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Nexon opens teaser website A new teaser website has dropped tantalising clues aboutGears of Warcreator Cliff Bleszinski’s upcoming game. A new mini-websiteat Nexon.net, called The Shattering, offers a brief glimpse of a coastal city in ruins, the rubble still aflame, and a countdown clock set to finish sometime on Wednesday. There are also statements requesting that we “brace [ourselves]” for mini-reveals coming at 12pm Eastern Monday-Wednesday this week. “Over the next few days, there’s going to be a lot of ‘information’ revealed about The Shattering and we want you to weigh in, react, participate and help us build a community from scratch,”writescommunity manager Rohan Rivas....

Mechanical playground The Alexander raid, the second real raid set to debut inFinal Fantasy XIVafter The Binding Coil of Bahamut, is on track for tomorrow. In the meantime you can check out this new trailer to get an idea of what to expect. It looks like Square Enix has committed to the industrial theme, as Alexander takes place inside the monstrosity itself, featuring steam-based obstacle courses and even slides. The “normal” version will launch this week, and the tougher “savage” edition will arrive in two weeks....

Kimono Kutie Having finished sailing the seven seas with its recent, Nintendo’s mobile racerMario Kart Touris getting set to showcase some Japanese culture with its all-new Summer Festival Tour. The Summer Festival Tour will add two new character variants to the gacha pipe: Yukata Daisy and Happi Mario, both of whom are rocking traditional Japanese garb. Also arriving in the new update are the cheerful “Festival Girl” kart, and a new glider stylised like an origami crane....

He’s right, you know In 2010, aMass Effectmovie was announced. Then at some point, it died. Thankfully,Mass Effect: Legendary Editiondirector and series writer Mac Waters is here to explain why that happened. While it’s normal for a gaming adaptation to hit perpetual development hell or die off entirely,Waters told Business Insiderthat “It felt like [they] were always fighting the IP,” and they just couldn’t figure out what story they were going to tell in a two hour or less format....

Monopoly GO’sRoad to Riches event has returned after debuting months ago. Like before, you can get hundreds of Peg-E prize drop chips, thousands of dice, and more. Here’s the complete list of Road to Riches event rewards inMonopoly GO. Monopoly GO’sRoad to Riches event has 50 rewards available until March 25. You can get 16,310 dice, 693 Peg-E chips, and eight sticker packs, ranging from one-star quality to valuable five-star packs....

Give it a shot The time has come forMonster Hunter Generationsto spread its wings off of the 3DS and out of Japan. Those two things are mighty specific, but Japan has been sitting on the Switch version ofGenerations— an HD port as it were — for roughly a year now. It’s set to debut on western shores on August 28, but before then you’ll get a chance to try before you buy....

WhileMonster Hunter Wildsofficially launches on February 28, some players who pre-purchased the game have already begun preloading it—only to discover a new patch ahead of release. Reports online indicate that PS5 players preloadingMonster Hunter Wildsare also downloading a 17.9GB patch for version 1.000.020, aside from the game’s base 50GB size. This means the game’s base version already includes a day one patch that affects its official release. As of now, Capcom has not released patch notes or publicly addressed the changes introduced in this early update....

Get ready to move… again We’re in something of a couch co-op revival, with awesome games in the genre out now, includingOvercooked,It Takes Two, andEscape Academy. Now, anotherbeloved co-op gameis getting a well-deserved sequel inMoving Out 2. Moving in real life is one of the most stressful things you can do, but in game form, it provides all kinds of zany fun for you and your friends. The adorable physics-based moving simulator will get more than 50 new levels and challenges, and for the first time, players will be able to play in online multiplayer with crossplay in addition to the local co-op mode....

Also, they never expected to sell two million copies [Image source] NieR: Automatais a strange and amazing game, and if you haven’t played it yet, make a note in whatever note-taking software you use to eventually pick it up at a price you’re comfortable with. If you have any love at all for weird projects that really show what games can do as a medium you’ll enjoy it. And enjoy it people did, as Famitsu checked back in with theNieR: Automatateam (Illustrator Akihiko Yoshida, designer Takahisa Taura, producer Yosuke Saito, and famed director Yoko Taro) to see how things have been going since its launch last February, and they’re still very happy with how everything turned out....

It’s also fair One of my favorite things about the 3DS is its innate ability to get me to turn it on even if there isn’t a hit game out for it. Whether I’m tending to my plants in the Miiverse, trying to finish a puzzle, or sending pictures in Swapnote (RIP), there’s always something to do on Nintendo’s newest portable.Nintendo Badge Arcadeis the newest kid on the block, and it provides players with even more activities to do on a daily basis....

To those of you waiting for a price cut on the Wii, keep waiting. And stop being so damned cheap. In an interview withReuters, Nintendo’s George Harrison states that there’s no plans to cut the price of the Wii in the US. “We’ll stay at USD 249 for the foreseeable future,” says Harrison, as he rolls over in a pit of gold to scratch his back. “We are still selling everything we can make....

The last major update forPhasmophobiawas thebig Ascension resetthat rolled out last August. Since then, developer Kinetic Games has been sending out hotfixes and smaller updates; little tweaks here and there, but nothing to write home about. But there is one thing on the way, and it’s coming soon. As outlined in arecent post on Steam,Phasmiophobiawill get the “Eventide” patch on Tuesday, June 25. Along with some Ascension adjustments, “a host of optimizations, changes, and fixes,” we’re also getting a new map: Point Hope, which looks like it will be a lighthouse....

Podtoid hits the Destructoid frontpage every Thursday! It’s the Halloween special, and the gang resurrects a long-dead friend — MAX SCOVILLE! Yes, the former Podtoid co-host Dtoid Show star is back … and he may be a regular fixture. He joins the group to discuss Val Kilmer’s Halloween Haunting, Ron Perlman’s chrome cock, and whether Jonathan Holmes would look good dressed as Aqualung. As if that wasn’t enough, we avoid discussingArkham Origins, pay tribute to Lou Reed, and do all sorts of Halloween fun times....