I would have posted about this earlier, but I read slower than Helen Keller when she’s wearing gloves. Well Played 1.0is an anthology book of videogame critique, and probably one of the most interesting I’ve read. A group of twenty-two writers made up of designers, scholars, and bloggers wrote on subjects as wide-ranging as whyBioShock‘s story is a failure, to an indepth analysis of a game you’ve never heard of calledMines of Minos....
The legend of soltar Clearly it has been too long since I cleared my lastSolitairetable. The game done changed. Windows 8 didn’t come bundled with Windows-stapleSolitaire, but if you sought it out from the app store, you were presented with a “freemium” model.Solitaireis back natively with Windows 10 as theMicrosoft Solitaire Collectionbundle, which also asks you to pay $10/year or $1.50/month for a “premium,” ad-free version. I hate ads (and think ad-freeDestructoid Hugeis pretty cool, wink wink), but this is some straight up regression....
Box Office Round Up TheGroundhog DayderivativeHappy Death Dayruled the weekend box office with a total of $26.5M, absolutely wreckingBlade Runner 2049in its second weekend. If you’reBlade Runner, this is a continued problem as you still cost $150M to make andstill had an abysmal opening weekendone week ago. Speaking ofHappy Death Day, I’d be totally OK with this movie (and whatever success it achieves) if the ending were a twist wherein it was revealed Bill Murray had never escaped his repeating day all those years ago and now, out of boredom, murders the same college coed who happens to matriculate in Punxsutawney....
Hoof it to Caelid and pray See that giant rotten tree in theSwamp of Aeonia? It turns out that you can scale it. As one player recently demonstrated, climbing the big tree in Caelid is a matter of confidence, persistence, and patience, which sums up the entireElden Ringexperience. Getting on top of open-world scenery can be a lot of fun, especially when it feels like you’re not necessarily meant to be there....
Team Fortress 2has been neglected by Valve for years, its last major update releasing nearly eight years ago in 2017. Aside from the occasional technical updates and small community content inclusions,TF2hasn’t seen much new stuff since Jungle Inferno, but that is perhaps about to change. In a strange, barely understandable but nonethelessin-character blog post, Valve announced a new major update for the game’s co-op vs. AI game mode, Mann vs. Machine....
At BlizzCon 2023 on November 3, Blizzard announced the next multi-chapter plan forWorld of Warcraft, and it’s a literal saga. Here’s a full breakdown of everything we know aboutThe Worldsoul Saga, and its next three accompanying expansions. What is the Worldsoul Saga? The Worldsoul Sagais amulti-expansion arcforWorld of Warcraft. Although it sounded like Blizzard might be going in a completely different direction earlier in the BlizzCon 2023 opening ceremony;The Worldsoul Sagais not a“WoW 2”and will merely serve as a marketing term for the trio of expansions, which is a continuation of the original game that launched in 2004....
And yeah, it’s free to play If M&Ms are allowed to have a kart racer, surely Rovio can try its hand at the genre free of guilt. Those angry birds are certainly iconic, and I suppose that’s what matters most here. Angry Birds Go!is exactly what you’d expect, so I’ll just point out a couple things. First, the game is releasing on Aug 05, 2025 for iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry 10....
Travel across the world Every now and then you can count on Google to come up with a solid time-waster. This is one of them. It’s calledSmarty Pins, and it’ll have you dropping your Google Maps marker all over the world in the name of trivia. The idea behindSmarty Pinsis to simple. The game asks a trivia question, and you drop the marker wherever you think the answer is. It subtracts the number of miles that you were off from the 1,000 you’re allotted at the beginning....
From fathoms below, to the highest skyscrapers Though it hasn’t been talked about in any official capacity, a lot of people may have already guessed thatAssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flagwould have some sort of present day component. These screens would suggest the same, showing an Abstergo corporate building, the modern day headquarters of the Templar Order. I have to admit (please don’t rage) that I can’t find it in me to get excited forBlag Flagafter what happened withAssassin’s Creed III....
Yoda unthreatened A new Japanese commercial for Paramount Pictures’ upcomingSonic the Hedgehogmoviegives us a quick look at an infant version of the famous blue blur, dubbed “Baby Sonic”. The cutesy chump is seeing running through his homestead of Green Hill Zone, before arriving at his destination clutching a flower.A new posteralso spotlights Baby Sonic, and a special tie-in promotion offers Japanese theatre-goers the opportunity to bag an exclusive key-ring of the pint-sized hero....
Chapter 6: Into the Jungle releases February 6 This morning, DICE lifted the lid onChapter 6: Into the Jungle, a Pacific-themed content update forBattlefield Vthat’s set to release on July 21, 2025. I feel muggy just watching the trailer. The new map for Chapter 6, Solomon Islands, could be a ton of fun or a total slog depending on well your team adapts to dense jungle warfare. No one likes to be picked off from a hiding spot....
Updated: July 13, 2025 We looked for new codes! BlockSpinwelcomes you to Florida, a real-life battle royale arena where thugs fight for territories and do anything in their power to earn money and make a name for themselves. Sometimes, that involves working menial jobs, but real gangsters never flinch from a chance to make some Benjamin’s! A real OG has to keep his ears to the streets, and you can’t do that if you’re busy cleaning floors in a fast food restaurant or pumping gas at a nearby station....
The developer of 2021’sBuck Up and Drive, Fábio Fontes, has been showingoff his workon the upcoming sequel. While it’s still early in development, things look to be progressing well on the title. If you’re unfamiliar,Buck Up and Drive, it’s similar toOut Runif it was taken toits furthest extremes. You not only race against time, but you also flip the hell out, performing absurd stunts that look like your car got stuck in the level geometry, and the physics don’t know how to cope....
