Blacklight: Retributionis a free-to-play first-person shooter from Zombie Studios and Perfect World Entertainment, the publisher behindRusty Heartsin North America and Europe. Last month, both I and fellow Destructoid contributor Sterling Lyons got to partake in one of the beta events. Recently, there’s been a huge influx of free-to-play games, most of them being MMOs. Whether big-name MMOs are switching their cost structure or new MMOs are beginning with it, the free-to-play model for online gaming is slowly becoming the norm....

Players will have to wait ‘an unspecified period of time’ Here’s the problem with time: there’s never enough of it! We only have so many hours in the day, and no matter how motivated you felt last night right before falling asleep, when you wake up the next morning and start chipping away at your to-do list, reality is bound to set in. You’ve got to prioritize. DivinityandBaldur’s Gate 3developer Larian Studios has been staring down that exact problem with the upcoming tactical gameDivinity: Fallen Heroes....

Having your scouts auto-explore inCivilizationgames makes it much easier to uncover the entire map without manually moving your units around. While previous games in the series included auto-exploring for automatic navigation,Civilization 6hid it behind an extra menu, whileCivilization 7removed it altogether. Can your Scouts auto-explore in Civilization 7? No, scouts don’t have auto-explore inCivilization 7.Your scouts have a few new features, including joining an Army Commander for group navigation and Search for a temporary sight range increase....

After ages of Bioware RPGs requiring the official EA App in some capacity, the studio has revealed the upcomingDragon Age: The Veilguardwill be a Steam game first and foremost. On Twitter, the announcement explains thatVeilguardwill be Steam native, meaning it won’t require EA’s launcher at all. The game will also be Steam Deck verified right out of the gate. We’re making great progress towards our fall launch date, and can confirm early that#DragonAge: The Veilguard is going all-in on@Steamfeatures!...

Get some popcorn & check these out! Before the big ball drops tonight and we close out December and 2015, I must reveal the winners of this month’s Dtoid Designs contest. For December, I issued a challenge to see what kinds of wonderful levels you could make based off of a movie. The response was deafening… Oh wait, I’m sorry I mean the response was silent as just seven people entered....

20 years, 20 gazillion grunts wrecked Amazingly, it’s been 20 years since the debut of RPG-brawler seriesDynasty Warriors. To celebrate two full decades of field-clearing brawls and 1 vs. 10,000 action, publisher Koei Tecmo has released a birthday video looking back at the franchise’s storied history. The “original”Dynasty Warriorswas a weapon-based one-on-one fighter that launched for the PlayStation back in 1997. Koei Tecmo, however, chose to recognise the series’ true “birth” with the launch of 2000’sDynasty Warriors 2for the PlayStation 2....

“In from the Cold” is a level 83 MSQ quest in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, which involves you playing not as yourself but as an Unknown Imperial who needs to get back to Camp Broken Glass within a specified time limit. It’s a challenging quest but also incredibly memorable. To complete “In from the Cold”, you’ll need to make your way back to Camp Broken Glass very slowly, navigating the unfamiliar Garlean streets while trying to avoid as much conflict as possible....

Dark Souls and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice collide in this character-swapping mod It happened again! A player’s random innocuous Reddit gaming clip sent me down a (thankfully in this case fairly small but still fascinating) rabbit hole. Now it’s your turn! Scrolling through r/darksouls in thecalm before the February storm, I caught an intriguing title — Havel: Rocks Die Twice — atop an even more enticing clip. The footage showedHavel the Rock, one ofDark Souls‘ favorite sons, facing off againstGenichiro Ashina, one of many oh-shit-oh-shit-oh-shitencounters inSekiro: Shadows Die Twice....

Halloween is less than two weeks away and that can only mean one thing: it’s time to kick some zombie ass.Dead Rising 2: Off the Recordis already upon us, but there’s also another zombie slaughter-fest vying for your attention. It’s an ultra-violent on rails shooter known asHouse of the Dead: Overkill – Extended Cutand it’s making its HD debut on the PlayStation 3 next Tuesday. If you didn’t playHouse of the Dead: Overkillon the Wii in 2009, you should definitely check out the PS3 port just to experience the extremely over-the-top presentation and truly memorable characters....

That pose! In a short FAQ on its blog, 343 Industries notes that themaps previously exclusive toHalo: Combat EvolvedandHalo 2on PC will in fact be a part ofHalo: The Master Chief Collection. Weapons like the Fuel Rod Gun and Flamethrower are also included, which should be extra fun for folks who only ever bothered to playHaloon a console. It’s certainly been a while. There’s going to be matchmaking playlists with, among other things, radar enabled and disabled....

STAAAAARS! This morning saw Sony take to the internet to deliver its final State of Play live stream of the year. There was a troublesome goose, some papercraft animals, scary samurai-dudes and everybody’s favourite alien hunter, The Predator. But the big news was Capcom officially revealing its worst-kept-secret of 2019: theResident Evil 3remake. Aside from theResireveal andGhost of Tsushimasneak peek, things were relatively standard, with some water-treading on titles we already knew about – such asBabylon’s Fall– and a pretty excitingKingdom Hearts III ReMINDtrailer that was unfortunately leaked days ago....

Can’t get enoughDeath Stranding? Well, you’re in luck. The documentary filmHideo Kojima: Connecting Worldsshows the creative process behind Hideo Kojima launching his independent studio Kojima Productions and the development ofDeath Stranding.Connecting Worldsis available to stream now on Disney+, Hulu, and Hotstar depending on region. If you are in the United States,Connecting Worldsis available to stream on Hulu. For most of the world, however, it can be streamed on Disney+. In South Africa and the Philippines, you will need Hotstar to stream the documentary....

Third parties missed some major opportunities By the end of 2014, Xbox 360 had slid past Wii to become thebest-selling seventh generation console in the US. While a fantastic achievement for Microsoft, this event also punctuates the drastic shift in Nintendo’s market dominance. Where once Wii wason trackto become the best-selling dedicated gaming console of all time, it’s now all but forgotten. There are various reasons why history played out the way it did, but at the end of the day, it’s all about the games, and Wii’s library had some pretty glaring holes....