Minecraft: Story Mode release date leaked?

‘This item will be released on July 17, 2025’ According toAmazon.com,Minecraft: Story Modewill release on July 03, 2025. Playing as Jesse, you’ll “embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond. You and your friends revere the legendary Order of the Stone: Warrior, Redstone Engineer, Griefer, and Architect; slayers of the Ender Dragon. While at EnderCon in hopes of meeting Gabriel the Warrior, you and your friends discover that something is wrong....

June 17, 2025 · 1 min · 191 words · Nancy Burton

Molyneux thinks LittleBigPlanet is lovely, rates it most creative game of 2008

Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux may be all about the Xbox 360, but he’s not above praising PS3 exclusives,happy to admitthat Media Molecule’sLittleBigPlanetwas the most creative endeavor of last year. TheFablecreator was speaking at this year’s Creative and Business International Network review of the creative economy, where he highlighted thatLBP‘s release was the most important creative innovation of 2008. “LittleBigPlanethas outstanding creative vision. It’s from a British start-up studio and is one of the defining titles on Japan’s Sony PS3,” stated the outspoken designer....

June 17, 2025 · 1 min · 125 words · Julia Jenkins

More info about Ryu in Super Smash Bros. trickles in

Get wet before Nintendo pulls the plug In the long and illustrious history of pre-E3 info leaks, this may be the leak that has leaked harder than any other leak. Not only did people find the data forthree newSmash 4characters in a recent Japanese update, they’re also been putting outexhibition videos and live streamsof the trio pretty much all day. At this rate, we should even be able to get them all included in our exclusive strategy guide by worldSmash 4champGonzalo ‘ZeRo” Barrioswhich is set to release next week....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 293 words · Eric Hernandez

New characters revealed for Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker

Guess who they are! Don’t look at the header image! It’s been a great week for reveals if you like anime fighters. Alongside the trailers out of EVOandyesterday’scharacter revealforDragon Ball FighterZ, we now know two new fighters joining the roster of Namco Bandai’sNaruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker. As reported in Japanese publication Weekly Jump, Rock Lee and histerrifyingeyes will be joining the battle, armed with his faithful Taijutsu style. Also coming to break heads will be fan-favourite Hinata,whose quiet demeanor belies the spirit of a warrior....

June 17, 2025 · 1 min · 158 words · Sandy Aguilar

New details on SSX are reassuring

Game Informer has posted an insightful interview withSSXcreative director Todd Batty. You hear that, doubters? Let’s give this game a chance before we judge too harshly. Batty starts off by saying that the “core statement from day one has been, ‘survive it, race it, trick it.’ And in that, we have designed three major types of gameplay. One being Deadly Descent, which is all about survival gameplay.” There’s races (Speed Descent) and, of course, tricks (Tricky Descent) too....

June 17, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · David Rios

Nintendo insists Bayonetta 3 is still coming in 2022

As of today, May 20, 2025 TodayNintendo released its financial resultsfor the fiscal year ending in March 2022, and as usual, it contains a few nuggets of info, among confirmations and reconfirmed release dates. According to the document,Bayonetta 32022 is still the plan. It feels like it’s been a lifetime since it was teased, and the time has come to finally get it out into the world. Eight months ago the reveal trailer slapped a “2022” window on the game at the end, and as of today, they’re seemingly going to stick with that unless something catastrophic happens....

June 17, 2025 · 1 min · 183 words · John Taylor

Orange Box 2: Back in the Habit

Doug Lombardi and Gabe Newell haverecently been chatteringabout a few things of interest to the many Valve fans out there, chief among them the future ofCounter-Strikeand even the slim possibility of anOrange Box 2coming out. WithHalf-Life 2: Episode 3andPortal 2already on the cards, it seems that Valve could possibly be in the same situation it was when the firstOrange Boxwas unleashed — having several games coming out at once that work great as part of a compilation....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 310 words · Chris Jones

Overwatch’s Symmetra just got a new short story to herald an in-game event

‘Stone by Stone’ Still playOverwatch? I do! It’s still a great way for me to unwind (ha, for many it’s the opposite) on both PC and Switch; trying to steal away a few games here and there in bed in portable mode on the latter platform. For all of you who are logging in like me, a few new Symmetra-related happenings are entering the fray. First up is the short story Stone by Stone, written by the staple Blizzard author Christie Golden, who has worked on manyWarcraftandStarcraftrelated tales....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 235 words · Alison Lopez

PAX: Borderlands 2 sixth playable character is a psycho

Krieg enjoys being on fire, like always Krieg the Psycho is the newest playable character inBorderlands 2. Gearbox revealed the new Vault Hunter inspired by the game’s box art and offers players a taste of what it’s like to be a Psycho. You’ll have abilities that you’ve typically only seen from enemies until now, and he has a very aggressive and high risk play style. Krieg won’t regenerate health like the other characters....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 236 words · Christine Martin

Peter Moore: smiles mandatory on covers of Wii EA Sports titles

The folks over at MTV Multiplayer have some keen eyes for videogame covers, that’s for sure. They happened to notice that all the boxes for the Wii versions of EA Sports’ games (marketed under the “All-Play” brand) are very different from the artwork on the non-Wii versions. Not only do the cover athletes seem to have more celebratory or upbeat poses, they also all happen to feature wide smiles. Curious, Multiplayer asked EA Sports president Peter Moore about this recently, and he said it was “something [he] wanted”:...

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Samantha Williams

Phasmophobia ‘Winter’s Jest’ Christmas event begins rolling out

Look, just because we’re approaching Christmas (scarily fast, I say) doesn’t mean we have to give up the ghost. Literally. The people behindPhasmophobiaknow this as much as anyone, as, champing at the bit of the Halloween event, Kinetic Games is already doling out the festive scares. When you next log into your platform of choice, you’ll noticethatPhasmophobia has begun updating. This is the Christmas patch – referred to as “Winter’s Jest” – which, as with all of these types of updates, comes with some themed content, as well as a promise that “Karmpus waits....

June 17, 2025 · 2 min · 403 words · Chad Lynch

Play Halo 4 with the Destructoid community!

Join us for another awesome Xbox LIVE Community Playdate! Wanna playHalo 4? Of course you do! Wanna playHalo 4with a bunch of awesome Dtoid staffers?Double of course you do! Well, on Friday, November 9, you’ll have your chance! Destructoid is hosting yet another Xbox LIVE Community Playdate, and this time we’ll be rocking the brand new game from 343 Industries! Join myself, Director of Communications Hamza Aziz,Mash Tacticshost King Foom, and Contributing Editors Chris Carter and Abel Girmay as we live-broadcast for three hours onDtoid....

June 17, 2025 · 1 min · 166 words · Sydney Byrd

Splatoon 2 is the first two-million seller on home consoles in Japan in nearly a decade

Wow Splatoon 2is immensely popular in Japan. So popular in fact that residents build working models of the in-game paint guns, and host multiple events including holographic Callie & Marie concerts. The firstSplatoondid very well for itself over there, but the low popularity of the Wii U didn’t help things. Now with the Switch to assist in spreading its wings,Splatoon 2has soared over most of the Japanese games industry. According to Media Create,Splatoon 2has sold two million copiesjust in Japan....

June 17, 2025 · 1 min · 159 words · David Lowery