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Chronology is your playground in ten minutes of footage At last year’s PAX East,Super Time Forceimpressed many with its humor, art direction, and nifty time travel gameplay hook. Should you die, you can travel back in time to the point right before you died to team up with your prior self, potentially working to save your prior life in the process. According to Capy’s Nathan Vella, it was a great concept in theory, but in practice it made for serious balance issues, with difficulty spiking and flattening out in ways under-conducive to player fun....

It’s been a year sinceTeam Fortress 2‘s Mann Co. Store went into effect, and what an impact it’s had. In that period of time, community item creators have earned some $2 million for their creative efforts, according to Valve. And since this isTF2, after all, we’re getting a freeupdate for the occasion. At first glance this may not seem very large, but take one look at the patch notes. Besides 30 new items, including the ability to try out weapons during a test period and a sale on most store goods until Monday, there’sSteam Workshop....

I want this game. I want this game so bad. What more can I say? I justwant this bloody game! I was very interested in the newKingdom Under Firebefore today’s latest trailer, but after viewing this very epic little clip, I’m drooling at the mouth. The beautiful visuals and magnificent art, the killer music, the fish n’ chips accents and, more importantly — it looks a bit likeDynasty Warriors! What? YES!...

What day is it!? I read basically every comment on our videos and one thing is certain, people want the Destructoid Show back. So check out the hot new promo I shot last night for your favorite game news show! You’ve watched the video by now right? Good. Sorry about pulling a quick one on you, it is April Fools’ Day after all, but I wanted to get eyes on what I’ve been working on....

PC has to sit this one out Hideo Kojima isn’t involved withMetal Gear Survive, and that has people skeptical as hell about whether it’ll be any good at all. That’s the narrative around this game: CanMetal Gearsurvive now that it’s sans Kojima, or willMetal Gear Surviveresemble the spiritless zombies that inhabit its story campaign? Time’s ticking down to its release, as February 20 isn’t far away. There’s an earlier opportunity to playMetal Gear Survive, though....

For Wii and Wii U Although they are technically third-party by way of the company PDP, a handful of GameCube-like controllers are heading your way as officially licensed products. According to an online retailer listing they are confirmed for November (though that is subject to change of course), most likely to align with the impending Wii USmash Bros.release. They come in Mario, Peach, and Yoshi themed colors. Keep in mind that Nintendo is still releasing a GameCube controller adapter, so if you own some original controllers you may just use those....

Toys for Bob has announcedvia Twitterthat they’ve teamed up with Microsoft for their next new game. There’s no word on what that next new game will be, but their choice of partner is… quite the choice. We’re excited to announce that we’ll be partnering with@Xboxto publish our next new game. We’re still very early in development, so you might not hear from us for a bit – but know that we’re working hard on an experience we’re so sooo inspired about!...

Valve boss Gabe Newell has provided his thoughts on Electronic Arts’ competing Origin service, and he managed to remain quite complimentary and civil about it, saying that it does some things well, and other things not so well. How sporting. “I think it does some things well,” he said. “I think there are still some areas where, as a customer, I’d like to see it improve. It’s not that different from any other system like this....

Nuclear Gandhi is one of the funniest memes in video game history — one already big and old enough to cloud the collective Internet memory on whether it stems from a real thing — but it is actually a perniciously hilarious hoax. InCiv, Mahatma Gandhi, the famously pro-peace anti-colonialist martyr from India, is often seen as a surprisingly aggressive and nuclear war-prone leader.What the hell is up with that, and why does it happen not just in one game but in many across the series?...

Go play it already! At last, backers ofWasteland 2can start playing the beta on PC. If you log into yourRanger Center account, you can get a Steam key to start playing. To be eligible for beta access right now, you have to have been one of the original backers for $55 or more. Late comers who have donated $55 or more should have beta access soon, and sometime after that inXile will release it on Steam Early Access....

Don’t sell up your island paradise just yet While many of Nintendo’s biggest and most beloved franchises saw representation during Tuesday’sNintendo Directpresentation,Animal Crossingfans were left overwhelmingly disappointed by a total lack of news and updates at E3 pertaining to mega-selling Switch releaseAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. Speaking to The Verge, Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser addressed the social sim’s absence at E3, noting that the publisher still has new plans in the works for the ever-growing army ofAnimal Crossingisland-dwelling villagers — and that players will just need to hold on a little longer to receive further updates....

And we have this logo Details are scant onWWE 2K15at the moment, but we know that 2014’s iteration sold well enough to warrant a follow-up. 2K Sports announced via the franchise’sTwittertoday thatWWE 2K15will release on October 28 in North America, and October 31 internationally. The game’s headed to PS4, Xbox One, PS3, and Xbox 360. Apart from dates and platforms, the only new information revealed is this logo for the game....

Are new Xbox Game Pass tiers in the works? A new survey rolled out by Xbox suggests that the publisher may be entertaining the idea of cheaper, ad-based tiers for its hugely successful game streaming subscription service,Xbox Game Pass. The survey, which was noted by theeagle-eyed video game fans over on Resetera, looks to garner interest in some hypothetical new versions of the subscription service. One example offered is “Xbox Game Pass Lite”, which would offer access to the standard Game Pass library of new and classic games, but would play ads before each game launches, and would limit access to download only (so no streaming)....