Is Ark: Survival Ascended on Xbox Game Pass?

Ark: Survival Ascended, the remake of Ark: Survival Evolved, will be on consoles in November 2023. As fans eagerly await its arrival, many are wondering if the game will be available on Xbox Game Pass. Here’s the answer to the question – IsArk: Survival Ascendedon Xbox Game Pass? Will Ark: Survival Ascended be on Xbox Game Pass? As of now, there is no official confirmation about whether the game will be on Xbox Game Pass....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 252 words · Amy Graham

It’s official, David: Swery’s D4 is coming to PC

‘When’ is just one more unknown Japanese developer Swery has done a great job curating an air of mystery around the plot of his games. However, he hasn’t been as outstanding at keeping the games themselves a mystery. Such is the case with a PC port ofD4: Dark Dreams Don’t Diewhich looked highly likely, mostly due to the fact thatSwery tweeted about it. But, now we have official confirmation, as Access Games has created apage for iton the game’s website....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 205 words · Jonathan Sosa

Legend of Zeldo: Lonk’s Awakening is the second best Flappy Bird clone

Made by a Destructoid communityman! Disclosure! Eric Neuhaus (Destructoid user donkeyspaceman orthe artist formerly known as tsunamikitsune) made this game. I recognized Eric’s name so I thought I might have been Facebook friends with him, but apparently I’m not. What the fuck, Eric? While the rubberneckers are done withFlappy Birdmadness and real intoGame of Thronesor something, Eric boldly remembered that he made aFlappygame as part of a game jam (playablein your browser here) and decided to send it in to us anyways under the mild newsiness of anAndroidandiOSrelease....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 196 words · Carla Taylor

Let’s remember Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

In light of the re-releases It may seem impossible now, but in the mid-2000s (double-ohs? aughts?) superheroes weren’t everywhere. They were on their way, though.X-Men(2000) andSpider-Man(2002) were box office hits as the world collectively thought “Hey, these movies are fun as hell!” Still, your mother probably didn’t know whatThe Suicide Squadwas back then. In 2016, there will be six major superhero flicks. Six! And they’re all buzzworthy events. Now, your mother probably does know whatThe Suicide Squadis, and she might even be able to rattle off the cast....

June 28, 2025 · 3 min · 552 words · Joseph Smith

MAGFest is coming! Here’s our panel info!

Spoiler: I’ll be drunk. MAGFest is just TWO DAYS AWAY! We’ve been keeping you updated with announcements thus far, with news about theMAG Prom,DJ line-up,Mega Manathon,Main Stage line-up, andspecial guests. Now that theschedulehas been released, we can tell you about our very own panel! On Friday we’ll be in Panel Room 2 at 2:30 pm, hosting our panel entitled “Community First: Maintaining the Community of a Growing Website.” We’ll haveForumsAdmin andCommunitoidhostAaron Yost, Reviews DirectorChris Carter, ContributorKyle MacGregor, Contributor andFlixistEditor-in-ChiefMatthew Razak, andmyselfhosting a low-key discussion about where we came from in the community and what members can do to be more involved....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 150 words · Whitney Jackson

March of the Helldivers is a certified democratic banger that Helldivers 2 players can’t get enough of

Pretty much everyHelldivers 2player adores the game’s main theme, “A Cup of Liber-Tea.” Some fans have even created their own versions of it,which I wish we could set to play in our Superdestroyers. Now, developer Arrowhead Game Studios has broken us with yet another absolute banger of a track for the game. March of the Helldivers popped up out of nowhere, but every democracy-loving player has shown their support for it and the Ministry of Music (composer Rose Tregenza) who put it together....

June 28, 2025 · 3 min · 458 words · Edwin Brown

Microsoft will reportedly allow Sony to put Call of Duty on PS Plus

Sony has yet to take them up on the offer Microsoft’s attempted acquisition ofActivision Blizzardhas been nothing if not messy, and now the newest concession Xbox’s parent company is making is to extend somewhat of an olive branch to Sony in the form of theCall of Dutyfranchise. More specifically, Microsoft would reportedly allow Sony to putCall of Dutyin the PlayStation Plus subscription service for the first time. Bloomberg reports that Sony is yet to take this offer....

June 28, 2025 · 2 min · 340 words · Brian Hill

Mobile Monday: Scrappers, Tiny Islands

What a hunk of junk Like most of America, I’m doing a lot of work from home right now. It’s all we can do to keep this country going. When I did actually go into the office, I’d spend my breaks playing whatever mobile games I had downloaded that week. Now that I’m working from the same desk I record Podtoid at, I have more options and, quite frankly, more time....

June 28, 2025 · 4 min · 745 words · Cassandra Evans

Natural Selection 2’s ‘Gorgeous’ update hits today

Free update to an amazing game Natural Selection 2has always gotten smaller, bug-squashin’ and balance-fixin’ patches. Today, however, a large content patch will hit the competitive hybrid titled the“Gorgeous” update.There are a bunch of new weapons and abilities added, included Gorge tunnels which allows the Alien team to quickly travel from one place to another. There is also a new map called Descent, which was designeddue to fan feedbackclaiming the existing maps felt too similar....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 156 words · Judith Dixon

Nintendo boss: Wii U is top two in three-way console race

With Xbox lagging behind How’s the Wii U doing? Many have perceived it as doing poorly in the sales category, at least until the recent release ofMario Kart 8. Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime contends that point-of-view and says that it’s doing much better than some may believe, even cracking the top two spots in the console war. In an interview at E3 withThe Seattle Times, when asked if the Wii U could ever outsell PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Fils-Aime replied“The dirty little secret is if you look at life-to-date numbers, between Sony and Nintendo they’d be pretty close in terms of PS4 vs....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 199 words · Dr. Matthew Smith DDS

Not all bootleg Pok?mon games are terrible

But most of them are There are so many popular YouTube creators that I just plain cannot connect with as a viewer, try as I might, but JonTron isn’t one of them. Oh how he makes me laugh. I’m happy to see himmaking videos againand this latest one concerning bootleg Pokémon games is a new favorite. I had heard aboutPokémon Vietnamese Crystaland its utterly hilarious translation before, but many of the others were new to me....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 90 words · Kathleen Reyes

Pearl Jam Live Rock Band project slated for 2010

If the entirety of Pearl Jam’s classic albumTenbeingplayable inRock Bandwasn’t enough for you, sleep well knowing there’s a hell of a lot more on the way. It appears there’s some sort of Pearl JamRock Bandproject in the works, and the band’s fans are being asked to help shape the set list based on live recordings.Pearl Jam’s official Web siteis asking fans to listen to various song recordings using Rhapsody in an effort to choose “the best version” that will be placed on the set list for the forthcoming project to be released in 2010....

June 28, 2025 · 1 min · 206 words · Cynthia Wilson

Prodigy ventures to places most hybrid board/videogames shy away from

Exploration, dialogue, and character development, all controlled with cards on a board With board games continuing to increase in popularity, it is no surprise that there has been a lot of crossover between that space and videogames. Not only are a lot of board games being adapted or reimagined digitally, but some developers are trying to merge the two, creating games that function in both the digital and physical worlds at the same time....

June 28, 2025 · 4 min · 760 words · Janet Perry