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Without a patch, that is After discovering a very interestingAnimal Crossing2061 wrinklevia Redditor AdTrue4863: I have bad news for your great grandkids. While fiddling with time traveling (changing your internal Switch clock by setting it forward or backward in time), they encountered an interesting message: “Please close the game from the HOME Menu and restart after setting a date between 10-06-2025 and 10-06-2025. Meaning, if you’re in the year 2061 (whether through internal clock shenanigans or in nearly 40 years),Animal Crossing: New Horizonsrefuses to boot up....

A ‘realistic’ Western RPG It’s been a year and half since the crowdfunding campaign forKingdom Come: Deliverance, which,unearned subtitled aside, promised to fix many of the things I dislike about Western/fantasy RPGs. And then I completely forgot about it, even with Joe Parlock writing up arecent developer diary. The above trailer, a teaser for E3 — sword combat just came to the alpha — reminded me of its existence. I’m interested in seeing the full E3 trailer, though the game is a good way’s out....

According to the Korean ratings board,Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Editionmay be headed to consoles. The “arcade-only” version of the popular fighter added a host of new characters, including Yun and Yang, Evil Ryu, and Oni. Achievements pointing to a DLC update for the current retail Super Street Fighter IV disc wereleaked last November. While nothing is confirmed, it’s possible that both downloadable and retail updates are in the cards....

Games to leave online stores beginning December 17 Capcom has announced, that by year’s end, bothUltimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3andMarvel vs. Capcom 2will no longer be available on the PSN and XBLA stores. While no specific date is listed —in the post over at the Capcom Unity blog— for the removal of the full games, the last day DLC will be available to purchase for PSN users is December 17 in North America and December 19 in Europe....

Prepare to foam at the mouth The nextTalesgame could be unveiled any minute now. Or maybe in a month or so. Who knows?! Anyway, ateaser sitefor the next entry in Namco Bandai’s acclaimed role-playing game franchise has manifest on the Internet, indicating an announcement is looming just around the corner. The webpage isn’t terribly interesting at the moment, merely displaying images and video of a pair of the older titles in the series,Tales of PhantasiaandTales of Destiny....

Branching dialogue paths too Due to a massive Game Informer article we now have a lot more information onFinal Fantasy XV, beyond the news that it’s gettinga spinoff game,anime seriesand film, anda second demo. Director Hajime Tabata talks a bit about how they inevitably moved away from the connection to the Fabula Nova Crystallis series (as it was originally conceived asVersus XIII), and that the story focuses on “friendship, destiny, and legacy....

April and July, respectively Magic: The Gatheringis still trucking along with its “every several months” set releases, and next up on the agenda isWar of the Spark(the kinda Ravnica kinda not set) andCore 2020(which brings back the Core line after Wizards originally brought it back for 2019 in 2018: confused yet?). For those of you who are unaware,War of the Sparkis expected to settle up a lot of the story beats from the past two Ravnica sets and will likely be Planeswalker (read: the big names ofMagiclore, usually represented with powerful hero-like Planeswalker cards) heavy....

Wii U projection down to 4.0 million from 5.5 million It’s good news, bad news time. Good news: After suffering arough yearof losses thanks to the3DS’ sluggish start, Nintendo was able to become profitable again through the first nine months of the 2012 / 2013 fiscal period. Net profit is ¥14.5 billion (~$160 million) — not thebillionsNintendo was earning during the Wii’s heyday, but it’s a start. Bad news: It doesn’t look like Nintendo hardware / software will meet their targets, thus forecasts have been revised....

That one level with all of the red ants on the beach is a stone-cold classic I have a lot of love for the wider bug-squashingEarth Defense Forceseries, now and into the foreseeable future. But as some of you will ardently agree, there’s a precise degree of wonkiness and charm toEarth Defense Force 2017that really hits the spot, even as bigger and better sequels — or in rare cases, surprisingly neatspin-offs— roll onto the scene....

Paying tribute to The Brothers Mario A few weeks back,we called attentiontoOri and the Blind Forestgiving a nod to a revered platformer:Super Meat Boy. Turns out that wasn’t the only great platformer (or even the only “SMB”) tucked away within the game. Perhaps the most iconic platformer of all-time,Super Mario Bros., also got some recognition from Moon Studios. Underwater in the Sunken Glades, a recognizable green pipe is poking out of the background....

I don’t trust the clown chef As much as I’d be fine playingOvercooked 2indefinitely, it’s getting to be that time. The third and final DLC release in the season pass,Carnival of Chaos, is out now for players on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It’s included as part of the $19.99 pass and also sold individually for $5.99. There are 15 circus-themed levels, some of which let you fire your well-meaning chef out of cannons....

What’s insideThe Orange Box? Sex. Sex and heroin. And with those contents firmly tucked in our pants, we embark uponPodtoid 34, in which two editors of Destructoid (plus oneWeekly Geek) cover some news, answer some questions and have ourselves a good ol’ fashioned Valve love-in. And the show being what it is, it naturallyincludes someOrange Boxspoilers.That being said, have yourself a big heaping pile of show notes! Podtoidenz 34, mitder Linde,Rev....

The Bug Out event inPokémon GOis the annual celebration of all things Bug-type, and this year sees the debut of two particularly creepy crawlies: Sizzlipede and Centiskorch. There’s a lot of bug-based bonuses happening between March 26 and March 30. I can’t say I’m a particular fan of Bug-types; anything with more than four legs makes me react pretty viscerally. But there are some cute ones, andI can see the appealof them against Grass, Dark, and Psychic-types....