Rockstar gives us hope for a Bully sequel

It’s not quite confirmation of aBully 2, but this bit from Rockstar’s Dan Houser in aGamasutrainterview does give us hope. While responding to a question on whyMax Payne 3is returning now, Houser brings up theBullyfranchise. “We knew that we didn’t want to start doing the Bully sequel instantly at that second with those guys — even though it is a property that, like Max, we adore and might come back to in the future....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 172 words · Steven West

Separation anxiety: Xbox One Kinect works at 4.5 feet

Better width Kinect I bet a lot of you don’t live in San Francisco with its dumb most-expensive-US-city-ness and often tiny housing situations. Maybe you have the recommended six to eight foot cavern to fill between you and the original Kinect. For those of us with smaller, more concentrated voids of emptiness, the Xbox One Kinect promised to be better. Promised us we would not have to move couches or take sledgehammers to our living room walls....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Virginia Nunez

Shelter’s adorable spin-off Paws is out now

D’awww Paws, a standalone follow-up to Might and Delight’sShelter 2, is now available on PC. In contrast with its predecessor, which focused on an adult lynx looking after her cubs, this one puts players in the shoes (paws?) of a young lynx after she becomes separated from her family. The “adventure platformer” is available via Steam for £10.99/$14.99/€14.99. There’s also a related diorama-like interactive book,The Lonesome Fog, which can be purchased both separately for £3....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 84 words · Mason Smith

Soapstone app lets you leave Dark Souls messages in real life

Amazing item ahead You know those helpful messages scattered on the ground inDark Soulsgames, such as “Illusory wall ahead” or “Try jumping,” which are never misleading? Well, now you may leave your own cryptic messages in real life with the Soapstone app for iOS and Android. The free app lets you leave messages on a map, selecting words and phrases from a limited pool of options. There are different lexicons you may choose from in the settings (Earth, Lordran, Drangleic, and Yharnam), so all your favorite words and phrases from the games are there, as well as some more practical words if you choose Earth....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 208 words · Cheryl Taylor

Sonic Team doesn’t let their memes be dreams: Sanic t-shirt DLC spotted

As well as Super Sonic datamining Ah datamining. The act of sifting through files in a build of a game to find items that might be added as DLC later on, or were otherwise cut. It was always happening, but became more popularized during the era when Capcom locked nearly all their post-launch content on-disc as a means of exposing the practice. Now someone has sifted through patch 1.01 forSonic Forces, and found a few remnants that are pretty interesting....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Francis Smith

That big ol’ Master Chief Collection update is live

The Master Chief Collectionis set to arrive on November 11th, but those of you who pre-ordered it haven’t downloaded the entire package. As of this morning the other 15GB (which was original supposed to be 20GB) has released, which essentially unlocks the multiplayer portion of the game. ensure you download it if you want to play at midnight at release. As a result, this also allows reviewers to play the entirety of multiplayer online....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 85 words · Casey Lopez

The 10 prettiest Penguin Clothbound Classic editions

It doesn’t matter where you sit on the scale of book collectors, if you have a single shelf of beloved favorites or far too many books and not enough shelves (guilty), there’s something utterly appealing about books with pretty covers. As they have always been, the ultimate collectors’ editions are leather-bound beauties with engraved details and foil decorations. The feel of an actual tome of literature in your hands is second to none, but leather-bound classics are expensive, and collecting them is not always feasible....

August 1, 2025 · 6 min · 1146 words · Tyler Frey

The Daily Hotness: E3D3

Check out everything Destructoid did today So, Day 3 of E3 2013 on Destructoid is all about the previews. TONS of previews. Tons of news too, and if it happened, it happened at E3. Or, you know, some place else…but you may not have heard about it. That’s ok. It’s all here in the daily recap. Everything from today at E3 (and beyond — though not much further beyond) that we covered is below....

August 1, 2025 · 3 min · 482 words · Johnny Hawkins

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess will have a comic for Free Comic Book Day

I’m in Having attended Free Comic Book Day for the last four years or so (mostly for the video game themed literature), I’m always stoked to pick up around one or two volumes. Usually it’sMega Man, but since that’s defunct now (still sad over that), I’ve had to settle recently. Well,The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which will feature excerpts from the manga bundled into a special 32-page issue, isn’t really settling....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 133 words · Tracey Patterson

The Old Republic’s lost players are just hiding

Now BioWare is offering its ownexplanationfor why lots of servers appear to be less populated. According to Daniel Erikson, subscriptions have not started to drop, players merely aren’t all playing at peak times now. Due to the “change in player behavior,” there may be some server merging, but it’s not a priority. That might have something to do with all the people getting a free month and thus not cancelling but not actually paying or even necessarily playing, so take that with a pinch of salt....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 97 words · Kimberly Martinez

The Weekend Hotness: The Legend of Korra got leaked

HEY GUYS! The first episode ofThe Legend of Korragot leaked online ahead of the show’s April 14th premier! I’m not going to tell you where to find it, but it’s seriously not that hard. I checked it out, and let me just say… wow. This is gonna be big. This weekend, Stephen Beirne talks about Ireland, we pretend that Weekend Modder’s Guide did not accidentally go up on Friday afternoon,Sup Holmes?...

August 1, 2025 · 2 min · 269 words · Eric Mann III

This is why you don’t do a tricky puzzle with less than one heart left in Zelda: Breath of the Wild

::Link’s arm comes off: ‘And that’s why, you don’t mess around in shrines!’ Throughout the past several years,Zelda: Breath of the Wildplayers have learned some hard lessons. Things like “don’t get too close to dragons” or “don’t play with rocks next to a family of wolves.” Now, Reddit’s brenrob has a lot of time to reflect on why you should never roam around anyZeldagame with less than one heart left....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 174 words · Mary Tucker

Warcraft: Arclight Rumble is Blizzard’s big mobile game reveal

Hmmmm For weeks now Blizzard has been teasinga mobile entry in theWarcraftfranchise, which was built up as an Earth-shattering reveal. That time has come, and it’s calledWarcraft: Arclight Rumble. Described as “Warcraftat your fingertips,” this new game is a “mobile action strategy game” that looks very similar to a lot of other competitors on the market. It’ll sport a “massive single player campaign,” as well as head-to-head PVP, prompting players to control armies and heroes to take on “bosses and characters from theWarcraftuniverse....

August 1, 2025 · 1 min · 206 words · Norma Beard