia, but we also got a teaser confirming that, finally, mighty swordswoman Baiken is headed to Arc System Works’Guilty Gear Strive.The one-eyed warrior comes a’wandering as a DLC character in January. Baiken’s reveal was made as part of the CEO fighting game festivities, which took place in Orlando, Florida over the course of the weekend....

Drumroll, please… The year of our Lord two-thousand and twelve has been an incredible year for videogames. It’s been a non-stop whirlwind of fantastic titles and reveals these past twelve months — what a great time to be a gamer. You always hear this when it comes to picking the best games of the year, but I’ll say it again: this wasnoteasy. The games industry was not f*cking around this year!...

This thing scared the sh*t out of me! I get shipments from FedEx and UPS just about every day for Destructoid, so I don’t usually think much about them. I’ll usually put them down on my desk and rip them open when I get a few free minutes. I wasn’t paying much attention when this one surprised me. I just opened one to find the business end of this thing (pictured above)....

But parents just don’t understand! Nintendo has released a new video introducing the Free World to its 2DS system, suggesting the company feels the need to elaborate on its previous. The short depicts young children and families playing these newfangled game gizmos, so it’s pretty clear Nintendo is trying to clarify what a 2DS is, and what the device can do, to the average parent. From past experience in retail, I can tell you firsthand that a frustrating amount of time is spent just explaining the differences between platforms and their various iterations to customers, and primarily parents....

Celebrate by eating bacon! Sorry about that, Europe. We were pretty excited aboutTomba!coming to PlayStation Network for a while there — especially when it became playable on PlayStation Vita — but now you too can partake in the fun.Tomba!is out now on the European PSN courtesy of MonkeyPaw Games. This platforming PSone Classic is priced at£6.99 / €7.99. According to the company, it was their “number one requested game from Japan....

Per online listings Earlier this year, Suda 51 was hinting at the possibility ofTravis Strikes Again: No More Heroesreceiving a physical release. While the answer was a firm “maybe,” it seems some kind of magic happened as the game has turned up onAmazon.comandGameStopwith a physical edition. As if to put the icing on the cake, the physical edition will also include the season pass (which is the first I’m hearing about any DLC for the game)....

The beta runs from September 13-16 Ubisoft’s mostly low key E3 2018 presentations had a few delightful surprises, includingTrials Rising. It’s nice to occasionally wake up to aTrialsgame every so often, and given that it’s had a three year hiatus, it’s extra nice this time around. Today at Gamescom by way of a new trailer. Ubisoft announced thatRisingwill be arriving on August 11, 2025 on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch....

To me, to you! The Chuckle Brothers are two of Britain’s most beloved and well-known children’s entertainers. Their show,Chucklevision, ran for 22 years and almost 300 episodes of wholesome, slapstick fun and brought joy and laughter to multiple generations of the country’s youth. And now here they are, playing a live-action recreation ofHitman. Watch Barry and Paul as they fire off their well-known catchphrases while also asking Agent 47 to punch an innocent lady, or stuff a guard’s corpse in a burning shed....

Why wasn’t there a promotional tie-in forGuacameleefor the fast-food chicken franchise, El Pollo Loco? That is a missed opportunity if I’ve ever heard of one. In Episode 3 of our run throughGuacamelee, Jordan and I face the wrath of a woman scorned. Then we face her wrath again a little later after getting lost. And then we face the wrath of her boyfriend (which, by the way, honey, can we talk?...

That’ll be one mystery cleared up Microsoft’s contribution thus far to the incrementally-improved console iteration trend isthis three-minute videofrom last E3. Project Scorpio will be a more powerful take on the Xbox One, but apart from a few specifics (6 teraflops!), we don’t have much of an idea of what it’s capable of. Instead of discussing Scorpio at E3 last year,Microsoft politely deflectedall conversation in the direction of the now-released Xbox One S....

They could also be placeholders [Update:According to sources, Best Buy has de-listed the products in question from the system. As folks who work for the company point out this could mean that the retailer jumped the gun, or that Best Buy was given incorrect information (or even still: Nintendo should have told them that these SKUs were confidential). Either way this seems like an E3 sort of thing, beyond the possibility of a Nintendo Direct between now and mid-June....