Wargroove will get cross-play on PS4 after a year long public battle with Sony

Finally! For over a year nowWargroovehas been lacking cross-play on PS4, but that’s going to change this week. Chuckle Fish has confirmed to Destructoid thatWargroove’sDouble TroubleDLC will be coming to PS4 tomorrow,with cross-play. Why is that last part such a big deal? Well, if you recall, Sony was the last major holdout for cross-platform play, as a Sony exec called “PlayStation the best place to play,” implying that you didn’t need cross-play....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 259 words · Meagan Daugherty

WarioWare: Move It adds yet another first party Nintendo game to the late 2023 pile

This year just won’t let up. Despite the string of Game of the Year contenders in the first three quarters, the last leg of 2023 is still going strong. Nintendo is constantly pumping out first party games (it’s not done just yet), the latest of which isWarioWare: Move It! If you’re on the fence on this one,we have a full review right here. Star Ocean The Second Story Ris also a fantastic return to formfor this classic, and it’s also coming out alongsideFashion DreamerandMy Time at Sandrock....

May 24, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · William Rodriguez

Watch Max Scoville Pok?battle Dan 3.0 LIVE to the death!

If you’re a veteran of YouTube, then chances are, you’ve heard of Dan Brown. No, not the guy who wrote The DaVinci Code. The guys who hostsDan 3.0on Revision3, a show where his viewers vote on what he should do and where he should go for every episode. It’s pretty awesome. Today at3pm PST, Dan will be streaming live from hisYouTubechannel (we’ll be streaming it live on theDTOIDchannel, too!) The occasion?...

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 217 words · Jason Good

Who does Jane Alexander play in Severance Season 2?

InSeveranceSeason 2 Episode 8 Sweet Vitriol we meet the character played by the Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Alexander. But who does Jane Alexander play inSeveranceSeason 2, and what is her importance to the show? Let’s take a look. Who does Jane Alexander play in Severance? Jane Alexander plays the character Celestine “Sissy” Cobel, which is Harmony Cobel’s aunt and the sister of Harmony’s mother. InSeveranceSeason 2 Episode 8 titled Sweet Vitriol,Harmony returns to her childhood townand encounters Celestine when trying to recover something she left behind at the home in which she grew up....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 343 words · Heidi Mcclure

Wriothesley’s Ascension materials in Genshin Impact

Wriothesley’s firstbannerinGenshin Impactbegins on October 17. If you plan on pulling for the Duke of Meropide, you might want to stock up on his Ascension materials ahead of time. Here are all of Wriothesley’s Ascension materials and where to find them! Character Ascension “Tourbillon Device” These are the boss-specific materials dropped by the Experimental Field Generator. You can find this boss in the Fontaine Research Institute of Kinetic Energy Engineering (FRIKEE) region....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Richard Davies

28 talks from Steam Dev Days are now online

The more you know Valve held a conference for developers last month calledSteam Dev Daysand, as promised, a number of sessions have since been uploaded to YouTube. In some cases, presentation slides are also available. While there’s certainly a fair bit of technical talk to be found here, if you’re here reading this now, you’ll be just fine watching this stuff. Some of the talks that stand out to me as someone who isn’t a game developer are: “In-Game Economies in Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2,” “Marketing Your Game,” “Community and Communication in Games-As-Services,” “What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years,” and “Is Early Access Right for You?...

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Angela Patel

A batch of horrific Corpse Party games are headed west on PC

And possibly Nintendo Switch? XSeed Games is working on bringing four more localisations of the uber-grimCorpse Partytitles to PC players in the west. The four titles areCorpse Party: Book of Shadows, Corpse Party: Blood Drive, Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko’s Hysteric BirthdayBash andCorpse Party 2: Dead Patient.Corpse Partyis a long-running series of interactive novels, the first release appeared in 1996 before the series blew up in Japan a good ten years later....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 204 words · Jason Mccarty

A cheaper alternative to the Resident Evil 2 typewriter keyboard

Relatively speaking HardcoreResident Evilfans are no strangers to opening their wallets for cool merchandise, but paying around $675 for a keyboard that resembles a typewriter? Yeah. There’s very little justifying that cost. If you’re struck with morbid curiosity, Capcom is sellingthe keyboard and a few other expensive collector’s editionsforResident Evil 2in Japan. The priciest bundle includes a Leon S. Kennedy statue and “ink ribbons” for a whopping $900, but even just the keyboard on its own starts at $675....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 120 words · Tara Ramos

A lost look at Rare’s scrapped SNES project that eventually became Banjo-Kazooie

It was almost Bunny-Kazooie With the archival nature ofRare Replay— a collection of games on Xbox One that spans the developer’s entire history — it’s natural that the studio would be digging through a lot of old boxes lately. One of those boxes (proverbial or not) yielded a very special find: footage of the evolution of the game that went on to becomeBanjo-Kazooie. Through this ten minute video, key staff at Rare describeDreamas it was running on both Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 238 words · Stephen Cook

Activision is giving some last-gen Destiny players free USB drives

Are you an ‘existing and active’ player? WithDestiny‘s new expansionThe Taken Kinglaunching next week, the game just received a new update that is too large to install on last-gen consoles with less than 20GB of storage built in. When this was announced last month, Activision announced that a limited number of affected last-gen players, who could demonstrate that they were still “existing and active”Destinyplayers, would be offered a solution to their situation....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 142 words · Kristie Jensen

Air Accident Experience released with the worst timing

So uncomfortable [Update:Looks like the video was removed from YouTube as well as being removed from the front page of theOculus VR Share site, but you’re able to still seeAir Accident Experience’s pagehere.] In what has to be the worst timing ever,Air Accident Experiencehas been released for the Oculus Rift. The experience is educational and teaches players what to do in a situation where your airplane crash lands into the ocean....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Evelyn Edwards

Antstream Arcade is coming to PlayStation and Playstation is coming to Antstream Arcade

As part of theAntstream Connectstream today (I know, it was the first I heard of it too), the company announced that the retro game streaming service will finally be releasing on PlayStation consoles (PS4 and PS5). On top of that, PlayStation games will start arriving on the service, as well asPico-8 gamesof all things. Announcements all around. Antstream Arcade is a retro-focused streaming service. While it is primarily centered on arcade games, classic titles from other platforms have been added as well....

May 23, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Ian Deleon

Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders should have happened years ago

Mobile game announced for Japan I was too young to get intoSpace Invaders, influential as it was, butArkanoidis my jam. Taito is working on a mobile game for iOS and Android that combines the two properties,according to Game Watch, and I’m loving the sound of it (minus the regrettable “mobile” part). The company held a press conference for the announcement andthis happened. Also,thisandthis. InArkanoid vs. Space Invaders, you’ll use the paddle-esque Vaus to absorb incoming attacks until your meter is full and you can then fire that energy back in ball form to wipe out the invaders....

May 23, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Karen Cook