Leftover deals from Cyber Monday We mentionedJade Empiregoing free a month ago, but that was a premature oopsie by Origin. Starting today, this “On the House” freebie isnow solidified. No payment info is required — just add to cart, finish the checkout process, and the game is yours to own forever. Over at Green Man Gaming, they’ve launched awave of PC game salesthat are arguably better than the site’s Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals....
The latest worldwide figure we have is 14.86 million The Switch has had a good year. A very good year actually, because in just under 365 days it managed to peddle roughly 15 million units worldwide. Nearly every country, including many in Europe, managed to break Nintendo hardware sales records and contribute to that number. A lot of that push is from Japan, who as of this week based on Famitsu’s sales tracker chart, just reached the four million sold milestone....
There are a number of factors for that Kamikoseems to have done very well for Flyhigh Works, as they’ve just announced that it’s sold 200,000 copies on the Switch eShop. That’s just one platform, and the studio announced that it’s currently the third-best selling indie game on the entire eShop. Kamiko‘s success is for multiple reasons, a lot of which is timing. Flyhigh Works dropped it on the eShopfarbefore it reached saturation levels at nearly the start of the Switch’s lifecycle....
Today, Blizzard dropped Leoric the Skeleton King, the newest addition toHeroes of the Storm. He’s a melee Warrior with one very intriguing trait, and has a heavy amount of lore to draw upon from theDiabloseries. In short, he’s a perfect candidate for the game, and Blizzard has been on a roll since debuting Kael’Thas, Johanna, andButcherrespectively. Leroic’s Q is a simple bash called Skeletal Swing, and would be extremely boring if it didn’t do double damage to minions and cause a slow....
This Breath of the Wild group shot is the best You really can’t have enough great Zelda art. I mean there’s a huge demand for it, plenty of source material, and a legion of artists ready to whip up a Minish momento on a moment’s notice. This one piece caught my eye recently by way of a Reddit post, which was tracked back to Twitter user @poapipoa, which led me down the rabbit hole ofeven moregreat TwitterZeldaartists — which was basically my entire evening leading up to the long awaitedCurb Your Enthusiasmpremiere....
The next figure in Bandai’s D-ArtsMega Man Xfigure line is X’s longstanding rival Vile. As you can see in the photo above, the figure includes a glass-filled-with-hard-liquor accessory. Insta-buy! Confirmed for US releaseby Bandai’s American distributor Bluefin, Vile arrives hot on the heels of the recentZero Type 2. When he’s not pounding down bottle after bottle of Jack Daniel’s, Vile is taking care of business with his shoulder-mounted cannon and knee gun....
Ludum Dare 26 game playable in browser TheLudum Daregame jam series has been going on for a while now, with its 28th iteration coming up next month.Ludum Dare 26‘s theme was “minimalism,” and one of the titles to come out of that event wasLeaf Me Alone, a 2D exploration-based platformer starring a little tree person (or something). Set against serene music and chirping birds,Leaf Me Aloneputs the player in the environment with only the basic controls of moving and jumping explained....
No more ‘randoms only’ Nintendo continues to drill down on some of the stuff they revealed so far at E3, andSuper Mario Maker 2‘s Treehouse live stream is honing in onsomething the company has said in the past: that online play was limited to randoms only. Takashi Tezuka, producer for the game, was on-hand to share that apost-game updatewill be coming that allows friends to play online with each other. Tezuka says, “we wanted to create an environment where people could play....
Is Pearl coming to ruin your town? Amysterious tweetshowed up yesterday on the official twitter for mobile titleAnimal Crossing: Pocket Camp,that appears to be teasing a possible collaboration with the ink-flinging folk of Nintendo Switch shooterSplatoon. The tweet features an image of a gyroid, ruthlessly splattered in trademark pink and green colours. “We’re supposed to be getting a sneak peek at what’s to come,” musesAnimal Crossing’sIsabelle. “But all I see are those bright colours....
You can’t take the sky from me Gamers eager to partake in the upcomingNo Man’s Skywill now have to wait till August to bulls-eye dinosaurs in their X-wing (or whatever the hell it’s called). The game is now unfortunately delayed until August 9, but if you’re still looking for someNo Man’s Skypreo-rder deals, you cansnag a $25 eGift Cardbonus over at Dell. When you takethe gameto checkout, a $25 eGift Card bonus will automatically be added to your cart as an extra incentive....
Return of the Obra Dinn I appreciate any creator who can follow up a widely popular game with something so different and original. Here’s the latest look atReturn of the Obra Dinn, the lo-fi mystery adventure from Lucas Pope. The year is 1807. You play an East India Company insurance adjuster exploring the Obra Dinn, a spooky merchant ship that vanished at sea only to return to port years later without its crew....
Podtoid hits the Destructoid frontpage every Thursday! Jonathan Holmes attempts a PS Vita filibuster but is foiled by plans to burn all his possessions, waterboard him with gasoline, and force him to perform gratuitous sexual acts on amphibians in the name of musical theater. That said, some game talk does squeak out. Jim reveals how he got harassed overGrand Theft Auto V, theGTAseries as a whole is compared toAnimal Crossing, and Jonathan manages to say something about that bloody PS Vita TV thing....
A nice haul coming in the weeks ahead There you go again, Sony, making me regret actually buying things. All my favorite games eventually find their way to PlayStation Plus! Sony’s subscription service going to be awesome next month, which I guess is just par for the course, really. Anyway, here’s a list of what PS Plus members in North America will have unfettered access to in October: For folks that aren’t yet members, now is an amazing time to come aboard....
