Are you READY for the full spectrum of CHAOS? These last few weeks have been very kind to my gaming phalanges. After upgrading from a bargain basement mouse and keyboard combination, I upgraded toLogitech’s G610 Orion Brownand G900 Chaos Spectrum. Obviously, such a jump would make a huge difference for anyone, but the Chaos Spectrum (hardware names sure are silly) was like leaping over the tallest building in sight and landing in another dimension....
Including the Bandit survivor, the Grandparent boss, a stage rework, and lots of lore [Update: The console version of the Anniversary update is here — mostly. You can now get it across PS4 and Xbox One, while the Nintendo Switch update is coming “soon.”] [Update 2: Nintendo Switchgot theRisk of Rain 2Anniversary update today, and the PS4 and Xbox One versions were patched totidy uplingering bugs.] Risk of Rain 2is a game that refuses to go on the back-burner, and for good reason....
The main landing screen ofLeague of Legendshas a variety of games for you to spectate, most featuring high-level players in Diamond or Challenger tier. The client chooses which games to display by looking at the average ELO rating (the hidden ranking system League uses to determine placements) of a game’s participants and featuring those where all the players have high ELO. One brilliant individual realized that if the system can find high-ELO games, it can find low-ELO games as well....
Overpacked SNK continues its weekly character trailer series, putting the spotlight on each of the warriors gearing for battle in the upcoming fighterSamurai Shodown. This week, it is the turn ofSamurai Shodown Vprotagonist Yoshitora Tokugawa. Created to be a successor of sorts to long-time hero Haohmaru, Yoshitora is yet another runaway samurai who was trained to be a shogun leader, but instead fled the clan to live it up with gals and booze....
All we know right now is that it supports two players Bayonettais one of my favorite action games of all time. Not only is it legitimately challenging even on hard mode (who would have thought), but it offers up that frame-perfect technical action you’d expect from a studiolike Platinum Games, with a ton of weapon variety to boot. Although we don’t know much aboutBayonetta 2, I’m still pretty excited given the team’s pedigree, andthe multiplayer modehas me intrigued....
The ‘Investigations’ side quests inSkull and Bonesgive you mysteries to solve with plenty of rewards at the end. But sometimes the mystery can betoo mysterious. The Grave News investigation may have you stumped inSkull and Bones, mostly due to the location of a floating bottle. There also seems to be more than one way to start Grave News. Some managed tofind a message in a bottlefloating around the East Indies. Others, however, say you have to plunder a particular settlement....
They got the last laugh Speaking toThe GuardianaboutSouth Park: The Stick of Truth‘s censorship in Europe and Australia over a scene involving anal probes, series co-creator Matt Stone said “It’s not that big a deal. It doesn’t change things that much, but we weren’t going to change the game downwards somewhere and just not tell anybody. You’ll see how ridiculous that is.” Elaborating, Stone said “It does feel like a double standard, a little bit....
Three days of new info on publisher’s upcoming wares Square Enix has offered up a glut of details regarding its upcoming Tokyo Game Show 2021 showcase. Scheduled to run October 1-3, the legendary publisher will have plenty of news, updates, and footage to spare regarding its catalog of upcoming PC, console, and mobile releases, complete with full English translations for us westward heads. Square Enix TGS action will kick off on October 1 with an opening show and a “Lounge Jam” musical event, to be followed with an in-depth look at the recently revealed fantasy drama,Forspoken....
Haunt Cuisine I don’t know what game you are playing right now, but why would you be playing that when you’re able to playLost Recipes—a brand new VR titlethat tasks you with creating delicious culinary dishes, to order, for a gaggle of spooks, specters, and ghosties? Well, to be fair, you’re able to’t. Not right now. But you will soon! Developed by Schell Games and noted by thewell-meaning folks at Wholesome Games,Lost Recipesis a relaxing-looking VR title wherein the player will create fantastic dishes pulled from throughout the ages....
PC and PS4 are a-go, though A new Disney-madeTrongame came out today on two of its three scheduled platforms. The cheekily (or annoyingly) namedTron Run/rreleased as planned on PC and PS4. The Xbox One version suffered a seemingly significant setback, though. As noted by the keen eyes atPure Xbox, theTronrunner has now been moved to March 1 on theXbox website. While it was up but unavailable to purchase or download earlier today, it now simply says “coming soon....
Get your Steam, Origin, and U-know-what keys Deals brought to you by the crew at Dealzon. FYI: sales from certain retailers go toward supporting Destructoid. PC gamers, you are now officially under wallet barrage as Black Friday has come to digital games. There area ton of discountsavailable from most of the top gaming retailers. The big two DRM providers Origin and Steam launched their own Black Friday sales this week with a plethora of deals....
I hope this is a good thing The Xbox One dashboard is getting a major revision this holiday season and it is shaping up to be…something. A completely new guide (think popup dashboard from the Xbox 360) is being added that slides in over games versus the currently available snap that resizes the game window. Snap is still being included, though I think I’d rather have the guide work like snap than cover up my game experience....
Don’t get your hopes up We haven’t heard an awful lot aboutBeyond Good and Evil 2ever since its surprising reveal at E3 2017. There has been somein-engine gameplaythat amounted to little more than a tech demo. That’s about it. According to theBeyond Good and Evil 2Facebook page, there will be a developer’s stream tomorrow May 3 at 9am Pacific. It will be hosted on theUbisoft Twitch channel. This is the second livestream event, and one of few opportunities to see anything related toBeyond Good and Evil 2....
