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Point camera, earn Gamerscore Here we are, friends. It’s time for the conclusion toLife is Strange‘s five-episode arc. I’m writing this prior to playing, and I have no idea what to expect. Well, that’s a half-truth — I expect to be an emotional wreck by the time this is all over. But, we’ll go out just like we started, and that’s by snapping photos all along the way. Again, like all the other installments,Polarizedhas ten optional pictures along the way that unlock Achievements....

Travis, Floyd, Meryl, and Leo – the gang’s all here Mother 4is no longerMother 4. The project has adopted a new name – it’s going byOdditynow – and it has severed its fan-game ties. While it might not be an on-brand sequel toMother 3as previously planned,Oddityis still a game made by people who cherish anything and everything Itoi. We’re kicking off the new year in style with a re-reveal teaser trailer....

Featuring Crawl and Crypt of the NecroDancer In conjunction with Meat Bun Apparel, Angry Bananas, and Giant Robot, Destructoid is proud to host Game Night 22!This episode of Game Nightwill feature two indie games:CrawlandCrypt of the NecroDancer! Crawlis the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero.Crypt of the NecroDanceris a hardcore, rhythm-based roguelike game. Yes, really. Can you survive this deadly dungeon of dance, slay the NecroDancer, and recapture your still beating heart?...

Project HONOR is a program formed by Electronic Arts to benefit families of fallen special operations warriors. Elite weapons manufacturers and the EA’sMedal of Honor Warfighterare teaming up to donate to the Navy SEAL Foundation and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation under this project. Weapons makers will have their products featured in game, and partners will create and sell exclusive MoH merchandise, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the above listed and other charities....

Cautious optimism…fading DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson is talkingMirror’s Edge 2and it doesn’t help my unearned cautious optimism for a great free running game in the vein of the first. “What I can say is that if the last game focused on first-person movement, it was definitely shown in the movie here that the DICE team will be focusing on first-person combat as well, to really nail and refine that,” Troedsson toldCVG....

A portable Dreamcast is already the stuff that dreams (see what I did there?) are made of, but adding in a VMU unit is liking icing on this little cupcake of a game system. No, it’s not just a VMU slot, though it does include one. This is an actual functioning Virtual Memory Unit, little screen, buttons and all, built right into the face of this mod. Techknott is now on his third iteration of portable Dreamcast, and his experience shows with the latest model....

Donkey Kong meets Splatoon Nintendo of America’s Twitter let it be knownthat a new map (pictured above) will be available inSplatoonat 7:00PM PT tomorrow, and it looks really fun. The zig-zagging towers of Moray Towers look reminiscent of the first level of the originalDonkey Kongarcade game, or maybe evenUnreal Tournament‘s Two Towers, and I’m okay with that. Also, is that a wire connecting the towers? Correct me if I’m wrong, but if that is the case this is the first multiplayer map to include that....

‘Nostalgia is one great appeal’ Thanks to a recent Q&A answered by Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, we have some more insight into what Nintendo is planning for the coming years of the Switch. While we really have no clue what’s going to happen hardware-wise (a Pro is likely imminent, which will extend the lifespan of the system into the PS5 and Next Xbox), we do know that the company is interested in bringing more traditionally portable games (read: recently, 3DS) to Switch....

I playedFirefalllast year at PAX and even then it was a very impressive shooter. The mechanics were awesome, the art style looks great, and all of the different classes were fun to play. That alone should be enough to make a good free-to-play shooter, butFirefallwants to be more than that. There is a whole open world with crafting, missions, and player interactions. Daniel already gave ushis impressions onFirefall,but in case you have never heard of it, it’s a hybrid ofBorderlands, Tribes,andTeam Fortress 2with a layer of MMO tossed into the mix....

[This is the second in a series of five guest blogs from OVERKILL Software creative director Simon Vicklund about the forces that stand between you and incalculable wealth inPayday: The Heist, coming soon to PlayStation Network. Stay tuned to Destructoid as we continue this series up to the release ofPaydayon October 18th] Hi there! This is Simon Viklund of OVERKILL Software again. We have developed a robber co-op action FPS calledPayday: The Heistand it’s coming out later this month....

We know them better than they know themselves! In the last few years, I really don’t think there’s a cast of characters we could “know” better thanPersona 5‘s Phantom Thieves. Due to Atlus’ steadfast and determined marketing style, we have been introduced and re-introduced to Joker, Makoto, Lady Ann, Morgana and pals in trailers forPersona 5,Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight,Persona 5 Royal,Persona 5 Scramble, andPersona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. Yet here we are, “meeting The Phantom Thieves” once again, this time for the western localisation ofPersona 5 Royal, which hits PS4 in March....

With Synapse 2.0, Razer is shifting away from using on-board memory to store customized peripheral settings in favor of cloud support. The application will see a widespread release later this year, but for now, aclosed beta is taking place. Being able to move your gaming peripherals to multiple computers and not having to tinker with settings sounds nice, though it obviously won’t be a relevant feature for everyone. For those seeking speed and ease of use, Synapse 2....

Broadcasts LIVE every Saturday at 10am PST on Dtoid TV! Did you miss this morning’s broadcast ofSaturday Morning Hangover? It was a pretty good one, with a couple of surprises on the Xbox Live Indie Games front and more of the lovely contributions to Dafoeverse on Wii U before I was challenged to actually make some progress on the “Very Hard” difficulty ofMetal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Meanwhile, we discussed our impressions of the PS4 reveal and have a disagreement regarding when is the appropriate time to express one’s personal views....